How a Beauty Entrepreneur Found Success After 40
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How did Lynsey Taylor's early failures shape her entrepreneurial mindset?
Honestly, my story is about persevering and resilience. And it's never too late to start. I started my successful business. I'm an entrepreneur that decides to keep trying things. But my successful business started when I was 40. I'm telling you, insanity. You got to start being crazy a little bit.
Nobody knows what they're doing until they know what they're doing.
Yeah, exactly. And the biggest takeaway is
Lindsay Taylor is an empowering, resilient, and visionary entrepreneur, educator, and the founder of the Beauty Scholar Society. Best known for helping beauty professionals grow thriving careers, she is transforming the industry through education, leadership, and community.
It is so... easy to just want to quit. A lot of days you wake up and you're like, oh, I remember that problem I had yesterday. Yeah, it's still there. So you have to be resilient. And that's the biggest thing when you're when you're starting. And there's days that you're like, don't even want to get out of bed, but you have to. You will never grow if you're not serving others and your business will never grow if you're not having a servant's heart.
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welcome back everybody to another episode of the living your legacy podcast i'm your host jason tyler and i am joined by miss lindsay taylor hello welcome to the show thank you for having me of course of course pleasure having you here so lindsay you just finished filming your episode of women in power first of all how you feel now on the other side of it
I feel good. I feel good.
You feel like a weight's off your shoulders.
It's a little different talking to a camera the whole time.
I know. Nerves. Yeah, but you get the jitters out. Yes.
Why does Lynsey say entrepreneurship has no expiration date and she found success at 40?
All of a sudden, Kofi's in there. He's a great interviewer.
He's awesome.
He keeps the vibes going. Yep. What would you say is like for the audience out there? What would you say is like the number one thing that you want people to be able to learn from your story?
Honestly, my story is about persevering and resilience. And it's never too late to start. I started my successful business. I'm an entrepreneur that decides to keep trying things. But my successful business started when I was 40. So here we are.
A serial entrepreneur, if you will, ladies and gentlemen. Talk to me a little bit about, like, kind of your first experiences with entrepreneurship, because I'm, you know, I'm 33 now. I've gotten a couple of businesses under my belt, but I know those first two or three are usually like, what am I doing? What's going on?
Yeah, it's always like, what am I doing? I still, I mean, I have a successful list, so I'm still.
Nobody knows what they're doing until they know what they're doing.
Yeah, exactly. And the biggest takeaway is just keep doing it. Like you don't have to know what you're doing. You don't have to have a certain timeframe. Just do the thing. Just keep going forward. Keep taking steps and you'll get there. You just have to, if you're an entrepreneur, you got to keep going.
You won't spontaneously combust if you don't make payroll this week. It's going to be uncomfortable.
You might cry, but yeah.
Yeah.
But you'll you'll live and then you get to take another stab at it.
Yes. Yeah.
So talk to me a little bit about your background. How do I get the Lindsay Taylor that's sitting in front of me today?
A lot of trial and error. So but I guess that's part of being an entrepreneur. Right. So yeah. I have always grown up with the attitude of I'll figure it out. I'll fail, but I'll figure it out. And that's where we are. I don't have one specific thing that led me here. I've just tried a lot of different things. My kids say I've lived 100 lives in my 42 years of being alive. I've done everything as far as working at a restaurant. I used to work at Hooters.
Yeah.
What lessons did Lynsey learn from working in restaurants and needing thick skin?
I'm a firm believer that everyone that gets into the working world, we should all work in a restaurant at least once.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
How did Lynsey Taylor's early failures shape her entrepreneurial mindset?
0:00–2:14
2
Why does Lynsey say entrepreneurship has no expiration date and she found success at 40?
2:14–4:13
3
What lessons did Lynsey learn from working in restaurants and needing thick skin?
4:13–6:04
4
How did Lynsey go from small ventures to launching a pizza restaurant as her first business?
6:04–9:05
5
When did Lynsey realize her salon and spa model was working and why did it click?
9:05–11:28
6
How did Lynsey build an online academy and what challenges did she face creating courses?
11:28–12:45
7
What core habits—resilience and service—does Lynsey recommend for business growth?
12:45–12:50