Independent National Sales Director
Krista Warner
Muldrow, Oklahoma

SEMINAR
Sapphire

FORMER OCCUPATION:
Kindergarten Teacher

THEME SONG:
“Overcomer”

HIGHLIGHTS:
Began, March 2001; Independent Sales Director, October 2001; Independent National Sales Director, July 2014

FAST FUN FACTS:
Motivated by:
Words of Encouragement
My best assets:
The ability to get back up one more time
Favorite vacation spot:
The next NSD Trip destination

Stronger because of the journey. Independent National Sales Director Krista Warner is a woman of faith, fortitude, resilience and stamina… you might say, a woman with true grit.

She is married to Bill, whom she describes as her rock and support for everything throughout her Mary Kay journey. “He believes in me when I don’t believe in myself,” Krista explains. Their family of four includes daughter, MacKenzie, who will be going to college as one of Krista’s first-line Independent Sales Directors, and son, McKade, who keeps them busy on the rodeo trail. Krista thinks of their family as a team, sharing the pleasures and excitement of life, her Mary Kay business and the sport and competition of rodeo.

Krista’s parents owned their own business and their entrepreneurial spirit transcended to her. Although she taught school after college, her desire for the same freedom, flexibility and income she saw with her parents was awakened in her after being introduced to Mary Kay through a student’s mom. A Mary Kay business became the perfect fit and opportunity for Krista.

Life happens to all of us, and it was no different for Krista. Looking back on seasons of being so close to her goal of becoming an Independent National Sales Director, then hardships, walking away, bouncing back, then health setbacks beyond her control, Krista observes that, “The ups and downs in my business were in direct relationship to my own personal ups and downs. What I’ve experienced is that if I was willing to do the work and get out the door, my Mary Kay business worked for me every single time. So, every single time I’ve had a setback and pulled myself back up one more time, my Mary Kay business has always been there for me.”

Krista knows to stay in the game and stay the course. She adopted it as her number one business strategy from the beginning and even taped this phrase to her fridge: “Consistency is the key.” She says that her business has taught her the incredibly freeing lesson that she is “more than enough” and that it has changed her in every direction imaginable. “I’m much more positive, much more faith-filled, and much more objective. I’m a bigger thinker, knowing that I can and that others can,” she says. “Before, the little things mattered.” Now, she has bigger picture perspective. “I don’t think I want to go back to the person I was before the Mary Kay opportunity found me.”

Krista says her ultimate decision that it was time to believe in herself again, and the belief her mentors had in her are the things that brought her to the place of becoming an Independent National Sales Director. Leading the Wild West Area, Krista says they are women who have their own real life stories and are bound together by faith, determination, hard work and grit. “A group of women, coming together as one,” she says with joy.

Krista’s desire for her Area and her leadership is, simply stated, abundance. “Our biggest hopes and dreams, coming together out of the Go Give Area, center on multiplicity. I believe walking through this door to become a National Area will cause an explosion – a domino effect.” She is an empathetic leader, knowing that her platform must be one of bringing hope: “No matter what it is, you can be stronger for it. You can be an overcomer. Our journey determines who we are, and we are standing today because of confident expectation – hope.” It’s our mantra.