From $12/Hour to Salon Owner in Just One Year: Emily Cardosa’s Journey to Glo Ownership
- Awards & Spotlights
- May 23, 2025

At just 25 years old, Emily Cardosa has achieved what many entrepreneurs spend decades working toward: she’s a business owner with an equal partnership stake in a million-dollar salon. Even more impressive? She accomplished this in just one year through Glo’s innovative employee-to-owner program. Finding Her Entrepreneurial Spirit Emily’s journey began in San Diego, where
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I love the opportunities my career offers me. Occasionally, I have the opportunity to visit salons throughout the US (and sometimes, Canada). However, we all communicate so much by text, email and mobile phones that we seldom have the chance to get “face-to-face.” This past November, I was traveling to the Ultraviolet Resources International “Bronzed
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