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Dianne Norman -Cookie Lee Jewelry
Dianne & Wayne
Personal
How it started: Dianne was raised in a Catholic family complete with 3 different stepfathers. She enjoyed sports and singing during her youth. She was saved at the age of 12 at a Covenant Church Camp. That event sparked attendance at a Foursquare Church where she matured as Christian… led worship in her church and found a prophetic gifting for encouraging others. Dianne has a naturally “bright” personality and uses her energy to bring hope and life to others.
She met Wayne in high school and they worked together at a pizza restaurant. Dianne was counseled not to date a young man a second time if he wouldn’t accept an invitation to church. Wayne took up the offer and got saved and the courtship continued another year before they married. Dianne finished college after the birth of the first of three boys.
She worked and tried network marketing to facilitate spending more time with her family. She excelled and earned trips and bonuses. She then hit a phase where she got so consumed in her business that Wayne resisted it and she felt she wasn’t giving her kids the full attention that they deserved. However, this business experience laid an incredible foundation for her current business, Cookie Lee Jewelry. Dianne loves jewelry, dresses well, and enjoys the business / ministry she has with other women. Wayne is very supportive of her business and enjoys his occasional role in hosting shows and developing software for her group.
Wayne and Dianne have held positions in their church (marriage ministries, worship leaders). At one point they were being groomed to pastor and found themselves resisting it. Here’s why in Dianne’s words: “The main check in our spirits’ about being sent out as pastors’ was honestly money. We both LOVE to give and Wayne has a huge gift of giving, but we also both see ourselves making a lot of money. That was always hard to admit, even to each other. We are now RELEASED for so much MORE!!”
Giving, without reservation is something I see myself doing and am just now doing more and more. I LOVE to see a need and just FILL it! To cheer someone up or to throw them a housewarming, take them out for lunch, surprise them with a gift, to bless a single-mom, whatever….when the finances are there, Wayne and I will be the first to write the check out and say, “How much do you need?"
Personal Passion: Dianne had a prophetic word about being a “prophetess of joy” that has stayed with her through the years. She has a gift of encouragement and a calling to bring hope and life – especially to women needing to lift their vision. Her business provides a natural venue to minister to her marketplace congregation. Her heart is to impart even a glimpse of the Passion their Father God has for them.
On a more practical note, Dianne simply enjoys tasteful and colorful jewelry. She naturally connects with other women who do as well. She loves to give sincere compliments on something someone is wearing that leads to conversation about her business, a sale, and a friendship.
Personal Benefit: Dianne has been in Cookie Lee for 2 years and has already replaced her income from a job. She and Wayne will go on an expense paid trip to the Bahamas in June and enjoyed an amazing 8 day cruise around the Hawaiian Islands. She may be in line for a Mercedes by summer depending on business volume.
Dianne loves the personal contact from doing shows in homes, offices, and bazaars… It’s like “girl’s night out.” It’s especially satisfying to see personal, financial, and spiritual growth in her down line. Seeing other women progress through making their car payment, money for re-modeling, and a housekeeper, FUN money, whatever they want…. it is rewarding!
Value to others: In a word, it’s “sisterhood.” The sense of developing new friendships, feeling connected, and having fun together is a drawing card. Dianne often takes other women interested in Cookie Lee to the showroom in Seattle. The 2 hours in the car coming and going usually turn into some form of ministry. Women naturally tend to open up and will sometimes pour their hearts out to her with out prompting. They routinely draw upon her pastoral quotient and gravitate toward the color she puts into the lives of others.
Business Potential (upside): The sale of Cookie-Lee Jewelry has a lucrative return for representatives like Dianne. (You earn 50% retail profit.) She’s gets to wear her product and network with other women. The program includes free leadership training and the opportunity to earn vacations and awards. Network marketing is designed to help people get involved and get the training and personal development they need to succeed. It's an excellent place to start in business for anyone. It's also is an excellent second income opportunity where you can learn vital business skills at low cost. Especially selling, organizing, making presentations, accounting, team building, negotiating, persuading, and communicating. 85 percent of what you need to learn to be successful in business you can learn from running a successful Network marketing business.
Complexities, failures (downside): Every business has to be worked with diligence. And, like every business, the people that want to join Cookie-Lee don't all maintain their enthusiasm and finish the course. About 40% decide not to continue which is typical for most network marketing endeavors and also typical for any business start-up.
Vision for the Kingdom: Dianne and Wayne’s first priorities are three boys approaching their teenage years. Wayne is about to create their business web site to explore the internet approach to sales. They both have a strong aptitude to teach and train in conference settings with a spiritual overtone. They are both natural givers that love to help others financially, spiritually, and personally.
Impact from Releasing Kings: Dianne read Releasing Kings and then attended the conference on the book which Wayne help sponsor through the FGBMFI. The conference and the book gave Wayne and Dianne a great sense of permission to excel in their business. They have been freed to completely enjoy it; free from any residual guilt (poverty) over being blessed financially; and freed into the sense that real ministry can occur outside the church. They are "going."
How Dianne Can Help You: Dianne represents a viable business opportunity for any woman in any culture. She’s a natural encourager with a call to release women into the freedom of being entrepreneurial and missions-minded. If you have an interest, feel free to call her.
Wayne & Dianne - on a cruise (You can too) http://www.cookielee.biz/esuite/home/diannenorman
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