Merlin and Bonnie Weekes are currently Double Diamond Pearl living in Orem, Utah. Listen to their story below!

In 1978, Bonnie and I opened a furniture and floor covering store to take advantage of the exploding oil shale industry. Soon we had purchased $250,000 of inventory and decided to remodel our 100,000 square foot store. Right in the middle of our remodeling interest rates doubled and a deepening recession began. Six months after opening our new store, all of the oil shale companies shut down their operations over night. A few months later, a large coal mine went out of business. It had been a major part of the economic base of that region. After two and a half years of business, we also closed our doors. Having made no profits we lost everything we had accumulated in sixteen years of marriage.

So, we picked ourselves up and moved to Utah, with barely enough money to make a down payment on a house. I became a sale rep for a national legislative research company, selling memberships to businesses. Fortunately, I did well and in six months I became the Regional Manager, and began hiring and training sales reps in five states. We were beginning to dig out financially and I enjoyed the work, but being gone Monday to Friday nearly every week was extremely hard on our family. Our two youngest kids were growing up without a dad and my wife without a husband.

After five years, Bonnie and I agreed that I had to make a change. Soon I was selling insurance and within a reasonable period of time, I was doing quite well, until I developed a serious health challenge that pretty much wiped me out for two years. During that time, we again used up all of our savings and lived on credit cards, accumulating a debt of $23,000. After regaining my health, I again went to work full time.

As I as struggling to get back on top financially, our friend, Floyd Holdman, invited me to check out a business opportunity with TAHITIAN NONI®. I was not excited. We had built a good organization in two other network marketing companies, who had failed. I had promised myself "no more network marketing for me." As I did my ‘due diligence’, I was impressed with the company’s seasoned management and fundamentals of the product, TAHITIAN NONI® Juice. At the time we had an 18 month old grand daughter who was severely ill. She had been to the top specialists for her condition and they had said there was nothing more that they could do. I decided to put her on TNJ to see what it could do. In a short period of time, her results were unbelievable and we became crusaders for TNJ. And soon Bonnie had no more joint pain for the first time in ten years. We got into business for less than $300, very confident that our TNI business would explode, because of the health benefits we had seen.

In six months, working just part-time, I quit my job. We were debt free and we were already earning 2 ½ times what my full time job had paid. Ever since, we have enjoyed a residual income based upon the fastest growing product in the fastest growing industry. The opportunity is even better now, for anyone who is willing to work as hard to build their own solid business as they would work on a job for someone else. I am confident sales will soar to five to ten billion per year, within the next 10 to 20 years, as millions more people discover the amazing health benefits of TAHITIAN NONI® products.

It is so wonderful to have a strong residual income for retirement. However, we have no desire to retire, because this business gives us so much purpose. Where else could we help people improve their health so much and help them find the financial freedom we have found?