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Buck and Donna Steffens - 2008 Independent Marketing Directors of the Year.
Even as a kid, growing up in Oregon, I dreamed BIG. While my friends were dreaming about driving logging trucks, I dreamed of riding in limousines! I learned early that if you want to live a big life, you need to dream big dreams. - Buck Steffens
2008 Independent Marketing Directors of the Year Buck and Donna Steffens
Even as a kid, growing up in Oregon, I dreamed BIG. While my friends were dreaming about driving logging trucks, I dreamed of riding in limousines! I learned early that if you want to live a big life, you need to dream big dreams.
I was introduced to the financial services industry shortly after leaving the Marine Corps, and needless to say, I have been reasonably successful. Enough so, that shortly after Donna and I got married, we had the opportunity to run away from home and move to Europe to live, work, and play (but not necessarily in that order!). Our extended honeymoon came to an end, however, with the illness of Donna's father; bringing us back to the United States. We settled in the picturesque city by the sea Carmel, California. For you golfers; thats right next to Pebble Beach and for you Hollywood enthusiasts; we were nine doors down from Clint Eastwood! Suffice it to say, we were living that big dream that I had started so long ago.
Looking to reach that next plateau and conquer the world, however, we had placed a great deal of faith and more than all of our money into a dot com related investment, and unfortunately, our dream life came crashing down around us. In a few short months, we were left only with our RV and a rapidly growing pile of debt. Most people would have cashed in their chips, thrown in their hand, and given up. Not Buck and Donna! You couldn't kill our dream or our winners spirit that easily! We cinched up our boots, tightened our belts a notch or two, and went back to work. There were times, however, when that motor home got a little crowded! YES, with no other choice, we had moved into the RV!
Thankfully, today, we are much wiser, and those days are long behind us, as our successes in financial services have been greater than ever. The tough times made us wiser and stripped us of the rose colored glasses that once blinded us from reality. Just over a year ago, we noticed some disturbing trends in our industry. We saw the companies we worked with, and the industry as a whole, begin to let people down not only hurting their representatives, but their consumers as well. Tempered by the mistakes of our past, we recognized the immediate need for change. And thanks to the tenacity of some very special people, too numerous to mention here, that change came to us in the form of a company called FDI. Never before have we had the right combination of Products, People, and Prosperity that FDI brings to its members.
The bottom line is that our dreams now are bigger than ever, and we have the right vehicle to take our business anywhere we want to go we only hope that when we look in the passenger seat, you're there with us!
-Buck Steffens
"FDI's strength comes from ordinary people doing extraordinary thing"
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