I’ll Admit It, I Was Wrong…
And The Death Of a Wrap Girl.

…but it’s true, becoming the best version of yourself hurts at first, it hurts a lot. No one likes to talk about this part but you have the right to know before you decide if this is a life that you want to pursue.
I’m quite thrilled today, yet holding on to a tinge of blue as I celebrate one year as an online entrepreneur.
The feelings when I finally decided to go for it were indescribable and I can’t recall many of them, but I do remember that I finally had one thing that had been missing from my life for so long, and that was HOPE.
Well…
There was that one time when Zoey was about four months old, we were living with my in-laws and my mil answered a knock at the door. She went outside and I assumed she was talking to the visitor.
When she came in she told me, “Oh wow Kori, I should have told you to come outside with us! Those girls were just now telling us about this hippy ranch (elegantly referring to a homesteading co-op) that they are starting in a couple months just down the road. They were walking they couldn’t have gotten very far now, you should go find them! My face lit up and my whole body started buzzing as I was feeling an overwhelming sense of possibility that “this could be it!”
Needless to say, she was completely amused when she was able to fool me into believing such a thing and had never seen me exude such emotion so through the hysterics of her mockery, she began to actually feel bad that she had gotten my hopes up so high.
But this is not what I want to talk about.

Today, I look at one hand and ask myself, “Where did my year go?” While asking at the same time on the other, “How the heck did I end up here?!” Thus the scales find themselves balanced.
This past 12 months was full of ups and downs, wins & successes, disappointments and failure, inconsistency galore, yet the one thing that remained absolutely consistent was the amount of growth I was able to achieve and it has been astonishing. The amount of pain I’ve been able to endure.. this is next level.
I can assure you that this was not easy. Growing mentally, emotionally, and spiritual is just as grueling as the pains a young child experiences while growing physically. Its not like being punched in the face or anything, though I would happily take that over this gnawing sensation that breaking down the old patterns, the old behaviors, the constant feeling that I’m not living up to my own expectations that I had of myself as I was forcing myself to go through this process.
I know I am not making this sound very glamorous but it’s true, becoming the best version of yourself hurts at first, it hurts a lot. No one likes to talk about this part but you have the right to know before you decide if this is a life that you want to pursue and that is exactly why I always ask people, “on a scale from 1–10, how serious are you about making a drastic change in your life to be where you say you want to be?” If its anything less than a 10 I don’t even take the time to explore if this life is for them. There are ambitious people and there are people who want to change or improve. I am happy with finding the latter to work with but the former are the ones that are actually going to make it happen and will do it unapologetically.
Now, you also have the right to know that after the few months breaking down and rebuilding, breaking down and rebuilding, etc.. the amount of freedom you experience when you finally break those chains, when the nagging voice in your head that always tries tells you that you aren’t good enough finally shuts up long enough to make some pretty amazing stuff happen, is so f****** worth it!
July 2016, A Wrap Girl Is Born….


It Works ONE Conference at Amalie Arena in Florida, the event that was supposed to lift me up, “explode my business” , and set me on fire, I found the opposite to be true. I had dedicated 7 months to this company, to developing a dream and trying to see it through. I quit my job so that I could have more time to focus on growing my business. I was already on fire and I couldn’t even imagine being more hype than I already was. I was totally right, in one weekend my vision was completely shattered.




It looks like fun right?
Nothing was as it seemed. I guess being able to feel the energy of a collective is just much different than having only your own energy towards something to feel 24/7.
It felt wrong.
Absolutely mind blown, I was completely let down by the experience, especially since I spent over $200 getting there and almost $300 on just the ticket alone even though I was risking everything for my family. We did NOT have the money for me to go to this event but all the hype of it left me telling my husband, “I do not care if I have to hitch hike and sleep on the beach, I WILL be at this conference.”
It was supposed to be the thing that inspired me, lift me up, and completely transform my life. Well it did… just not the way they meant for it to.
It inspired me to see that I do not fit in this organization.
It lifted me up to see that I am so much more than what they wanted me to be.
It completely transformed my life and my perspective, giving me the ability to see first hand what the heck I had gotten myself into.
I couldn’t wait to be home after just a few hours of being there, the partying was fun, I must admit. I mean, it wasn’t all terrible and I still really love my girls, Rebecca, Jann, Sadie, Autum, Kyah, Cara, Jess, Ana, Sabrina, Rainbow, and my boys Vinny and Tom, but that could never be enough. I didn’t want to market the way they wanted me to, I didn’t want to have “wrap parties” every day until I became Diamond, I didn’t want to keep manually following up with people who only told me they would order something so that I would quit asking them. That was not what my dream life looked like. Waking up thinking, “hmmm… Who am I going to sell to today?” then spending 15–17 hours on my phone was not my vision of freedom. I did not want anything about this life that I had previously been doing to try and get there.
Honestly, I don’t think any amount of money could justify the way that they wanted me to work.
Don’t get me wrong though, if I hadn’t experienced the myriad of emotions and growth through forcing myself to try and be better while working in this company I would not be the person I am today. The things I posted about, the feelings I felt, the experiences and realizations I had through developing my faith and personal development, it was all very real. I found God through this company and not being “good enough” and I will always be grateful for that.
I am so grateful that it brought me so low that one day I actually googled, how to be happy, and later that night googled how to believe in God again. Those 2 things were life changers and I would have never had those experiences if I hadn’t been forcing myself to stack up with this way of life.
So fast forward a month, it is now the middle of March and we are getting ready to move out of our apartment. As I was taking a break one day I began scrolling Facebook (something that I never allowed myself to do anymore because it isn’t an “income producing activity”) and I came across this ad. I’d seen this girl in an ad before and she and her husband were talking about how they created an income from the internet.
They looked happy, like they really just looked like they were being themselves and I forgot what that was like for me but I was super jealous of it maybe even a little spiteful because I was dying inside. I had lost myself in this company.. I had branded myself into someone that I wasn’t and I couldn’t even see it.
So, here I am, this is the second time I’d seen this, same girl, different ad. I thought to myself, “you know what, I need to see what this is all about.” I registered for the webinar she was talking about and on the second page there was a place for me to watch a replay of a previous one. It was about 2 am when I was finished watching and it felt like it took forever but I was hooked.
I began searching out as much as I could find about all the people involved, and the community itself because it just seemed too good to be true. I knew they were pulling off something that I had been super interested in learning about since 2011 but was never able to completely understand it or afford to do it on my own. They were offering to teach me to master 10% and that they would automate the other 90% of the system for me until I felt comfortable taking on more, which did not take very long for me.
I was elated because I couldn’t find anything negative about them at all so I just did it. I pressed the join button and got started right away. I did as much of the training that I could that night and then had my coaching call 2 days later.
I finished my training as quickly as possible but here is the really funny thing. During that time our internet provider got shut down by AT&T so I really only had a few gigs of data on my cell phone for the training and the rest I had to do while connected to the Walmart parking lot across the street in the middle of the night.
I would drive around until Zoey fell asleep, park my car on the side of the building and go sit right up next to the building so that I could use their wifi. I finished it all so quickly and started running ads.
Lots of testing, a ton of personal development, plus some insane shifts in consciousness have lead me to the point where I sit right now, in front of you telling you that it was all worth it.
Every.. Single.. Second.

In July 2017 A Wrap Girl Dies….
[First off I would just like to sincerely apologize to anyone that I brought into this mess with promises of a better lie… I mean, life. That was not my intention.]
You see, this whole time, from February up until a couple of weeks ago I really didn’t realize all of these emotions I had. I didn’t want to recognize that I had already quit my mlm 5 months ago. I had been battling myself this whole time asking my husband and my mil over and over, “should I just quit?” I didn’t want to let down my team, I didn’t want to let down all the people that were counting on me or expecting me to hold my empty promises. I didn’t want to admit that I had just wasted 11 months of my life on something that I wasn’t passionate about anymore. It was all so real while it was happening but nothing ever shifted for me there. All I was doing was trying to improve. I was just trying to be a better sales person, a better advertiser, a better this or that.. but that wasn’t what I needed nor what I wanted.
I needed something new.
I needed and craved to be Kori. I lost myself trying to be better. I flocked to all the people that were finding success and just copied them. It wasn’t me and I was suffocating. I was dying to be me for the first time.
It only took me about 2 months into affiliate marketing to realize that the whole fantasy life that I had created online was a complete sham.
Here, I didn’t have to pretend to be someone I wasn’t, I got to be me. I learned how to find the people who were just like me who wanted to be truly set free and the ones who needed something New.
It wasn’t about a product, it was about a lifestyle and more than that, it was a lifestyle that I could get behind. Something that truly anyone with that burning desire to break their chains and step into who they were created to be could actually do.
When I first announced that I was doing this, that I was learning a new way to market, I was terrified but I was excited at the same time. I knew that I now had the tools in my hands to help not only the people who needed help through health and wellness but I could also now help the ones that didn’t want to get involved in an mlm. I honestly joined the community so that I could learn to automate my It Works! business and it was just a perk that there was a back end offer that paid very well on the other side of the educational platform I was using.
I endured a lot of hate from a few certain people in the biz who couldn’t wrap their heads around (no pun intended) why I would step out of the box that had been “working for all the top leaders in the company since this thing started”. Well I’m here to say that’s simply not true.
I have been looking at all the top leaders and I have found that they really do all the things that I teach people how to do to find success online but they don’t want you to know about those things, they want to give you just enough to keep the hope and the dream alive, they want to keep you busy working for them like little worker bees, so distracted that you can’t even stop to realize why no one is buying into this dream.
I think it might be time to wake up.
Sorry, but it is the bitter truth.
Somebody had to say it.
OK, with all that being said, I’m sure you can guess that I am officially resigned from the lovely world of mlm. On to greener pastures this little lady goes.
In case you’re wondering, “Wait, is that it? Is that the whole story?
What is actually happening right now?”
Well here it is…
I have been going strong trying to juggle multiple businesses for the past 4 months. Picking up every shiny new object with a promise of a million dollar future and on my way I have left them all and come to this realization:

I am already exactly who I want to be.
I am already exactly where I need to be.
I do not have to keep striving for rank, or perfection.
I decided that I am going to be happy right now.
I am Worthy of so much more than I can even imagine.
I just started doing the things that I love for the past 2 weeks now instead of waiting to be at this goal or that goal to decide to be happy… and it literally changed everything. I created the space to let all that stuff that for months has been trying to come into my life, finally come in.
I made an ad 3 months ago and it is still performing for me today bringing in incredible people that need a real and lasting change in their lives.
I am able to give that to them.
I am able to literally work one hour a day sometimes two if I need to or if its webinar day.
I am able to enjoy my time with my daughter instead of being resentful that she won’t let me work.. or that she just wants to play and can’t understand what I was trying to do for her.
I am able to never have to say, Oh yeah that’s just “mom guilt, they will be fine.” They WONT! That’s your baby you only get them like that that one time.
Wake up, be present for your family!
I am able to be me, love me, and grow me more and more every single day.
I want to share this with you too.
I am literally at the best place in my life ever
I know how to completely automate anything that I ever want to including my own products and services.
I will never have to work again…
and I really owe that to this failure.
SO, thank you It Works.
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