Feb. 11, 2025

Becoming the Best Version of YOU with Mary Kominska | RR297

Becoming the Best Version of YOU with Mary Kominska | RR297

Personal growth isn’t just about learning new skills—it’s about challenging old patterns, setting boundaries, and becoming the best version of yourself.

Mary Kominska, an entrepreneur, mindset coach, and creator of the T.E.A. course, knows firsthand how transformational that journey can be. After years in corporate life and direct sales, she discovered that real change starts with shifting thoughts, emotions, and actions. Her experiences with personal struggles led her to develop a system that helps others take control of their lives with clarity and purpose.

From learning to set boundaries that actually stick to embracing self-care as a necessity rather than a luxury, Mary shares the powerful lessons that reshaped her relationships and career. Managing yourself—not just your time—becomes a game-changer when you balance multiple roles with intention. Her story is filled with resilience, reinvention, and the mindset shifts that turn life’s challenges into opportunities for growth.

Highlights:

Learn how to set and enforce boundaries that improve your relationships and protect your energy.

Discover why self-care is more than just a luxury—it’s a necessity for long-term success.

Gain insights into how managing yourself, not just your schedule, leads to greater productivity and fulfillment.

Explore how curiosity and asking better questions can open new doors in business and life.

Understand the power of shifting your mindset to break free from old habits and create meaningful change.

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Transcript
Janice Porter:

Hi everyone, and welcome to this week's episode



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of relationships rule. My guest today is Mary Kaminska, and I



Janice Porter:

want to just say Hi Mary and Welcome Hi Janice. Thank you so



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much for having me My pleasure. Mary and I haven't known each



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other that long. We did meet through a little networking



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online group that we both belonged to, and took it from



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there, really, because now we've connected in so many different



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ways. And I want to just mention a couple of things, because Mary



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is definitely an entrepreneur. She does so many different



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things, and she helps a lot of people with the things that she



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does, I think first and foremost, and I think what has



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and correct me if I'm wrong, Mary, but what, what I think has



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influenced her a lot in her life today is 18 years with a direct



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sales company, And that's a long time, and I know from my



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experience with network marketing, same thing, network



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marketing, direct sales, are under the same umbrella. I have



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learned and and been been drawn to, a lot of personal growth.



Janice Porter:

And I think you probably would agree with me. I'm not sure what



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do you say to that?



Mary Kominska:

Oh, I agree. 100% when I worked in corporate, I I



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was never given that opportunity. They don't really



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want you to grow. Yeah, and right? And so you, you kind of



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have to, when you're your own boss, you have to figure things



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out. So I 100% that's one of the many things I love about being



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an entrepreneur, is I'm forced to grow. Yeah,



Janice Porter:

exactly. So along with the direct sales company



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that you've been with for all of that time, I know that you that



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you're certified mindset coach, certified master mindset coach,



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and you also teach this four week course called T, as in T,



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dot, e dot, a which stands for thoughts guide our emotions and



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influence our actions. And I want to start there, because I



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just took this course with you, and I know my audience can't see



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this, but eventually, maybe they will. And that is the booklet



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that went with the course called T. And you did such a great job,



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Mary, that I wanted to start there, because everything about



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that program speaks to relationship, and in this case,



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relationship with self, and it's really an important thing that a



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lot of us let go by the wayside Having self care and learning



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more about ourselves and being not so hard on ourselves all the



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time. So I'd love you to tell my audience a little bit about the



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program and maybe even how it started, and what your what your



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wishes for it.



Mary Kominska:

I love that. Thank you, Janice, and I was so



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grateful that you joined it and that you found value in it. And



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the journey to be where I am is quite interesting. And I think



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everyone is because we all have a story. I it was in 2018 and if



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you had asked me if I had boundaries, I said yes, but I



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really didn't. I would tell you what you could or couldn't do,



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but I didn't really know how to communicate it, and I sure as



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heck didn't know how to follow through with it. And so the day



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that I needed to call the police, and my son was arrested



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from my house for using heroin, there happened to be a



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boundaries class that night, and I said yes, and I went down



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there, not knowing what I was walking into. Lots of signs



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pointed me to why I was supposed to be there. So I ended up,



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after a year of practicing, get a phone call asking if I would



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be interested in CO facilitating the class. And I was like,



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You're funny. Like, I ain't got these figured out. And, and she



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said, No. She said, You are practicing them. That's what



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it's all about. And and I'm seeing the results of what



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you're doing with your son and even with your business. And so



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I really just, I want, I want you to spend some time and just



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really process that. And what have I got to lose, right? Like,



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I'm going to learn. Because a lot of times when we teach, we



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learn even more than that, absolutely, right. And so that



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started a beautiful journey, and did that for over three years.



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And even when COVID hit, it was in person, and we were at the



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process wanting it to go to multiple locations. It was only



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at one location, and we were wanting it to get to multiple



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locations. And then we had finally gotten one at one



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location, the one at the big location where I was and COVID



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hit, and we had to figure out what to do and zoom it became.



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And so we took those two courses and and then everything was on



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Zoom. And Janice, you gotta realize, I heard you say four



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weeks, and you just went through. Four weeks when I first



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took the course the boundaries, actual course itself, it was



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nine weeks. It then became 13 weeks because everybody wanted



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it longer. It was also two and a half hours



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each each class, each week, each week. So what



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was the actual name? It wasn't just called boundaries. Oh, just



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boundaries. Okay.



Mary Kominska:

Dr Henry Cloud and Townsend are the ones who



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wrote it. It's been around for years. Oh, okay. It is very,



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very scripture. Heavy. It is. It was very biblical, blue written,



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okay, and but it's very, it was very life changing for me. One



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of the things that I found throughout it though Janice is



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they never talked about thoughts. And so I would come



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along as a facilitator, saying, everything starts in your



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thoughts. So as a facilitator, I could kind of create my own



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thing. And I mean, the the concept is great, and it was



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fab, feelings, attitudes, behavior. And so when the time



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came, the main guy who was facilitating it with me, life



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had changed for him. Life had changed for me. And I knew that



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I was being called to write this course, but I also knew that it



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was to have zero scripture. It was only to be about the human



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experience, so that anybody, it does not matter and and I



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haven't figured out a better term, so please forgive me,



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because I really don't know a better way to say this, but I



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dumbed it down so that anybody, probably freshmen, maybe even



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eighth grade, all the way to 100 years old, could understand and



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grasp what's In this course. So it took nine months to write,



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and that was in 2023 so kind of like birthing a baby, right? I



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have a friend who actually, you got to know her through the



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course, Pam and I, she was, she became a facilitator with us as



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well in the boundaries journey. And so I had called her and



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said, Hey, what would you think about helping me on this



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journey? She's like, I think it's great. I think it's exactly



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what's needed, as well as my sister. I had involved her in it



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as well. And so the three of us, kind of, in a roundabout way, I



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wrote it, but they helped bring it to life. And it was, I



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started it January of 24 and it was simply a so I rotate one



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month it's on Zoom, the next month is in person, here in



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Mesa, on zoom in person. And it was, I would print you each week



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and bring it or email it to you. And through that same networking



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group that we met, I also got to meet Rebecca, who was a



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published author, and did a one to one with her, and she's like,



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Mary, you're 95% done. Why don't you make it a workbook? And I



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was like, Oh, wait, what? So did not see published author



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becoming part of this journey. So hopefully that answers kind



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of your



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question. Well, it does, it does so. But when



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you were, you know, reaching out and searching because you were



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dealing with the issues with your son. Was it through the



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church that you would find this boundaries? Course, then, is



Janice Porter:

that it? Yes,



Mary Kominska:

okay, 100% and there was a lot of my people in



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my life that I love dearly, that because it was at a church, they



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wouldn't take the class, but I knew that they needed it in



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their lives, right?



Janice Porter:

Well, I think instead of saying you're dumbing



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it down, I think maybe that what you you might want to think



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about is saying something like you SEC secularized, that if I



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can say that word and or that you that you wanted it to reach



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more people. So you, I like that. Put it in lay terms, or



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you made it about, like you said, you said, the you use the



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term, it's about the power of the human right, or the, yeah,



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the human experience, that yeah, so that to make it about the



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human experience. And I think, and you say, I've got a quote



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here from you. She's, I say you're passionate about



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empowering people to be the best and beautiful you that you were



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created to be inside and out. And that's really the essence



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that it could be, right? So yeah, and I like



Mary Kominska:

that. Thank you for those new words. And see



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that's another thing about growth. Every day is an



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opportunity to learn something different and to flip the script



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on what you say,



Janice Porter:

yeah. I wanted more people to experience it,



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yeah. So I put it into language, or I put it into a layman's



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terms, yeah, layman's terms. I put it into a way that more



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people could, that I could reach more people with it. And I think



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that's the key right there. And one of the sections in the



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course that you that, that I just experienced was, was the



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the last one, which is about self care, self care, and that's



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where so many of us struggle, because we don't realize what we



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don't what we're doing to ourselves, and we don't realize



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what's what's missing. Perhaps. Or how our life could be more



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fun or more full or whatever, until somebody stops us in our



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tracks and says, Hey, you know, are you doing this? This, this



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and this, or are you not doing this? This is this. And I



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noticed everybody was different in the class, you know, like you



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ask us a question to share or something, I'm always the first



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one to speak, because I don't want it to be dead silence, and



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I don't know what I'm going to say, but I usually will, you



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know, try to break the ice, because that's who I am. And



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some people are more reluctant, and I feel as though they were



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heavier. Some of the people that were there, you know, and had



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more issues. I don't think I've ever been, um, in I don't know,



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like this is a good question. Actually, we all have our



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struggles, and we all have our problems, and we all have our



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problem people in our lives and things like that, and but I have



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not walked in the shoes that you've walked in, and I I know



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that you're an open book, and I know that your story is on your



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website, and it's a long one, and it's a troubled one. I mean,



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you've been through hell and back, to be honest, in many



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ways, from when you were a child, and to look at you now,



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which is how I met you, I would have had no idea. Okay, so kudos



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to you for being strong enough to bring yourself through all of



Janice Porter:

the the issues in your world and help and now helping others. But



Janice Porter:

I don't know. I never had that. I had a normal upbringing with



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two parents who and a sister, and, you know, yeah, my parents



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fought, but you know, it wasn't like your life that I read



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about. And so I always wonder, if you haven't had the extremes,



Janice Porter:

whether you can grow as much. I don't know if that's making



Janice Porter:

sense, but no, it



Mary Kominska:

completely makes sense. And I here, here's what I



Mary Kominska:

can tell you my sister, for example, I met her at the bus



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stop of seventh grade.



Janice Porter:

She, oh, wait a second, that's now what you who



Janice Porter:

you call your sister? Yes. What was her name?



Mary Kominska:

Legally Tammy. Tammy, right. Yeah, okay. Her



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family legally adopted me on my 17th birthday, as you read in my



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story, right? So I made her at the bus stop of seventh grade.



Mary Kominska:

Yeah, and you have to read the about me on my website to find



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out the on that. A little teaser for you. But she was that way.



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She grew up with two parents and and two siblings and



Janice Porter:

and, and you wanted her family, you wanted to



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did. I did, right? And so, but even when I



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got inside, it wasn't all roses and right, but flies, right? I



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mean, the majority of it was, don't get me wrong, but every



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family has their own thing, and even if it's not you, there is



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somebody in your life. If you and I love that, your whole



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thing is about relationships, because that's what I'm about to



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write, personal and professional. You really get to



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know somebody by asking them the right questions. A lot of us, so



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we come from the generation of it's none your business. Shove



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it under the rug. What happens behind closed doors stays behind



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closed doors. And so like for me, I was dying inside on the



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outside, just like I heard you say you would never have guessed



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the one I walked through, I wasn't I wasn't told I should



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have won an Academy Award, because nobody would have ever



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guessed right, and because I didn't want anybody to know.



Mary Kominska:

Yeah, but that was stressful. It is, it is so not healthy. It is



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so not healthy. And hurt people, hurt people. So I was a hurt



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human, hurting other humans, but it wasn't what I meant to do.



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That's not what I wanted to do, but you were hurting yourself



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too. I was, I was and I didn't think that anything was wrong



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with me. And going to a therapist has such a stigma, and



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I'm so grateful that we're finally getting to the point



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where it's healthy to go. It's not a stigma to go but I think



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two of the important things Janice is I know that when I



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started in network marketing and I started having a team, I



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became a leader. I never saw myself as a leader. Just because



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I had people on the team, I never saw myself as a leader.



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And so when I heard the words, the hardest person you're ever



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going to lead is yourself. That was powerful to me, because we



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lead people all day long. We lead our spouses, we lead our



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children, we lead our friends. But it's true, the hardest



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person we ever lead is ourselves and boundaries. Sure, boundaries



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is about other people, but the hardest people we ever have



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boundaries with is ourselves. Yeah, right. So even if you have



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not had the to Hell and Back life that I have, there's still



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always something that's so deep bedded in in our subconscious



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that's causing you to do what you do today that stems all the



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way back that you



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don't even have a memory. Yes. Yes, yes, I can



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think of an example too. Actually, I struggle daily with



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my relationship with my girls, my two daughters, they're



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leading their own lives and they're they're here, but



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they're leading their own lives, and they're busy and whatever,



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and they don't call, you know, they text when they want



Janice Porter:

something. And then my daughter, one one of my daughters, was



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away for two weeks, and she on business, and she was really



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sick when she got home, so I didn't see her. She was supposed



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to come over Sunday. I didn't see her, so I called Monday to



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see how she was like I said, You want me to send food over? Do



Janice Porter:

you want me? Whatever? No, I'm just going to go to sleep, Mom,



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I I call on FaceTime, and she doesn't take my call, and then I



Janice Porter:

called her again last night. She's got no time, no time, and



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so I'm supposed to understand that and let it be right. And



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then I It eats me up inside, and then I have this other piece



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that's in my back of my mind, saying how I was when my mother



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called me, yeah, and my mother would say, I haven't heard from



Janice Porter:

you for two weeks, and right away, my back's up right, right?



Janice Porter:

So it's just, it's so weird, but it's all, it's there, like it's



Janice Porter:

inside, or it is



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way so subconscious. Yeah, it is so



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subconscious. But you know, it's interesting, Janice, because



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what I just heard you say was so powerful. You I didn't hear



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these words until my son was 25 years old. Raise your children



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to leave you and not need you, right? Yeah. And so that's not



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what I was shown. That's not what my friends were shown, but



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that's absolutely what you did with your girls. The other thing



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that was powerful that I heard you say, and I've had this



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struggle with some friends and my son as well, how come you



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only call me when you need something? Yeah, right. And they



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should be glad that they're calling us right, right? But at



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the same token, call us because you want to know how we are. You



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want, like, not because you want something from us, right? And I



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think that that's super important with relationships.



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Don't be the person that the only time you call someone is



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because you need something from them, right? And I think during



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COVID, that was a really big wake up call, just checking in.



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How are you? How are you feeling through all this? How's your



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family? And let's not get away from that just because we're



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four or five years past it. Let's stick true to that, right?



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And, and just a simple phone call, and even if they don't



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answer, leave a voicemail, you know, hey, checking in on you.



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How you doing? We'd love to hear your voice. Yeah, you don't want



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anything. And I think that as relationships, we need to get



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back to that.



Janice Porter:

Yeah, it's very true. It's very true. So how do



Janice Porter:

you how do you divide your time? Or do you, because I know that



Janice Porter:

you've done as I have, and I love this that you've done on



Janice Porter:

your website, you've got in your your sections of your website,



Janice Porter:

have your course, and then what you call inside beauty, outside



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beauty. So you've got an umbrella over the things that



Janice Porter:

you do, which love the best and beautiful you. And how do you



Janice Porter:

divide your time? Does it come and you're very organized about



Janice Porter:

your time. So do you or do you lean towards like, Do you love



Janice Porter:

life coaching right now more than you love doing your your



Janice Porter:

Avon business. I don't mind saying that it's your Avon



Janice Porter:

business or, you know, or is it the course that you're promoting



Janice Porter:

and then teaching? So how do you balance it all? Or do you



Mary Kominska:

Well, it's kind of a juggling act, because on



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top of all that, I've also added such oh yes Jean yes to to as if



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I don't have enough to do. And I, as you learned in the T



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course, I talk about jam sessions, I talk about, I love



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that. And it's not time management, it's person



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management, right? Because we all have 24 hours a day, seven



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days a week. There is not one person that, because you have a



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different skin color or your bank account looks different,



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you don't have any more time or less time than I do, so it



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doesn't matter, right? And so when I learned that it was



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person management, and again, back to boundaries and leading



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myself is where that comes from. And so I do them in chunks and I



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do them in jam sessions, but I also have to allow myself time



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to fill up on me, going back to week four of the course, right?



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Self care, I have to fill up on me. And so the last two days, I



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have not been Go, go, go out of the home. I've been Go, go, go



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in the home, but I gave myself two extra naps. What is that?



Mary Kominska:

Right? Today is a go, go, go. But as you also learned in the T



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course, I do a lot of white space, and I give myself 30



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minutes in between. Heck, I gave myself an hour in between my



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last one to meet you, and I barely made it by the center,



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because again, I got stuck by a train and I got stuck by



Mary Kominska:

somebody wanted to have a conversation with me. So you



Mary Kominska:

have to find your sweet spot. And so when you're juggling



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multiple. Things You know, even think about a young mama, um,



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you're juggling a job, you're juggling activities, you're



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juggling food prep, you're juggling shopping, you're



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juggling all these things you've got to make sure that you fill



Mary Kominska:

up on you first and foremost before you pour out



Janice Porter:

to everything and everybody else put the life mask



Janice Porter:

on you before anybody right? You learned last night, good job,



Janice Porter:

yeah, oh yeah. I that one, I know, but I thought about you



Janice Porter:

today, because after my my last call, it was over at noon, my



Janice Porter:

time, and I wanted to go grab a bite to eat. And so I I got



Janice Porter:

myself a sandwich and a cup of tea, and I put the TV on, and I



Janice Porter:

sat down for half an hour, and I thought about you, and I



Janice Porter:

thought, yeah, Mary would approve of this. So this is,



Janice Porter:

yeah, yeah. And then back at it.



Mary Kominska:

No, you, they couldn't see me. I was talking



Mary Kominska:

for you.



Janice Porter:

So it's, it's, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's,



Janice Porter:

actually, it's, it's kind of the reward, in a way, for being



Janice Porter:

one's own boss and being able to, you know, make those



Janice Porter:

decisions. But we have to do it wisely, and we have to,



Janice Porter:

otherwise we're not going to get anywhere. Of course. We have to



Janice Porter:

have those boundaries, but we also have to have those that the



Janice Porter:

drive to to get up and go back to work, you know, to do it.



Mary Kominska:

Yeah. And how many times have you said, or



Mary Kominska:

have you heard somebody say when you ask, how are you Oh, I'm



Mary Kominska:

busy. Oh, I'm busy. Busy doing what? Busy chasing your tail.



Mary Kominska:

Because that's, that's what I used to do, until I learned



Mary Kominska:

these skills and put them to use and all that. And so there's a



Mary Kominska:

difference between being busy and being productive. And so you



Mary Kominska:

were productive by sitting down having lunch, watching that 30



Mary Kominska:

minutes of TV, you were productive because then you're



Mary Kominska:

you're you're taking your body down, you're calming your



Mary Kominska:

cortisol, you're doing all that so that you can then go be



Mary Kominska:

productive, right? Work again. So even if you're sitting on the



Mary Kominska:

couch eating Bon Bon, you are being productive for like, two



Mary Kominska:

hours. I'm



Janice Porter:

just saying, yeah, yeah. Just saying, right.



Janice Porter:

So in the back of the book that the book workbook that we have



Janice Porter:

from your course, there's a very long list of books that you have



Janice Porter:

read and recommend. Do you read constantly? Are you reading now?



Janice Porter:

What are you reading now? So



Mary Kominska:

right now, I actually was, I love being on



Mary Kominska:

book launches, and I was on a book launch for the book that



Mary Kominska:

I'm reading now, and it was, I am an audible girl, so okay, to



Mary Kominska:

my sister for a second, I have a stack of books, and I always had



Mary Kominska:

intentions of reading them, but to sit and actually do that. It



Mary Kominska:

was just too hard. But when I'm folding laundry or I'm doing



Mary Kominska:

doing mundane things, I can listen. So my sister turned me



Mary Kominska:

on to Audible, and I fought her. You know, typical,



Janice Porter:

typical. I'm still fighting it, because I'm



Janice Porter:

not, I know.



Mary Kominska:

I know. Well, I'm telling you, it's powerful. It's



Mary Kominska:

powerful.



Janice Porter:

Well, I listen to podcasts, so I'm sure it



Janice Porter:

wouldn't be that big of



Mary Kominska:

it is so good. It is so good. And so I found that



Mary Kominska:

even as being on the book launch, because I needed to read



Mary Kominska:

it on Kindle, even just to sit and do that, it was so hard I



Mary Kominska:

don't like doing so I know. And so it came out on the 21st and



Mary Kominska:

it was on Audible, and I already pre ordered it on Audible, so,



Mary Kominska:

but it's called joyful outsiders. And so I believe most



Mary Kominska:

people know what FOMO is. Do you know what FOMO is? What is FOMO?



Mary Kominska:

Fear Of Missing Out. Okay, what is Jomo? Let's flip that script.



Mary Kominska:

What's Jomo?



Janice Porter:

I'm going to guess his joy of missing out,



Janice Porter:

absolutely,



Mary Kominska:

absolutely. And even as I was learning



Mary Kominska:

boundaries, and I was learning different things, that being a I



Mary Kominska:

always had this FOMO, I always had this fear of missing out.



Mary Kominska:

And so years ago, I flipped the script to Jomo and so, and then



Mary Kominska:

I always felt like an outsider. I've always felt like an



Mary Kominska:

outsider. I've always felt like an outsider. And so when this



Mary Kominska:

book now, these authors, they are pastors, just for clarity,



Mary Kominska:

yeah, they did write a book called Truth over tribe, which



Mary Kominska:

was a very powerful book, and that's how I met them. And so



Mary Kominska:

then they have a podcast. So I started listening to their



Mary Kominska:

podcast after I read their book. And then on the podcast, they



Mary Kominska:

announced they were doing the book launch, and because of I



Mary Kominska:

know they're not going to be able to be able to see it,



Mary Kominska:

Janice, but you will. It's okay. So as being part of the book



Mary Kominska:

launch, the first 100 people, got this cool Jomo hat. Love it.



Janice Porter:

Hang on. Hang on.



Mary Kominska:

Okay, okay, okay,



Janice Porter:

okay, alright, here we go. Ready Set smile.



Janice Porter:

Okay, that's very cute. Very cute. Alright,



Mary Kominska:

so joyful. Outsiders is what I'm listening



Mary Kominska:

to now. I do a book a month. Sometimes I do maybe a little



Mary Kominska:

bit more. I have a few extra credits because I've been



Mary Kominska:

listening to more podcasts, listening to your podcast,



Mary Kominska:

listening to some newer ones that i. I've been introduced to,



Mary Kominska:

but when I'm in my car, it's podcast and audible. I don't



Mary Kominska:

listen to music. I don't listen to any of them I know. So yeah,



Mary Kominska:

that's what I'm reading now. And that that list in the back that



Mary Kominska:

is, trust me, I had to narrow it down, and it was really hard to



Mary Kominska:

narrow down, because that list is probably five times what I've



Mary Kominska:

actually read five times more than what made it in the



Mary Kominska:

workbook.



Janice Porter:

Wow, that's amazing. So are you still as



Janice Porter:

excited about building a team in your direct sales company as you



Janice Porter:

were back when you started?



Mary Kominska:

So here, that's a great question. And so here's



Mary Kominska:

what I have to tell you. The answer is yes. With the however,



Mary Kominska:

in the very beginning, again, I didn't see myself as a leader,



Mary Kominska:

but the person, and not even the person who brought me to the



Mary Kominska:

business, but her person, saw something in me that I didn't



Mary Kominska:

see in myself. And that's usually how it goes, right?



Mary Kominska:

Yeah. And so I had built this team. I was, at one point I was



Mary Kominska:

like number two in Arizona, and then Avon made some poor



Mary Kominska:

choices. Mary made some poor choices. Life happens, and the



Mary Kominska:

last couple of years it I haven't even offered the



Mary Kominska:

business at all the last couple of years. However, December of



Mary Kominska:

24 they made some incredible changes to where I've started



Mary Kominska:

offering the opportunity at a couple times a week now. So it's



Mary Kominska:

almost like there's this new found, fresh excitement that has



Mary Kominska:

come on to me. That was there 18 and a half will be 19 years in



Mary Kominska:

June, that I joined this business, right? And so it's



Mary Kominska:

back, and I'm super excited about it.



Janice Porter:

That's interesting, because it's, it's,



Janice Porter:

it's actually very similar with Send Out Cards I just got. I was



Janice Porter:

on a call yesterday because there they asked me to be part



Janice Porter:

of this group to beta test this new card editor that's coming



Janice Porter:

out soon, which is really exciting. And there were a



Janice Porter:

couple of people on this call that I hadn't seen for years,



Janice Porter:

who have just resurfaced, and it seems like that's what's



Janice Porter:

happening. Maybe it's the world, maybe it's the industry, maybe



Janice Porter:

it's just these people that have come back around. But there's



Janice Porter:

something happening because, well, there's a lot happening,



Janice Porter:

right, especially in the United States, but we don't want yeah,



Janice Porter:

there is, yeah, and I think even



Mary Kominska:

on Facebook memories. I just love Facebook



Mary Kominska:

memories. But two years ago, this right now, I was in New



Mary Kominska:

York. I was one of 50 out of 10s of 1000s selected to be a voice



Mary Kominska:

for the field. And so I got to go to New York and be I. It was



Mary Kominska:

brand beehive. Was a group I was in. A lot did not come out of



Mary Kominska:

that. There's been some shift. And LG, which is a Korean, South



Mary Kominska:

Korean based company, they bought the North America side of



Mary Kominska:

Avon back, yes. And so their home and household, that's why



Mary Kominska:

we can offer Korean beauty that we have, and they own reach and



Mary Kominska:

example. And now Canada and Avon are uniting forces. So now



Mary Kominska:

Canada is now part of the US, and they're still trying to make



Mary Kominska:

it to where people in Canada, I don't know if it's going to



Mary Kominska:

happen, because I know there's all the tariffs, all those



Mary Kominska:

different things, but, but now Canada and the US coming



Mary Kominska:

together. I think that that was a really good shift for Avon as



Mary Kominska:

well. So a lot of good things have come, but it's only been in



Mary Kominska:

the last few months. Well, that's



Janice Porter:

interesting, though. LG, I think of



Janice Porter:

appliances and television,



Mary Kominska:

TV and yeah, yeah, yeah, there's, that's an



Mary Kominska:

umbrella. So it's the LG, H and H, home and household. Yeah, got



Mary Kominska:

it, household, at home, something like that. But that's



Mary Kominska:

where, yeah, as so there's, there's so much to offer.



Janice Porter:

So my theory is that there's only five people



Janice Porter:

that that, that own the world. Anyway, it's like, you know,



Janice Porter:

that own everything. I was talking, I don't, wasn't on my



Janice Porter:

podcast. I was talking to someone last week. I don't think



Janice Porter:

it was on my podcast. I'm not sure if it was someone who's



Janice Porter:

going, Oh, it was someone who's coming on my podcast. I don't



Janice Porter:

know. And he was telling me, oh yeah, it was a guy I met on



Janice Porter:

LinkedIn, really interesting guy, and he used to work for



Janice Porter:

George Lucas for 20 years, yeah. And he we talked about that



Janice Porter:

because I love entertainment industry and everything, and it



Janice Porter:

was bought by Disney, and Disney has not done it well, apparently



Janice Porter:

it right. But Disney owns ABC Television Network. Disney owns



Janice Porter:

ESPN. It owns a bunch of stuff, right? But when I was we were



Janice Porter:

talking to this guy. He said to me that the the company that



Janice Porter:

owns the biggest share of Disney, so actually, rules



Janice Porter:

Disney is not Disney or a founding family member. It's



Janice Porter:

Black, Black Rock. Is it called? I think that's an. It's a big



Janice Porter:

company that's multinational investment type company, and



Janice Porter:

they have, if not, the biggest shares, the second biggest



Janice Porter:

number of shares, voting shares to Disney. The first person is,



Janice Porter:

got this, right? Jeff Bezos his ex wife, and he's the guy that



Janice Porter:

owns Amazon, yeah, so, like, Mackenzie, yeah, that's right,



Janice Porter:

Mackenzie. Like, they've got, right? It's like, there's five



Janice Porter:

people that they all own everything, right? So



Janice Porter:

experience, I think it's called Black Rock. But anyway, very



Janice Porter:

fascinating. So I know that you probably I'm curious to know



Janice Porter:

what your answer will be to this, my last second to last



Janice Porter:

question, and that is my favorite word, is curiosity, and



Janice Porter:

I want to know whether you think it is innate or learned, and



Janice Porter:

what you're most curious about today. So, two part question,



Mary Kominska:

two part question, I love it, you know, I



Mary Kominska:

I believe that it is innate in us. Think about when we were



Mary Kominska:

little. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? And then adults shut that



Mary Kominska:

down. They dull that Spirit in us. And so we stopped learning.



Mary Kominska:

And then there's that same curiosity killed the cat. No, we



Mary Kominska:

didn't, right? So I think curiosity is there. I think you



Mary Kominska:

have to tap into it as an adult. And I am always curious about



Mary Kominska:

other people when I learned to ask the right questions, instead



Mary Kominska:

of, how are you, so instead of how are you, what exciting thing



Mary Kominska:

is, is happening in your life right now? Or what's what are



Mary Kominska:

you looking forward to this week or this year or whatever? Right



Mary Kominska:

so learning to have those different questions opens that



Mary Kominska:

curiosity spark. And so I'm always curious about other



Mary Kominska:

people and their story, and helping them pull out their



Mary Kominska:

story like others did for me along the journey.



Janice Porter:

Nice. All right. And last question, what is your



Janice Porter:

favorite or best piece of advice you would like to leave with my



Janice Porter:

audience?



Mary Kominska:

So there are so many, but I think as I land this



Mary Kominska:

plane, when I was working full time in corporate America, and I



Mary Kominska:

was making more in my side gig business than I was a corporate



Mary Kominska:

and I wanted to do this full time, I fought because we were



Mary Kominska:

the Only department that did not have part time. I fought



Mary Kominska:

corporate. I won. This was when the last downturn happened in



Mary Kominska:

2012 and I was laid off shortly, shortly after. Okay, to this



Mary Kominska:

day, that department still has part time. So I'm I right, but I



Mary Kominska:

decided, Okay, I'm going to figure out, I'm going to spend



Mary Kominska:

the weekend, and then I'm going to figure out how to do this



Mary Kominska:

thing full time. I'm happy to report, it took me eight years



Mary Kominska:

to figure out how to do it. Okay, because you don't have



Mary Kominska:

somebody telling you what to do, when to do it, how to do it,



Mary Kominska:

right? It comes back to that personal management meeting,



Mary Kominska:

manage yourself. But the advice, and this was from a dear friend.



Mary Kominska:

We don't chat anymore, and I don't know why. It's one of



Mary Kominska:

those, we just kind of went our separate ways, but she was a



Mary Kominska:

coach of mine at the time, and if we weren't friends, I don't



Mary Kominska:

know that I would have ever spoken to her, but it's one of



Mary Kominska:

the best advice. And she said to me one day, Mary, you're full of



Mary Kominska:

great ideas. When are you going to do something with them? And



Mary Kominska:

that just like smacked me, even though we weren't face to face,



Mary Kominska:

we're over the phone, but it was like She smacked me across the



Mary Kominska:

face. And from that moment on, I decided I'm going to tell you



Mary Kominska:

what I've done, not what I'm going to do. So don't tell



Mary Kominska:

people what you're going to do. Show them what you've



Janice Porter:

done. Beautiful. That's really good advice.



Janice Porter:

Totally, yeah, totally good advice. Love this. Thank you,



Janice Porter:

Mary. How can people find you? And I will put it in the show



Janice Porter:

notes. And if you're interested in looking into your course, or



Janice Porter:

they need some Avon products, and they've lost that person,



Janice Porter:

right? How can they find



Mary Kominska:

you so best and beautiful, you do com all



Mary Kominska:

spelled out, B, E, S, T, the word and spelled out, a, n, D,



Mary Kominska:

B, E, A, U, T, i, f, U, L and the word you all spelled out, y,



Mary Kominska:

o, u.com, gives everything in one stop shop. You can find my



Mary Kominska:

tea course the about will tell you the story. You can read that



Mary Kominska:

story and get some more details about meeting my sister. Your



Mary Kominska:

outside beauty is Avon, and then your inside beauty is just a



Mary Kominska:

little bit of things right, my life coaching. So whatever,



Mary Kominska:

whatever I can do to support you, to help you, and not even



Mary Kominska:

to help you, to empower you to be the best and beautiful you



Mary Kominska:

that you were created to be inside and out. I would love an



Mary Kominska:

opportunity, but at the same token, one thing you can do for



Mary Kominska:

absolutely free, my favorite four letter F word is go to the



Mary Kominska:

contact me and. And join my mailing list. I promise I don't



Mary Kominska:

spam you. I send a newsletter once a week and a blog once a



Mary Kominska:

month. That's what you'll get from me, unless you want



Mary Kominska:

something more than let me know. But that's something you can do



Mary Kominska:

for fre. That's the usual social like Justin beautiful. You on



Mary Kominska:

Facebook, on Insta and LinkedIn, and I'm Mary commensal on



Mary Kominska:

LinkedIn, right? But I don't do any of the x or Tik Tok or any I



Mary Kominska:

think I'm on Pinterest, but I never go on there, but I think



Mary Kominska:

I'm on there.



Janice Porter:

Well, thank you again for being for your time



Janice Porter:

and for your wisdom, and I appreciate you being here. Thank



Janice Porter:

you to my audience for being here, and remember to stay



Janice Porter:

connected and be remembered. Thank



Mary Kominska:

you. You're welcome.