08/28/2025
8.27.25 eNEWS | my labor day story & S.A.V.E. 10%
In the US, this coming Monday is a federal holiday. The first Monday of September each year, we celebrate what is known as US Labor Day. It's early this year, since the first Monday in September is also the first day of the month.
Labor Day is a day we're told is "a creation of the labor movement, dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers." It's also the unofficial end of summer AND in my life it’s a celebration of even more...
MY OWN LABOR DAY
As I look back over the years, I remember many Labor Days - those PRE 'the big transformation' and those POST 'the big transformation'.
These days, Labor Day is a cause for personal reflection on my own 'roots' - the ones that profoundly transformed my life and the lives of my children (' aka the big transformation') in ways I never could have anticipated - providing a life and lifestyle most people only dream of.
Reminiscing inevitably brings me back to this sweet pic that has its own story...
MY CHILDREN & I, CIRCA 1995
The pic you see above isn't all properly cropped and beautified, but it's us, my children and I, circa spring 1995.
At the time it was taken, I was working full time running a chiropractic office. We had a patient - a very nice gentleman - who was a professional photographer.
Talking with this gentleman one day as I checked him out of the office following his visit with the doc, I mentioned how much I'd love to take a professional photo with me and my kids someday.
Recently divorced, we'd not yet had a professional picture taken of all of us - and I knew I definitely couldn't afford one at that point in time.
He kindly and generously offered to take a portrait of us - suggesting how great it could be to do one on the river in Folsom.
When I told him I'd love to some time in the future - I couldn't afford a photo shoot or prints just then - he kindly and generously offered to do the photo shoot, then take payments; every time I got paid I could pay him a little bit.
Wow! So kind!
Ever been in a situation like that? Truly humbling. . .
I gave it some thought, then a couple of weeks later took him up on the offer.
My children and I did our best to find 'matching' kinds of outfits; we did the photo shoot early one spring-time Saturday morning when the light was just right. It was memorable!
Trying to get 5 very rambunctious kids to all smile and behave at the same time . . .well. . . thankfully we got one really good shot out of it all. 😃
IN THAT SAME WINDOW OF TIME
It was right in this same window of time that I was introduced to a 'business opportunity' by the chiropractor I was working for.
He was excited about it. I was not. I resisted the business opportunity. Vehemently. I had NO interest whatsoever in an 'opportunity'. I actually started looking for another job, which never materialized. Guess God had other plans.
Like I said, Doc was excited. He was all about it. If I wanted to keep my job, at least till I could find another - I had to choose IN, or leave his employment. Without benefit of another job.
Reasoning to myself that I had five children to feed, clothe and keep a roof over our heads - and hadn't been successful in finding another job yet - I chose IN.
Amazingly, as I began working with the doc in that 'business opportunity', I began earning extra $$$$. Above and beyond my salary.
Who would've thought???? Definitely not me!
THEY SHOWED ME THE MONEY
My first check from working that side-business 'opportunity' was $115, which at the time was a very nice windfall.
A month later, the next check I received was just over $1,000.
Woah!
Can you imagine what a $1,000+ check from a side-hustle 'opportunity' did for my single-mom self in 1995?
I was shocked!
To make that much money in a business I was only half-way participating in so I could keep my J.O.B. working for the chiropractor . . .wow!
I asked myself . . . "hmmm, what might be possible if I actually got serious about it all?"
I got serious about it real quick.
My next check was over $3,000. Mind blown!
Then the next month, over $10k. Unbelievable!
It was all happening so fast!
HMMM... WHAT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE?
After receiving the $10+k check I asked myself what might be possible if I worked the side-hustle 'opportunity' full time.
For real.
It took a minute to decide whether to or not. I was terrified. Afterall, who was I? Just a little divorced mom with 5 kids who hadn't had a J.O.B. in almost 16 years. I wasn't a Doc, a pro networker or anything professional. But, I went all-in - quit my chiro job and dove in to working the former side-hustle full time.
I bought a computer, fax machine (it was 1995!). desk, chair, file cabinet and ordered a two-line phone - then re-arranged my bedroom into an office that I slept in at night. I was in business - with knees knocking.
Like I said, I was terrified, but I was doing the dang thing.
My next check was over $14k.
WOW! I guess it really WAS an opportunity!
On it went.
LIVING THE DREAM
The journey quickly propelled me into a world that transformed me, my life and the lives of my children.
That opportunity was a network marketing business, and I grew to love it. 💖
As much as I'd resisted it, I eventually loved it all. The the people. The transformations I was witnessing. The challenge. The growth. And the income!
Heaven knows I NEVER wanted to be like those pushy, myopic people who'd tried to cram their products and ‘opportunity’ into my life over the years! I learned I didn't have to be. I could do it my way, and thrive. Even though I had seasoned 'experts' and pros who told me otherwise.
CHANGING LIVES
When I saw the product helping people's health issues - literally changing their lives - I softened and gave it all a try.
What was the product that was helping so many people, and generating all those checks?
It was an ionic liquid mineral product. Changing lives in the best possible ways.
I witnessed so many profound changes in sooo many people's lives as they added back the missing nourishment their bodies were desperate for.
It's one reason why I ALWAYS insisted over the years that whatever business I was in, we had to have minerals for our customers. They're truly life-changing.
CELEBRATING 30 YEARS
I actually still have my copy of the original paper application from that business opportunity I signed up with in 1995. 30 years ago this month.
September 11, 1995. The same year our family picture - the one I had to make payments for - was taken.
I couldn't have known at the time, that my decision to sign-up with that company was simultaneously a ticket to transform the lives of sooo many customers, as well as to transform my own life & the lives of each of my children. In all the best possible ways.
I couldn't have known that working that 'opportunity' that turned into a business, would so profoundly change the lives of sooo many customers who used the product daily. Some of those customers from way back then are still my customers today! But that's another story for another day.
TWO YEARS
Within two years of choosing to run with that 'opportunity', I went from being a dead-broke single mom who couldn't even pay for a professional pic of herself and her children, to earning over $45,000 per MONTH.
Yes, you read that right. I got to the point that I was earning over $45,000 PER MONTH. More than a lot of people were earning annually back then. Incredible!
IF I COULD DO IT
I always said - if I - - a dead-broke single mom of 5 kids, who'd been a stay-at-home-mom for 15+ years before divorcing, who hadn't finished college, and had never worked any kind of business to speak of - - if I could do it, ANYONE could do it!
I still believe that. As long as you have the right 'vehicle' to work - which is definitely the tricky part.
FIRST MILLION $ BEFORE 40 YEARS OLD
Who knew, way back when I signed that application on September 11, 1995, and sent it in to the home office, that I'd earn my first million before I was 40?
I couldn't have foreseen it, nor predicted that! Matter of fact, I couldn’t even dream of the possibility of earning that kind of money. Ever!
THE SANDS OF TIME
As life moved on, I worked that original business for ten years, then sold my distributorship to move on to another biz which I worked for 8 years, then moved on to a third business opportunity.
Each time earning significantly and loving what I was doing - till I didn't,
When I reached the point that I didn't love what I was doing, I sold the third business and sat out for awhile. That was in 2015. Spirit was calling me into a different direction.
TOTALLY DIFFERENT DIRECTION - BUT KINDA THE SAME
Eventually Spirit called me to start my own business. My own enterprise. The one I'd dreamed of and bought a domain name for in 2008. Terrifying, but necessary.
When Spirit makes the path clear, we follow. Right? No investors. No business partners. No financing. Just bootstrapping it piece by piece.
Long story short, in 2019, I launched Mother Earth's Elements - aka MotherEarthsElements.com - where I work, play and make a difference in the world these days - and I love it!
Not the easy road, but what Spirit has called me to - what makes my heart sing.
ALL THESE YEARS LATER
All these years later, as Labor Day weekend comes around - I reflect, remember, and am humbly grateful for allll I've experienced and learned, and allll the amazing people I've gotten to work with. I'm so grateful.
Who could have ever known what a turning point it was way back in the day - 1995 - when I chose to work a side 'opportunity' just so I could keep my J.O.B!
LABOR DAY MEANS SO MUCH MORE
Labor Day is far more meaningful to me than how the holiday has been defined.
Labor Day is a reminder of the gift of opportunity, of creativity, of following the guidance of Spirit - living and working a business I love that not only provides a living - it also makes a profound difference in the lives of so many.
I believe that whatever business or labor we pursue, we can make a profound difference in the lives of others, if we choose to. THAT is the real opportunity.
Along with Labor Day, every 9.11 is a day I commemorate in my own personal life, for far more reasons than most people associate the date with.
COUNTING MY BLESSINGS
Personally, commemorating Labor Day weekend is a time of deep reflection, introspection and gratitude - a time to count so many blessings.
Over the years, I've grown, my life has transformed, circumstances evolved into a dream life that I never could have forseen! Then they evolved into something I no longer loved or felt I could work in. So I left it.
Starting over again - quite literally - as I founded Mother Earth's Elements, has literally been an opportunity to alchemize all I've learned and experienced, start over again, grow some more, and build it all while being led by Spirit.
I'VE GOTTEN TO
• earn a substantial living over my career, while making a profound difference in lives of so many beautiful people.
• live doing work I LOVE, earn an abundant living - with the satisfaction of knowing I'm doing my right work in the world
• have FUN while earning a living & making a difference
• connect and work with soo many great people, build a community - or what I now call a COLLECTIVE - of like-minded and like-hearted people
BLESSED
I'm truly blessed, grateful, and thrilled to be building the presence of MotherEarthsElements.com - to share all the goodness she's here to share. We have lots to do! I could't love it any more than I already do.
This Labor Day 2025, we're celebrating 30 years of 'mineral magic', counting allll the blessings, expressing deep gratitude to Great Spirit, and sharing the love with you all (see below) - my way of celebrating alllll the goodness!
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