EDC’s Jim and Margee Floor, reside in Granite Bay California, a suburb of Sacramento. Jim was born in Los Angeles just 5 months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 2nd in a family that included 3 boys and one girl. All four of his Grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Greece in the early 1900’s.

Margee, born in Los Angeles a couple years later, is mostly of Irish decent and her family has been in America since before the Revolutionary War. In fact, her descendants include the wife of one of President George Washington’s cousins; General James Walker Fannin Jr. who fought and was killed during the Texas Revolution in 1836; and the famous Buffalo Bill Cody. Margee’s “Big” brother Bryant and his wife Judy are Emeralds in the business.

Jim and Margee met in college and were married in 1965 during his junior year at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. Jim graduated in1967 with a degree in Architectural Engineering, and earned his MBA from Pepperdine University in 1972.

Jim worked for 16 years in various engineering and management positions for the Southern California Gas Company --- the last five as Governmental Affairs Manager, the company’s liaison with local and State elected officials including the Mayor of Los Angeles and the Governor of California.

Margee worked for several years in Corporate Sales & Marketing for Mattel Toys until she and Jim decided to start a family.

Jim and Margee were introduced to the Amway business in 1979. Although both were reluctant at first, Jim began listening to stories on tape of people from various walks of life who had succeeded in the Amway business. After a few weeks of consideration, Jim agreed to drive with his sponsor Fred to a “show the plan” meeting at a hotel in Orange County. There he made the decision to get started, but just to make a few hundred dollars per month.

They had reached the Silver level pretty quickly, but their momentum was interrupted when Jim accepted a major promotion, which required moving 400 miles north to Sacramento. In his new position he was responsible for representing the Gas Company to the State Legislature and the Governor's office.

The change was disruptive and unfortunately resulted in 9 months of nearly total inactivity and lots of broken promises. Their existing business in the greater Los Angeles area continued to grow, so Jim & Margee did move on to the Platinum level during that time.

Then, in July of 1981 they decided to attend an event three hours north of Sacramento. Closing the event on Saturday evening, the Diamond speaker challenged the IBO’s in attendance to “Man up and get the job done.” Late at night on the drive home, Jim told Margee he was done making false promises, lame excuses and procrastinating, and that they where going to build this crazy business with passion.

Together they set their goals and again went to work with renewed purpose. Soon they were in Diamond qualification. They completed Diamond qualification and went on to qualify EDC. It’s one of the reasons why Jim is so believes strongly in the power of IBO’s attending major events. Jim says, “major events are where quality business and life changing decisions are most often made.”

Over the years Jim and Margee have mentored and helped dozens of others achieve the Emerald and Diamond levels, and achieve their own personal and financial freedom. Jim has served on the IBOAI on multiple occasions. Margee has also served on special IBOAI committees. Jim remains an avid goal-setter and has recently committed to riding his road bike at least 5000 miles in a year.