Stevie Golden

I attribute my success to who I can reach and who I can help. That goes as far back as the mental health work, even. If I didn't do any of that, I wouldn't be successful at all. I feel like you take something that could have been so tragic to me and turn it into something positive, because I'm here to tell you, I'm not the only one in this world that has ever faced this. I felt so alone - I knew nothing about wigs, I knew nobody that wore them. I wanted to start asking people on the street, hey, what can you teach me? I still never really turned to YouTube, I just had to experience it. I feel like it's important to be somebody that people like that can look up to and ask any question that they consider embarrassing without, at the end of the day, feeling embarrassed when it's all said and done.

The best career advice I've ever received is to always, when you choose a career path or when you do something, put your all into it. Give it what you got. You can make it successful if you focus and do what you are supposed to do.

I would tell them to stay strong, stay focused, focus on what's important first, and don't give up. The wig industry is a cutthroat industry where it can be a bunch of women that need the support, but they're so ready to stab each other, which is disheartening. So I would say, stay true to who you are and focus on what it is you want. Stay out of all that drama, and I think you'll be alright. I think you'll succeed. People can feel and can know whether a person is genuine or not. So I think that if you stay true to who you are and you really focus on what your goals are, people know, and everything will just fall into place.

The biggest challenge in my field right now is that the wig industry is a cutthroat industry. It can be disheartening because I thought, wow, it's a bunch of women that need the support, but they're so ready to stab each other. The biggest opportunity is that people can feel and know whether a person is genuine or not. I think that if you stay true to who you are and you really focus on what your goals are, people know, and everything will just fall into place. There are so many women starting the process of hair loss at younger ages these days, and they need someone like me to look up to and ask any question without feeling embarrassed.

The values most important to me are family first. I have to say, as Americans, we've been taught and raised different, and there was a time in my life where career came first. But in my personal opinion, family should always come first, then your career, and treat others how you want to be treated. No matter what, my life is geared towards my two young boys every day. Everything I do is for them.