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NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS DIAMOND CLUB SURVIVAL TIPS Ben & Megan Warden More Than Enough “It’s pretty amazing what this has opened up for us. It’s changed our lives completely.” –Ben M egan Warden knew Janae Arancibia from working with her in a different direct sales company. One day while at Janae’s house, Megan noticed that it smelled different. Janae started to tell her all about dōTERRA essential oils, and sent Megan home with some samples. Megan says, “I wanted to call her back and say, Fit it in the cracks. Include the family. Find ways to take breaks. Do it for your team. “I’ll go through the calendar and put all my kids’ school and work schedules on there first. Then, I look for the cracks where I can fit dōTERRA in. Sometimes, I take my kids with me to classes or on one-on-one trips, and sometimes I go with Ben.” “I post my calendar in a big, visible area so my family always knows where I’m going to be. They write down my enrollments for the month to make sure I’m getting them all, and they cross off every day so they know when it’s close to being done.” "During Diamond Club, every time there was a local class on a Tuesday, Ben taught the class and gave me a night to be home with the family. This also helps me teach Ben, just like any of my other leaders, how to do what I do in the business.” “We did Diamond Club two times, and honestly I didn’t want to do it the second time. The reason I did it again was to support my team. I wanted them to get what I’ve gotten, and in turn I understand that that helps my family. That pushed me to get out there.” financially as Megan put everything she business. They both decided to make their friends couldn’t eat with us made back into building her business. the goal of reaching Diamond. But, they because we barely had enough food When she finally hit her $1,500 Power agree that it’s better not to focus so much for our own kids. Now, our fridge is of 3, Ben got a full-time job as a on rank. Ben says, “Focus on your organi- teacher—and she was already making zation and helping them get paychecks. full for them to have as much as they as much as he was. Ben says, “It was That will help fuel your business—that tough, but if you stay consistent and is where the long-term money is. keep doing the formula, then you’re The ranks will come regardless.” going to be successful. We knew that, so we just stayed with it.” Since hitting Diamond, Megan loves want.” They feel relief as parents to know they no longer have to worry about money. Ben says, “When you’re going through the hard times you think, ‘Why is this happening? Why can’t we that, instead of counting every penny, get a break?’ But now, we look back at When Ben attended Leadership Retreat she can go to the grocery store and those hard times and it helps us to be with Megan, his eyes were opened buy whatever she wants. She says, more grateful and more generous with to what they could really do with the “Before we had to tell our kids that what we have now.” ‘Ha-ha, these don’t work,’ but they did.” Megan and her husband, Ben, were struggling a lot financially at the time. They had six kids and Ben was only working part-time. Because of that, Megan was really interested in the “What we can do in people’s lives through dōTERRA is so gratifying. It’s not about the money as much anymore. Instead, we do it to help people financially and physically in their lives.” –Ben business aspect of dōTERRA from the beginning. Ben says, “I was painting curbs, doing whatever I could to make a little bit of money here and there, and then Megan came to me and said, ‘Hey, there’s this company called dōTERRA.’” Though he was initially shocked at the cost of the Natural Solutions Kit she bought, Ben was supportive of Megan working hard to support their family. “We have six kids, but we use that as our motivation, not our excuse.” –Megan “We didn’t start out making money,” Megan says. They continued to struggle 52 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2015 www.doterra.com 53