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CosmoGlo Founder Mary Harcourt on Think Business with Tyler: The Jump-First Mentality
Mary Harcourt
Inventor and CEO of CosmoGlo, the patented professional beauty lighting brand now used by 35,000+ beauty professionals in 80+ countries. Mary built CosmoGlo from a prototype she was already developing when COVID shut down her Los Angeles lash salon, turning an industry disruption into one of beauty's most recognized product innovations.
Think Business with Tyler
Think Business with Tyler is the podcast for entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, and small business owners who are ready to grow. Each episode delivers real-world strategies from people who have actually navigated the hard parts of scaling a business, covering everything from cash flow and pricing to leadership, team building, and increasing profit margins. If you are serious about taking your business to the next level, this is where you start.
How She Turned a Disaster into a Million Dollar Success: Mary Harcourt of CosmoGlo
COVID shut down salons overnight. For most beauty business owners, that was the end of the story. For Mary Harcourt, it was the beginning of one.
Mary joins Tyler on Think Business to share the full arc: from running a thriving lash salon in Los Angeles to pivoting during a global pandemic and channeling everything into launching CosmoGlo, the patented professional beauty lighting brand she had already been quietly prototyping. What looked like a disaster from the outside turned out to be the exact window she needed to go all in.
CosmoGlo is now a multi-million dollar brand trusted by 35,000+ beauty professionals across 80+ countries, and Mary's story has become a blueprint for what the jump-first mentality looks like in practice.
In this episode they cover:
- Why every experience, even the hard ones, compounds into something valuable
- The jump-first mindset that separates entrepreneurs from everyone else
- What it actually feels like to start a business from scratch, and why it is worth it
- How to stop waiting for perfect conditions and just begin
Mary's take on what makes an entrepreneur: "I think an entrepreneur looks at something and goes, how can I make this better? How can I solve a problem? And I think normal people are just kind of like, well, it's broke and that works. They go about their life."
If you have an idea you have been sitting on, this episode will be the push you needed.