Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Be The Architect of Your Dreams: Asking the Experts

Brian Rurak ~ Coordinator, RI

Brian Rurak is a Certified Personal Trainer with a Bachelors Degree in Physical Education/Health (PK-12) and a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology…and he’s excited about Shaklee Sports Nutrition! Check out why!

As a fitness professional, what attracted me to Shaklee was the science! Before Shaklee, I avoided recommending nutritional supplements to my fitness clients. But I realized, even though I was educating my clients on how to shop properly, prepare their meals/food and eat properly, TIME was always a factor when they were trying to improve their performance.

Being a lifelong athlete I know the benefits of good nutrition in order to perform at the optimum level. The science and bioavailability of Shaklee’s sports nutrition gives athletes, even the recreational athlete, that little extra edge to get the most out of their body.

The nice thing about the Shaklee Sports Nutrition line is that it so versatile that any one of the products can be recommended to anyone across the spectrum of “athlete.” So whether the person is an elite athlete, a recreational athlete or a “gardening” athlete, everyone needs to hydrate and replenish/repair muscles when they are fatigued.

Be The Architect of Your Dreams

R. Dean Aldridge - Senior Executive Coordinator

R. Dean Aldridge, FastTRACK Executive Coordinator, Washington

R. Dean Aldridge began with Shaklee in July 2009. Seven months later he began qualification for Executive Coordinator in the FastTRACK accelerated career path, a full eight months ahead of schedule, and more than quadrupled his income in that time. "We needed to redesign our lives and come up with a blueprint for success that worked for us, where we could do well, feel good about it, and touch some lives along the way." I came from a lower-middle-class background and saw my parents struggle to make ends meet. Perhaps because of the way I grew up, I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was in high school,I formed a DJ company with some friends and we hired ourselves out for parties in the area. But I was a pretty talented baseball player and I thought baseball would be my ticket to the life I wanted. When I lost my athletic scholarship, however, I had to look for a new way to achieve my dreams.

By age 20 I was selling insurance and making a lot of money, but it was HARD work—I was always competing for the next auto or home owners' policy. Then I moved to the corporate side and built several large sales teams, but I realized that I was stuck in Corporate America.

When we learned about Shaklee, we quickly discovered that Shaklee was special— special team, special company, and a special cause. My wife, who is a naturopathic physician, looked at the science and saw just how strong Shaklee products were. We saw that Shaklee was the perfect mix. With Shaklee, we could help others and earn a living along the way without cheating our family.