By highlighting our amazing clients, we exchange information and tips on real life applications of our philosophies and business practices. How has YBN helped you accomplish goals or solve problems?

Let us know, and you could be featured on our Success Story section of the YBN website. Send us a photograph of yourself and an explanation of how YBN has influenced you to work smarter and achieve success.

We love to hear from you! Email a photo and description to helena@ybn.com.

Professionally, Dawn took full advantage of the tools and resources at YBN to grow her business. Instead of relying on her emotions to make key decisions, as she had in the past, she now viewed her goals in terms of hard cold cash! To increase her monthly income by $2000, for example, she knew she had to identify specific methods to help her achieve them. Adding up her services to equal her goal amount was easy. She was able to calculate the exact number of clients necessary to obtain the amount she had set as her goal. Dawn credits much of her success to her association with YBN. “Using the vendors and resources at YBN helped me create a pathway to what I really wanted”.

This message resonated deeply with Dawn, and extended far beyond her professional life. With a successful career in place, Dawn and her husband, Kip, were able to make the long trek to Africa to volunteer their time and talent to those most in need. Their involvement with the Adeliam Foundation Orphanage in Nanyuki, Africa, led them to Ethiopia in 2006 where they adopted their two children, Genet and Bereket ages 2 and 4.

The impact YBN has had on Dawn’s life, personally as well as professionally, has been profound. While achieving success on both levels, she has attained a balance in life most people only dream about! A successful career, beautiful family and a life filled with passion and purpose, what more could one want?

Lange's relationship with the care center began over 20 years ago. The facility's staff brought their patients to his salon for much needed haircuts. These patients needed a small sense of normalcy despite severe disablities or debillitating illnesses. However, legal issues and fear of liability prohibited the staff from taking patients out of the hospital to Lange's salon.

He knew his services were desperately needed, and came up with a clever idea. Instead of patients coming to him, he would bring his services to them! Lange continues to provide quality haircare to the residents at the nursing home. He visits the Ahlstrom's Love and Care Health Care Facility monthly!

Dino Lange now has a partner in his dedication to community service. Sheila Hegseh, a fellow salon owner and Lange's Fiance, also volunteers her time and services to the patients at Ahlstrom's.

Many of us underestimate the effect that human touch and basic grooming can have on someone in this type of facility. Dino and Sheila see firsthand the appreciation in the eyes of those they help. The countless expressions of grattitude from their clients and their families keep them coming back, month after month, year after year!

Dino and Sheila provide more than just free haircuts. They give dignity and respect to their clients at Ahlstrom's Love and Care Health Care Facility. The happiness they bring to these patients and their families is worth more than gold!

For more information on how to give back to the community using your talent and time, contact info@ybn.com

This month we are excited to share with you an outstanding effort in community support made by one of our own very own YBN members. 

Dawn Roundtree and her team at Fazes Hair Studio in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada have been YBN members since April of 2004. Dawn recently wrote in and shared the significant project that she and her team took on in October.

Dawn has a personal connection to the program “Tean Challenge” and credits the program with saving her son’s life. 

During the week of Tuesday, October 23 to Saturday, October 27 the Fazes team donated 50% of all revenue to the Teen Challenge program.  They also offered any one who brought in a cell phone for the recycling program that week 10% off their service, as well as anyone who donated a car to the program received 20% off their services for a year!

To top it all off, they had a spectacular initiative on Monday, October 29 as they not only offered discounts on their most popular services, they donated 100% of all revenue from that Monday to the “Teen Challenge” program.

We ate YBN are so very proud of the effort of everyone at Fazes and their commitment to make a difference in their community!

Congratulations to a job well done!

A little bit about Fazes Hair Studio:

Fazes Hair Studio is a full service award-winning salon in Winnipeg, Manitoba that opened on September 21, 2002. Owner Dawn Rowntree started the business in order to be able to put all their great ideas into action. They've enjoyed great success and continually strive to do better by educating our staff and clients, making customer service a top priority, and by offering outstanding products and services.

The Fazes Studio is dedicated to personal & professional excellence and features the city's best hair stylists and trendsetters who are known for creative and progressive hair design. The team of professionals takes pride in offering the latest in cutting, texturing, and colouring trends that will help express creativity and enhance personal style.

Please check out the story of what one YBN Members is dong to remember a friend and make a difference in the beauty community.

Sowing the Seeds of Success and Change

It was devastating when everyone heard the news about Kendra Nelson’s death, she had inoperable stage four ovarian cancer; she was also Laquanda Buncom’s friend and co-worker. Kendra had no medical insurance and put off visiting the doctor for that reason. She “lived” life and had no investments or savings.

Laquanda remembers her friend fondly, “Kendra was a friend of mine which I cared a lot for and it was very obvious. She was a free spirited person and was a phenomenal cosmetologist. Kendra had an appetite for just overall beauty and glamour. She was well known "as the life of the party”.  Laquanda had known Kendra for years and was having a hard time justifying her death, wanted to make sure the lessons learned were not lost on her colleagues.

Laquanda made it her mission in more ways than one to make a difference for women in this business, as you can see on her www.hairballersinc.com, there is a page devoted to Kendra Nelson, where her spirit, and legacy are in full flourish.

“Her passing should have sent us all a message. Don't get too busy with your life style and neglect two most important things; health and life insurance. Ladies make those two things priority in your life. You shouldn't have to go through what she did. Learn from this - do not let her passing be in vain. She left a message and she also made it to the pearly gates, now it's our time.” According to Laquanda Buncom, one in 67 women is diagnosed with ovarian cancer and when detected early there is a 94% cure rate with proper care and medical attention.

Last year Laquanda founded the Kendra Nelson foundation, which awards a scholarship for cosmetology students in the San Diego area. The foundation also educates and connects women in the beauty industry to health, insurance and investment advice; to not only prepare them for a career but a long, healthy, stable life. The first recipient of the scholarship is Samantha McCants, whose passion for this industry is already very apparent to those who know her. Samantha already has a Bachelor’s Degree in I.T.  As a wife, and a mother; was on the road to great success in her chosen field when she made the choice to switch gears and follow her passion to the beauty industry. On March 3rd 2007 the award was given out in a celebration event with dancers, friends, and family celebrating Kendra’s life and legacy in song, dance and scholarship and is planned to be an annual event.
 

The requirements for the Kendra Nelson award are:

·         A minimum 3.0 average

·         Minimal absences

·         Instructor or student nominated as someone with a passion for the beauty industry

·         Specific Career Goals (one page Essay)

            The winner will receive $500 to $1000 for investment purposes to accrue over their career and make sure they have financial advice and a nest egg to begin their life in the beauty industry.

            To contact Laquanda about the process of beginning a foundation, scholarship or to donate, please email her at studioqshairsalon@yahoo.com.