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Brian Carruthers
Davidsonville, MD

"I used to have a great income as a real estate agent, but my lifestyle that was sacrificed to achieve the financial gain just wasn't worth it. Have you ever felt like you were on a treadmill to oblivion too? My life was passing me by." Today, Brian Carruthers is enjoying the kind of lifestyle most can only dream of.

"For years I had heard about PPL, so I thought I knew everything and was not interested in the slightest. Plus, I was super busy and not wanting to look at anything else. After all, if I stopped selling houses, my income would stop. Like I said, that's the old treadmill I was on. I am so glad that I finally stopped and listened. A speaker at a PPL presentation said 'If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you've gotten... the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting things to change.' That scared me." He adds, "When I finally took a REAL look at the Pre-Paid Legal business, I was blown away by how much I did not know. It was not the company I once heard about, it was 1000 times bigger and better. It didn't take me long to realize that momentum has begun and that critical mass growth is going to hit in the near future, and I didn't want to miss out."

"I was always told you need to find a 'ground-floor' company and get in at the beginning to make the big money. PPL defies this hype. When I joined PPL, the company had been in business almost 28 years. The other companies I looked at are no longer in business... go figure. And they took all the hypesters down with them."

Brian says that after watching so many colleagues around the industry lose everything, including their credibility and reputations by jumping from sinking ship to sinking ship, "I'm so glad to have found a place I can call home, a place where I can build it once and it will stick.