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“My job is nurturing, supporting, and working with my emerging leaders.” NEW dōTERRA DIAMOND Josie Schmidt Affect More Lives “When I look at people, I see their light, grace, and potential, even when they’re in the mud. I believe in them and their journey.” J and affect more people’s lives than I could in private clinical practice.” osie Schmidt watched as her good friend Aisha Harley struggled through a health issue. Slowly, she saw Aisha improve—and start to smell really good. That was when Aisha introduced Josie to dōTERRA essential oils. As a naturopath, Josie had been exposed to essential oils before but had never taken them seriously. When she first experienced dōTERRA oils, she could feel how strong they were. She says, “I felt like they were little bottles of light energy.” Josie has always coached people personally in her profession, and she also enjoys the mentoring and coaching she gets to do with her team in dōTERRA. Her strengths are the encouragement and inspiration she brings to her team. She says, “For me, this is about working with each of my leaders, supporting them where they are, and having patience with them. Different teams are going to have different paces, and I don’t push them. I know they’re doing well according to their timeline.” She started using the oils, and within two months they replaced everything else she had been using and gave her better results. She started teaching and sharing about them both in her professional and personal life, and soon found that she enjoyed being able to reach a wider audience than she had before. Josie says, “dōTERRA is an incredible vehicle for me to teach about natural health Being a health-care professional has both helped and hindered Josie’s business. People like hearing her perspective on the science facet of dōTERRA and she gives validity to the cause, but it also makes it hard for people to feel like they can duplicate what she does. She’s found it helpful to bring in dōTERRA builders who are stay-at-home moms to teach classes for her team, so they can know that you don’t have to be a naturopath to be successful in dōTERRA. Through dōTERRA, Josie’s whole lifestyle has changed. She has the freedom to visit her family on the East Coast three or four times a year and travel as much as she wants. She says, “It’s been incredible, that mobility and that monetary shift. I’m in a different expansion of abundance and that’s freeing and opening.” She knows it would have been impossible to achieve any of this without her team. “I don’t deserve much credit at all. A Diamond is just little carbon molecules that come together to make up the whole.” Qualifying Builders Talk about the business. “In the beginning, it’s hard for people to out the pink elephant in the room and talk about the business aspect, but you won’t get any sharers unless you do.” 18 Wait for sharers. Have an agreement. “Work wide on your frontline until you get someone who is stepping toward you as a sharer. Plant those seeds and watch them mature.” “Don’t build under people unless they have a concept of what the business is. Have a very clear agreement with them that they need to have a minimum qualification of a 100 LRP.” dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015 Be upfront with them. “Tell them if at any time they don’t want to do the business, there’s the possibility of an account transfer. I’ve gotten real with them from the beginning.” www.doterra.com 19