Get ready for life-changing advice from Mary Rector, Founder and Creative Director of BehindTheChair.com. With 24 years of experience building BTC, Mary shares the invaluable lessons she's learned, including the misfortunes and mistakes that led her to success. Born in a small Illinois town, Mary’s story of overcoming childhood struggles to create the world's largest community of salon professionals is nothing short of inspiring.

This class will guide you through the principles and practices that propelled Mary and BTC’s success, showing you how to avoid burnout, be present, and unlock your full potential every single day.

In this session, you'll discover how to:

  · Embrace discomfort: how stepping out of your comfort zone can drive personal growth.

  · Fight mediocrity: tactics to rise above a world that often encourages complacency.

  · Acceptance & progression: concrete steps to propel yourself forward, overcoming self-doubt.

  · Evaluating influences: how to identify the people who lift you up (and those who pull you down).

  · Permission to dream: ways to believe in your dreams and take actionable steps to make them a reality.