Malcolm B. Sword
Ambassador Double Diamond Executive
Ambassador Double Diamond Executive and Million Dollar Club member Malcolm Sword was wary of trying something new after having lost everything in his previous business. “I was at a very low ebb in my life,” he remembers. “My close friend Dan Doyle called me, and I decided to meet up with him.”
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“It was really interesting because when I look back on it, I was sitting in the boardroom at ASEA with Dan Doyle, Verdis Norton, and the executive team. Just listening to Verdis speak truly won my heart, and I immediately wanted to do business with him. My head was saying, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ but my heart was saying, ‘I need to do this.’ Eventually, I took a position underneath Danny.”
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Malcolm recognizes that service and making an impact are an important part of what we do in ASEA. “My heart feels for people who have lost everything,” he says. “When a person is broke and has nothing, it’s not good. It destroys your soul. There are a lot of people that I come across that I mentor because I enjoy that process of building people and watching them succeed.”
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A climbing trip to Mount Kilimanjaro in 2004 inspired Malcolm to help those in need. After climbing the mountain, he noticed a woman carrying a baby and asked his guide about her. The guide pointed to her home, which was a hut for pigs. The woman was living there with her five children.
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“I went back home after that trip and raised $10,000 in one night to build her a house,” Malcolm recalls. “When I went back the second time, the house had been built, but she and her children were living on the concrete floor. I went and bought her some furniture and then later donated some chickens and livestock for her to feed her family.”
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Mal’s goal is to build three houses a year in Tanzania. “There is a combination of motivating factors that you get when you start a business with ASEA,” he explains. “It’s not just health and wealth; it’s giving back to people that motivates me to reach higher and higher.”