From Artist to CEO: Building a Seven-Figure Beauty Brand by Reinventing Yourself with Tanny Diep

What if the career that finally fits is one you have not thought of yet? This week on the Glow Up, Gyrl Podcast, Kyra sits down with Tanny Diep, founder of Sway Brows, a permanent makeup academy and studio in Los Angeles. She is a master artist, educator, and beauty business coach who built a seven-figure brand. She is also 41, and she started this career at 35. Before any of it, she sold cell phones at AT&T through college, dropped out of business school, went back for fashion design, and spent nearly a decade in the fashion industry. She took a pay cut from forty dollars an hour to nine, bartended and served sushi to cover the gap, and worked her way from design assistant to nearly every role a small company has. Then she hit a wall. What got her out was a 200-hour yoga teacher training she only signed up for because a friend asked. She never taught yoga. She came out of it having put down a victim mentality she had been carrying, and that is the version of her who eventually looked at microblading and thought, maybe. In this episode: Leaving a stable sales career for a nine-dollar-an-hour internship, and why she did it anyway The yoga training that changed everything, and why it was never about yoga Her first model, which went so badly she nearly quit on the spot The eleventh client who made her understand what this work actually is Why the beauty industry she feared turned out to be nothing like she expected The back room of a hair salon, a hundred square foot studio, and what came next The month she made ten thousand dollars and assumed it was a fluke What the shift from artist to CEO actually required Why confidence comes from repetition, not from thinking about confidence The expensive experiments that did not work, and why she keeps trying anyway Her answer for anyone who thinks it is too late Whether you are eyeing an exit from something that no longer fits, talented at your craft and lost on the business side, or just wondering if starting over in your thirties or forties is allowed, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Learn more: swaybrows.com Follow Tanny: @swaybrows Stay connected to Glow Up, Gyrl: Website: glowupgyrl.com | Email: [email protected] Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn: @glowupgyrl | Facebook: @glowupgyrlatl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices