NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS
Eric & Durell Darr
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A Grander Scale
s a massage therapist, Durell Darr
more time at home with her son and to
love, and have time freedom to spend
used a different brand of essen
work full time in her dōTERRA business.
with my son.”
tial oils until she started developing
sensitivities to them. When a friend
later introduced her to dōTERRA, she
noticed that they were different and
didn’t give her any bad reactions. She
started using them on her clients and
they started asking for her to teach a
class—so she did.
Durell has held jobs since she was
Now Durell hopes to be able to give her
11, so she has always known how to
husband options to do what he loves
work hard, but she never learned how
in his life, and they’re both excited to
to play. She says, “In my mind I had
serve others more. She says, “Helping
the limiting belief that you can’t work
others makes our hearts joyful, and that’s
and play at the same time. When this
what we want to continue to do for the
started to become fun for me, I realized
rest of our lives. This just gives us more
that I could earn a living, still do what I
opportunities to do it on a grander scale.”
“It’s not always easy.
There are going to be
times when it’s hard
and you struggle. The
struggle is what makes
you appreciate what
you’ve been through and
what it takes to reach
those milestones.”
she knew it, Durell had a growing team.
She hadn’t wanted to start a business.
Follow your heart. “Listen
to your heart, follow your
dreams, and don’t let
anything derail you, even
the criticism of other
people. Trust your heart.”
She had three jobs and after 15 years
of marriage had been blessed with an
unexpected pregnancy. But, toward
the end of her pregnancy she started
experiencing carpal tunnel pain that
did not go away after she gave birth.
Get off the wheel. “Our
society is conditioned to
work. We’re caught up in
the rat race and we don’t
know how to get off the
wheel and stop spinning.”
She says, “I had a hard time even
holding my baby because my hands
felt like they were broken. I was scared
that I would never massage again.”
As months went by and the pain
Redirect your path. “If
we stop spinning long
enough to realize we’re
not even on the path that
makes us joyful, step off
the wheel, take a deep
breath, and redirect—we
would find that our life
has more joy.”
persisted, her husband, Eric, sugges
ted she go back to teaching dōTERRA
classes to make up for her lost
massage income. She had taken a
break from dōTERRA because of her
son, so she decided to go back to
that, and pretty soon her business
exploded. Durell says, “The flood gates
opened and I went from just barely
Gold to Diamond within a year.” She
was eventually able to return to doing
massage, and says it’s something she
will never stop doing. But, she has cut
back her hours significantly to spend
dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016
Believe it’s possible.
“I think it’s so easy
to not believe that
this is possible or
obtainable because it’s
not something that is
mainstream. But, when
you’re called to do
something, you don’t ask
questions—you do it.”
Ignore the doubters.
“I was pre-med, I was
top of my class, I had
managed companies and
run my own business—my
family thought I was nuts
for going into massage
and later dōTERRA.”
One class led to another and before
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The
Unexpected
Path to
Freedom
*Results not typical. Average earnings are less. See dōTERRA 2014 Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterratools.com.
“I want to see this
happen for every
person who is
putting an effort
into making this
happen for their
families.”
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