Nov 29, 2021
A few months ago, I came across a local news article about Mary Kay Ash and it triggered, let’s use the work “sparked!” my interest to read more. And did it ever. That day I ordered all the books by Mary Kay Ash and her company I could find that early morning:
I finished Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash. Isn’t it amazing, only a few chapters in and it’s allowed me to connect the dots with such whimsy and reframe the experience! Immediately I’m feeling a kinship of her values, struggles, risk taking decisions and feeling nostalgic over the good ole’ days of my youth. The ornery pain of the pesky publication jab quite literary evaporated. Strange, freeing and knowing that the time was now only because I was ready. I was ready to revisit those pains and memories...now, today- so that I might be able to understand the deeper lesson, to put them into context and see the full storyboard. The story where Mary Kay, her dream and almost out of dire, tragic circumstance-her sheer will and firm determination, backing herself despite the naysayers, living by the and creating the foundational blocks of her empire by the Golden Rule was and has been a part of me. As I am only in the early chapters of the first book I purchased, the pink power overwhelmes and heals my heart. It seems her impact was just a powerful in my life, without me realizing it, as it must have been for all of the women who actually were and are fortunate souls to wear the Mary Kay Consultant name badge.
But there is more to the story...
Mark Kay Cosmetics & Home Interiors and Gifts was a memorable part of my childhood, our Mother was a Mary Kay Cosmetics Consultant, in the late 1970’s-who also then became a Home Interiors and Gifts Independent Contractor Displayer Business Woman-in the early 80’s. We had at one point, an enclosed portion of our sunroom or mudroom to have a little boutique space at our home. Pegboard displays, getting in shipments to unpack with Styrofoam peanuts sticking to everything, her desk it was great-home office before it was cool! I still get a kick out of seeing and pointing out so many of these décor items still in people’s homes today, or in photos, now making the thrift shop and antique store shelves. And Oh the prizes she earned silver punch bowl set, goblets, diamond rings (which have given blessings X10 in, that’s another story!) and the lapel pins...just as Mary Kay Ash describes in her book.
In fact, one of the most impressionable memories and stories is when my Mother and Aunt Chris traveled...on an airplane (that was huge in my head then), to Dallas, Texas (even huger!) for a Mary Kay Seminar! Drop the mic. Dallas...TEXAS...that was unimaginable as a little girl living in a small town in Michigan. When she got home, she wasn’t empty handed...