The Coffee with Carissa Podcast

I have a client who wants to stop working weekends so she can spend more time with her kids AND get her business making more simultaneously so this is the plan…

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

I just manifested 5 ideal clients over 3 days using this practice and I want to share it with you 🩷

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

If you’re getting a lot of enquiries from your ads or posts but people are ghosting you or not buying… it’s likely because they aren’t warm enough yet. They see you as a stranger instead of a friend. This can be changed right now!

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

If you’re always feeling flustered and rushing around and telling yourself and everyone else you just “never have enough time” ~ we’re going to take a deep breath today and stop feeling like this… 

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

Big feelings, overwhelm, distraction, and anxious thoughts are not just things children experience - they’re part of everyday life for parents, business owners, salon owners, and anyone trying to manage a busy mind.

In this episode of Coffee with Carissa, I sit down with Jayden for a gentle and honest conversation about feelings, emotions, worry, sadness, focus, forgetfulness, and what helps when our thoughts start running away from us.

Together, we talk about how big emotions can show up, how the brain can jump into future worries, and why it is so important to pause, question our thoughts, and come back to what is actually happening right now.

In this episode, we talk about:

💜Simple ways to calm down when emotions feel overwhelming
💜Why lists, support, and small grounding tools matter when your brain feels busy
💜How emotional awareness supports parenting, business ownership, and leadership
💜Why talking about your feelings can make them easier to manage
💜How big feelings can affect both kids and adults
💜Why anxious thoughts often jump into the future
💜The reality of distraction, forgetfulness, and needing reminders

This conversation is a reminder that managing emotions is part of managing life and business. Whether you are leading a team, handling client expectations, trying to stay organised - or carrying the pressure of being responsible for everyone else…

Learning to notice your thoughts and regulate your emotions can make a real difference.

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:40 Big feelings and bad days
00:01:10 The zone colors explained
00:02:00 Worrying about the future
00:03:20 Question your own thoughts
00:04:20 What helps before bed
00:05:40 How to beat a forgetful brain

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

I asked my 9-year-old how to get more customers, and his answer beat half the marketing advice I’ve paid good money for.

The truth is, making more money in your hair, beauty, or service-based business can be simpler than you think. 

And sometimes the best business growth tips come from the most unexpected places.

In this episode of Coffee with Carissa, I hand the mic to my son Jayden, and he drops business ideas that hair and beauty owners spend years learning.

Tune in to hear about:

💜How to sell more to the client already in your chair
💜Why your customers get bored with your offer, and the ten-second fix my 9-year-old spotted
💜What never to do with mean comments
💜How hair and beauty businesses can add retail or upsell opportunities
💜If your latest offer isn't selling, here's the first thing to change
💜The simple way to stay motivated when business feels slow

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:50 Meet Jayden
00:01:53 Sell Something Expensive
00:02:24 Add On Products
00:03:11 Ask For Help
00:03:54 Refresh Your Offer
00:05:34 Turn Hate Into Jokes
00:06:32 Merch And Ads
00:07:21 Teach And Earn
00:08:21 Everyone Starts At Zero

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

Running a business during a personal crisis is one of the hardest parts of entrepreneurship - because clients, bills, marketing, and responsibilities don’t pause just because your life feels like it is falling apart.

In this episode of Coffee With Carissa, I’m talking about the very real challenge of running a business while dealing with personal crisis.

Inside this episode, I share personal experiences of navigating business through breakups, separation, anxiety, illness, panic attacks, grief, and emotionally difficult seasons…

And what actually helps when you are trying to keep going.

Tune in to hear about

💜Advice on keeping your business going when your personal life is falling apart
💜Why some hard seasons make you work harder, while others make it impossible to focus
💜How to simplify your business when you feel emotionally overwhelmed
💜The reason vulnerability with the right people can actually help you feel less alone
💜Why you can still run, grow, and operate a successful business during difficult seasons

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 The Real Problem
00:02:40 Why You Can't Focus
00:04:20 Be Your Own Friend
00:06:00 Strip Your Plate Bare
00:08:20 Two Years Of Panic
00:09:40 Permission To Pivot

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

Still wondering whether organic marketing or paid ads are better for growing your business on social media?

The answer could change how you create content, boost posts, and bring in new leads.

In this episode of Coffee with Carissa, I’m sharing the two main ways to use social media for business growth.

You’ll learn when to focus on creating organic content, when to boost posts, when to use Facebook and Meta ads - and how to choose the best strategy for your personality, lifestyle, budget, and business goals.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

💜The difference between organic marketing, boosted posts, and paid ads
💜How to choose a content style that feels natural and sustainable
💜Why your social media strategy needs to fit your lifestyle and energy
💜How to start small with an advertising budget and scale as your business grows
💜How Facebook ads, Meta ads, reels ads, lead ads, message campaigns, and story ads can help grow your business

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Two paths forward
00:04:10 Find your style
00:07:30 Boost vs ad manager
00:10:40 Inbox explosion strategy
00:13:50 Slot machine mindset

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

If your Instagram posts aren’t getting engagement, bookings, or sales, your content strategy may be pushing people away without you realising it.

In this episode of Coffee with Carissa, I’m sharing why storytelling and personality-driven content are the key to growing your brand online. 

By the end of this episode you’ll know how to create relatable, entertaining content that makes people WANT to follow you, engage with your posts, and ultimately buy from your business.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a salon owner, hairstylist, lash artist, nail tech, wig seller, beauty entrepreneur, or small business owner - these content ideas will help you build a stronger personal brand and stand out in a crowded market.

💜Why promotional-only content kills engagement
💜 How storytelling increases followers and sales
💜 The secret to building a relatable personal brand
💜 Content ideas for salons, beauty businesses, and service providers
💜 How to create Instagram Reels people actually watch
💜 How to attract your ideal clients online
💜 Real examples of content strategies that work
💜 How to make your audience emotionally connect with your brand

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 Why Nobody Follows You
00:02:40 The Wig Block Problem
00:04:20 Find Your Angle
00:06:40 Reality Show Content
00:08:00 Camera Shy Fixes

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

-

✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com

If you keep procrastinating and can’t figure out why, this episode of Coffee with Carissa reveals three hidden causes behind why you can't get started.

With this information, you’ll finally be able to start increasing your productivity and stop feeling frustrated with yourself.

You’ll also hear the small tools that actually work for me when nothing else does.

If you're tired of forcing yourself to push through and still falling short, this episode gives you a kinder, smarter way forward.

Tune in to hear about:

💜Why procrastination is not laziness
💜The 3 hidden causes of procrastination
💜How burnout, low energy, and overwhelm affect your productivity
💜The link between perfectionism and procrastination
💜Simple ways to break out of avoidance cycles
💜How to stop feeling stuck and start taking action today

Key moments:

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:00 The hidden cause
00:04:20 Emotional roadblocks revealed
00:07:30 Find your real why
00:10:35 The body double trick
00:13:35 Procrastination isn't laziness

✨About Carissa Hill✨

Carissa Hill is an Australian entrepreneur, salon growth strategist, and social media advertising expert - helping salon owners make thousands more per week using Facebook and Instagram ads.

Carissa started her first business - a home tanning and hair extension studio - at 21. By 25, she had grown it into 5 salon locations running without her. Since then, she has helped over 4,000 women grow their businesses - through salon marketing strategy, Facebook ads, Instagram ads, boosted posts, and high-converting social media systems.

If you’re a hair or beauty business owner who wants more bookings, higher revenue, and a scalable salon marketing strategy, Carissa shows you exactly how to make it happen.

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✨Follow & DM Carissa on Instagram for personal advice, tips, and strategies✨

https://www.instagram.com/carissahillcoach

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✨Join the free Coffee With Carissa community to grow your salon✨

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DoPg2PsTP/

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✨Check out Carissa’s website for more tools, trainings, and resources✨

https://carissa-hill.com