How a Beauty Entrepreneur Found Success After 40

Summary

Living Your Legacy – Episode Summary

Podcast: Living Your Legacy
Host: Jason Tyler
Guest: Lindsay Taylor (Founder, Beauty Scholar Society)
Episode: How a Beauty Entrepreneur Found Success After 40
Release Date: July 27, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this inspiring episode of Living Your Legacy, host Jason Tyler sits down with Lindsay Taylor, a dynamic entrepreneur and founder of the Beauty Scholar Society. Lindsay candidly discusses her unconventional entrepreneurial journey, marked by resilience, risk-taking, and a steadfast commitment to serving others. Starting her most successful venture at age 40, Lindsay shares hard-won lessons about perseverance, building a legacy, and the importance of maintaining a “servant’s heart” as a leader in the beauty industry.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Late-Blooming Success and the Entrepreneurial Mindset

• Lindsay emphasizes that it’s “never too late to start” a successful business, sharing her story of launching a thriving beauty business at age 40.
• Resilience and perseverance are repeated themes: "A lot of days you wake up and you're like, all right, remember that problem I had yesterday? Yeah. It's still there. So you have to be resilient." (00:41, 09:18)
• Entrepreneurship as trial and error: Lindsay’s path involved numerous jobs and ventures, from restaurants to her current beauty empire.
• “I’ve lived 100 lives in my 42 years,” Lindsay shares, underscoring her continuous willingness to try, fail, and adapt. (03:43)

2. Early Entrepreneurship and Learning by Doing

• Lindsay’s first business was a pizza restaurant, which she and her team acquired as a failing establishment and took over with minimal transition time.
• The experience taught her the importance of having “thick skin” and adaptability:
  • “You gotta have thick skin. So I've learned to let things roll off. You can't be sensitive. Can't be sensitive. If you're an entrepreneur, that just better stop right there.” (04:45)
• Jason underscores the teaching power of early work in restaurants — learning humility, client service, and hard work.
• Lindsay notes: “Sometimes knocked down 20 times, and if you get up once, you have a strong chin.” (05:03)

3. Embracing Insanity—and Necessity—In Business

• On the “insanity” of entrepreneurship:
  • “It takes a sense of insanity to start a business, especially when everyone tells you you’re crazy, but you have to believe in yourself.” (05:25 – 06:45)

4. Building a Salon, Online Academy, and Community

• Lindsay’s current focus is her three-year-old salon and spa, supported by an online academy, and complemented by the “Beauty Bar After Dark” podcast. (07:20)
• Establishing an online academy was a significant but rewarding challenge, involving countless hours and the difficulty of translating practical experience into teachable content:
  • “Being able to articulate what you know and put that into a course is hard to do…We're still working on it, too. It’s an ongoing process.” (08:19)
• Lindsay’s commitment to constant learning and sharing knowledge with her team and academy members is central to her business model. (08:53)

5. Leadership Lessons and Key Advice for Entrepreneurs

• Lindsay’s top advice:
  • “Resilience. You have to be resilient. It is so easy to just want to quit. A lot of days you wake up and you're like, oh, I remember that problem I had yesterday. Yeah, it's still there.” (09:18)
• Service-oriented leadership:
  • “Your business will never grow if you're not having a servant’s heart.” (09:18, recurring)
• Jason connects these ideas back to his belief that early jobs in service industries foster skills that are crucial for business success.

6. Building a Legacy and Making an Impact

• Lindsay’s closing message:
  • “Stay focused, head down, work hard, have a servant’s heart, and make an impact. If you’re doing something, make it impactful. Create a legacy.” (11:25)
• She frames her ambition as one of impact and legacy—for her business, her family, and the broader community.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On Resilience:

  “A lot of days you wake up and you're like, all right, remember that problem I had yesterday? Yeah. It's still there. So you have to be resilient.”
  – Lindsay Taylor (00:41, 09:18)

• On Starting Late:

  “My successful business started when I was 40. I’m telling you, insanity. You gotta start being crazy a little bit.”
  – Lindsay Taylor (00:00, 06:08)

• On the Entrepreneurial Journey:

  “Nobody knows what they’re doing until they know what they’re doing.”
  – Jason Tyler (00:22, 03:06)

• On Thick Skin:

  “You gotta have thick skin. So I've learned to let things roll off. You can't be sensitive. Can't be sensitive. If you're an entrepreneur, that just better stop right there.”
  – Lindsay Taylor (04:45)

• On Service:

  “Your business will never grow if you're not having a servant’s heart.”
  – Lindsay Taylor (09:18, repeated)

• On Impact and Legacy:

  “If you’re doing something, make it impactful. Create a legacy and be impactful. That’s my entire goal for my life and for my legacy and for my family to remember me through.”
  – Lindsay Taylor (11:25)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 00:00 – 00:41: Introduction—Lindsay’s philosophy: Perseverance, resilience, starting at 40
• 03:43 – 04:45: Lindsay’s background, early jobs, and the importance of “figuring it out”
• 05:33 – 06:08: First business—a pizza restaurant, lessons in “insanity” and risk-taking
• 07:20 – 08:53: Building the salon, online academy challenge, continuous learning
• 09:18 – 10:14: Lindsay’s top two success tips—resilience and service
• 11:25 – 11:54: Final words—focus, servant leadership, legacy
• 12:02 – 12:17: Where to find Lindsay Taylor online

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Where to Find Lindsay Taylor

• Instagram: @LindsayTaylor_BeautyBar
• Facebook: Lindsay Taylor Beauty
• TikTok: Salon account

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Takeaways for Listeners

The episode delivers a clear message: It’s never too late to pursue your entrepreneurial passion. Resilience, a willingness to embrace discomfort, and a dedication to serving others are crucial to long-term success. Lindsay’s journey exemplifies how starting over and learning “on the job” can build thriving businesses and a meaningful legacy.

For anyone building a business—at any age—Lindsay Taylor’s story is a testament to grit, adaptability, and the enduring power of service.

Transcript

[Lindsay Taylor]

Honestly, my story is about persevering and resilience, and it's never too late to start. I started my successful business. I've had. I'm an entrepreneur that decides to keep trying things. And so. But my successful business started when I was 40. I'm telling you, Insanity. That's. That's. You got to start being crazy a little bit.

[Jason Tyler]

Nobody knows what they're doing until they know what they're doing.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah, exactly. And the biggest takeaway is.

[Narrator]

Lindsay Taylor is an empowering, resilient, and visionary entrepreneur, educator, and the founder of the Beauty Scholar Society. Best known for helping beauty professionals grow thriving careers, she is transforming the industry through education, leadership, and community.

[Lindsay Taylor]

It is so easy to just want to quit. A lot of days you wake up and you're like, all right, remember that problem I had yesterday? Yeah. It's still there. So you have to be resilient. And that's the biggest thing when you're. When you're starting and there's days that you, like, don't even want to get out of bed, but you have to. You will never grow. And if you're not serving others and your business will never grow if you're not having a servant's heart.

[Interjection/Background Speaker]

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[Jason Tyler]

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[Interjection/Background Speaker]

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[Jason Tyler]

Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Living youg Legacy podcast. I'm your host, Jason Tyler, and I AM Joined by Ms. Lindsay Taylor.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Hello.

[Jason Tyler]

Welcome to the show.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Thank you for having me.

[Jason Tyler]

Of course. Of course. Pleasure having you here. So, Lindsay, you just finished filming your episode of Women in Power. First of all, how you feel now on the other side of it?

[Lindsay Taylor]

I feel good. I feel good now.

[Jason Tyler]

You feel like a weights, like.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah, it's off your shoulders. It's a little different talking to a camera the whole time.

[Jason Tyler]

I know.

[Interjection/Background Speaker]

It's a little.

[Narrator]

You get.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah, but you get the jitters out. And then all of a sudden, Kofi's in there. He's a great interviewer.

[Lindsay Taylor]

He's awesome.

[Jason Tyler]

He keeps the vibes going. What would you say is, like, for the audience out there, what would you say is, like, the number one thing that you want people to be able to learn from your story?

[Lindsay Taylor]

Honestly, my Story is about persevering and resilience. And it's never too late to start. I. I started my successful business. I've had. I'm an entrepreneur that decides to keep trying things. And so. But my successful business started when I was 40.

[Jason Tyler]

So here we are, a serial entrepreneur, if you will. Ladies and gentlemen, talk to me a little bit about, like, kind of your first experiences with entrepreneurship. Because I'm, you know, I'm 33 now. I've gotten a couple of businesses under my belt, but I. I know those first two or three are usually like, what am I doing? What's going on?

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah, it's always like, what am I doing? I still, I mean, I have a successful business.

[Jason Tyler]

Nobody knows what they're doing until they know what they're doing.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah, exactly. And the biggest takeaway is just keep doing it. Like, you don't have to know what you're doing. You don't have to have a certain time frame. Just do the thing. Just keep going forward, keep taking steps, and you'll get there. You just have to. If you're entrepreneur, you got to keep going.

[Jason Tyler]

You won't spontaneously combust. If you don't make payroll this week, it's going to be uncomfortable.

[Lindsay Taylor]

You might cry, but.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah, but you'll live. And then you get to take another stab at it.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yes. Yeah.

[Jason Tyler]

So talk to me a little bit about your background. How do I get the Lindsay Taylor that's sitting in front of me today?

[Lindsay Taylor]

A lot of trial and error. So. But I guess that's part of being an entrepreneur. Right? So I have always grown up with the attitude of, I'll figure it out, I'll fail, but I'll figure it out. And that's. That's where we are. I don't have one specific thing that led me here. I've just tried a lot of different things. My kids say I've lived 100 lives in my 42 years of being alive. I've done everything as far as working at a restaurant. I used to work at Hooters.

[Jason Tyler]

I. I'm a firm believer that everyone that gets into the working, you should all. We should all work in a restaurant at least once. Like, it teaches you a lot about yourself.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah, it really does. And when you are a servant for others, you know, like trying to, To. To grow and lead and serving people, that's hard sometimes.

[Jason Tyler]

So you're going to have some long nights. Yeah, you have some long nights. They're going to do. They're going to come around and do bug night. Where they do the whole. They spray down the whole restaurant. So you got to pack everything up and you're there for an extra three hours longer than you thought you were going to be.

[Lindsay Taylor]

And you have to have thick skin. So I've. I've learned to let things roll off. You can't be sensitive. Can't be sensitive. If you're an entrepreneur, that just better stop right there. You got to have thick skin.

[Jason Tyler]

You got to be able to get knocked down eight times. Get up.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Sometimes knock down 20 times. And if you get up once, you

[Jason Tyler]

have a strong chin.

[Interjection/Background Speaker]

Yeah.

[Jason Tyler]

You got to have a strong shin. You can't be able to get knocked out.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Right.

[Jason Tyler]

So I want to talk a little bit about, you know, first of all, what it takes to be a serial entrepreneur to what it kind of takes to start one business. Say, you know what? This isn't my thing. It takes a level, I think, of, like, self awareness. Like, you have to be able to

[Lindsay Taylor]

say also insanity, but also that. Yeah.

[Jason Tyler]

Talk to me about, like, what was the first business that you ever started?

[Lindsay Taylor]

The first business that I was a pizza place that I started.

[Jason Tyler]

Oh, you went.

[Lindsay Taylor]

I went full in.

[Jason Tyler]

Starting a restaurant as your first one is wild.

[Lindsay Taylor]

We purchased it. It was like basically a failing business that we purchased. And I had 14 days to figure out because the people, they're like, we're giving you 14 days to show you the ropes, and then we're out. So they were.

[Jason Tyler]

Then you're on your own then.

[Lindsay Taylor]

I was on my own. So, yeah, that was the first. I dove right in, head first. I'm telling you, insanity. That's. That's. You gotta start being crazy a little bit.

[Jason Tyler]

See, we started this episode off with, you know, perseverance being the main thing that you need as an entrepreneur. We've now speedrolled into insanity, which I agree with. If you guys know anything about, you know, some of the people that we've had on the show. Insanity is kind of a. It's a narrative through line.

[Interjection/Background Speaker]

It is.

[Lindsay Taylor]

It's a sense. It's a sense of knowing that you can do it, even if everything is saying that you can't. It's that, I don't want to say, false sense of knowing you can do it. It's that sense that you will make it work no matter what.

[Jason Tyler]

You gotta believe in yourself.

[Lindsay Taylor]

You gotta believe in yourself. And that's the little thing that in me, I'm like, maybe it's a little crazy, maybe. And, you know, when you say you're gonna do something and look at you and go, you're crazy. Then to me, I'm like, oh, this is going to be great.

[Jason Tyler]

Because, you know, that's my one piece of confirmation where I'm like, that's where it is. All right. I need to be there.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yep. If everyone else is saying, that's crazy, you're going to do that, then I'm like, yeah, actually, now watch me. I'm going to do it. Yeah.

[Jason Tyler]

So I want to now pivot to the first successful business, the one that kind of. When. When did kind of the light bulb flick on where you were like, oh, this is. This is working.

[Lindsay Taylor]

My salon's only three years old, so I have a salon and spa, and then we have an online academy that I started six months after opening the salon. And then now we have our Beauty Bar After Dark podcast as well. But honestly, the first year after opening the salon, I was like, this is it. This is going to be good. So we have successful stylists in there, girls straight out of school who are thriving, and we have really built a really good culture for not only our staff, but also our. Our guests that come in. It's going well.

[Jason Tyler]

What was it like setting up the online school? I hear. I hear a lot for. From different entrepreneurs that it's, you know, creating a course around your area of expertise that's like a big, you know, stepping point into, you know, you learn how to do something really well, you get good at it, people pay you for it. Now you teach.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yep.

[Jason Tyler]

So what was that process like for you?

[Lindsay Taylor]

A lot of hours. A lot more time than I actually anticipated. But also being able to articulate what, you know and being able to put that into a course is. Is hard to do. It's.

[Interjection/Background Speaker]

It.

[Lindsay Taylor]

It's something that you really have to think about and to try to be able to get that down in. In videos and get it down on documents. That took a lot of time. Yeah, yeah, we're still working on it, too. Yeah, it's still. It's an ongoing.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah, it's never. It's never finished.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Correct.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah, because you're never finished learning. So the same way the people that learn from you, they.

[Lindsay Taylor]

The more, you know. Yeah. Anytime I gain any more knowledge, I'm sure to flip that around and give it to my. My staff and then also to. To help the girls that are inside the academy.

[Jason Tyler]

Love that. Love that. So we're here at Inside Success, and I ask this of all my guests on the show, but what would be for, you know, our audience is Very entrepreneurial. They're very business minded. What would be your number one key tip for success?

[Lindsay Taylor]

Well, resilience. You have to be resilient. When you are, you have to keep going. It is so easy to just want to quit. A lot of days you wake up and you're like, oh, I remember that problem I had yesterday. Yeah, it's still there. So you have to be resilient. And that's the biggest thing when you're. When you're starting and there's days that you're like, don't even want to get out of bed, but you have to. So resilience is the biggest attribute or quality that you have to have or learn as a business owner. And then my next one, I know you said one, but my next one is you have to be serve others. You will never grow if you're not serving others. And your business will never grow if you're not having a servant's heart.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Any.

[Jason Tyler]

Any successful business owner that I've watched come through this show, they've always, always, always doubled down on their business as an act of service.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yes. Correct.

[Jason Tyler]

Yeah. And that's why that's. It goes back to way back. We're doing our My Favorite Thing in Film, which is a callback, but way back at the beginning of this episode, we talked about why I think everybody should be a server.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Yeah.

[Jason Tyler]

At least a little bit.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Exactly.

[Jason Tyler]

It teaches you to act in service of another person, and that carries over into being good at whether it's good at a job, whether it's good at being, you know, you being a business owner. If you're serving other people, that energy is gonna. They're gonna be able to read that, right? And it comes back to you full thousand percent. Love that. Love that. Well, guys, I want to make sure that if you're still tuned in at this point in the episode that you make sure you go and check out Lindsay's episode of Women in Power, which will be coming out shortly after this podcast episode airs. So make sure you check that out. You're going to get a full deep dive into her story. Learn every different avenue of business that she's been in, which, you know, as her tagline states, she is a serial entrepreneur. So it's not just the couple that we've talked about on this show, but there's a few of them. But.

[Lindsay Taylor]

And more coming.

[Interjection/Background Speaker]

More.

[Jason Tyler]

See, by the time this episode airs, there might be two, three more of them, so try to keep up. But, Lindsey, would you have any final words for the audience.

[Lindsay Taylor]

I mean, I think we already touched on it. Stay focused, head down, work hard, have a servant's heart, and make an impact. That's the next biggest thing, is if you're doing something, make it. Be impactful. Create a legacy and be impactful. That's. That's my entire goal for my life and for my legacy and for my family to remember me through is I want to make sure that I've made an impact.

[Jason Tyler]

And for the audience members out there, where can they find you on social media? Which. Where you. Where are you located on the world wide Web?

[Lindsay Taylor]

I am on Instagram and Facebook and our salons on TikTok, but I'm Lindsay Taylor Beauty on Facebook, and then I'm Lindsay Taylor underscore beauty bar on Instagram.

[Jason Tyler]

Perfect. And, well, I'm pointing around in different directions, but the editors will throw those up somewhere here on the screen. You. You guys know it. You guys know what I mean. Let's put those on the screen so people can see it. But, guys, this has been another incredible episode of the Living your legacy podcast. Lindsay, it has been a pleasure having you.

[Lindsay Taylor]

Thank you. So nice to be here. Thank you.

[Jason Tyler]

Now, I'm excited to go see your episodes.

[Lindsay Taylor]

I know. I'm excited for you to see it

[Jason Tyler]

and for you gu guys as well. I'm sure that y' all are excited to go check it out, so make sure you go check that out shortly after this episode airs. But again, I'm your host, Jason Tyler, and I will catch you guys in the next one.