309. From Beauty Tips to Building an Empire: Sarai Martinez on Confidence, Community & Career Growth

What does it take to build your dreams when the path isn't easy?

In today's episode, I sit down with Sarai Martinez—a rising voice in beauty and TV—to chat about perseverance, passion, and what it really takes to build something meaningful as a woman of color.

Sarai shares her natural love for self-care and fashion, how those early interests evolved into public-facing work, and how she's navigating the challenge-heavy path of entrepreneurship with power and grace.

We dig into identity, confidence, and what happens when you don't wait until you "have it all figured out" to go for it.

 

In this conversation, we cover: 

 → What it means to truly persevere as a woman of color

 → The link between beauty, confidence, and performance

 → Sarai's latest work in television segments and what lights her up

 → Her long-term vision for building a brand empire—and involving her kids along the way

 → And yes, some beauty truths, like why it's never a good idea to cut your own bangs

 

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 → Episode 50: The Power of Grit (and YES! You can learn it!) https://sarahwalton.com/grit/ 

 → Episode 300: 300 Episodes: What I've Learned About Consistency, Confidence & Refusing to Quit https://sarahwalton.com/dreams-in-progress-300-episodes/ 

Connect with Sarai Martinez

• Website: saraibyday.com

• Instagram: @saraibyday

 

About  Sarai Martinez

Sarai Martinez is a hair stylist and make-up artist serving all of New England represented by Anchor Artist. She is Ambassador and brand executive to Electric London Hair care products.

In her early years, Sarai worked in a local neighborhood salon in Dorchester where she tapped into her skills; little did she know it would be her life calling. She attended college in Canada to pursue fashion design, and afterwards found her way to hair school, earning her cosmetology license in 2004.

Sarai assisted for 4 years at Dellaria's on Newbury Street in Boston, MA. Constantly looking for new challenges, Sarai continued her education on the North Shore, bringing fresh city vibes and the newest trends along with her.

With over 20 years experience, Sarai has quickly become a guru in the industry, being showcased at New York Fashion Week, Paris Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week, Miami Swim Week, and in Glam Hair Magazine also New Yorker Magazine, Northshore Magazine, and Boston Common Magazine. Sarai has worked alongside celebrity stylists such as Ted Gibson, Jason Backe, and Aubrey Loots, Gary Barker, Mark Wholley, Brendan O'Sullivan. Has worked with celebrities such as Shohei Ohtani, Willie Geist, Dana Walden, Ty Law and Lisa Henry,Tyson Beckford, Suzi Welch, and Meghan Moss.

Sarai has made it her life to focus on fashion, beauty, apparel and all it brings, which allows her to distinguish her work from the rest with the most current trends. Sarai has won several awards for example : best of salem, readers choice award, to most recently Boston Common Magazines Best of Beauty Award! 

 

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