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NEW dōTERRA DIAMONDS “There’s absolutely no other business that I could possibly think of where I could have all of my best friends and my closest family members join me in it, love it, and experience huge life changes along the way.” Brad & Tobi Giroux ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, USA the busy summer tourist season. This required the family moving all of their personal belongings out of their home so they could rent it out by the night. As their family grew, moving every summer became more and more of a trial. Tobi and Brad agreed that if she built her dōTERRA business enough to cover “THIS HAS their mortgage for the entire year, then CHANGED MY LIFE they would not rent out their home during the summer season. Tobi says, BECAUSE I’VE BEEN “That was my number one goal when I ABLE TO SEE HOW started—and we blew through it before WONDERFUL IT IS our goal deadline.” TO CHANGE OTHER She found out later that her upline, PEOPLE’S LIVES.” Farrah Collver, who had taught the first class she attended—the one she almost didn’t go to—had intended the class for her. She had known Tobi previously, and saw potential in her to be a strong business leader. When Tobi saw Farrah and several others in her upline reaching upper ranks, she knew she could do it too. She says, “I wanted to show my team REACHING FOR THE T Unattainable that you don’t shoot for the midway point, you shoot for the top. It seems unattainable when you start out small, but you need to reach for something that seems unattainable or else you’ll fall short of where you could be.” obi Giroux didn’t take essential oils decided to give them a real chance. it out for her. He came to trust the Tobi knows she can’t take the credit seriously at first, and went to her When she found that they worked, she company after many hours of research for where she is today. She says, “I just first class mostly because everyone else started to use them more and shared on the people behind the company, don’t see how this could have happened was going. She enrolled with a minimal them with her friends and family. the product, and the compensation because of me at all. I think God has led plan. Most of all, he appreciated that us so much in our business and opened they promoted the product over the so many doors. If it weren’t for that, we business opportunity. would not have come even half way on amount of items to show support to the host, and only halfheartedly tried them on her family. Then one day she was searching online for a natural solution to an issue with her son and was surprised when essential oils popped up as an option. For the first time, she 12 dōTERRA ESSENTIAL LEADERSHIP I JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 As she started sharing, Fast Start checks started appearing in the mail. Her husband, Brad, was worried about her time and money going toward a Brad owns several fishing lodges in gimmick, so she gave him the password Alaska and also used their private to her back office and told him to check residence as a vacation rental during