Mary Smiley Ford, CRNA, RN, MSN, is the owner and founder of Smiley Aesthetics. She began her aesthetics career in early 2019 while working as an anesthesiologist. In February 2022, along with her identical twin sister, Carla, she launched Smiley Aesthetics as a two-person mobile toxin and collagen business in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee. In just over a year, Smiley Aesthetics has started five brick and mortar locations and nearly 100 mobile injectors in nine states, a number that grows weekly. Ford has been trained by some of the top providers in the country and continues to receive training. Carla Smiley Pierson, DNP, MBA, RN is an experienced, innovative, and business-savvy Registered Nurse with a proven track record of leadership in the hospital and healthcare industry across multiple disciplines. As the Co-founder and Co-owner of a successful medical aesthetics company that achieved over a million in revenue within its first year, Carla brings a unique blend of clinical expertise and entrepreneurial acumen to everything she does. Her diverse skill set spans critical care medicine, oncology, regulatory and accreditation standards, core measures, financial and clinical operations, and project implementation. With a Doctorate in Nursing Practice and an MBA, Carla is a dynamic consulting professional, committed to driving innovation and being a catalyst for change in the healthcare industry.
See this judge in action on The Blox.
Check out our flagship program, BetaBlox. It's a multi-year education and mentorship program designed to help early-stage ventures start to take flight! Let us help you get to your first million dollars in sales.
Watch every episode of the The Blox