3 Things I Wish I Had Known In My 20s: Jan Marini

jan_cream_suit_hires20 years ago, Jan Marini, owner and CEO of Jan Marini Skin Research (JMSR), changed the way that skincare products were sold.

In the 90s, plastic surgeons and dermatologists didn’t sell products directly from their offices. Now, you almost expect to buy new products when you go see your doctor. With her first company, M.D. Formulations/M.D. Forte, Jan was one of the first to enter “the professional channel”, and sell skincare products directly to patients.

Jan recognized the emerging need, and in 1994, Jan she founded JMSR with the goal of providing the “professional channel” with innovative and medically validated technologies to sell to their patients. To celebrate the company’s 20th year of business, Jan shares with us what she has learned along the way:

1. Don’t obsess that everyone is scrutinizing and judging you. Others are far more focused on their own lives and their perceived flaws.

2. Always generously praise the people you work with. Giving credit never diminishes your accomplishments. It only magnifies it.

3. No one can do it for you, but you don’t have to do it alone. You’re the beginning, the middle and the end. You’re the continuity. You’re why it ever happened in the first place.  But, the good news is you don’t have to do it alone.

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