“I knew, when I saw that check, we were going to be Executive Directors, I knew it in my gut.
—JANICE LAWSON
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thereafter, Janice was delivering loaves of
bread as part of her own home-based business
when one of her customers told her about
Melaleuca. “She said, ‘Janice I’ve found the
neatest company—you can make serious
income but you don’t sell and you don’t
deliver,’” Janice reflects. “I went home and
said to Robert, ‘Debbie’s doing so well, I think
she might be doing something illegal.’ The
next week, Robert looked into it. He said,
‘Janice, just enroll.’”
Later, when Janice saw Executive
Director IV Neta Wheeler earn $17,000 in one
month, she had her own revelation. “I knew
when I saw that check that we were going to
be Executive Directors,” Janice says. “I knew it
in my gut.”
In addition to reaching Executive
Director, Janice and Robert applied their
monthly income to their mortgage, paid it off
and achieved financial freedom. “It gives us
a sense of peace and joy,” Robert says about
paying off their mortgage. “You don’t worry
about what’s coming next.”
Robert and Janice Larsen celebrate their financial freedom with Frank, McKay and thousands of their closest
friends at Convention 2008 in Salt Lake City.
smaller home,” Roy says. “We also paid off
the last of our credit card debt in 2007. I love
being part of Melaleuca, and I’m so thankful
I was curious enough to find out why Marty
Johnson was selling soap. I love to share the
benefits of Melaleuca with my best friends as
they’re always thankful when I do.”
Executive Directors II
Robert and Janice Lawson
Janice Lawson had been a schoolteacher for
years before enrolling with Melaleuca in 1991.
“My biggest desire and passion was to be a
stay-at-home mom for our children,” Janice
says. “We did a lot of sacrificing to do that.”
As well as her desire to stay at home,
Janice and Robert wanted to find a place in
the country. When they bought their “house
of possibilities,” a home built in 1896, they
knew they’d need to do some more sacrificing.
“The windows rattled when the wind blew
through, and our furnace couldn’t heat the
upstairs in those Iowa blizzards,” Janice
recalls. “I told Robert, ‘ The pioneers used
to live this way; I think we have the pioneer
spirit.’”
From 1983 to 1991, the Lawsons lived
paycheck to paycheck. Then one day in
February 1991, Janice told Robert, “I don’t
have that pioneer spirit anymore.” Shortly
Directors III
Darlene and Jack Cole
Like Janice Lawson, former teacher Darlene
Cole left her career to be a stay-at-home mom.
While she says she was never a “fast” business
builder, Darlene says she’s earned more than
$32,000 from Melaleuca since 1999, and
that money has helped them accomplish
their goals in a spectacular way. “We paid our
30-year home loan off in about 15 years,” she
says. “It took some sacrifice and we had to go
without, but it’s worth it now. We took that
mortgage payment and put it into college
savings for our three daughters. Last year, we
purchased more than an acre of land to build a
new home on, and that land is paid in full.”
Right from the beginning, Darlene and
Jack planned to finish their mortgage off
early. “Jack and I were very fortunate to both
have parents who instilled in us the dangers
of borrowing too much and the value of being
