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new diamonds Jennifer had been friends with Teresa and Roger Harding for a long time. She knew that they were involved with essential oils, and she knew that it was a network marketing company. She also knew that she wanted nothing to do with it. Richard felt even more strongly about the business, and was clear that he was not interested. However, part of their disinterest was due to the foreign nature of essential oils. Essential oils were a new concept for Richard and Jennifer and it took a little coaxing to convince them that they weren’t just snake oils. Jennifer caved first and then tried to persuade Richard. She said, “I told him that we should at least enroll and see how we liked the oils.” Together, Richard and Jennifer discovered that dōTERRA was completely unique to the network marketing industry, and they fell in love! Jennifer said, “We slowly evolved into the builders that we are. We started out casually sharing the oils with others before deciding that we really wanted to make this happen.” Jennifer and Richard were committed to not simply accepting excuses, but to creating results. Jenni fW"6