One of the questions I get asked the most from clients when I meet them is, “So, what made you want to do this?” and the reality of it is, I don’t really know for sure but I’m quickly figuring it out.
If I told you I’d always wanted to work in the skincare/beauty industry, that’d be a straight up lie. I certainly didn’t have a skincare routine when I was younger and I didn’t pay much attention to what I was using on my face or putting into my body. In fact, I’m still trying to work out that balance!
I have always worked in either retail or customer service in some form with a lot of manual labor jobs sprinkled through out. I love seeing the work I do make people happy more than anything and I just wasn’t feeling like I was able to do that in the jobs I had. For the past 4.5 years I was a manager at a local grocery store, and loved what I did. I loved the people I worked with and the job I was doing made me feel like I was making a difference (I mean as much as you can when you’re just one person in a corporate setting). Enter COVID.
There were a lot of changes that happened in a very short period of time and people were not happy. I was getting cursed out by customers and told they were going to make sure I lost my job because we were following guidelines and mandates that they didn’t like and I was TIRED. I had thought that this was going to be my career for a good period of time and now I was completely lost and didn’t know what to do or how much longer I would be able to handle being screamed at before going crazy. I started to look back at all of the ideas I’d had before going into management and I started to think about if any of these options still peaked my interests.
Then the lightbulb went on and I remembered that I had played with the idea of becoming an esthetician about 10 years ago. The idea of going back to school even for a profession like this intimidated the hell out of me. I was always the type of student who kept her grades just high enough to be able to play sports. Could I even deal with school and work and everything else going on at the same time?? Before I could talk myself out of it, I decided to talk to Chelsea and get her input since she had been in the industry for a few years and could kind of prepare me for it in a way. She was probably more excited about it than I was, and that helped me make my decision to completely change careers.
I’ve seen what Chelsea does and just how happy she makes people who come to see her for their Wholelistic experience. The more I learned about that side of things, the more interested I became in wanting to spread that goodness around!
I’m so very grateful to Chelsea for having the faith in me that she does and for giving me the opportunity to learn so much more than I ever could have imagined. I’m also grateful to YOU for trusting me and allowing me to help you achieve the ultimate GLOW.
Becoming an esthetician was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, and I’m so glad that I finally get to make a difference in people’s lives. The amount of support that I’ve gotten from everyone is truly amazing and I feel like this is going to be a wonderful thing that I get to share with all of you!