The 39-year-old business owner remembers how excited Gates was for her when she made her first $30K in 30 days. Ja’Mecca Davenport, who owns The Royal Brow in Atlanta, has been taking Sierra’s webinars and immediately saw the difference it made in her business. It will also help you understand exactly why her webinars are so popular. Now she’s known for the saying “mind the business that pays you,” and she’s passing on the foundation of that quote to women who look just like her.Ī quick scroll through her Instagram account will make you laugh and inspire you to boss up. The entrepreneur also has a new book out titled Make A Million, Maintain A Million, in which she details how she frivolously spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on clothes, shoes and cars when she made her first million because she thought she was rich.Īs the money diminished, she found out that she needed good credit and a plan, and that’s when Gates realized that there was more to being a businesswoman. “So in tough times, are you really willing to help somebody for real like our job titles say we do?” “In the beauty industry our talent is to help people, so this is the time to really test to see where your heart really is-if you were really in this just for the money or if you were really a beauty person,” she continues. “But I’ve been really just trying to focus on all of the good stuff that I’ve been getting out of being home and having time to think and asking God how He needs to use me. I would have never really had time to do that,” she says. “I wasn’t connecting with the people because I really didn’t have a chance. It’s a refreshing change from her typical schedule, which sees her touring with her microblading courses every weekend most months out of the year, then filming and only taking one month off. She’s up late most nights just answering DMs from women who have questions about everything from how she glowed up to where she gets her hair and makeup. She’s proud that she’s able to share the secrets to her success as well as all the mistakes that she made so that they can avoid them.Īsk me anything you want to know about the beauty business in the comments below! #30kin30days #microbladingthesierrawayĪ post shared by C.E.O OF THE GLAM SHOP on at 10:24am PDT In just eight weeks she’s seen women go from being laid off from their jobs and fraught with worry to making their first sales due to her online courses. And it’s only been four years since The Glam Shop and her other business ventures really took off. She also revealed on the show that she had a tough journey with her weight loss and body image, and has to work on her own insecurities daily. At just 15 years old she became a mother and dropped out of high school as a result. Gates knows all too well what it is to struggle and go without. What can I do to help my sister or the girl next to me?” And I feel like my assignment during these times is to use my platform to pour into other women. “What I’ve been doing, and what God laid on my heart, is just encouraging women to start their own. “We really have to come together more as a unit to just figure this all out,” Gates tells ESSENCE. Where many others see being in quarantine due to COVID-19 as a detriment to their livelihood and everything they’ve been working toward, Gates has decided to see it as a sign to slow down, take a breath and refocus her energy into giving back to her sisters.
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