If you're like a lot of people, when you strive to create work-life balance, you may go about it trying to spread or share yourself equally between the many responsibilities you have like work, family, pets, social life and exercise. 

Then there’s the miscellaneous, yet important and necessary things that need to get done in life.   

If you're honest with yourself, exercise and self care don’t usually get into the balancing act at all. Because it's challenging enough trying to balance work and family and tend to the daily grind. 

But there are huge negative consequences that you end up with like stress, overwhelm and frustration and it's because you just don't know how to manage it all. 

The big downfall is that instead of getting closer to having balance in your life, you end up spreading yourself thinner and thinner, feeling like you have less and less control over your life.

In this episode, I'm going to bust the balance myth and instead, give you some realistic tips that will help you take better care of your business, the important people in your life, your fur babies and most importantly, yourself!

If you are ready to get off of the overwhelmed track of too much to do and not enough time you are going to have a sigh of relief after listening to today’s episode so stay tuned. 

Happy Valentines’ Day! Love truly does make the world a better place. If you’re like most people, when you think about love, you think about loving others. Loving others is a good way to spend your energy, but before you have the energy to love others, it’s important to spend that energy on loving yourself!

Self-love is something you get to define for yourself and you get to tailor what it looks, sounds and feels like for you.

Because it’s personal, it’s going to be different for you than it is for me. It’s going to be different for you than it will be for your bestie, or your significant other. This realization could be the game changer when it comes to creating a self-love action plan that feels perfect for YOU!

I know the stresses you are dealing with, stress of the salon, clients, family and life in general, so I knew this topic would be valuable. I share insights that will inspire and motivate you to love yourself like it’s nobody’s business and to keep that loving feeling going strong every single day. You’re going to want to listen to this episode more than once!

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Did you know that something as simple as what you're thinking right now is either going to keep you from making more money in your business, or it's going to help you bring in more money. There is so much power in your thoughts and in the words that you speak out loud.

The solution is quite simple and there's good news and bad news to the way you go about it.  There's always two sides to a coin right? 

I'll start with the bad news because it can only get better from there. When you think about and talk about things or situations that DON’T serve you, they have a tendency to keep you where you don't want to be. That's where your focus and attention are.

The good news is that when you think about and talk about things or situations that DO serve you, you can be propelled there because you are where your focus and attention is. 

In this episode, I talk about the importance of letting go. Every hairdresser that I know did not have a money making 2020.

We can commiserate on how bad of a year it was, but that's not going to serve us at all. When you focus and put your attention on what you can and will DO differently, you will have a fruitful 2021, and you'll be on the positive side of that coin. You’ll want to hear this episode!

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Today’s episode is such a treat because it gives us all an opportunity to be a part of something that will really make a difference, not only in our industry but for the planet.

If you're like me and thousands of beauty professionals you’re feeling torn about making people beautiful, but in that process, making the planet ugly. I often feel frustrated, guilty and sometimes overwhelmed with how much waste and pollution the beauty industry creates, and I’ve felt at a loss on what to do about it.

Then, I met Ben Hudgins of Novak Hair Studios. He has an 80+ chair salon and has figured out how to help his stylists create success for themselves, while making a big difference in the world we live in. His vision is to create an ethical brand and business model that would serve as a foundation for other beauty industry professionals who are committed to saving the earth.

The call that you're going to listen to was just supposed to be a meet and greet and set up for the actual podcast interview, but we instantly hit it off and our conversation was full of passion, excitement, encouragement and tons of tips. In the middle of it, I decided to make it the actual episode!

Ben shares some really great tips and resources on how to be more of a green salon. Even if you’re renting your space, you can make a difference! We also talked a lot about how to create a better chair renter business, so that you are more successful behind the chair and beyond. You’ll learn what it takes to make more money, increase your confidence, keep your sanity and much more!

I’m sure you’re going to enjoy this spontaneous interview, so stay tuned!

Hairchair Boss is all about guiding, mentoring, coaching you on being the boss of your chair, the boss of you, the boss of your business.

What I’ve come to realize (and you have probably realized this too) is that being successful in life is not just about being your own boss. In fact, there’s so much more to consider if you truly want to live your definition of success.

Creating long-lasting sustainable success is going to require you to take a bigger picture look at your life as a whole. It’s putting on your visionary hat and knowing the right steps to take now that will lead you to where you want to be in all areas of your life.

This is what I love to help you with! As you’ve noticed as you listen to my podcast episodes, my topics are not the typical marketing, social media and business building strategies.

I teach those in my courses because they’re essential. However, I’m more interested in first helping you be the kind of person who can look beyond your chair and see the bigger picture of everything you want to have and then step into being the person you need to be so that you get the outcome you desire.

When you know how to be the kind of person who is so much more than just a hairstylist, you’re going to know how to create success in all areas of your life because if you’re like me and hundreds of thousands of happy thriving entrepreneurs, you want success in all areas of your life too right?

In this episode, I’m going to invite you to be a part of an exciting journey where you get to help shape how I can best help you! So please stay tuned.

If you like the episode, I’d appreciate it if you’d leave a 5-star review. It helps me reach more motivated stylists like you! Thanks for listening.

I always felt that my perfectionism was like a badge of honor. That it was a good thing that I would not settle for anything less than my idea of perfection, because why in the heck would I want to do sub-par anything right?

If you’re nodding your head in agreement, I have news for you. Perfectionism doesn’t exist.

In fact, if you’re anything like me, you’ll soon find out that it’s the thing that will get in your way more than anything. There’s something underlying your perfectionism and it might come as a surprise to you as it did me.

Today’s episode is a totally impromptu episode because I was facing that fork in the road about something that I had to either go wit, in its imperfect way, or get stuck.

It inspired me to jump on my cell phone and hit record because I know that this one insight you’re going to hear about is the one thing that could free you from perfectionism and you’ll be ready to toss that badge out the window for good!

If you like the episode, I’d appreciate it if you’d leave a 5-star review. It helps me reach more motivated stylists like you! Thanks for listening.

There’s so much good stuff happening around you all the time. 

I know it’s sometimes difficult to see, hear or feel the good things, especially when you have life stuff happening that doesn’t feel good, it doesn’t sound good and it doesn’t look good. 

When you’re in a state where you can’t see, hear or feel the good in your life, you can end up in a bad mood or even worse, end up in a downward spiral that is so difficult to get out of. 

I know this because I was once someone who would get into that downward spiral and I know how hard it is to stop that downward momentum. Then, I had one of those “aha” moments that shifted my perspective and I haven’t had that kind of downward spiral in years!

You might be wondering how the practice of gratitude will boost your business. When you know how to shift your energy, your focus and attention on what you're grateful for, you’ll feel more positive emotions so you’ll exude them, you’ll be able to deal with the struggles and adversity, and research shows that you’ll be healthier too.

When you’re being a more positive, resourceful and healthier person, you’ll be able to grow your business a lot easier. Plus, you’ll be more attractive to prospective clients because in general, people love to be around positive people.

In this episode, I’ll share two things that I do every single day that have also helped so many  others shift from negativity to positivity, even in those moments where it seems nearly impossible to find the silver lining. Right now, in this moment, I’m grateful that you’re here, please stay tuned.

As you read the title of this episode you’re probably saying, “What?! Of course I need social media to get clients!!” I’m not saying don’t do social media. It’s good for some things. In fact, it’s great for a particular marketing strategy. But I’ll get to that in a bit.

However, if you’re like a ton of other hairstylists, you’re posting your tush off and still not getting enough new clients in your chair. I know this because I’ve been told this by way too many hairstylists. There are much better, more effective, efficient and profitable ways to get those great new clients through your salon door and into your chair.

It’s not rocket science, it’s not hard, yet so many stylists are not doing any of it. Which is why you're still struggling to have a full book. So if you’re ready for a breath of fresh air, stay tuned!

It happens to every single hairstylist, whether they admit it or not.

It sure has happened to me, more than once or twice, and given all the conversations I see happening in the different forums you and I belong to, it happens more times than we’d like but it’s inevitable.

What am I talking about? Messing up a clients hair!

Ugh! Right?

It’s such an icky feeling when you realize you messed up. Whether it’s the cut or the colour, or whatever service you gave, it’s not quite right.

And you start to sweat, you wonder if they noticed that their hair is messed up, you wonder if anyone else has noticed.

You’re trying to keep your composure but inside your saying Oh shiznit, what the heck am I going to do now?

And panic starts to set in.

If you’re like nearly every stylist out there, you’ve had some mess ups, and guess what, you lived!

In todays episode I’m going to share some of my memorable mess ups and how I recovered and not only recover but improved as a hairstylist and colourist.

And you can have a good laugh at my blunders so that you know you’re not alone and you’ll have some great takeaways on what you can do to recover, move on and be a better hairstylist as a result.

So stay tuned!

Captive Communication is an art and skill and some people are naturally good at it, or so it seems, because they’re able to turn on or turn up their charm. They also know how to be captivating and fascinating to their audience, their listener, their customers and clients. 

For some of us, it takes a little bit of work. As with any skill, you can develop it and like art, you can create it to be a genuine and an authentic reflection of you.

In the salon setting, the ability to engage in captive communication is essential and something that I’ve found to be the “make or break,” in terms of a client coming back to you or not. When you know how to build rapport and are capable of keeping them engaged and captivated during their service and afterwards, they’ll feel different, in a good way. They’re going to remember how they felt more than what they got. And that is far more important than you may realize.

My 31 years behind the chair has shown me over and over again that a client is likely to return to your chair if they have a good rapport with you from the start. Of course, you have to do good hair! But being the “best” cutter or colourist isn’t the absolute criteria. I think you already know that, but did you know that being good at the art of communication will get you more clients than your hair artistry?

In today’s episode, I’ll be giving you exactly what to say so that you can start exercising your captive communication muscle. As you’re building your clientele, you’re going to want to know how to get more and more returning clients who look forward to being in your chair.

By now you’re probably wondering, what is captive communication? Listen to find out!