Pete Pritchard

Welcome to my Better Networker Profile . I’m glad you’re here. Take a look around and you can find out who I am and what my life is about.

I am an entrepreneur by heart and love getting my hands dirty and beleiving all things are possible.
First 25 yrs, shy, scared, insecure, introvert.

I grew up as a child of an alcoholic, my house was a war zone. I never brought friends home. I even avoided friendships in grade school because I was scared other kids would want to come over to my house. Going over to a friends house for dinner meant having to invite them to my house for dinner so I never accepted. I remember the hurt faces of my friends when I would decline.

My first best friend was the kid two doors down, he was the only kid on the street so we were destined to hang out. I was the sick kid with asthma and allergies and so I was small little runt of a kid my entire life. The kid the street wasn’t but he was a verbal bully and everyday from age 4 to 10 when we finally seperated ways, he would taunt and torment me and prove to me how bigger, better, faster, stronger . So I got very conditioned to not even trying or worrying about winning or losing I knew what the outcome would be. My mother was no help in this area either. She was never diagnosed but probably severely depressed and an alcoholic. She would sit me on her knee at report card time and say Don’t worry we are just Pritchards we won’t amount to anything. We will never be successful at anything and that’s ok. The poor have more fun anyways. it’s good this way.

So I grew up shy, introverted and scared. I knew that if I stayed away from people nothing would happen that would make me feel uncomfortable or embarrassed. I used to hide in the back of the class and pray the teacher wouldn’t call my name. If something did happen I would turn 4 shades of purple, my brain would shut off and I couldn’t talk. Class speech day was hell on earth it was as much fun as food poisoning.

Got introduced to network marketing when I was 18. I ended up buying $5000 worth of product just to get in and then had to go out and sell it all somehow. Well everyone got the same birthday gift that year. The thought of owning my own business stuck, my dad owned his own business to that did have something to do with it too. The thought of going out and doing it yourself felt noble and just, and being able to create something from nothing felt like fun. I knew I would own my own business.

I was introduced to network marketing a second time. This company was well established with good product but the leadership was extremely new had low leadership skills. They insisted I spend my monthly wages on product and made me feel outcasted when I didn’t buy the magical quota. I did stay in long enough to meet some individuals with greater caliber and they instilled the idea of life long learning. They introduced me to names such as Anthony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Zig Ziglar, and Burke Hedges. This changed my life forever, although out of the game I would never be the same.

I went into the restaurant industry as a dishwasher and came out 4 yrs later as a manager and promptly got the hell out. I realized there was no way to work my way up to being owner and being manager is the worst position. Although I might have honed my skills in leadership I wasn’t prepared to do it here. I ended up jumping from management position to management position and a few sales jobs thrown in. Trying to figure out how I could get into ownership making peanuts for a living. I thought maybe I could save up for a house and rent it out and then leverage that to buy a restaurant or something. Every time I turned around housing prices were skyrocketing and supporting a young family wasn’t easy it turned out to be a hope and a dream that wasn’t attainable at least from were I was coming from.

I went back to school and gave up the dream of ownership. Decided on massage therapy after I got out I decided to run my own business. The dream was alive again and the thought of making $60 an hour compared to $12 – $15 an hour sounded far more appeasing. After a few personal issues 3 businesses and excess of $50000.00 in debt I threw in the towel.

After this failure I was crushed. I lost hope and to top my marriage was failing. I suffered a breakdown in beliefs and desires and went into a huge depression. And somewhere in the middle of this my mom passed away. My dad had to go in for bypass surgery so I took over running his business. It was only the love of my son that kept me hanging on to keep looking and persevering. After a few years my marriage came to an end. This gave me a chance to clean the slate and start again.

It took a year to start again. It took awhile of looking at the empty walls and not coming home to a family to get my head straight and see the light again. At first I wanted to leave town and travel like I did when I was younger a backpack and a road was all I needed. But I couldn’t leave my son and although my dad was healthy again the business needed me to be there. Lesson one of being a self employed person; you can’t ever leave.

As I wandered around trying to figure out what I could do with my life network marketing popped back into my head. I felt most alive with that industry and I met some of the greatest people involved with it. I could even live anywhere in the world or get up and move anytime I wanted and it really wouldn’t effect my business. Its the only business model that creates residual income so if I decided to go Africa and hike Kilimanjaro for a month I would still make income. I also considered how it had already affected my life for the better and how I raised my son with the values and ethics I had learned because of the industry. No other industry compared, no other industry you could work side by side or in competition with someone and have them help you out when you fall.

So I went on a mission to find the best company with the best leadership and training. What I found was even better and I’d like to share that with you. If you have hopes of a better future and want to take a step forward and do something new feel free to contact me.

You can find out more about me at my website and facebook page
www.workwithpetepritchard.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pete-Pritchard/223205097733156

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Pete