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Anyway, I just want to take a couple minutes and just talk to you tonight a little bit.
Basically, I’m talking to the newest people.
Because if you’ve been around for the last 30 years, you’ve probably heard my story.
Keith and I have been married for 27 years.
And so I’ve been in Primerica now for 30 years with him, and he’s been in even longer than me.
Maybe 38 years now, something like that.
So we’ve been here for a really long time.
But, you know, for some people, it’s really hard to relate to some of the people in the front.
And, you know, definitely Willie.
I can’t even relate to Willie anymore.
Willie, you’re just, like, blown past everyone, but we’re so proud of you, and we just want to thank you because we know that your time is really valuable.
And you guys are going on another trip around the world on Sunday.
You know, I’m sorry to take you away from that for a couple of days, but we really appreciate you being here, and we have a friendship with them.
And so you get to be around these people that think differently, right? And, like, in the real world, where would we ever be around people like that? You know, usually you’re around people that are negative, that just talk down and always, like, never see the bright side of anything.
It’s always.
The glass is always half empty instead of full, you know, and that’s usually in your job and where you come from and, you know, how you grew up.
And most of us weren’t around the most positive people all the time, right? So this business is so different in that way because we get to surround ourselves with people that we actually love and care about.
So I want to thank the first two rows.
You know, you guys are like family to us.
We’ve known each other now for a really long time, known a lot about each other, watched our kids grow up together.
And, you know, we just want you to know that we appreciate you.
You know, we appreciate you guys so much.
We just did an awesome trip with some of the players.
We took them on a cruise, and it was awesome.
I mean, we all had suites.
We had our own section on the cruise.
We had our own dining room.
I mean, we just had the best time.
And the best part of it was we just got to enjoy each other.
You know, we just got to just relax, right? Shelly and Carol and David and Joyce and.
Who else was there? Chris and Harvey and.
We just had such a good time with you, Orville.
We had a great time.
And these are the things that you get to do, you get to surround yourself with people that you want to be with that think the same way you do.
So I just want to take you back, like 30 years when I first met Keith.
And, you know, I wasn’t thinking this way, you know, And I just want you for the new people life, you know, Sometimes you don’t.
You don’t see the final path, you don’t see the destination, you don’t see the rainbow, you don’t see the pot of gold.
You know, you see, like, what your situation is for that time in your life.
But if anybody had told me that our life was going to turn out like this, our great friends Kirsten and Mike are here.
I would never.
I mean, we just did a trip with them to our lake house.
I would never have thought we’d have this in our lives.
I would never have thought that all the hard work was actually going to pay off.
I just didn’t see it, you know? And I think a lot of people, when you’re struggling and you don’t know where your next paycheck’s going to come from, you’re not really sure, you know, if this thing is really going to work out for you or not and for your family, you don’t see that part of it.
But I just want you to just for one minute, just imagine that everything that everybody is telling you is true and this could happen for you.
And it just doesn’t happen for special people because we’re not special.
I owned a nail salon and Keith was a plumber.
Nothing special about that.
You know, I could do designs on your nails, but I had no idea what.
Financially, you know, I was in a mess.
When I first met Keith, I was literally all I cared about is, like, what I wore and my clothes and, you know, I just cared about spending money.
I didn’t care about anything about finances.
I met Billy.
Billy was, like, in our first office, me and Billy Bajakian.
And Billy was, like, doing hearts on the window when he saw me come in.
And so we just had fun.
But I never thought that my life was going to turn out like this.
I just never could see.
And so I want you to see that.
I want you to know that whoever you’re here with, whoever invited you, whoever your upline is, they have a plan for you.
Maybe you don’t see that right now, but the plan is to make you and your family financially free to never worry about where your next paycheck is going to come from, to take Primerica and Run with it.
It’s an opportunity that you’ll never have again in your life.
Trust me, it only comes around once in a while.
Somebody thought enough of you to bring you to a meeting and invite you into this great company.
So please don’t let that just go.
Because you don’t have enough confidence in yourself that you don’t think you can do this.
Anybody could do anything that they want.
And I see that with my kids.
I see that, you know, raising kids around this environment has totally changed the way Keith and I grew up.
I came from a middle class family with a great parents.
My parents were awesome.
But we never really had above and beyond.
You know, we.
Not that we struggled, but we didn’t always have everything that we wanted.
And I know that not every person should have everything that they want, but if you work really hard and you.
And you have that vehicle, you can have everything that you want.
And Keith didn’t come from, you know, a great family.
His parents were divorced.
His dad was like in and out of jail.
And, you know, he didn’t have the luxury of growing up with a silver spoon in his mouth.
So when this business came to him, he realized that this was something that could take him out of that life.
And maybe some of you are there right now, maybe some of you live in a place that you don’t want to really live in, that you’d rather live somewhere else, that you know, that you want to do better for your family.
And so when we got together and we realized that, wow, you know, if we really work hard, we can have anything that we want, it’s endless.
The opportunity that this company allows you to do, it doesn’t matter.
I love it because it’s partnerships.
We have so many partners that work together.
You find your role, you find what you’re good at and you compliment each other.
And I think that’s the greatest thing about partnership in this company, that we really take that seriously.
Like, no other company puts your husband or your wife’s name on a plaque.
Nobody cares.
But Primerica cares, you know, and we thought, wow, this is going to be amazing.
Like when we have kids.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Our kids are going to be able to grow up in this awesome company.
And that’s what this is all about for me at this point in our lives.
It’s about our kids.
And just seeing Blake today, I couldn’t.
I need a drink.
Sorry.
Thanks.
Thanks, Will.
Thank you.
Sorry, guys.
I just couldn’t be more proud of my kids.
And I know you’re proud of your kids, and everybody’s kids are awesome, but my kids are really awesome.
You know, just seeing Blake blossom like this, I have to tell you, I didn’t.
Maybe.
I don’t know.
I just didn’t see it in him.
I didn’t think that, you know, he was going to be able to get up.
He was very shy as a kid, and so was I.
Very shy.
So to come out of your shell like that and just be somebody else, you know, this company allows you to be anybody you want to be, so.
I’m so proud of you, Blake.
I love you so much.
Dom is.
Dom just passed her 6 or 63.
She’s on to her 26 right now.
I know.
And she is my best friend.
She is my best friend.
I do everything with Dom.
Dom calls me 500 times a day.
I don’t know if you have a kid like that, but Dom can’t do anything without running it by me first.
And I.
Sometimes I think it’s annoying, but most of the time, I am so happy that we’re that close.
And I couldn’t ask for a better daughter, honestly.
You are my best friend.
Dom ordered all the recognition that we have for this weekend.
Your kids are amazing, right? And if you put them in front of the right people and you show them that you could be anything you want to be, sky’s the limit.
Don’t you want that for your kids? Don’t you want your kids to look at you and say, I’m proud of my parents, like, they paved the way for me.
But now it’s my turn to take the reins and do what I have to do.
I’m done.
Okay.
I only have a couple minutes because I can’t talk anymore.
I’m just going to show you a couple of.
Wilma put this little presentation for me together.
I just want to thank Wilma and Raquel.
It’s a lot of work, and definitely Keith puts a lot into the schools, but they’re worth it.
And I think everybody definitely takes something away with them when they leave here.
So if you could just show the.
Oh, is it me? Oh, do I hit it? Oh, shoot.
How do I go back? Oh, okay.
So I had this crazy idea this summer that I wanted to get a farm.
I don’t know why I have.
I’m a city girl.
I love the city.
But all of a sudden, I said to Keith, I want to get a farm.
And so he goes, what? So I said, yeah, let’s buy a farm in the south of France.
I mean, what? And so he goes, all right, if that’s what you want to do, that’s what we’re going to do.
So I find this farmhouse from the 1800s.
It’s like, awesome.
So I called the lady.
It’s in.
Where was it? Mojon, which is like one of my favorite places.
And we’re talking and she said, you know, the only thing is, if you buy this house, there’s no inspections.
You have to buy it as is.
And I’m like, what? Okay, no, that’s out, because I don’t even know when we’re going to get there.
And, you know, whatever.
So then after that, I said to Keith, I want to go to New Hope, Pennsylvania this weekend.
And he’s like, for what? And I said, I don’t know, let’s just go there.
Well, I heard Bradley cooper bought like 63 acre farm in New Hope.
So I go, let’s just check it out.
Let’s just see how it is.
So he’s like, okay.
So we go.
And on the way home, we stop at a farm and we put a bid in on this beautiful hundred acre farmland.
And it was like gorgeous.
But turns out it didn’t work out.
So we ended up buying this piece of property, which is when it’s all said and done.
It’s about 31 acres and it’s actually being farmed right now.
But the beautiful thing about this is that nobody could build around us.
So it’s looking at 100 acres, but it’s actually 31 acres, but it’s so cool.
And right now there’s like soybeans on it.
But next year it’s going to be corn.
So we’re going to have.
My brother in law is our architect, builder.
He’s actually going to build this house for us.
And so he came up with this amazing.
It’s actually going to feel like you are in Provence, but you’re actually in New Jersey.
And this, it’s not going to be that color green, but that is the barn which is going to have pickleball and basketball and weddings and whoever wants to get married there.
And.
And then the back of the.
So that thing in the back that sticks up is called a silo.
And usually on a barn it’s like, you know, red and it has hay in it or feed, whatever it is.
And so ours is going to be all glass and it’s going to go up 60ft.
So the top of the top up there is going to be A speakeasy.
So we’re going to have like all, like a cool bar up there and stuff.
And the middle area is Keith’s office.
And then the down area is going to be like, for parties and, you know, our dining room and stuff.
And then the rest of the house, it’s going to be a six, I think a six bedroom house.
And it’s going to be awesome.
So I’m really excited about my farm.
So we’re going to go from.
We’re going to be Green Acres, right from the city to the farm.
And I’m going to have little animals on my farm.
I’m really excited about these animals.
They’re all miniatures, so I don’t know, these things last like 30 years.
So we’re going to see about that.
And this is our lake house that we built.
We built about a year and a half ago.
It’s in Lake Norman.
It’s in Charlotte, right outside of Charlotte.
And that picture says living the Dream.
So we’re definitely living the dream.
Definitely.
I mean, were able to build this house.
You know, we had.
We just paid cash as went along.
And it’s just.
It’s just an awesome house.
And we have a lot of people that come and a lot of people from, you know, Primerica have been there and just.
It’s a great place to just chill out and, you know, just have a good time.
We’re literally right on the lake.
I think this is.
Is this a video? Yeah.
The whole house is pretty much glass and it’s kind of like a fishbowl.
So can’t walk around unless you have clothes on.
Definitely.
And somebody in Primerica pulled up on our dock one day and was like, we’re outside.
We’re like, how do you know this is our house? Well, we looked it up.
I said, oh, my God.
So it’s.
My passion is decorating.
So I get to have all these fun places that I get to decorate.
And it’s just so fun for me.
I love it.
I get to do whatever I want.
It’s great.
And my life wasn’t always like that, so I definitely appreciate that part of it.
Being able to just do whatever you want, you know, be able to take care of your family.
We took care of.
We have taken care of my parents for the last 20 years.
My dad just passed away in April and he just couldn’t thank us enough.
Like, every day he would just say, my life was extended because of what you were able to do for us.
And I really believe that, you know, when you’re able to give somebody a great life and retire them and have them even better off than they originally were, I mean, what is that worth? It’s worth going to work every day and working hard on your business and in your business.
Right? What is that? It’s just.
It’s amazing what you can do.
It really is.
You just have to have some faith in yourself, you know, and don’t let people tell you can’t do this business.
You have to be strong and say, I could do anything I want to do.
And just remember that always.
You can do this, you can do that.
You can have a life that people only dream about.
But you have to take those steps.
You have to sacrifice.
You have to be able to say, no, I can’t go this weekend.
No, I can’t travel.
No, I need to work on my business.
No, I can’t do that.
You know how many things Keith couldn’t go to because he was working? Or, you know, people would say to me, oh, it’s not even like you’re married.
Where’s your husband? He’s never around.
Well, you know, maybe he wasn’t around for every single thing, but that’s the way life goes, you know, you have to give up some stuff in order to get stuff.
Can’t have everything.
Oh, what happened? Oh, one minute.
Oh, did I went too far or is that it? Oh, wait, there’s one more picture.
Oh, okay.
And this is.
We just bought in this.
This is the Ritz Carlton that they’re building in Bonita.
We sold our house in Naples.
A lot of you guys have been there, but we just sold it about a year ago, and we’re waiting on this to be ready.
It’s going to be really pretty awesome.
It has, like, golf.
It has, like, three pools.
It has a marina that we’re going to have a boat at.
I mean, this is, like, unbelievable, you know, this is.
I can’t even believe this is our life half the time.
It’s, like, really unbelievable that we’re going to live there.
Our unit is the end unit, so we have all glass, and it’s going to be really awesome.
So I’m really excited about this.
And the last picture should be all of us.
No, you didn’t put it in.
Okay.
Okay, well, no picture.
But it was the picture of all of us on the cruise last week, so.
Hey, guys, listen.
When we ran a contest and it was 25 by 25 for four months in a row, we’re gonna.
We’re going to up that.
And we’re gonna do another contest.
We’re gonna do another cruise, but this time we’re gonna do a Europe cruise.
So if you guys didn’t make this cruise, you really need to get on the next one because you don’t want to miss it.
Right, guys? Dave took all the best.
I’m taking David with me wherever we go because he’s the best photographer, videographer I’ve ever seen.
I mean, he’s awesome, but you really have to work really hard.
It’s something that you’d have to really fight for.
And so we only want to be with the best of the best, right? So work on that.
Guys, we love you.
We can’t wait to see how your success.
We appreciate you being here this weekend, and we know that you could do it.
So do whatever it takes.
Fight as hard as you can to stay in this business and make it work.
Love you guys.
