Living Life on Our Terms

With a desire to be a business owner and a dream of walking away from the corporate financial world, I started with Primerica. However, being 9 months new to Canada and with a 9-month-old warm market, I had to present the opportunity that I saw to my only hot market contact, my spouse Corey Barker. When I was asked “who is the person that you would want as a business partner?” the answer was clear, my spouse.

When Corey heard my passion as to what the opportunity meant to me, he signed his IBA right away. For Corey this was a totally new path for him being from a food science background. However, he saw the same opportunity to own a business that could be pass down for generations.

With a mission to build a business asap, we studied for the LLQP together. We both got dually licensed and were in the field doing our own appointments. Two months later, we both quit our full-time jobs to be full time in the business. In the early months after we started the “Barker and Barker Enterprise" with a very limited warm market it meant cold prospecting. So being the extrovert I was the prospector and relationship builder, while Corey taught the team LLQP study group and set appointments. We would then split the appointments based on each others schedule.

We were both doing the recruiting, field trainings and running our own team in our RVP’s baseshop. We did the business together by maximizing on each others strengths and helping with each other's weaknesses. Two years later, we were promoted to RVP. Even though I was the lead code we never operated that way, it was always an equal partnership.

Today, as RVPs for over 10 years, with our children and family life, not much has changed in how we operate at home and in the business. With an emphasis on my path of daily Basehop operations, branching, trainings and team building, and Corey’s on field training and recruiting.

We still manage to spend equal time with the children and the field; as we both wanted the freedom to be involved in raising and developing a relationship with the children. Primerica has afforded us the ability to working together building a family legacy.

Today we own a beautiful home, our own office unit and are on tract to achieving our financial freedom, which was our why when we started. All of this, we achieved with 100% Primerica income and a sound Primerica financial education. Now we are totally committed to total freedom and focused on becoming a RVP factory, much like the track record set by our leaders Gery & Rebecca Bittner, Brian & Cherly Duxbury, Don & Elaine Boardman and Bobby & Candy Gocool. So many examples of incredible partnerships and leadership. We look forward to achieving many milestones and to secure full ownership for our family. Our success in Primerica thus far shows that when two people work equally in unison towards a common goal success is inevitable.

Janet & Corey Barker