Meet Mike & Christy Hobbs

I’m sure you want to hear all about what we’re doing online in our different businesses, but first, we’d like to share with you about who we are individually and our story of where we’ve been that lead us to where we are today.

Christy First

I grew up in Salt Lake City, UT and lived a pretty traditional Utah life with being the youngest of 5 kids; 2 older sisters and 2 older brothers. My cousins (who had 8 kids) lived next door to us, and up one house was my dad’s mom and next to Grandma was her brother! My mother’s parents lived only a 5 minutes drive away (though now with traffic, its 15). My life was probably how most people envision Utah’s. Couple of kids, Dad went to work and mom stayed home with us kids. I took 4-H learning how to cook and sew (although not very well – my own fault) and thought I’d grow up to be just like mom. I spent time having sleepovers, playing Ghost in the Graveyard, swinging from trees, floating down the canal in front of our house, riding my bike everywhere, and seeing how far we could launch ourselves from the massive swing-set my dad built. What kid could ask for more?!

Just as I was turning 10, I was plucked from my family filled neighborhood. My dad worked for the railroad and they were moving the Salt Lake office to a podunk town called Price, a mining community (also one of the world’s largest dinosaur spots). My blissful life had been toppled and I had to make new friends and adjust to not knowing anyone. Our new home was only “2 hours from civilization” as my dad called it so we went back to Salt Lake often.

I adjusted pretty well to the change. Riding the bus to school was a new adventure and I used to envy those who got to do it. After a few years of that, my tune changed. But we had the best bus driver ever so it wasn’t all bad.

High school was a great adventure as I got my license and began dating. My car had been driven by all of my older siblings until they bought their own and was legendary at the high school. Classmates called it “the big brown bomb.” It was a 1976 Buick LeSabre. While it was old and ugly brown, it was comfortable and the heater worked great… All year long! Lunch periods were the daily play time for my friends and I. Oh the great times we had.

After my sophomore year of high school, I was the only child left at home and my parents chose to relocate to my dad’s favorite place, St. George, UT. Our summertime highs reach 120 degrees and they say it’s one of the only places in Utah you can have ice on your car in the morning and need to use the A/C in the afternoon.

Through my junior year of high school, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life; the only thing I knew was I didn’t want to be average and ordinary and that I wanted to do something special with my life. My mom got her Bachelors degree from Brigham Young University and my dad attended Univeristy of Utah (large rivals). Naturally, my parents always stressed that I needed to go to college, but it was more of a just in case situation; but I was thinking bigger than an emergency. I wanted to have a big office in a tall building and make lots of money. Family was more of an afterthought that would just kind of happen. So after high school I attended Dixie State College and received an Associates of Science in Marketing. I always joked that I would never get married until I had at least gotten my degree. It turned out to be true (to my surprise) because it wasn’t until 5 months after graduation, I was married.

Mike’s Story

Just like Christy, I was born in Salt Lake City, UT. However, that is where the similarities stop. Before I’d hit the age of two, my parents divorced; I lived with my mom, and moved to Reno, NV. Not too long after that my mother remarried and gave me a little brother to play with. Along with him, I played with neighbors and was always causing some kind of trouble. While growing up, I considered myself to be quite the entrepreneur – I was constantly seeking new ways to make some extra money from selling baseball cards, bus tickets, and even gum. My mom was never quite able to figure out where I got the money nor did she believe my ambitious endeavors when I told her about them.

Times were not always fun and games in Reno though. My parents struggled with drugs and alcohol and there were many days we went without food and power. At different times we lived with my aunt who was in the same situation my parents were. At 15, I moved to St. George, UT to live with my dad and become closer to my grandparents who would pass away in the next few years.

I believe going through these trials made me a stronger person; I remember many nights I would stay up late watching infomercials on how to make money from home – people like Don Lapre, Carlton Sheets, and other money-making gurus. I knew that someday I would be in that position and be able to help out my family and friends financially and not have to worry about them.
During my sophomore and junior year of high school I played Varsity Football where we won State Championship Junior year. Senior year I took a slightly different path and was on Varsity Track and during a fierce track meet, won Silver on the 4×100 race.

After high school I considered myself to be at a crossroad. I wasn’t particularly fond of school so college was not my immediate next though. Not knowing which path to follow, along with my best friend, I joined the Army National Guard. I am part of the 2/222 Field Artillery in St. George Utah, have been in for 7 years and was made Sergeant in June 2008. Even though I was very shy in high school and didn’t date much, before I joined the military I had a serious girlfriend and about 7 months after coming home from basic training, my girlfriend found out she was pregnant and we were married. We fought constantly and even separated a few times. When my beautiful daughter was 18 months old, I was deployed to Iraq for 18 months. This was the icing on the cake and our divorce was finalized in May 2005 (while I was in Iraq).

During my deployment with everything happening back home, I read investment and real estate books and looked to the internet to find new ways of making money. I wanted to be available whenever my daughter needed me when I got back. I spent all my free time searching and spent over $3 thousand dollars trying things and getting ripped off.

That’s When Our Stories Merged Together

Upon my return from Iraq, I went back to Wal-Mart Distribution (a shipping center for Wal-Mart) throwing boxes in trailers for $15.25 an hour and began dating Christy. I had already been breaking my back for 4 years prior to my deployment and a week after my return back to work, I knew my life had to be better than this! I took my Real Estate knowledge and worked into being a Mortgage Officer. I returned to “mortgage school” and drove 4.5 hours one way to Salt Lake City twice a week to learn my new skill. I was excited to begin… until the industry took a dump. Life put me at a new crossroad thinking what am I going to do now? I decided to go to school and because of my deployments, the military paid my tuition. After a semester of that I dropped out; I knew then school was not for me. I did not want to work for someone else… I wanted to be a business owner.

One day one of my co workers at Wal-Mart invited me to a meeting for a network marketing company called Primerica. Now when I went to that meeting I knew this was the answer to my prayers. Finally I found a way to start a business from home. I was so excited I went and told everyone I knew; my first recruit was my girlfriend Christy and we loved it! Little did I know network marketing is a little bit harder than it’s advertised. I went on 20 appointments (going into people’s homes and showing them a presentation) and ended up helping a lot of families out but no one wanted part of the business.

Every time I would get someone to join with me they would quit in about a week. It was frustrating and my friends stopped answering their phones and I began to feel like an alien with them. Yes the products were amazing and I helped some people really turn their finances around, but the old school marketing methods were not working for me. I hated that I had to rely on my friends and family in order to make an income! So I turned back to the internet for solutions finding only scams and losing more money. I was getting deep into debt and about to give up on business all together.

In April 2007 I finally started making income online using affiliate programs and started getting into investments as well. We used the money we earned in affiliate programs to fund our investments. October was a pivotal month for us. That is the month Christy and I got married.

We quit our full time jobs and started our main online business and other income streams. We were making a 6-figure income from investments alone and our life has been wonderful from the very start of our marriage. It took much determination, training, and personal development to get our businesses to grow and we spent a lot of big money mistakes learning. We really had to have strong minds to resist the constant criticism our families gave us. They didn’t agree when we quit our jobs and we were spending money like we had a cash printer in the basement. They said it couldn’t be done but we had to show them different! We knew there was legitimate ways to make money online and we have finally found them. We have now devoted our time and energy in helping others succeed as we have.

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