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What if the business you built could help someone recognize themselves again? That question sits at the heart of my conversation with Dr. Leia Love, a restorative tattoo specialist, educator, speaker, and founder of the Leia Love Spark Beauty Fund. Her work lives in a rare space where beauty, health care, and healing overlap, and it shows what “purpose-driven business” looks like when the stakes are deeply human.

We talk about restorative areola tattooing after mastectomy, cancer treatment, surgery, and trauma, and why this craft often begins where medicine leaves off. Leia shares how she identified the gap, pursued mastery through continuous training, and built an operation that treats trust as something you design on purpose. We dig into trauma-informed care in the beauty industry, including the small, practical systems that protect emotional well-being: paying attention to unspoken cues during consultations, creating a calmer environment, and setting standards that help clients feel safe and seen.

You’ll also hear the leadership lessons behind the mission. Leia explains why she started the Spark Beauty Fund to remove financial barriers, how she stays involved in community impact without chasing “balance,” and what COVID taught her about preparedness, emergency funds, and filling operational gaps before crisis hits. We close with her advice for getting 1% better as a business owner: stay unique, avoid complacency, and sit in every seat at your table so your systems actually serve real people.

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