Establishing your own firm or practice is an incredibly daunting task. From myriad of legal and regulatory hurdles to the financial and career related risks, professionals who choose to start their own firm have to overcome so much and so we wanted to reach out to those who’ve done it successfully for advice, insight and stories. 

Gabriela Sanchez

My brand didn’t start as a business plan. It started as a way to survive and not lose my voice. Before the United States, in Venezuela, I was an entrepreneur. I owned several businesses, I had a team, I had structure, I had a name in my industry. Read More>>

Staci McAdams

When I first started thinking about private practice, it honestly wasn’t because I had some big entrepreneurial dream. I had been in the social work field for years already and was seeing a consistent gap between what clients needed and what larger systems realistically allowed us to provide. Read More>>

Loraine badaloo

My journey in the beauty industry started from Jamaica where I was born and raised. I had the opportunity to have my own salon in Jamaica and had to close my establishment after migrating to the United States. After moving to the USA, I decided that I wanted to share my knowledge, hence started teaching at a beauty school in Manhattan, New York. Read More>>