I am standing in a small backstage area at the century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. On the other side of a wall of flats and screens are approximately 500 people—distributors and their wives, key company staff, virtually every member of ultra-senior management. In five minutes ... no, three ... I will have to go out there and give a presentation, no matter what. Nothing short of a major earthquake will stop this. I picture the earth opening up beneath our feet, the hot magma pouring from the hole in the ballroom floor, our distributors running for the exits, hair on fire, as a chunk of the West Coast meanders out toward Hawaii.
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