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NOREEN SAVAGE: I originally started this, you know,
to do this business to help make ends meet.
We have three kids in Christian school,
and that's really what it was about, was to keep them there.
Back in 2010,
my husband's company, it's a great company that he works for,
but they were making some cuts.
Of course, you know, they're affected by the economy
as much as we all were affected by the economy.
It hurt us.
Basically what happened was I needed to go back to work.
So, a good friend of ours, he approached me
and he said, "Noreen, I think I have an answer for you."
I went to go see the business presentation, and I got it right away.
I joined the business that night.
Noreen had been a stay-at-home mom for what, 13 years,
at the time that we were looking, you know, October 2010.
And it was tough getting back into the work force
with so many people out of jobs, recently out of jobs,
looking for positions that she was looking for,
but she'd been out for 13 years.
So it, it was difficult.
So the timing of this coming into our lives couldn't have been better.
And it's, it's been unbelievable.
My goal was, I said, "Okay, if I could just make $2,000 a month,
"that would cover a big portion of our tuition payment
"to keep our kids in that Christian school."
And with Ignite, I mean, it was, it was unbelievable.
It pretty much happened, like, immediately. I didn't expect it.
His first ka-ching moment was probably 16 days after I started the business,
I got my first check.
And it was pretty sizable,
and he looked at it and he goes "Hmm."
Where we are today, you know,
if I, if I go back and think a year ago,
a little over a year ago, where we were,
and where we are today,
I couldn't even imagine that we'd be in this place.
I'm still home with my kids.
I do this business part time.
We call, you know, the money that we make the Ignite scholarship fund
'cause it pays 100% for the tuition that we were looking for.
The worries aren't there like they used to be, you know.
We were those people that were scratching our heads saying,
"Okay, we have to make all these changes, we have to tighten our belts,
"we have to look for, you know,
"make sure we're not spending this."
And always telling the kids,
"No, we don't have the money.
"No, we can't do that, we don't have the money."
Now, we can breathe.
We can say, "Sure, you can, you can get that,
"that's fine, it's okay."
And the kids go, "Really?"
I'm like, "Yeah, it's okay."
And they just light up.
And that's huge to be able to do that.
We recently were able to, uh...
Well I guess, I was able to go out and buy a brand new 2011 Camaro,
which is like a thrill for me, it's like a dream car.
Uh, wasn't in the equation at all,
that sort of just came out of nowhere.
NOREEN: We can see now where it's taking us,
and it's really gonna be a lifestyle change for us.
The special secret to this business,
that we did not understand,
working with Ignite, is the people that come into our lives.
We've been married now just over 18 years
and the last year with Ignite
we've brought more people into our lives,
close personal friends,
than we have in the previous 17 years of marriage.
It's just been, you know, that's something that was a bonus we didn't see coming.
Ignite works no matter how bad the times are and the conditions.
And in this economy, and we know,
we are in probably the worst economy
Right.
...and we're in the worst housing market in our lifetime, as well.
And there are more foreclosures in this country
than have ever been before.
People won't pay the mortgage,
but they will not sit in a dark house and take a cold shower.
It is absolutely recession-proof.
This is something that does not get cut out of somebody's budget.
People will think, "Well you know what,
"it's already been here for a year."
But when you look at the percentages
of people that have switched, it's very, very low.
In fact even in the state of Texas,
we're not even 10% of those that have switched,
and they've been there for almost 7 years.
We've barely scratched the surface.
We're not just early where we're going,
we're still early where we've been, and that's huge.
There is every single type of person in this business,
from the stay-at-home mom to the banker to the lawyer
to the airline pilot to the sales trainer
to the CEO of a business.
It doesn't matter what you do or what's your background
or where you come from,
the Ignite opportunity is for everyone.
And it's that simple that anybody can do this.
I pinch myself every day and I say,
"Is this for real?"
You know, "Am I really living this life?"
MR. SAVAGE: It's been a little over a year with Ignite, and never saw this coming,
never realized it was gonna be what it was when we started.
We knew there was potential, there was opportunity
to make something out of this,
but so much more has happened in that year that has blown us away,
as I said, the people we've met,
the relationships we've developed,
the growth of our business,
the ability to pay these bills,
Yeah.
It's huge.
She's still home with the kids. That's gigantic.
So where we're going, is as far as Ignite goes.