Leadership Magazines Issue 17 Scott & Rhonda Ford | Page 10

NEW dōTERRA DIAMOND I N V E S T I N E D U C AT I O N Eve Colantoni COLLEGE COMPARISON “People go to college for four years and take 120 credit hours to get a degree to prepare them for an entry level job.” MELBOURNE, FLORIDA, USA Pleasure in Work A LEARN FOR SUCCESS “Somehow when people join dōTERRA they think they can become Diamond and make $100–200,000 a year without investing in their education.” fter a less-than-positive exper­ never had good results from essential From the very beginning, Eve could see able to do something like this, then ience with a previous network there was no way I’d be able to fail.” oils before, but she told her client to that dōTERRA was head and shoulders marketing company, Eve Colantoni wait until she had looked into dōTERRA. above the rest, not only in the quality swore she would never do network Eve called her friend and reluctantly marketing again. Because of this, she rejected dōTERRA the first time she was introduced to it, but then she continued to hear about it over and over again. She also noticed one of her friends consistently posting about it online. bought a Family Physician Kit. She says, “I was so skeptical at that point. My friend laughed and told me I would blow through my kit in a heartbeat. I told her I didn’t use oils like that and she said, ‘You don’t use oils like that of the essential oils, but with the amount of support and education she received on how to use them. Eve was not interested in the business until her friend told her about their upline, Brianne Hovey, who had gone to the same health coach school as Eve and had accomplished a lot with dōTERRA Eve is a health coach, and one of her because you’ve never had good oils.’ clients asked for her recommendation Sure enough, I went through my kit in Eve says, “My jaw hit the floor. I thought on an essential oil brand. Eve had two weeks and was begging for more.” that if someone from my school was in a relatively short amount of time. As soon as she got involved, Eve intended to take her business as far as she could. From the beginning, RIDE THE CURVE “There is a learning curve with this and that’s awesome. You will learn incredible things along the way, but it’s necessary to invest time in education. You can’t just wing it.” BECOME A STUDENT “If you want to be successful with this, you have to become a student. You can’t just train for two weeks—you really have to become a lifelong learner.” she took her focus away from health coaching and put it into dōTERRA. She says, “There was no question about it. I could trade dollars for hours or build a residual income business. I knew where I wanted to focus my attention.” She reached Silver in 60 days, but soon realized that kind of quick success is far from typical. She’s learned that she needs to be willing to give her team sup­ port and encouragement and help them overcome obstacles that she may never have had. She says, “I need to help them recognize where their stumbling blocks are and what they need to do to overcome them, and then actively be there with them until they do.” Today, Eve is happy to say that her work is her pleasure and her pleasure is her work. She says, “Life is a lot more fulfilling, rewarding, and exciting. I get to travel around, spend time with people I really love and care about, and bring them into this lifestyle too. It’s insanely amazing.” “I feel very connected to this cause. I want to see more essential oils users in the world.” 10 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2015 *Results not typical. Average earnings are less. See dōTERRA 2014 Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterratools.com. www.doterra.com 11