Welcome back to The Beauty Biz Show. Today, skilled licensed aesthetician and spa marketing expert Lauren Snow is here to discuss The 60-Day Beauty Biz Success Challenge. Tune in to learn more about what The 60-Day Challenge is and how it can take your beauty biz to the next level!

"If you don't challenge yourself, you'll never realize what you can become, because growth always happens when you step outside your comfort zone." - Lauren Snow

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Welcome back to The Beauty Biz Show. In this episode, I address an issue I've been experiencing that I'm calling "Strong Woman Burnout." What is "Strong Woman Burnout?" What are the signs? And how do we recover from it to welcome effortless abundance back into our lives?

"When you feel like it's too much, it is too much no matter how strong you think you are." - Lori Crete

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Today I tackle an issue that all of us have faced. What should we do when life interrupts the flow of our business? How do we stay focused, productive, and connected to our work as an esthetician with all that life and business throw at us?

"My beauty biz world is abundantly fulfilling, but it also comes with a very long to-do list." - Lori Crete.

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Today's guest Kerri Kasem and I have a lot in common. We both appreciate simplicity and functionality and I admire her branding and marketing. She found the right people and credits them for helping her as she created her first skincare product, The One. In this episode, Kerri and I discuss what brought her to start a skincare line and what she didn't know that she didn't know about the business. We also talk about the power of serendipity and her journey with lupus.

"I was using so many different products because I wanted this ingredient and this ingredient all in one." - Kerri Kasem.

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Serena Advani, founder of Seadrop Skincare, talks about legitimizing the beauty industry and behind-the-scenes strategic thinking.

"Instead of giving people a product that is more sustainable and that's it, it's worth giving them just a better product that happens to also be sustainable." - Serena Advani.

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In all my years of hearing about him, I have never heard anyone say a bad word about today's guest Douglas Preston, who was kind of getting ready to retire when his extraction tool blew up. Today he explains why he was never happy as a day spa owner and why the most important thing about being in esthetics is money.

"There is not enough for everybody unless not enough is good enough." - Douglas Preston.

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Listen to this episode to learn which little piece of Jay's business Lori brings into her spa suite every day and how he helps Lori manage working in a small dark room throughout the day.

"Customer service...is such an opportunity for a business to really shine." - Jay Nixon.

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Listen in to learn how to communicate your cancellation policy to your clients and how much you should charge for canceled appointments.

"I boldly follow the exact system that I am sharing with you today and my clients respect my business because I clearly communicate with them." - Lori Crete.

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The Beauty Biz Show is celebrating its 200th episode with the return of my second-ever guest on the show, Renée Rouleau. Listen in to learn how to plan a spa pop-up, what an average day looks like running an e-commerce brand, and which magic beauty product you should try next.

"Every product I created was because of something I knew about skin; what I saw with my very own eyes, what I touched with my hands and that's who should be selling my products." - Renée Rouleau.

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Today's guest Wende Zomnir is the co-founder and founding partner of the iconic Urban Decay makeup brand. Listen to this episode to learn how to conceptualize your first product, how to deal with waste in the makeup industry, and why you shouldn't be afraid to negotiate everything.

"We wanted to combine a super high quality of prestige and the more fun kooky aspects of the self-expression piece." - Wende Zomnir.

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