In this episode, Sara chats with Jen Alonso about her journey from the hospitality industry to early learning to essential oils. Jen shares how her oils business gave her a way to contribute to her family and have her own identity outside that of stay-at-home mom; she gives the inside scoop on what it's actually like to do direct sales; and she talks about how she stepped up as primary breadwinner and her husband jumped in to take on the bulk of the household and childcare duties when his chef position was eliminated due to the coronavirus pandemic. Today, Jen owns a business called Lavender Branches, where she offers group classes and individual support for making healthy lifestyle changes through the use of doTERRA essential oils. Want to make your own career change? Download Sara's Seven Cs of Successful Career Change Chart. Sara and Jen Discuss:
- How Sara knows Jen
- Jen always knowing she wanted to be a mom
- Jen studying broadcast journalism and quickly realizing it wasn't her thing
- Growing up as a "military brat"
- Working in Yellowstone National Park
- Working at hotels and restaurants
- Working in early learning
- Meeting her husband and starting a family
- Going back-and-forth between working and being a stay-at-home mom
- Needing more identity than just being "mom"
- Looking into home businesses
- Starting to pay more attention to ingredients in products
- Discovering doTERRA through an ER nurse
- Realizing quickly that doTERRA was the direction that she wanted to move in
- Learning through direct experience
- Her doTERRA business supporting her values of family, continuous learning, travel, contribution, etc.
- What it's like to teach adults vs. preschoolers
- How she knows she's now doing "her thing"
- Her husband getting laid off from his chef position
- Becoming the breadwinner while her husband took over to care for the home and the kids
- How she got her business started, financially
- What she loves about doTERRA as a company
- Stepping up the number of classes she's teaching, reaching out to more people, ramping up
- What it's like to do direct sales with friends and family
- How she got comfortable with selling
- The ways that doTERRA gives back to the community
- Her support system
- What she learned about "career" from her military family
- How Jen lives life on her own terms
- How her life has changed since she changed careers
- Putting up positive, visual reminders around you to keep you on track
- What the day-to-day of Jen's work looks like
- The large network of support in doTERRA
- The Gallup Strengths Finder Clifton Strengths: store.gallup.com/p/en-us/10108/top-5-cliftonstrengths
- Two of Jen's favorite oils: Balance (tree blend) and Adaptiv (emotions blend)
- Sara's love for lavender
- Jen's advice for anyone who wants to become a doTERRA Wellness Advocate
- The low financial investment of getting started
- The pros of using natural products
- ...and more!
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