About Todd
It all started with my dreams coming true and choosing the right path out of high school in 1994 in a small town in Connecticut.
My parents divorced when I was 3 and my mother was left with two young children working two jobs morning and night to try and provide the best for my sister and I. Seven years later, she remarried my step-father who was a tremendous help to us as a family. Love was never the issue – money was. This is when I made up my mind: I was not going to struggle financially as I became an adult. People get plenty of opportunities in life, but most people do not recongnize them when they have the chance to.
Out of high school, my grades were anything but good, in fact, I was suprised I graduated. This whole time, I figured my abilities in baseball were all that mattered. Unfortunately, that was not the case – a perfect example of putting all your eggs in one basket. I received a sports scholarship to The Milford Academy, where after just eight months the Kansas City Royals drafted me in the 12th round, 300th pick overall in the world. At this point in my life, I matured very quickly and at 18 years old I was on my way to living my boyhood dream of playing Major League Baseball.
After 8 years playing in the minor leagues, I decided I needed to make a tough decision because my shoulder and elbow being a pitcher were in agony. Using the scholarship MLB put aside for me when my career was over I decided I was going to follow the DOT COM circuit and get a degree in Computer Information Systems. I was looking for a “career”, a “job”, at this point in my life so I went to work for UPS as a part time helper. Shortly after christmas that year, they hired me on full time. My outlook was to work my way up with UPS and manage their IT department once I graduated. After nine months I realized that schooling was not their plan for me and they rewarded me with more packages and deliveries, interfering with my classes at night. I ended up focusing on education and receiving my degree and I acheived this accomplishment, finally receiving my degree. But unfortunatley the DOT COM bubble burst and if I wanted to make $40 – $50k a year I would have had to relocate my entire family to West Virgina. This I found very disturbing and it has nothing to do with West Virgina but the fact I was staring just $40k in the face a family to provide for. $40k is not much these days for a family, but it was the only option I had on the table. Scared to death, I didnt know where to turn. I was floundering with a degree and didn’t know what I was going to do next.
A very close friend of mine who was in Finance at a very large car dealership locally said I should look into sales. Sales, he meant, was selling vehicles at this dealership. I was frightened because I never sold anything in my life but we are put in positions by God that we can handle, no matter how difficult they seem. So my first year selling vehicles I made $80k and I had just doubled what I was offered for a degree I spent several years trying to acheive. My second year, I was promoted to Finance and I was in the every day rat race working for “the man”. At this point in my life, my children were young and I was doing financially what I had to do. It wasn’t until my second year in finance that I realized how unhappy I was working from 8am-8pm, 5 days a week – using my days off to recoup rather than spend time with my family, “the most important things in life”. The problem I was in was that the money was very comfortable so I thought and I was trapped, and after my second year in Finance I was promoted to Sales Manager running the dealership – managing over 35 employees. These positions at large dealerships pay well, but they own you. You become a living skeleton working bell to bell, a puppet for the principle, and after 4 years of this I was carted out on a stretcher. They had dialed 911 because I thought I was having a heart attack. At a young age, young family, and the rest of my life ahead of me, I said if I survive this I will not walk through these doors again.
My career path was about to take a complete 360 and I started focusing on Network marketing and Affiliate marketing with a close friend of mine. The rest, as they say, “is history”. I don’t ever plan on joining Corporate America again because I have learned how to achieve true financial freedom, working from the comfort of my own home – all while spending more time than I could have ever dreamed of watching my kids grow up and enjoying every minute with them.