Scentsy

I still remember the first time I ever heard about Scentsy, I didn't get it, I thought why would you want to go to a party where all they sell are warmers and scents, not one part of it intrigued me. I declined two party invites, then my mom handed me a catalog and asked me to pick one for my birthday, at the time I was not excited about it, I blindly picked one and didn't even read the scents, just get me something fruity I said.
Than the gift came, I brought it to work, plugged it in, popped in Pineapple Paradise and forgot about it. Well tried to, until everyone kept coming in to my office asking what that delicious scent was. That was the day I fell in love with Scentsy. It spoke for itself. Simple, easy, and smells so great!
After my mom and I hosted a party and I continued to get outside orders, I decided why not join? I was tired of making someone else all this money :) 2 years ago (February 16!) I signed up to be a Scentsy Independent Consultant. I have told this story numerous times. But that isn't the exciting part, its how God has blessed my new business.
I never really jumped all in, in the beginning, I was excited, but didn't push put too much time in to it. I heard God calling me to join a mission, I did, Dennis was super supportive but told me from the beginning that he wouldn't join me, but he attended one of my meetings, the next morning he asked me if he can go too, if we could afford it. I didn't think we could, but it didn't matter, I would have sold my car to have Dennis join me! So we both signed up, not really sure how we were going to pay for it, but we knew that we were meant to go. That is when my business kicked off, I was amazed at the people I met, I had parties booking, customers calling for orders and hostesses calling me join my team! At first I didn't think about what was happening, then the deadlines to make our payments started coming up, we were getting lots of donations from friends and family, but with the double cost it was adding up. With Scentsy I get paid once a month on the 10th, I have it set up for automatic deposit and I normally don't look at it, but we had to pay our last large deposit on the 15th and didn't have the funds, so I looked. My team had taken off and I got promoted a rank... my commission was the exact amount needed. You would think I would have gotten it at that time, but it took a few more nudging to see that God was truly blessing me with this.
When my spirit was down on life in general I would get an email for an order, an unexpected promotion, charm and congratulation award in the mail, a phone call to book a party, or a random message to join my team. I slowly started to get it. But after this weekend I knew.
I have struggled with working a "regular" job. My "day" job is a good paying career, but I know it too well, its not challenging, and I don't feel like I'm doing the glory of God. I thought about making drastic changes to my career to fill that void, but I have finally realized I can do both. I can have the regular job to pay our bills and than have the fun blessed job that I can spread the glory of God.

Melissa and I, super cheesy but so much fun!

This week was my Scentsy Spring Sprint, its our traveling convention, the home office does a road trip to 26 different stops around US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Portland, Or was our closest location. One of my team members Melissa joined me. Very very worth it, $60 to attend and with that you kit a free product kit valued at over $100 and then there was the amazing training. We had guest speakers and tons of videos and the atmosphere was amazing, so much excitement. I'm not talking about a cheesy, fake, direct selling meeting, I have been there before and heard horror stories from customers afraid that. Scentsy is different, its is hard to explain but there is something about the passion that comes from everyone involved, from the presidents (Heidi and Orville) to the manufacturers.


My free product kit!!!!!

After the amazing training we met up with my up line for dinner. The girl I signed up under, left 2 months after I joined so I never really had an up line. Until Kim with Smells Angels finally took me on. She is amazing, but lives in Idaho, it was nice to finally get to hang out with her and her team.

We had dinner, drinks and all started telling our stories. It was amazing how the only thing we had in common was Scentsy in the beginning, but every conversation became about God. We shared our stories how God has blessed our business, how God had healed a broken marriage on the verge of divorce, how He has brought long lost family members back together, and so on. That is when I truly felt the glory of God.
I started thinking back to my happiest moments in my Scentsy journey and they all involve God, my best hostess that I would have never met with out Scentsy, I talked to her about our church and now she is a member, her kids love it we do groups together. How I can proudly talk about being a Christian and not having to worry about offending anyone. I have 3 consultants on my team that I had never met before, they searched for a consultant in their area and read all their stories, and all of them have said they choose me because of my story and that I mentioned God and how Scentsy has blessed me. Everytime I gave up and prayed for God to let me know if I should even continue to persue this adventure, I have had direct signs to keep going.
I know I can't support my family on Scentsy alone, but I know that if God wants me to, He will provide. I can put my trust in Him and continue to spread his message along with some amazing scents!
So here are a few new things that is coming up with Scentsy

These are Scentsy Babies, half the size of the regular buddies and so freaking cute!!!

Come on, check out that face!!!!

Our newest brand that will start May 1st is Velata. It is the same concept of a Scentsy warmer, but it warms chocolate! Yes, a fondue pot!!!!

Very excited about this, 4 different Belgian (yes I said Belgian!) chocolate flavors, Milk, Dark, White and Carmel Chocolate! This will be a great gift, and such a fun party!
Our next Scentsy adventure? Dennis and I are roadtripping to Las Vegas for the big convention in July. I can't wait!!!!!!