Brad’s business came about by accident. A competitive downhill ski racer, Brad injured his leg in a fall while racing. “Any career hopes I had of becoming a champion were gone,” he says. With skiing behind him, Brad moved to Seattle when his brother Greg asked him to. Brad was barely in the door before Greg, then a medical student, shared the Quixtar business opportunity. “I was so excited. We stayed up all night talking about building our dreams together!” Brad remembers.
As he learned more about the business, Brad knew it was the kind of opportunity he was looking for. Having been an entrepreneur in high school and college, Brad realized something early on. “I found that to be truly successful, I couldn’t be satisfied with a job or profession just because I liked it, but I had to find something that gave me the results I wanted: control of my money and time to spend with my family”.
Brad took a construction job working six days a week, nine hours a day and built this business at night, sleeping on the floor because he was too busy and too broke to bother with furniture. His persistence and determination paid off. After one year of consistent effort, Brad had built a profitable Ruby Business and was able to walk away from his construction job, never to work for another man again. "I couldn’t afford to work anymore!" Brad says contentedly.
Brad began Emerald qualification when he met Julie. Brad was showing the plan at the first meeting she attended. Fresh out of college and involved in sales, Julie was hired by a client who was impressed by her hard work to manage his restaurant chain. “I was already making $30,000 a year,” says Julie. “It seemed like a lot to me at the time, so it was really the association with great people that attracted me to this business. I was a frustrated single. I was tired of working 70 hours a week, especially nights and weekends, and of the empty lonely lifestyle in that status world.” It didn’t take long for Brad and Julie to realize they had each found a winner. Less than one year later they were married.
Brad and Julie attribute their success to the tremendous support and teaching they have received from their upline, and from being a team player within the WorldWide DreamBuilders system. “Following the guidance and unrelenting pace of our sponsors, Greg and Laurie Duncan, having a consistent work habit, a willingness to serve the needs of others first, and knowing from where all of the blessings come are the key elements in our story,” Brad states. “Our true joy comes from helping others to achieve their dreams and goals, and in sharing time and experiences with our families, who are also very successful in the business.”
Dreams do come true, and for Brad and Julie, the realization of those dreams has just begun.