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doTERRA's Dream Convention touched my heart deeply.
So much so, that I cried the better part of 3 days. In fact, I was so blown away, that I haven't even been able to process it all enough to share it with you guys. I am never speechless! Haha, this should tell you how amazing it was! ;) Check out this 2 min intro:
Dale and I took off for Salt Lake on our first week in the new RV, it sure was quiet without the kids along. I kept looking back to see if they were ok! Oopsie.
Other than a massive bug attack on the windshield, it was a quiet 2 day trip over to Utah.
We stopped for some gourmet burgers, hand cut fries and fresh blackberry custard milkshakes at our favorite stop along the way.....
Goodtimes :)
Back on the road again for the evening and a whole nother day...this is no quick trip!
We settled in and checked in on our team as they arrived. 97 from Team Dorothy this year! SO fun! That also meant we didn't get to see all of them....growing pains.
The first night we had a steak dinner with some of our uplines at Ruth's Chris Steak house, it was fabulous as always! The next am, we registered and got our cute doTERRA backpacks for the week, met the team for lunch and hung out at a come and go welcome reception...... Have you all ever heard of Dot's pretzels? Everyone was talking about them, so we grabbed a bag. HOLY AMAZING! Tasted like the baked ones people make at Christmas to munch on.
The next night was the formal Gala, and a time to celebrate new Diamond leaders. We didn't walk blue, YET, that is planned for next year, but we got to cheer my momma and team leader, Amy, down the purple carpet as DIAMONDS! SO special to see them have walked into the next level of leadership and hit those difficult ranks.
Day 1 started bright and early with a long line into the arena. We found a little extra LOVE while we waited in line! See the water heart?
AND see those fun red shoes? 
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We found our seats in the Diamond section and enjoyed our Diamond perks! Snack boxes, gifts and up close seating.
And now the learning begins..... Science, farmers, humanitarian efforts, ministry updates as we fund rescues of sex trafficked kids with O.U.R., education and support with Days for Girls and many many others. New products! Ground breaking research, it was AWESOME! 
Here are some of doTERRA's many farmers from all over the globe. We pay fair wages, on time, no middle men to gouge prices. We drop wells, build schools, staff and fund emergency care clinics and more. That is why over 90% of our farmers will only work exclusively with us, moving towards 100%! They are so blessed by doTERRA. <3
The product showcase is this HUGE series of connected ballrooms you can walk through and learn all about every aspect of doTERRA and try on and smell all kinds of different products. They even had pergolas full of green mandarian, and real roses and they shared about the oils form. 
Smelled SO good! Great place to go on lunch break.....
I LOVE the day we get to cheer for all the new Silver, Golds and Platinums! Such a huge accomplishment. Loved seeing our Dorothy family cross that big stage! :)
Hanging out during an evenings...... One night was a big street party, another just one to connect as a team, and one evening, all the teams close by came to hang at our RV.
The next day was another packed schedule as was day 3. Highlights included hearing from 1996 Rawanda Genocide Survivor Immaculee Ilibigiza, and how doTERRA has gone over to help build schools with dorms for impoverished children in her community.
We also heard from Tim Hightower and his wife! Lots of pro-athletes use doTERRA to stay fit and performing at their best!
All month doTERRA had been talking to us about this secret guest speaker, per contract, they were unable to mention this name until the moment they stepped on stage.
WELL, let's just say we had a lot of guesses and some of us were right, but when this quote came on the big screen, the CROWD. WENT. WILD. I have never heard such a defeaning roar! 
HUGH JACKMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He sang several songs and then did a full interview on stage. It was so phenomenal!! He has a real passion for helping others and does so through his laughing man coffee. He and his wife also use doTERRA and requested partial payment in oils! :)
As if we hadn't cried enough during the story of faith and forgiveness Immaculee shared, or the gold leader with Lou Gherigs they wheeled across the stage and honored.......they brought out a performer who wrote and sang a song to be the theme song of doTERRA's healing hand foundation, our doTERRA ministry.
Remember, doTERRA is a 2 billion dollar, DEBT FREE, company with a HUGE servants heart. They give abundantly to the hurting all over the globe and it is a BEAUTIFUL THING to be a part of! If you only watch ONE video, let it be this one. We saw it in person on stage, and when that kids choir poured up onto stage in white with candles, we all got chills! This video makes me cry all over again, it's the music video version of what we saw live:
I left this years convention, more excited and empowered to dream and dream BIG with doTERRA, and all the things we can accomplish when we work together......the best is yet to come!
"There are people God out there waiting to be impacted by the dreams God put in your heart."
I am so excited to see all He has in store for us with doTERRA! Maybe He is calling us to help YOU, with natural health and healthy finances too. Head on over to the other tabs on this website to read more, we love to help people and are always praying for new builders to work with. Well, just like that, it's time to head home. We are exhausted but invigorated. 
Can't wait for next year!
Hugs, T 
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A lot of our time at convention is spent in session, learning about doTERRA and the science behind our oils. The people who make up our huge, world wide, oil sourcing efforts. I told you all about that last time, go catch up, one post back. I did as best as words could describe. I still don't know how to quite share everything I took away from that amazing convention. Did you know we even got to hear about the power of forgiveness from Genocide survivor, Immaculee Ilibagize? Have you read her book "Left to Tell"? She lived in a tiny tiny bathroom for 90 days with 8 women while everyone around them was murdered. WOAH. I couldn't put it down. It was a beautiful message of hope, peace, love and forgiveness, one that moved us all in powerful ways. You could feel the Holy Spirit so strongly in that room during her talk. Learn more about her here: http://www.immaculee.com/about/story.php  So that was what we did each day from 9 to 4. Learned. Took notes, learned from the best and cheered our hearts out as we learned more and more about this amazing company. But in the evenings? It's time to CONNECT with friends and team members and let lose and have some fun! Ever since I started looking at doTERRA as a business a year and a half ago, I had a goal: I watched a video of someone walking the Diamond Stage, and it surprised me how much it grabbed my heart. It made my heart pound and tears came to my eyes. I would walk that Diamond stage, one day, I WOULD. And so, we did. 2 years later, by the grace of God, we did. And it was everything I imagined it would be!  The evening started with a lovely oil infused, meal. There were 8,000 people in attendance, so that part took a while! I was able to eat and enjoy my meal, but boy were the butterflies starting to stir, the closer we got to walking time......
I am so so sad that I cannot figure out how to save videos from facebook so I can keep these on my computer, but our sweet team video'd our Diamond walk for us! You can view some of them here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greta.d.smith/videos/10210341442197761/ And this one, I had emailed to me, so its on you tube: Oh my goodness, it all happened so fast! We got to pick out a special song to have played as we walked. We wanted to give a HUGE shout out to our doTERRA Dorothys, so we made a sign to hold and had a fun "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" remix song made to walk to. Have a listen: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4KJglYxbxFkdHBGX1AtdDBBWms/view?usp=sharing 
   These beautiful people, these leaders, are why we can be where we are today...... I am so beyond grateful to be able to run this race with them and watch them soar! And the best is yet to come! It was SUCH an amazing night! Great food, great friends, great team..... Check out the slide show of our evening together: This is only our second convention and gala, but last year we started the Red Dorothy Shoes tradition, and took a photo to capture it. Well, last year there were only a few of us at Gala, or convention even. This year we had a real challenge on our hands to get the red shoe shot with such a BIG group of red shoe wearing ladies!!!!!! There was lots of laughter, but we got it done eventually, just not quite as we had planned. Last year:
This year:   And just like that, the evening was done. I still carry a piece of it in my heart.....and a WHOLE LOT of confetti in my gown. ;) So many of my dreams and goals came true this convention week! I got to see my teams eyes light up with understanding and hearts burn with passion for this amazing company. I got to take the arm of my best friend and walk the purple Diamond carpet! We were interview for a featured in the doTERRA leadership magazine this month, too. Yet another dream come true! I keep pinching myself, but the Lord keeps nudging me that this is real, and this is the blessing part that always follows our obedience. We are having to build new storehouses in our hearts, to hold all of our blessings from Him. I am so humbled and so so thankful! "When the Lord Moves" is found here, just click on this link for the online version: https://www.joomag.com/magazine/magazines-doterra-issue-22-gary-kari-sammons/0380357001471552302?short  Back to fun nights: Thursday and Friday nights we had first an outdoor concert with Colbie Caillat, and a Black & White Team Party! You probably remember the music video by Colbie Caillat that took Facebook by storm earlier in the year. This one, where they wash their makeup off as they sing. Oh my goodness! SO powerful! We wore our Dorothy team shirts that night and took pics with those there....great night!
Friday night was our upline, Spring and her entire teams party. It was Black and White themed and each team leg needed to POP a color. The Dorothy's of COURSE, did red. It was SUCH a great venue and fun night, complete with photo booth! :) All the photos, including the hysterical photo booth ones, are in this slideshow: We took a MASSIVE photo with all of our up up upline, Spring's and all her team members that attended. before calling it a night... When you were a wedding photographer in your past life, you help get 300 people in order. Haha! "Find a WINDOW people, if you can't see me, the camera cannot see you."   Someday we are going to have a HUGE bunch of Dorothys like this at convention! It's only up from here! We are thankful for the 49 that committed to come learn with us!!! We tore down semi early and called it a night since we all had to get up early to get to the Convention center and line up for seats. Gala, concert night, B&W party night, were all amazing! So incredible! But my favorite would have to be the last night of convention...... We ordered in pizza and met with just our team in a hotel suite and connected. We did Q&A time, shared our blessing and inspiration/take away from Convention. And then we joined hands and prayed over this amazing group of people. There was laughter and tears and many hugs...... Our hearts were unified in our desire to share oils with a hurting world and join our efforts as a team to go BIG with doTERRA! To change the world, one drop of oil at a time! An oil in EVERY home!
 We love to love on these people and invest in them!
We are always looking for motivated couples and individuals to work with. We'd love to help you with a happy home and happy finances too! Read more on the EO101 and Financial Opportunity part of this site, I've shared my heart in every section of this website and would love for you to go read more. Thanks for letting me share about our time at the doTERRA ONE Convention 2016! Hugs, T  The 49 people from our team that went to convention.... They are CHANGED. So are the 30,000 others that joined us for Utah's largest convention to date! They are not the same people as they left. They THOUGHT doTERRA was already in their hearts, but this experience left them speechless. I watched it happen. I watched it come alive for them. I watched a mission burn deep into their very SOULS, I watched passion ignite, and I watched tears fall. They changed. They changed in real and powerful ways. This company, this amazing, generous, God honoring company, does so so much for so so many people, and organizations, and charities, that it's mind boggling. They are literally changing the world, one drop of oil at a time, they are! It's not just a cute catch phrase, it's their truth. One they live out loud every day. We saw poverty stricken families working with PRIDE in a doTERRA distillery, 11 children with hungry eyes watching in awe at this company that was about to change their home forever in so many positive ways. We watched videos of how doTERRA's Healing Hands dollars are being used to release children from horrific bondage, help families start jobs with micro loans, or just be able to go to school during "that time of the month", their village being educated on the pride of becoming a woman, rather then treating her like she is unclean. Also working tirelessly to stop outdated, early age, marriage situations and teaching these girls they are valued. Stop for ONE second and think about how those people must feel about our company. OUR company...yes, the one we represent with pride. How grateful they are, for this big American company who truly cares, something they have yet to experience. How often in life do we get to live our PASSION out loud every day, and get paid to do so? How often does our joy flow from our heart and out of our mouths, and turn into something we do as our living? It's a rare gift. One I do not take for granted. One that's yours for the taking as well. We were not born to just work and die. We were born to LIVE; out loud, intentionally, ABUNDANTLY. We were born to give generously, love graciously and bless others. DoTERRA absolutely is the vehicle to get you to the life you have only dreamed of! Every day lives are being changed in health and finances, because we shar our oils. Because we saw a need and met it. It's REAL. And it's about to get BIGGER then we could ever have imagined....  DoTERRA is the #1 Oil company in the world for a reason. We are the largest science and research based oil company out there, and what we are doing with pure, natural, essential oils from the SOURCE, has yet to be done.  I loved hearing from this panel of doctors and surgeons sharing their experiences with dōTERRA essential oils on stage. They said that it should be the responsibility of all medical professionals to learn so that they can offer natural solutions for their patients. The quality and consistency of dōTERRA essential oils are the only oils that medical professionals trust, which is why they are here with us. BIG things are coming and oils are going mainstream.....it's time to take back your health with natural solutions and the world is taking notice!  Meet the 39 scientist behind our amazing in house on going research as well! Everyday they study and test our oils to make sure you are getting the best from the biggest science and research based oil company in the world. Be proud. Be doTERRA proud. ❤🌱💧 After that we got to hear from researcher, Dr. Nicole Perish. ESSENTIAL OILS ARE GOING MAINSTREAM!!!!!!   Not only did we hear about the science and the doctors behind doTERRA, but like I mentioned above, we also got to hear about doTERRA's HUGE heart and ministries they give to. Their #1 goal is to get families out of debt, and they are doing it every day. They also utilize Co Impact Sourcing to give back to the farmers and communities in which they live in the form of clean water, education, fair on time wages and even clinics. Please explore the tabs on this website for more info about this extraordinary company! We change the lives of empoverished communities all over the globe!  The doTERRA goal is to be "Free to Give" and empower you to do the same. That is a dream of my heart! Did you know we heard from just 3 of the over 35 causes doTERRA gives to and partners with regularly? These 3 ministries were given $750,000 total, by doTERRA just this year!! The wept on stage when they recieved their check. Please take time to explore these AMAZING ministries doTERRA has joined with that came and spoke at convention: *Days for Girls, empowering young women about their health and feminine hygiene in antiquated areas with outdated beliefs of this cycle, going so far as to have them sit outside on cardboard so they don't bring death to the village, or dry up the river with their touch. http://www.daysforgirls.org/  *Mentors International Microloans Blessing small business owners with small no or low interest loans, so they can start and grow a thriving business in their community. Using this money for things like flour by the pallet rather then the bag. Taking families from $2 a day to $20 a day income. https://doterra.com/US/en/brochures-magazines-living-winter-2013-2014-healing-hands   *Operation Underground Railroad Freeing children and rehabilitating them after slavery in the sex trade industry. https://ourrescue.org/about This incredible man {pictured below} is a former CIA agent that turned in his badge to help these children. He came and wept on our stage. He did an amazing facebook Live Post about it! Watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/OURrescue/videos/1812938422277248/  The movie is found here: http://theabolitionistsmovie.com/ And this is only the beginning, I am so thankful and proud! THIS is what life is about, giving generously and making a difference. Not hiding our head in the sand about the worlds woes.  My friend Kelly said it best: "Expensive cars, ginormous paychecks, glamorous incentives....... NOPE. I have been at doTERRA's convention for 3 days and there has been ZERO mention of any of these common network marketing topics. (You won't hear it. It's not who we are.) Instead, we've heard story after story of giving, generosity, and impactful stories of forgiveness and healing. At least half of this event has been about how we can and are changing the world. I am so grateful to be aligned with a company who has a huge heart and to be surrounded with 30,000 wellness advocates who pretty much share the mission of changing lives. DoTERRA Convention attendees just this week have donated over $300K to The Healing Hands Foundation, which goes to support many worthy ministries just like the ones mentioned above." We talk alot about the doTERRA difference. This is just a small small piece of a HUGE humanitiarian effort happening everyday from doTERRA. Listen up, this is SO much bigger then a bottle of essential oil.......always has been. Talk to me if you're curious. We are ready to partner with new friends who want to make a difference too. ❤️ "I am only one, But I am one. I cannot do everything, But I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I WILL." ~Edward Everett Hale Let's do BIG things together! Hugs, T  |
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