Early life & the turning point
Liv was a bright student, earning high grades in her Highers, but school life was difficult. Bullying, paired with a growing sense that traditional education wasn’t where she wanted to be, pushed her to rethink her path. At 16, after discussions with her teachers and career counsellors, she made the bold choice to leave.
Her first real business exposure came even earlier — importing goods from China and selling them online via eBay at age 13. That venture earned her about £5,000, enough to buy her first MacBook Pro.
Founding ThePropertyStagers
At 16, following a decision to buy a property at auction with her mother, Liv saw an opportunity: the house they bought wouldn’t sell. An estate agent suggested lowering the asking price. Liv had a different idea — staging. She decorated the property, added furniture and decor, made it look like a show home, and the property sold within three days above the asking price. She sold the furnishings too, and the profit from that project became the seed for ThePropertyStagers.
The business model: furnish, decorate, style properties to appeal to buyers and make homes more sellable. She wine-and-dine the design details, furniture, soft goods, accessories. The market had gaps — many homes were static, empty, or outdated; staging could help them show better.
Scaling fast: £1M before 18, multiple businesses, coaching others
By age 18, Liv had made her first £1 million through ThePropertyStagers. She pulled together a team, extended staging services across many properties, won national and international awards, and delivered high volume work.
Not content to stop there, she launched a second business, StagerBoss, focused on helping other women start and scale their own staging businesses. Coaching, mentorship, sharing her playbook. She also authored books, delivered keynote speeches, and made business development moves across UK and beyond.
She also relocated to Marbella, Spain, balancing life, motherhood, and business with a tight schedule and big ambitions.
Challenges, mindset & strategies
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Sacrifice & discipline: Getting up early, long hours, strong work ethic. Liv admits there were personal and social trade-offs.
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Belief & resilience: Facing disbelief from teachers, peers; being told she was “ruining her life” for not going to university. She persisted, driven by results.
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Lean start, bootstrap growth: Her early ventures were self-funded or used modest borrowing. Marketing was creative and organic.
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Expanding impact: More than profit, she built systems to scale, to teach, to mentor. Helping women start staging businesses shows a mission beyond her own growth.
Impact & recognition
Liv’s work has been widely acknowledged: multiple national and international awards, recognition for young entrepreneur of the year. Her story features in media both UK and beyond.
Her businesses stage hundreds of properties per year — in one report, around 400 homes annually.
Liv Conlon’s story is not just one of financial success—it’s a roadmap for what’s possible with vision, courage, and relentless execution. From dropping out of school to running multiple seven-figure enterprises and helping others do the same, she’s proved that traditional paths are not the only routes to success. Her message: find what feels meaningful, start bold, keep moving, and build something that helps others.
