To be the best, you have to put in the work. Our guest today, Brooke Kennedy, is a firm believer in this. Brooke is a master esthetician and the renowned Suite B Lounge owner.
Today, she discusses how her prior experiences before entering the beauty industry equipped her with customer service, sales, customer relations, multitasking, and other life skills that she puts into her business.
She talks about her journey into esthetics and how she started her practice immediately after finishing school. She gives tips for starting your own business, how Yelp, Google, and referrals helped build her business, and how continuing education helps you be the best in the industry.
For those desiring a similar schedule, she shares how she manages a 12-hour business schedule, the personal decisions that make it work, and the importance of the critical ingredients of planning, support, and time management. She also gives advice to estheticians who desire a 12-hour workday and how she can do this in a way that her team members love their work-life and remain motivated.
Brooke Kennedy is more than just a fresh-faced beauty queen from Sequim, WA; she’s got ambition and brains and a profound passion for the health and wellbeing of people and the environment. She learned much of her adult regimens and character qualities from her mother, who taught her from a young age the importance of skin care, and from her father, who owned a restaurant and demonstrated hard work and excellent customer service.
After attending the University of Washington, where Brooke studied molecular cell biology, dance, and French, and was an active member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, she decided that medical school was not going to be her path, and she began to pursue other avenues while supporting herself in the food and beverage industry. Along the way, she also spent time in the electrical industry developing business and sales, and working in project management.
In 2012 Brooke graduated from the Euro Institute of Skin Care and opened Bliss by Brooke Skin Care in 2013 in a 7 ½’ x 8 ½’ made-over closet of a hair salon. Since then she has continuously improved her knowledge base and skill set as an aesthetician by completing courses in advanced skin analysis (with Florence Barrett-Hill of Pastiche) and acquiring an oncology esthetic certificate, which is a personal passion for Brooke.
Skin care, for Brooke, feels like a perfect combination of serving others, creating a memorable guest experience, and using the latest scientific advancements. She works hard and believes that life is too short not to love what you do!
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