Chris Kinney Interview The Next 10 Billion

Interview with Chris Kinney A successful Internet
MLM Marketer. Podcast on what it takes for a Network Marketing company to be a force of good in the world and how a person who finds the company that is “right” for them, to go about developing a duplicating team of passionate people …. with out offending friends and family !

Not long after 9/11/02, I found myself extremely depressed staring at a cold concrete floor in what could be best described as a shack in rural beautiful Western Colorado . It was a magical sunny fall day.. like the one I find myself in today in Western Colorado, the aspens are starting to change, there is fresh snow covering the peaks of the San Juan , Grand Mesa and West Elk mountains and if you have money your looking forward to another great ski season and hoping to get in some golf before the snow starts flying down here.Yes , extremely depressed I was , the only way I have ever been able to really try and relate to the state I was in, is to let you know I ran with a pretty fast crowd in my twenties and few had committed suicide .

Every time someone I knew who did that..it just baffled me , I would think to myself “I wish you would have called me , I would have given you some dope or bought you some booze ” I just could not contemplate the thought process behind such a final , self destructive act . Well, unfortunately at 36 years old I was feeling what those others must have been feeling . I am no expert on depression , but years of poor choices had slowly brought me to a place that was very dark and from my perception at that moment ..very limited options. It was painfully clear that no amount of booze or dope was going to help ( If I could afford to buy any anyway ) . I had lost my two young girls who were now living in Southern NJ with their mom who had divorced me and I could not even send them a post card because of the anthrax threat that shut down the post offices . The 4 bedroom home on 7 acres was long gone . The networking internet business selling domain names ( ask my old friend Pete Balasch about that one ) took a nose dive for a variety of reasons including the president of the company sending out the wrong # ( twice) for a conference call going out to 20,000 members of an online community that I sponsored that were getting ready to enroll in record #’s and I was counting that money a little too early , I had lost my self respect.

It than hit me. It was not her fault ! It was not my parents fault ! It was not the start up Internet MLM companies fault ( I knew the risk of start ups) , it was not God’s fault. IT WAS MY CHOICES UP TO THAT DAY that put me in a shack with winter coming and just about flat broke. I had never seen myself as a ” blamer” but that is what I was . Thank goodness for that personal insight to myself and I still do not know what it takes for people to take an honest look at one’s self and change but from my experience it does take some sort of “bottom” . I realized that if I was going to have a chance at a life, I better start making some different choices. The idea of drinking my problems away was smashed .

I took my last $150 and signed up for a coal mine safety course so I could apply for a job in the local coal mine. In this area of Colorado there is no big ski area or college and the only jobs that pay more than minimum wage are in the coal mines. I needed to make enough money to move East and be near my girls . I begged for that coal mine job , they do not like to hire people with no experience , the job was in what’s called “bad ground” not stable.. it was flat out scary work . I did it for almost a year . Had a yard sale and packed everything I owned in and on top of my beat up Ford Escort and drove to the East Coast where I got a job as a massage therapist at a Casino Spa in Atlantic City .. things were getting better . Giving therapeutic massage to often very stressed out people helped me as much as them and I will always be grateful for that experience and it paid about as much as the coal mine. However the problem with that job was the fact that the casinos do most of their business on weekends and holidays, so all my girls understood was that the J.O.B was more important than spending time with them.

Something inside me was telling me to start looking again for an opportunity to make money from home in the Network Marketing industry and now almost 4 years later..I am sure glad I was looking and listening !

I just started one of my 90 day enrolling blitz’s which prompted me to call my old friend Pete Balasch that I have not had any contact with in years and he directed me to write this little article and do this podcast on what it takes for a Network Marketing company to be a force of good in the world and how a person who finds the company that is “right” for them, to go about developing a duplicating team of passionate people …. with out offending friends and family !

I hope you enjoy it and appreciate any and all feed back.

Yours in gratitude, service & abundance ,

Chris Kinney

http://www.thenext10billion.com