After growing up in Southern California and having his own surf-band, Jim went to college and worked with his family in the mobile home business. While in college Jim met Judy and they were married.

Within a few years, life had become routine: go to work, go home, go to work, go home, etc. Jim and Judy lived on a private golf course, drove new cars, and took vacations abroad. Jim says, “We looked successful to our friends, but I had no freedom and, after 10 years of marriage, no long-term security. Everything we had was based on my ability to perform.”

Then, an old elementary school friend showed them the business of a lifetime. Says Jim, “I couldn’t believe something so simple could be so great! He told me about a meeting in Portland called Free Enterprise Day, and on total faith, Judy and I went. Seeing Bill & Peggy Britt, Ron & Georgia Lee Puryear and 20 other very successful couples speak gave us new dreams. We KNEW it was going to work for us. We believed! I saw men and women that had what I’d been searching for: God, family, and country.”

Judy also grew up in Southern California. She came from a Christian home with 2 sisters (involved in the business) and a brother. After high school, Judy was modeling and going to cosmetology school. Then she met Jim. Judy says, “When Jim came around, there was never a dull moment. He had dreams for the future, and I knew he would accomplish them. He was so full of life and energy.”

“But by then he was working as hard as he physically was capable. Even pushing himself so hard he was having health challenges. As his wife, it was hard to watch his dreams begin to fade and frustration and weariness take their place. For me this business was truly an answer to my prayers.”

“A lot of people say we’re lucky,” explains Judy, “but we don’t feel lucky; rather, we feel blessed that God allowed us the opportunity to see this business and be rewarded for the time and effort we put into it.”

“Our priceless gift besides being our own boss, is the opportunity to be full-time parents to our son Jim. Today he and his wife are IBOs also. It’s exciting to have a legacy to pass on to our children and grandchildren.”

Jim and Judy have achieved many of their early goals, as well as expanding their dreams. “Today we couldn’t be happier than we are watching the Diamonds and Executive Diamonds in our organization achieve their own dreams,” says Jim. “We knew we were going all the way, but our biggest dream has been to have lots of true friends with us.”

“We’re not naive,” Jim concludes. “We know there are other businesses that can produce a good lifestyle. In California, many of our neighbors were rich and famous, but we hardly saw them; they didn’t have freedom. This business has given us both time and success-to raise our children and to smell the roses along the way.”

Today Jim and Judy’s heartfelt desire is to help Ron & Georgia Lee Puryear fill coliseums throughout the world to celebrate the free enterprise system and help people to achieve the success that they believe God wants them to have.

Their mission statement is “to believe in people more than they believe in themselves, until they believe in themselves more. “We give all the glory to our Lord! Our initial goal still stands: to have 6 Diamond legs! Of course, 12 will be great too!”