| Richard Brooke grew up on a cattle ranch in central California. After high school, Richard pumped gas at Pearson’s Arco at the corner of G and Olive streets. He lived at the gas station in his camper. After failing to lock the front door of the gas station two nights in a row, he was fired and went to work for Foster Farms, the largest poultry processing plant in the world. It was a union job that paid $3.05 an hour, complete with benefits, seniority, vacation, and best of all—retirement. Richard cut chickens into parts as they flew past him on the production line.
Having established gainful employment at the age of 22, Richard fully expected to spend the next forty years of his life working at the chicken plant, building seniority (POWER), vacation time (FUN), and clicking off the years to retirement (FREEDOM).
Then a friend introduced Richard to a business model that promised fun, freedom and (as he would later describe it) a life beyond money. Stepping in to a new way of thinking and working required a huge change in perspective. Richard had to believe that he was both capable and deserving of success, and then relentlessly pursue a new direction in his life. With the help of friends, mentors and coaches, he did just that.
Richard made his first million before the age of 30, advancing to the top sales-leader position in a $60 million Network Marketing organization made up of more than 200,000 sales people. At age 31, he became the Executive Vice President of that company. Richard boasts a successful career as both a full-time Network Marketing sales leader and corporate executive since 1977. He is a current, elected member of the Direct Selling Association’s (DSA) Board of Directors and serves as on the Ethics Committee, as well.
Through Richard's coaching, writings and seminars thousands of leaders have discovered new distinctions in listening, leadership, courage, relationships, team spirit and big-time fun. He is the author of Mailbox Money, Mach II With Your Hair On Fire and co-author of The New Entrepreneurs: Business Visionaries for the 21st Century. Some of the presentations that Richard has authored include:
The 4-Year Career Plan™
Listening Through Objections
Value-Based Prospecting
Vision and Self-Motivation
The Un-Boss
The New Leaders
Therapeutic Listening
Coaching For Personal Breakthrough
A Life Beyond Money
Richard and his wife, Christine, continue to play full out from their home on the lake in the resort community of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Richard enjoys Harleys, golf, water sports, scuba-diving, skiing, snowmobiling, helicopter flying, a good game of poker and a real Cuban cigar. |
