Christy Vowers
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Christy Vowers was born in 1977 in Evanston, Wyoming, and now calls Phoenix, Arizona home. When she was 16, her family moved to Ogden, Utah, where she attended beauty school and began her hair career in 1996. After working in Utah, she sought new opportunities in Hollywood, California, working in Beverly Hills in 2001 for a brief stint before settling in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2003, at age 25, she opened her first salon, Aura Salon and Day Spa, growing it into a leading salon in the area. In 2005 she married her husband, and they welcomed two sons in 2009 and 2012.
In 2014, Christy faced a life-threatening fungal infection in her lung and spine that destroyed four vertebrae and two discs. She spent two years on a PICC line to recover and had to learn to walk again. After returning to work while raising her two boys, she sold Aura Salon in 2016 and rented a chair at the salon she would later purchase. In 2019 she bought Rowdy Hair, where she continues to work behind the chair and has grown it into a leading salon, which she is determined to expand further.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- How Christy built and sustained a million-dollar salon year after year starting in her mid-20s.
- That only one percent of graduated stylists remain in the industry after four years.
- How Christy's associate program gives new beauty school graduates a clear path from training to their own chair.
- Why her no-contract, no-non-compete culture encourages team members to collaborate, stay, and grow rather than compete.
- How Christy achieved over 50 percent success among program graduates still doing hair after four years.
- Why mentoring others and helping stylists find their niche creates a strong, positive salon culture.
- How Christy rebuilt her career and business after a life-threatening fungal infection destroyed part of her spine.
- That learning to walk again and returning to work shaped her resilience and commitment to her craft.
- Why work-life balance and self-care are essential to avoid losing yourself while building a business.
- How hard work, determination, and leading by example keep a salon team motivated and successful.
about the show
Mompreneurs is a business documentary series featuring mothers who have built real businesses, created wealth, and found their own path to success while raising families.
Each episode takes viewers inside the journey of a mom entrepreneur, showing how she built her business, what challenges she faced, and what lessons she learned along the way. Guests may come from industries like e-commerce, real estate, coaching, consulting, product brands, investing, online business, and professional services.
These are women who chose to build something of their own. They are founders, business owners, leaders, and mothers who understand what it takes to manage ambition, family, responsibility, and growth at the same time.
Mompreneurs goes beyond surface-level success stories. The series explores the strategies, decisions, sacrifices, setbacks, and breakthroughs that helped these women build businesses and create more freedom for themselves and their families.
Through honest conversations and documentary-style storytelling, each episode shares practical entrepreneurship and wealth-building wisdom from mothers who have lived it firsthand.
For featured guests, Mompreneurs provides a platform to share their story, build authority, inspire other women, and show what is possible when motherhood and entrepreneurship come together.
