A spa owner attends a mentorship program with the Aveda founder, then years later runs into a former employee who says she bought a car and house because of what the owner taught her. The encounter shows how much impact we can have without knowing it.
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You guys know that I owned a day spa for a while. Yeah. And, um, it was an Aveda day spa. And the founder of Aveda took my partner and I up to Osceola, Wisconsin, and, and he pampered us for a week at his spa. And he, we went to this, this mentorship program called The Business of Being. And it was all about how did— it was so cool. So cool. Sounds nice. And we, we brought a lot of that back into our business. And to your point, Lynda, after we sold that day spa way back when, and like 5 or 6 years later, I ran into one of our former employees and she said, because of you, I have a new car and I have a house. Oh, wow. And she said, I've wanted to thank you for years. I ran into her in a restaurant and I didn't realize that we had made a difference like that. And it was like, that's a really humbling moment.