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WITH AMAZING GRACE,
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
I am a stay-at-home mom of three beautiful children: Blake, 8, Riley, 7
and Hannah Grace, 3. Since finding the man of my dreams nine years
ago and having my wonderful children, I have lived out my childhood
fantasies of the perfect family life. I had everything I ever wanted; but
only two years ago I found myself in the depths of depression and
misery. I had developed terrible acne and was battling symptoms of
depression. Although I tried many anti-depressants, they just made me
feel worse. I desperately wanted to be the old cheerful me for the sake
of my family, but I just didn’t know how. There were no obvious reasons
for my sudden bouts of depression, which was only made worse by the
onset of acne.
One day a simple phone call changed my life! My cousin, Jessica rachel gershowitz
Banks, called just to say “hi.” Over the phone line, she could hear that
Independent Consultant, Regional Vice President
I was in tears. I told her all about my depression and my terrible case
Rachel Gershowitz Region; Wellington, FL
of acne. I told her that I had been considering getting a job, hoping it
would help me feel better about myself. This was the only solution I could
about sharing my Arbonne experiences and seriously thought that I
come up with. At the time, I had a friend at a skin care company and
could do Arbonne as a business. After all, it would allow me to
was scheduled to meet with her at 2:30 that day. As I was telling Jessica
continue to stay home with my kids and at the same time permit me to
my news, she immediately mentioned that I would be able to get better
help others who have similar problems as I did. There was one glaring
skin care product from Arbonne. She, herself, had been using Arbonne
problem with this scenario, though – I am terrified of speaking in front
products for the past five years and couldn’t stop singing their praises.
of people.
Within an hour, Jessica and her Arbonne Consultant, RVP Kathy
Whittington called back to talk to me about my condition. In two days, Faced with this challenge, I met my fears head on. After all I had been
I had received a catalogue and some skin care samples. I started on the through, I refused to let fear run my life ever again; and these products
Clear Advantage Acne system and within eight weeks my skin looked were too important not to tell everybody. Don’t get me wrong—I still get
great! Soon after, I discovered PhytoProlief, Arbonne’s natural balanc- extremely nervous, even to the point of panic attacks. But now I rely on
ing cream. This product changed my life. How could I possibly not tell God to get me through the classes and presentations. I ask Him to
everybody about it?! provide me with enough eloquence and intelligence to help me
communicate my message of hope. My goal is to be a blessing in
Although I now realize that getting a job was not the answer to my
someone’s life by providing them with the life-changing products and
emotional and physical problems as I once believed, I was very excited
Arbonne business opportunity as it had been offered me. Along the way
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Rachel with husband Jeff and chil-
dren: Blake, Riley and Hannah Grace
L-R: RVP Kathy Whittington, AM Tina
Beer, President Rita Davenport,
Jessica Banks
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT
L-R Rachel: AM Carmen Martin, Angela McClendon, DM Kari Hamilton, DM Maria Giorta and DM
Lisa Behar
NVP Donna Rehling’s nation at the home of President Rita Davenport
success strategy: during an Area Manager Challenge Celebration
“ Building a team with integrity, trust and
compassion is the key to a solid foundation.
”
Susan Hutton and Shannon Johnson: Thank you for always allowing our
team to come to your meetings. We have learned so much from you!
AM Carmen Martin: Thank you for being my first Consultant and for
always being right there by my side. We will soon be NVPs together!
To my cousin, AM Donna Beiter: I am so happy to be in business with
to building a successful Arbonne business, I taught an important life you. To DMs Lisa Behar, Maria Gionta, Kari Hamilton, Ann Martin and
lesson to my children by showing them that if you have a dream and up-and-coming DM Rachel Bonczek: You have become like family and
The testimonials in this story reflect the actual experience of an individual, are anecdotal only, and may be atypical.
believe in yourself, anything in life is possible. I don’t know what I would do without you. I feel so blessed to have all
of you in my life. To the rest of my Managers, Andrea Hazim,
Although I still cannot believe that I have reached my goals since being
Annemarie Brown, Liz Contag and Renata Kowalski: You all contribute
promoted to Regional Vice President, the satisfaction I feel is
so much to our team. To all of our Consultants and wholesale buyers:
immeasurable. After all, it was only last August that I could not even
Thank you! To Petter, Stian, Rita and Candee: You are all inspirations
make my District Manager’s quota! It forced my business partner,
to us.
current Area Manager Carmen Martin, and I to take a long hard look
at our business strategy and motivated us to learn and implement the Six Most importantly, I could not have done this without the support of my
For Success system. We challenged each other to get the most classes husband Jeff and my three children. At one of my monthly meetings, my
in one month and we each ended up organizing eight classes each. son Blake kissed me goodnight and said, “Good luck tonight, mom. I
More than that, this gave us the momentum to go Area by November of hope you boost your volume. I can’t wait to see you in our new, white
2002. Thank you, Dana Collins for a system that works! In April, I Mercedes!” Special thank yous go out to my mom, grandma Jean and
attended my first NTC in Nashville, TN., accompanied by twelve great grandma Grace, for being my best Clients ever! I couldn’t have
women from my team. We were all blown away by how amazing this done this without you.
company was! NTC made an obvious impression on me, serving as a
Most of all, I want to thank God for giving me the courage I never knew
stepping stone by helping me meet my next challenge. Within two
I had to do this business. In His honor as well as in honor of my
months of returning from Nashville, my volume went from
103-year-old great grandmother and my daughter Hannah Grace, I
$12,000/month to $35,000/month and I had reached first step
chose the theme of my Region, amazing grace. They are enduring sym-
qualification for Region. With my incredible team behind me, I achieved
bols of the incredible
my greatest feat to date: promoting to RVP in September 2003.
abundance that life has to
I am truly blessed to have such a caring group of individuals. We could offer. With simple grace,
never have become a Region without the efforts of each and every team all things are possible.
member! Jessica: Thank you for introducing me to Arbonne. You have
given me such an incredible gift. Kathy Whittington: Thank you for all
your support and coaching. I feel honored to be a part of your team.
Donna Rehling: Thank you for always being so kind and encouraging. L-R: Rachel, her mother, her grandmoth-
er Jean and her great grandmother
Grace
AM Carmen Martin, Rachel L-R:
and DM Maria Giorta at L-R: AM Carmen Martin, Stian Mørck and Rachel at Some of Rachel’s Ascending Wings Region team members at NTC 2003 Nashville
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