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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.