My first impression of Mary Kay Ash was formed before I even met her or worked at the company. Twenty-five years ago, I was sitting in the human resources lobby waiting for my first job interview with Mary Kay’s Corporate Human Resources Manager (my...
One of my very favorite Mary Kay stories was passed along to me by one of the company’s first lawyers who years later became the General Counsel of Mary Kay Inc. He shared that his final interview before being hired by the company was with Mary Kay Ash...
Twenty-five years ago, I moved to Russia on a one-way ticket and embarked on an amazing adventure that led me to Mary Kay, and to a life very different from the one I had imagined for myself. The words my mother told me at the time, when I had no job and...
After a long and successful career in the direct selling industry, Mary Kay Ash could have easily decided to retire for good but her passion to create opportunity for women drove her to start her own company that is now 55 years strong and in nearly 40...
Mary Kay Ash once said, “Our future belongs to those who see the possibilities before those possibilities become obvious.” Truer words were never spoken!
Everyone is born with imagination – that special ability to see new ideas, images or concepts in...
The Wizard of Oz has always been one of my favorite movies. Its annual airing on TV was highly anticipated in my household growing up. Kansas was always shown in black and white. But in OZ …everything was in bright vivid color. Especially that yellow brick road.
It’s a special day for our Mary Kay family! May 12th marks what would have been my grandmother’s 100th birthday. What I know for sure as we celebrate her century-long legacy is that Mary Kay Ash was a woman ahead of her time, all the time. She stepped out into a man’s world in the 1960’s to blaze a new path for women and in doing so, she built a company with the progressive purpose of empowering women.
