SWAMPSCOTT – Amy DePerrior-Brackman learned a “secret” that transformed her from being a single mother in thousands of dollars of debt to a happily married woman, mother of two and the successful owner of one of the most chic boutiques on the North Shore.”I worked at a great job and company throughout the years and I was kind of a struggling make-up artist. I worked at Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue and I was pretty business-savvy but just feeling as though I was never going to get ahead,” said the Lynn native and self-taught beauty expert DePerrior-Brackman. “I was traveling into Boston, working as a make-up artist, 35 or 40 hours a week, and then after the drive you’re looking at 50 hours and I have a 2-year-old at home. It was just like, is this really worth it?”For DePerrior-Brackman it was not worth it after all of the time and financial deductions, but being $35,000 in debt with rent to pay and a mouth to feed meant that she needed to continue her daily commute and endure the long hours.”One day I was at my former job and someone introduced me to (the film) ‘The Secret,'” DePerrior-Brackman said. “They kind of let me watch the trailer of it and I was like, ‘Oh my God I have to find this.’ Now mind you, this was almost four years ago now, so I searched everywhere; I went to Target, I went to Barnes and Nobles and finally I found out that you could only do it online. So I ordered it and literally watched it immediately. Within several weeks, my whole entire life changed.”All it took was the trailer for Rhonda Byrnes’ film, ‘The Secret,’ to start DePerrior-Brackman on the path to creating the life she had always wanted for herself. The Secret teaches the law of attraction, or the concept that thoughts become things and by changing the way you think, you change the things that come into your life.”I was literally thinking of how much debt I had and the whole thing about The Secret was, ‘You need to accept things, you need to accept it.’ I literally flipped my paper over while I was watching the trailer and I said, ‘I accept the debt that I am in, I put myself in there and I will get out of it. No longer will I talk about debt, I’m just going to look forward to all of the money I am going to make and how successful I am going to be,” DePerrior-Brackman said. “I got a phone call on the way back from New Hampshire and it was from the Patriot Cheerleader’s assistant coach asking me to be on board for this year’s calendar. It’s a well-to-do paid job. I would be on location with them and I was going to be in the Dominican Republic for seven days, all expenses paid and pay on top of it.”DePerrior-Brackman had two years of New England Patriot Cheerleader’s calendar make up under her belt when she received the offer, but she watched money flow into her life in waves in the coming weeks. She received two bonuses from work that amounted to nearly $10,000 and her tax return money followed shortly after. On Easter night of 2007, exhausted after a sleepless night, she drove by the location of what would be the starting point for her cosmetic studio LuxeBeautiQue.”Literally the next day I called, because there wasn’t a sign up there but it was empty, the two locations next door, which was Fitness Together and Spinelli and Company. They gave me the landlord’s name. The next day I met the landlord and I put money down on it,” DePerrior-Brackman said. “I didn’t have a business plan, I didn’t even have a loan or anything. That was the thing that I was concerned about but I didn’t let it get me down because I really don’t come from money. I went to the Enterprise Center of Salem and a young woman helped me out with my business plan and I took a couple of days, did my business plan, went back and met with her and then went straight to the banks.”Her first appointment at a bank in Newburyport was not a success. She did not have any assets or the benefit of a co-signer. DePerrior-Brackman then turned to Salem Five Bank with her resume, busine