Her Story
About Ramona
I've been in the graphics and AI internet industry for over 30 years, a talent I inherited from my dad. About 5 years ago, I entered the wellness and coaching space after my own personal transformation - I was 300 pounds and needed to shift my wellness journey and learn to love myself better. What started as my own healing became my calling to help other women. I've built a whole empire around my coaching practice and wellness products, using every battle I've fought and every personal trauma I've dealt with to help other women come out of their struggles. I'm a full-time grandmother to my 3 grandchildren, and I show other women that they can build their business while managing family responsibilities. Most recently, I became a founding partner of LVLX, a luxury wellness company that launched about two and a half weeks ago. We offer telehealth services, wellness products, and biometric testing to humans and pets - the first MLM in our space to offer this combination. We made half a million dollars in 10 days, and we're just getting started. I've been in 8 MLMs throughout my career, and it was in the 7th one where I met my coach and mentor Stephanie Ray, who co-founded this new company with me.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Ramona
01What do you attribute your success to?
I give all of my success to God's favor and to God allowing me to pull myself up through Him. I lost my oldest daughter on Thanksgiving 2019, and for me, that was a pivotal moment where I really wanted to give up. But that was the beginning of me finding who I really am and what I was capable of. I pulled myself through the grief and discovered the tenacity that Ramona really had - I thought I was a quitter, but I wasn't. Everything I do today, I do in the honor and memory of my daughter who gained her angel wings. Because she's not here to fly and flourish, I have to do it in her name. So I attribute everything I do to her and to God.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever received was from one of my coaches, my mentor Stephanie Ray. She basically told me to stop overthinking things and just do it. Sometimes you have to do it scared, but if you don't ever do it, then it won't get done. I had to take that to heart because I am an overthinker. Her giving that advice was really life-changing and allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and do some of the most amazing things that I never thought I would be able to do.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My advice to women entering my industry is to come on in - it's not oversaturated. People say all the time that there are too many products, too many this, too many that, but it's not oversaturated because who is meant to be your customer is assigned to you. I could be in the same space on the same panel with 12 other wellness coaches, and my voice is going to matter as much as theirs. So just come on and get started. Don't be scared.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Right now in the AI industry, there's so much knowledge that people need. AI is ever-changing, so you have to stay right on the cusp of it and just keep learning and moving, and not get caught up in one space of AI. As far as the wellness space, right now you just have to really do your homework and make sure that whatever company, whatever product you're using is not a scam. There are a lot of people out here that are scamming people and spamming them, and you want to be wholehearted and honest about what you're doing and the space that you're moving in, because people's lives are in our hands based on what you're giving them. You really, really have to be careful in that wellness space. I've been in 8 MLMs, and I have a lot of history, a lot of knowledge, a lot of heartache, and a lot of disappointment too in at least 6 of them.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
In my personal life, what values me most is keeping me grounded and remembering that I'm worthy, and that I'm building a legacy for my family. The things that I do are for them, for my daughter and my grandchildren. What values me most professionally is seeing lives change. Everything that I do, I do for my customers and for my clients that have entrusted me to help them. So when I see them succeed, that's what I value most.
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