Who Is Faye Hadley? Her Career, Marital Relationship, & Much More

Faye Hadley is a Social media influencer, TV personality, and mechanic by profession. She is best known for the TV reality shows like Best of Top Gear (2019), All Girls Garage (2021), and Motor MythBusters (2021).

Similarly, she is an ASE-certified automotive technician and also produces educative content through her website named Piston & Pixie Dust, and her Youtube channel. Not only this, she is a former student of Harvard University where she earned a degree in Psychology and was a licensed therapist. So, despite earning a degree in Psychology, she also works as a mechanic.

In this article, we will include everything about the therapist turned technician, Faye Hadley including her age, education, career, husband, net worth, and many more.

Faye Hadley Age, Education, And Early Life

Faye was born on 25 September 1986 in San Antonio, Texas, the United States. As of 2022, she is 36 years of age. She was born under a star sign, Libra, and was raised in her hometown by her parents.

Talking about her parents, her mother whose name is Cindy Copeland is assumed to be a housewife while her father is a Ph.D. holder from MIT, a renowned University. Talking about her education, she graduated in Psychology from Harvard University on a Scholarship.

Besides, she is American by nationality and belongs to white ethnical background.

Faye Hadley Switched Her Career To Automotive Technician: What Was The Reason?

As we mentioned above, she majored in Psychology. As per her degree, she started working as a therapist but her work was not making her happy. Since her middle school day, she was interested in automobiles. So, she was in confusion about whether to go, for her passion or keep working as a therapist.

Regarding this, in an exclusive talk, she told,

 “My mom pointed out that the times I was happiest was when I was solving a problem with a car. She said, ‘Faye you do not have anything to prove to anyone. You only have one life,’”

After that, she just left her work as a therapist and shifted to Portland to pursue her career in her dream job which was Automobile Technician.

Hadley Is Now An ASE Certified Master Technician: Her Career Detail

As said before, she landed in Portland to find a career in Automobiles. Initially, she faced some difficulty in finding jobs but later one company recruit her for an unpaid internship. Side by side, sho also took some automotive training classes while working as an unpaid intern. After one year, she eventually landed a job at a Toyota dealership.

With numerous working experiences, she kept moving from one shop to another but wherever she went, her customers from her previous workspace followed her. She has said,

What I noticed was that my customers followed me. They said they felt comfortable talking to me. So I started teaching basic automotive classes after work.

With this she got a kind of motivation to start something on her own and eventually, she launched her automotive repair shop and educative website named Piston & Pixie Dust. As per the website Piston & Pixie Dust, she also worked as a Toyota Specialist, and supra Enthusiast.

Faye Also Has A Successful TV Career 

As per IMDb, she firstly appeared on television in the year 2019 in a TV reality show, All Girls Garage. After a year, in 2020, she worked as a host of a TV show titled Best of Top Gear. In the same year, Faye was also seen hosting the TV special Holiday Hooptie Challenge. 

Further, from 2020 to 2021, an automobile mechanic emerges as a self-panelist in the TV series Shift Talkers. Likewise, she also hosted a show Motor MythBuster and Holiday Hooptie Challenge II.

Faye Hadley Is A Married Woman: Who Is Her Husband?

Hadley has been a married woman for 6 years. She is married to a man named Brandon Hadley who is a wood artist. The couple first met for the first time in 2015 and after dating for one year, they eventually tied the knot on the 25th of September 2016.

Since then, they are happily living together. The husband-wife duo lives happily in their home in Canyon Lake, Texas. They keep sharing photos with each other on their respective social media accounts. On March 28, 2018, Faye’s husband, Brandon shared a picture of himself together with Faye and captioned,

I am so lucky to have married someone who not only sets my heart on fire?, but who also shares my desire to escape into nature! You are such a part of me. If there is such a thing as a soul mate, you are definitely mine. ?

Recently, the married couple came up together on their Youtube channel with the TACOMA BUILD CONTENT which they informed through their Instagram on August 12, 2022.

Faye Hadley Has A Verified Instagram Account; Her Other Social Media Handles

She is hugely active on Instagram under the username @pistonsandpixiedust with 130k followers. Further, she is also on Facebook which has a username @MechanicalFaye with 7,439 followers. Moreover, we also can find a famous automotive technician on TikTok under the username @fayehadleyofficial with 70.7k followers.

Also, she has her own self-titled Youtube channel with 131k subscribers. She produces educative content on her Youtube channel and her last content was about “Prepping Fuel Tanks for short-term storage and replacing every casket”, uploaded on 2 September 2022.

What Is The Net Worth Of Faye Hadley?

As we said, she has a wide career. She is a social media influencer and also worked as a host of TV shows. Most prominently, she is an automobile technician. So, it is sure that she has amassed a decent amount from her professional career. If we believe in some of the websites, she has a net worth of $65,000.