How to find out when out-of-stock YL products are back in stock

Dear low toxers, 

It’s so freakin’ frustrating when our fav YL products (like the sunscreen!) are out of stock (OOS). I get it. Because YL will never ever compromise their values and substitute cheap quality or poorly sourced ingredients (like most companies do which are all about profits), it means that when one teeny ingredient is not available the whole production line is put on hold. I follow the same philosophy with my Star Anise Organic Wholefoods business so I do understand and admire YL’s philosophy even though it is mighty inconvenient for us.

But did you know that on the YL website in BRAND PARTNER NEWS, there is a whole section called STOCK REPORT which lists all of the products that are OOS, the reason for being OOS, the projected availability date, and alternative product suggestions? How cool is that?! I don’t know of any other company that does that?!

I get a lot of questions asking me when a given product will be back in stock....but now you can find the answer yourself with a click of a button!

Love, Soulla x

"What caused this cancer?"

For those of you who follow me on social media, you might have seen that my 87-year-old dad who has been in otherwise robust health medication-free, was recently diagnosed with a rare form of very aggressive small cell cancer and given months to live. While we are all reeling from the shock with broken hearts and untold sadness, I overheard my dad ask the oncologist yesterday "What caused this cancer?". Her response was "environmental factors". 

It was heartening to hear the oncologist pointing to epigenetics as the cause of chronic illness and degenerative disease as opposed to “bad luck” or “genetics”.

Environmental factors that accumulate to cause illness and disease include:
😱 toxins in our food system (including pesticides, microplastics)
😱 toxins in the water system (fluoride, choline, heavy metals)
😱 sedentary lifestyle
😱 sleep deprivation (including blue lights at night)
😱 toxins in the air we breathe (artificial fragrances, chemtrails etc)
😱 stress, trauma, anger, resentment, shame and other negative emotions
😱 nature divorcement 
😱 toxins in conventional personal care and household cleaning products
😱 overuse of pharmaceuticals and antibiotics 
😱 EMFs esp men who carry mobile phones in their groin pockets 18 hours a day

Dad did many many things right. But he also lived a life punctuated with deep pockets of stress, was a painter for 40 years, and they loved their bleach, windex and domestos … to name a few obvious biggies. While we may never know the exact cause of his cancer, we know that there are many toxins outside of our control but equally there are many within our control. It is our responsibility to reduce these as best we can, as early as we can, to minimise the occurrence of illness and disease.

The obvious place to start is to reduce toxic exposure in our home by healthy swapping out all our conventional personal care products and household cleaning products and choice of medicines for low-tox versions.

Healthy swapping is easier than you think when you have:
✅ a wellness buddy and supportive community which we provide
✅ a one-stop online low-tox shop
✅ all of the resources you need online in one place
 

If you are ready to start ditching and switching, I’d love you to join me Saturday 19 August 2 - 4.30pm for my next Life With Oils & Toxic Free Living workshop at my home in Waverley or via zoom.

My team and I will show you how you can healthily swap one product at a time in a positive and empowering way without the overwhelm.

You will then have peace of mind that you are radically reducing your and your family’s toxic exposure in the ONE AND ONLY ENVIRONMENT YOU CAN CONTROL - your HOME 🏡 

Interested in sharing the YL products to make an impact and an income? WATCH THIS.

Hello lovely community

More and more people in our beautiful community are approaching me every week interested in the YL business opportunity. In a nutshell, all it involves is sharing the YL products with others which helps them to reduce their toxic load and blesses you with a referral income from YL that can pay for your YL products and eventually can grow into a handsome income that can exceed your wildest dreams.

• Maybe you want to earn an extra $500 a month that will make a massive difference to your family’s budget.

• Maybe you want to earn enough to have your YL orders paid for.

• Maybe you want some extra spending money to buy the things you love without having to justify it to anyone.

• Maybe you want out of the corporate grind and work from home doing what you love.

As a single mama (and papa) what has become very apparent to me is the importance for all females to be financially independent and to be able to stand on their own 2 feet. Because you just never know what life will throw at you.

I am stressing to my daughter the importance of financial freedom and independence and never having to rely on someone else. I see too many women trapped in jobs or relationships that they don’t want to be in. I was once that woman and I felt suffocated by no end. It takes a lot of courage to step out of the status quo and paradigm shift into something better.

I love my YL business so much that it never feels like work. In fact, I feel so blessed to have the flexibility of working from home with my kids around me at my own pace, setting my own hours and on my own terms, and sharing products that I genuinely love and use every day which make a positive impact on people’s lives. When you make an income by making a positive impact, it feels very soul-aligned and it lights you up no end. 

If you are interested in dipping your toe in to see if the YL biz is for you, or if you are wanting to learn a bit more, watch this 47-minute webinar that I ran with a small group of our members last week.

If this is something you’d like to explore in more detail, contact your wellness mentor or email me and we can walk you through the Biz Opportunity section of the Member Resources page together. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

Love Soulla xx

My recent Young Living Helichrysum farm experience

Dear YL community

I had the absolute pleasure of visiting YL’s helichrysum farm in Croatia last month for Silver’s Retreat with 6 of my YL business leaders – Cressida, Sylvia, Rachel, Sacha, Ruby and Helen – and the 2 incredible beings who connected me to YL 7 years ago –Julia and Lisa Matheson. It was a magical experience for the 9 of us to be together to witness a YL farm in such a stunning location in the world (and experience a brief slice of Adriatic summer amid Australian winter!). We were joined by 600 other Silvers from all around the world. (When you hit certain ranks, YL sends you on these epic all-expense paid trips around the world - all just by sharing the products that we love with others #pinchme. Email me to learn more about starting this journey with us or check out the Business Opportunity section of the Member Resources page of my website. It is easier than you think!).

Farm visits and travel are definitely two major highlights of my Young Living journey to date.

Farm visits demonstrate the full transparency that YL provides by not only allowing its members (people like you and me) to visit their farms but also to ask questions of the farmers, understand the provenance and the processes involved and expand our understanding of the natural world.

The oils and related products take on a whole new dimension once you understand their provenance and see first-hand the lengths that YL goes to in order to ensure the oil’s purity and potency and to deliver to us the highest quality therapeutic-grade oils in the world.

We also were taken to the distillery the next day to understand how the helichrysum oil is steam distilled from the plant.

The planting, harvesting, distillation, testing and bottling process are the 5 key steps in YL’s “seed to seal” policy. This gives YL full control over its processes which in turn provides us with a quality assurance that no other oils company can. Witnessing this all first-hand makes you fall deeper in love with YL, with the power of the oils, with our community and with the sisterhood that we have co-created. Young Living’s Seed to Seal promise essentially mirrors the field-to-fork or soil-to-plate wholefoods principles that I advocate – so YL’s philosophy really speaks to my soul.

Helichrysumgrows on very rocky ground. What the helichrysum plant lacks in physical beauty and smell it sure does make up in the power of the oil which packs a punch. Helichrysum is renowned for its anti-inflammatory effects. Remember that inflammation is the root cause of all modern diseases; the antidote to inflammation is powerful anti-inflammatory substances like helichrysum!!! Helichrysum is also an anti-viral, liver protectant and anti-oxidant that chelates chemicals and toxins from the body and regenerates nerves.

Dominik the farmer manager gave us a personalised tour of the farm. He exudes so much health and vitality. When Dom was relating (via a translator) his story to us what struck me was not only Dominik’s passion but also his reverence, appreciation, deep respect and gratitude for Gary Young in providing him with all the support needed to regenerate the farm to make it productive - and ultimately take helichrysum off the endangered list. All thanks to YL!!

Visiting the farms connects us with mother nature (which is becoming increasingly important in an increasingly virtual world). It expands our understanding of the natural world and lights up our ancient DNA because we are part of nature.

I would strongly encourage each of you to visit a YL farm one day not only as an exercise in provenance but because the farms are the engine room and the heart and soul of Young Living.

Other highlights of the trip were the visit to Krka waterfall park, the closing party (where we danced all night), swimming in the Adriatic sea and wandering aimlessly among the cobblestone lanes of old towns like Split and Sibernik (I swear I could do that every day for the rest of my life and never tire of it!).

Love Soulla xx

My 4 minute farm talk on the farm panel at GC convention

Dear YL community

I was honoured to be on the farm panel at the 2023 YL Elevate Convention on the Gold Coast. Here is my 4 minute farm talk on the importance of provenance and my experience of the Helichrysum farm in Split Croatia in 2019 where I will be returning next month with 6 of my Silver leaders!

You might also like to listen to my 1 minute speech for platinum recognition which sums up why I am so passionate about YL and so proud of this community that we have co-created.

Here is a little highlight reel of the recent GC convention. I was thrilled to have 25 members of our community there learning, experiencing, connecting and having so much fun! Next year I want to see EVERYONE there!!! 

Love, Soulla

Got a condition? Here’s where to find how to treat it holistically!

Dear YL community

I am often asked “Soulla, I [or my kid/friend/loved one etc] has XYZ condition. Please help.What oils or products do I use to treat it naturally?”

Yes, western medicine is great for diagnostics!! But once you know what you're dealing with, if you want to treat it holistically within your own home....

These are the 3 main resources:

1.The Essential Oils Pocket Reference 8th Edition by Life Science Publishing: we consider this the bible of essential oils as it lists every YL product with their therapeutic qualities plus every physical and emotional condition with a protocol of YL products to treat it. This is available on Amazon Kindle for $30.60 as the hard copy spiral bound version is no longer being published (if you have a hard copy and want to sell it please email me as there are numerous people who are wanting to purchase the hard copy).This is listed as the top resource in the Additional Educational Resources section of the password protected Member Resources page of my website. (Don’t know the password? Please email me ASAP).

2. The EO101 guide in the password protected Member Resources page of my website. This guide doesn’t / can’t list every single ailment but the more common ones are listed in the ailment guide part of this EO101 Guide. We even have an ailment guide for babies, kids and teens including Hand Foot Mouth disease which is doing the rounds ATM.

3.The closed Star Anise Essentials FB page. Use the search button to look up your condition!!

These top 3 resources will empower you to become your family's healer in your home!

If you don’t find the answer, please sing out to your wellness mentor, or to me, or feel free to pop the question in the closed Star Anise Essentials FB page.

If the condition does not pass within a few days or if it is severe or your intuition is telling you to seek professional help, please do seek professional help from your holistic practitioner. My top holistic practitioners of choice(who are also well versed in the YL oils and products)are:

1. Emily Rose Yates naturopath (she is the first practitioner listed in the biz directory of the password protected Member Resources page of my website).
2. Marieke Rodenstein holistic dietitian
3. Maria Arora trained doctor, naturopath and homeopath. Click here and request a saliva test otherwise there are no appointments.

Love Soulla

I just want to see what all the fuss is about without committing...

By now you might have seen some of us on social media sharing our love of the YL products. You might have seen us singing the praises of the convenience and power of using YL oils as our medicine cabinet instead of medications. You might have seen us bang on about the ease and simplicity of having a one-stop toxic-free online shop. You might have seen us enjoying the lifestyle that YL affords when you start sharing the products with others. You might have seen us working from home with our kids around us or travelling the world care of YL to places we otherwise would never have had the opportunity to visit. 

This is the stuff that (toxic-free) dreams are made of. So what’s the deal and how does it work?

By sharing (not selling!) products that you already use and love, you have the opportunity to earn super generous commissions from YL that can provide you with a residual income stream. This income stream grows handsomely with the number of people that you connect and whom they connect, and whom they connect, in turn creating a ripple effect around the globe. YL is essentially paying you to help humanity kick the toxic chemicals that are poisoning people and the planet. After all, it all starts with one friend telling another friend about a less toxic, more nourishing path. When you share authentically and genuinely – from the heart with a desire to help others reduce their toxic load, it feels like a very soul-aligned vocation.

There are essentially 2 ways of earning income from YL:

• Firstly, you receive a very generous $97.50 sign-up bonus for every person you connect with YL who buys a premium starter bundle (provided you place a 50PV order in the same month that they buy the bundle).

• Secondly you also receive a percentage of your new member’s ongoing orders (and anyone who they connect too!) provided that you also place a 100PV order in that same month.

These commissions are paid in the middle of the following month and appear as “Available Credits” in your dashboard which you can use towards your monthly orders or have transferred into a bank account. Imagine having your monthly orders paid for. Imagine having a little pocket money to buy whatever you like without having to justify it to anyone. Imagine contributing to the finances of the household in a significant way. 

This can turn into a super exciting side hustle very quickly! Whether you connect one person, 5 people, 50 people or 500 people, we have all the tools and resources on the Member Resources page to support you and the people you connect every step of the way.
 

I am a big fan of trying before buying. After all, we date a man before we marry them, we inspect a house before we buy it, and we test drive a car before we buy it. If you are interested in the YL business but not sure if it is for you, you can always dip your toe in by doing the first few of the steps set out in the YL Biz Opportunity and Mentorship Program section of the Member Resources page:

After doing the first few steps you will get an idea if this is for you. You’ll know if you feel excited about it and it kindles a little fire in your belly! The YL biz opportunity is not for everyone but it sure does tick a lot of boxes for me and an increasingly large amount of people in our community because it is a business that:

• Is in the health and wellness space

• Does not require further study

• We can do it from home (or anywhere in the world) with our kids around us

• We can do it at our pace (because we are our own bosses)

• We can do it on our terms (because it is our own business)

• We can take a pause from it if we need to (without applying for leave)

• Lights us up that is just for us outside of being a mum or a partner(yes please!)

• Makes us feel valued and supported

• We don’t need to create any resources or tools (these are ALL provided). All you need to do is bring the existence of magic and convenience of these products to the attention of others

• Women linking arms supporting and cheering on other women and not competing with each other

• Provides overseas travel opportunities that will blow your mind

• Provides you with an income stream that can cover the cost of your monthly orders, and your household income or can exceed your wildest dreams–however much energy you put into it is what you will get out of it. 

If you have any questions about how to get started, please email me or your wellness support mentor.

Love Soulla xx

My recent Young Living Bergamot farm experience

Dear YL community, 

A highlight of my Young Living journey is the opportunity to visit the farms where the YL oils originate. YL is the ONLY oils company in the world that plants, harvests, distils, tests and bottles the oils on its own farms or partner farms. This Seed to Seal policy means that YL has full control over its processes and can provide us with quality assurance that no other oil company can.

In addition, YL provides full transparency by allowing its members (people like you and me) to visit these farms, ask questions of the farmers, understand the provenance and the processes involved and expand our understanding of the natural world.

Visiting the farms connects us with mother nature (which is becoming increasingly important in an increasingly virtual world) and provides us with a far greater appreciation of the quality of the oils and the efforts that YL go to in order to ensure the oil’s purity and potency. Whether it’s visiting my egg farmer, my raw dairy farmer, or an oils farm, I can honestly say that farm visits light up my DNA. After all, once upon a time, we were all hunter-gatherers and then farmers where we communed intimately with the natural world. We have lost this connection in modern times. YL as a steward of the planet provides us with not only the gift of Mother Nature in the form of potent plant botanicals but the opportunity to witness firsthand the farms where the magic all begins.

The farms are located all around the globe (there are a few in Australia eg Sandalwood farm in WA, Blue Cypress farm in NT and Kunzea farm in Tassie).

I had the absolute pleasure of recently visiting YL’s ‘Bella Vista’ bergamot farm in Southern Italy with 2 of my YL business leaders – Camille Gunduz and Judy Rose. The smell and sight of bergamot (which is a citrus fruit) combined with the backdrop of the Mediterranean sea was stunning. The harvesting and extracting process were explained to us. With every farm visit (this is my 4th YL farm visit to date) I fall more and more in love with YL as a company – its ethics, and its heart and soul.

Click here to watch this 1-minute video on the Bergamot farm (it’s worth it for the music alone!).
Click here to watch a short video I took on the harvesting process.
Click here to watch a short video I took on the extraction process.
Click here to compare the difference in the colour of 2 bergamot oils.

Enjoy!

Love Soulla

Not sure if you can afford to jump on or stay on the monthly ER loyalty program?

Dear YL members
 

I hear a lot of people say “Finances are really tight so I can’t afford to buy YL products every month even though I would love to”.

If you have this mindset let me reframe a couple of things for you so that you can afford to buy YL products of your choice monthly:

1. Are you using YL as your one-stop shop? If you use YL as your one-stop low tox shop, I guarantee that there'll always be some item of personal care product or household cleaning product or supplement or essential oil that you’re running low on and need to replenish. I stopped buying from a million different shops and websites a long time ago and saved myself time and numerous shipping fees. YL is so much more than an oil company. There is no doubt that the YL oils are the highest quality on the planet, but 90% of my orders actually comprise personal care products or household cleaning products (eg. Thieves cleaning concentrate, dish soap or laundry liquid) a supplement or Ningxia. A 2 pack of Ningxia will last one person exactly one month if drinking 50ml per day which is a must in order to detoxify the toxicity from our body. 50ml a day of Ningxia costs $3.33 which is less than a cup of coffee which most people will happily pay in a day without thinking twice.

2. Are you diluting the products? YL products are ultra-concentrated and can or need to be diluted. Use this dilution chart to dilute the cleaning products to really stretch the cost out to be on par with toxic supermarket crap. Follow the same logic to dilute the personal care products such as hand soap and body wash by a third so that the cost works out to be only a third of the wholesale price. I also dilute the conditioner (because it is so thick) by filling the empty space at the top of the bottle with water. For products that I don’t dilute (eg. shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash, face cleaners/moisturisers) I only use the teeniest amount so that they last me ages.
 

3. Are you redeeming your accumulated loyalty points to get free products? By redeeming your loyalty points you receive free products which means saving money. Most people just buy a 2 pack of Ningxia every month (which is over the min 50 PV required for the minimum monthly ordering spend) and then accumulate their loyalty points for free personal care products, household cleaning products and supplements.
 

When viewed in this light, the monthly loyalty program is of tremendous value. Plus you can skip a month and manipulate your monthly ordering date for maximum flexibility. Plus you'll feel good knowing that you are supporting an ethical company whose products are safe and nourishing for people, the planet and pets.

Love Soulla

I am about to travel – what YL oils/products should I take with me?

Greetings YL community

I am super pumped to be going overseas next week to celebrate my 50th!

I thought my mum was ancient at that age and yet here I am still feeling like a kid at the starting blocks, rearing to go, with the best years ahead of me ;-)

I am turning my mind to packing and thinking about what YL oils and products to take.

I am frequently asked by people in my community what oils and products I recommend they pack when they travel.

I share my thoughts in this 5-minute video where I walk you through the Oils for Travel section of our EO101 guide found on the password-protected Member Resources page of my website.

Enjoy....and for those of you who are blessed enough to travel this year – whether within Australia or abroad - safe travels!!!

Love Soulla xx

PS: Don’t know the password to the Member Resources page of my website? Email me today!

What’s in your monthly box?

Dear YL community

Every month I run a little “unboxing” competition on our closed Star Anise Essentials FB page.

All you need to do is video yourself doing an unboxing of your monthly YL order explaining what you bought and why and post the video on the closed FB page to go into the draw to win a mystery YL product from me.

These videos have become a really fun way for our community to connect and see what we are all buying every month and why. This way we can continue to inspire each other in our low tox and wellness journey. I learn something from everyone every single month.

Not yet a member of our closed Star Anise Essentials FB page? OMG, you're missing out on some incredibly juicy information! Request to join and answer the membership questions and I will approve your request. Once accepted please have a read of all the juicy posts pinned to the top of the FB page.

Love Soulla xx

Did You Miss Our Men’s Essentials Workshop Last Weekend? Here’s The Recording!

Dear YL family,
 
If you missed our Men’s Essentials workshop last weekend, I've uploaded the recording and the slide pack into a new “Mens Wellness” section of the Essential Oils 101 Guide found in the  Member Resources page of my website.
 
The workshop was SO WELL RECEIVED which goes to show that more and more men are so desperately wanting to step into a more healthy, conscious and intentional version of themselves but also to find a like minded tribe.

The Member Resources page is password protected - if you don’t know the password contact your wellness mentor or email me ASAP.
 
Love Soulla xx
 
PS please diarise/note:

• WE are skipping April, first Thursday of the month, monthly oils group because of the Easter long weekend.

• My next introductory “Life with Oils and Toxic Free Living” workshop is Saturday 29th April 2-4:30pm. Book here. Its FREE for all YL members in my community. I would LOVE to see you all there by zoom or in person (at your choice). If you want to book non-member friends in please book them in via this link here as it’s $20 for non members (which they get back if they join our community).  

Are you after low tox cleaners, low tox hairdressers, or a low tox childcare centre in Sydney?

Dear community

One of the best things about being in a tight-knit like-minded community is that we have in our orbit some really cool people doing really cool stuff (without the harsh chemicals!!). I just love supporting businesses that share my passion for low-tox living and are conscious enough to use products that do not harm people and the planet. We need to be giving these businesses a round of applause and our support!!

Did you know that we have in our community in Sydney:

• low tox hairdressers (one in San Souci and one in Bondi)

• a low tox cleaner (serving north of the bridge)

• a low tox child care centre (in Chifley)

...who all use YL products instead of hard chemicals? I think that’s pretty cool!!

To learn more about these businesses and avail yourself of their services, head to the Business Directory section of the Member Resources page of my website. There might be a business or a service provider that you might be needing and wouldn’t it be cool to support someone in our fold?

Artisan organic easter eggs & bunnies available at Broth Bar & Larder

We have been busy little bunnies indeed at Broth Bar & Larder making our beloved no-guilt nutritious and delicious easter chocolates that we offer every year. To create our Easter range, we take our original Sokolata recipe and tweak it to make it more kid-friendly for younger palates by increasing the raw cacao butter content and decreasing the raw cacao powder content. Because it is less bitter, we reduce the amount of maple syrup. Commercial manufacturers increase the amount of sweetener for kids’ chocolates but we do the exact opposite as we know how unnecessary and damaging an excess of sweeteners are, especially for young growing bodies. The result is a silky smooth melt-in-your-mouth buttery sensation with a hint of raw dark chocolate.

As usual, we have 2 fabulous offerings this easter:

1) ORGANIC YUMMY BUNNY
These little fellows are made of our artisan organic solid raw dark chocolate and retail for $24.50 and weigh approx. 150g. These will get your bunny tails shaking!

2) OGANIC MINI EASTER EGGS
These delightful little half eggs are the perfect mouth-sized treat. Each egg is decorated with either a goji berry, an activated almond or activated cinnamon buckwheat. You can pop them into some hard plastic egg-shaped containers for those treasured Easter egg hunts. These retail for $17.95/100g bag and each bag has a mixture of the 3 flavours.

How to purchase:

Our Easter chocolates are in store now! There are 2 ways to purchase:
1. Pop into Broth Bar & Larder.

2. Via the online store. You can purchase the Organic Yummy Bunny here. And the Organic Mini Easter Eggs here. 

All our chocolates are made in small batches, by hand, on site at Broth Bar & Larder in Bronte. These contain no preservatives so will need refrigeration. Available now until stocks last!

We are OPEN over the Easter Public holiday long weekend 7-10 April and trading hours are 8am - 4pm daily over these 4 days. I will be on customer service so please come and say hi and give me a hug!!!

Wishing you all a delicious Easter!!

Love Soulla xx

YL Cleaning Products - Dilution Chart

Dear YL community

We put together this graphic to show you at a glance how you can dilute the ultra-concentrated YL cleaning products to really stretch the cost out! Look at the cost in the last column!! 

Hopefully, you'll see that when diluted the cost is on par with or cheaper than the toxic products that line supermarket shelves that are poisoning people and the planet. By choosing YL products you have peace of mind that you are choosing cost-effective, super powerful, toxic-free products made by an ethical company that is a steward of the planet.

Love Soulla xx

Two very hot tips to give you maximum flexibility and monetary reward!!!

Dear community,

Watch this 4-minute video that I recently posted on our closed Star Anise Essentials FB page where I explain:
1. How you can give yourself maximum flexibility in regards to WHEN you can place your monthly loyalty orders; and
2. How you can get almost $100 cash back if you want another starter kit or wish to buy YL products for someone else.

The videos that I refer to in the 4-minute video above are set out in the video gallery of the password-protected Member Resources page:

I am often recommending to members that they change their monthly order processing date to a later date in the month and that they change their monthly order processing date to manually process earlier when they are actually ready to place their order. These 2 things provide you with MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY IN ORDERING WHEN YOU WANT!!!!!! Feel free to take advantage of them so that you don’t feel boxed in!

Don’t know the password to our phenomenal Member Resources page? Email me today!

We share SO MUCH JUICY GOODNESS in our closed Star Anise Essentials FB page that I highly recommend you request to become a member of that group to not miss out!
(And don’t worry, most of the people in that group are NOT on FB except to reap the benefits of that FB page – it’s worth joining FB JUST FOR THAT!). Request to join here and answer the membership questions.

Love Soulla  xx

What's the deal with MLMs anyway?

Hey!

I have had a few questions lately about what exactly is network marketing aka MLM (multilevel marketing).
Gary Young decided to structure Young Living as a network marketing company a few years after he created it to catapult his important message of health and wellness powered by Mother Nature out to the world.

More and more companies (especially those in the health and wellness space)are increasingly structuring themselves as network marketing companies.
Why? Because word of mouth is hands down the most powerful form of marketing.

Instead of paying a salary or commissions to a sales team to market the products, a network marketing company pays commissions to those people (eg ordinary mums like me) who genuinely use and love the products, talk about them with their network of friends and ultimately share them with others. 

It's rewarding to pay the very people who use and love the products rather than someone who is not genuinely invested in it. Word of mouth can create a powerful ripple effect and spread like wildfire across the globe when people feel passionate about something- whether it’s a documentary (e.g. That Sugar Film, The Magic Pill), a political stance, a new piece of technology (e.g.Thermomix) or a lifestyle choice (low tox movement, paleo movement etc).

The growth of MLMs exploded when billionaire Warren Buffet said in an interview that in hindsight he wished he structured his businesses as MLMs because of their effectiveness.

Millennials love MLMs and appreciate how powerful this form of marketing is.
Gen Xers (like me) can be a little sceptical because we grew up scarred by Amway or had some not-so-pleasant experience with a network marketer (have you ever been invited to have coffee with someone and it turns out that they want to sell you something instead?
(Happened to me and it felt so icky!).

There's nothing wrong or unethical or illegal about networking as a model – the problem often lies with the way it's been executed by network marketers who use dodgy tactics through lack of transparency when the underlying product has no fundamentals. In this community I set a culture of transparency in all that we do whether it’s a social media post or an advertisement for a workshop or gathering. Coupled with YL products that are hands down “best in class” we feel proud to be promoting products made by an ethical company that is a steward of the planet and sets the standard for the industry with 3 decades of industry leadership.

If you speak and share from a place of authenticity and transparency and genuinely want to help others onto a more nourishing, less toxic path, with products that you believe in and stand by, it only adds to your credibility.

There is nothing more rewarding than sharing products you love in a beautifully authentic way and being able to make an impact while making an income. Isn’t that everyone’s dream job?

The YL biz opportunity has plugged a big gap for many people who have a burning desire to work in the health and wellness space without having to go back to do further study and be able to do it from their home (or anywhere in the world), with their kids around them, and do it at their own pace, on their own terms by being their own boss.
All this by promoting products that make a positive impact on people and planet. It actually doesn’t feel like work when you’re living a life of purpose. It just feels like you’re talking about something that’s made a positive impact on your life and people pick up on your passion and want to experience some of that magic too because they value YOU!
It's like when your friend raves about a movie or a restaurant...if you value their opinion, you go check it out, right?!

“But what will my friends think?”. I hear this self-limiting, fear-driven belief sometimes. Honestly, the people whose opinions really matter (the ones you genuinely want to be friends with) would be supportive and in awe of your side hustle or business empire that makes a positive difference in people’s lives. Creating a business from scratch that lights you up is something to be truly admired and respected. You can live your life according to the dictates and opinions of others, but true joy and happiness come when you are true to yourself.

“It feels a little scary sharing the products!” Anything new or different does feel scary at first. But it's only when you step outside your comfort zone that the growth and magic really happens. Eventually, it becomes second nature.... And you love your little side hustle so much you think “why didn’t I start this earlier?”

I personally am so glad I said yes to the biz opportunity 7 years ago. I’ve helped over 2000 families kick the toxic chemicals in their lives and helped financially free dozens of women from jobs that didn't align with them. I also have had the privilege of visiting YL farms around the world that as a single mum I wouldn’t have been able to afford, and now have an income stream that blesses my household as the solo parent of my children. Having multiple income streams is smart (especially for women) because you just never know what the future holds (whether it's the death or divorce of your spouse, you really want to be able to hold your own).

If you want to explore the YL biz opportunity without fully committing to see if it is for you, I invite you to do our 10 day business mentorship or any of the steps set out in the Biz opportunity section of the password protected Member Resources page of my website.

Don’t know the password? Simply email me. 

Feel free to reach out to me or your wellness mentor to learn more or have an honest chat.

Love Soulla xx