This blog is a continuation of Shane Krider’s interview with home business legend Lee Anne Bartlett. Find out how Lee Anne became successful running her home business in this interview!
Shane Krider
Why personal development?
Lee Anne Bartlett
I’m not into potions, lotions, and supplements. I wanted something that was actually going to really change someone’s life, but I needed to change my life first. I thought if I can’t change my own life, how am I going to help others do that?
Shane Krider
Do you find that there’s an audience out there that are like you and are looking for that sort of thing?
Lee Anne Bartlett
There’s a big audience. Even people that have never heard of personal development want it once they understand what it is.
Shane Krider
I had no idea that personal development existed. I got started as an entrepreneur and they’re telling me to read these books and I’m like, “Wow, for the first time in my life I’m having people tell me why I can be successful instead of why I can’t.” What a paradigm shifter that was — I was hooked from the beginning.
Going back to just the money, how is going from a place where I assume you guys were struggling a bit when you were making the $30,000 a year to finding yourself in a place where you’ve averaging $800,000 a year? How does the money impact your life and how does having that level of prosperity impact you just on any given day in your life?
Lee Anne Bartlett
It makes decisions in all different areas a lot easier. Some things you don’t even need to decide or save the money to go on a holiday, we’re just going to do it. It makes being able to do what you want to do easier.
Shane Krider
So going back to personal development, what types of improvements have you made?
Lee Anne Bartlett
Financial is one. I have been through the program and used it to lose weight. It’s changed the way we look at health, fitness wise, eating, and relationships with friends and family. I’ve actually had my best friend tell me that I’m a completely different person from when she first met me.
Shane Krider
So you must have evolved in a positive way, right? What do you think she’s alluding to?
Lee Anne Bartlett
I’m not sure, really. I haven’t actually asked her, but I think more confidence would probably be one of them.
Shane Krider
That’s a beautiful thing. So, you get started in business. You know, every business has different possibilities. Like the franchise you were working, now the possibility there was $30,000 a year. You get started in this business and the possibility is more like seven figures, and you’ve been somebody that you’ve managed to knock out the number one spot many times over the years. What does it take to be number one?
Lee Anne Bartlett
I do more of everything. I do more numbers, more personal development, more of everything that we teach people to do. So I think I’m just really consistent.
Shane Krider
In some businesses, there’s just no way you can become number one unless you were there at the beginning, but this business is a little bit of a level playing field. When did the lightbulb go on for you that you just realized that you could be number one or maybe you are number one. Was there a moment where it became real for you to be at the top?
Lee Anne Bartlett
I kind of realized it pretty early on because I knew that it wasn’t that kind of structure where you have to be at the top. So I just went okay, well, if they can do it there’s no reason I can’t. I’ll just go for it and do my best and if I don’t get number one than I’ll get number two, well great.
Shane Krider
Is that one of the reasons why you got started here because of the level playing field?
Lee Anne Bartlett
Yeah, like I said it was more about the money. I just knew I could make a bigger amount of money in a smaller period of time without having to harass all my friends and family and have thousands of people in my business.
Shane Krider
How many sales a week do you typically make?
Lee Anne Bartlett
It depends whether I’m traveling or if I’m at home. But I’d say probably two to four depending on the week.
Shane Krider
That seems like a pretty basic pace. How many hours do you spend actually doing revenue-producing activity in your Prosperity of Life business?
Lee Anne Bartlett
I haven’t calculated that but in total I’d say probably 40 hours a week, but not 9-5.