I never planned to start a business. Life had other plans.

For over two decades, I did marketing for other people, including running the entire marketing department for a mortgage branch, supporting more than 25 loan officers at once. I was good at it. It was also breaking me.

So I left. With a very supportive husband and a stubborn belief that there had to be a better way to use what I knew.

My doTERRA upline was my first client. She knew I understood the business from the inside, because I'd built my own to Gold. She told two of her uplines about me. They told their leaders. Seven years later, every single client I've ever had has come exactly that way: someone they trust said "you need Bree."

I have never run an ad. I have never needed to. And that first client? Still my client.