Eighteen months ago, Presidential Stu Massengill of Danville, California, came home from college with several boxes of Vemma and a plan to turn his
casual Vemma business into a full-time career. Stu gave his mom a box of Bod•ē Burn and asked her to try out the product and tell him what she thought of it. When she ended
up loving it, she signed up with Vemma.
“We did it as a way to help our son,” says Stu’s mother Jane Massengill “We figured if we made anything with the business, it would be an unexpected
bonus. Needless to say, our success now is way beyond what we’d anticipated.” “I love how this lifestyle lets you travel to places all across the world and change lives while doing it,” says Stu, who is looking forward to visiting Vemma team members in Europe
next month. “I first heard about Vemma from my friend Bas Bunge, a foreign exchange student from Norway. Vemma was more like a hobby for the first few months. But then something happened. I got a text message from someone saying, ‘Thanks for changing my life!’
It hit me that I could help people through Vemma — help them create a life without a boss or the demanding schedules that usually go along with success.”*
It was around that same time that the school year ended and Stu headed back to his parents’ house in Danville for a few months. He sat down with his
mom and explained the business, giving her a box of Bod•ē Burn to try out. “My parents always taught me to follow your passion,” Stu says. “So I guess that’s why they supported me. My dad was really skeptical about the products at first. But by now, they both
enjoy the products and my mom builds the business with me. It’s been great.”
The Parents’ Perspective
“Kevin and I are the least likely candidates to approach about the
Vemma business,” says Jane. She is a successful life coach with a booming private practice and Stu’s father Kevin Massengill is a physician at Kaiser Medical Center. Both have achieved remarkable success in their careers and weren’t looking for
anything else to take up their valuable time. “When Stu came home all excited about Vemma, we decided to support him, if only for the personal growth we saw it could give him,” Jane says. She started taking Bod•ē Burn and loved how much energy she felt. She
ordered more, eventually losing 7 stubborn pounds on the Bod•ē program.** After that, her husband decided to try it too. “Since Kevin started on the products, he’s lost some weight and it’s been interesting to see how conscious he’s become of the way nutrition
impacts your health.”**
Several months after Jane and Kevin started taking the products, Jed Buenaluz stopped by their house and Jane got talking with him. “It was the personal
development aspect of the business that caught my attention" says Jane. "Jed told me, ‘This is what you’ve done professionally for years, helping people find their inner strength and overcome their personal gremlins.’ The idea of working a business with my
son and using my professional life coaching skills to help build leaders finally got me hooked.” Jane and Stu now put on events together regularly, which has helped boost Stu to Presidential within 16 months and Jane to Platinum.* “When a young person joins
our team, Stu trains them, and when an ‘older’ person joins, I train them,” says Jane. “It works out really well.”
Tips from Vemma Hotshot Stu Massengill
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Stay plugged in. Ninety percent of success is showing up. Go to events and listen to phone calls. I basically just hung out for the first two months as I learned
the business.
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Find someone who has what you want and learn from them.
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We’re not selling energy drinks, we’re building leaders.
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I always knew there was something inside me that was really great. With Vemma, I found what I could do and how I could change lives.
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Never stop going after what you want out of life.
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Get a plan. When I got serious about Vemma, I sat down with two of my best friends and we mapped out a plan of how to make the business work. We’d do at least
one event a day, sometimes three or four.
