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Bozeman, Montana, USA
A Creative Focus
“I love to travel and teach about essential
oils and yoga together. With the two
combined, people just get it on a deeper
level. The movement of yoga helps give
the oils a more synergistic effect.”
W
hen Susan Walby let her friend
hold a dōTERRA essential oils class
in her yoga studio, she was the only person
to show up when she came to unlock the
door. All it took was opening a bottle and
Susan told her friend she didn’t need to
hear any more. She says, “I grew up with
essential oils, and it had been something
I had been looking to incorporate back
into my yoga studio. Right away, I just
wanted to know how to sign up and get it.”
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dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I FALL 2014
Susan is an artist and owns a yoga
studio, so she kept telling her upline
she didn’t have time to get involved in a
dōTERRA business. She sees now that
she was already doing the business
as she shared essential oils with her
students, friends, and family. It was
while attending her second convention
that she really felt inspired to become
a leader for her team. She says, “I saw
leaders that viewed their team as a
family and really cared about helping
them achieve their goals. The focus was
not on themselves, but on changing
people’s lives by empowering them.
That’s what spoke to me. I wanted to do
the business to become an inspirational
leader for my team.” She saw that
dōTERRA as a company aligned with
what she was already doing in her life as
a yoga instructor.
Her upline inspired her to do Diamond
Club, and it was then that she started
getting excited about becoming
Diamond. She says, “The process of
going through Diamond Club helped
me understand how to help my team
to grow. It was exciting to work toward
Diamond with them not because of
what I needed from them, but because
of what I could do for them.” She feels
that she built her business slowly,
taking just under four years to reach
Diamond, because for her it was
more about the journey and the