Go the Distance

With two young kids, Jamie Boaglio was struggling to hold down a full-time job. Her husband at the time was in and out of the hospital with a chronic illness, and so she worked as a server at her mother’s restaurant to try and make ends meet. When a friend gave her a doTERRA essential oil to help her with her six-month-old baby, Jamie had no idea how much it would change her life.

“I’d used essential oils in the past, but had never seen them be effective,” Jamie says. “When I saw results from doTERRA, I had to ask myself why these were different.” As essential oils continued to help her family, people started asking her about them. She and her sister decided to hold an educational class for their friends, just so they could learn more about it. More than 45 people came, and though they didn’t have any intentions of starting a business, it happened naturally from there.

Jamie was motivated to be able to take care of her family on her own, but also for the potential she saw to be able to help people better themselves. She made the goal at first to hit Gold and the $1,500 Power of 3. She says, “I was being a mom, a wife, a caretaker, working as a server, and started doing this business as well.”

Less than two years into the business, Jamie got a divorce, and last year was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. She says, “It was a lot of pressure, battling this as a single mom of two kids.” But, she kept sharing doTERRA and teaching classes while going through chemotherapy. 

She had strong leaders, and was able to hit Diamond a few months after going into remission. “I remember my oncologist saying, ‘I can give you chemotherapy all day, but if you don’t have it in your mind to be an overcomer, then you won’t.’ I held onto that thought through everything. I knew if I gave up two years of my life for treatment, that I would get my entire life back.”