A Matter of Time

Even though her friend Ginna Cross invited her to five or six doTERRA classes, Heather Patenaude was never able to make it. Finally, she offered to host a class for them instead. She says, “I wanted to hear what all this fuss over oils was about.” After the class, Heather’s husband, John, asked Ginna how her business was doing. She said she was making about $600 a month and Heather’s first thought was, “I can do that.”

Heather has stayed at home since her marriage, and currently homeschools her three boys. She hadn’t been looking to build a business, but she and John were interested in some extra income, so Heather made the goal to reach Silver and started teaching classes. Before long, she was teaching 15 to 20 classes a month. She says, “There were many nights where, as John pulled into the driveway, I would wave and pull out to go teach a class—but he never complained. He picked up a lot of slack around the house while I worked hard at doTERRA.”

Before long, she knew she was going to be Diamond—it was just a matter of time. She says, “If you think the difference between you and a Diamond is anything other than time, then those mental blocks are going to prevent you from being all in with doTERRA. People get hung up on things like their area is saturated, they can’t get people to classes, or they don’t teach as well as someone else—that just slows them down.” She has seen that those who grow the quickest don’t let anything get in their way.

doTERRA has now created a community of oilers between Heather and her two direct uplines who are also Diamond or above. She says, “We’ve been able to join forces to help grow oil knowledge as well as oil businesses. When people get plugged in, they have all the support they need. People are drawn to it because they have a sense that they belong.”