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ND R R O dōTE Shawn & Laura King S NEW NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS A DIA M A Positive Difference L aura King was involved in another The difference with dōTERRA is that the After listening to the Presidential direct sales company when she product is unique. “It was so easy. Once Diamond panel on the leadership signed up for dōTERRA. She sold lotions you break down the walls that people cruise, her husband Shawn joined her and spa products and only intended have towards learning something new, in building the business. They decided to use the essential oils for her and the oils are easy for everybody to use to work together toward reaching her family. She didn’t think other and then see results. I feel like I actually Diamond. Just recently, Shawn was able people would be open to using the help people and I’m not just helping to quit his full-time job to support his oils. Then, when she went to parties to myself.” With dōTERRA, she’s meeting wife at home and with dōTERRA. sell her lotions, she would find herself people’s needs so she doesn’t have to automatically sharing dōTERRA. pressure them to buy. She says, “Soon enough, they did not want to hear about the lotion, all they wanted to hear about were the essential oils. Eventually we just switched over and that’s what all my classes became about.” 64 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I FALL 2013 “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean, but if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.” – Mother Theresa As she has built her dōTERRA business, Laura has learned to be patient with her team while consistently doing what she needed to grow. “I did not over-push them, but in that patience I still did the core activities that I needed. I kept recruiting and finding more builders and working with them. If I would’ve just sat