The Secret of Success: Part 4
Tips From Top Le-Vel Promoter Mike Page
What’s a Promoter’s secret of success? What does it take to make it to the top?
In parts one through three, we asked Promoters Jaime Peca, Blair Critch and Kindra Morse to share their life, their home, and their secret to success.
In part four, we’ve asked Mike Page the same question: What’s the secret of your success?
Everyone’s story is a little bit different, but we think you’ll notice a few common themes…
Vision. Drive. Tenacity. Faith. Family.
In this post, top Promoter Mike Page shares his secret of success. Take notes!
For 200K Promoter Mike Page, one of the biggest keys to success is simply gratitude.
I knew Paul Gravette from the past and he actually introduced me and started talking to me about Le-Vel before it ever opened and my mind was just in a different place; I wanted to be the weight-loss guru for a large company. Finally, like they say, “when the student is ready the teacher appears,” and I heard the conversation — I heard the things Paul was telling me about Le-Vel and I instantly knew Le-Vel was going to be the thing that changed my life and my family’s life forever.
I grew up in Riverton, Utah. I was an only child. My parents were married before and had kids, so I have three step brothers on one side and five on the other side. I graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in exercise and sports science and worked in the rehab fields, until Le-Vel.
I knew if I had something that really did make an impact I could go out and share it with a lot of people and it would just grow virally. Within a couple of months I was back to working out, didn’t have any issues, and haven’t ever since. Probably bigger than that, there have been a lot of periods in my adult life where I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders and I haven’t had to deal with that in almost five years which has changed everything in my life, from business to my relationships — just everything has dramatically improved.
Growing up we had tons of horses, and I hated them. By the time I was ten my dad turned the barn into a basketball court for me because I didn’t like horses. And when we started Le-Vel, my wife Tracy said “I want to get a horse,” and I was like, “What do you mean, get a horse? You never talked about horses in the ten years since I’ve known you.” And she said, “Well, I never thought I’d have one.”
Tracy’ horse, Piper, broke her back. They told us to put her down and we said “Nope, we’re not going to do it,” and today Tracy rides her so she has a very serious bond with her for sure. At the end of the day, none of this would be possible without THRIVE, without Le-Vel. I mean, if we didn’t have a product that people love and want to keep taking — none of this would be true. Before Tracy and I started with Le-Vel, we were barely getting by. Now we have 15 to 20 horses at a time. We’re taking care of all of them and ourselves. It’s a pretty amazing feeling to have that financial freedom.
Our life has changed dramatically but it really boiled down to dreams and having them. You know we teach our kids you can grow up to be anything you put your mind to — you could be the president, you could be a doctor, you could be a lawyer — but as we get older a lot of times those dreams get pushed to the wayside of reality and life and bills. I never pushed those dreams aside; they were always front and center. There’s a little kid inside of all of us that had dreams and if you put forth the effort and you work really hard all things are possible.
For the first two to three years I don’t think I ever sat down and had a meal with Tracy where I wasn’t outside on a three-way call. Even in the middle of winter I remember my hand freezing because I don’t like Bluetooth stuff I always like to have a phone in my hand and my hand was freezing off and I’d come in and she’d already eaten, you know, and she’d have my my meal in to-go box. But it didn’t matter — I never got through a movie because I was always outside responding to a call. And you know she had the vision with me she knew that this was it and we had to make those sacrifices. But I always tell people it wasn’t really a sacrifice because when you’re chasing your dreams and they’re starting to come true, it’s not a sacrifice because every call, every person I talk to, every brand new person I brought in was one step closer to the life that we really wanted.
One of the big keys to success is to be grateful for wherever you are and for all of the people in your network, all the people in your team, because every single person in your network is responsible for your success. When you’re grateful for where you are, it opens up everything. Tracy and I are also extremely grateful for Paul and Jason.
It’s always funny when somebody calls me and they say “oh my gosh I’ve got the next superstar!” very rarely does that ever ever materialize. It’s always the person that someone would never think would do this in a million years that has a strong “why,” that knows, you know, they have a strong drive for why they want to accomplish this and you would never in a million years think they’re the person who was going to change your life forever. And that’s the blessing of Le-Vel. It is that anyone — regardless of their background, education, or who they know — can create success if they really want to. You have to keep moving forward no matter what with the belief that you’re going to get there. Nothing’s going to stop you but yourself.
