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Jimmy "The Butcher" Smith

From butcher to network marketing billionaire?
Maybe it's not too far a stretch for Jimmy Smith,
Isagenix' number one money earner. I'd be
willing to bet on the former butcher who said,
"I can do this!"

At age 78 you're a font of wisdom, Jimmy. Maybe we could start by
having you share a bit of your background?
Well, I was born the son of a butcher. My fatherwas a butcher and his father was a butcher.
As a young fellow I loved sports. Then I found girls and I liked girls a lot. My mother wanted me
to go to college, get an education and be successful. My father wanted me to become a
butcher. So, I had to make a decision.
As that young man, my father said to me, "Let me tell you something. You come down to the
butcher shop and let me show you howto cut meat, and you'll have a job for the rest of your life.
I worked all through the last depression. I had the butcher shop and I had college-educated
men working for me because they couldn't find a job. The last thing people are going to stop
doing in this world is eating meat. People are going to eat meat until they die."
In those days you built your meal around the meat. So he said, "Iguarantee you, kid, you
become a butcher and you'll have a job the rest of your life." And I said, "Okay, I'll become a
butcher." I respected my Dad, I loved him, and I looked up to him. That meant I won't have to
study too much because I knew what I was going to be, right? So I graduated from high school
just to please my mother and right after I graduated I went down to the butcher shop. And Iloved it! I enjoyed it like my Dad enjoyed it. He was very passionate about it and I became very
passionate in what I did! So I did it for 40 years.
Now… I did have a job. I never missed a paycheck for 40 years. But my father didn't tell me
how hard I was going to work, how little I was going to make, and he didn't tell me I was going to
end up getting arthritis of the spine. So there werethe hidden things that I didn't see. But I
loved my work, and did it with a passion; I wanted to be the best butcher on the block! And
that's what I strived to be. I ended up working for a big chain store. I was the meat manager
and I was very proud of that. I cut a good stock of meat every week, made money every week
and ended up being promoted to meat supervisor. I worked for that samecompany for almost
thirty years, until I was 56. Then, in 1983, I hurt my back for the last time. I used to hurt my
back about once a month because I was a little guy doing a big guy's job.

In those days I weighed 150 pounds, lifting those carcasses of meat, that weighed more than
me, sent me to the chiropractor all the time. But in 1983 I hurt my back pretty bad. I laid in the
hospital for 14days and they wanted to operate but I wouldn't let them.
The company gave me a full pension. That was in 1983, when President Reagan was taking
blind people off of social security, but I got full disability, because the back injury was that bad.
So, here I was at age 56, all I had ever done was cut meat, I don't have an education and they
tell me, "Go find a new career. Thank you, you served uswell".
Well, without an education there wasn't a whole lot out there. My wife even suggested I get a
job as a school crossing guard. I'd raised six kids and I thought, I'm not going to stand out at the
corner in the rain and cold crossing somebody else's kids across the street. There's nothing
wrong with that, it's just not something I wanted to do.
You know, I raised six kids, educatedthem, I sent them to private schools. I was just over broke
for forty years cutting meat. I never, ever made over $20,000 a year cutting meat. I raised those
kids on bare minimum so I know what just over broke is to experience. Now, my kids have told
me they thought we were rich, I don't know how they figured that, but we didn't want for
anything. We had a nice house, nice furniture, nice...