Meet Jenna on the left, an amazing blogger and educator here at lululemon. Read her story of how she came to lululemon and why she is loving it today!
“So what do you do?” Such a common and automatic question when meeting someone new.
“I’m in retail,” I answer, but always felt compelled to add, “but it isn’t your normal retail store”.
Three years ago I knew nothing of lululemon, luon or Groove Pants. One of my Canadian girlfriends mentioned it one day. “What a weird name,” I thought to myself.
“Oh my God their pants are amazing!” she said and continued to rave about them. I thought she was insane going nuts over a pair of pants. That was until I tried my first pair of Groove Pants on and nodded, “Ah, I see what all the fuss is about now,” as I wondered where they had been all my life.
Fate had it that that summer I was looking for work and came across a rare advert for lululemon looking to hire now. What did I have to lose? My friend had gone on about them and I needed a job. Right from the get go however, I realized there was more than met the eye. My ‘interview’ was held outside, sitting on some steps in Mountain Square in Whistler. As soon as the woman interviewing me started talking about goals and goal setting, I had fallen in love. With the company holding so many similar ideals and aims as my own, it was like the guidance I had been searching for was right before me.
Jenna taking part in a yoga class with everyone.
Some of her co-workers.
Cheering for our elite ambassador!
Now, it’s a year and a half later and I looked back on my time so far with lululemon and realize what an amazing company I work for. I have done guerilla yoga, cheered at the World Cup bobsleigh and skeleton races as a LEAF (lululemon elite ambassador fan), taken my hand to visual merchandising, organized a yoga stretch event before a running race, strutted my stuff on the catwalk at a fit and function show, let my creativity bloom as a blog artist and now helped as a team wear judge. My job title? Educator!
Opportunity is always there for the taking. All you have to do is have the courage to step up.
