12/6/2023 0 Comments Beyond royalty beauty barNow here we are today, I have 13 employees, my first year in business and I was killing it. Management agreed to an expansion taking over the storefront next to my current space. Within 10 months I’ve outgrown my salon space. I was devastated, here I have just signed a 5-year lease for a Salon, I have a mortgage for the home I recently purchased, and I was a single mother of two children, what was I going to do! I did all I knew how to do, which was HAIR. The morning of Oct 6th, 2020 I was told by my district manager I would be let go. A month later I signed my least hired a Salon Manager to run the salon while I continued working at the finance company, after just buying a home a year before I wouldn’t take the risk of possibly failing, so I set a timeline to stay at my job for another year before jumping into being a hairstylist full time again. It was true the space was vacant and at that moment I started the process of opening Beyond Royalty Beauty Bar. At that moment I didn’t believe it was true, but as soon as I wrapped up my day I jumped in my car and headed over to the vacate salon to see for myself. Brittney the salon you used to work at in Jessup is empty”. June 2020, I remember it was a Saturday I was taking clients as I usually do. Bonuses stopped, management changed every day became a struggle to get out of bed and go to work. Work as a Branch Manager became very stressful. Then 2020 Covid 19 hit us all and changed a lot, however as I reflect I feel like again it was all part of my journey. At the time we were living comfortably and I was in the position to purchase my first home. My job just paid the bills and I was good and what I was hired to do. Even still I would make time for Hair because that was my Happiness, my peace. After a year, I was promoted to Branch Manager! I was in disbelief, now I would be making double the income. I remember crying and Thanking God, not realizing he wasn’t done yet. The pay was great and the benefits were amazing. My job at the time was Monday – Friday 10 am-7 pm, I would come home in the evenings and take clients as well as spend the majority weekend doing hair. In 2018 I received a job offer to be a loan specialist for a finance company, I was full of joy, I was excited and so were my daughters. No matter what path I took, hair was always in the equation. So I picked up a part-time job, moved my girls from our apartment into a townhome and renovated my basement into my home-based salon. As my daughters got older, bills became higher, months became slower, we needed a bigger home, I was working way too much and losing time with them, I felt discouraged. I pushed myself to go back to school but this time online and majoring in business management, I was a stylist at this salon for about 6 years then due to renovations I relocated to another close-by salon in 2015. So I jumped in head first as a full-time stylist and I was doing pretty well. The classes I was taking had nothing to do with what I loved to do, or the services I wanted to provide. At that very moment, I knew I did not want to be a nurse. After about a year I became a hairstylist. At this time I was 19 years old and a mother of two very exhausted but no matter what I loved doing hair. After I graduated high school I enrolled into HC Community College with hopes to become a nurse and started working as a shampoo assistant at a salon in Columbia MD. Entering 9th grade I enrolled in Milford Mill Academy’s Cosmetology program in Baltimore Md and started working after school as a Shampoo assistant at a salon. I never understood that until later in my adult years. My mother used to always fuss at me and tell me that I shouldn’t do hair for free because I had a talent. Hair has always been my passion! From the age of 13, I would always do my siblings and all the kids’ hair in the neighborhood. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers? Hi Brittney, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Today we’d like to introduce you to Brittney Jenkins.
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