Promoter Sabrina Hinkle hid her THRIVE journey at first. Now, she shouts it from the rooftops
Sabrina Hinkle knew she couldn’t survive on a steady diet of iced coffee and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups forever. But in early 2016, Hinkle — then a middle school teacher — didn’t know of any other way to get through her day.
A mom of two, Hinkle had tried “every vitamin under the sun” to maintain energy and stay focused throughout her day, but nothing seemed to work. So, she downed caffeine and sugar all day long. “By the time I came home from work, I was miserable,” she says. “I’d beg my kids to play on the floor so I could take a catnap.”
A year earlier, an acquaintance who was a THRIVE Promoter had reached out to her on Facebook with a question: Did she need help with mental clarity, joint support, weight management and a better night’s sleep?
“My first thought was, ‘This girl is just trying to sell me something,’” Hinkle remembers. “I didn’t bother
to respond.”
But Hinkle says she watched the woman on Facebook for 329 days, curious as she posted about her THRIVE Experience.
Finally, on the 330th day, Hinkle reached out to the woman and said she wanted to give the products a try.
“I was a closet THRIVER,” Hinkle says. She was THRIVING for 30 days before a co-worker approached her. “She said, ‘There’s something different about you. You’re excited to come here in the morning, you’re losing weight, and you’re positively glowing. What’s going on?’” Hinkle rolled up her sleeve to reveal her DFT and told her friend about the THRIVE Experience.
“I realized that I should have been talking about the THRIVE Experience all along because all of my friends deserved to feel the way I felt,” Hinkle says. So, she signed up as a Promoter and started displaying her DFT proudly.
She brought samples of THRIVE wherever she went. “Whether I was at the store or at a basketball game, people noticed I had a pep in my step, and when they asked me about it, I gave them a sample,” she says. “Letting the product speak for itself really contributed to my success.”
Hinkle achieved her Auto Bonus 27 days into her journey as a Promoter and says she began to spend as much free time as she could Promoting the THRIVE Experience. “For two years, I worked my business in every spare moment I could,” she says. Finally, in 2018, she decided to focus on her THRIVE business full-time, and she eventually reached her 80K VIP rank.
“I realized that I was at my happiest sharing the THRIVE Experience, and I vowed I’d never stop sharing again.”
Then, going into 2020, Hinkle found herself in a slump. “I stopped being consistent and just kind of went through the motions for several months,” she says. But after her sales dipped and she dropped in rank, Hinkle says, “I realized I needed to kick my butt back into gear.”
Hinkle got back on social media and made a post apologizing for her brief absence. She then reached out to all her customers and team members and apologized for being out of the loop. “I made it clear that even though I had laid low for a while, I had never stopped THRIVING,” she says.
Her business began to gain traction again, and Hinkle said the experience taught her something: “I realized that I was at my happiest sharing the THRIVE Experience, and I vowed I’d never stop sharing again.”
Now, she makes it a point to be “very intentional” with her business. “I’ve got the Millionaire Award in my sights and I’m not too far off,” she says. “I know that by showing up every single day, I’ll achieve it!”
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