Little Stuff & Our Loyal Fans.

On my first day of orientation in beauty school I was one of about 30 people that started. As we circled the room each person introduced themselves and projected what they saw themselves doing with their Cosmetology License once they graduated. The room was full of a wide variety of answers. Everything from powerful aspirations like I Will Change The World One Head At A Time to that one stereotypically "blonde gum chewer" that had been shoved into beauty school because she showed little intelligence or talent for accomplishing anything significant.

I probably wouldn't have stated anything that day that gave you any confidence in in me either. But by the time I completed the required 2000 hours I was one of 7 of that group that was still enrolled. One year later, I was the only one still showing up to work a salon. (And 10 years later as I stood in a full service salon of my own, the orientation teacher from school came into the salon and boy! did her jaw hit the floor. It still gives me a certain feeling of satisfaction!)

In fact, its very likely that if you had been able to tell me that day I wore my paper graduation hat into the administrators office for one last "Thank You for a great education" visit ,what the road to where I am now would be like I would have run the opposite way screaming!


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I'm sharing this with you today not to brag about my loyal husband that slapped hundreds of band aids on my self-inflicted scissor wounds, kissed my emotional hurts all better WAY to often, and encouraged me to jump back on the horse on a day I had destroyed someones hair... Or to convince you that even the mediocre and uncreative can find something more inspiring to embrace than just another job at another salon...

What I want you to hear today is "You can do it!"

Surround yourself with people that tell you the truth when you need to dig deeper and do better.

Keep close at hand the friends that sincerely praise your talent and encourage you to grow.

And keep making those clients that travel miles past many other capable salons to see YOU glad they came all that inconvenient way.

Your little stuff is going to be big stuff someday. I just know it.