Darla DiGrandi is a person with lots of momentum, and right away, she will tell you she loves what she does. “I love helping people change their lives,” she says. “Vemma gives me the opportunity to help people from all walks of life, and the freedom to work however and wherever I want – the beach, the bed, the couch or the gym.”
She has been a Brand Partner for five months, and is already a Star Executive.* She attributes her success to hard work, constant personal development, and the strength of the company itself. “The most important thing I’ve learned about Vemma is the difference between a company in momentum, versus a company that isn’t. I’ve been in both and there is a huge difference.” A savvy businesswoman, Darla has the experience to know what she wants. For nearly 20 years, she owned and operated one of the largest high-end salons in Palm Springs, California, but had no time or freedom to truly enjoy life.
When the recession hit, she left her business and turned to network marketing, rising to become a top, award-winning seller in another company. She immediately saw the benefits of network marketing as a smart way of doing business that enabled her more freedom in life. That’s when she discovered Vemma, seemingly by accident — but she believes it was meant to be.
The law of attraction — three doors down
Darla claims it’s the “law of attraction” that brought her to Vemma. Several months ago, she and her upline trainer at their previous network marketing company were looking to make a career move to a new company. He was researching the industry for companies in momentum with good compensation plans, when he came across a
YouTube video of Brad Alkazin talking about Vemma. “The video looked like it was shot from Brad Alkazin’s kitchen, and when my trainer saw the view out the back window, he recognized it as his own neighborhood. Amazingly, it turns out that he lived three doors down from Brad and didn’t even know it!”
Darla and her trainer both separately went to meet with Brad. After much research and delving into the company’s financial performance, the family, the system and the product, they decided to join. “Until Vemma, I had only drunk one energy drink in my entire life,” Darla says. “So, in the beginning, it was all about the opportunity for wealth, versus the product. But I’m a big believer in
The Secret – I’ve watched it 100 times – and my trainer and I realized that the law of attraction had brought us all together with Vemma.”
Changing lives
Through her work with Vemma, Darla has high ambitions to change people’s lives for the better. “I want more than anything to educate people on this industry and the power it has to change the world,” she says. “In a world with little hope, there is a cure right under their nose with Vemma – not just a cure for health, but also a cure for wealth.”*
She says that she has transformed her own life through personal development and belief in endless possibility. “I used to be too shy to even shake someone’s hand,” she says, laughing. “Now, I have been able to completely reinvent my mind and rid it of the impossible that exists in most people’s minds.”
She says the qualities of being loyal and competitive have helped her excel, as well as mentoring with successful people and constantly working at everyday personal development. “I cannot tell you the name of any TV shows or current famous people, and I haven’t watched the news for years,” she says. “I avoid negativity at all costs, which is what you mostly see on TV today.” One of Darla’s ambitions in the future is to create a foster home for children who have never been adopted and help put them on their own path to success.
Charting her own course
Darla’s work with Vemma has given her freedom to live the way she wants and spend more time with her husband and young daughter.* “I used to think I was free when I had no debt,” she says, “But my life was not mine. My customers and my employees owned me. In network marketing with the right company, like Vemma, you can be truly free.”
After entering the network marketing field, Darla experienced a new sense of freedom by taking her family on the road. “We sold everything and went from a 5,000-square-foot luxury home to a 45-foot RV, pulled our seven-year-old daughter out of school to homeschool her, and then hit the road,” she says. “We traveled the country through nine states and had an amazing family bonding experience with a lifetime of memories. The best part was realizing that people do not understand what true freedom is.” She says through network marketing with Vemma, she demonstrates to others how free they can be in their life.
Keeping dreams alive
Darla’s years of business experience have taught her how to deal with roadblocks. “The roadblocks in business are all the same,” she says. “People are the roadblock. So many people have given up hope that anything great can happen for them. They’ve been fighting for so many years that their dreams have been snuffed out by the recession.” To keep momentum going, she relies on her upline. “When we joined, my trainer and I purposely positioned ourselves under the number-one family, because we understand how important support is. Now,
they have become family, and that’s priceless.”
She also stays in constant communication with members of her team through Twitter and her newest favorite app, Voxer. “Times are changing so fast in the world today with technology, I have a feeling it will be different next month and pretty soon Facebook will be a thing of the past. I rarely use it anymore.”
Darla is looking forward to the next Vemma Convention, saying she would never miss it, and hopes to be at Presidential or Star Presidential rank by then. When asked about what advice she would give to someone new to the business or Vemma, she says: “Sit down and ask yourself, where in life would you be if you were free, if money and time were all yours? Make a dream board with all of the things you want, then find yourself an upline mentor that is a Diamond or higher and tell them how badly you want it. From there, turn off your TV and start reading personal development books, watch
The Secret every day if you need to, and literally reinvent the way you think. Success and wealth is not defined by a diploma; it’s all in your power to change the way you think about making money.”
That, she says, is the real secret.
**Results not typical, your results may vary. The success or failure of each individual is dependent on their own efforts. The Company has generally expected results which can be obtained by visiting
www.vemmatoday.com.
Vemma Brand Partner Cody Barton of Phoenix, Arizona started his Vemma business two years ago and just went Star Presidential. Through diligent, consistent effort, Cody created an international organization of high achievers and altered the course of his life. “When I started Vemma, I was working two part-time jobs — 35 hours a week at McDonalds and then doing sign spinning on street corners for 6 hour shifts in the hot Arizona sun. Even with all that, I was barely making any money,” says Cody, who learned about Vemma through his sister. “Vemma’s changed my lifestyle completely. Not only do I have a good income, but I also have the time freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want. Nothing can match that.”*
