Beyond the Kitchen

What does independence look like when you’re given the opportunity to build something that works with your life instead of forcing your life to work around it?In this episode of Beyond Beautiful, Mandi sits down with Marlee Kivens to hear the story behind her journey with Pampered Chef. Living with Spina Bifida and learning differences, Marlee has built a successful direct-sales business while finding greater independence, confidence, and community along the way.Marlee shares how she went from relying on a Personal Care Attendant to help her cook to cooking independently, the role direct sales has played in her life, and what it means to create a business on her own terms.Mandi also reflects on her own experience in direct sales, beginning in 2014 when her son was just six months old, and how that experience helped her discover her advocacy voice and reclaim ownership of her disability story.This conversation is about more than cooking or entrepreneurship. It’s about possibility, independence, community, and believing that disabled people deserve opportunities that allow us to thrive.Because sometimes the right opportunity doesn’t just give you a business. It gives you a new way to see yourself.LinksMarlee's Pampered Chef WebsitePampered Chef Interactive CatalogMandi MailMusic Credit"Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/