I’ve never been very interested in doing what everyone else is doing.

Tammy Foxx, business builder and speaker, standing with arms crossed in a black jumpsuit with a black-and-white polka-dot scarf and shoes.

I've spent nearly 30 years building businesses across different industries. Today, that includes a personal training brand and a women-only fitness studio.

I've always had the same instinct: look at what everyone else is doing, question why they're doing it that way, and look for what they might be missing.

That instinct has shaped how I build and what I speak about.

The opportunity usually isn't where everyone else is looking.

The opportunity usually isn't where everyone else is looking.

I started my first business out of desperation.

I'd been laid off and decided to start a housecleaning business. But I noticed that the other cleaning companies all seemed to be chasing the same customers in the same neighborhoods.

I lived in a large, upscale gated apartment community. And I remember thinking:

Why go where everybody else is going?

The people living around me were busy professionals. They had money. They probably didn't have the time or desire to clean their own apartments. And because I lived there, I could reach customers other cleaners couldn't.

So I printed some inexpensive business cards and put them around the complex. People called. I secured my first clients, bought my supplies, and I was in business.

That was the beginning.

I didn't know it then, but I would spend the next three decades asking some version of that same question.

What I Speak About


Find the Gap

How to spot what others miss and turn it into an opportunity.

Build Beyond Yourself

How to build a business that works without you at the center of it.

Bring Tammy to Your Event

Bring Tammy to Your Event

Tammy Foxx, business builder and speaker, sitting in a chair with her legs crossed in a black jumpsuit with a black-and-white polka-dot scarf and shoes.

If you want an entrepreneur who talks honestly about opportunities, mistakes, and what it actually takes to build something — let's talk.

If you want an entrepreneur who talks honestly about opportunities, mistakes, and what it actually takes to build something — let's talk.