Fred Hodgins

Our names are Fred and Shirley Hodgins; we recently celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. We live on a 100-acre certified organic crop farm in Southwestern Ontario and have two daughters in college. 

 
For the past 27 years, I have had a great career which has been good to us and which I do well at.  Shirley has an MSW (Masters of Social Work) degree, but we made the decision 19 years ago that she would stay home, at first to be with our children and later to look after our various businesses. 
 
Even though I have been satisfied with my career, something inside me always strived for more: more truth, more security, more freedom, new and various experiences, and challenges. I guess I wanted to live a full life and leave a legacy for future generations beyond myself. Through the years, we have taken opportunities to own and operate various businesses as they presented themselves.  This has included owning a franchise, traditional business, maintaining our farm, various real estate projects, traditional investing, and Network Distribution. As a result of our experience, we have developed several guideposts to help people discern, evaluate and judge any business.
 
Our involvement in MLM started about 15 years ago. Like many of us, the concept just made sense. This was going to be a slam dunk. Fortunately, the early years were filled with struggles, challenges, and heartache; this led to skill development, perseverance, learning, friends, great times, travel and a list too long for this bio.
 
Through all of this, (including raising a family and balancing time) we had various levels of success in these business enterprises yet I found the bigger they became, there still was no real extra “take home” income.  I asked “WHY?”  I found that the common denominator in all ventures is “money:” we work for it, save it, spend it, invest it, give it, and try and make it work for us, but many of us seem to come up short most of the time. 
 
Ten years ago, I set upon a quest to really understand money: where it comes from, and how and why we use it. This in-depth study of currency and currency-creation positioned me to understand macro economics at a whole new level. If you do not know the truth about money, you will believe a lie about money and there are multiple lies.
 
One thing that became apparent is to me that people need to diversify and become productive from home. First, we have to do this and then we have to empower others to do the same. In a nutshell, we need to learn and to apply truthful leverage in all our daily activities.
It is because of this quest that we personally are debt free and have not been affected by the “global meltdown” or more importantly, the “personal meltdown” people are experiencing. We are passionate about helping others to become debt free and have full productive lives.
 
We both look forward to interacting in this community and bringing value into your life.

Cheers!

Fred and Shirley