As if you haven’t read enough about me already on my website!
Well, I wrote this short history on myself a few weeks ago to share with my team of marketers, and so I thought I’d post is here for you as well.
I was born in Euclid, Ohio. Spent my childhood years moving from state to state in both the East Coast and Midwest, and abroad twice to Switzerland. I am a dual US/Swiss citizen.
After high school in Switzerland, I came to upstate New York and followed my family’s footsteps by attending Cornell University in beautiful Ithaca, NY. I studied Software Engineering, but never really enjoyed coding much, and so I focused on process re-engineering of software systems and business processes.
I’ve always been an entrepeneur at heart beginning with hot chocolate stands to selling candy bars on the school bus to running a catering business in college to pay for my meals, rent, etc…
In my early professional career, I learned quickly that I wanted to be self employed. And some time after that I KNEW I wanted financial freedom.
Yet, how to get there?
I tried MANY things! I failed miserably with traditional network marketing (Melalauca first, then Xocai chocolate). I tried several work out-of-your-home sales jobs. I took a job with a dot com in San Francisco hoping to make it with stock options, and NEVER saw daylight! NOR my 2-year-old.
Even though we had not yet achieved financial freedom, about three years ago my husband, Mike and I moved our family to our dream location – a rural town in the Sierra Foothills – one hour West of Lake Tahoe and 2.5 hours East of the Pacific Coast and San Francisco.
Yet we paid the price! He left the house every week to travel 200 miles to the Bay Area for work. I ran the household on my own while scrambling to make a buck here and there to make ends meet.
I KNEW that in order to change our situation, I had to make it happen myself. Mike, miserable in his job, heart broken to leave his family each week, had no energy to make a change.
It all started happening around the same time for me (about 1 1/2 years ago)… an introduction to online marketing, the Secret, other self-development books and programs.
I immersed myself deeply in learning… self development books, and every internet marketing eBook, email or teleseminar recording I could get my hands on.
As all you fellow entrepeneurs know, success doesn’t come easy. I literally spend every waking momment either with family or dedicated to my mission. The occassional movie or social activity exists in my life, but TV, reading fiction, shopping… I can’t remember when I’ve last experienced those things.
Every time I step into my car (I do a LOT of driving in this rural area), every time I work out… those “down time” minutes are spent listening to my personal developmnet CDs/mps3. And I don’t feel like I’m missing out, because I know there is a time for everything. I spent the first 36 years of my life “hanging out” on my free time. And I KNOW that one day I will have a LOT more time on my hands as a result of all my hard work.
I was still floundering, though, even with all this knowledge.
Yet, I still kept drudging forward.
Then all of the sudden… things started to come together. Great opportunities came at me from all directions… too many really!
I came up with two great book/eBook ideas that I am writing and that I will eventually market online. I partnered with two experts, a parenting expert and a holistic MD, to help bring them online. Then I found Jenn and GRN, and now Genewize!
I love our mission here, to spread the wealth, to turn more people in the directions we are taking. The majority in this country will never get a chance, because they don’t know HOW to get there, because they have never had the fortune of having a mentor.
To bring you forward… I have two children, Alex, a boy of 9 and Ella, a girl of 5. I turned 40 this year! What a Birthday present to myself to join this team!
I am SO enjoying this, and LOVE getting to know each and every one of you! I look forward to much great teamwork on the road to success!
All my best,
Donna Abreu
Profit From Your DNA
