Team Beachbody is about people helping people. That's why it was a no-brainer to work with Raincatcher to help people all over the globe by providing them with clean, safe drinking water.
Thanks to the growth of Team Beachbody, we have been able to donate over $280,000 to help Raincatcher.org install rainwater harvesting systems and water storage tanks in the regions where people desperately need it.
Now, Shakeology ingredient hunter Darin Olien is going to Africa with Raincatcher on an expedition sponsored by Team Beachbody to install systems in Kenya and Uganda. Check out the details of their triphere and see how you're helping save lives by building your Coach business.
Please know that in addition to the lives of people that you connect with every day as a Coach, you are also touching - and saving - lives around the globe. That's teamwork and Team Beachbody at work!
We have given over $280,000 to Raincatcher.org so they could install water "catcher" tanks at schools in Africa and provide filtration systems to Haiti as they hit a brutal crisis in available drinking water.
The efforts of Mark Armfield and Jack Rose are amazing and selfless. And they were so enthusiastic about the contributions of Team Beachbody that they went ahead and signed up as a non-profit coach as well!
And it's great to see how coaches are embracing this relief effort. I had dinner with a coach last week who works with high net worth financial guys, and when they ask him for fitness advice (and generally are not inclined to participate in the coach business) he asks them to donate to RainCatchers in exchange for his advice!
Water tanks have been installed. 12 schools already have rainwater harvesting systems and water storage tanks plus the guys have distributed 1,500 water filters, buckets and portable rain catching systems.
Now they are working on supplying water to the next ten schools and implementing an education program around the importance of water filtration and the systems that have been installed.
Exciting things are happening, and the big heart of Team Beachbody grows bigger by the day!
I am always so filled with gratitude at this time of year. Beachbody is on track for another record year, Team Beachbody is growing fast, and people continue to get real dramatic results from the products.
My family is healthy and happy. And we have the means to put our capital to use in ways that both build toward our goals, and help a lot of people.
It's like a dream, created on purpose with hard work and focus.
And speaking of gratitude, I got an email from Jack Rose from Raincatcher, who is deploying our first donation of water supplies in Haiti and Africa. His efforts are paying off and he is building momentum to have an even greater impact than any of us imagined. We will have video in the next few weeks to share showing our first Team Beachbody water tanks being installed in schools!
And don't forget, for every active coach as of 12/31/10, we will donate another $5 to help five people have access to water year round!
I truly am grateful for every coach who put their faith in this idea, from the founders to the people signing up to help us be ready for the big swell in January. You all are helping us lead the charge.
And I am grateful for all the hope and energy our corporate team and coaches put into growing this business every single day.
I am so proud of the work this organization is doing to install sustainable water sources where they are desperately needed. And I always get a kick out of the reactions people give us when someone experiences the real value of nutrition when they hardly expect it. Shakeology, you've done it again!
Carl and Isabelle,
It's the morning of my big meeting with William Gardner
head of CRV- Haiti (Community Violence Reduction - United Nations)This is the main reason for my current trip to Haiti.
My driver is late and I'm waiting and fuming. It's about 11:00am and I haven't had time to even think about nutrition (typical).
Somehow I have a brainstorm and dig a packet of Shakeology out of my nap sack and pour it into a bottle of Oregon Rainwater I happened to have with me.
I shake it all up, devour it, and my driver finally shows up.
On the way down the mountain, during my ride to the UN Delta Base at the American Embassy, I can feel my whole body, mind and emotions change (for the better). I never yelled at Jean Pierre & Gino for being late.Instead I calmed down and experienced an amazing state of peace.(Is this what real nutrition feels like ?)
Although I arrived at the meeting a half hour late, I felt an amazing degree of confidence and love.
The result: a million dollar deal to bring our clean-water systems to a half million people. These are the forgotten ones, the poorest of the poor in Port-au-Prince.
My goal is 'Water for Everyone' - method is sharing.
You two sharing Shakeology is very much appreciated,
Jack
To help RainCatcher achieve their mission of water for everyone, become a Team Beachbody Coach and not only will you be in a position to help people get healthy and fit, but we will donate $5 to RainCatcher for every active coach as of Dec. 31st 2010. Or you can give directly right now at http://www.raincatcher.org/
The network marketing model which Team Beachbody uses is doing amazing things, by giving the people who work hard getting healthy and fit the reward and incentive for sharing these solutions with people around them.
30,000+ coaches strong, two dynamics are happening right now which have us wide-eyed at the office; (1) We're starting to hear and see signs that coaches are "loading in" friends and family who see the tipping point coming, and (2) all indications are that the wave of interest and sales coming this first quarter will dwarf projections. In short; A REAL WAVE OF DEMAND IS COMING!
And now this experience of building a network marketing business and my conversations with the guys at Raincatchers has evolved into seeing how we can use this concept of people paying their success forward to expand on how they go about installing their water delivery systems.
Here is a conversation I had with RainCatcher CEO Mark Armfield. It shows how the money we give will be deployed in the near term.
But now we've already expanded on the concept. Instead of simply giving the water tank and rain catcher system to the schools, we are going to develop a curriculum around the installation. The kids will learn about the value of water, the consequences of wasting water and consuming dirty water, and they will learn about the value of helping others catch the water to create wide-spread sustainability.
We're not sure how to measure it yet, but we want to give the recipients of this water system an incentive to help install the next raincatcher system at two more locations. Sound familiar?... Paying it forward.
The goal here is similar to the way Beachbody programs work. There is no "gift" of health and fitness. It is earned through work, discipline and a good plan. The same will go for the expansion of our Raincatcher activities. The recipient will be as responsible for the installation as the people helping make it happen. And as we gain momentum within Team Beachbody, we're hoping this same concept gains momentum in East Africa and around the world!
Over the weekend, Team Beachbody hit another milestone - 30,000 Coaches!
Last week, we pledged that as soon as we hit this milestone, we'd donate $5 for each coach on the team, $150,000 to Raincatcher.org to help provide clean, safe drinking water to people in crisis. I am meeting with the folks at Raincatcher this week and will hand them the hefty check.
But we're not done: Here's how YOU can help...For every active Coach as of December 31, 2010, we will donate an additional $5 to Raincatcher.org! Just by growing your business, you can touch - and save - lives both here and around the world!
Get out there and connect with people. Build your business and not only will you be helping end the trend of obesity and helping others on their journey toward improved fitness and financial independence, you will be helping provide clean, safe drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people who desperately need it.
"We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water," says Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General.
The clean water crisis is real. People, especially children, are in dire need of safe, clean water and we are committed to helping give it to them.Now you save lives simply by doing what you already do. Every new Coach you sign up makes a difference. $1 provides 1 person with clean drinking water for an entire year, so think of what $5 for every active Coach will do!
Thank you for your amazing work in helping us reach this milestone. I look forward to the next one, and the next! You inspire me!
Within the next week or so we will have over 30,000 current coaches, and to celebrate this growing force of people-helping-people, we've committed to give $150,000 to supply fresh drinking water in regions it is needed most, thanks to the work of Raincatcher, and the growth of Team Beachbody!
This is what I learned recently: there is more than enough clean fresh water available if you catch it when it falls from the sky - that's the secret. It doesn't have to be high tech, it doesn't have to be pretty - it just has to catch the rain, and store ALL OF IT so there's enough water to last until the next rainfall. That's what these guys do. And now we help them do it every time we sign a new distributor.
The hard work of our Team Beachbody coaches symbolizes the kind of ingenuity and persistence of Raincatcher. People helping people. And it's such an integral part of our mission to help wherever we can, we committed to give another $5 for every active coach we have onboard as of Dec 31st 2010.
For every $5, we help another 5 people have access to drinking water. Your actions, your success, now has an even greater consequence than helping to end the trend of obesity.
We'll supply more details from time to time here in my blog, especially as soon as we hit the 30,000 coach mark. In the meantime, dust off your list of "maybe sometime" prospects, and tell them in addition to getting healthy, helping end the trend of obesity, and "earning a second income without a second job", there's a new reason to sign up: To help us get water to people who need us now.
Here's to you Team Beachbody! Keep up the awe-inspiring work!
