When I stood next to the big guy on the practice court at LSU I felt like a shrimp. I’ll bet my head only came to about his waist.

Basketball wasn’t my big thing, but I knew that this guy was a real giant and would be a super star in the NBA. He would be coming to Orlando, where I was living and working, so I knew a good contact when I craned my neck up and looked at one!

The only reason I had just been introduced to Shaq O’Neal and Dale Brown was because I had a burning desire to be successful in my MLM business and “persistence” could have been my middle name.

How’d it happen? Well when I first moved to Orlando and was struggling to make a living, I had heard a motivational tape that said successful people always walk faster than other people. So I got up every morning, dressed in one of my four good suits, grabbed my briefcase (no one had to know it was empty), and headed for the elevator at a very brisk pace, even if I didn’t have a single appointment.

I had managed to get a great apartment in the nicest building in town where several of the Orlando Magic players lived. Just the fact that I lived there gave me a lot of credibility.

One morning I quickly got on the elevator and a man I had seen around said good morning and then, “Tell me what you do. You’re always in such a hurry.” I don’t know where my answer came from, but much to my own surprise I answered, “I’m going to be a millionaire and I’m taking a lot of people with me.”

Well, instead of going on about his business, the man followed me off the elevator and straight to the parking garage as we struck up a conversation about my business and his business.

It turns out that he was the trainer for Stanley Roberts who had just been drafted to the Magic and who had played with Shaq at LSU. In fact, Stanley and Shaq were known as the “twin towers” at LSU.

That encounter led to a friendly relationship with the trainer that led to me meeting some of the Magic players. Many of them bought products from me. That soon led me to an invitation from Dale Brown to come to LSU and show him, the other coaches, and the trainers what my products could do to help their team also.

Believe me, it took a lot of courage for me to get in my car alone and drive all the way to Baton Rouge from Orlando. When I walked into the War Room at LSU to meet all those men, I was quaking in my high heel shoes, but I never let them know it. I had a burning desire to be a very successful business woman and I instinctively knew that all these contacts would be important to that success.

That day, Dale Brown told all his coaches and trainers that they better pay attention, that they better not laugh at me, and that they better participate in my demonstration. And they did! Then he called this giant of a man over and introduced me to Shaq O’Neal.. When I went back home with pictures of me with Shaq, my two sons kept asking me with incredulous looks on their faces, “Mom, now tell us again how you got to have your picture taken with Shaq O’Neal?”

The next year Shaq came to play for the Magic and became very popular in Orlando. He also used some of my products. Those pictures of me with Shaq opened a lot of doors for me in the business world in Orlando.

But if I hadn’t had an absolute burning desire for success—if I hadn’t had the courage and persistence to go alone to Baton Rouge to meet with Dale Brown and the LSU Tigers, I probably would never have had my picture taken with Shaq. I would never have been able to use that influential relationship to build my credibility and thus help build my business.

I did become highly successful in my MLM business and I can trace some of that success back to walking fast, making a great posturing statement on an elevator to someone I didn’t even know, and the courage and persistence to follow-up and follow-through on that chance encounter with Stanley Roberts’ trainer.

What am I talking about?  Research is now showing that breast cancer, prostate cancer, inflammatory diseases, heart disease, osteoporosis, and even Alzheimer’s can be dramatically affected by Vitamin D3.  Why has it been so difficult to find this information and can it really be true?  

First, what is Vitamin D3?  It’s cholecalciferol, which is the naturally occurring form of vitamin D.  It’s synthesized naturally in the skin by the ultraviolet B rays of the sun. Vitamin D3 is the real thing!  But most of us don’t get the amount we need from the sun because we have been told to stay out of the sun.

In my new book, How I Beat Skin Cancer, which will be out soon, I will go into greater detail about the exciting research being done on vitamin D3 and what it can do to prevent and even get rid of disease states we thought it was impossible to cure.

In The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 79, No 3, 362-371, March 2004, Michael Holick stated that “Studies in both human and animal models add strength to the hypothesis that the unrecognized epidemic of Vitamin D deficiency worldwide is a contributing factor of many chronic debilitating diseases.” He talks specifically about cancer, type 1 diabetes, heath disease, and osteoporosis.  He also mentions that fibromyalgia is often actually misdiagnosed vitamin D deficiency. 

In fact, vitamin D deficiency is now considered an epidemic in this country!

Believe it or not, many American doctors have the opinion that vitamin D can be toxic.  But according to Dr. Reinhold Vieth of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Toronto, there is no hard evidence that there are any adverse effects under 10,000 IU daily.

 I reasoned that, after being sick for years with chronic fatigue, no stamina, osteoporosis and finally skin cancer, and after doing everything I was told to do by physicians, naturopaths and alternative therapists, why not do the research and take the larger amounts of vitamin D3 to make sure I was going to finally be well.  My win over skin cancer was my awakening to the power of vitamin D3 and its relation to a certain kind of calcium, both of which are responsible for my recovery.

My book will go into more detail as to why I am challenging the amount of vitamin D3 we really need to have optimum health.  The RDA is woefully inadequate for most people and especially for those with chronic illnesses.  When you read why this was kept from the American people, you will want to make certain you don’t make the same mistake.

I have become a “fighter” for perfect health using natural solutions as much as possible.  I am not saying we don’t need doctors for many things.  It is just that I have learned that all over the world people are winning over major degenerative problems using solutions that we in the US don’t know about and I want to tell everyone.

The information on this site is provided for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice of any kind.  These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA.  Nothing said or recommended on this site is intended to treat, prevent, diagnosis, or cure any disease.

I was taken from sickness, fatigue, sleeplessness, depression and chronic illnesses that all the doctors say were “incurable”.  I want to help those of you who have heard those words and  guide you, in a practical way, to what I believe can be vibrant health for most of you.

 My serious health problems began shortly after my divorce.  I had not worked outside the home for over 25 years, so I had little to no marketing skills to offer. 

Also, my 85 year old mother needed to live with me at the same time and I found myself the only person in the family who had to “Win” in the marketplace so we all wouldn’t go under.  Anyone who knows me knows my favorite saying, “If you want to change the world, get a woman upset!”. 

Well, I was very upset - and terrified.  Didn’t even have a computer and it goes downhill from there.

 Not only did I find answers for degenerative diseases, I found that deep inside was quite a businesswoman.  You know women are very persistent - and remember, I was upset! 

I left my home in Atlanta and moved to Orlando, Fl, to begin my new life and business.  I will not go into detail but I went from a “June Cleaver” kind of gal (spent 6 hours a day in the kitchen for 21 years) to I HAD TO PRODUCE!

 I always believed in health products, so I joined a Japanese company that had just moved to the States.  They already had done a couple billion a year in Japan and other countries. 

Only problem, they had products no one had ever heard of, so my work was cut out for me. Well, in the first few years, this June Cleaver gal made a million dollars and had gone to the top of the company!  Can you believe it? 

Like I said, get a woman really upset about her circumstances and you have a winner.

 That was my life until I decided I wanted to leave the “hectic” business pace and move to a quiet town in Georgia.  I continued to win at my business, but did most of my work by phone and conference calls.

 Always, in the back of my mind was all the information I had gathered about actually getting totally well from chronic diseases like, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue, Diabetes, cancers of all kinds and other health problems. 

I wanted to lead people to the research and natural remedies I had gathered from all over the world that might change their life, energy, vitality and give them hope.

 You will be amazed at what is happening and I think, even the sickest of you, will be encouraged.  I’m writing a series of books and I’m so excited about what I will be opening up to you.  I can hardly wait to get my first book in your hands, “How I Beat Skin Cancer:  Outrageously Simple Answers.”  I did get rid of skin cancer myself last year in less than three months, with no surgery.

 As you can already tell, I am a fighter.  I don’t accept what everyone says, and I perform my own due-diligence to make certain I am on the right track.  My feeling is you will be thinking of many people you know and love when you read the books because, everywhere I go, people jump all over me and ask when this first book is coming out and when the others will so their friends can be helped.

 I plan to bring you great information on my blog.  You will laugh at the simplicity of some of the truths exposed, that you probably have never heard about.  I am very practical and have done most my healing at home and done it inexpensively.

 I look forward to hearing from you “out there” who are fascinated and probably always knew there were answers for problems others said were hopeless.  Please feel free to post questions in the comments section and I will try to answer them in future posts. 

 I have called my blog the “Uncommon Guru” because I have listened to my own inner drummer and marched a different way than most.  I have been rewarded financially and emotionally.

 Just a little thought, I will be bringing in my “success tips” and spiritual breakthroughs along the way because we are a whole person.  Finances and health always “find” you when you are in the right state of mind.  What I learned - and applied- has been used by some of the greatest people in the world.  Why try to re-invent the wheel?

 Let’s be upbeat and see what unfolds on the blog of the “Uncommon Guru”.