"When I took my first son Ben, then 3 years old to get his hair cut, I assumed there would be a place for kids, but there wasn't. We went to an adult salon, one of those family walk-in salons. It wasn't a horrible experience, but it wasn't everything I hoped it would be.

"I came home and had my 'Ah Ha!' moment. I thought, 'There should be a better way.' I said to my husband, 'I should open a children's hair salon,' and he said, 'You should and call it Snip-its.' So that very first day, I had an idea and a name."

"When I first started I was insecure because I had no business background, but my father would tell me, 'You're a producer. A producer is the one with the vision and with the dream, the one who pulls all the pieces together to make it happen.' I kept telling myself that over and over again as I ran into many obstacles. I've learned don't let people tell you you can't do it, or that you're not qualified to do it."