Rick & Zoe Roberts’ Letter to Their Younger Selves

Rick and Zoe Roberts are joint owners of their inclusive hairdressing salon in Beverley Yorkshire, the salon opened in 2007. They have taken themselves back to when they were 15 years old, full of teenage doubt, uncertainty and angst. Unsure of their future and what it held. This letter to their teenage selves is a moving and powerful testament to resilience, meeting challenges with grace and fortitude and of backing yourself!

We wrote this letter to our 15 year old selves that demonstrates our creative journey.

Dear Rick and Zoe
You don’t know it yet Rick but you’re not going to be an electrician! Newsflash, you’re going to be a hairdresser. Zoe, you’ll fall in love with an industry that you’ve started to think about joining (keep going with those Saturday jobs!).

One day, the same passion and curiosity that’s in you now will grow into something essential and powerful. Together you’ll find yourselves in a career that lets you travel the world, touch people’s lives, and change not just appearances, but confidence, culture, and community in your hometown.

Hard to believe right now I know, but keep the faith, things are going to really turn around. So stop worrying so much. Stop questioning whether you’re “enough.” You are. What makes you different will become your greatest strength. Hold on to your creativity. Hold on to your boldness. That edge, that instinct and don’t let self-doubt and the critics steal it away from you. It is not a flaw, it’ll become your magic.

That confidence and hope in yourself will grow as you are both inspired by others and also, in time, you’ll be the one inspiring, and all this will be by finding out who you really are. You’ll work with some of the best in the business, but more than that—you’ll become someone others look to for guidance, education, and hope.

You’ll be parents to incredible, neurodiverse children Mason born on the 15th and the Xander born on the 8th (these birthdays will be woven into the logo of the salon ‘Rick Roberts 1508’). From these amazing children, you’ll learn about empathy, patience, and the importance of real inclusion. They’ll help you see the world in a way no training course ever could. They’ll become your ‘why.’

You won’t be just a creative partnership but a force of strength, connection, and quiet leadership. Together, you’ll build a life—that truly matters. One where you will inspire the most important people in the world. Your two children and under your wing, they’ll learn to fly themselves and follow their own passions, one into animation, the other into football, by watching you strive together for them, they will learn about solving problems, being different and proud, being team players, and leaders in their own right. Your creativity is going to be your route to freedom, being truly you, to business success and to releasing others to be themselves!

So breathe. You’ve got this. With love,
Future Rick & Zoe

“To anyone facing self doubt, be encouraged, we would not have believed that one day we would lift some of the industry’s most coveted awards not just in the UK, but on international stages too. It is still a ‘pinch-ourselves’ moment. And to now represent global brands as ambassadors (Hanza Scissors and Schwarzkopf Professional) is something we could have only dreamed of. It’s a reminder of how far passion, belief, purpose, and your creativity can take you,”

Rick and Zoe xx

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