Helen & Chris were working 80 hour weeks in the rat race when they finally sat down to take a good look at the USANA® opportunity.  Chris was a high school teacher, climbing the ladder as Head of Senior Science in Auckland, New Zealand.  Helen was running her own Corporate Health Business – and the workload was starting to feel like an enormous millstone round her neck.  Their neighbors’ wonderful lifestyle caught their eye and, when Chris and Helen heard they were involved with their own USANA business, they agreed to look at this opportunity properly.  

“We were very entrepreneurial but had pretty negative ideas about what network marketing meant,” Says Helen, “I always said I wasn’t going to sell to my friends, that I had to believe in the product, and there had to be room for growth.  Until USANA I couldn’t see network marketing working for me – it turned out I’d had a lot of misconceptions”  

Shortly after getting started, Helen decided to sell her health business and Chris left teaching so they could both work their USANA business full-time. “It was awesome to be collected by helicopter on my last day at school with my wife, our sponsors and our very first associate!” laughs Chris.  

Reaching Gold Director after a year, and going on to Ruby just two months later is a result of working hard with their team.  “It hasn’t always been easy,” says Helen, “lots of my closest friends thought I was mad to sell a successful business and focus on USANA! Lots of people have the same misconceptions I did – and that can be frustrating if someone won’t even look at the products – they miss out on so much!  But we never force the issue with anyone.  We started out working with just two close friends and now our business spans 7 countries around the world – it’s amazing to think that’s where it all began for us.”  

Helen and Chris encourage their team to go after their goals, and make them happen – and say taking action and thinking outside the confines of the rat race is the answer.  The support and mentoring from their upline Diamonds in Success Team International has played a huge part in their success, “Being able to learn from people who are already very successful, who have so much knowledge – and to get that education for free… it’s just incredible.”  

“There’s so much room for growth in the world with USANA,” says Chris, “our business is only just beginning!”