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NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS Your Greatest Self “Success in dōTERRA comes from dedication and the motivation to demand something greater from your life. Recognize that your self-worth and your dreams matter now.” –Marissa Dr. Marissa Heisel & Dr. Peter Kravchenko D r. Marissa Heisel and Dr. Peter classes four days a week. By doing that, products. He’s since taught classes with Kravchenko are both chiropractors, she achieved her goal. her and taken care of the needs at home and it was at a chiropractic seminar that their colleague Dr. Zia Inman introduced them to dōTERRA. Marissa had been exposed to essential oils from another company 16 years before and had felt repelled by them, but with dōTERRA she had the exact opposite response. She wanted to know more. Marissa ended up buying a kit and began using the essential oils on her family and in her practice. She says, “Within a month, they were what I reached for first.” Ten days before convention, a ticket became available and Marissa bought it and flew out to attend. She had hit Marissa has long had the dream of being able to run a business from anywhere in the world, sitting on a beach with a laptop and her kids. Being self-employed, she’s so Marissa could do what she needed to for the business. He says, “I knew that this was going to be something big, so I got behind her 100 percent.” never been able to take much time off, Having gotten involved in midwifery but with dōTERRA she saw the oppor- in the last five years, Marissa feels tunity to fulfill her dream. She says, passionate about empowering women “By the time we hit our goal, I knew this with their healthcare choices, their was something I was going to do.” Since then, she has taught three to five times a week, traveled a lot, and still worked in her practice. Things were hectic for a while, but now that effort has brought her to Diamond and allowed her to only leadership opportunities, and their emotional and financial health. She says, “For me this is about empowering women to step into their sense of purpose, their greatest self.” She and Peter are excited to have more freedom work in her practice for half a day a week. to spend time with their family, and to patients, but really knew nothing about Peter had bad experiences with network “The only way I can do that is to lead the business. By the end of convention, marketing companies prior to dōTERRA. by example and show people the she decided she was going to hit Gold by Though he was supportive of Marissa opportunity that they might never have the end of the month. She called Peter doing the business, he was reluctant considered before, and show them that and told him she was going to decrease to get involved himself until he started they have the capability and capacity to her hours at the office and start teaching seeing phenomenal results with the do the same thing for themselves.” Premier by this time by showing oils to help other people achieve it as well. Important Aspects for Reaching Diamond 32 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015 Systems Personal Growth Corporate Events “We really flew by the seat of our pants in the beginning and it was very trial and error for a while. So, I would recommend getting a sense of systemization and organization. Follow someone’s system and really implement that with your team so that there’s really good duplication.” “The personal growth component has been the most essential. Especially when trying to hit higher ranks, it’s all been about where my mindset is. I’ve had to look at what I need to do in order to lead my team enthusiastically, genuinely, and with as much love and compassion as I can.” “For people to really get the full scope of dōTERRA as a company in terms of their ethics, mindset, and belief system, it’s so important to get to corporate events. For anyone to go Diamond, I think there has to be a real focus on not just getting yourself to those events, but getting your team there as well.” www.doterra.com 33