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Danielle Odom on Health Advocacy, Safe Products, and the Melaleuca Journey · The Scene Projects

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  Well, hello, and welcome in to another exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host Bubba Starts and with me today from the wellness company Melaleuca is
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  executive director Danielle Odom.
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  Danielle, welcome to the show.
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  You know, I did I owe you a big thank you.
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  Recently came into this company and found it through our good friend, Megan Herwig, and and
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  we've been chatting for the last couple of days here about how we're gonna change lives, not
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  only through the products that you deliver and that we deliver through this company, but the
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  the income that we can do for people like me that, are content creators.
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  So I wanted to start today by just letting you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit
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  about your backstory and your story in Melaleuca.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  So I first was introduced to Melaleuca over six years ago.
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  I'm a mom.
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  I have four kids.
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  I was working full time as a registered nurse.
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  My husband's active duty military.
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  And just literally every day, my hair was just on fire.
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  So I was going through some health issues that I did not exactly know what was going on at the
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  time, which soon found out that I had what's called breast implant illness.
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  I had breast implants for many, many years, they were making me sick.
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  My kidneys were failing, I had liver enzymes were elevated and the doctors didn't quite know
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  what was going on.
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  So I was seeking other options.
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  That's when I found natural medicine doctor who said, If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck,
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  like just stop wasting money on all these testing and just get your implants out.
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  And the most profound thing that she did that's absolutely changed my life was introducing me
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  to just plain facts that everyday products and cleaners, you don't know what's in them and you
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  can't trust them.
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  And she identified a handful of harmful ingredients such as bleach, formaldehyde,
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  ammonia.
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  And it really stood out to me, especially being a registered nurse.
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  She's like, Your skin is one of your largest organs and what you put on your skin matters.
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  It absorbs it.
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  And I was using bleach on my clothes and on my sheets.
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  And she's like, Okay, cut that out.
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  She was able to tell that I actually had a overload of bleach in my body.
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  I had adrenal fatigue.
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  I was sleeping all the time, I had headaches and muscle pains.
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  Once I had the implants removed, a lot changed, I worked on detoxing and my friend, she already
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  knew I was doing those things because I was asking those questions on social media.
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  So when she showed me the company, I'm like, heck yeah.
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  I mean, it was so much peace of mind for me because I was the girl standing in the shopping
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  aisle trying to read labels and had no idea what I was looking at.
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  So it's provided so much peace for our family in general with the products.
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  And then over time, I just naturally started sharing it with other people and helping other
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  people set up their shopping accounts.
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  And from there, it has more than blessed our family financially.
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  And and you you touched on something there in your conversations, and not this the implants
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  that are in your body, but the environment that you are creating around you in your own home,
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  not to mention the environmental factors of the outside world.
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  I don't need to get down a chemtrail rabbit hole with you, but just natural the the
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  pollution that's in our cities and around there.
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  I'm very blessed to live in the country.
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  I know you do as well.
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  Not everyone has that clean air or access to clean water that some of us do.
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  So to start with the things that you can control are so important, and the things that
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  you are putting on your skin, in your mouth, around your children, your soaps, your
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  shampoos, all of these things, everything that's sold in the store is some form of
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  poison.
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  They don't care about your health.
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  They care about profit.
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  Can you elaborate just a little bit on a few of the products that you use every day that have
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  really changed that environment in your household?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  And I'll reiterate that when people think of wellness and they think of health, they think
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  about the food that they eat, or they need to go on a diet or that they need to exercise when
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  really your environmental wellness plays a huge role in your overall wellness, especially for
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  our children, because no matter what we're exposed to, we have to filter it out.
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  And our body is, you know, greatly designed to do that.
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  But when it's a little bit here, a little bit there, a little bit here, a little bit there,
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  it just really adds up.
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  And for me, it was swapping out all of my home cleaners and laundry detergent and plugins.
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  There were times when I would walk into businesses that I would immediately get a
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  headache or I would feel nauseous because of the Febreze or the Glade or whatever kind of
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  plugin they had in the wall, I was the person that would just remove them.
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  And so now we have made those safe swaps and Melaleuca has made that super simple for us to
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  safely swap the home cleaners, laundry detergent.
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  Laundry detergent is huge for the majority of people.
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  Every day.
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  That's usually one of their first purchases because when their kid is suffering with
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  eczema, asthma, it is the number one thing I coach them to swap.
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  And then going into our everyday body products.
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  So I have two girls that are teenagers, I have four kids.
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  My boys are 11 and 20, and then my teenagers are 13 and 16.
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  And if you have girls, even at the early age of eight and nine, they're obsessed with skincare.
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  I don't know where they learn this at.
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  I mean,
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  I don't know
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  saying.
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  They watch their mommas, Danielle, and they're paying attention to us.
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  So when you're, and not to cut you off, but, I mean, we know those teenage girls, they love
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  products.
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  And if you can start to train your kids on being healthier and to to to use and to care
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  about those things by introducing them to to the right products.
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  And then not just this is what we use because we use it.
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  No, honey.
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  This is why we use these things because those other things are not good for you.
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  And even though they have really fancy advertising and they have all of these things
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  that say they're going to do this or this or this, when you get to the ingredients, they are
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  harming you.
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  Little by little by little, these chemicals that we are putting on ourselves and in
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  ourselves are killing us.
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  Yeah, my youngest, she's 13 and she's very, very aware because she has the sensitive skin,
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  she has the eczema.
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  And so when she uses certain things, her skin will break out, blotchy red rashes burning.
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  And so she even at a young age, before we even shop here, she would tell people, I remember
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  her third birthday, people gave her some like makeup and stuff from the dollar store and she
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  goes, I'm sorry, I can't use this stuff, it burns my skin.
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  And so now she's able to use an affordable option, which for me is way more affordable
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  than buying things at Ulta, but I know that it's clean and her skin, I actually just had
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  somebody come to me and said, Hey, what does your daughter use on her skin?
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  It is so hydrated and plump and glowing.
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  I know she's only 13, but I can tell she's got some type of moisturizer on.
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  And I was able to show them all the different options.
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  I think there's five or six different skincare lines that the store offers for all different
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  skin types.
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  And so just educating my kids and knowing what you're putting on your skin truly does matter.
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  Well, and what is coming out of your skin is what is inside of you.
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  Right?
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  Like, this is your your body is outwardly expressing the stuff that's inside of you.
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  Right?
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  And instead of, you know, addressing the root issues of that, the the mainstream, you know,
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  wellness, thing, right, proactive was huge when I was a kid.
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  Just strip it bare, and you're just gonna put all this astringent on it, and you're gonna use
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  Stridex pads and and OxiClean.
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  Like, what are we doing to our skin when you could probably just, like, you know, drink more
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  water, make sure you're moisturizing with something that isn't harmful to you, and start
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  there.
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  And that is the reason why I know Melaleuca as a as a big company, right?
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  Been around for almost forty years now.
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  Or is it forty years?
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  I I couldn't remember exactly.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm 40.
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  And so I usually say it's just as old as me.
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  And we talk a lot about gut health too.
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  My 16 year old, she does have Instagram and she'll share the things that she's eating and
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  using.
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  And there's a lot of teenage girls that she's been able to minister to and educate on eating
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  habits.
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  And like for her, she knows that dairy is not something that agrees with her.
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  She knows how important gut health is and probiotics and putting the right foods in your
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  body.
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  We have probiotics for kids.
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  It's a yummy pixie stick, strawberry pixie stick probiotic.
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  People that their kids are struggling with behavior issues or just attention span and
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  focus.
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  We have seen huge improvements by just using omega threes and we have one that's for kids
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  that is a tropical smoothie.
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  There's four different flavors and people are seeing incredible results with that with their
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  kids.
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  Right.
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  And while most 13 and 16 year old girls are worried about pimples in their face, your
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  daughters are getting complimented on how good their skin looks and all of these things.
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  And it's not some $400 a month dermatology program that they're putting on.
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  They're literally just putting better stuff inside and onto their body from this company.
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  And that is what instant I just rung my bell.
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  When Megan shared some of her stuff, it instantly resonated with me because Danielle
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  and I and our listeners know from following us that we are trying to live a more active
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  lifestyle.
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  I've lost 50 pounds in the last two years.
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  You know, one was quitting drinking, and I know that we're gonna have a deeper conversation
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  about our alcohol problems, both of us, in the future.
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  That's a that's time for another show, Danielle.
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  But that we work out incessantly.
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  We are in the gym three, four times a week.
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  I am walking two to four miles a day.
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  We are in that, but there's still parts that are missing.
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  And it's because of, you know, the tide that we're washing our clothes in.
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  It's because of the cleaning products that we use because we don't know any better.
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  We just don't know any better.
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  When you know better, you do better.
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  And exactly.
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  And and for me, when I know better, I want to teach better.
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  And that is what's attracted me to the company.
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  It's what has attracted me to you because you are that minister.
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  You are a lighthouse for not just these products.
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  Yes.
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  These products are how we get there, but we want to be better.
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  And we want to make other people better.
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  Oh, and guess what?
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  For you entrepreneurial minded folks out there that want to break free from the matrix of the
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  everyday nine to five, let these people steal your time from you, We can also offer you a way
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  that not only can you probably get your products at a much lower rate through bonuses
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  and things, but that you can really turn around and start making some money from this company
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  as well.
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  And, we're gonna invite people to another conversation that we're going to have and to
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  some live Zooms that we're gonna link in the comments to to get into that conversation.
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  It's too much to share here, and I wouldn't ask you to spill the tea for free out here.
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  We want you to come in and have a deeper conversation with us and not us preaching to
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  you.
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  We want you in the conversation so that you can ask questions and feel free to communicate with
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  both of us as I learn more here that, we wanna change your life, and we wanna help you change
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  the lives of people in your community as well.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  And it's something for everyone.
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  I tell people all the time it doesn't need to look like what I do, right?
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  When I started doing this I
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  was I'm excited about the coffee.
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  Yeah, organic coffee.
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  I mean, when I started, I was working twelve hour shifts as a nurse commuting forty five
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  minutes back and forth with all four of my kids in sports and different schools and all
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  different age levels from elementary, middle and high school.
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  And I was able to do this in the nooks and crannies of my day.
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  It just came up naturally in a conversation.
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  And from there, it grew into so much more that when I had to make a decision to make a change
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  and pivot in my life.
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  My kid was not doing well in school after COVID and the tutor asked me to homeschool him.
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  I was able to leave that salary at the snap of my fingers and just leave knowing that I could
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  step into the role of being a full time mom.
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  And also Melaleuca had my back.
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  I had that residual income coming in that I had built.
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  And I was also able to step on the gas and accelerate that paycheck so much more, almost
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  tenfold in just a couple months to be able to still provide, but also I was able to be mom
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  first.
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  Incredible conversation today, Danielle.
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  I really appreciate you jumping on and sharing your testimony, and I I invite everyone to jump
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  on with us on some of our Zooms.
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  You guys follow us.
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  You you see me all the time.
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  You've seen my journey.
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  You know my testimony personally, and this is the next step in in my evolution, not just as a
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  as a business person, but as a human being.
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  Right?
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  And I think that's the great part about this company and and why I'm so excited to to not
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  just get in and cannonball in myself, but to let everyone else know that the pool is open
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  too.
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  Yeah.
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  We're ready to go.
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  Danielle, thank you so much for being a part of my life, and thanks for being part of the
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  scene.
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  You're welcome.
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  Thanks for having me.
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