Mary kay Ash had a very tough childhood growing up as a poor girl. She faced divorce and to support her kids, she worked as a saleswomen. Eventually she started Mary Kay cosmetics, a cosmetics company with the main intention of helping women earn income without a traditional job and taking care of their families.
She started with $5000 and turned it into more than a billion dollars.
What you could learn from this episode:
- How a poor girl turned entrepreneurial by her circumstances.
- How she faced her personal setback.
- What impossible goal she set for herself
- Why she quit her job.
- Her painful depression
- Stumbling into her idea for her new company.
- The message she focused her company on.
- How the word spread
- What she did differently from others.