Jamie Walker works with Direct Sales and has a really interesting family story. From her website: “I am an ordinary woman that has done extraordinary things. The kinds of things that raise eyebrows, draw in skeptics, and attract whispers during the school pick-up line. I have learned that you are either a doer or you are a doubter. I pick do. We are all different, darling.”
She used to be a high school teacher; when she had 4 kids who were all 4 and under, she stayed home with them but found herself wanting to go back into the workforce because she missed adults and the structure. Moved to Charlotte for her husband’s job and didn’t know anyone there – she would drop her kids off at the YMCA for 2 hours for free child care!
When she started in direct sales she did it as a way to spend time with adults. At one point, when she thought she might quit, her husband encouraged her to keep going. We all need someone who will encourage us to keep going.
Because she was gaining enough money her husband got to go and find what he really wanted to do; he found Pencils of Promise and has been able to build two schools. He went to an orphanage and she said that she did not want to adopt but then when he got there he met a boy named James who he wanted to adopt and after she met him she agreed.
She wasn’t that excited to go visit the orphanage because she did not like children hanging on her but a couple of minutes into being there she realized that she did not mind as much as she thought she did. She was really worried about going into the adoption process and how it difficult that it would be
Sarah asks Jamie questions about being a high school sweetheart, about how she and her husband have kept the love alive for so long
We discuss how business families are a team.
We also talk through the process of adopting the boys is on the way and in quarantine, they have been writing them letters and doing skype calls.
Learn more about Jamie on her
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