Best of Friends

Terry and Linda Felber came from very different backgrounds. Terry grew up in a positive “you can do it” environment. His father was a self-made millionaire. Linda grew up in a farming community. But when they met, they quickly became best of friends and found that they shared a common vision of financial freedom.

After getting married, the Felbers embarked on numerous different business ventures, one after another. Both of them worked hard, but they found themselves more and more tied down by their businesses. They had simply bought themselves “another job.” So Terry and Linda kept looking.

Misconceptions

When they were approached with the business opportunity, like many other people, they had misconceptions about a business of this type. So they fended off their friend until finally he showed up unannounced and said, “Sit down and be quiet!” They gave him the business plan.

Terry looked out the window in dismay as his friend drew out the marketing plan. He managed, however, to hear something different than he was expecting, and he became very excited. The magic words to Terry were, “We have people who will help you.”

Let’s Get Busy

Terry started showing the business plan six and seven nights a week. Linda was quite negative about getting involved in “another deal,” but she supported Terry despite her disbelief. As Terry puts it, “Linda was against the business but for me.” The Felbers grew quickly in their business and were able to pay off the debts from their previous businesses in a short time. They moved from the 900-square-foot home where they had begun their business in San Diego, to a 4,500-square-foot home with seventeen avocado trees in the front yard.

Choices

Then Terry and Linda decided that their girls, Lia and Kristi, and their son, David, needed a more conservative, small-town environment. They had the freedom to live anywhere they wished because of their business, so they moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

A Home on the Water

In recent years, the Felbers have become residents of Florida, purchasing a home on the water of the Southwest Coast. The four-bedroom home has twenty palm trees in the front yard, a custom gourmet kitchen, and a 1,500-square-foot Florida Room—a room where the walls and ceiling are screened in. Both the family room and living room have sliders that open up to the Florida Room, creating a wonderful space for entertaining their great friends and business associates. They enjoy picking fresh, ripe grapefruit, mangos, papayas, oranges, and tangerines from their own trees. Often, as they dine in their gazebo on their boat dock, porpoises can be seen swimming ten yards off shore.

Terry and Linda have always had a love for travel. They spend much of their time traveling to places that most people read about.

Continuing On

The Felbers count their business as a double blessing. Not only has it provided them with the financial freedom they were seeking, but it offers them a vehicle where they can touch thousands of people’s lives in an uplifting way.

Publishing Secrets

Terry’s first book on communication skills in which he shares the secrets of the world’s greatest communicators, equipping readers to do everything from participating in a meaningful conversation to successfully consummating a business discussion, was recently published. Through ten essential skills he shows readers how to achieve real communication. Sharing what he has learned is another way of being able to help others: “Writing has always been a dream of mine, and if it weren’t for this business, I may have never achieved that dream.”

When asked if they are rich, Terry and Linda reply: “We are richly blessed.”