“This is not the happily ever after. This is just the beginning .”
These are the prophetic words of Carole “Queenie” Sellar, only two weeks after achieving marketing Executive of the Year in 2016. That year was a big one for Carole, advancing four times, and qualifying for five expenses-paid training and convention trips with her Melaleuca family – or “Melatives”, as she affectionately calls them. While such an amazing year full of achievements may have felt like a dream come true, even Carole was shocked to find out that she’d yet again won Marketing Executive of the Year, for 2017. “I don’t think I’d actually gotten over the shock of winning the year before!” Carole exclaims, “There are so many awesome leaders doing such a great job of enhancing lives every day, it could have been any one of them.” Carole’s Melaleuca team, and the friends she has made since starting her Cinderella journey in 2013 are undoubtedly what she holds the dearest about her experience so far. “I’ve made many new friends - or Melatives, as we fondly call them - along the way. Every day I thank the universe for such a wonderful life. Nothing compares to the five days spent holidaying with Daniel, Mel, Natalia and the beautiful leaders from Australia and New Zealand. For me, life definitely started at 60. I have never experienced such fun, laughter, and tears of joy…” But it’s not all about holidays in Fiji and awards for Carole, who remembers when she found her “why”. “Helping people enhance lives and watching them grow, blossom in to new people, leaving negative pasts behind is inspirational for me because we all have a story.” After battling serious liver toxicity caused by harsh chemicals and long, hard working days running her own domestic cleaning business,
Carole was eventually faced with an impossible choice to risk her life continuing to progress her business, or sell her family home. It was at this difficult time that she was approached by Senior Director 9 Yvette Brewin. “I use my story whenever I meet someone. I’m not ashamed to share my past with anyone because they see the positive person I am today. Melaleuca is the company that changes you.” “It’s only been two weeks since the excitement of Convention and receiving Marketing Executive of the Year.” says Carole, who’s already looking forward to the year ahead. “Being awarded Marketing Executive of the Year two years running has inspired me so much to have my biggest year yet in 2018.” And she’s got her sights set high: “I have to announce on stage “wow I got a hat trick!”” After finding out that a hat trick is three in a row, Carole’s obvious answer is “Really…well, I’d better make it three.” As all good leaders do, Carole has taken her success and shared it with her team at Melaleuca, and the lives of everyone else that her vibrant and inspiring story touches. “It meant so much to have my team in the room
because without them this award would not be mine. I’m so blessed to have such a big Melaleuca family… Thank you for coming in to my life and, more importantly, for staying there. I wish all the teams a massive 2018. Let’s show Frank Vandersloot how much we care for others, by enhancing the lives of those we touch, by helping people reach their goals.
The rags-to-riches princess Cinderella has been crowned Queenie. And her story’s not finished yet.
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MARCH 2018 | MELALEUCA.COM
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