Victoria Lee Scott

In 1989, my world came crashing down, and I wound up in a place with people and places I didn't belong. Everything about me had come to a complete and utter stop, and I chose to have faith. My spirit said F-A-I-T-H, feelings arriving inside the heart. I turned around, and I've never picked up another drink again to this day, 36 years later. I am who I am because of that day, making that choice to say I just gotta do it a different way. When I reached my greatest fear in 1989, as confined as I was, I was free for the first time in my life because I knew in that moment, on August 7th, 1989, that I was gonna change for Victoria, not for anybody else. No man, no mother, no father, no brother, nobody. I didn't have to have that on my plate anymore. I have a good faith foundation, and that's the reason why I'm able to see something for what it is, and then to let it go, or to move on, or to take it to the next level. That's where I think people get stuck.

I see that people in the past generation have been doing things, but not evolving with the times. We have a generation that wasn't educated properly - we gave everybody a medal, we told them they all had participation trophies just for showing up. We lowered the standards of the competition. We turned our children over to a school system, and parents had a great wake-up call during COVID because they got to look over their child's shoulder. We haven't educated them enough to handle exactly what it is that the world expects of them. We've got a generation of kids that just think they're gonna be millionaires on YouTube with silly content that has no substance. The deterioration of the big picture is what I look at. We are promoting so much instant gratification to people. We need to get back to somewhere where we ignite a different side, which is more about having a grounding within you to be the best of who you are and what you bring to the table. Everybody is looking outside of themselves for something that works for somebody else, thinking it's going to work for them.

I would rather inspire somebody long before I'm gonna look at them and find what's wrong with them, because what's wrong with them, they got enough on their plate. I want to try to find what's right with them. There's nothing better than turning your client around when you finish their hair, and you can see their eyes well up - not because of the hair, but because the inside and the outside feel balanced. That's what I give them. I don't make them what I think they should be. I do it because I kind of know what they need. I have learned that everybody - I've had many clients say, I didn't necessarily need my hair done today, I needed a dose of you. I can share my strength, my hope, and my experience. Being an inspiration is important to me.