We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jupiter. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jupiter below.

Alright, Jupiter thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Owning a business isn’t always glamorous and so most business owners we’ve connected with have shared that on tough days they sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have just had a regular job instead of all the responsibility of running a business. Have you ever felt that way?

I am very much happy as a business owner. I worked very hard for other people. I always felt like I was being taken advantage of, and I wanted to take control of my life. I was tired of being bullied by employers. I was tired of dealing with people that just seemed controlling and abusing their power as a boss.. I was impaired to open my own business, and the fear had left me when I realized that my story is much better if I gave this a chance. I’m not afraid of failure. I know that I will always be successful as long as I put my heart and spirit to my work. Failure is not an option for me anymore.
Well, I thought about working for someone else a few days ago because if I fail, I will go work for someone again. I don’t feel like there’s anything wrong with working for someone else. Some people prefer. I believe whatever you’re doing is what’s right for you at the moment. I just think taking risks are the most important thing to honor your life.

Jupiter, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My story is this, I was at a birthday party when I was about eight years old and I was making art in a craft room. The place was called. Imagine that. I was the only one in the craft room and I noticed some employees looking at me make the art. I’ll never forget the feeling that I got like they were staring at me with a look on their face that made me feel confident. I knew that I was going to be a famous artist one day. I have went back to that moment over and over in my mind when people have asked me how I got here. I started selling paintings in Manhattan about 13 years old. I would take the trains sell art on the streets for a dollar. Those were watercolor paintings that I made. As I got older, I started making other things magnets, clocks and T-shirts. I would go outside of music venues and sell paintings to people coming in and out of the venues. I would be able to get into the show. I learned at a young age how to take advantage of my surroundings. In high school, I used to stand at the end of the lunch line and asked everyone for their change so that I could buy some pot to smoke with my friends.. I love to make Art but my main drive is to sell them. I get a high from selling my art. For me, people can own a part of me and enjoy that energy that I radiate. A friend of mine had gifted me a Pink Floyd live tape. When I watch the tape, I could see weird swirls, and colors behind the band. I just knew that I had to figure out how to do that. It’s called a liquid light show. I bought my first overhead projector at a thrift store in East Brunswick, New Jersey. And then I started doing light shows for bands. 17 years later and I’m still doing it. I worked in hair salon since I was 13. I was the shampoo girl. I mostly washed out perms. I never care to be a hairstylist at that time. I was focused on my art. I only realized how much I adored doing hair when I became a self-made bleach blonde. Cutting my own hair was a form of art for me. And the cutting other people‘s hair felt very rewarding. I can make people feel happy and express my art through their beauty. Everyone is beautiful and Hair is like the roof to a house. I call myself a contractor of hair.. I obsess over the structure, the different layers textures colors. When my art was at a lol I realize that doing Hair could forward me the creativity I desired and the money I needed.. applied for financial aid. I went to cosmetology school in Neptune, New Jersey. And I was the winner of two scholarships. I wrote essays on resilience and passion. I was able to afford my tools with this money. I worked for many hair, salons and trained and under many owners. Something about working for people that had trained me made me feel like they wanted me to fail.. before I worked for them I had so much confidence in doing hair. It was my art and they were trying to tell me how to make it. The thing with Hair is you have to know what you’re doing to a certain extent. It’s important to find mentors in life. People that understand you and don’t judge you. If you believe in yourself, you can do anything set yourself up for success and listen to your heart. I opened my own hair studio because I have a vision in Brand that no one could create Jupiter‘s Door. I want people to feel that when they get their hair done by me, their accessing a secret underground world. A place where they can feel enlightened and understood.

What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?

Well, my most effective way of growing, my clientele would be in person. I am a person of the world and I love to be outside in it. I have met hundreds of people maybe more lots more. Between selling art on the streets. Doing liquid light shows for thousands of people. Being my self online doesn’t hurt. I don’t hold back on my beliefs or what I wanna post. Making business cards and handing them out. Whether you’re at the grocery store walking down the street give them your business card. Are utilize social media, especially a community page for different towns nearby. Being outgoing is very important. Even though I’m not in my 20s anymore I still go and sell Art on the streets. I love meeting new people and I believe that when you go to places that have a lot of people could take advantage of that and show your art and tell people about the service services you provide.. one thing usually leads to another when it comes to keeping the iron hot. I’ve got asked to do a lot of Music videos, Not to mention that I provide pictures online word-of-mouth, and being out in the world.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Well, I had no money and I needed money so I found ways to get money. It was rough.
I’ve had people tell me that my art was horrible. I had people tell me that I won’t sell it because a gallery wouldn’t want it because it’s on cardboard. I bring my cardboard to a gallery and I said “can I show my work here?”.
I love painting on cardboard I like the brown color. It’s also free. Because I don’t buy the cardboard it gives me the freedom to really express myself through my art. I’m not worried if I’ll mess up because it’s cardboard I didn’t pay for it. It’s not important to me. It’s nothing. Because I use cardboard and it’s free. It helps me Really create paintings that people could distinguish from other artists, knowing it’s mine. It afforded me to be able to make mistakes and not care.. the liquid light shows to hold their story. I was just guessing I knew that oil and water don’t mix.. I figured they probably use fruit coloring just a lucky guess. Picked up some tips and tricks from the original founding fathers of liquid light shows on my journey. Some of them are always nice, but they will be grudgingly give you a small tip. This is way before computers had all the information.. the only way I could learn about life shows was to do it myself. I did find a PDF file on Leonardo da Vinci he also did light shows oddly enough. He used poisonous chemicals like mercury to create red.
I outgrew my overhead projectors. The shows became so big that my projectors did nothing for the stages that I was performing on. I needed a strong lumen. I needed a new projector. I needed cameras.. sometimes when I performed, I don’t think I was even doing anything at all, but I had my heart and soul into making that art. Even if no one could see it I was still there to make a light show even if all my colors mixed together, and I just had a big black puddle in a dish. I still spun it and splashed it to create ripples.. I find it to be funny. All the stories about my light shows.. I never gave up because I knew that I would advance. I just needed to buy the technology as an advanced.. if something no longer works for you you have to be innovative. You have to create new ways.. in getting my cosmetology license I wrote about how Hair is resilient. We could style it with hot tools, fry it with bleach and somehow you can find a way to make it look good.

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