NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS
Paul & Teri Helms
LA QUINTA, CALIFORNIA, USA
Influence with Integrity
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“My favorite oil is
always the one that
serves the need,
because then you’re
effective and you’re
influencing.”
eri Helms had to borrow money from
her oldest son to pay for her first
Family Physician Kit, but it was through
dōTERRA essential oils that she was able
“Focusing on every team member’s strengths creates a team that experiences a
synergy of interdependence that allows everyone to ride the wave of each individual leader’s
strength. People don’t ever have to worry about their weaknesses again,
because it’s someone else’s strength.”
go to Starbucks every day. I try to listen
neglect looks like in order to reach
partnership. When she travels to their
to people and move them to a point
this goal.”
area, she asks them to lay the ground
of realization where they see that their
Teri also knows that the goals they have
ability to pay for the oils just involves
achieved in dōTERRA are nothing more
changing a priority. When we did that
than structural titles that determine how
ourselves, we were fine having an LRP
they’re paid. She says, “I’m not Paul
every month.”
iences with other companies, she was
experience, her family understood the
not interested in pursuing dōTERRA as
art of “planned neglect.” Planned neglect
a business. She says, “But, unfortunately,
is agreeing to neglect some things that
I took a friend with me to my first class
are convenient or are an established
and she wanted to sign up under me,
part of the family in order to achieve a
so I was immediately thrust into it.”
goal. Teri says, “Once we’re at the goal,
oil usage—which was a lot with five sons—
and she knew that in order to do that
she needed to come up with $100 LRP
family. If someone has to eat Cheerios
for dinner one night, they know that
we all agreed that this is what planned
needs above her own. She says, “It’s all
going to come together if you serve. It’s
always better to lead with a wash basin
and a towel than it is to attempt to wave
what my title is. I have the freedom of
Through her previous business
She was interested in paying for her own
she’s there. She emphasizes putting their
McCartney. The world does not care
to find wellness. After previous bad exper-
we’ll go back to the cultural norm of our
work so that she can be effective when
and wield a scepter. Service is the true
anonymity in Target. Paul McCartney
point and power of leadership.”
does not. We are all blessed to be a
part of a culture where within this tiny
microcosm of a fishbowl, people might
think we’ve arrived. But, until you’re Paul
McCartney, I don’t want you acting like it.”
Knowing she’s not Paul McCartney, Teri
works with her team members in an equal
Through dōTERRA, Teri feels that her life
has been reawakened. She says, “There
were routines and