From the outside, Stephanie had the white-picket-fence life. She was married at 24, bought a house at 24, was married to a great man and she had it all. They had expensive vehicles, great careers and they were on track to do it all. Then it all got stripped away and Stephanie was left wondering “now what?”.

The biggest thing that I see happening in our industry isn’t that there’s a shortage of figuring out how to make more money. That’s easy: you just take on more clients, increase your prices or just work longer hours, right?

2020 disrupted all of our plans and the same is true for Jamie. At the beginning of 2020 the goal was to do a huge overhaul of her signature program, Oh Hot Gram and turn it into RISE Social Academy. She says this is where the burnout started. She redesigned the whole curriculum, built a new course from scratch and then did 10 weeks of coaching with her students.

You’ve made it to the EASIEST balayage tutorial you are ever going to find (I mean, until I figure out a way to make it easier that is…). I’m going to be walking you through this balayage with foils technique that is going to leave your clients drooling.

For Yara, the hardest part of being a business owner is the load that comes with it. She says that being a commission stylist or a booth renter is definitely a lot easier than taking on an entire business of your own. She’s had to learn how to wear a lot of different hats.

Did you know that the average hairstylist makes $40,000/year? I’m on a mission to change that!

I’ve been in this industry for 20 years now, self-employed for 11 of those. I’d be lying if I said it’d been all smooth sailing. The truth is there’s been a lot of ups and downs, especially in my journey as a self-employed salon owner.

I remember the first year I hit the 6-figure mark, it was so exciting. But I didn’t take home 6-figures.