NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS
Dr. Mara Sussman & Dwayne Grim
HEART
AND
SOUL
W
“I have to keep educating and
empowering people to be who
they were put here to be.
When we all are fulfilling our
missions, we are happy.”
freedom in my own.” She started
teaching classes and being more
strategic and passionate about growing
a dōTERRA business.
Juggling her chiropractic business, her
fiancé, her two kids, and her dōTERRA
business made it hard for Mara to not
feel overwhelmed sometimes. Then Zia
told her to “practice getting comfortable
in the uncomfortable.” That advice has
stuck with her ever since. She says,
“When we hit those spots, we need
to find a way through because that’s
where our growth happens. It was
hile attending a chiropractic
uncomfortable for me to have 10 things
seminar, Dr. Mara Sussman was
on my calendar, but I had to learn to
introduced to dōTERRA by her colleague,
feel comfortable in that space. I tried
Dr. Zia Nix. Mara bought a kit on the spot
to compensate for it in a way that
because she says, “We have a special
deepened my own resilience.”
relationship, so I knew that whatever
she was recommending would be great.”
Mara had used essential oils in the past,
but could tell right away that these were
Now, Mara has the freedom to be
New Hampshire to be with her fiancé,
Dwayne Grim, whom she met two
She started using them in her
She says, “He has been supportive since
chiropractic practice and her patients
day one. He’s been by my side helping
started signing up to get oils of their own.
me, 100 percent willingly involved.” She
Mara said to Zia, “I bet if I put a little more
is grateful for both his support and
time and effort into this I could actually
her newfound freedom. “dōTERRA has
get somewhere.” That’s when she found
allowed freedom to not just be a dream
out that Zia was going to be closing her
but a reality. I’m free to bring these oils
practice because of the income she was
to more and more people. It’s not just
making with dōTERRA.
freedom in terms of my health and
weeks after she enrolled with dōTERRA.
finances, but in my heart and soul.”
with the mission she already had to
educate, empower, and inspire people
to get the health they need for their
family. She says, “I realized I could make
a difference in more people’s lives with
dōTERRA and I could also have more
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dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016
AVOID
PRESSURE.
“I haven’t done this in a pushy fashion. I’ve been in more of a state of
allowing it to happen. I did not put any pressure on myself. I chose
not to create more stress. Pressuring myself felt uncomfortable and
stopped my flow, so I chose not to do it that way.”
able to move from Connecticut to
different.
Mara saw that dōTERRA fit in perfectly
HOW TO GROW A BUSINESS WITHOUT
GETTING OVERWHELMED
“The more people who know
about dōTERRA and share it
with their friends and family, the
healthier our internal and external
environments become.”
GO AT
YOUR
OWN
PACE.
“I knew I could get to Diamond but I was not on a time frame.
I taught a class a week and I kept supporting my team and going
to corporate events. By doing that, I kept moving closer and
closer and that’s what worked for me.”
“I work with people to help them get to the core of who they are.
BE
I think when we work from a place where what we’re doing feels
YOURSELF. congruent with ourselves, we feel good about it and can expand
who we are.”
HAVE
FUN.
“Some of my downline already had other businesses or passions
they were involved with, and they would stop doing that in order
to focus on dōTERRA because it felt like they couldn’t do both
things. Then it would start to feel like work and they didn’t want
to do it anymore.”
“When they would marry dōTERRA together with what they
BRING
were passionate about, then their dōTERRA business would thrive.
IN YOUR For example, if they taught yoga, they could bring the oils into
PASSIONS. their classes. You can bring them all together.”
*Results not typical. Average earnings are less. See dōTERRA 2014 Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterratools.com.
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