Stephanie Campbell

I started as an entrepreneur very young, doing hair at a young age. People noticed my hair was beautiful and would ask who did it, so I started doing people's hair at school. My mom told me if I had all these people coming through her house, I better be charging something because I was using her lighting and gas. That's when I first started charging my first $5 and $10 to do some of my friends' hair. Once I got to high school, I went to cosmetology school and got my license. I had small boutiques and a salon. I did hair for stars and had all the surrounding cities coming to me. I always kept a job alongside my entrepreneurial work - I was at the bank for 17 years. I went to school 2 years for social work and 2 years for business. I became a cook for a facility, a nursing home facility, and cooked for the bank. They actually tried to send me to school for cooking, but I wouldn't go because I was moving and doing a lot. Now I own Helping Hands Loving Touch, where I take care of the elderly and those in need. I go to different facilities and if they don't have an aide or someone caring for them, I have assemblies where they come down and I teach them small things to do while they're in their apartment or homes by themselves. I teach them how to get out of bed at night safely, how to work with dementia, and how to be more mannerable. I help them understand that it's okay to have help and to accept it and move on. Through my company, I've helped ladies become nurses, LPNs, RNs, nurse practitioners, and bank managers. I also do women's empowerment work that I've been doing for over 10 years, starting as small groups at church where I would motivate women who have been in recovery, have lupus, or are having marital problems, letting them know life is not over.