Where it started
No one was hiring. So I hired myself.
Before
A “real job” that was burning me out
Slipping away to spas on my lunch breaks and praying for direction.
November 2020
Fresh license, frozen industry
Graduated esthetics school in the middle of a pandemic. Nobody was hiring.
A month later
One rented room
No safety net. No guarantees. Just faith and a decision.
Year two
Six figures, on my own
Just me, my treatment room, and the systems I built one lesson at a time.
Year five
Voted the #1 spa in town
The dream I had from a single rented room, made real by the clients who believed in us.
Today
A multi six-figure business with a full team
Seaside Spiritual Spa on Anastasia Island, still growing and expanding.
I was twenty-four, not from Florida, with almost no local network. I had never worked in a spa, let alone opened one. And I opened a face-to-face business during shutdowns and social distancing.
“At twenty four, I was the definition of delusional.”
On paper it made no sense. To me it felt inevitable. I didn’t wait for permission. I paired the dream with goals, systems, and a lot of prayer, and I learned every hard lesson of running a business in real time.
The biggest thing I built wasn’t the spa. It was the belief that I was allowed to want more. This book is about building that belief in you, and then giving you the tools to act on it.
