While working as the lead nail technician at the Senator Inn & Spa in Augusta, Jody Newman discovered her niche. “We did some bachelorette parties and wedding hair,” Newman recalls, “But everyone was in different rooms and they all seemed to want to have more of their family and friends with them, which we could not accommodate due to availability of staff and size of rooms.”

Newman researched traveling spas in Maine and “there was no one doing it. I did a broader search in the United States and found a company out west that had been doing the traveling spa part but not wedding day services. So I put a staff, equipment, and products together, and did a mock spa party at a friend’s house. The event was such a big success and hit that when I went back into work the next day I gave my notice. The start of I Do Spas was launched.”

Read the rest of Newman’s inspiring story in Have Spa, Will Travel: An Interview with I Do Spas.