Written by Parsons Green

Jamie Taylor‘s Monthly Red Reports serve as a visible example of women on the sales director hamster wheel.

Let’s look at the most recent report.

Kaitlyn Stinespring finished the month as a Mary Kay sales director. Her husband was amazed by her success. On the last day of the month, she only had $1500 production, but somehow God (and her credit cards came through) and she was able to complete DIQ. I am sure that the next few months will be just as hard, and there’s no better evidence than some of the other names on the DIQ and Team Leader List.

Failed director Lauren Wagner is back in DIQ for about the 87th time. After her 1st month back in DIQ, she had a 50% off inventory sale. Now I thought a consultant should only order inventory if she’s sold those items to a customer. Surely Lauren’s not ordering product to earn her title.

Lauren spent her Mother’s Day (with 3 kids and 1 month old newborn) running a giveaway for tumblers.

Cheyenne Husak is another failed Mary Kay director. I wonder why she’s still wearing her Director’s Jacket in her Mary Kay profile?

Kierstin Houston is in Chelsea’s unit. She lost her director title very quickly because she didn’t  meet the $4500 monthly production requirements two months in a row.  But Kierstin’s team must be killing it because she is now back in DIQ.

I’m sure that losing her directorship was all Kierstin’s fault because she didn’t work the plan, but this time around she’s going to do it right! I’m curious, though, how being #4 in the Verge area for personal ordering and therefore appearing successful, fits in with not working hard enough.

Michelle Bailey was part of the director lineup when Jamie earned her nsd title. In May 2023, she was called to start building the Vision National Area. She has since lost her directorship, so I think maybe she needs a new she needs a new prescription for her glasses and her vision.

Nikki Kjome also earned and lost her director title and is trying to get it back. Her senior director, Mercedez Bates has faith she can do it! Not only Nikki she her director, she’s also Mercedez’s mom!

And Robin Wilkes, Megan Coleman’s mom. She was a second line director for Jamie Taylor in March 2021 when she completed the requirements to be appointed nsd. Robin lost her director title shortly after that and has been trying again and trying again. January 2024 she was back in a Red Jacket. April 2025, she’s still in that jacket.

So many other names on the list are repeat offenders. Violette Bolen. Teresa Gibson. If you were a consultant in Jamie’s area, wouldn’t this concern you? Jamie needs the churn the DIQ process brings. To keep her title, she must meet one of three requirements:

• Eight first line directors (which she does not have)
• A combination of twenty first-second-third line directors (which she will never have)
• 125,000 in comissions from her downline. She met this requirement in February.

The third requirement is the one that keeps Jamie looking successful. And sure, it sounds great to have over $100k in commissions. But this is by no means a successful area. What the commissions number means is that people in the downline are great at getting larger orders from new recruits. But this is hard to sustain.

Mary Kay as a company is in a slow death spiral. Look no further than the reduction in the number of divisions because of the shrinking consultant count.

If Jamie was smart, she’d be looking for her next career. Cue the “exciting new offer” from Jamie, offering business and life coaching to women! That’s likely to start in 3, 2, 1……