“I didn’t have a privileged background. My parents were blue collar workers and they had a dream for me; they wanted me to have a life better than what they had. I went to school and got my degree and went into the corporate workforce as a public accountant and it didn’t take me very long to realise that wasn’t a better life. I didn’t have a lot of freedom. I had a lot of stress in my life and not a lot of free time and I certainly didn’t have a lot of time to spend with my children or to grow as a person. This wasn’t the way I wanted to spend my life, so I was open to opportunity. I saw ACN seven years ago and it just made common sense. Getting paid when people pay their essential bills and getting paid while I slept sounded like a very good thing. So we got started and we went to work and we worked hard,” explained Matt.
Matt’s wife Lisa was sceptical when he first joined ACN. “But in the last seven years we’ve had some amazing lifestyle changes. I’ve seen the world and we’ve spent more time with our children, she said. Matt continued, “Before ACN, I’d never even left the country and today we’ve been to multiple countries around the world. It’s just been staggering - especially the personal growth. And what I really love is that this company has allowed us the environment to see these changes in our life and really fulfill what I believe was my potential all along.”
Matt believes the ACN opportunity is only as good as what a representative is going to bring to the table. “It’s a personal growth program with compensation attached. The more you grow the more you make. You have to like people. You’ve got to have a vision for people and a desire to have people succeed beyond your own success in order to really have success at ACN. For a new representative, the key to success is very simple - you’ve got to be coachable. The people that are involved in the business are there to help you. If I’d just been more coachable and listened to the people that got me involved when I started out, I would have had an even greater level of success.”
So, what is it about ACN that Matt enjoys so much?
“With ACN you wake up each morning and the day is limitless. You don’t know who you’re going to present to that day that’s got a bigger vision than you. I look out ten years from today and I can imagine where our business is going to be – in multiple countries around the world, hundreds of thousands of customers - and it’s all because of ACN. It’s absolutely amazing to think that from the kid that grew up in a very humble beginning to be where we are today and just travel the world and do what we want to do is amazing and I’m just so thankful for that.”