NEW dōTERRA DIAMOND
Danyel Waters
MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AUS
Never Waver
“Don’t concern yourself with what others think. Trust your gut and be ready to make mistakes.
You’ll have plenty more opportunities to get it right.”—Danyel Waters
W
hen Danyel began her making mistakes in the beginning. from the family. But not once did I
dōTERRA ® business, her Everything from placements, shying consider quitting. My husband really
husband was worried that she was away from difficult conversations, stepped up and filled in the gaps. I’m
biting off more than she could wanting success for someone more chew. Danyel was running another than they wanted it themselves— so grateful because my husband and
business and studying full time honestly, there have been so many. along with four kids at home. “In But without them, I wouldn’t be the those early stages,” Danyel leader I am today. If I could rewind remembers, “putting in so many two years, I’d say, ‘Don’t concern hours teaching and traveling without yourself with what others think. a huge return financially created Trust your gut and be ready to make some tension and conflict in our mistakes. You’ll have plenty more relationship. But while it took time opportunities to get it right.’”
for him to build his belief in the
business, his belief in me never
wavered.” Her self-belief didn’t
falter, either.
It was a struggle for Danyel to switch
off from work when she was home
with her family. “Trying to fit in
studying, working, and family time
I really became a team then. Those
traditional roles that we had prior to
this business were re-created. Our
relationship thrived! I knew then,
as I know now, that the energy and
sacrifice I poured into my business
at the beginning would come back
to us twofold.”
To new builders, Danyel recommends,
“Don’t shy away from talking about the
business opportunity. In the beginning,
I allowed others’ perceptions of the
industry to dictate how I shared the
But a firm self-confidence doesn’t usually meant very early mornings, mean bypassing mistakes—it just late nights, and a messy house. I business. I kick myself now, because
means accepting them as part of life spent a good deal of energy feeling my new wave of leaders coming
and learning from them. That’s what guilty for missing kids’ sporting games, through have no such reservations,
Danyel has done. “I spent a lot of time social functions, and time away and their businesses are thriving!”
C R E AT I N G R E S I L I E N C Y I N OT H E R S
“I used to be a fixer, feeling the need to attempt saving the day with the solution to a builder’s
struggle,” Danyel confesses. “Now I’ve found it much more effective to allow them to find the
answer to their perceived struggle themselves. I say ‘perceived’ because more often than not,
the struggle is actually just a story they’ve told themselves. In much the same way as we
empower our customers to take ownership of their healthcare, asking builders to look within
and be resourceful rather than relying on someone else to solve the problem reveals the resilient
leaders.” Consider how you can help your leaders rethink the stories they’re telling themselves
so they can be empowered and resourceful.
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dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I JULY / AUGUST 2019
Images by Chris Clifford Photography