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OCTOBER, 2007
With the Director Leader- new support tool brings you vies, Marijke Long and with the second five slots
ship Conference now behind training, information and Sharon Soyka have now showing more change each
us, everyone is focused on recognition, with new fea- joined the ranks of BMW month. Lately, it seems that
carrying that momentum into tures being added daily. qualifiers, bringing our STEM- our three
the fall growth season. That Check it out today at Tech BMW Club to eleven top Cana-
growth is led by our Think www.teamstemtech.com. distributorships. Congratula- dian prov-
Tank group of seven, profiled Membership is free! tions, and Happy Car Shop- inces are
in this month’s Cover ping! As each member of this “taking
Story. These top field leaders Our international expan- exclusive BMW Club will tell turns” in the
are a valuable asset to every- sion plans are now in full you, building a strong founda- Top Ten.
one, as they are the main motion. The United Kingdom tion of people on AutoShip is Will we see
communication link between is officially open for business, the key to a brand new BMW, TWO prov-
the field and the home of- as is South Africa. We are with the lease payments on inces on
fice. I encourage everyone to preparing to open our first next month’s list? Will any-
STEMTech!
get to know each of the Think Asian offices, in Malaysia, one new break into the “Fab
Tank members and pass your soon. Spread the word to Our Top Ten keeps pro- Five”? It all depends on
people you know with con- viding interesting insights you… Work hard to build your
ideas along to them.
tacts in these markets. into the building going on volume, and make your state,
The new STEMTech Team across North America. The province or territory a Top
website announced at the Each month we are see- “Fab Five” states once again
ing more STEMTech-wrapped Ten finisher every month!
conference is now “live.” This hold onto the top five slots,
BMW’s on the road. Ian Da-
My family and I started fore Christian’s first visit to team. I am so lucky to have Enhance. I know what it has
taking StemEnhance at the St. Cloud, scheduled for the had the best team anywhere done for me and for so many
beginning of August, 2006. end of October. At the time, I supporting me! others, so it
At the time we had numerous had two Business Builders in is natural
As my business has
health challenges. As we all my group, so I asked Jerry for me to
grown and developed, I real-
experienced improvements in what I needed for Triple Dia- want to
ize that I am often drawing on
our health, I began to build a mond. When he said, share it with
my experiences as a Cosme-
business with STEMTech. “50,000 in volume and seven everyone I
tology Educator and hair-
Within the very first week, I Directors,” I thought he was meet. Often
dresser to deal most effec-
was a Director. At the end of crazy to think I could make it. I begin by
tively with people. One thing
the seventh week, I was a asking peo-
Nevertheless, I gave the I learned early on is never to
Triple Diamond! ple if they’ve
“crazy” idea some thought, prejudge a person. You can-
heard the
How did this happen so prayed about it, then went to not succeed in relationships
latest news… that two scien-
fast? I didn’t do this by my- work. I decided that I could with people if you look only
tists have discovered how to
self, let me tell you. I have an and would do it! I started on the outside. You need to
release adult stem cells from
outstanding upline, all of with two home meetings a get to know individuals and
the bone marrow to support
whom are successful, and I week and three 3-way phone develop a relationship with
the body’s natural renewal
patterned my business strat- calls each day. The momen- them. As I get to know peo-
system. Oh, sometimes people
egy after theirs, building tum was just incredible! With ple these days, I learn about
don’t understand the power of
strong and fast. I worked Murf’s help, I signed up my their health challenges and
StemEnhance at first; but
closely with these fantastic first 25 people, and I was on the challenges of other peo-
that’s where education comes
people: Ralph Weber (who the phone with Ralph, asking ple they know. Then it is up
in. I just keep informing them,
introduced StemEnhance to questions just about every to me to help them make a
and soon they “get it.” I do
me), Steve “Murf” Murphy, day. This was a real TEAM change in their lives with
this everyday, everywhere, and
Jerry Lindsey, and many oth- effort. I learned long ago that StemEnhance and perhaps a
my business grows and grows!
ers. It was Jerry who sug- there is no “I” in TEAM. My STEMTech business.
gested to me in September experience with STEMTech is
I truly believe that anyone
that I should work hard to proof that a business grows
with a beating heart qualifies
achieve Triple Diamond be- much faster if you work as a
as a candidate for Stem-
AUGUST SEPTEMBER
First Place California (1) First Place California (1)
Sixth Place Puerto Rico (8) Sixth Place New York (7) Previous month’s ranking shown in
parentheses.
Seventh Place New York (6) Seventh Place Missouri (8) Congratulations to the States of Cali-
fornia, Florida, Texas, Minnesota and
Eighth Place Missouri (9) Eighth Place Arizona (9) Washington… who seem to have a
hold on the Top Five spots. Watch
Ninth Place Arizona (7) Ninth Place Manitoba (-) the Canadian provinces: Manitoba,
Ontario and Alberta have been taking
turns in the Top Ten. Will we see
Tenth Place Ontario (-) Tenth Place Puerto Rico (6)
TWO provinces on next month’s list?
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 Page 5
This month I want to What happens bers in your group, but your and overseeing where
share some insight about the when you put all of your ener- commission checks are be- needed. But you will succeed
Four Phases of a STEMTech gies into acting as a man- ginning to stagnate or even to in maintaining and increasing
Career,
Career and to let you know ager? Very quickly your top decrease. No longer can you your com-
why it is critical that you producers also move into see those steadily increasing mission
never stop doing Phase One. Phase Two, duplicating what numbers each month. income if
This information is important they see in you. The result? “What’s going on?!” you may you con-
for everyone, but it's espe- You find yourself moving into wonder. tinue to
cially crucial for Phase Three, which is the work each
While periodic hills and
those of you who have been Overseer Phase.
Phase day on
valleys in commission check
in network marketing for y o u r
As an overseer, you may amounts can happen at any-
awhile. If it seems P h a s e
feel really important. You time to anyone (whether you
that you have hit a plateau in One build-
certainly cannot be are fulltime or part-time) and
building your business, you ing strate-
expected to get your hands may happen for many rea-
can get "unstuck" gies:
dirty in the trenches, as you sons, let’s go over one of the
as soon as you understand
need to oversee the manag- two causes of these fluctua- • Taking people through the
career phases. tions that are absolutely
ers who are managing their Proven 4-
4-Step System
The First Phase in your producers, right? The trouble within your control to ad-
career as a network market- is that, because distributors dress. The first cause: It’s • Bringing new guests to the
ing business builder is the do what you do, both you and very simple… Your business live Step 3 conference
Production Phase,
Phase in which they very quickly move into building momentum will calls
you enroll product users and Phase Four, where you all screech to a halt if you decide
business builders. Many become Overseers of the to leave your Production • Bringing new people to
distributors enroll a few peo- Overseers.
Overseers Now you are over- Phase behind and focus only your local home or hotel
ple and then quickly move seeing the overseers as they on managing and/or oversee- meetings.
into Phase Two, the Manag- manage the managers of the ing. And remember… Every- As an Overseer of Overse-
ing Phase
Phase. In this phase they producers. From this “lofty” thing that you do is watched ers, there is another way your
spend most of their time position, you are likely to and duplicated by people in check could stagnate or
managing their new enrol- begin hearing critical your organization, so their might even go backward,
lees, rather than continuing (negative) comments about check amounts can begin to usually after you’ve had a
to look for new distributors the other managers, the com- diminish, too, if they leave good deal of success. I’ll lay
and continuing to assist peo- pany, your organization’s behind Phase One. out that situation for you next
ple with their health. The upline… just about anyone. month. (You can get a head-
So it is obvious: NEVER
problem with being a full- start on next month’s column by
You and those following LEAVE PHASE ONE BEHIND!
time manager is that the reading about Phase Four now in
your example may feel con- As your organization grows,
people you have sponsored the member section of our help-
fused at this point. As an you will, of course, ADD ful new training site,
will do what you do, not what
Overseer of Overseers, each Phases Two, Three and Four www.teamstemtech.com.)
you tell them to do. to your repertoire, managing
of you may have large num-
INFLAMMATION AND STEM CELLS by Dr. Donna Antarr, VP/Product Training & Development
The word inflammation — most chronic inflammation chronic inflammation is like soda (diet and regular), well-
comes from the Latin inflam- is silent, invisible and persis- trying to get someone to hear cooked red meat, MSG, nuts
matio, which means “to set tent. We can't see it and we you in the middle of a sta- (except almonds and wal-
on fire.” The inflammatory can't feel it, but it does exist, dium full of people who are nuts), white and brown sugar,
process involves a complex and it causes a host of all shouting at the same time. and white flours.
biological cascade of molecu- health-related problems that If this background “noise” of
plague our society today. inflammation can be dimin- An anti-inflammatory diet
lar and cellular signals that includes:
alter physiological responses. These include heart disease, ished, then the stem cells will
diabetes, stroke, auto- be able to “hear” the sum- Vegetables
Most people associate in- (especially
flammation with skin that immune dysfunction, Alz- mons from tissues and can
heimer’s, arthritis, MS, Park- then follow the “voice” of the dark leafy
becomes red, painful and greens),
swollen after they get a bug inson’s, asthma… to name messenger to travel to where
just some of the ailments fish and
bite or a splinter. Those are they are needed in the body .
associated with chronic in- fish oils,
common symptoms of acute What are some ways that flaxseeds,
inflammation. flammation.
we might decrease chronic flaxseed
Inflammation is a normal One of the reasons that inflammation? Some of the oil, fruit
process; without a healthy chronic inflammation is such causes of chronic inflamma- (especially
inflammatory response, a problem in the body is be- tion is the persistent pres- pineapple,
wounds and tissues would cause it appears to decrease ence of pathogens, environ- mango and papaya), oats,
not heal. So inflammation in the ability of the person’s mental pollutants, negative olive oil, StemEnhance,
StemEnhance bar-
the body is an important own adult stem cells to do genetic factors and lifestyle, ley and brown seaweed.
mechanism for health; but as their job in the body. The among other things. While
reason is that diffuse not all of these causes are We can significantly im-
with most physiological func- prove our quality of life by the
tions, it is vital that there is a (scattered) chronic inflamma- within our control to address,
tion at the cellular level some definitely are. Lifestyle way we treat our body. By
balance. Inflammation that doing our best to live an anti-
goes unchecked and be- makes it difficult for your is one: The type of lifestyle
stem cells to know where to that creates inflammation inflammatory lifestyle — and
comes chronic is one of the by taking StemEnhance — we
most troublesome processes go because everywhere ap- includes poor sleep, lack of
pears to need their assis- exercise, chronic stress and are taking care of our natural
in the body. renewal system, our own
tance. an inflammatory diet.
Chronic inflammation is adult stem cells.
abnormal and causes signifi- Think of it this way: If the Inflammatory diets are
cant disruption of the normal messengers that call the heavy in saturated fats, trans
functions of cells. It is espe- stem cells to come to the fats (hydrogenated or par-
tissue in need were actually tially hydrogenated oils), mar- OPPORTUNITY CALL
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