Retired NSDs and Their Director Sons
Written by Parsons Green
When Mary Kay national sales directors retire, they must assign consultants from their personal unit to one of their first line sales directors. This nsd Emeritus Guide discusses the process:
The company includes a suggestion from retired nsds: Hold a contest between all of your first line directors and let them know they can earn your consultants:
“Communicating your plans to First-Line Sales Directors early in the final year and
having them work to earn the unit members or understand that a close relative may
inherit the entire unit seems to prevent hard feelings during your final active months.”
Let them compete, or tell them there is no chance because you are giving your unit to a family member. Sounds fun!
Kathy Oliveira posted on YouTube in August 2024 that she would be retiring from Mary Kay that year because she reached the required age of 65. After careful consideration, her son Johnny had decided to join Mary Kay in February 2024 and was in the DIQ process in August. Cathy was very excited, because Mary Kay would never retire from her heart, and she could guide Johnny behind the scenes on running her Warriors of Faith Unit.
The catch to “inheriting” his mom’s unit is that he has to become a sales director first, which means recruiting and getting the production. But once that’s done, he’s ready to be handed a big unit with no work on his part.
Johnny finished his DIQ in ONE MONTH and earned a Unit Club his very first year!!! Imagine doing $300k your first year with mommy’s unit. He briefly rebranded the unit as Glow Getters but by seminar it was back to the Warriors of Faith.
Who knew that all it took to go on target for a pink Cadillac was to inherit a large unit that already had high monthly production?
Pamela Shaw also retired this year and left her unit to her son Tommy. Tommy was born during seminar 1994! And fun fact…. Tommy lives with Pam at the ripe old age of 31.
Tommy finished the $550,000 unit club this year. He looks to be having fun at seminar too.
I’m not sure if any of Cathy or Pam’s directors were angry that they gave their units to their son’s instead of their first line directors. Surely this didn’t affect Pam’s first line director Cindy Machado who announced this year that she was no longer going to actively work her Mary Kay business. I’m sure Cathy and Pam’s directors can see how hard these gentlemen directors are working in their first year as Mary Kay directors. If their mothers are truly doing the work behind the scenes, Johnny and Tommy are at least putting on a show that they are.
Stay tuned for a post about two daughter directors who are not as public with their participation in Mary Kay. Diane Mentiply’s daughter Rochelle Ferguson and Linda Toupin’s daugther Katie.
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Johnny’s use of emojis is conspicuously similar to his mother’s. Its almost as if she is personally drafting his posts for him!
This is very obviously a total sham. Would not be possible without mommy handing over the keys and basically continuing the grind behind the scenes. I wonder how they split the money? And come on: everyone can see through this.
Gosh, I didn’t realize salmon fishing in Alaska was an income-producing activity for a Mary Kay director! He even had the temerity to say that red is better than pink!!!
This must be how Mr. Shaw is funding his Lego hobby. His Lego IG is more active than the one where he posted that screenshot in the article. 31, lives with mom, loves Legos and “works” in Mary Kay. Gee, what a catch.
I love that the theme of the party is piracy
What ranks were they before? The emeritus packet (bottom of pg 23) says for someone to qualify to inherit a unit they have to be an independent sales director for at least one year.
Did these nepo boys technically qualify?
Don’t their sons feel emasculated wearing pink, carrying roses and wearing sashes that are for women??? I couldn’t do that to my son or husband!!!! I bet they never held a class nor do they know makeup application. ROFL! Rediciolous!
“Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.” — Claire Luce
“Emasculated” was the first word that came to mind for me as well. I guess to be politically correct, I’ll say that if either of these two offspring identify in any way other than typical heterosexual males and are in fact super excited to be driving around in a Mary Kay pink caddy, well cool. But that doesn’t erase the blatant nepotism. Plus I doubt that’s the case for either. How embarrassing for them…but hey, gotta pay a price for being given what thousands of others go into serious debt to even attempt to achieve. If the cost is giving up their dignity, so be it.
It is so unfair for the other Directors in an NSD’s area. I mentioned awhile ago that Lisa Madson was probably going to give her unit consultants to her daughter. Apparently she gave them to her early and the daughter went from not even making Circle of Achievement to the top Sales Director Unit in the month of July.
Info came from my friend who is still in MK and was in Lisa’s unit and is now in the daughter’s unit. She actually tried to get me to rejoin to help her “new” director get to 2 million this Seminar year! I have told her about PT but she refuses to look at “that negative site” One day she’ll learn I hope!
I find the nepotism disgusting. There is no way on earth these guys have worked in MK. Their mommy’s have done the leg work, and probably taking a cut. Another way to fund their forced retirement.
is Gillian Ortega still and active NSD? if she is… is Vinnie working to take over?
I sincerely hope all of this really shows the sales force how corrupt this all is… and jump ship- asap!
Seriously…. these boys (yes boys.. not men) need to go purchase some cajones and get a life- AWAY from their controlling mothers.
And these NSD’s… need to let their precious boys grow up and figure out life and stand on their own 2 feet.
Makes me physically sick and irrationally angry
stabby, even