How to Know When to Quit Your 9 to 5 and Go All-In On Your Business with Alex Bradberry, Founder of The Sparkle Bar
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Big things are waiting for you on the other side of uncertainty. In this episode, I sit down with Alex Bradberry, Owner and Founder of the Sparkle Bar, a first-of-its-kind, all-inclusive makeup and beauty studio founded in Scottsdale, Arizona! Not only has the Sparkle Bar been part of some of the biggest moments of my life, but it is actual proof that you can make your big dreams come to life—even when life doesn’t go as planned. Alex shares how she stayed committed to her vision during seasons of uncertainty, including how she navigated a Stage 3 lung cancer diagnosis, and the powerful new perspective she gained as a leader and business owner. We also dive into the magic that happens when we embrace delayed gratification, when the right time to take a leap of faith and go all-in is, and how to tap into your self-confidence as a mother, partner, and entrepreneur.
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Say hello to Alex Bradberry, the Owner and Founder of the Sparkle Bar!
03:15 How did you create an impactful business?
06:25 How the Sparkle Bar changed the law in order to operate as a business.
10:00 When is the right time to take the leap and go all-in?
14:00 Why seasons of uncertainty create space to master balance & discipline.
19:20 How did you navigate your Stage 3 lung cancer diagnosis?
23:50 How has your diagnosis changed the way you show up as a leader and business owner?
26:15 How to offer support and allow permission to receive support.
29:20 A new perspective of how to operate your business (+ prioritize what really matters).
33:45 The powerful role community plays in the entrepreneur journey.
35:55 What does it look like to be in the middle of major expansion?
38:05 How to unlock your inner confidence & empowerment with the Sparkle Bar.
42:50 Celebrating Alex’s Powerhouse moment of reflecting on her commitment that led her to this moment.
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| 0:00.0 | When you look good and feel good, you do good, and that's a beautiful thing. |
| 0:04.0 | We can be powerful and pretty and celebrate all of that. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm already seeing merch, powerful and pretty. |
| 0:09.0 | Okay, someone jot that time. |
| 0:11.0 | The whole mission of the Sparkle Bar is to celebrate uniqueness. |
| 0:16.0 | We help people see themselves in ways that maybe they haven't before, |
| 0:20.0 | and we get to speak life into them in ways that maybe they haven't before and we get to speak life into them |
| 0:21.7 | in ways that maybe somebody hasn't. You navigated something completely life-altering. I was diagnosed |
| 0:28.1 | with stage 3C lung cancer when you see a survival rate of 5% and you really come to terms of like |
| 0:36.8 | what that looks like. |
| 0:38.4 | Knowing that what I was doing was serving a greater purpose, that's all that matters at the |
| 0:42.9 | end of the day. |
| 0:43.8 | You held a full-time job while scaling your business. |
| 0:48.0 | How did you know it was the right time to make the leap and go on it? |
| 0:55.1 | Welcome to Powerhouse Women, the podcast for women who know they are ready for more. |
| 1:02.5 | Let's go. |
| 1:04.4 | Introducing your host and the founder of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi. |
| 1:10.7 | If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're of Powerhouse Women, Lindsay Schwartz. Hi. |
| 1:15.7 | If you're hungry to grow and expand your career, business, and life, you're in the right place. |
| 1:17.0 | You ready for your breakthrough? |
| 1:18.2 | Let's do it. |
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