We were lucky to catch up with Jennifer Mariani recently and have shared our conversation below.

Jennifer, appreciate you joining us today. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.

I absolutely love what I do working in the beauty industry. I love how I can help build up somebody’s self-esteem by helping them look and feel better. But I always felt that there was more I wanted people to feel better not just by how they looked but how they felt on the inside. What more could I do for them in 2020 I was introduced to an Emotion Code practitioner. She helped me release trapped emotions which were hindering my career. When I finished my session, I said to myself this is what I want to offer to my clients as well. I want to offer them healing on the inside as well as the outside that was my moment. I became a Reiki master and I’m so close to finishing my Emotion Code schooling. I can incorporate either of these to Energy healings into my practice of the salon. I want my clients to learn that they can live a high vibrational life so we can help others feel good about themselves. When you are Well and whole , we tend to affect others around us. to me, it is a way that we can start changing the world to be better.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I got into the Salon industry when I was 19 years old. I always seek education always wanted to learn what was the next trend what was the newest styles? What are the newest haircutting trends in color as I grew in my craft I started realizing what we put on our hair penetrates into our body and then it grew from there. I was understanding that there was so much waste in the salon so much plastic. I started researching products that source their ingredients ethically. I even started looking for brands that use plastic that broke down faster and didn’t put such a burden onto the environment. As what I feel is normal, we keep growing the desire to become a better person, so you can be a light to others, I wanted to incorporate energy healing into my salon as well. In my early years I was introduced to Reiki. I reached out to my mentor who did my first Reiki session he in Colorado. She trained me through Reiki one to master level. Reiki is such a strong healing practice. It can help heal a person emotionally and physically when I learned the Emotion Code I saw an even bigger way to help my clients. The Emotion Code can release, trapped emotions that are held inside of us. this trapped energy is about the size of a clench fist. Sometimes these trapped emotions are passed down to us through generations which are inherited emotions. I saw that I could help Heal.

So I have two studios I have my salon studio, which is called the Rustic Mermaid Hair Studio and I have my Energy studio, which is called the Zen Mermaid. I have always been nurtured from the water. If you’re like me, you know how healing water can be just hearing it and looking at it, it can restore your soul. Water gives you energy when you just feel so exhausted from the world. That is where I incorporated, the name, mermaid, mermaids are magical. I brought together mermaid and rustic, because that was my way of collaborating Colorado and the water.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

At age 29 I was offered to buy the salon I was working at. I approach my family and they helped me with funding. I failed miserably I own the salon for two years. What was I thinking I loved working behind the chair. I didn’t know how to run a business. I didn’t have the knowledge so after two years, I sold the salon much less than what my family purchased for I felt like a failure, I was ashamed and embarrassed from my family more than anything else. But I kept going my clients were loyal. My clients were the ones that kept my head above water and I kept persevering. I didn’t give up what I did realize from that part of my history, you can be successful without having a 15 person salon and a receptionist at the front desk. That does not define success. Right now I feel like I’m at the top of my game and it’s just me just me and my clients I have a small studio and my client books are full. I can walk away at the end of the day, knowing that I did my best, I wake up in the morning excited to go to work. That to me defines success.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

If I could go back, absolutely without a doubt, I would choose the same profession. It wasn’t easy especially when I owned the Salon. But I grew so much from that experience. I became a better version of me, and hopefully I was a lesson to others that they could be a better version of themselves.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.rusticmermadhairstudio.com www.zenmermaid.life
• Instagram: Jentherusticmermaid @zenmermaid.life
• Facebook: Zen Mermaid Rustic Mermaid Hair Studio

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