Well, hey there, friends. It's Melanie Mitro, the host of the Melanie Mitro show. And today is an unfiltered, unscripted podcast where I'm just shooting you straight, being really honest about what I'm navigating through in my business, what's working, what's not working, but also what I'm seeing in the industry and other aspiring

leaders, especially in direct sales. And today we're going to talk about building a team and

recruiting other ambassadors, partners, whatever you might call them to join you in your

organization and to build a business. And I find that

out of anything that I've ever done in my business over the past 15 years, building a team

has been the most challenging and the most rewarding. I say that in the same exact breath because there are so many wonderful things that

have come out of building a team.

But there's also a lot of things that challenged me because it was something I'd never done

before.

It's also the thing that I see most people be resistant to.

And it's usually because there's a lot more mindset blocks there than people realized. And there's a lot of

self-sabotage and underlying narrative that is keeping people really truly playing small. And at the

end of the day, you know, building a business, building a team in direct sales, it's one of those things that when you see

the bigger picture of what is possible in direct sales, it's like, why wouldn't I build a team?

Why wouldn't I introduce this opportunity to more people?

Because it can give them freedom. It can give them flexibility of their

finances, of their time. It can bring them into a high vibe community of people that make each other

better. And you don't find that in a lot of places, in a lot of industries out there, especially

in corporate America where it's like, who do I need to, you know, step on to get to move up

the ladder to get to the top. And so today we're really going to unpack, you know, what does

recruitment look like now? And what could be the things that are holding

you, holding you back? And how do we address them? So it's going to be very practical. And I want

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