RYAN HIGGINS
From trinkets and baubles to health and success! Sometimes one’s road to the top can take unusual paths along the way.
Ryan Higgins is one of those people whose road to the top started out very differently than many in the direct marketing field. He never set out to be a 8 Star Sales Director in one of the most successful marketing companies in the world; he only wanted to earn money to provide for his children.
Ryan still lives in his hometown just outside of New Orleans Louisiana where he lives with his four children, life and business partner Angel, and her children. It’s also here where his story began.
After graduating from Southeastern Louisiana University in 2003, Ryan went to work for his family business of producing and marketing souvenirs and other tourist related merchandise. It’s a business that his Mom and Dad still run today. It required working long hours and sacrifice to support his family the mere $20,000 to $30,000 a year generated from that business. As if that wasn’t a challenge in itself, when hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans area in 2005 it all but wiped out their struggling business as well as many others. As a business based entirely on the tourism trade, the storm had a devastating effect on the Higgins’ business while the recovery and re-building of that amazing city took place. Even today, years later, the effects of that storm are still impacting their business. But Ryan was never one to abandon his family or his principles, and regardless of the obstacles and challenges they faced, he hung-in there and continued to work 14 to 20 hours a day.
It wasn’t until many years later that Ryan took a path and made a choice that even today he looks back at with wonder and amazement. In 2012 he was contacted by a women from Lewiston Idaho seeking information on New Orleans related merchandise for a convention that was going to be held there later that year. That woman happened to be Angel Fletcher, one of the most success women in Network Marketing today.
What Ryan didn’t realize at that the time was that he would not only make a sale on merchandise, but that his life was about to change in a way that he would even dream of.
In 2014 Angel sponsored Ryan in Truvy with hopes of adding some much needed income money to what little he was earning at his family business. Working under Angel, combined with that he learned in college and his experience running his family business, Ryan went from the bottom rung sales level to the TOP Sales Director in just under fifteen months. To put that miraculous feat into perspective, he went from earning $20,000 a year to an incredibly high seven figure income in less than two years.
One could only imagine the tremendous life-changing impact that has on not only himself, but his children and family as well. In November of 2016 his sponsor and mentor became his life partner and today they are re-writing network marketing history together.
Although many things about Ryan’s life has changed, the one thing that has a remained a constant is his commitment to his children and the people around him.
Many people who reach that level of success develop a tendency to look down on those they passed on the way up. Some even develop a ‘survivor mentality’ in which they isolate themselves from those below out of fear that someone down there is going take that success away. But not Ryan Higgins. Ryan admits that he looks at people differently than most. He looks at them as fellow travelers that have yet to find the right path. He sees them not as hopeless losers, but as victims left behind by circumstance and the overwhelming challenges of surviving in a modern world. Like a brave solider on a battlefield, Ryan’s goal is to leave no man or woman behind. If they believe in him, he’ll lock-arms with them, and they’ll drag one another up the hill to a better life. This dramatic and somewhat grandiose description was not directly conveyed by Ryan. But rather the profound impression left on the author by Ryan’s enthusiasm and sincerity. That in itself makes it even more poignant and worthy of retelling.
Ryan admits that in his previous life he was merely a spectator in his children’s lives. Like many of us, he watched their lives speed by while he etched out a living to support them. Today, his greatest joy is being able to be a participant in their lives, by driving them to school, cheering them on at ball games and applauding them at dance recitals.
