In August 2013, Isabelle Guyomarch was at the head of a thriving cosmetics industrial group with 250 employees in Acquigny, in Eure. She then learned that she had aggressive stage 3 breast cancer, synonymous with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Then begins a fierce fight, to save his life, but also his business. An experience that she recounts in the documentary “Is work healthy?”.
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“Immediately it’s, ‘No, I can’t stop.’ And I remember the surgeon saying to me, ‘What do you mean, you can’t stop?’ “No, I can’t. I have 250 employees. So… I surely could have, but I think that was conceding to illness and the medical profession the only territory that remained for me.”tells Isabelle Guyomarch with great modesty in the documentary.
-They were going to take my femininity, my future, my carefreeness, my hopes. The work I could still control. I will do everything to, of course, save my skin, but also save this company.
Excerpt from the documentary “Is work health?” by Christelle Lamarre and Jeanne Soral
During her treatment, her associates abandoned her and wanted to sell to Chinese investors. Isabelle Guyomarch refuses and buys back her shares with the help of her daughters. “All my bank files were systematically refused… and yet, it was a short-term loan: five years. We expressly tell you: we think that you will not be alive in five years.” It increased my rage tenfold.”
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