Picking up the Pieces

As a yoga instructor, Adabelle Carson had used essential oils for years before her sister-in-law introduced her to doTERRA. Right away, she knew these oils were different and started sharing them with her family and her yoga students. She felt that yoga and essential oils naturally went together. She wanted to start teaching classes that combined the two, but she didn’t know how.

One day, her upline asked her if she would be willing to run a doTERRA booth at a large yoga conference, and Adabelle jumped at the chance. At the conference, her booth had a line that went out the door, and several people signed up for wholesale accounts. After that, she was invited to another conference where she got even more sign-ups. She went home and realized she had all these people signed up, and she didn’t know what to do with them. She says, “I called customer service at least 20 times that day and said, ‘Please explain what all this means.’ It was like a crash course. I was thrown into the business and I had to learn it quick.”

As her business grew, Adabelle saw more and more success. Her husband, Ben, was supportive because he saw how happy it made her. Then, he had a motocross accident that broke both of his ankles, brought him a lot of pain, and kept him from working. Adabelle says, “doTERRA was there to pick up the pieces. We had gotten to the point where we needed the money and I was able to bring that from doTERRA.”

Adabelle knows that she owes a lot of her success to the support of her upline, especially Natalie Goddard. Even early on, she felt like Natalie always made herself accessible to give any help and advice.