| Cindy was
born and raised in Minnesota, but has always been intrigued
by
the sultry south. She attributes this curiosity to “the
Minnesota winters
she endured growing up”.
As a young adult she met
her future husband, a
native of Jackson, Mississippi, and had her first trip
to New Orleans at
20. “ I fell in love with the city”, she
says and eventually moved here
“ to see how far down the Mississippi river I could live
and stay in the
continental U.S. I have always lived near the Mississippi
river on either
one end or the other”, and has a special passion
for water.
Her spa
interests started as a child, mixing potions consisting
of things like
talc powder and Dippity-Doo, and slathering them
on her face to see what
results she had. She also grew up in a retail family
as her mother owned
her own business, and remembers helping her at the
store through high
school by stocking the shelves, helping customers
and even dressing like a
large duck in the spring, to greet the potential
customers.
After tiring of her experience in the corporate
world,
Cindy fell in love
with a small spa and store near her home and eventually
went to work
there. “ I love making a difference in peoples
lives by supplying them
with tools they can use to improve themselves, and their
environment. It
certainly helped me, and it feels good to give back”.
Having someone leave
the store in a better place then when they came in, is
always her goal,
and it truly can make her day.
Her attention to detail
plays an important
role in their success as well, and she is a stickler
for it. “The spa is
direct reflection on who we are, so every detail matters”.
This includes
the products she buys for the spa. They must be quality,
rare, beautiful,
with no animal testing involved. Cindy's quiet and thoughtful
demeanor
allows her to administer change to the store as needed
to keep it fresh
and new.
Meeting Sandy was “destiny”, she says, and
a perfect blend of contrasts.
“ I wouldn't want to be in this crazy business with anyone
else, and
besides, no one can make me laugh quite so hard”!
Although they are
different, their goal and mission have always been perfectly
aligned, and
has never varied.
Their mission is simple: To provide the client with an
experience unlike
any other spa experience, bringing them a new found vitality
that could
only be described as a “breath of fresh air”.
Just believe, breathe and
receive, and that inner brilliance just glows. |
