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EP80:Megan Wood: Laser Focused | MOVE
11/27/2020
EP80:Megan Wood: Laser Focused | MOVE
It’s 6:35 a.m. on a Sunday morning in November when a text pops up on the phone. The message is from Megan Wood, who is scheduled to be interviewed for this article at 8 a.m. She’s asking if the interview can be pushed back to 9 a.m. Why the need to push it back? Her clients always come first, and she’s had a last-minute appointment added to her schedule for the day. There’s two things in this world that Megan Wood is passionate about. Her son, Elijah, who is 5, and her clients. When she was originally asked to do the interview at 9:30 a.m., Wood said no because that would cut into her dialing time … on a Sunday morning! To say she is laser focused is an understatement. Wood has an addictive personality in anything she does. It dates back to when she was diagnosed with an extreme eating disorder at 13. After losing five or 10 pounds, she would find a new way to lose another pound. It was a vicious cycle. At age 15, Wood’s weight dropped to 60 pounds. Her parents, running out of options to help their daughter, sent her to the Laureate Clinic in Oklahoma, which specializes in eating disorders. Her parents couldn’t afford her three-month stay and had to use their 401(k) accounts to cover the costs. Wood, who says she was told she would die if things continued going the wrong way, was extremely ashamed by putting her parents in that position. “I was determined to be the best eating disorder person in the world,” Wood says. “It was never enough. I was never satisfied.” Most of her life she has switched from one addiction to another. After getting her eating disorder under control, Wood became addicted to pills, partly because she was using oxycontin to offset pain after fighting her eating disorder. She was extremely tired and needed a quick way to get her energy up. Amazingly, she was never arrested. At 17, she started working at an Applebee’s near Darlington, Indiana. She was a really good waitress and bartender. She was also addicted to talking to people and getting them to order one more of anything on the menu. Wood worked at Applebee’s for 13 years. She saved most of the $35,000 she made annually at the restaurant. However, she blew through all of it finding the drugs she was hooked on. Sometimes she spent $200 daily on a single pill. Help came in the form of treatment from a methadone clinic, where she was able to get the help she badly needed. Then, she got pregnant and knew she really had to get clean. Wood was able to buy a house for her and Elijah, which led to her filling out a mortgage protection lead. She wanted to make sure her son would be taken care of in the event something happened to her. A member of The Alliance sold her coverage and a light bulb went off in her head. She believed she could sell insurance too. Working a crazy schedule at a restaurant is tough on anybody, but for a single mother it is even harder. She saw The Alliance as a way to transition out of working crazy hours and having more time for her son. The Alliance became her new addiction. It gave her an outlet to change her bad addictive behavior into something positive. “The Alliance saved my life,” Wood says. “I would much rather have this kind of addiction and put money in my pocket,” Wood started on a part-time basis three years ago, but left Applebee’s in February of 2019 to go “all in” with The Alliance. “It’s what I’m addicted to and I love it,” Wood says. “That is why I am successful.” Wood is direct to Mike and Noelle Lewantowicz, who have watched their superstar agent explode from writing an average of $20,000 monthly to breaking the $90,000 mark in a single month in 2020. They attribute her growth to being focused, relatable to all kinds of people and having a work ethic that is second to none. “She listens very carefully to all of their needs,” Mike Lewantowicz says. “She takes care of the most important need now. And she creates a plan to come back and take care of the next need she has identified. Her work ethic, focus, intensity and relentlessness is off the charts.” Noelle Lewantowicz said Wood is great at focusing, when most people can’t even decide what they want to do daily. “She is focused on two things: she’s a mama and she’s a worker,” Noelle Lewantowicz says. “That’s where she spends her time.” Wood says helping clients makes her happy. She’s able to set her own work schedule now, freeing her up to spend a lot of quality time with her son whenever she wants to. That means trips to places like Disney World, the beach, museums, etc. Whatever her son wants to do, she’s up for it. She admits she has a hard time doing nothing. She doesn’t have a hobby and doesn’t want to pick one up. Offering people life insurance makes her happy. “If I’m not doing it, I just get depressed and wish that I was,” Wood says. “I love it. I have a lot of fun. It’s a challenge. When I help a family it’s like a high. I leave a home thinking, ‘let’s do that again!’” Looking back at her growth during the last three years, Wood says fear is what drove her to succeed. She knew bills were coming and she wanted to provide for her son without being worried all the time. “That pushed me to be successful,” Wood says. “Then, I just became addicted to it.” The results are impressive. She’s won four trips to Thailand in 2021, and she’s on track to earn 700,000 points for the year (Wood had 540,000 at the end of October). She leads the country in personal production, which will earn her the choice of a Rolex in January of 2021, because of winning a production contest. Her short-term goal is to reach Agency Manager, which should happen in December. That means Wood would earn a ring and a Rolex at NatCon. Did we mention she’s got $160,000 in her bank account? Wood just keeps coming up with new goals. “My goal was to stay in the top five and I’ve been at the top for more than half the year,” Wood says. “But it’s the fear that somebody could jump ahead of me that keeps me going and going. I don’t think I’m great, I think I could be better. Knowing that you are not great and knowing you can be better drives me.” What’s in store for 2021? Wood wants to earn 1,000,000 points, grow her team, teach others to do exactly what she is doing and then compete against them. For her, it’s about being humble and hungry at the same time. She wants to do a little bit more every single day. “That’s always up the goal,” Wood says. “It never stops. It’s just never enough.”
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