Copy of 169 | What Makes Restore Collective Different: Safe
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~Hey friends. Welcome back to the Call to Lead podcast. Lindsay, I'm pausing this for you to take a picture. Okay, here we go. Take two.~ [00:00:00] Welcome back to the Call to Lead podcast. I'm so excited to continue the series that we've been on, sharing our five pillars or differentiators. For those of you guys who might be wondering or might be asked, what makes Restore collective different? So I've already been over smart, simple, and seasonal, and in today's episode, I'm gonna be tackling safe.
~So,~ and then the last one, which will be next week, will be all about sustainable. So. Let's dive into the episode. If you wanna learn what makes, restore collectives products and business opportunity safe.[00:01:00]
~Okay, so let's dive right in.~ So, if you've been following along the journey with Restore Collective, you know that from the very beginning of even the foundational aspects of our mission, vision, and value, with Restore Collective, we have been sharing the entire journey with you. And along the way, as the product started to kind of come into place, as we started to put together our official compensation plan, and certainly as we head into our pre-launch or soft-launch phase and shortly to follow public launch [00:02:00] phase, this is the perfect opportunity to answer the question that you no doubt have thought yourself.
And if you haven't already experienced this, you'll definitely have people ask you what makes Restore collective different? And so when this was first asked. Of,~ uh,~ me and specifically this question was regarding our makeup and what really makes it different from a lot of the other makeup lines on the market.
And I just kind of got really thoughtful and prayerful and I realized that there are five pillars that really set us apart from. A lot of the other brands that are out there. So it doesn't mean that other brands don't fit one or multiple facets of these categories, but the fact that we have so many differentiators within these five pillars, I thought it would be great to be able to focus entire podcast episodes on this.
So if you're Restore Collective Partner, you can reference these, so you can learn about it yourself. Or if you're researching Restore as a potential business opportunity, then this is likely something that you're gonna wanna know. So go back and check out the last three [00:03:00] episodes if you want. The first three S's.
Today's episode is gonna be all about safe, and so this is our word to address. I would say from a product ~Perce~ perspective, the blanket question that we get asked a lot, which is, are your products clean? And so this is something that perhaps I even kind of take from my past perspective and. Knowing that when you say a product or a company has clean beauty or clean skincare, I knew from past experience that that's not really a regulated term.
And it's really difficult when you ask one person their opinion of it. Or if you ask, for example, Sephora or Ulta or, ~um,~ even our formulators that are helping us create our products, they may have a different opinion on which ingredients would or would not be considered clean. And so. While I knew that that wasn't necessarily.
The word that I wanted to use to [00:04:00] describe our differentiators, or I certainly did not want, ~um,~ to let that be a marketing ploy, if you will. I really decided to set our own benchmark levels for what do we consider clean, what does that even mean to us? Like, what does it look like? To create a safe product.
And so with these three, uh, differentiators specific to the product, we'll kind of focus on that 'cause they all kind of revolve around that, that clean question. And I'm thrilled as I now have every single ingredient and every single one of our, ~uh,~ official products that we will have at pre-launch. I am really proud and really excited to say that yes, all of our products would be considered clean by most standards.
However, the word safe is what we'd like to use and here's why. So the first reason that we are using safe as our pillar is right now, especially in the United States, there's a ton of debate back and forth when it comes to even food or ~um,~ medicines and even [00:05:00] skincare and makeup for what is considered clean or safe for us.
And the United States historically has not done a very good job of regulating this, however. The European Union, the EU specifically the French, have set the tone for the highest standards of the safety or the cleanness, or really just what, again, is safe. And so when I went into this, the first differentiator that I knew I wanted to do was, number one, I wanted our products or what goes in the actual packaging and what you're putting on your face and body to be made here in the United States.
But I wanted them to exceed the very strict EU standards because to me, that's a ~blank mark or a~ blank, ~you know,~ box. We can check, does this exceed the EU standards? Yes or no? Right? Is it made in the us yes or no? And so the answer is yes, everything's made in the us and yes, every ingredient that we have is EU approved.
So not only does this give us a standard that we can [00:06:00] say that may or may not. Suffice someone who is super crunchy. And I like to say,~ um, ~I myself have not been, ~um,~ super crunchy in the past, but through this journey, I've become what I call clean, curious, and I'm learning. And there are certain facets and even some of the exciting things that, you know, I'll kind of share with you today and, and that I'm not necessarily ready to share today.
But if you're a part of the focus group, you will get some really exciting updates and you'll be the first to know. When it comes to the clean standards,~ um,~ of what we are developing within Restore. 'cause we have something really kind of fun that we're excited to very soon roll out. ~Uh,~ but my clean curiosity, if you will, has really kind of led me to research and that's where it started.
But here's a funny story around this. ~Um,~ we. knew going into the creation of everything from the products to our website, to the compensation plan, to everything that we wanted to find three good potential partners or vendors to work with. And so that includes the formulators that were going to be the ones that are actually making our [00:07:00] products.
And I found one that I really loved and had a synergy around that actually proximity-wise was ~actually. You know,~ easy to get to. We'll say that. And so I was really excited about the opportunity to work with them. But one of the first questions I asked, I said, you know, well can the products that you make for us, can they be clean?
And you guys, he literally laughed at me, like laughed at me. And of course, I'm new to this, so I kind of like felt a little stupid to be honest. And I was kind of like, well, I think that's what people kind of want now. Like, could be wrong about that, but I'm getting that question a lot. And so he said, oh no, well.
What everyone wants right now is effective. You know, they want the Korean skincare, which I'm not saying all Korean skincare isn't clean, but he said to me in that moment that, you know, for example, most of the Korean skincare products that are out there on the market right now, if they were to try to exceed the very strict French standards, they would get laughed out of France.
And so I was like. Okay. ~Um,~ well I still would like for our products to be as clean as possible. And so that was kind of what kickstarted this journey of like, well, what even is [00:08:00] clean? And that's where I first learned that the French set the tone for the highest standards Also. ~Um,~ this doesn't really have to do with ingredients, but because I am a business woman and I do like to begin with the end in mind, which includes global expansion, I would love to be able to sell to the EU specifically in France.
Sooner rather than later. I'm not gonna give dates or anything like that, but do know that it is my heart to start with the United States and, ~um, and~ Canada and specifically even ~the, the, you know, uh, ~Quebec is,~ is like a, you know,~ French, ~they're very French up in, up in Quebec.~ And Canada also has very, very, very strict safety issues when it comes to our products.
And, we'll, I'll share another fun story about that in a second, but, ~um,~ but I wanna be able to expand to the eu, so I. You know, naturally when we're working with our formulators, that was an easy, ~um, ~benchmark, was just to say that everything is going to work when and if ~not,~ not if, when we expand to the EU market.
And so that's the first differentiator. Everything, every product we have is made in the United States. Not always the packaging, but that's. Pretty much impossible. And I hope and pray that's one of the silver [00:09:00] linings from all of these tariffs is maybe the production in the US can start ramping up for some of those things.
But right now it's, there's just not really much you can do in terms of sourcing packaging domestically. And trust me, I tried. I tried, I tried, but hopefully that's something we can work towards. But for right now, anything that goes on your body, in your face, it's made in the United States, but it exceeds the EU standards and it's what most people would consider clean.
So. That's the first reason. The second reason is the fact that the ingredients that we ~are~ included, we want them to be safe enough, ~um,~ that it's something that your kids can use. And so what I mean by that is, I mean, certainly we aren't advocating for like elementary students to necessarily, you know, use makeup.
~But,~ and while our target market or our core customer will likely be in her thirties, forties, fifties, or, you know, maybe twenties, like she's, she's like a young mom who's. Just trying to find more time in the day to do all the things that she loves. That's usually who's gonna be buying our products. But guess what?[00:10:00]
A lot of those busy moms have teenagers and like myself, I've got two teen or preteen girls that do love playing with makeup and skincare. The Sephora kid. ~Uh.~ Trend is huge. And if you don't yourself have a teenager, if you've been in a Sephora or an Ulta lately, you have likely seen these cute little 12, 13, 14 year olds running around wanting everything.
And when I developed our product lines, or as we call them, edits, so our makeup edit, and specifically our skincare edit specifically, I wanted products that were so safe and so clean, and. That a 12-year-old can use it without disrupting her skin barrier, without having these like crazy actives in it.
That might sound fancy on a label, but are the type of thing that. She shouldn't be using. But guess what, for Mama, that opens the door to our skincare edits and, you know, our makeup edits as well to integrate beautifully into some of the other product [00:11:00] lines that are out there that do focus more on things like wrinkle releasing or retinol or maybe even just using the, ~uh,~ tretinoin, you know, cream itself, which is like the prescription retinol side of things, or a lot of the products ~that, that,~ that might have those more active ingredients that are targeted for ~this.~
Our age, our target age, our products will integrate with those. And again, they won't disrupt that barrier. They won't impact the other products that you may have fallen in love with and used. So as we grow and as we start to develop more product lines, we probably will have some more dedicated products for things like anti-aging, but for example, in our renewal elixir, which is really meant to be a daily, ~uh,~ essential oil based.
Super clean elixir that for me, gives me the hydration and balance that my skin is looking for. But we added an ingredient in there called lavendox at a lower percentage, but it's a natural wrinkle inhibitor that's been clinically proven to temporarily both, you know, kind of numb out the, the [00:12:00] muscles there to where your wrinkles are gonna be less prominent, especially like around the lips and you know.
Some of these areas, but because of that, the clinical trials have shown that it reduces the wrinkles by 18% over several weeks use. And so when we developed this product, we thought it already has lavender oil or we knew we wanted to include that lavender oil. But ~let's not in, or~ let's go ahead and include that Spanish, lavender, the lavendox, which has just a little tiny bit of that wrinkle reduction, uh, capacity.
But we're not gonna market it as like an anti-wrinkle serum. It's just gonna be that one thing that, again, even if you don't have wrinkles, that can help. Prevent that way. It's a way that it's a unique ingredient that we can market that's safe and clean and effective without having to have like retinols or any of the harsh, ~um,~ acids and things like that.
Again, that can disrupt your barrier. ~Um,~ if you are aesthetician isn't the one ~that's,~ that's, ~uh,~ that's recommending it. And so that's the number two thing that really sets us apart is the ingredients and the formulations that we source. We wanted them to be simple [00:13:00] enough and safe enough that your middle schooler can use them, but that they can also integrate with your routines.
So that's also what safe means to us. So then the next. Piece to the safety, ~uh,~ component actually wound up being a blessing in disguise. So we knew we wanted to be able to sell immediately to the Canadian market with the hopes of launching with our partner and advocate programs as soon as possible in that market just getting going in the US to start first.
And so we've been working with some, you know, experts that are in that space ~in,~ in Canada. And one of the cool things that we found is because. We are focusing on clean products specifically, like our Prime Protect is a mineral based SPF primer. It's SPF 30 made from titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, which are two of the most clean,~ uh, uh, ~SPF ingredients on the market.
~Um,~ as well as like our. Skin tint has, it's really a hybrid skincare and makeup in one. It's got some really good clean skincare ingredients in there. [00:14:00] And like for example, our lift bronze and our blush balm, ~uh,~ which is for your cheeks and your lips, those products are all even like plant-based and have like great clean minerals in there to where.
They're, again, they're, they're safe. They're safe for your skin, which is just so great. But specifically in Canada, for example, with our sunscreen and other products too, we found out that if our sunscreen, like so many, was more of a chemical based sunscreen, it would be classed in an entirely separate category than what ours is.
You know, categorized as, which is a natural product because it, it has that SPF protection coming from natural ingredients. And so for us, I knew even though that wasn't something when we were developing the Prime Protect, like I at that point had no idea that it needed to be specifically like that in Canada.
Now I can see the Lord's grace and blessing and hand in that to where we can ship that natural sunscreen based to our friends up in [00:15:00] Canada. So that's the third reason, is just the clean mineral based ingredients are going to allow ~that,~ that easy expansion into Canada and beyond, because we focused on really good skin loving, safe ingredients.
So those are the three reasons that our products are considered safe. So let's tackle the comp plan. So I don't know about you, but I have had not so great experiences in network marketing. ~Um,~ not necessarily ~the,~ the company that I, I just previously came from, but my first foray into network marketing didn't start off well because I started about $3,500 in debt.
And my friends, ~that is not a, I,~ I'm not saying that. You know, debt in all capacities, you know, to each their own. But I know that what the Bible says, and again, one of our core values is biblical wisdom, is that the borrower is slave to the lender. And I'll never forget, and maybe you've been in this position before where when I first decided to join a network marketing company, the mentor that I was enrolling with, she [00:16:00] said, you know, well, tell me about your goals.
How much money would you like to make? You know, things like that. And I said, well, I'd like to make a couple thousand dollars a month. And she said, oh, okay. Well you're serious. And those are big goals you're gonna need to purchase our. Largest inventory package, which was 30, I think it might even $3,600.
You guys, it was a lot. It was a lot of money. And I was like, well, I don't, I don't have $3,600. That was the whole point in me needing to make $2,000, is I was trying to fill an income gap as an as small business owner, where even though. I, on the outside it looked like I was making a ton of money. I was paying myself less than a teacher's salary and really not able to contribute to our family like I wanted to.
And so I certainly didn't have an extra $3,600 laying around to invest in this. Nor would my husband probably have been very excited about me doing that. So what did I do? She told me that I could open a credit card that was interest free for six months and that she would show me how to make it back.
Now, to her credit, that mentor did in fact show [00:17:00] me how to make back that, that money I did. In fact, I was able to pay off that, that credit card within six months. So once again, to each their own. But what I know is I did not. Start that business from a place of safety and profitability. And so that's gonna be our first differentiator when it comes to the safety aspect of our comp plan is, well, it's kind of tied to one and two, but one is our primary focus is not on activity.
Meaning like, you've gotta do this to get paid. It's profitability for a partner. So what do I mean by that? I mean that. We are a little bit different with Restore Collective that if you want to be a partner or after your three free, ~um,~ months of being an advocate to kind of test that out, you will pay what we call a digital business toolkit enrollment fee, which is essentially a quarterly based fee that takes care of all of your systems, your website, all of the customer service, some really cool [00:18:00] things that I'm literally wrapping up as we speak that I am so excited to share more about.
On another episode, but, ~um,~ get excited for all of the goodness that's gonna come with that digital business kit. So if you're used to paying like a monthly back office fee, know that ours is a quarterly fee or annual, ~you can get it, you know,~ you can get it at the annual rate as well. ~Um,~ and even get it below our cost at that level, which is great.
If you wanna get the best deal. That is the best deal. But don't do it if you have to put it on a credit card. Okay? That's why we have the quarterly payment option is so you can start by ~50.~ Paying $50. That's it. That's all you have to do to start a business as a partner with Restore. So then the first rank at Restore in our comp plan is called Profitable Partner.
And so it's not ~active or it's not, um, you know,~ some fancy other rank. It's literally profitable partner. And that's what we want you to do first. And that rank, all you have to do is sell either a hundred dollars or technically your personal purchases count, but. My friends go for finding, you know, a customer to get to that a hundred dollars level.
~Um,~ I would say, because then you're not [00:19:00] technically profitable if you buy it yourself. But anyways, you're investing in your business, I guess you could say. But if you sell a hundred dollars in that month. Or $300 over a three month period because we know there's seasonality in the business and sometimes, like it takes a minute to get things going.
And so either one of those two things you will rank, and again, that can be on your own, ~own, um, you know, ~volume alone. You don't need a team to rank at all on our volume based first. Phase of our comp plan, which is the ~partner, um,~ partner side of things. So you can rank three times on your own volume alone, or you can, you know, grow that from your team.
But you'll need to sell either way at that profitable partner, a hundred dollars yourself. Because for example, ~um,~ in our base retail profit or our personal sales commission, you make a minimum of 20% on your commissions. So for example, if you sell a hundred dollars that month, in your first month, you're gonna get $20 in commissions.
If you do that three months in a row, you're gonna get 20, 40, $60 in commissions, which guess what is $10 more than what you are paying for your digital [00:20:00] business toolkit, which means you, my friend, are profitable in your business. So that's exactly what that rank is designed to do. That's why the numbers are what they are.
And for me, especially if you are looking to join Restore Collective, we certainly don't have any requirements or anything like that that you, again, you can get, you can sell. $10 and get your $2 commission at that 20% level. So there's no requirement. However, I'm all about setting goals for yourself and your business, and I would say that's a minimum baseline goal that you can and should.
If you wanna actually build a business, not a hobby, is to at least hit that profitable partner each month or each season. 'cause again, you can do it $300 over a three month period, ~um,~ to maintain that level. 'cause again, that might, even if you do the $300, that's gonna push you up into the 25% bracket, which now I'm trying to do the math in my head.
So whatever, 25% percent of $300 is, what is that? I don't even know. ~Whatever. 75. $75. 75. I don't know. ~Y'all don't kill me. I can't. I love math. Love numbers. Can't do it in math. [00:21:00] You do the math west out your calculator. Either way, it's gonna be more than the $60 that what you would make. Maybe it's 72.
Anyways, I digress. So $300. This is not a comp plan training by the way. We will have that. More specifically, but, ~uh, the,~ the profitability side is a baseline to get started in your business. And then once you know how to do that and you know how to show somebody else how to do that, you can continue to rank and grow through the compensation plan.
And so that's why we can, the first reason why we consider our comp plan safe is because it's based around profitability versus activity. So. Really for someone who is a partner, it's what's in it for them, not what's in it for their upline, because we don't have any structural components based in our comp plan, where you've gotta have a certain number of profitable partners.
It's not that at all. It's the volume can come from one person or five people or whoever. It's just, it's truly in your best interest if you're gonna be a partner. To sell about a hundred dollars a month. So that's reason number one is it's safe. Reason number two is kind of tied to my story, and that is you don't, you're not even allowed to have [00:22:00] inventory.
So not only do, you don't have to worry about that because I, let me tell you, as a former boutique owner, that was one of the, if not the biggest challenge that I faced in that business, was knowing exactly how many of each product item to stock to sell, what we're gonna be the most popular. And my friends, you can leave that up to us at Restore.
Now I'm gonna. Especially in pre-launch, you guys, I'm gonna tell you, we will do the best we can to project what this is gonna look like, but I can promise you, we will probably let you down in that area at the beginning, meaning we're gonna sell out of something. I mean, that's not a bad thing if we do, 'cause that means there's demand for it.
But just know that we probably will miss the mark on our projections because it's impossible to have an unlimited supply without an unlimited, you know, investment. Which we do have a finite amount that we feel the Lord has caught us to invest in this business, which that's actually another really cool story for another day.
But, ~um, we, you know.~ Without having a finite amount of endless inventory, especially without revenue coming in. Right. We have a set amount of each inventory item and we probably will sell through some things, but [00:23:00] that's on us to figure out, and we are working with you guys. I met with him this week. It's the coolest thing his entire.
Role in helping us is to have these things called safety stock and like days of, you know, transit from this, that and the other. And it's funny 'cause y'all, if you know me, you know, I'm the optimist, the eternal optimist. And so what I think should take two to three months is really more like six months. I.
I'm just saying in the product supply chain, you wanna prepare for that. And that is his job, is to help us make conservative estimates on what that looks like. So just to give you a heads up, obviously, like we have to be able to get ahead of that, which is why in those first few months, don't be surprised if there's, you know, a sell through.
That takes us a second to catch back up. But that's also why we are doing a. Slow tiered rollout with a soft launch to start and then going into a public launch slightly after that so that we can get ahead of that curve and get things in quickly. So. You my friends. That's the reason it's safe. You don't have to be like me and invest thousands of dollars in inventory to start your [00:24:00] business.
We actually are doing something really kind of crazy. And even Roger at first was like, do we really wanna do that? And I was like, yeah, we do. We are limiting the items to two per person. And the reason we're doing that is, well, it's actually twofold. And this is gonna go back to Canada. One, it's gonna prevent people from hoarding.
Meaning like, oh no, Heather said things are gonna sell out. I'm gonna get. You know, 20 prime protects. No, we don't want someone unnecessarily having more product than they need or trying to do it as inventory. We want you to be able to try the product, maybe have a backup for yourself, ~um,~ but we don't want people to be doing like these group orders.
We will have a free shipping target, ~um,~ for both our loyalty club plus subscription that's at a lower level, and then we'll have for anybody on the website that, you know, can get free shipping. Above. Right now it's planned for $75. Don't hold me to that, but that's planned. ~So, um,~ for anybody ~that~ that does that, and so just, you know, just know that you will be limited to two, but that's designed to help that inventory management side of things.[00:25:00]
What's also really cool is in shipping and selling to Canada. Why and how we are allowed to do this initially without all this crazy registration, which we actually are also working on registering our products there. But if our products are a 90 day supply, which they are, because we've already talked about that in the SMART acronym, ~uh,~ or the Smart yeah.
Acronym, I guess you could say. Is our tins and all of our, ~um,~ skincare products, they're all, ~um,~ smart sized to be about two to three months worth of ~uh,~ use. And so guess what? That was another thing that I didn't, when we set that idea, I think it was a God-given gracefield solution to be able to allow us to get into Canada quickly, which is very, very exciting.
And so, again, it's safe and all the facets of comp plan are gonna be designed around that specifically without inventory. So then the last reason that this is safe is this is a safe place for you to have the freedom to do whatever it is that you want with your business or not. So what do I mean by that?
You [00:26:00] all, you have, if you've been listening, you know that freedom is one of our core values. But specifically what that looks like is, first of all, this business model of network marketing is not right for everyone. I've got my sweet friend Bethany that's about to meet me for lunch, to help hammer out some of this product stuff she's helping on the product side of the development.
~Um,~ and also, you know, she's one of my besties. So we're gonna, we're gonna eat some McDonald's together and yes, that is my guilty pleasure. So I got a FRAPPE eight and a McDouble coming and I'm pumped about it. But Bethany, you, my friends. I'm not gonna say, of course she could do the business model of direct sales and network marketing, but it's not really for her.
But is she uniquely gifted to be able to serve in other facets of this business? Absolutely. So I would never pressure her to try to do this with me if it wasn't right for her. Will she be, she actually kind of already is a customer 'cause she's helping me test a lot of the products and she went with me to New York to help source a lot of the things, which is really exciting.
And so, you know, will she be a customer? She sure will. She will have to buy not from me. She'll have to buy from, ~uh,~ one of our founding [00:27:00] partner mentor branches from someone because that's, again, no one can buy or enroll direct to corporate, which is another kind of safe thing. Right. ~Um,~ but, ~um.~ But going back to that, like I'm embracing that for her to know that there is no pressure.
Same thing. Our advocate and partner hybrid compensation plan approach is designed to serve people right where they are. So if someone is understandably skittish about the nature of the business model right now and wants. To not worry about team building, they can become an advocate. Or if they or you listening are already leading another team and don't wanna set the tone, which is really challenging to duplicate, of trying to build multiple teams at multiple network marketing businesses, then Advocate is designed for that.
Or again, for an online influencer who really doesn't have time for the intentional connections required to build this business, but just wants to be able to share a link to the dang Prime Protect or whatever it is that she uses and loves. The advocate program is perfect, and so it's embracing people for that, but then for those people who do want to [00:28:00] help build up other people in their business and who do have that servant hearted leadership, we designed our entire comp plan to be freedom focused to where there's a lot of different ways that you can build and grow your business, and this is a safe place to meet you right where you are.
Also, I think this is as good a time as any in this soft and pre-launch phase that a lot of you guys are prayerfully deciding which founding partner, mentor, or anyone on her branch, which you guys, there's no benefit. This is a question that's come up a lot this week is they say, is there a benefit to enrolling directly with someone?
~Um.~ That you know, as a founding partner, mentor, and the answer is, is no. I mean, you do, you know, get them as your mentor, but you guys, just because someone is on one of their branches and is not a founding partner, mentor, let me tell you, there are some rock stars that are. On their teams. And if you know one of them or if they were your mentor in the past, or if you, you know, feel led in any way to enroll with them, know that you're gonna get everybody.
You're gonna get your founding partner, mentor, you're gonna get another founding partner, [00:29:00] mentor. 'cause we're all gonna serve together. We have a cadence of systems and tools and resources. It truly is like a. Family here, which is a part of what makes it safe. And so you can't go wrong. And I truly believe, and we'll pray here in a second, that the Lord guides you to who that person is, but just know one thing that I don't love is strategic placement.
~And what I mean by that is~ that's not safe. What I mean by that is if you are like, oh, let me, you know, look at the comp plan and get the perfect structure in place, which by the way. Well anyway, we won't go there, but our official comp plan has not been like announced or rolled out. So if you are in the focus group and you've looked at the high level concepts, know that I'm refining that also as we speak prior to launch.
And so, you know, don't hold your hat on something I saw an issue on. So I was like, Nope, that's not it. I put the wrong thing and that's on me. Guys. Don't put your faith in me. I will let you down. Put your faith in the Lord and the partners and the people that we are are putting in place to know that. You know, we, we will get this done.
That's why this is a soft launch. That's why it's a focus group. All of those things. Anyways, I digress. But, ~um,~ but know that strategic placement, [00:30:00] meaning being like, Ooh, I'm gonna put this person under, which, first of all, we don't even have under here. We have over, remember we're building a tree, we're flipping the network marketing, ~um,~ model upside down, and we literally have a tree.
So instead of putting someone over someone else, you want them to be relationally based. You don't wanna hand people a fish or just. Force people to enroll with someone on your team ~or bull, you know, no one, you know, hopefully no one would like bully someone into joining their team or, you know,~ which I understand that sometimes you wanna keep the, the structural integrity of, you know, a previous company.
And while I think that as long as. It's done with the right intentions and heart. I think it can work. I think when it's done from a place of stronghold or expectation or what's best for that mentor as opposed to what's best for the person that's joining, that's where it can get a little tricky. Just, just being honest there.
And so I. The freedom and the safety aspect is from me, from the bottom up, and from all of our founding partner mentors know that we wanna empower you to have the freedom to choose [00:31:00] whoever you love and want to enroll with in this business. So. Those are the reasons why our comp plan is considered safe.
And there's a lot more to when we dive into it. But let's wrap this up in prayer so I can go get my frappe and my McDouble. 'cause I think Bethany might be here in a minute, but, alright, here we go. Lord, thank you so much, just for the wisdom and the grace. And the guidance that you have given us all on this journey.
And thank you for being able to answer the really tough questions that have come up along the way and, and to be able to answer them confidently. And, uh, just knowing that we truly do have the heart and mind of anyone. That is listening in mind. Whether they don't do anything with Restore, whether they're a customer advocate partner, this is meant to help equip people with the right information coming straight from our hearts, touching theirs.
So just give the discernment and the wisdom to each person listening to know what is the next step for both them and for the people that are in their circle and that they're connected with. And just help them know that we love and honor them right [00:32:00] where they are. And we are grateful to be able to.
Provide both a safe product and a safe compensation plan to be able to serve them. So thank you again for all of the blessings, uh, that you've given us through this journey. And it's all for you, from you and through you. In Jesus name, amen.
