S10E18 - There’s Something About Mary: Mad Woman Mary Wells
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This week, we profile the remarkable career of, arguably, the most successful women in advertising - Mary Wells. She was a woman of firsts - the first woman to found and run a major advertising agency, the first female CEO to take a company public and the first women to intimidate the boys club of Madison Avenue.
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| 0:45.7 | You're so king in it. |
| 0:50.7 | Your teeth look whiter than no, no, no. You're going to love it in an instant. |
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| 1:15.9 | You're under the influence with Terry O'Reilly. Mary Esther Wells was born in Detroit in 1943. |
| 1:40.1 | Raised by a single mother, Mary was a sickly child, suffering from spinal meningitis and tuberculosis. |
| 1:47.6 | She was bedridden for two years. |
| 1:50.9 | At the age of 12, Mary would help her mother at her house cleaning job, singing as she mopped floors. |
| 1:58.5 | She had a great voice and even wrote songs. |
| 2:02.1 | In her teens, Mary sang at church, |
| 2:04.4 | in a high school choir, |
| 2:05.6 | and occasionally at area nightclubs. |
| 2:08.2 | And it was at a club one night |
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