Aug 28
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I am being told that Jim Harstad is no longer part of Quixtar or World Wide Dream Builders, (WWDB).
Jim and Julie Harstad qualified as Emerald in 1991 and Diamond in 1993.
Quixtar Wiki has an entry that states that Jim and Julie retired from Quixtar in July of 2008 and are no longer affiliated with WWDB. (no link due to spam on the Quixtar Winki site)
Mr. Harstad was a long time Diamond in the World Wide Group under EDC and current IBOAI President, Bill Hawkins, and now the Harstad’s no longer have a picture on the WWDB.biz site.
A call to Mr. Harstad was not returned.
Jim and Julie can be found at Harstads.biz
I believe the MLM Jim is now involved in is called Eniva.
Kari is correct. After 28 years building the dream in Amway, Jim and Julie Harstad found greener pastures and left WWDB and Amway Global to join Eniva, leaving behind the second largest Amway business in the midwest. That is a pretty shocking development since WWDB traditionally has had the wagons circled pretty closely around themselves. I wonder how many WWDB IBO’s know that Greg and Laurie Duncan filed bankruptcy, had 5 of their Whitefish properties in foreclosure, and only claimed an income of $128,000 a year from their Amway business? (Of course, that $128,000 doesn’t include the income from their motivational business… which accounted for over 80% of their total income. I guess the “hope” business pays a lot better than the “soap” business…) Anyway, this is a very interesting development, after Amway has seen over 20 other diamonds either leave for different business opportunities or have their businesses “cancelled” by Amway. That’s right… Amway IBO’s don’t own their own businesses or control their own destiny. Amway and their lawyers do.
ever wonder why you just cant ask amway or Bill hawkins why did the harstads leave. diamond must not be that good…they are so secretive so scared to talk aboutit..
hey hawkins why did they leave
Greg Duncan would always say dont be double minded. Yet behind the back of all his downline he decided to talk ownership in the XS Energy drink and i saw something called All In 1 energy drink plus it looks like he was dabbling in real estate…. lies eventually catch up… what a disgrace to have this guy as a father, and upline
WWDB diamonds make their money from seminars and selling motivational materials.what i doint understand is that they have the same quartely functions, same format with almost always the same speakers, same stories and you need to pay to attend a conference. the only IBO achieving from this org are the Koreans. Then you need to pay for Premiere membership for a very simple website, did you know that you can have personal website from Amway Global for free? CD and DVD, they just recycle them, they speak at the function then you hear them again on cd? you can download but cannot share , why ? because sharing doesnt profit the Big DOGS.
They live a very fake life, they want people to think and see them as the perfect people.
Possible reason why Wolgamott left and established his own network. Find him on Facebook, His program is way different than WWDB!!
Consider this, ignorant folks: Once a person has accumulated say one, two, maybe even five, ten, or twenty million, how important do you think your income from the business is going to be? Say you hire a competent financial planner to manage that money for you and take moderate risks and they achieve the industry average of 9% returns on your investments … who the heck cares about the ‘income’ from the residuals? Probably only those who care about the people. This is no big secret, but come on … take your heads out of the sand and THINK … what do you think rich people do with their time once they’ve made their money?
Duncan probably leveraged too much of his money and got strapped for cash so he coudn’t service his leveraged positions any longer – so what? Every one of the Fortune 500 companies had faced the same problem, but the difference is that they had professional money managers managing the interests of their assets … as a business. Whereas rich folks are unfortunately not as on the cutting edge of keeping track of the environment they are working in like the big corporations. So they got burned badly. No one said that their business model protected and insulated the principles in that business from every economic blip. So these guys lost say over half of their assets – what do you think they started with? And what do you think they ended with? Even if they only had ten mill to start – so they lost 50% of that. Gosh, so they only have 5 mil left.
Secretive? No. I think its sheer ignorance by serfdom mentality. It doesn’t matter if its this business or any other business. Rich people simply think differently, and broke people just don’t get it.
Or maybe Mr. Duncan simply did not have enough income to sustain the lifestyle that diamonds deceivingly like to portray in an attempt to lure people in the business. Something is up when you consider he also did not pay his taxes for some time, apparently.
I was part of Jim Harstad’s business for about 5 years. It took me about that much time to find out that they are living a life of smoke and mirrors. They act like they were making $400-$500k a year – not true- try less than half of that. Most of these diamonds are not living the debt free life that they preach at conferences. Also, the reality of how their marriages were is a joke. Jim would always make jokes about putting his wife’s head through the sheetrock if she didn’t listen to her. He said it jokingly, but his husband skills aren’t far from that.
I got tired of going to the functions and get excited to implement the new angles and ideas that were taught – but I was always shot down because Jim would tell his downline negative information about the speakers that were paid to come in and teach us. They would tell us not to listen to this guy but follow Jim – he has the best growth. That was not true. My wife and I would take a weekend away from our children, get a babysitter, pay for function tickets, spend money on parking and food, sit there for hours on Friday and Saturday. Then we were told not to implement any of the learned informaton. They just wanted numbers and money – that’s it. If the numbers were good, they would get the big FED in the MPLS area. Now, Jim and Julie supposedly retired- not true. He has been in a couple of MLMs now. She is doing something else. He used to say ” check the fruit on the tree, the fruit doesn’t fall from the tree”. That’s true. He manipulated his diamondship by transferring people from one leg to another just to stay a diamond – where is the integrity there? He was too pridefull to go backwards and it just kept building. My wife and I are not bitter against Jim and others that manipulated and lied to us and many others. It took us a couple of years to be free from the control and wrong teachings that they taught us. There is so much more that went on that you would not even believe it. The good thing is that we are stronger people now and we will never put any man on a pedastal – our fault. I wish that I wasn’t so trusting and naive. I hope Jim has changed and repented for the things that he did. When we are in a position of leadership – you will be held in higher accountability on how you guided and directed others. It’s a serious thing. Lord bless Jim.
Yes Bill Hawkins is another one with little integrity… self promoting his perfect water.. in his leadership role in the organization he failed to disclose that he owns perfect water..