Top Director Quits Mary Kay and Loses Her Friends
In 2020, Kelly Brock was a top director in Mary Kay. She had recently gone on the “top director trip” with her husband. She was celebrated in Mary Kay as one of the up and coming future national sales directors. She was charismatic and well-liked. She was a recruiting machine, and her upline certainly enjoyed the money she made for them when she frontloaded new recruits with big inventory packages.
And then she quit Mary Kay.
And she lost all of her Mary Kay friends. Why? They had no use for her anymore. Her upline doesn’t make any money from her, and they’re taught to only spend time with those who earn them a living. More importantly, she was a QUITTER. In MK, there is to be NO negative talk. Quitting is negative. Women may see that Mary Kay isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. If a top director leaves???? Why???? Questions, questions, and suddenly maybe the truth is revealed to more consultants.
Listen to Kelly talk about her coaching business and the success she had. I think the most the heartbreaking part about how she was discarded by her Mary Kay “friends” when she quit.
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Sadly, the fear of losing those faux friendships keeps women in Mary Kay longer than most can afford. This is just one of the many cult tactics used in MLMs like Mary Kay to squeeze more money out of the sales force. Nothing is real in MLM. The business opportunity, the relationships, the retail business, the value/efficacy of the products…none of it is real.
I just retired, this month, from my corporate job. I threw a big bash for my current and former colleagues. Everyone wished me well in retirement, and those I left behind on the job said they would miss me at the office. Some even shared envy that I was retiring before them. All agreed to keep in touch. This is what a healthy work relationship looks like…and from a J-O-B no less!
Pity Party here. Everyone has problems.
I was not prepared for that hurt when o left directorship, but I am so grateful I learn that lesson. The pain drew me to the amazing life I have today.
I don’t think any of our former directors were ready for the hurt. Just ask Raisinberry, PinkPeace, and SuzyQ, our oldest members here, who were all in MK for years and years.
Kelly? Why are you shocked? You probably did this countless times yourself.
It’ll be interesting to see how many more of these stories will come from this year’s seminar. I’m sure there must be some top people who are done! I heard seminar was pitiful compared to past years and “sales” continue to shrink.
“Thousands of friends” , babe, you don’t have enough hours in a year to connect with thousands of people, in any meaningful way.
I had witnessed many times how consultants and Directors preyed on the vulnerable girl, the maybe not so popular girl, the plain girl, the shy girl who would suddenly feel beautiful and have an abundance of new “friends” and recognition if she simply started her Mary Kay “business” today! For many of these women the Mary Kay friends were the only ones they had. How devastating for them to finally realize they were never friends at all.
Spun Silk, this is a descriptor of me! I wasn’t really an “outcast” but I’ve always marched to the beat of my own drum. I’m colorful, unique, unusual, quiet, reserved, intelligent. I never had a lot of friends. But MK scooped me up and just LOVED me! I kept pouring myself into it, getting bigger and bigger credit card bills in return. My director(s) love bombed me, bread crumbed me, it worked so well for them. I was the perfect target. I fell like I was a part of “something bigger than myself.” Ugh it’s heartbreaking to think about!