Three years ago, I became a certified Inspiring Champions coach. Since then, I’ve helped thousands of salon owners, nail techs, and hair designers achieve their dreams and turn their goals into reality! It’s very rewarding to coach salon professionals and to see how so many of us have such similar wants and needs.

I’m not someone who just talks the talk; I actually walked the walk myself. My transformation started when I hired Debra Hanson, an Inspiring Champions coach, to help me with my nail career. At the time (on the outside) it looked like I had it all — a great business, more than $75,000 in services annually, and working at arguably the number-one nail salon in town. But Debra saw right through me. On the inside, she recognized that I was burned out, stressed out, and ready to get out! We started applying some new, exciting strategies to running my business that would get me to where I really wanted to be, which was in balance with family life and work life.

I know firsthand that reinventing yourself in front of an existing clientele is terrifying. Yet, in my first year of working with Debra I cut two full days out of my book and grossed an additional $30,000! We were really getting somewhere.

—Heather, success coach