Jodi's Global Prosperity Story
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| In August of 1999 my husband lost his job due to our son having birth defects. They
were afraid that their insurance rates would be increased. Being a stay-at-home mom, it left us with nothing until
my husband found a job. I did respond to the ads in the magazines that we subscribed to, only because we were in
need of money. My first call was in November of that year. I had forgotten that we had called as my husband had already found employment. We did not have the money to get in, and the person who called, tried to "help me work on that". She suggested taking out loans,borrowing from friends/parents, advancing our credit cards (which we had already come close to maxing them out due to the job loss).We just didn't have the money and she became upset, saying that I wasn't ready to change my life and I liked living low on the economic scale. We continued to get calls. In February, we finally had enough on one card to get in, and at the time, it sounded like a really good idea. We listened to the tapes, which we already knew some of the information and have researched every bit of it (some we found correct, other things, we have not found at all). I was pressured to buy the next level, which we still didn't have the money for. Through the month of February, I was to go out and purchase a fax machine (the one we had wasn't good enough) and different phone and get 3-way calling, all while going through the training calls...2 hours in the morning, 2 hours (one actually went to 6 hours) in the afternoon, and 2 hours around midnight. The rest of the time I was to take care of my son and do all of the marketing calls to anybody and everybody. They first supplied me with leads and then told me to sign up with ProStep, another $390 that we didn't have (I went with a lower program than they wanted me to, and of course they were upset). Then I was encouraged to sign up for my own website through them, which I blindly did. I worked diligently for the first two months. However, I did take some days and not do anything with it. For example, on Valentine's Day, I had a medical emergency (I started hemorrhaging). First part of March, we had to take our son to the specialist, who is out of state. Our son had his 1st birthday. The end of March/first part of April we moved. We had company here and there. When things continued to happen, my "advisor", Rob Roder, of RHR Enterprises, told me that I needed to make a priority. "You need to figure out what is important to you. You either begin to focus and make money or do what ever else it is you do". I was incredibly angry. I had made concessions for them. My marriage became strained, actually, it showed signs of failing. My son was getting ready to have his surgery and needed his mother. I had ignored him during some of that time. I was also told that I needed to quit doing things with church, was asked what was more important. On one of the training calls, the "advisor" said that stay-at-home moms are the worse to work with and if you were one or if you came across one, it wasn't worth the time and effort. It also came out that the person who had first called me, had not made any money. I was her 2nd sale since August when she started. She was in the process of selling her house (which she had also mortgaged to pay for the 3rd level of in Global). After at least $4000 on our credit card, $1000 extra on the phone bill, my husband and I decided that we could make that kind of money other ways, if we really wanted to. The money wasn't worth losing the family and our friends. If I would have continued, I would have been trying to piece together my family, declaring bankruptcy and losing anything else that was all important to me. I e-mailed and tried to call my advisor before making this decision telling him that I was ready a couple of days after the move to start back up, but that in 3 weeks, I would be gone again for our son's surgery. I never heard anything again. I never called to tell him that I was not going to do it anymore. To this day (June) I have not heard a thing. We have bills piling up, both from this and the medical costs that we are incurring. We believed them. We thought we would have enough to pay every thing! Because of the money lost, have bounced checks, the credit card is now being continuously charged by them and the affiliates. Our church family, whom we almost lost, has set up a fund for our son to help us (which is tax deducible and is being filled almost daily with more money). It was a terrible lesson. Although we agree with some of the concepts, there are other ways to do it, with a lot less money. Since April, we have done some things that if something happens again, we are more protected and the programs similar to this are not so appealing. Jody edenshope@netzero.net |
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