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Breaking Free: How Regina Martinez Turned Devastation into a MILLION-DOLLAR SUCCESS STORY

In 2019, Regina Martinez, a single mom living in Texas, was devastated. After building up her business from scratch to $1.9 million in two years, the company whose products she was selling terminated her agreement. Leaving her with a choice, either sell her book of business for peanuts or walk away with nothing.

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surrounded by people with businesses worth $15 million and $17 million— people who had bought the business. I told the instructor that I thought I was in the wrong room because I didn’t have a book of business. I didn’t want to take a loan out to buy one and I was the only agent in the room starting from scratch. After the instructor asked for my name, he said to me, ‘Nope, you’re in the right class. Your knowledge in insurance has earned you the right to be in this class.’”

ever since.” In 2017, she had an opportunity to apply her 16 years of experience working for State Farm to start her own insurance agency. “I don’t have a college degree, but I was able to become an agent at another captive insurance agency where they gave me my own office because of my experience in the industry,” Regina explained. “They sent me to this training where I was

insurance industry in 2001. At the time, she just needed a job to get her through while she cared for her ailing mom and three young children. “I didn’t ever plan on making a career out of this,” Regina recalled. “But I enjoyed what I was doing. There were a lot of Hispanics that really didn’t understand what they were purchasing. I discovered that I could really help people by explaining things and educating them as to what they were buying. It’s been a passion

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