Marc Warnke refers to transition moments quite often in his speaking and writing.  He defines these as life-changing turn-around moments, the ones that paint everything about our lives a different color.

Holding his first-born son Jaken in his arms was a transition moment for Marc.  It was then that he decided that the finest, most important thing that he could do in his lifetime would be to be a full-time father.  So he placed that in priority position right next to the promise he made to his wife Sue on their wedding day—to be her full-time husband.  When his second son Tucker arrived in 2007, Marc was well into his lifetime plan to put his family first.

Marc grew up on a farm in a small rural Southern Idaho community. There were four stop signs and seven churches. You get the idea.

He excelled in both academic and sports arenas in high school, graduated ninth in his class, and went on to play college baseball and football.  Marc’s interest in the entrepreneurial world began at an early age and by his third year in college his sideline businesses were doing so well, he decided to pursue a career in business full-time.

To expand his knowledge base, Marc took a job with NFIB as a member representative
because it allowed him to walk into every kind and size of business in America and evaluate all their facets.  At the beginning of this time with NFIB he came to terms with the fact that he was an Alcoholic and decided to change his life on all levels.  He buried himself in work. He focused on maintaining sobriety, and in rebuilding his life.  Marc threw away his TV and read for information for the next seven years.  His spare moments were spent in the outdoors where he found that God-given peace and serenity which has always been a critical piece of his
spiritual essence.

During the two-year “rebuilding of Marc” he decided what he wanted to do when he grew up.  The speaking he was doing for NFIB and his involvement in Toastmasters intrigued him, so he decided to take his speaking talents to the next level.  In preparation for that, he became a “pitchman” and learned that dying art form.  He met his wife Sue, they became partners, and became one of the top teams to ever be in the cookware business, a business that has given rise to quite a list of success stories including Zig Ziglar, Marc Victor Hansen, and Ed McMahon.

Marc still trains and speaks in this business, but with the birth of his first son and windfall real estate profits, he and his wife came off the road and built different businesses that conformed better to his family life—real estate investment, consulting, speaking and training.  Marc has had some incredible life experiences as a result of his entrepreneurial successes.  One of the highlights for him was housing the President and the First Lady at his ski house in Idaho.

He was able to semi-retire for three years as his first son grew, but he is now back at it, completing a first book, and beginning a second.  Unexpectedly, ONO, Options, not Obligations, Marc’s first book, represents a transition moment (actually, a transition year) for him.  During his semi-retirement, Marc had decided he wanted to teach others about entrepreneurism, and ONO is the result of that decision. However, as he wrote the book, he discovered that it was really a stepping stone to an even stronger, higher purpose for him, that of bringing parents back to their children by helping them learn the world of Family First Entrepreneurism.

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