Paul Hutchings and Mike Hobbs, founders of HBA

Hey, it's Paul and Mike.

We've made over $2 million in home businesses. We've also been betrayed by most of them.

Comp plans that changed after you built a team.

Leaders who shamed or abandoned you when you weren't in the top 10.

Income that vanished because someone decided to play games with your money or quit on you altogether.

Lies. Hype. Manipulation. Pressure.

The list goes on...

We watched it happen to us. We watched it happen to people we cared about.

It broke our hearts.

So, we decided to do something about it.

Build a company worth believing in.

We built it on three promises:

1. Never change the comp plan.

2. Never quit on people.

3. Put people first, even when it costs us.

Why these three?

Because without them, there's no such thing as residual income. You're just selling stuff and starting over. Recruiting and replacing. Running on a treadmill disguised as a business.

We wanted a foundation. Not musical chairs.

But the hardest part wasn't building the company. It was keeping the promise when it cost us.

One time, our merchant put a 50% hold on funds. We owed affiliates over $100K a month—with only half coming in. Mike and I took out a $250,000 personal loan to make sure every affiliate got paid while we solved the problem.

Three promises. Zero broken. That's The Home Business Academy.