Melanie Ethridge
Emerald Director, USANA, US
Melanie is a serial entrepreneur who passionately believes in bringing positive change to the world through good business – and she believes that businesses can only bring their greatest good if the people running them are bringing their best and healthiest selves to the game.
For Melanie, it was a missed softball game that put her on the entrepreneurial path. After the disappointment and frustration of having to leave her team short a player to attend a last-minute meeting during an internship in college, she knew she wanted to create a situation in which she had greater control of her commitments – and her ability to follow through with them – than she was finding with her job. A year later, she started her first business as a Distributor with USANA Health Sciences when she was just 22 years old. Fifteen months later she achieved the rank Gold Director and was earning a solid 6-figure income with her business. The steady income she was experiencing through her USANA business empowered her to begin investing in real estate and start-up companies and ultimately led her to coaching and consulting with businesses of all sizes. In 2014, she launched her own Magazine and Publishing Company called Growth Advance with a mission to empower entrepreneurs to joyfully and holistically achieve success.
Through it all, her USANA business has been her first love and what has empowered her to live a life she fully loves. She has spent the last 18 months living in Colombia with her husband and dog, learning to speak Spanish, dance Salsa, and grow her USANA business. Melanie is now an Executive Emerald Director, 3-time Growth 100 Member, and Premier Platinum Pacesetter.