Susan Walsh "has a PhD in people."

Susan helped her father build a business when she was 11 years old. In doing so, she learned the value of hard work. She married Gary Walsh when she was 19 years old, moved to Orangeburg where Gary was in the banking business, and she was a hairdresser. They raised their two sons, Warren and Jeff, and lived an outwardly successful life. They had a nice home, wore nice clothes, and the boys went to nice schools. Susan says they were just a "different level of broke." They worked hard to pay the bills to keep up their lifestyle.

Susan's oldest son came to her one day excited because he had been accepted to medical school. Realizing she did not have an extra $5,000 a month to pay for this, Susan searched for a way to make some extra money. She couldn't work any harder; she was already working 60 hours a week in her salon. She found a personal alarm for women to carry in their purses that was an inexpensive product for $20 she could sell in her salon. Susan made $5,000 the first six weeks.

Susan Walsh after eating lunch at The Blue Marlin

Later, when Susan's mentor, Brad Hager, asked her how long she had been with the company (selling personal alarms), he explained to her that she was involved in network marketing. She thought she was only buying wholesale and selling retail.

When the personal alarm company went out of business, Susan and Brad researched over 300 companies before settling on Cyberwize, the Adaptogen Company, makers of a complete line of all- natural herbal nutritional supplements in an oral spray formula. Gary and Susan were able to move back to their native Columbia eight years ago, and she is now over a team of 85,000 independent sales reps in eight countries.

Susan calls herself a "master teacher," helping others to set and meet goals. Her mantra continues to be "Focus on people and profits will follow."

Susan Walsh is one of 20 women millionaires to be featured in Maureen G. Mulvaney, MGM's upcoming book The Women's M illionaire Club, to be launched March 17.

Susan says if others don't remember anything else about her, she wants them to remember that she's not special. She was raised humbly and has become the success she is today because she was not afraid to step out and learn, to focus on people before profits, and to not settle for "as is," mediocre, or status quo.

She says, "To realize who you can become, you simply have to choose it."