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.