Codie Sanchez argues that beauty, wellness, and self-help industries deliberately keep women dissatisfied to drive endless spending. Women fund these $2.4 trillion markets but own almost nothing. Her solution: women should start or buy businesses in these spaces—salons, clinics, supplement brands—to capture the profits and break the cycle.
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I realized the beauty industry built a machine that prints money. How? They figured out something about women. We can't ever be enough because if we were, we'd stop buying. So there's this like $18 trillion on the table. I think you can grab some and also not fall prey to it because about every 12 to 18 months, the ideal woman gets swapped out like a product SKU. First it's curvy, then it's BBL, then it's skinny, then it's soft, then it's strong, then it's anorexic. Ozempic these days. There's a name for this actually, which is coherent aspirational identity system. So they're They're not selling us lipstick. They're actually selling you a version of yourself that's just one purchase away. We were never actually supposed to cross the finish line, 'cause you need one more purchase, one more purchase. At the end of the day, a satisfied customer is a lost customer to the beauty industry. And here's what's actually insane. $580 billion is the beauty industry, $1.8 trillion wellness, and $50 billion for self-help. So women are funding all of it and sitting at none of the tables where the money lands. So how do you pull up a chair? I think it's pretty straightforward. The Laser Clinic doing $400K a year with no inventory, the salon lady with loyal customers who show up every 6 weeks like clockwork, the supplement brand with 80% margins that's for your skin, the fitness studio that does memberships. Those companies are not so sexy, but they actually help people and they're part of that $580 billion. You know, you can't fuck a system you have no power in. So get the power first, own something, then start the fire and start saying you're enough no matter what you buy.
