Monique Salas
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Monique Salas, widely known as The OC Lash Fairy, is an entrepreneur, beauty educator, mentor, and the founder of The OC Lash Fairy Academy. Since launching her business in 2013, she has built a name in the beauty industry by educating thousands of aspiring lash artists and helping women turn a skill into a business of their own. Known for her authenticity, hands-on mentorship, and willingness to share the lessons most entrepreneurs learn the hard way, Monique's impact extends far beyond beauty—her work is rooted in transformation, confidence, and helping women recognize what is possible for their lives.
But behind the success is a story few people have ever fully heard. Monique's journey has been marked by becoming a teen mother, tremendous business success, devastating loss, complicated relationships, addiction, legal battles, financial setbacks, grief, and seasons when everything she had built seemed to disappear. Her documentary pulls back the curtain on those chapters—not to portray a perfect success story, but to reveal what it actually looks like to lose yourself, survive, rebuild, and choose your purpose again. Her story is ultimately one of reinvention: proof that your hardest chapter does not have to become your final one.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- That a setback doesn't erase your calling; you can return to your purpose after years away.
- How to recognize survival mode as a season, not an identity, while rebuilding your life and work.
- Why starting over doesn't mean starting from zero because you keep your knowledge, relationships, experience, and lessons.
- That you can be successful publicly while struggling privately with trauma, grief, and survival.
- How to distinguish between coping and healing so unhealthy patterns don't become permanent life patterns.
- Why your environment matters when breaking free from workplaces, people, and situations that enable unhealthy choices.
- That what you did to survive isn't necessarily who you are; a difficult chapter doesn't cancel past accomplishments.
- How to outgrow environments that once helped you survive without abandoning your potential for growth.
- Why passion can become quiet without disappearing and how lived experience shapes what you teach.
- That a pause is not the same thing as quitting; your greatest achievement may be who you became while rebuilding.
about the show
Overcoming addiction requires discipline, clarity, and resilience — the exact qualities needed to build a successful commercial business. Clean and Thriving TV reveals how business owners in recovery translate their personal transformation into building and running real commercial enterprises.
Clean and Thriving TV is a premium television docuseries spotlighting business owners who refused to let their past define them. Honoring the grit required to overcome addiction and build a business, the series focuses on operational growth, daily execution, and commercial success beyond recovery.
The series takes viewers inside the authentic stories of business owners who turned their lives around and built thriving companies. Clean and Thriving TV serves as the definitive national stage for these entrepreneurs to share their business insights and inspire others.
