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Editor’s Note: With ACN’s October 1, 2011, Compensation Plan enhancements, three former professional athletes living in Arizona – Jeremy Roenick, Brian Savage and Todd Stottlemyre – became newly-qualified Regional Directors, all on the same day. We asked Todd, a former professional baseball player, to share his story. Here’s what he had to say:

Todd Stottlemyre with his wife Erica

I grew up watching my dad pitch for the Yankees, so Yankee stadium was literally my playground. The only dream I ever really had was to be like my dad and play Major League Baseball, and that dream for me became a reality. After having a great career in baseball, playing on three world championship teams, I retired at age 37 and realized I had so much more of my life to live, and I didn’t know what exactly I wanted to do with it.

After spending time working a traditional job, then buying and investing in different companies and businesses, the economy tanked and I realized we had a lot of money going out and not a whole lot coming in. Every investment seemed like putting a band-aid on my next dream, and at the time I didn’t even know what that dream was.

When I was introduced to ACN in 2009, I wanted to look at the business from the inside out, so I went to the international event in Anaheim, CA. During that weekend, I felt my life change right in front of me.  And for the first time since I was that kid at Yankee’s stadium, I had a dream. Except the dream wasn’t baseball – it was ACN.

What I’ve learned since then is that ACN and baseball are so different, yet they’re so much the same. Senior Vice Presidents are our All Stars – the veterans, those who are placed in our Hall of Fame, the ones everyone else strives to be. Our Regional Vice Presidents are just one step away from those All Stars – they’re our closers, the game-winning pitchers, the rising stars. Our Regional Directors and Team Coordinators are in the bullpen – those who are fighting a great fight, practicing to get to RVP and SVP, working to try to make it big. And our ETTs and ETLs are the rookies – those first and second year players who are still growing and learning in the dugout.

In baseball and in ACN, the players are much the same, but what’s also the same is that they’re team sports. The veterans have to teach the rookies in order to win and you have to be coachable.  In fact, I’ll go a step further to say that in both it tremendously helps your game to have people take you under their wings and build you up, to have them help develop you, so you can become the best you can be.

I have to say that ACN is just a little better than baseball though because baseball is a sport where physically your body can only take so much, and at some point that sport runs out and the contracts are over. The game ends. But in ACN, you can only keep growing and becoming that All Star player. Thanks to residual income, the game isn’t ever over. You can keep playing – even when you make it to the Hall of Fame.  What’s more, the ACN game just keeps getting better. There’s more to play for today than ever before, and I’m sure that season after season the game will only get better. 

In fact, the Compensation Plan enhancements from October gave me more heart and drive to make the Major Leagues in ACN. I hope it did the same for you. It’s time to play the game, to fight the good fight, to change lives through this opportunity!  So let’s go to bat and make our ACN journey a grand slam!

Todd Stottlemyre

ACN Regional Director