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The Real Reason Most Beauty Entrepreneurs Quit (And How to Avoid It)
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In this episode of the Beauty & The Business Podcast, hosts Damon Rourke and Renee Leon tackle one of the biggest challenges in entrepreneurship—quitting too soon. They discuss why so many beauty professionals burn out, lose motivation, or walk away from their businesses and how to reframe challenges as opportunities for growth.
Renee shares real-life examples of beauty pros on the verge of quitting and how a simple mindset shift can help them pivot instead of walking away. Damon explains why winners aren’t necessarily the most talented—they’re just the ones who don’t give up.
💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
✅ Why 80% of beauty entrepreneurs quit too soon
✅ How burnout is a sign to pivot—not quit
✅ Why comparison is the #1 killer of motivation
✅ The importance of goal setting, accountability, and community
✅ How to use the Beauty & The Business Planner to stay on track
If you’ve ever felt stuck, unmotivated, or ready to quit, this episode will help you refocus, reset, and keep pushing forward.
🌟 Get the Free Beauty Business Planner & Join Our Community: www.beautyinthebusiness.vip
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Transcript
Introduction and Mission
00:00:05
Speaker
Welcome to Beauty and the Business Podcast. I'm Renee Leone, a beauty entrepreneur, coach, and single mom who built a six-figure beauty business straight out of school. Now, I'm here to help you do the same.
00:00:17
Speaker
If you're ready to stop struggling and start scaling, you're in the right place. Let's turn your passion into profit. Hit play and let's build your beauty empire.
Perseverance and Mindset
00:00:32
Speaker
Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Beauty and the Business. My name is Damon Roark, joined by my co-host and business partner, Renee Leon.
00:00:44
Speaker
You know, i saw the other day that you posted something on Instagram, Damon, and it was talking about how quitters never win, essentially. you remember that quote? Yes. Yes.
00:00:55
Speaker
What was it? So if you're judging your opportunity based off the quitters, you're going to be the next one. The fact is that most people quit what they're doing.
00:01:06
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And we just don't know where they're in that process. Like at at some point, hopefully everybody just sticks with what they have, but most people quit what they're doing. And so anything you're doing at one time, like 80% of people are eventually going to quit. You just don't know where they are.
00:01:21
Speaker
And if your goal is to build a business, if your goal is to kind of stick and stay and grow, you can't judge your opportunity based off people that quit. That's so true. And it's kind of like that old saying, like the tip of the iceberg, right? You don't see everything that's going on underneath the surface, like yeah where they, what they went through, the things that came at them in order to be kind of like in the winner's circle at the end. And a lot of times we talked about comparison before and the pressures of social media and how that can, we can easily fall into that trap of, um, constantly comparing ourselves to others and
00:01:56
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And that's also why we talk about community and why that's so important to surround yourself with people that want you to win and that you can hold each other accountable.
Impact of Comparison: Personal Growth Focus
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Speaker
um What are some of the lessons that you've learned as an entrepreneur in the product sales industry about people and their mindset when it comes to what does it take to you know classify somebody as a winner and what does it take to classify them as a quitter?
00:02:25
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Yeah. Yeah. And i love I love the quote, first of all, comparison is the thief of joy. It's really if you compare yourself, like if we're talking about comparing yourself to um somebody you see on Instagram or somebody else that you think is just further along, it's just you can't compare yourself. You don't know their background. You don't know their network. You don't know the the work that they put in when nobody sees the integrity behind what they do.
00:02:48
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You don't know what they're putting in. And so you can't judge yourself against them. You can only judge yourself against you, who you were yesterday. then when it comes to quitting, the older
Success in Sales: Mindset and Perseverance
00:02:58
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I get, the more experienced I get. I've been in sales for 20 years. i've been with I've been with the same company. We started our company 14 years ago, which is crazy to think about. But working with thousands of sales reps over the last 14 years, and it's a 1099, right? it's It's a volunteer army.
00:03:15
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And so when I think about that and the people that I've worked with, it's you literally just don't quit. Like to win, you just don't quit long enough. And then everybody's like, oh you're a winner. You're a winner. No, it's really not.
00:03:29
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Like the winners are just people who didn't quit so many times. that eventually they just got what they wanted. And so i would say like the realization of that, the first thing is going to be the realization of the mindset, the successful person mindset is just keep going.
Handling Success and Challenges
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It's how you respond when things suck. How do you respond when things are great? but you have a full You have a full book of business for the next two months. like You can't fit another appointment in.
00:03:55
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You're winning. That's awesome. How do you respond? Are you booking for the third month or are you taking a break? Right. Are you recognizing, yeah, you're tired. You're gonna be tired when you're doing that. You're making lot of money, right? It's going to feel great.
00:04:08
Speaker
What's it going to feel like after that? When you hit that third month, is it time to reevaluate? Like when you're winning, is it time to start charging more, right? Open up those books for a higher level of clientele. Are you charging too little, right? Is the $10 that you're making per hour, we need to up that.
00:04:24
Speaker
Yeah. And so it's really reflecting. And then when you're losing, how do you respond? Do you really want this? Right. Do you really want this? And because you're going to people are going experience like massive losses, like it's life.
00:04:38
Speaker
Right. You're going to experience massive downtimes. But how do you respond? You don't have to. I think the misconception when I say this stuff, even in my own head, it's like things are going to suck, right? And you can lay down. You can take a nap. You can watch TV. You can binge eat for a little bit.
00:04:55
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The next day you get up and you start building your business again or you do the things you know you know you need to do. So I think the first thing is just recognizing the mindset behind it.
00:05:06
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Being a winner is just amazing. not being a quitter, right? And that's just not being
Dealing with Burnout: Advice for Lash Artists
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a loser. Right. I think a big one in this industry, we all hear the term burnout. Yeah. That's really common because we are so hands-on. We're touching people. We're talking to people. It's a very high um contact type of industry. Right.
00:05:27
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That can be draining for a lot of different people that step into this world. And i was just having a conversation with a girl the other day who had been doing lashes for 10 years. And she's like, I just want to be done. i just want to be, want to start over. I want to do something else. I'm like, back hurts. My hands hurt.
00:05:44
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You know, she's had a really negative mindset about it. And I said, well, what else are you going to do? And she's like, let's think about getting real estate license. I said, well, why would you abandon the profession that you've mastered?
00:05:55
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Now you can claim yourself as a master lash artist. And have have you ever thought, instead of quitting, how do i redirect my sales? yeah So it's okay to feel the burnout, to feel the day-to-day grind and be tired and want maybe more.
00:06:09
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when I hear somebody talk about that, like they're just frustrated with the situation that they're in right now, that's an indicator to me that their goals aren't big enough. and so i instead said to her, what if you focus on training?
00:06:24
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And you can work less, you can hold classes, you can train five students a month and make five times the amount of money that you're making right now. yeah And a lot of times because we're not surrounded by dreamers, we're not surrounded by goal setters, we often, our brain goes to that portion that it's just, you know, let's walk away and quit, throw in the towel, do whatever, because that's what makes us feel safe.
00:06:47
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Like what you talked to about in the past, previous podcast. Mm-hmm. But instead, it's an indicator that you need to redirect your sales or maybe regroup your goals. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I think you so much is about vision and belief and knowing where you're going to go as ah as an entrepreneur or business, really as a person.
Vision and Motivation: Preventing Burnout
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right Let's just say as a person. So much of it is about knowing where you're going to go. And if you if you don't know where you're going and you're just going through the motions, then you're very emotional. But if you know where you're going...
00:07:17
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then you know how you're going to get there. And you realize the day-to-day grind, the day-to-day suck is is is for a purpose. But you're right, because I think when we start out, and and i've I've experienced this personally in my life, it's like you start out, you have a goal, and at some point you actually achieve the goal.
00:07:34
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Like I'm sure the master lash artist, right, technician, um if she would have looked back at herself, if she would have told herself 10 years ago, this is where you're going to be.
00:07:45
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that person 10 years younger would have been ecstatic with the position. And it's just you have to set that goal for either 10 years or five years or two years in the future of where you want to be. Yes, so I think you're absolutely right. Like it it really does go back to reevaluating where you're at, taking time.
00:08:03
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And just recognizing where you are and setting that new goal. And it's hard to do. you know That burnout comes from, it does stem from that. But then you think about the person going through that. Like a master lash artist
Community and Support Systems
00:08:15
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is probably just going through the motions.
00:08:17
Speaker
They're seeing a lot of patients. They're taking on a lot of motion of their patients. um They need a break. Right. That's why, as you know, my wife and I, Amber, we take a break every year.
00:08:29
Speaker
at the end of the year to to talk about the next year. Because when life gets going, you know, you have, when you have kids and a spouse and a business and your health and all the stuff.
00:08:42
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Preach. Right? All the stuff. When you have all the things, like it's easy to go through the motions because you're serving that stuff. You'll do anything for for those priorities, but it's really important to take a step back and be like, where, what am I doing this for?
00:08:54
Speaker
Yeah. And where am I going? Yeah. And again, the importance of community. We've said it yeah before, but, you know, being connected with people like Damon and I, that when you have those moments that we can sit down, have a conversation and help you because it's really hard sometimes to get out of our own heads, to get out of our own way and just hear it from somebody else, you know, it, and help you kind of get over those hurdles because we aren't in the emotions with you.
00:09:21
Speaker
You're in the emotional aspect of it. You're the one feeling tired. I can look at it with fresh lenses. yeah And help you decide where you need to grow your beauty career. And that's why we ah offer, you know, one-on-one coaching. We offer group coaching. We have this podcast. We have all these resources.
Trust and Feedback in Community
00:09:37
Speaker
And something I say is really the key component of beauty in the business is the systems and the importance of systems. And do you want to kind of talk about that a little bit, how that might prevent somebody from quitting when they're focusing Yeah, but I it goes back to what you said with the community, right? I mean, it's community and the systems. And you think about, I'm just reflecting on our relationship, right?
00:10:00
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Like we talk a lot, we see each other a lot. we We talk about day to day. And then when it's appropriate, we'll talk about goals. We'll talk about the future, right? We'll establish that. But what you're doing in that community is is building trust, right? You're doing life with people, which is what you want.
00:10:16
Speaker
So that, you know, if I'm messing something up, I have trust and faith in you that you want the best for me and you can say something, right? And vice versa. It's, it's, I feel like that if you're messing up or if I think you're messing up, I can bring it to your attention in the moment, right? In the right moment when it's appropriate, not when you're stressed, not when you're crying, not when you're throwing things or excuse me she doesn't do all that. I never cry. Or throw things.
00:10:43
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But she really doesn't. know I've been saying.
00:10:47
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but But when you know when somebody's down, that's not when you give the person advice. You just support them. Yeah, that's good. Tell them to walk it off. you're ah God knew what he was doing when made you girl dad. Yeah, for real.
00:11:01
Speaker
But but you you you love that person where they're at. And that's really like when you're doing life with somebody, you're developing that love and that trust. And so you have somebody around you in your community that's not just, hey, you can do
Systems and Goal Setting
00:11:12
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it, right? Keep going. Right.
00:11:14
Speaker
right they're just They're just not a motivational coffee mug. They're actually there to call you out and be like, hey, well, do you know where you're going? Do you know what your goals are? What are you doing this for? like Is that really motivating to you?
00:11:25
Speaker
And then when you think about the systems that we have and and we start getting to that. I mean, systematically, we're going to review your goals. Yeah. Systematically, reflection. reflection And I call it in the planners, reflection and reformation. yeah Because you have to you may have goals and you may not hit them in the time frame that you had.
00:11:45
Speaker
But you'll never hit them if you quit. But you might have to be more realistic about your time frame and like what you're able to do. My brain, I'm always thinking I can do the absolute most. yeah But my kids are my number one.
00:11:57
Speaker
And so we were just talking today. I was like, oh, I'm tired. You know, didn't get two nights of sleep because my son has some issues with his stomach. Life happens. like But resetting yourself and knowing what your goals are and being able to realal reallocate the time that you might need to to give yourself the grace to hit those goals is way better than just throwing the towel in.
00:12:20
Speaker
For sure. And then you yeah you systematically look at your priorities and you have to recognize your priorities when you're going through the planner. Like you have to admit that you can't be a 10 out of 10.
00:12:31
Speaker
You can't be a 10 out of 10. We just have to define what 10 out of 10 is. Yeah. Right. You can be a 10 out of 10 mom, but what's that look like? Yeah. Right. You can be a 10 out of 10 business owner as long as we know what the 10 looks like.
00:12:45
Speaker
But I think a lot of us especially with that, when we get back full circle to the joy of the comparison, right? um Is the thief of joy. When you're comparing yourself to this made up 10, I call it like made up 10 out of 10.
00:13:02
Speaker
that you just think you need to be perfect in every single thing that you do because you have the capability to do it in that silo. We're not going to look at your life in a silo. We're looking at your life holistically. but What are your all of your priorities? And then we're going to allocate time and energy towards those resources.
00:13:18
Speaker
And then we take that. And we come up with your annual goals and then we take it all the way back down to monthly goals, weekly goals. And what are the daily actions that you can do to go significantly change your life? And I think it just connects the whole thing.
00:13:32
Speaker
You know, if if you're just living day to day, it gets very frustrating. But when you know your what you're working now is going to echo for the next year, five years, 10 years and build your business, that's where the systems really come in.
00:13:44
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. And that's the importance. It's like the easiest thing to do, but the hardest, the hardest thing. yeah Easy to do, easy not to do Easiest thing to do, easiest thing not to
Joining the Community and Utilizing Resources
00:13:55
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do. Exactly. And it's a choice. But if you're getting anything from this episode, it's basically that it's common to quit and give up, but that's not why you're here.
00:14:07
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If you're tuning into this, it's clear to me that you desire growth and you desire change and you desire somebody to hold you accountable or walk you through the ups and downs of your beauty business.
00:14:19
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And that's why exactly why we created this platform for you. So if you haven't already, can go to beautyinthebusiness.vip or go ahead and grab our printable planner. It's free.
00:14:31
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And join our weekly meetups so we can help coach you through some of these hurdles. We're going to have a space where you can ask you know some Q&As and we can get you going on one-on-one coaching if that's what you desire.
00:14:44
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But the best way to not give up on your goals is surround yourself with a community that supports you. Absolutely.
00:14:52
Speaker
right. Thank you guys so much for jumping on today. We will see you on the next episode of Beauty and the Business. everybody. If you like what you heard today, join us over at beautyandthebusiness.vip.
00:15:05
Speaker
Again, that's www.beautyandthebusiness.vip. That's where we have our courses. That's where we have our community group. And we look forward to interacting with you over there. Beautyandthebusiness.vip. We will see you on the next episode.