Featured Coach Success Story - Paul Cravey

Featured Success Story - Paul Cravey

Team Beachbody is all about people helping people. Our comprehensive programs make it easy to have no excuses for getting fit. They take the guesswork out of eating clean and living lean and they are versatile enough to fit into any lifestyle...even if you're on active duty in the U.S. Military!

Check out this success story from Star Diamond Coach, Paul Cravey:

My name is Paul Cravey. I am a Beachbody Star Diamond Coach and wanted to share my story with you...



I'm an Army Officer currently stationed on Oahu Hawaii. In January 2009, I did my first round of P90X. Then, after helping several more friends through the program and I became a Beachbody Coach in May of 2009 .

Though I dabbled, I didn't begin to actively Coach until September 2009, when I was deployed to Afghanistan. As commander of a Combat Advisor Team there, my time was very limited. But I made the time for my 3rd round of P90X with one of my troops who needed the support at 5:00AM everyday. Plus, I dedicated 30 minutes of my day to building my Beachbody business virtually, via Facebook, email and the message boards.

My upline Diamond Coach Mike Meads, as well as my upline Star Diamonds Mike & Tami French were extremely supportive of me throughout my 12-month deployment. I changed the lives of a number of people in Afghanistan - civilians, soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Canadian soldiers - with face to face workouts, plus I started of a Fit Club at FOB Walton near the volatile Kandahar City. (This Fit Club is still running today!)

Simultaneously, I built my business with coaches from my message board, Facebook and the Beachbody Customer Lead Program. I actually have more civilian coaches now than military ones. Within 12 months while deployed to Afghanistan, I went from zero active coaches to Diamond rank. Upon my return home to Oahu, I was one star diamond within 60 days and Team Inertia continues to grow as part of Team Hawaii.

I have two real keys to success:

It's not about me. I paid this fitness gift forward to anyone who wanted it. I enabled their success. Regardless of who they were and where they were located, I made their physical fitness and well being my priority. The signup of Coaches came from those who appreciated that gift and wanted to pay it forward themselves. I signed a few coaches who were about the money, but they're never as successful as those who follow the "fitness first" model. I do believe in Karma and if you make this business about your clients and not yourself, it will pay you back in spades.

Use all the knives in the drawer. I didn't have the option to interact and share the Beachbody opportunities face-to-face with people in everyday life. I was often gone for a week or two at a time with no computer contact. My upline supported me and I used every minute of social media I had to the max. I made videos of us doing P90X & Insanity and posted them to You Tube, Facebook and our Message Board. I ran a very active message board and I streamed my fitness experience.

Once I returned to Oahu it seemed easy compared to that. Now I've added monthly booths at fitness events, fit clubs and our own Team call with a 90 Days to Diamond Group just around the corner.

I went Diamond in less than 12 months while in Afghanistan on a combat tour. Then Star Diamond in 60 days. There are no excuses! i went from zero dollars per month to over $1,000 per month on average. Though I love leading soldiers and flying attack helicopters with all my heart, Beachbody will likely one day replace this career.

The potential is amazing. Even if it doesn't, it will by me a house on the North Shore of Oahu. This I know. In the meantime, I will use Beachbody to bring my troops to a higher level of fitness and durability over the next couple of years.

That's my story, and I'm stickin to it!

Featured Success Story - Karla Reese

This is one of the nicest success stories I have read, because it is EXACTLY what I was hoping the coach network would become for many people; An extra source of income with motivation to stay healthy while spreading the word to other people!

Is there any doubt that this is how the trend of obesity ends? Not if Karla and I have anything to say about it!



Here's her story:


My name is Karla Reese from Seattle Washington. I have been a Coach for a little over a Year and am a Diamond Coach.

I started Coaching because I wanted to try Shakeology. When I was first approached, I was pretty excited about the opportunity to help others. Then, when I was told it was a business opportunity, I told my Coach "No, I don't want to start a business." The real reason is that I believed I should not be paid to help others. I volunteer as a: Girl Scout Leader, Girl Scout PR rep, special councils for Girl Scout encampment experiences, Sunflower Children, Save Our Waves beach cleanups, Founder/choreographer and director for the Aviation High School Ballroom dance Team, Thrill the World Instructor, Toy Fair (where we create toys for agency kids and teens), I have been the Block Watch captain, done the Buddy Walk, donate my hair every two to three years to Locks of Love, and donate time to just about anything else I can squeeze in. So, when Carl talks about people DESERVING to get paid to help others, I SWEAR he is talking directly to me.

Suddenly, one day, I realized how many people bought P90X because of my recommendations and success, that I thought I was being silly. Then, my Coach pointed out that I could get Shakeology at the discount, and I gave it a try. At first, with my busy schedule (in addition to volunteer work, I am an actress/stunt person for Seattle Knights and Pirates of Puget Sound www.seattleknights.com) and the additional hours I was doing at work (60 hours because of a large project I was responsible for), I just enjoyed my Shakeology discount, and that was that. Eventually, people started reaching out to me for help with their programs and I told them about the Coaching opportunity (using the Decide video). I would have never met some of these people if it were not for Beachbody, and that ALONE makes me forever grateful for this opportunity! After going Emerald, I went to a Game Plan Event, and I saw the possibilities. I decided to reach for the stars, called my Coach and told her I wanted to do a Get Started Right Interview with her and I would be Diamond by Summit. I missed that mark by about a few weeks, but I DID GO Diamond. My first personal goal was and is still to get my family and friends healthy and fit! I consider all my customers friends, so they are priority one.

HERE'S MY SUCCESS AND THEIRS!
They are sticking to the programs, and kicking booty!! My lovely Coach, Jen went from size 16 to size 9 in less than a year! My lovely Coach Kimberly lost 12 inches overall! One of my best friends can nearly wrap his belt around his waist twice! Another customer, Kevin wrote a beautiful letter on his TBB bio page thanking me and talking about taking back his life and being a positive influence on his son! One of my best friends from High School told me she hit her goal weight a month ago! My Mom and Dad are working toward defeating Type 2 Diabetes with Project YOU AND Shakeology. My daughter doesn't have to go under the knife because she has finally stretched her hamstrings and gastrocnemius enough to walk normally. Now she is so flexible that she is often mistaken for a contortionist! My Mother in law is off her high blood pressure meds, and my Father in law finally has normal cholesterol levels! The stories go on and on! The most poignant is that my husband, who was diagnosed with Renal Cell Carcinoma and had a tumor the size of a child's bowling ball removed along with his kidney is completely cancer free! His surgeon said the best thing he ever did for himself was to get fit and healthy PRIOR to this diagnosis. The tumor could have been growing for over 5 years. His surgeon is a P90X and Insanity grad who drinks Shakeology by the way! We were in good hands! :)

My success is measured by the lives I can change for the better. I do have some personal goals as well. Other than my physical goals, I included some financial goals for my business.

My first financial Goal was to get Shakeology for free (via commission payment from Beachbody). Attained. My next biggest goal is to pay for my daughter's college tuition. Because of Beachbody, I now have the first year's tuition for her in the bank!!! I am THRILLED!

As far as my business "secrets", I don't think they are really secrets. CARE about others. TRULY WANT to help and you WILL step out of your shell to reach out to them. If you care about someone else more than you care about yourself, you won't let those little voices in your head that are filled with fear of rejection control your actions.

EXAMPLE: If you care about your children, you punish them when they misbehave because you know it is what will help them grow, EVEN THOUGH they may be angry with you at the time. If I care about myself more, I would ignore their actions, because I want to always be loved.

If I care about OTHERS more, I will go ahead and take that risk to reach out to them.

Success Story Of The Week: Wayne Wyatt

This is what some people mean when they say, "extreme"...

Meet this week's Success Story, Wayne Wyatt:

"My name is Wayne Wyatt and this is my Team Beachbody success story...


For over a decade, I had been struggling with my health and fitness to the point that I gave up hope and resigned myself to the fact that I was over-the-hill and destined to be heavy for the rest of my life. Each year I'd try to get in shape. I made the typical New Year's resolution that would fade out within a month or two. I tried all the other stuff out there.

In February of 2010, I decided to take the plunge with P90X. Little did I know that making this decision would forever transform my health, my fitness, my outlook, and my life! I dropped nearly 50 pounds, got totally RIPPED unlike any time in my life, and gained such a passion for my health and fitness that I couldn't help but tell others about it. I had finally found the REAL DEAL -- workouts/nutrition/supplements/convenience/a community of support -- and I realized this will work for EVERYONE!

I signed up as a Coach not to make money, but because I had such amazing success with Beachbody products that I wanted to help others do the same. And since I was telling everyone to use them, I might as well get a little commission for it! Well, it's turned into a lot more than that. Even though I have a very successful day job as an orthodontist, there is a huge appeal in the Team Beachbody business for me. I have the flexibility to do it when I want, from where I want, as much or as little as I want.

Thanks to my upline Coach, Josh Spencer, and the support and tools available, I'm now a Diamond rank Coach - after only 6 months! I don't plan on quitting my day job just yet, but I'd love to reduce my time in the office to 2 days per week while giving myself more time to focus on Team Beachbody coaching. It's truly a dream job! And with the income I'm making as a Coach, this is a very real possibility!

Who would guess an orthodontist, with 11 years of schooling and residency to get where I'm at, could seriously consider walking away from a health care profession (at least in part) to coach people through P90X and Insanity! Thank you, Team Beachbody!"


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