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NEW dōTERRA DIAMOND
Laura Parkinson
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CAN
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f you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go Diamond, she hit a wall and fell back in rank. She had gone
together.” For Laura, this truth sums up her journey to fast, but alone.
Diamond. When she started out, she went as fast as she
could, dragging her team along. “I knew there were people
in our organization who really didn’t want to be there,” she
says. “I held on to them as tightly as I could—fully knowing
that this was creating a stranglehold on my business—but
I didn’t want to go back and do it over.” Once she reached
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“I had little to no energy left for my business,” Laura
recounts. “I knew I didn’t want to quit, but I also knew that
I needed to shake it up in a massive way.” She looked back
at why she had first started her business and began
working with a coach.
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