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More on Mary Kay: Why The Pink Pyramid Wants You to Have It All
As a follow-up to yesterday’s announcement about my article, The Pink Pyramid Scheme (which, annoyingly, is behind a paywall online right now — I know!), I‘ve written a companion piece that you can...
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Backstory: How Beauty U Led to Mary Kay
Another coda to The Pink Pyramid Scheme — and more free online content for y’all! The Investigative Fund asked me to blog about why I went to beauty school in the first place, since that is, of...
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[Virginia on the Radio] NPR’s On Point Investigates Mary Kay
In case you missed it live yesterday, here’s the podcast of NPR’s On Point, which devoted its second hour yesterday to Investigating Mary Kay, inspired by my Harper’s article. The show was...
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[Inside the Pink Pyramid] But You Aren’t Required To Buy the Inventory…
Industry Claim #1: Nobody is required to buy inventory. This is true. Antonella even told me so when we did my official Mary Kay orientation: You’re not required to purchase a single thing from Mary...
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[Inside the Pink Pyramid] But Of Course, Our Products End Up With the Retail...
When I spoke with Laura Beitler, Mary Kay’s Vice President of Compliance, on NPR’s On Point on Monday, she was quick to emphasize that “absolutely, the majority of our products end up with the end...
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[Virginia on the Radio] KERA’s Think with Krys Boyd on The Beauty Business
I spent a fun hour on NPR’s KERA this afternoon, as a guest of THINK with Krys Boyd. The show airs live in Texas, where 30,000 Mary Kay consultants are currently gathered for the annual Seminar in...
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[Virginia on the Radio] NPR’s Marketplace with Tess Vigeland
And one last radio update for you before the weekend! This interview with Tess Vigeland aired on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday evening. It’s just five minutes — much shorter than my other segments and...
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[Inside the Pink Pyramid] Women Join Direct Sales For All Kinds of Reasons
Everyone in the direct sales industry will tell you this. Last week, Mary Kay’s Vice President of Compliance, Laura Beitler told me on NPR’s On Point. Then Joseph Mariano, head of the Direct Selling...
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[Virginia on the Radio] KUER’s RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio
Another radio podcast for y’all, in case you missed me yesterday on NPR affiliate KUER’s RadioWest with Doug Fabrizio. The RadioWest folks invited me and Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer to...
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[Inside the Pink Pyramid] CBSNews.com MoneyWatch Interview
I did a really interesting interview this week with Amy Levin-Epstein, who writes for CBS MoneyWatch. We talked about why Mary Kay is so appealing to so many women, especially right now in the midst...
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