Leadership Magazines doTERRA Issue 23 | Page 8

NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS Ty Herr & Sarah-Jane Pepper MAPLE RIDGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA W Inner Guidance hen Sarah-Jane Pepper’s neighbor, Li Fryling, brought over little bottles of oil one day to help SarahJane’s daughter, she was surprised to see how well they worked. Sarah-Jane fell in love with dōTERRA oils after that, and Li encouraged her to look into the compensation plan as well. After growing up with a single mom, it was important to Sarah-Jane to do everything in her power to be able to stay at home with her children. To make this happen, her husband, Ty, worked 60 hours a week in a very physical job as a skilled tradesman. She says, “He was working his fingers to the bone. I didn’t see him very often, my kids didn’t see him very often, and I carried the load at home while he was away. I knew we were blessed, and I was grateful, but it wasn’t quite the picture I had in my head when I thought about being home.” She knew there had to be a better way. Sarah-Jane could see that a dōTERRA business could be exactly what she had been looking for, but she wasn’t sure it would really work. She says, “But I live intuitively, and I follow my inner guidance and my flow. I wasn’t getting a ‘no’ about dōTERRA, so I stayed with it. I was following my yeses and seeing where I went.” At some point, Sarah- Jane got a clear “yes” and she knew that dōTERRA was the right path for her. She told Ty about her plans and he got behind her right away. Sarah-Jane says, “He knows, loves, and respects me very much. When I got such a strong, powerful yes about the business, he just had to take one look in my eyes and he said, ‘OK, let’s do it. Whatever you need.’” Ever since then, he has been just as much a part of the business as her, if more behind the scenes. “I could not be where I am without him. To me, what he has brought to our business has been invaluable and imperative to our success.” “I want to see all of the people on my team reach their goals. I want them to feel the empowerment, magic, love, success, miracles, and blessings that I feel. They deserve it.” “I just follow where my heart takes me.” Ever since then, Sarah-Jane has continued to follow her heart and the business has come naturally. While it’s easy for her to follow her inner guidance, the hard part has been discerning between an answer that’s a “no” and one that’s “yes, but I’m scared.” She says, “It’s important to do things that are scary and get out of our comfort zone because that’s where the magic and the growth really happen. But, as we get better at doing that, sometimes we say yes to things because that’s what we think a leader should do when, in fact, it was a ‘no.’ We have to learn to tell the difference.” Now, she can barely remember her life before dōTERRA. She says, “It’s constantly pushing me to be everything I can and to play bigger than I ever thought I could.” Ty can now spend more time with them as a family, and their dreams are coming true. 8 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2016 THERE’S NO ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL 1 GATHER LOTS OF IDEAS. “Listen to all of the leaders’ different and often contradicting ideas, theories, practices, or styles of leadership. Take away from them parts that resonate with you to form decisions that are your own.” 2 OPEN UP TO DIFFERENT OPTIONS. “It’s easy when you’re 3 APPLY THEM TO EACH SITUATION. “Every situation is 4 HONOR EVERYONE’S PROCESS. “Trust in yourself. Walk your starting out to watch one instructional video and say, ‘OK, this is how we do it.’ Instead, give yourself time to gather different theories. You’ll learn that there’s no one shoe that fits all.” different. We build our businesses with people not Legos. Gaining ideas from a wide range of people can empower you to have a lot of different tools to use in all the different situations.” own path. Honor your process, and honor that in other people on your team. Give them permission to find their path, and respect how that looks even when it’s different from you.” *Results not typical. Average earnings are less. See dōTERRA Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterra.com. www.doterra.com 9