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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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That first day was bananas.

I mean, women were lining up when 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 and 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 Allie Webb went for being a stay at home mom just six years ago to building a national chain of blow dry salons called Drybar.

When Allie 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 Allie going to do with her life?

She eventually went to college and after about a year, she dropped out.

For a while, Allie 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 mitzvah.

I was like, there's no way I'm going to Hebrew school. But he did it and he was great and he was like the smarty pants of the family.

So while Allie was sort of floating around in her early 20s, Michael was doing pretty well for himself.

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