I was seventeen the first time I let someone else have half the say. It stayed that way for years — every decision split fifty-fifty, nothing mine alone. That's over now. There's one name on every decision I make. Mine.

I have a law degree. A business degree. Sage and HR qualifications. I had every credential to play it safe in a career that would never ask anything difficult of me. I built anyway.

The Perfect Blend, Collective Hair, Hair Repair Club, SWTZ, Salon Growth, and my own name. Six businesses, six different models, one name on the decisions in each of them.

I travel four months a year. No 9-to-5, no one else's schedule, no permission required for any of it.