184: The Woman Who Started Her Biggest Success At 52 — And Has Zero Regrets
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How did Mary Alice Haney transition from fashion editor to founder at age 52?
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Hello, welcome to the Being Her podcast. And I am in Hollywood and I cannot be here and not bring someone amazing when I on onto the podcast when I have the chance to. Um I know a lot, but not everything. And I feel like um you. Marianna Haney knows a lot of things that I need to learn. And I feel like I am you and you are me in a way that is really, really interesting. Um, I wanna ask you about things that I feel like my audience really need to learn about that are not necessarily my field of expertise, but I think feel think that you will bring a wisdom to it that it's just gonna explode their mind. You spent a lot of time at um GQ and Allure at building other people's careers and doing a lot for other people.
If people in my audience are in that space where they feel they're successful, they're in their 30s or um that they're working on something and they ask themselves a question like, why not me? Why can't I do something for myself? How did you pivot and how did you change into creating your
own
brand?
So I think if you look back at the beginning, I I felt that, why not me, always. It was, you know, I knew I wanted to be the West Coast editor for GQ and or I didn't know it was GQ. I knew I wanted to work at one of the magazines back in the nineties and the early two thousands. It was the height of the magazine world. Think of Devil Wars Prada, that was that was us. And when I did that job, I I couldn't get a job. So I Moved to Paris, got an unpaid internship at Harper's Bazaar, came back and started working at the magazines. From there, I always knew I wanted to be a Barbara Walters. I always doing what I do now is the greatest dream of my life. So I thought to myself, okay, how do I do that? Because I have to get tape.
Well, I used the GQ and I got on the red carpets and interviewed Celeste. Celebrities as they came out and got my tape and then got my first television job. And and again, like every aspect of my career from creating a fashion line to creating this podcast, has been that thought process, which is why not me? Of course it's me. Like uh if everybody else is doing it, why can't it be me? And then how do I get there? And what's the r in it? And again, it's the hard work and and the thinking out of the box and just making these moments. You know, being in a magazine, using that to be able to go on the red carpet, you know, creating a fashion line based on what I had learned as a celebrity stylist. And then currently with SheMD, seeing a hole in the market for something that I needed in terms of women's health, and then finding that white space and then going after it.
So I think it really, if if there's a lesson to be had in it from the beginning of My career was always of course it's gonna be me. Like why not? And But it's not just thinking that, it's also then, okay, what are the real steps that have to happen in order to get there? And then just making it happen.
How did you get that attitude when you were little? W were you vivacious and were you like I think I've always been to the front of the stuff? Take me to the
front of the queue. Yep. I think I've always I struggled horribly in school. So I I learned differently. You know, I'm definitely, I was an artist, I was a painter. I, you know, I went to graduate school for film. I was always a visual learner. And I was in a system which was rote learning that, and so I was always sort of trying to stand up and say, like, I am smart, I am capable in a system. That kind of told me that I wasn't. So I think that I always had that, like, I'm the oldest of five and I was just, you know, and and and I'm just gonna, you know, if somebody says no, I'm like, yeah-huh, you just watch me. So I do think that you're kind of born with that. And then I think it's just The idea you have to maybe be not a little nuts, but just a l like almost so confident that that it's of course it's gonna be me.
I don't know. It's if you can just kind of get that attitude. And I tell people then a lot of young girls and and boys reach out to me.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Mary Alice Haney transition from fashion editor to founder at age 52?
0:01–5:27
2
What mindset and early experiences shaped Mary’s “why not me?” attitude?
5:27–10:38
3
How did she navigate the shutdown of her fashion line during COVID?
10:38–14:44
4
What challenges did she face balancing motherhood, divorce, and entrepreneurship?
14:44–19:49
5
How does Mary define and practice confidence without waiting for it?
19:49–24:13
6
What motivated her to launch SheMD and the Ovi supplement line?
24:13–29:03
7
How does she overcome the noise in the market to get her products noticed?
29:03–33:35
8
What advice does she give women about aging, health, and reinventing themselves?
33:35–35:45
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