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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

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Hey, it's Guy here. So imagine if 30 years ago you had a friend who passionately believed that people would spend lots of money on coffee, and that coffee could become a huge global phenomenon as a chain restaurant.

You would probably think that person was nuts, but Howard Schultz of Starbucks, he believed that.

Same with Tareek Fareed. He was convinced that people would buy cut-up pieces of fruit arranged in bouquets.

And well, edible arrangements became a hit.

Well, today's story is not that different, because about 10 years ago, Alie Webb decided to start a hair salon that doesn't actually cut hair.

And lots of people also thought she was crazy.

How she built dry bar is an amazing story that first ran back in January of last year. Enjoy.

That first day was bananas. I mean, women were lining up women, they were pissed because they were coming and they were like, it said you could walk in.

And I'm like, we don't have any more chairs. And I was. I was doing blowouts at the first chair and I was running the front desk.

I mean, I was there around the clock probably for six months before I took a day off because I just couldn't leave it. And I didn't want to leave it. It was so fun.

From NPR, it's how I built this. A show of innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross and on today's show, how Alie Webb went for being a stay at home mom just six years ago to building a national chain of blow dry salons called dry bar.

When Alie Webb was a kid growing up in Boko Raton in southern Florida, school wasn't really her thing.

No, wasn't interested in school, wasn't very good at it. I was kind of dubbed the undergiver of the family. It was like what the hell is Alie going to do with her life.

She eventually went to college and after about a year, she dropped out. For a while, Alie just sort of drifted. She lived in New York for some time and then she moved back to Florida and lived with her parents. But her older brother, Michael, he seemed to have it all together.

He was like the overachiever of the family and he was like naturally good student like where Jewish and he had a bomb midspile. I was like, there's no way I'm going to Hebrew school. But he did it and he was great.

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