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Roxanne Quimby

lines on the record: 67
first: 2019-02-18
most recent: 2019-02-18
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I did. Yeah, I felt like I was making it on my own by, you know. Living by my wits, so to speak. And I liked that, and I like the unknown. It was an adventure. It was sort of like fishing. You never knew what you were going to come up with And that was always fun. It tested my resourcefulness. I always thought that was a good thing. To test and keep nimble.”
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“Well, although I was a single mom, their dad was a single dad. And he definitely took a lot of responsibility for their care And so every other week I had the opportunity to go out and do what I needed to do or whatever.”
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“We did, yep, Hannah and Lucas were six years old, and I moved out. And I moved into another cabin. Oh, wow. It's even further off the road.”
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“Well, I think I'm kind of a restless person. Pretty curious and interested in the way the world works. How it's all put together. So we were pretty cut off out there.”
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“It was simply a way of having a secure home. And I think it was a very idyllic kind of dream. But ultimately. It didn't provide enough stimulation for my personality”
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“Well, the good thing about not having all the amenities is that it doesn't take a lot of money to live. We had no bills, basically, other than food. We cut our own firewood and had a source of water, which was the spring out and back. I waitressed a day or two a week, and George worked at the local radio station for a while. A day a week, so a couple of days a week we would go out and work for things that. Needed cash.”
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“Was so hard to get out of bed in the morning out of the sleeping bag. But everything that could go wrong did go wrong. And it took a lot longer than we thought it would to try to get undercover. But we had a roof over our heads.”
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“It was way too long. We had built a little screenhouse where we were sleeping, which was a little ways away from the house we were building. And it was getting into December and we were still sleeping outside. Basically, it was outside”
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“Well, there were a few books that you could read about how to build a simple house in the woods. And we would pick people's brains who knew more than we did. They were glad to see some young people moving to Maine because we've had quite an exodus of young people. So they were very friendly and helpful.”
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“There was a movement at the time the back to the land movement, and those were people that had left city. And we're just like us. I was doing it to kind of strip away everything that civilization had layered on me and see what was really important. So, the land that we bought, we built a little cabin on it and had no running water, no electricity. And so you quickly became more aware of how those things affected your life when you didn't have them.”
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“Yep, got it. Got a van, fixed it up. We had $3,000. We went to Vermont, and the Vermont Realtor that we spoke with said that you couldn't buy any land in Vermont for $3,000, but try Maine. So we went to Maine.”
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“Well, I wanted meaning and I wanted to live deeply. I was very influenced by Thoreau who wrote about it quite beautifully. I was looking for transcendence. My world just got bigger and I felt my relationship with it expanded.”
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“Well, it was too limited. And I think that the material world was too important and really it's not as important as I was taught that it was. We were encouraged to make a good living. Both of my sisters had MBAs like my dad did and earning power and one's achievements were emphasized and I took a turn to the extreme left when I went to art school and rejected the pursuit of material comforts. It was really quite wonderful.”
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“I think San Francisco kind of unlocked itself to me while I was there. It was a pretty little town, but the depth of experience that I had there took some time to assimilate and understand I crossed a great cultural bridge while I was out there.”
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“It was an adventure to go all the way to the west coast from New England and New York. It was a great unknown and I had always wanted to be an artist from the time I was five, so it seemed like a natural place to go to art school.”
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“Never intended to build a billion dollar brand or even a million dollar brand. It just happened. Of course, a lot of that had to do with Roxanne's passion and drive, but the idea was never to build something massive. It was a farmer's market product. Today, walk into any drugstore in the US or even overseas and you will find an impressive display of Bert's bees products, lip balm, lotion, soaps, shampoos, all labeled with the face of a heavily bearded man named Bert. The likelihood that Roxanne Quimby would build a massive company or any company at all was so implausible back in the early nineteen eighties when she was a single mom waiting tables at a diner. She drove across the country from Massachusetts, where she was from, to San Francisco seeking out a simpler life alike. Without lots of material needs.”
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“We had a great artist and he did a woodcut portrait of Bert. And we started putting that on the package. And that was a very conscious decision to use Bert's face. He had a long gray beard and long gray curly hair. You know, and as a woman who could never measure up. This glamorous image in mainstream cosmetics and beauty products, I felt like we're going to put a picture of a guy that everybody is going to feel. More beautiful then.”
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