History
For more than a decade FreeLife has built upon its mission of serving others by providing an opportunity to realise improved well-being, wellness, and abundance in life. What began with Co-Founders Ray Faltinsky and Kevin Fournier has grown to one of the world’s leading providers of scientifically backed nutritional products including TAIslim and GoChi. Here are some of FreeLife’s most memorable moments:
1981
Against all odds, Martha Faltinsky, Ray Faltinsky's mother, is healed of osteoporosis through the use of nutritional supplements defying modern medicine's prediction that she will eventually be wheelchair bound, and igniting a passion for nutrition and natural healing in FreeLife's future Co-Founder and CEO.
1990
Ray meets Kevin Fournier and they develop a friendship that will lead to the launch of one of the most successful companies in the Direct Selling industry.
1992
CEO & Co-Founder Ray Faltinsky travels across America meeting with corporate executives in the Direct Selling industry while writing his thesis on the subject. He graduates from Yale Law School with a passion for the industry and how it can help people from all walks of life live the American Dream.
1995
Ray and Kevin see their dreams materialize with the launch of FreeLife. By the end of the year, FreeLife becomes the youngest company ever featured on the cover of Success Magazine.
2000
History is made when Inc. magazine announces that FreeLife ranks #296 on the Inc. 500 List as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America.
2002
FreeLife uncovers the secret of the goji berry's unique polysaccharides that act as Master Molecules in the body. Synergized together, they serve as directors and carriers of the instructions that cells use to communicate with each other. As a result, they are of great importance to the smooth functioning of virtually every cell in the entire body.
2003 • 1
FreeLife identifies a Spectral Signature to identify, isolate, and harvest only those special goji berries with the active principles in exact balance for the most potent and powerful goji product.
After years of exhaustive research, FreeLife launches Himalayan Goji Juice, becoming the first and only company to perfect a difficult and demanding proprietary extraction process to create the only standardized form of this incredible plant yet available in the world!
2003 • 2
FreeLife establishes a charitable giving program, GojiKids®, to support the Leaders of tomorrow—children all over the world. Each month, a portion of our profits is donated to children's organisations internationally to help children in need. FreeLife was honored by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of Greater New Haven as their 2005 corporate honoree due to our involvement in the community.
2003 • 3
Ray Faltinsky is privileged to join some of the brightest Leaders in the Direct Sales industry by sitting on the Board of Directors for the Direct Selling Association (DSA). FreeLife is the youngest company to have a representative on this prestigious board.
2005 - 2007 • 2
In July 2006, TIME magazine named the Himalayan goji berry as the Number 1 breakout Superfruit of the year; referring to it as a source of energy and longevity!
2008 • 1
FreeLife launches GoChi®: The Next Generation of Himalayan Goji® Juice, which contains 30% more polysaccharides than the original great tasting product. GoChi® can support well-being, through a daily serving of just 120 ml. GoChi® is kosher and halal approved.
2008 • 2
Kevin Fournier is honored to join some of the brightest leaders in the Direct Selling industry by sitting on the Board of Directors for the Direct Selling Association (DSA). Kevin joins the ranks of CEO Ray Faltinsky, who sat on the board in 2003. FreeLife has been an active member of the Association since 1996.
The revolutionary TAIslim™ is unveiled at the May Pacific Area Conference generating a wave of astounding results.