Susan Kate

I am an open minded and free spirited "people person " who is passionate about personal development and living life without limits.

I believe anything is possible and I don't believe in regrets. I am completely in the "glass is half full camp!”

My dream is to help people re-define who they are and help them achieve personal and financial freedom through online home based business and social media marketing.

If you’re interested in getting to know more about me – here is the light version of my personal story.

I grew up in NYC, one of 5 adopted children in a large family. I am a city girl at heart but having spent the summers at sleep away camp I have a profound love of the outdoors and getting back to nature.

Growing up I was very different than the rest of my family and never really fit in. Though I was always treated nicely, and always included, I was also always acknowledged as the black sheep. When they all moved right – I was bolting left for dear life. I didn’t know much but I knew that I did NOT want to follow their lead!

Despite growing up in middle class family I never bought into the “American dream” as it was taught to me. The concept of laboring through life, leveraging your body and trading hours for dollars never seemed right to me.

The so- called “ real life “ seemed more like real death to me.

The idea of working 40 hours a week for 40 years scared me so badly I starting seeking another way VERY early on.

I was only about 13 when the first call of the entrepreneurial spirit started whispering,
“ this sucks, lets find another path.”

I knew it wouldn’t be popular, I knew even at that age that it would be like swimming up stream, but I also was very set on trying. I just simply would find a way. I remember watching the planes going over my house and dreaming about the exotic and fun locations they were going to, and each one passing seemed like a ticket out.

High school in my neighborhood was brutal, and fighting was a necessity just to survive. I coped by cutting out. First chance I got, I ran for my life and went to live the frat house of an old camp friend.

This of course earned me a lot of resistance from friends and family. It was the beginning of realizing that being different from the pack meant learning to live with the laughter and the “you’ll never be anything” type of remarks.

Its amazing how the very people who claim to love you are the first ones who will tear you down and tell you that your dreams will never happen.

It only served to fire me up even MORE to get out and do something different.

I used their laughter to grow a thick skin. Through sheer determination that I would NOT be a drop out I found a way to finish high school long distance. I began traveling around the world, absorbing everything I could about life outside on NYC.

After many countries and some massive soul searching I proceed onto college where I fell in love with learning again and began dipping into personal development.

After college I found that working for other people didn’t work for me, and my degree became mostly useless. I had a very deep need to be authentic to who I was, and I was unable to find anything that really resonated with me in any field.

It all required me to do things against my core values – and cross lines that seemed sacred. I refused to make people unhappy and cut corners just to meet a “ bottom line.”

I realized I was a entrepreneur and nothing less than my own business was going to work so I got married and opened up my first real biz in my early 20s. I was very interested in passive income and decided on real estate.

It was a lesson in what blood sweat and tears really mean, and after a year I was overworked, underpaid, stressed, and always dancing one step ahead of disaster.

It all came crashing down with one phone call about the serious decline in my little sisters health. I was called back to the East Coast and ended up having to voluntarily LOSE everything in order to be with my family.

I lost EVERYTHING but not in the traditional way. It wasn’t actually taken from me. That would have been easy. I had the added insult of having to GIVE MY HOUSES BACK…..and in way better condition than they were given to me !

I had to leave so fast, I literally drove away from my new house with my new car still sitting in the driveway, and only what I could fit into a small U-HAUL to start a new life with.

It was the beginning of a very hard decade, but also a time of incredible self growth. Death, divorce, disaster, and a few others things all introduced themselves to me during this decade.

Now is not the time or place for that story but if you would like more detail you may always go read my personal journaling blog at

www.TheStoryofSue.com

My introduction to online business was a strange one. I was forced to give up law school in order to help my little sister raise her baby, and had decided to open up a photography Studio.

I had invested a large amount of money and years of my time in getting ready. Face-book had brought me back in touch with my childhood camp friends and I before my grand opening I got together with them for a mountain type marathon to raise money. It was 14 miles of mountains, mud and memories.

I spent a weekend catching up with my friends, and in doing so caught something else. Lymes disease. It took me down so fast within weeks I went from training like an athlete to barely able to lift my head. I had small children to care for and was extremely worried about the future of all us.
My hands hurt so bad even picking up a camera was impossible. My studio was put on hold.

All my eggs were in one basket – and that basket required my hands to be pain free! It really got me thinking about how scary it all was to be the only one able to do a particular task.

I needed to find a way to duplicate myself and create passive income.

For months prior to getting sick my ex husband had been telling me about this health juice company he found and wanted me to join him in a business venture. I'm horrified to admit I threw the pyramid word at him and brushed him off. Only upon my health going so downhill was I willing to try it. To be quite honest when he first gave me the juice I really wondered if he wasn’t just trying to off me ! It was a strange purple juice with large green chucks of SOMETHING in it. But I was too sick and desperate to care.

To my utter shock - it worked.!!!! I got better, was now willing to listen, heard residual income and that’s where I fell in love with network marketing.

I jumped right into the business. The problem was, everything my up-line taught me seemed bizarre and stunk of the 1990s. Make a list of high school people? That wasn’t going to happen. I spent years trying to get away from them and half of them were in jail!

The 3-foot rule? Striking up conversations with strangers in the check out line and in elevators? That got me a bunch of strange men thinking I liked them. No thank you!

I knew there had to be a better way, so I took a step back . Like Les Brown says “you can’t see the picture when you are in the frame” I had to remove my self from the situation.

I eventually realized that the Methods were the problem. The old network marketing methods weren’t working in the new social scene. Teaching people to go out and talk to everybody within 3 feet of you is as absurd as buying houses on a handshake. Once very popular, now, pretty laughable.

Despite not knowing HOW I was going to do it, I knew the INDUSTRY was where I wanted to be. Anything that mixes online business with social media is my sweet spot! I finally found something that allowed me to TRULY be me, to be authentic to myself, to HELP people and not hurt them just to make money.

This is an industry that allows me to combine all my passions, and while doing everything I LOVED. This gives me both financial and personal freedom.

My mission is to help others find this! I want to take as many people with me as possible. Its always been about helping others for me. Its what DRIVES me.

In my twenties I traveled the world, going to remote countries trying to help people achieve a better life. I never lost my passion for this but having children I can no longer pack up and trek to Africa or South America on a whim.

So now, In my 30’s I'm leveraging the internet to do the same. By my forties I hope to have a small team of passionate people around me who feel the same commitment to staying true to their core values while helping others do the same.

I can’t promise you that I'm some guru and I’ve made 2 million dollars in 4 days with the launch of a product. I haven’t. NOT YET.

But I know that others HAVE and I know its possible. There is so much potential to make money online and in home -based business, I don’t think we can even truly comprehend how there is more than enough for EVERYBODY.

I'm in the climbing phase and I'm looking for people who want to climb with me. There are those up ahead of us who have made it and guess what……..they ARE reaching back and pulling up the next wave – just as we will eventually do !

This is simply the most giving and honest industry anywhere in business today! People are tripping over each other in the attempt to help others out.

Can you imagine the CEOs of large companies doing this ? Going down to the mail room and announcing HEY I WANT TO HELP YOU ALL REACH THE TOP WITH ME!!

Of course not. But its what happens in THIS online business industry!

I know how to seek knowledge out, digest it, implement it and then teach it. I know how to teach you how to teach yourself. I know how to overcome obstacles and go after what I want. And I know how to show other people how to do the same. Absolutely nothing has come easy to me. I had to fight and really overcome a lot to go after what I want. This helps me enormously to help other people.

I’ve spent the better part of a year making every mistake known to this business and paying my dues. I'm ready to teach people to avoid those landmines and come walk with me on the path to success.

I'm in the process of setting up my blog and other sites, but if you would like to connect with me else where please go check out my other sites. Leave me a comment or write me a personal note and let me know who you are.

My blog will have a place where you can promote your business and I'm always happy to share great content for others!

I really look forward to getting to know you and working together to turn this sad economy around and help a lot of people out in the process!