Monique Rodriguez
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first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Mar
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you know i was very big on raising my hand and finding the people that had the successful exits how can i learn from you yes yeah that was key right because in order to be a champion tomorrow you have to be teachable today and i have always been very teachable and coachable and that was one of the reasons why berkshire which was our private equity partner who was a great partner by the way that's why they invested in us because they said you and melvin are very coachable
So that's a good question because you really don't know. You don't know when it's the right time.
Exactly. You really have to have faith because we did question like, is it time? Is it not time? And I will tell you, looking back in hindsight, I am so glad we did it when we did it. Oh, good.
right and it's there's no right way to time it and we were having this conversations with our investor berkshire and we recently just had dinner with them um a few weeks ago and we were talking about the same thing like we couldn't have timed it perfectly but there's no way to predict how to time it so our motto was slow and steady wins the race but strike while the iron is hot
You know, we had taken the company to new heights. We had taken it to a new level of profitability. And when we looked at our financials, we looked at where we were as a company. We looked at, you know, our distribution, our customer base. It was like all the stars were aligning. Right. And the interest. We had so many inbound interest from strategic companies.
And the thing is, like, you don't know. if they're going to be interested in you tomorrow.
Because they may have something else that comes in hot and they may go to the next one and then you've missed your opportunity or you've missed your value, right? Yes. So because we were getting so many inbound interests and the stars were aligning, we said as a team, we're going to just test the market. We're going to see what it comes back at. We're going to just see what we're valued at. And
we had to know that once we put our stuff out there in the market for a potential sale it's harder to put yourself out and then take it back so we had to have faith that we were going to get the value or close to the value that we were hoping for and have faith that it was just going to come back once we put our our bid out to the market yeah and it came back and i remember our investor told us she said
And we're going to have to just roll with it.
You can, it's just not a good look. Oh. It's just not a good look because the time and effort to prepare, to package the brand, to put it out in the market for strategics or investors to bid on it. That's a lot of like heavy lifting. It's a lot of work. And so you're working with investor investment bankers. You're working with our investing team.
So all the time and energy that people are going to put in. Yeah. Like if you put it out there and say, oh, no, it's not time yet. It's just not like it just doesn't look good.
And then to my point earlier, if you go back out there later, you may not get the same type of value because they may say, well, you came out here before. Are you going to pull it back? Are you not going to be serious with yourself? Right. So it's like it's literally a faith walk. You really just have to have faith. It's scary. Yeah.
Because we knew that we were just going to put ourselves out there. So. Thankfully, once we did put ourselves out there, we had some really great valuations. And we said, we're just going to go for it. Because we don't know what the outlook of the world and the economy looks like in the future. And we see what's going on now. That's why I said it couldn't have been better timing.
Um, we just said that we were going to stick with what the values came back with and we were just going to enter into the process and, and, and start dating strategic partners and find who was the right partner for my L. And then you ended up with, there's a Procter and Gamble, which is a very world renowned company, um, in the beauty space.
Well, number one, it was the business decision that God put in me. Because what people don't know is the prayers and the journaling that me and God sat down and had this conversation, right? So before I sold to P&G, before we entered into the process, we entered into the process of August of 22. I journaled, had a conversation with God, and I kid you not, I have the journaling to prove it.
In May, I wrote down, Maya will be acquired by P&G. Had no idea that PNG would enter into the process. Didn't know that we were even going to have a conversation with them. But that was a vision that came from God. And I wrote it down. He says, write the vision and make it plain. And so when we entered into process, PNG ended up becoming one of the ones that was in the running.
And when we were in the thick of negotiations, we went to church. We called our pastor. It was like 10 o'clock at night. And we said, we need prayer because we were in negotiations on Zoom late at night. And we asked him, can we have a breather? Can we take a break? We went to our church, had our pastor pray. And our pastor said, it's something about PNG that's jumping out in my spirit.
So this was confirmation from my pastor. Mind you, I forgot that I wrote that down. Oh, okay. That's crazy. So I forgot I wrote it down. Confirmation from my pastor. We come back, get back on a Zoom. We made the decision. We're going to go with P&G, right? We do all the documents. We close. I go back into my closet because that's why I journal.
And I'm flicking through my journal pages because I'm getting ready to write down this process of what happened, right? I'm flicking through my journal pages and my thumb lands on the journal entry that I made in May saying that Maya will be acquired by P&G. When I tell you the chills that I received because I'm like, God has confirmed his word. I am going in the right direction.
He is ordering my steps. I get chills talking about this. I had to run and find Melvin. I don't know where he was. I was like, Melvin, look at what I wrote down. And mind you, this wasn't the first time that I wrote something down that... I prayed over and God answered my prayer. And I pointed, I said, look what I wrote down. And he was just like, wow. Wow. He's like, wow. Yeah. Right.
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