Me and Mary Kay

My new favorite nickname is Mom-trepreneur.  Which I was lovingly dubbed by my husband because of my Mary Kay business.  He likes to take some credit for it's success but I guess that's only fair since it was HIS idea.

I have been building my Mary Kay business for 9 months and it began as a way for my husband and I to start a business venture together.  At first, when he came to me with the idea of joining Mary Kay I thought he was off his rocker.  I wasn't sure WHO I would sell it to or HOW to sell it for that matter! Not to mention at the time I had a one month old baby and I was getting ready to go back to my full time job from maternity leave.  There couldn’t have been a worse time.  But those of you who know my husband know that he can be quite persuasive.  He was all, “Babe, we can spend more time together in the evenings working on a business plan instead of watching TV.” And “sweetie, it’ll be great!  We’ll make a couple hundred extra dollars a week for vacations and Mary Kay offers a 90% buy back guarantee so even if it doesn't work out, we’re covered!”  How could I resist his charm??

I also have a full time job as a high school science teacher as well as 3 girls, Sydney (14), Peyton (4), and Arlene (11 months).  I'm a busy mommy to say the least so when we started our Mary Kay adventure it really was just to make a couple hundred extra dollars here and there.  Our plan was to use it for family vacations and home improvement projects.   It has turned into SO MUCH MORE!  I am less than two months away from earning my FIRST FREE CAR!  I'm also bringing in a great supplemental income that is growing every month.

One thing I never realized when I first joined this company is that Mary Kay is about so much more than just skincare and cosmetics!  We really are about changing women's lives and financial situations.  It's so amazing to hear from National sales directors who are making millions of dollars a year in this business but when they started they were living in their car, or in a hippy commune, or driving a UPS truck...SERIOUSLY!  What I’ve found so empowering is that Mary Kay is allowing women to break the glass ceiling!  The sky is the limit and I can see so many big things in my future because of this business.  I will be able to pay cash for my kids to go to college because of Mary Kay.  I'll be able to travel the world with my hubby and not pay a cent for it!  In one month I'll say goodbye to car payments for the REST OF MY LIFE!

When someone joins Mary Kay they send her a beautiful starter kit in the mail that is full of everything you could need to start a business.  However, there were also a lot of other things in my starter kit that you might not expect.  In that starter kit I soon found a renewed self confidence that had been a little lost since having kids and working from home.  I mean let's face it, I would rush to get out of my jammies at 5pm so that Jonathan wouldn't know I'd been in them all day...cat's out of the bag now I guess!  In that starter kit there were also so many new friends, some of which have already seen their lives change because I chose to start my Mary Kay business.  There are 3 little girls in my starter kit named Sydney, Peyton, and Arlene that will grow up seeing their mom strive for big goals, fail, get up, try again, and SUCCEED!  Mary Kay will teach them amazing life lessons through me.  Finally, in my starter kit was my husband with a look of pride in his eyes...there is nothing else in the world like it.