Success Camp

I've mentioned in previous posts about lia sophia. Before moving to St Louis I had never heard of lia sophia jewelry. Actually it wasn't until we had already lived there for over a year, did my dear friend Carrie invite me to a party she was having. I'm not big on house parties or direct sales, but decided why not. Brandon kinda pushed me out the door and encouraged me to take some time out of the house.

I didn't know anyone, but Carrie. I felt a little out of place and didn't really have a lot of money to spend. I sat through the party, played the game, and fell in love with the jewelry. I'm also a person that loves my diamonds and can't wear anything but real gold or I break out in hives. So while I loved this gorgeous jewelry I was looking at, I didn't know how or if I would be able to wear it. After looking at the hostess benefits, and some serious arm twisting by one of Carrie's friends, I decided to have a party.

All the way home, I thought about what the lady said. She even showed us her 1099. We were needing money, I was needing time out of the house, I wanted/needed to meet people, and I loved the jewelry. By the time my party rolled around, Brandon and I had agreed that I would sign up to sell lia sophia. I was a little freaked out by my starter party. I seriously knew a hand full of people in the entire St Louis metro area. So thankfully my mother in law also loves the jewelry and invited several of her friends to attend. Carol actually stayed after the party (which was held in our part of the house; the basement!) for two hours asking my advisor questions. Little did I know that Carol was planning on signing up to help me out!



Anyway.... every January our "region" holds a massive training event in Chicago. Last year I went and drove to Chicago from St Louis with black ice covering the roads the entire way. As valuable as the training was, and as awesome and encouraging as it was to be in the same room as ladies that were making $100,000 to 3 million dollars selling jewelry was..... it was not worth risking my life again to drive 5 hours in the middle of winter. So when August rolled around and it was time to register, I talked to Carol and she said we could fly as long as I could drive to St Louis. YEAH!! I looked forward to this trip until the night I left for St Louis.



Our flight left STL at 6:15 in the morning I so I was up and ready to walk out the door by 5. Impressive for me for two reasons 1. I am not a morning person AT ALL. 2. I was up until way past in a complete panic about the weight limit of my suit case and painting my nails.... you have to have priorities and I thought that was one! Anyway, we arrived at Lambert Airport on time, got checked in and headed to the Admiral's Club. Carol travels a lot for work, so this is one of the benefits that she gets and shared with me. I've always wondered what was behind those doors... and it's pretty cool. While we were waiting to board I saw Phyllis from the television show The Office too. (She along with several other castmates are from the St Louis area)

Carol and I had a great visit on the plane, landed safely in Chicago and headed to the hotel where the training takes place. We immediately got checked into our room, dropped off our stuff and headed into some training events. We learned a lot of vital information that day, had a nice birthday meal for Carol that evening and had a great time visiting with each other.

Saturday morning we woke up and heard from the keynote speaker and continued with vendor shopping, a couple of training classes, and a chance to look at the new line jewelry. We ended the day with a cocktail attire yummy dinner and awards ceremony.

Sunday we packed up and headed to our last bit of training. The leaders that were there did a couple of funny skits, we had some good entertainment and finished everything up by lunch time.

We hightailed it back to the airport shuttle and we were on our way back to St Louis. I was happy to get home, but so happy to have attended this weekend for so many reasons. I am really hoping to re-kick start my business. It's something that I love, so wish me luck!