Mary Kennedy Thompson
speaker
748 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2014
last heard May 2018
Mary Kennedy Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you, Paul.
Thank you, Stan, for inviting me.
I love talking about franchising and all things franchising, so I appreciate the invitation.
to have you here.
Well,
Well, you're right.
Franchising finds people, and I am and will forever be grateful that it found me, I think.
I grew up in a large family, one of nine children, the oldest of nine children.
And when I graduated, my parents said, what are you going to go do?
And I was lucky enough to go in the military and be a Marine Corps officer and
get a scholarship so I could get myself through school, because when you're from a large family, your parents expect you to get through school, but they're going to expect you to do it your own way and find your own way.
And
came from a family that most of us served, and my dad served in the military, and my grandfather served in the military, and that is what I knew.
I didn't know people in business.
In fact, my husband and I, my husband as well was a Marine Corps officer, and his dad also served in the military.
And so
We'd drive around and think, what do all these civilians do?
We didn't quite understand it.
And when we decided to get out, we'd been in about eight, nine years, I didn't know what I was going to go do.
But I started out as a sales rep for a company called Baxter Scientific Products.
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