Meet Beverly Dombroski of BeverlyD Organic Hair, Body and Lifestyle

Beverly’s business is just great, and I really like how she’s using her business to reshape the conception of beauty and improve the self-esteem of her customers. Let’s get to know Beverly!

Q: What is your name, the name of your company and when did you start it?

A:  BeverlyD aka Beverly Dombroski, BeverlyD Corporation doing business as BeverlyD Organic Hair, Body & Lifestyle….May 1, 1984 as a salon now I am a lifestyle and product company.

Q: What was the motivation behind your company?

A: At first to show everyone how a salon should be done.  I really hated the way corporations treated people so I wanted to demonstrate a better way, a more transformational way to do business…That was the first 15 years now I am sharing my lifestyle with everyone and showing women that Confidence is Beauty and that you can have the life you once dreamed and let go of.  I am a true believer of beauty comes from your heart and soul and health.  The topical and hardcore imagery that is being portrayed in the media is skewing the true beauty.  We are hurting ourselves with impossible standards, and I find those standards to be quite boring.   I am using entertainment as a tool in discovering who you are and I have used that tool with workshops such as Girls Just Want To Have Fun and my one woman show ‘The Natural Bawdy’.  Self Esteem Pleasure and Beauty is what BeverlyD is all about.

Q: How long did it take you to earn a profit from your business?

A:  Immediately…we did it the smart way by hard work and friends assiting us.  We made the money and spent the money instead of borrowing, although my dad started it for us with a 10,000 dollar gift.

Q: What significant obstacles (if any) have you faced & how did you overcome them?

A: Staff leaving after you put your heart and soul into making them a great designer and employee and not able to reap the benefits of their knowledge because they go somewhere else.  Always made me sad and mad.  So now I created a business in which I get compensated for training them and then I can’t be mad about it.

Q: Did you ever feel like just giving up at times? If so, what keeps you going?

A:  Innovation, being a  little different, curiosity and a desire to learn.  Acknowledgement from clients and former employees about the difference I made in their life.  Maybe it was just that they looked better, felt more confident and enjoyed themselves, (Beauty, Self esteem, Pleasure)  Then I did give up the traditonal way of doing business I had to let my salon die and that was hard for me since I was brillant at the salon business and had so many successes.  But it was wearing me out and aging me and that wasn’t beauty for me.  So I created a new design.  I love innovation and creativity and being the cutting edge.  I always like the building of something or being the pioneer.  That turns me on and that keeps me going.

Q: What qualities (i.e., family support, discipline, time management) do you think are necessary for a women entrepreneur?

A:  Desire, Dedication, Delight…..If you love what you do, you never consider it work. Discipline comes from me getting up in the morning to serve others.  Some may call this co dependency…I call it a reason to get up!

Support comes from like minded people, colleagues, coaches that know what it takes to create a cultural change in your business and life.  The discipline to let go of people friends and family members that have opinions and judgements about the way you are creating your business is very detrimental.  I love my family, but I cannot do what I need to do staying back there with them solving problems that I worked on decades ago.  People mean well but you have to be very aware of who is around you and what they contribute to the atmosphere.  One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch!

Q: What is the one thing (book, website, coach, tool, blog, service, etc) that you value and can say has contributed to your success?

A:   Sage University…Martin Sage founder….he totally validated my beliefs in the entrepreneurial system being that much like a farmer and that is how I grew up.  No matter how glamorous my business is, those principles have organically grown my business.  Also he gave me the distinction….get people what they want.  When you get people what they want you will get what you want.  I think that is brilliant.

Q: What is your favorite quote, saying, Proverb, or scripture?

A:  We fear the thing we want the most.

Q: What advice would you give to someone just starting out in business or thinking about taking the leap into entrepreneurship?

A: Don’t over think it, just do it.  Some of most brilliant moments and successes are the ones where I had no idea what I was doing.  No training, no experience, and I was the top of the field.  That is operating out of your curiosity which is the most exciting and vital energy to create success. You will be so involved that you won’t notice your success but others will.  That’s how it happened with me.

Q: What are a few goals for you or your business this year?

A:  To take my product & training company into corporate business systems to build distribution.  To expand my media on the internet and to finish my book. To build a team of people to run the company so I stay visionary.  To be the face and celebrity of the BeverlyD Hair Party.

BIO: I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin in a town of 32 people and 9 were my family.  Now I live in New York and Houston as the first and fourth largest cities.  And I still desire to be in the country.  My favorite country place is the Hamptons on Long Island, Watermill to be specific.  It reminds me so of the farm I grew up on and it has all the glamour of wealth money and power.  I call it glamorous farmland.  It was here on the farm I cultivated many of my entrepreneurial talents.  We all had to raise money for school supplies and clothes by picking cucumbers in the summer.  I experimented with food to use a beauty products.  At the age of 10 I was already doing french twists and updo’s on my mother and others.  I was quite the fashion and hair diva.  All of these talents are now present in my business and the story is told in my one woman show “The Natural Bawdy’

This summer I will be leader. friend and mentor to three of my neices Emily, Tymberlyn and Lydia and one of my friend’s daughter Sara who is 13 and wants to learn hair.  These girls will travel with me to Germany and Spain this summer to do Hair Partys with me.  It will be a great learning experience for them and they will learn the tools of entrepreneurship and team work with me.  I look forward to it so much because I will get so much out of being with them.

That’s it for now. Until next time, wear your heels well!

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