What happens when you leave an established finance career in NYC to open a nail salon in Los Angeles? Olive and June founder and CEO Sarah Gibson Tuttle has some answers. She had spent 10 years working as an equity sales trader at JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley when she noticed a white space in the beauty industry. Inspired by Drybar, Gibson Tuttle realized there was a need for affordable luxury nail salons and set out to run her own company without so much as a business plan.
Her finance career enabled her to save enough money to open her first location, which she proudly didn't raise capital for. "I funded the first location myself," she says. "I purposely didn't take money. I used all of my savings, 100%, and I worked the front desk for the first year to save money." Scroll down for three career tips we gleaned from Gibson Tuttle's podcast episode and subscribe to Second Life on iTunes for more.