NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS
Benjamin & Jade Balden
FINLEY , NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA
A Noble Purpose
While Jade Balden was visiting family in Utah , her mother-inlaw shared dōTERRA essential oils with her . Jade was sold on the products after only 15 minutes . She went back home and started researching everything she could about them . For two months , she just used the oils with her family , then she called up her cousin Debbie Gordon to ask how she could buy more . Jade enrolled and received business materials in the mail . She says , “ Even though I didn ’ t quite understand the business , I was curious to see how I would do . Up until then , I had never seen an essential oil class .”
Jade felt inspired to start sharing with friends and family and helped some of them enroll . Then Debbie called and asked her how she had been doing the business . This surprised and scared Jade , who hadn ’ t realized she had been doing the business , and she took a step back from it to reevaluate . A month later , she realized she had felt much more empowered and happy with her life when she had been sharing dōTERRA . She felt an impression that the business was something she needed to do .
Trained as an elementary school teacher , Jade felt that she wasn ’ t prepared to be a businesswoman . Still , she was confident she would be able to learn . Many of her family members , including her parents , were first generation Vietnamese immigrants to Australia who owned their own businesses . They had risked their lives to escape a communist regime to find freedom , and being their own bosses represented a part of that freedom . With this background , she knew she could be successful at dōTERRA .
Her husband , Benjamin , was a fulltime law student when she started . After finishing his degree , he worried about finding a job that would cover both their living expenses and his student loans . Jade told him that she felt confident their dōTERRA business would cover it , and sure enough it did . Three months after Jade reached Diamond , Benjamin was able to quit his job as a lawyer and join her in the business . She says , “ Even though we ’ ve only just started working together , we are very excited and productive .”
Now , they both have more time for each other and their children . Jade says , “ I love the fact that I can decide when , where , and how we work . I feel more peace and joy . I ’ ve really learned what it means to find yourself when you lose yourself in the service of others .”
8 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I JULY // AUGUST 2016 * Results not typical . Average earnings are less . See dōTERRA 2014 Opportunity and Earnings Disclosure Summary on doterratools . com .