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Ruth’s Million Dollar Journey

Being among the Elite group of AIM Members in the Million Dollar Club goes far beyond a dollar figure. It’s really about all the people you have been able to help along the way. This is what you truly come to understand from Chairman’s Club Director Ruth Overholt, who reached this AIM milestone in May 2018.

Interestingly enough, Ruth and her husband, Andrew, who predeceased her in 2011, both grew up on farms, where they learned about the importance of wholesome, natural food. “My husband was a vegetable farmer,” Ruth stated. “We always wanted to eat healthily.” The Overholts raised their family with this healthy lifestyle choice in mind. And when they lived in Southern Indiana, they even ran a store that sold fresh produce to their local community.

When it came to other healthy ways to help people, Andrew was licensed to provide colon cleanses, operating a rejuvenation therapy clinic for many years. “People would come from all over to get help with their digestive systems,” Ruth said. And a chance introduction to AIM fit perfectly into their aim to improve people’s health.

“We were in Texas on a trip one time,” Ruth said, “We were staying with family and noticed this container of green powder on a shelf. We were told how good BarleyLife was for your health by AIM Director Evelyn Miller, our sponsor, and that’s how we joined AIM and then found out about Herbal Fiberblend.”

When Andrew added Herbal Fiberblend to his customers’ colon-cleansing regimen, the results were astounding. Word of its effectiveness spread like wildfire as did the growth of their AIM business.

Given the Overholts knowledge of healthy food, providing BarleyLife as follow-up nutrition to colon cleanses made perfect sense. “Of course, AIM nutrition also helped to maintain our health over the years,” Ruth added.

To this day, Ruth continues to take AIM products. “I take a heaping teaspoon of BarleyLife twice a day,” she stated. “People marvel at my health. I’m 91, my blood work is normal, and I have been helping my daughter with her cleaning business for over six years.” For Ruth Overholt, it’s all about helping people.

And one of the many beneficial results of helping others to improve their health with AIM nutrition is opening the door to the Million Dollar Club. Welcome, Ruth Overholt!

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The AIM Companies has been dedicated to improving the quality of people’s lives with life-changing products like BarleyLife and Herbal Fiberblend and by rewarding passionate Members with a free-enterprise compensation plan.

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When Opportunity Knocks …

Shared by Ralph Peterson, AIM Chairman’s Club Director

I’d like to tell you about an opportunity of a lifetime. AIM International is the opportunity of a lifetime that I started taking advantage of back in 1989. It has grown and continues to grow every day. I’m so thankful that it came my way and I grabbed it. I wish you would too.

Since joining AIM, I have gone through the levels of the Member Income Plan from Wholesale Member to Preferred Member, all the way to reaching the top level of AIM’s Chairman’s Club Director last year. Again, I really am so thankful.

I never realized the opportunity that I had initially. But it has given me so many great experiences, traveling and meeting people all around the world and sharing with them as I continue to build my AIM business.

I am so blessed to have been afforded the chance to have a very nice retirement income. I’m working harder than I ever have, but it’s a great income for me to receive. I am just beyond words. What I never dreamed could happen to me has happened because of AIM. And others can experience this as well, with a little hard work and being blessed.

It’s interesting that something so incredible in my life could result from something so bad in my life. Almost 30 years ago, I had severe arthritis. Doctors told me that my knees needed to be replaced. Then a friend introduced me to a green powder—BarleyLife. And it was by taking this green powder for only two weeks that my knees quit hurting. Three decades later, I’m still carrying on because of BarleyLife, which I have shared the benefits of with people worldwide through the business opportunity offered by AIM.

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Fit is the New Thin: Cassey Shaw

Shared by Cassey Shaw, AIM Preferred Member

I am a wife, mom, business owner and recovering food addict. I have struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember.

In May 2018, I decided enough was enough. I focused on changing my mindset and nutrition. I counted calories and ate whole foods. I worked hard for those first two months to fight the mental battle that has always plagued me and in two months I lost 25 pounds!

At this point, I began running, and I purchased my first Garden Trio. I could have never imagined that I would fall in love with this drink so much. These products are not new to me because my in-laws, whom I’ve known for over 19 years, have been faithfully taking them. However, this is the first time I started taking AIM products.

By including my two children in my health and wellness journey, it has held me accountable. No matter what, I wanted them to grow up in a healthy home, making healthy choices, even if mommy was closet eating. Making our [Garden] Trio smoothies together has been a game changer for my kids and now my whole family enjoys smoothies multiple times a week.

Today I am down 55 pounds and use the Garden Trio regularly. When I feel bloated, need a quick meal on the go or a quick post-workout smoothie, I always reach for my power drink. As a homeschooling mama and business owner, this smoothie gives me the energy to keep up with life. I travel often and being able to pack my powders and blender not only saves me money but keeps me on track.

I never thought I would enjoy these products so much, but today I CRAVE THEM!

Cassey’s Smoothie Ingredients:
1½ cups of water
1 tsp. RediBeets
1 tsp. Just Carrots
1 tbsp. BarleyLife
1 tbsp. fit ’n fiber
2 small handfuls of mixed frozen berries
2 handfuls spinach

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Your AIM Business Is Important

Shared by Emma Miller, AIM Chairman’s Club Director

Sometimes our goals seem to fall by the wayside. I often think it’s because we get so caught up with the urgent that we neglect the important.

Think of something you should be doing that is important. It could be exercising or losing weight. But such important things are not really urgent. And urgent, daily tasks and interruptions may be the cause of neglecting important things such as your AIM business.

Follow-up?

We have all heard about the value of follow-up. Everybody keeps talking about how important it is, but do we believe it? And if we believe it, are we doing it? Or is the urgent causing us to neglect the important?

Sometimes the urgent might be answering a telephone call and chatting with a friend. The important might be investing some time in your AIM business because if you put off following up long enough, eventually you may not have much of a downline.

AIM Chairman’s Club Director Carolyn Kling once sent me a copy of her goal setting sheet. One objective that I found particularly helpful was, “Try to do something AIM-related every day.” Examples might be calling a downline Member, listening to a podcast, registering for a webinar, studying and highlighting the important parts of a datasheet, sending information by post or email, working on designing an ad or writing your own testimonial. If you do a little bit every day, I think it tends to keep your heart and mind more open. And when you do get an opportunity to share, you’ll be ready for it.

Getting Started

A fine way to follow up is to call some of your top-producing downline Members and ask, “Could we do a meeting?” The truth is that I’m not very proud of some of my first meetings, but you do improve if you keep trying. We all have to start somewhere.

It reminds me of when I used to be a schoolteacher. When my students had to do some creative writing, they would ask me how to get started. And when I asked them if they knew the best way to get started, they eagerly anticipated some wonderful tip from me. But I’d say, “Just get started.”

And when people say they can’t get motivated, I think of some words from John Maxwell’s book, The Fifteen Invaluable Laws of Growth: “Motivation is not going to strike you like lightning … Motivation is like love and happiness. It’s a by-product. When you’re actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it … So act. Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.”

Most people who have been successful have found this to be true. Don’t let the seemingly urgent stop you from “doing” what is important for your AIM business.

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It’s Wild: Bear Paw Garlic

Shared by Paul Clemmer, AIM Star Sapphire Director

Many years ago, I was introduced to a product from The AIM Companies™ called Bear Paw Garlic. I had heard of the bulb kind many times before, but Bear Paw was very different.

I learned that Bear Paw’s garlic grows wild in Europe’s mountainous areas and that when bears come out of hibernation in the spring, they gorge on this alpine garlic. I also learned Bear Paw Garlic was super special, being a leaf and having qualities and properties that bulb garlic doesn’t, such as being much higher in adenosine and odorless on the breath.

As I continued to do research, I began using Bear Paw Garlic, not knowing that it would come in very handy for something as common as a sore throat. The soreness in my throat would go away seemingly overnight after taking it.

It worked on our grandkids as well. But how do you get children to swallow capsules? Well, we found a simple way to them give Bear Paw Garlic: sprinkle the contents of one capsule on some apple sauce. They began begging for it, especially if they had sore throats because they remembered how quickly the soreness went away after eating Bear Paw Garlic-flavored apple sauce!

One of the many other great benefits of Bear Paw Garlic is that it is good for blood pressure. I didn’t have this problem back in 1996, when I was first introduced to it. But as time went by, I developed hypertension and soon learned it could be controlled quite easily with Bear Paw Garlic.

I began taking it on a minimal basis at first, increasing it to the recommended three capsules daily as I got older. This natural health product has kept my blood pressure levels normal. I’m very thankful that I can use something natural, just like the bears, to control such a simple thing as high blood pressure and not have to use pharmaceuticals with all of their side effects.

I’m very thankful to The AIM Companies for having researched and brought the ingredient in Bear Paw Garlic to us from Europe, where wild alpine garlic has been used medicinally for hundreds of years.

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PrepZymes Eases the Bite!

Shared by Charlotte Thompson, AIM Chairman’s Club Director

Enzymes have really interested me for the last few years. I have a thick book that emphasizes their importance: the more enzymes, the more life. They are like workers in our bodies. If we don’t have enzymes, we don’t live. This has interested me so much that I’ve become quite acquainted with AIM PrepZymes.

People often call to ask me about pain and inflammation. AIM has a number of products that address these issues. And now I’ve also come to learn that taking PrepZymes in between meals helps the body to repair and restore. Recently, I put these AIM enzymes to the test for pain and inflammation … of my own.

I was bitten by a spider on the bottom of my foot, making it swollen and painful. My middle son and I had made plans to go camping for the weekend and he was going to teach me how to fly fish. But I could hardly walk, so I decided it was time for me to try what I had been telling everyone else about PrepZymes: great for reducing inflammation.

Along with all my other AIM products, I started taking PrepZymes daily, emptying the contents of multiple capsules into water and mixing it with my little blender. In other words, I began drinking my enzymes.

We headed out on the camping trip and then it was time for me to go fly fishing for the very first time in my life. I put on the waders and was able to walk without limping or feeling any pain. That was amazing to me. Each day the swelling in my foot went down. PrepZymes helped to reduce the inflammation from the spider bite so that I didn’t have to miss out on this new experience.

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The Great Value of Nutrition

Star Sapphire Director Promotion: Vanessa Weitsz

Being an AIM Member and active independent distributor for the past three years and promoting to Star Sapphire Director in May 2018 has been such a beautiful journey for me. Although it was my own serious health condition that instigated my introduction to the AIM products, I am very grateful I was given this opportunity.

I have been sharing the good news about nutrition with family and friends. Being actively involved in health events has allowed me to reach many people. Introducing the idea of “Eating yourself to health” has become my goal and full-time profession.

I’m passionate about unveiling the truths about the great value of nutrition to the human body. Due to the widespread popularity and transparent dominance of modern medicine in Western society, nutrition as a powerful aid to restore health is generally perceived as inferior. However, substantive data proves the opposite to be true. My own testimony and those of so many people I have advised on healthy eating also testify to this.

Contributing to the significance of nutrition, the AIM Healthy Cell Concept™ helps to improve the overall quality of life by using five avenues: Food, Exercise, Environment, Protection and a Positive Attitude. The idea is that any efforts made in these five avenues will result in stronger constitutions and healthier lives for people and their trillions of cells. And it’s never too early or too late to get started.

You can further educate yourself with a variety of other AIM literature, including product datasheets and the AIM Member Income Plan. Endorsed by AIM, the Chrysalis Networx online Business Training Platform provides all the tools you need to start your own AIM business. I greatly appreciate The AIM Companies’ wide spectrum of easily accessible resources on nutrition and business principles.

I feel truly blessed and proud to be associated with a company that has operated with absolute integrity for over 36 years, caring so much for its Members and helping people get well naturally. Every time I get to give BarleyLife to people, it’s the best feeling knowing I have helped improve their quality of life. I look forward to seeing The AIM Companies™ grow from strength to strength as more and more people’s lives are impacted positively and the good news spreads.

My sincerest hope is that the truth and proven benefits of nutrition really comes to the forefront in the world. This may trigger an increasing number of people to at least be aware of and consider an alternative medical route before deciding on modern medicine as the only treatment available to combat their illnesses.

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