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Podcast: By All Means
Episode: 129. Forever Bride Founder Ashley Hawks
Description: Ashley Hawks was a successful working model, in print and on runways around the world. But when she thought about her goal of making a magazine cover, she realized, “I’ll still be promoting somebody else's brand, somebody else's lipstick, somebody else's clothing line. And it was this light switch of, I want to be on the cover because of something I did, because of something I built. I want my name next to my picture.”
For her first startup, Hawks built on what she knew. Style & Grace offered training for models and pageant queens. She made money, but realized the bu...