Leadership Magazines Leadership Magazine Issue 11 | Page 16

NEW CEDAR PARK, TExAS, uSA S ND R R Scott & Shyanne Hathaway A DIA M Trading Dreams for “If you struggle, and then you try to help other people, then they’ll just struggle. Help yourself, then you’ll start being able to help other people.” –Shyanne PLANS S FOR THOSE JUST STARTING OUT O dōTE NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS Never give up. Have a strategy. “When we first started, we didn’t know anything and our upline didn’t know anything. We honestly just kept going; if you want to be successful, you’ve got to keep going.” “You can make your business work where you’re at, but if you want to make it work faster, then be smart about understanding demographics. Think strategically about people who are in certain areas that you have connections with and then connect with them.” cott and Shyanne Hathaway began making two grand at dōTERRA at one life, they decided if they wanted their we have plans.” These plans include looking into essential oils and point when my brother told me to go business to grow they would need to homeschooling their kids and taking dōTERRA when a friend told them to get a job at Wal-Mart. That was hard, move to an area where it could truly them to historical sites that they teach try Frankincense. Shyanne says their we even considered it.” flourish. Shyanne says, “We looked into them about. They also want to travel places that we felt would be good. That’s the world and become self-sustaining. how it’s been for us, we weren’t hitting Scott illustrates, “We want to have green- our goals, and we knew we needed to houses. We want to have clean, fresh food do something different.” and water. To help bring that to life, we’re response was something along the lines of “Okay, where’s your wise man? We’ll talk to him.” However, having experienced the effectiveness of dōTERRA essential oils for themselves, they knew they had something that worked. Shyanne simply went about sharing them for a couple years so they could afford the oils they Despite these challenges, the Hathaways kept working. Scott says, “We still made it from Premier to Gold in a 20-person town.” Eventually they realized that they needed to travel— When asked how dōTERRA changed a lot. Even though they had planned their life, Shyanne is quick to say, on being in their small community for “We don’t have dreams anymore, working toward buying land and acquiring the necessary water shares to be able to share that with our community.” needed. Shyanne says, “I wouldn’t say I didn’t have the passion and drive to create a business I just didn’t have the business sense. I was going around sharing with “Deciding is not doing. If you decide you want to be Diamond, you have to do things every day.” –Scott people, but I didn’t know how to tell other people how to do what I was doing.” When Scott was laid off from his job, all excuses were taken away, and they decided Ѽ)