She quit her high-profile job on Wall Street with what she calls a “competitive C-level salary” to bet on herself and start an ear-piercing business. Rowan has 90 studios across the U.S. and roughly 800 employees, over half of whom are nurses. “I would just have to keep going.”Here’s how she built Rowan into a profitable business that brought in over $US70 million ($AU105 million) in revenue last year. A solution to her own problemLike many company origin stories, the idea for Rowan came from Schneider’s own needs. Rowan currently employs over 550 nurses, and the company’s medical team created its own curriculum to train nurses in ear piercing techniques.