How a Curl Expert Doubled Her Income After 40

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Why did Lizzie decide to leave salon employment and start her own business?

Lizzie Ramsay 0:00

What made me go out on my own besides obvious financial benefits, I'm able to control what services I do now, so I don't do any more like low income services, my services all are a hundred dollars or more. And I'm able to decide when I work, when I want to take vacation, when I wanna take time off to go have lunch with my kids at school because Perfect. I'm divorced and only get them half the time. And I found when I was working for someone else I was always sacrificing time with them.

Lucy Staffieri 0:27

Lizzie Ramsey is a dedicated, authentic, and resilient luxury hairstylist, curl expert, and the founder of Lizzie's Rebel Curls LLC. Through her work, she helps individuals embrace their natural beauty and empowers women to build sustainable businesses, creating a lasting legacy of professional success, confidence, and meaningful reinvention.

Lizzie Ramsay 0:48

I think beauty is extremely important and I think that your outside reflects everything that's going on, whether you want to do or not. So I like what I do mostly to give women a sense of not just like feeling pretty and feeling confident, and that's extremely important, but also like you you have the power, you can do it, you can change your hair, and the hair is never the problem.

Unknown 1:10

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Rui Gutierrez 1:17

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Rudy Mawer 1:44

Hey, welcome back everyone to another episode of Living Your Legacy Podcast. And I'm your host again, Jay Slangan. And thank you for joining us at the Miami Beach Studios, where we get to talk to some of the, you know, greatest entrepreneurs from around the country, the disruptors, and also experts from so many different fields. It's a privilege to do my job to get to talk to so many interesting people. And we have another interesting woman here with us today. And she's here for our Mompreneurship. show. Why don't you introduce yourself? Where are you from and what do you do?

Lizzie Ramsay 2:12

My name's Lizzie and I'm from Washington DC. I'm a hairdresser and I have a company called Lizzie's Rebel Curls. It's about a year and a half old now.

Rudy Mawer 2:22

Hey, Lizzie's Rebel Girls. All right. Rebel curls. Rebel curls. Okay. We

Lizzie Ramsay 2:26

specialize in curly, naturally textured hair. Okay.

Rudy Mawer 2:29

And does that does that curly hair go to like that new trend of the men's perms also?

Lizzie Ramsay 2:35

So I don't do perms. Okay. My sweetmates don't do perms. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But men are super into perms right now. I know, I know. Loving this moment for them, all especially the young men with the mullets.

Rudy Mawer 2:48

I know, I know. I kind of been thinking about it, you know, but then it's like I don't know. Yeah, I think I could do it.

Lizzie Ramsay 2:55

Yeah. I still recommend it. No, I uh my uh long term focus in the beauty industry is to get away from chemical processing completely. Yeah, even hair color. And I do do a lot of hair color. Um I make most of my money doing hair color, to be honest. Okay. Is that like

Rudy Mawer 3:11

balayages?

Lizzie Ramsay 3:13

Balayages, but really what pays the bills, Jay, are are covering those grays. Women want their gray covered, especially in DC, where they want a professional Like a everyone's government or government adjacent. Yeah.

Rudy Mawer 3:24

Yeah.

Lizzie Ramsay 3:24

And they're all being judged head to toe all day long.

Rudy Mawer 3:26

Oh my God. I know. It's like it's crazy because I started going gray in like my late twenties. You know.

Lizzie Ramsay 3:33

I love gray hair. I think it looks so good on young people.

Rudy Mawer 3:37

I know. But and uh but when you're getting it, you're just like, oh, you know, it's like tough, right?

Lizzie Ramsay 3:42

It's an identity crisis.

Rudy Mawer 3:43

Yeah, and then I used to dye my hair black, right? But then I just started letting it go um because I just got sick of it. But then I was like, I need a I need a good transition, right? I can't just go from black to gray, right? So I did like black and then I went to like um to like a blonde, right?

Unknown 4:02

Yeah.

Rudy Mawer 4:03

Uh and then I was like, okay, from blonde to gray is is a smooth transition. I can just let it ride from there.

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Chapters

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1 Why did Lizzie decide to leave salon employment and start her own business? 0:00–9:09 2 How did caring for her mother and becoming a single mom shape Lizzie’s career choices? 9:09–17:53 3 What signals told Lizzie that her skill set had outgrown her current salon role? 17:53–24:27

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Rudy Mawer 7 min Lucy Staffieri Rui Gutierrez

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After 20 years in the salon industry, luxury hairstylist and curl expert Lizzie Ramsay reaches a point where skill, sacrifice, and ambition collide. Working 50-hour weeks means giving up precious time with her children, while years of caregiving and personal loss force her to reconsider what she wants her life to look like. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, she shares the turning point that pushes her toward entrepreneurship, why specializing in naturally curly hair transforms her career, and how learning to say no changes the way she works. Lizzie also opens up about mistakes behind the chair, the value of constant learning, building the right team, and why success is about more than working harder. Her journey challenges stylists, single moms, and aspiring entrepreneurs to rethink what their time and talent are truly worth.Key TakeawaysRecognizing when your skills have outgrown your current environment can be the signal to build something of your own.Specializing in a niche, like naturally curly hair, can transform a career and create stronger positioning in a competitive industry.Entrepreneurship can create more control over your schedule, services, income, and time with family.Mistakes are part of mastery, and staying willing to learn prevents experience from turning into complacency.Building the right team requires a shared mission rather than competing individual agendas.Notable Quotes“I was able to really see my life for what it was and what I was giving up.”“My skill set has exceeded what she’s going to want to pay me.”“I never want to stop learning.”“You got to mess up to get better.”“The hair is never the problem.”

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