Author • Entrepreneur • Advocate • Practitioner • Speaker

Georgia Mae Buie

A Life of Beauty, Adversity, Healing, Reinvention, and Purpose

My life has been a journey of ambition, motherhood, adversity, accountability, healing, service, and transformation. I have been a model, beauty entrepreneur, salon owner, mother, wellness and healing practitioner, community advocate, reentry professional, author, and speaker. More than any title, I am a woman who learned that the hardest chapter of a life does not have to become the title of the whole story.

“Your past may explain you, but it does not have to define your future.”

The Beginning

Beauty, Fashion & International Modeling

My earliest professional path unfolded through beauty, presentation, fashion, and modeling. As a young woman, I discovered that beauty could be more than appearance—it could be a language of confidence, creativity, identity, discipline, and possibility.

Modeling gave me access to new rooms, new cultures, and a much larger world. I learned how to present myself, how to move with confidence, and how image can influence the way people see themselves and one another. I modeled internationally and worked in fashion and beauty environments that helped shape my understanding of personal transformation.

Over time, I realized I did not only want to be the woman in front of the camera. I wanted to take what I had learned about image, self-care, beauty, presentation, and confidence and use it to help other women recognize something valuable in themselves.

Georgia Mae Buie modeling portrait — Fashion and beauty became early languages of confidence, identity, and transformation.

Georgia Mae Buie international modeling — International modeling expanded Georgia's world and sharpened her sense of presentation and discipline.

Georgia Mae Buie fashion modeling — A career in modeling became the foundation for a larger vision around beauty, self-care, and reinvention.

Georgia Mae Buie editorial beauty portrait — Behind the image was a woman learning the difference between being seen and being truly known.

Georgia Mae Buie during her salon and beauty business years

Entrepreneurship

From Beauty Talent to a Six-Figure Salon Business

My talents in hair, natural beauty, herbs, self-care, and personal presentation eventually became a business. What began with creativity and hands-on service grew into a successful six-figure salon operation.

My salons were never only about hair. Women came into the chair carrying marriages, children, grief, celebrations, insecurity, ambition, financial pressure, and dreams. I learned that sometimes the most important transformation was not what happened to the hair—it was what happened to the woman when she looked into the mirror again.

Beauty became one of my languages of service. I learned how to create an experience, build community, and help people reconnect with their confidence. The salon became part business, part sanctuary, part classroom, and part place of restoration.

The Chapters Behind the Image

Motherhood, Adversity & the Decision to Keep Becoming

Professional success did not protect me from personal pain. Behind the beauty business, fashion, family, and outward appearance of success, my personal life became increasingly difficult.

I experienced domestic violence, betrayal, and the breakdown of my marriage. I had entered marriage believing deeply in family, partnership, commitment, and permanence. When that picture fractured, I had to learn that love can be real and still become unhealthy—and that commitment to another person cannot require abandoning yourself.

Through every season, motherhood remained central to my life. My daughters became two of the strongest reasons I kept getting back up. Motherhood did not make me perfect, but it continually called me toward accountability, responsibility, and the woman I still wanted to become.

A Core Lesson

The wound was the wound. The gold was mine.

I do not believe suffering automatically makes us better. I do not romanticize domestic violence, addiction, incarceration, betrayal, or loss. Pain is pain. The transformation comes from what we consciously decide to build afterward.

A New Direction

Wellness, Healing & Coming Home to Myself

My personal healing journey eventually became an educational one. I wanted to understand more deeply how the body, mind, habits, spirituality, self-care, and personal identity work together.

I expanded my knowledge in wellness and healing practices and became a wellness and healing practitioner. The same woman who had once used beauty to help clients transform what they saw in the mirror began focusing more deeply on what happens beneath the surface.

I became increasingly interested in helping people understand the relationship between what they feel, what they believe, what they tolerate, how they care for themselves, and the choices they make about their future.

Healing became less about looking transformed and more about becoming truthful, accountable, spiritually grounded, and willing to make different choices.

Georgia Mae Buie wellness and healing practitioner

Service, Advocacy & Voice

Community Advocate, Reentry Professional & Speaker

My own experiences taught me that people rebuilding their lives need more than instructions about what not to do. They need dignity, accountability, opportunity, community, encouragement, and people willing to see who they can still become.

Community Advocacy

Service became another expression of purpose. I became increasingly committed to standing beside people whose circumstances had made them easier for society to overlook.

Reentry Work

I understand what it means to rebuild a life while carrying a past that other people may want to use as a permanent label. Reentry, to me, is about restoring dignity, credibility, stability, relationships, identity, and possibility.

Speaking to Women Who Understand the Journey

I speak to women who have lived through adversity, recovery, broken relationships, motherhood, addiction, personal setbacks, and the difficult work of reinvention. I do not speak from perfection. I speak from lived experience.

Author of BECOME GOLDEN

The Story Became the Assignment

Writing BECOME GOLDEN: Live Bold. Become Who You Were Born to Be. required me to revisit the many versions of myself: the girl seeking validation, the model, the wife, the mother, the entrepreneur, the woman experiencing abuse, the woman struggling with alcohol, the incarcerated woman, the healer, the advocate, and the woman learning to come home to herself.

I thought I was writing the story of my life. Somewhere along the way, the story began rewriting me.

Through that process, one framework became central to my work:

Reflect. Write. Recognize. Release. Rewrite.

Becoming golden does not mean escaping the past. It means refusing to surrender your identity to it.

BE GOLD

My Work Today

Through BE GOLD, speaking, education, wellness, community, transformational programs, and reentry work, I want to create spaces where people can tell the truth about where they have been while still believing deeply in where they can go.

I especially want to reach the woman rebuilding after divorce, recovering from addiction, returning home after incarceration, rediscovering herself after motherhood, surviving abuse, or simply realizing that the life she has lived so far does not have to be the life she lives next.

In Her Own Words

Still Becoming

I am still becoming. I do not stand before people claiming that I have reached some final destination called healing. Becoming is a practice.

There are still choices to make, boundaries to protect, relationships to nurture, lessons to learn, and dreams to build. But today I understand something I spent years trying to find in other people, accomplishments, businesses, relationships, photographs, and applause: my value was never waiting for someone else to give it to me.

The gold was already there.

My name is Georgia Mae Buie. I am an author, entrepreneur, mother, beauty and wellness professional, community advocate, reentry professional, speaker, and a woman who has fallen, rebuilt, learned, healed, served, created, and continued forward.

Live Bold. Become Who You Were Born to Be. BE GOLD.