Cosmetologist to Microbiologist

Patty Lane

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EPISODE: 004
Where once it was the norm to hold down the same job for 30 years before retiring – now more and more people are changing jobs and careers.

Take Marie Settle as an example. Marie started out as a cosmetologist styling hair and providing skin care in the 1980s. She worked at an exclusive spa in California called the Golden Door. Guests at the “Door” now pay over $8,000 a week for room, food, exercise, beauty and massage. Working there led Marie on a career path she could have never imagined. She tells us how she went from  doing facials – to working in a lab making skin grafts for burn patients.

I’ve known Marie since beauty school and we became lifelong friends working side-by side on the rich and famous at the Golden Door.  Here’s our conversation about our time working At the Door and how she went from being a cosmetologist – to microbiologist.
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Marie Settle and her boys Ricky and Austin shortly before she moved to Oklahoma to attend college.

 

Singer songwriter John Denver enjoying a dip in the pool at the Golden Door Spa with some of the staff. 1980s

 

John Denver performed for a small gathering of staff at the Golden Door Spa in Escondido, California
John Denver getting a hair treatment by Marie at the Golden Door.
Marie & me waiting to thank John Denver for the concert as he poses for a photograph with an inidentified staff member
Photo credit Reed Settle
Marie Settle today enjoying time on her ranch.

Photos courtesy of Marie Settle.

 

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