Vernella Benjamin

Independent National Sales Director Emeritus
Vernella Benjamin
Elmont, New York

FORMER OCCUPATION:
Administrative assistant

HIGHLIGHTS:
Began, November 1989; Independent Sales Director, May 1991; Independent National Sales Director, November 2002; Million-Dollar Sales Director seven times*, including once in the two-million-dollar circle; Monthly Go-Give® Award, November 1997; No. 1 Independent Sales Director, Sapphire Seminar six times; No. 1 Independent Sales Director nationwide two times; No. 2 Independent Sales Director nationwide two times.

 

*A Million-Dollar Sales Director is one whose sales unit has purchased at least $1 million suggested retail of Mary Kay® products for resale during a Seminar year.

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“You can realize your cherished dreams with a Mary Kay business.”



Cherished dreams come true. Independent National Sales Director Emeritus Vernella Benjamin started her Mary Kay business to supplement her corporate salary and to pay off some unexpected medical bills. Vernella, who now resides in New York, is from Guyana, a country located in the Northern Amazon Basin of South America.

She was introduced to the Mary Kay opportunity at a skin care class after hearing of the commissions, recognition and flexibility. Even though she had a good job as an administrative assistant, she decided that a Mary Kay business was a better choice.

Vernella loved the fact that the Mary Kay opportunity allowed individuals to advance at their own pace. “When I was a teenager, I remember telling my grandmother I was going to become a millionaire when I grew up and I was going to travel the world. Instead of laughing at me, she replied by gently asking me when I was going to start,” she recalls. Vernella’s Mary Kay business helped to make her dreams come true. She was inspired by Mary Kay Ash’s belief in women and her tenacity in starting a company to give women a chance to become all that God intended them to be, while maintaining their femininity.

As an NSD Emeritus, Vernella is more committed than ever to living a life of excellence every day, in mentoring other women. In fact, Vernella believes that we are all created with unlimited talents and abilities, and if we help them to flourish, we can live a life of abundance.