Jennifer McKay is no stranger to reinvention. Born and raised in New Orleans, she completed a communications degree before moving to Los Angeles and starting a twenty-year career in marketing. Later, married with children, she moved with her family back to Louisiana and a new career as a stay-at-home mom. After five years, however, McKay was restless. She knew she needed to get back to work but the idea of returning to corporate America was daunting. Her reinvention as an entrepreneur began when her sister started a direct sales company. Soon, McKay was part of the #1 skincare brand in the country, raising a team of consultants and building her own organization within the company. Listen to her conversation with Covey Club founder Lesley Jane Seymour to discover how McKay rediscovered her passion for fine art in her 50s and embraced her identity as an artist. “It’s such a personal thing to create,” McKay advises. “And it’s such a generous thing to offer for the world.”
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Jennifer McKay is a Louisiana artist currently living in Lafayette, LA. Her abstract art consists of mixed-media paintings and sculptural pieces.
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Time Stamps:
2:33 – Growing up in New Orleans and starting in marketing
3:20 – Stay-at-home reinvention
5:00 – Starting sales with older sister
10:48 – Working up to the top of the company
11:38 – The art of failing
13:28 – How you can balance success and stress
17:37 – Why you need a mentor
23:20 – Joy and learning
27:05 – The importance of positive self-talk
30:50 – Success at any age
#227 How to Rethink Your Attitude Towards a Side Hustle When You’re Over 40 (Aliza Freud)
#226 How to Hire a Virtual Assistant and Reimagine Time For You (Kristy Yoder)
#225 Her Reinvention Took Her from NASA to Podcasting (Izolda Trakhtenberg)
#224 When Healing from Your Childhood Trauma Leads to Radical Self-Awareness (Poonam Bhuchar)
#223 How to Reinvent Yourself as a Writer – and Actually Make Money! (Rebecca Weber)
#222 When Your Reinvention Takes You From Entrepreneurship to the Corporate World (Barbara Viteri)
#221: World Menopause Day: A Special Conversation with Michelle Jacobs (Co-Founder, Womanness)
#220 Reinventing After Reaching the Top of the Mountain (Shelley Paxton)
#219 90% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Why You Should Reinvent Through a Franchise (Kim Daly)
#217 Reinventing from a Stable Career to Fill a Need Gap (Sharon Linder)
#216 From Stay-at-Home Mom to Addiction Recovery Maven (Felicia Montiforte Kleinpeter)
#215 Her Health Crisis Led her to Start a Nonprofit at 27 (Donna Cryer)
#214 When Covid Forces You to Pivot – and You Thrive (Sarah LaFleur)
#213 Reinventing How Women 50+ Are Seen in the Fashion Industry (Stephanie O’Dell)
#212 She Wrote the Guidebook for Midlife Reinvention (Joanne Lipman)
#211 The Secret to a Successful Reinvention (Katie Fogarty)
#210 What to Do When You’re Bored With Your Job (Shilpa Kulshrestha)
#209: He Decided to Start a New Business – Every Year! (Sean Castrina)
#208 Taking Her Reinvention Story to the Stage (LeeAnn Marie Webster)
#208 Reinventing Your Relationship to Uncertainty (Jill Griffin)
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