Best Transplanted Entrepreneur

Photo: Eric England

In 2013, Brooke Asbury, 32 and living in Seattle, packed up her Volvo and relocated to Tennessee to open Hot Yoga East Nashville after falling in love with this city over a few late nights of honky-tonking. Instead of quitting her career as a geologist, she worked full-time remotely while running her busy yoga studio, taught 104-degree classes, and played fiddle in a few Grand Ole Opry-style rockin’ big-hair classic country groups. Eighteen months after coming to town, she opened Scout’s, a cool unisex barbershop with a Cheers-like vibe (customers’ haircuts include a Fat Bottom beer or Barista Parlor coffee), and got her third tattoo: “Just as I am.”

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