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#030 - 25 years of hair salon experience in 30 minutes · Beyond Sovereignty

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Bitch, if you don't know things you love outside of
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your business, you need to figure out who you
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are outside of your business. These are the top lessons that
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I have learned from 25 years in the hairdressing industry. You
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need to concentrate on the foundations for serving the clients that you've
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got at higher standards. Once you can work on the foundational
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level of serving the clients that you have at the greatest capacity,
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you can double your turnover. The most important thing
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that I learnt from a salon owner at 24 years old
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to when I finished being a salon owner at 40 years
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old was Welcome to a revolution in
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the hair industry. A space where being banked and
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beautiful and creating massive global impact is
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the new standard. I'm Blythe Lankford, and in this podcast, I'm
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going to share with you the exact strategies and insights that helped
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me transform my three salons into seven-figure businesses in
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under 12 months. If you're ready to step into your power
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and grow your wealth and be part of a movement that's changing
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the game globally, then babe, you're in the right place. So
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let's get started. These are the top lessons
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that I have learned from 25 years in the hairdressing industry.
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So this will change the lives of so many salon owners. But if
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you're a business owner or a manager or a leader, it will help you
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so much in dealing with your team and your business as
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well. I've got big news guys. I'm completely transitioning.
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This has been a huge thing lately and
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I am very guided to actually own
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all the abilities and gifts that I have within me and all of the knowledge that
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I have. And I realized who requires
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the information that I have most of all. And
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this is the hairdressing industry, salon owners specifically
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and hairdressers. As you know, I was a hairdresser for 25 years.
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I had salons for 18 years. I was with
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a nine-figure business for 20 years.
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And whilst I've learned
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so many things from naturopathic nutrition, from detoxing, from
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health, from sustainability, from ancient
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healing rituals, from health,
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wealth, leadership from Tony Robbins, blessings from
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the Dalai Lama, monks in India. I'm like, who
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am I here to serve most? Who requires
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this information most? And I have been so resistant to
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it because I stepped away from the industry. And
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I know that these are the people that need this information the most. So
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I'm having a huge transition in my business to
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be of greatest service to humanity. And
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I am fighting my ego on it. had
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the awakening that I need to get the fuck over myself and actually
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be in service because I always talk about being in service to humanity and the
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planet and this is the best way that I can be. So I,
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Blythe Lankford, am here to serve hairdressers
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and salon owners to be banked, to have bodies
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they absolutely love and adore, to get out of their numbness,
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their stuckness, their drugs, their alcohol, all the things that are fucking
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you over from being the amazing healers and
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hairdressers that you are and remembering that you
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have got ancestral wisdom within you that makes
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you so unique and different to everybody else
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on the planet and I'm here to help you remember who the fuck you are and
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change this industry back to being whole and
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complete and have us really being the
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true powerhouses that we are, that love ourselves fully, wholly,
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completely. Remember, we are innately worthy. We
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are unique and different for a reason, because hairdressers are
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the sages. We are the wisdom keepers. We're the leaders behind the
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leaders. As hairdressers, we talk to everybody
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on the planet. We have got more power and more
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influence than anybody. And if we unite, we
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can change humanity and this planet forever. So
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I, Blythe Langford, am here in full service to
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hairdressers and salon owners so that we can together change
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the world forever. So if you have followed this podcast and
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you are no longer interested in what I'm doing, Thank you. I
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love you so much. And you've now got a responsibility to
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share this podcast with your hairdresser and
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every single hairdresser you know so that we can take over
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and start a revolution. These are the top lessons that I
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have learned from 25 years in the hairdressing industry and
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from 20 years of being in a nine-figure
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global brand. and from 17 years of
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being a hairdressing salon owner. So this will change
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the lives of so many salon owners. But if you're a business owner or
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a manager or a leader, it will help you so much
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in dealing with your team and your business as well. And now it
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is my pleasure to introduce myself, to
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reintroduce myself to the hairdressing industry. My name is
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Blythe Lankford. I've been a hairdresser for 25 years. I've
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had three seven-figure businesses that
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I took from six figures of huge debt to
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seven-figure salons all within under a
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year. I took my staff's wages from
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average to 5x-ing that so
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that many of my seniors, and especially in my last years of hairdressing, all
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of my seniors were over six figures in wages after
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tax. My hairdressers were banked. My salons
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were banked. And I'm here to help you do the same for you and
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for your staff so that we can change this world forever. So
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that you and your seniors and your juniors remember
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their innate power and positively affect their
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clients. Because if we can do that, we can change the
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world together. So the most important thing that
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I learned from a salon owner at 24 years old to
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when I finished being a salon owner at 40 years
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old was me as a being. When I first started as
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a hair salon owner, I was like all the other male bosses
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that I had had previously and the female bosses that were so
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in their masculine and I was in my masculine so much
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that that's how I led my staff. forced them, forced them
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into things. I taught everybody through
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mindset practices to change their mind, whereas
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over time I realized that wasn't
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helping anybody, that wasn't giving me sustainable
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results. Sure my staff were great for a period of time but
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they would fluctuate and it was up to me to
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always motivate them rather than towards the end
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my last 10 years of my hairdressing journey.
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So first I was fiery and fierce and then I went super spiritual and
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woo-woo and way too feminine and fluffy. And then I
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combined both of those and I was embodied in my masculine and feminine
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energy. So I was able to allow
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my staff to become their own powerhouses. Rather
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than me forcing them, I allowed them to understand and
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be personally responsible for
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their own journey. I allowed them
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to be able to be the way showers in how they wanted to
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lead their clients and the other team members and the juniors underneath
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them. I allowed them to educate me on what
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they needed and required. And I allowed my
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leadership to bring out what they desired
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most within them. Because remember, we're not here to change
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anybody. These people come to us because there's something within
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us that can shift and transform and remind our
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staff who the fuck they are. Because they're already powerful.
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No matter how weak you think a team member is, their weakness is
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equal 100% to their power. And
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it's up to our magnetism as a leader to be able
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to help them tune into that. We're not there to change
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them. We're there to bring out what's already within
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them. So when I was able to tune into that,
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everything shifted in my business. I didn't force my team to do anything. My
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team showed up no matter what. My team told
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me about the incentives they wanted. My team would tell me every single day about
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what they were going to achieve, about how they were going to get
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the results they wanted, how they were going to inspire their clients. They
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would tell me I didn't have to force anything anymore. I
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allowed my leadership to be so strong that they were empowered
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to show up as leaders within my business rather than
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dependence on me to provide them solutions. So
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if you can go from your masculine
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forceful energy and combine that with your beautiful
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sacred feminine and this is for men and women because we all have masculine and
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feminine traits within us. If you can combine your masculinity
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and your femininity and lead from a place of support, respect
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and honoring of your staff and your team
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whilst providing them with amazing leadership and transformational skills,
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then watch your business 10x. Watch your
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staff never want to leave because you bring out of them what nobody else
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can. Watch your clients be magnetized to your
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team because they're epic leaders and watch yourself
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get time freedom again. Because isn't that why you came
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into business? Because you thought you'd be banked and you'd get more time
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off, yet you're still hustling. So allow
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your sacred masculine and your sacred feminine leadership to come into
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play so that you can go from forced to free and flowing and
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having more time off to do the things you love. And
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bitch, if you don't know things you love outside
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of your business, You fucking need
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to figure out who you are outside of your business because
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that makes you codependent on your business and you're a control freak that will
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never allow your team freedom that they naturally need. And
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it's a victim mentality that's keeping you stuck. You should probably
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join one of my programs. I'm an injury with that. The second thing that
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I learned over my 25 years was the
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amount of opportunity that we miss within our clients. Every
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salon owner is like, I just need more clients. I just need more clients. I just need more
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clients. But you know what? You don't. You actually
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don't. You need to concentrate on the foundations for serving
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the clients that you've got at higher standards. Once
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you can serve at the best capacity possible, and
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believe me, everybody's standards can be improved. Mine were improving over
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25 years. And that's how I got even new staff when they came
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in. to be at my 25 years of standards of
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being able to show up at the highest level for my clients. Because once
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you can work on the foundational level of serving the
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clients that you have at the greatest capacity, you
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can double your turnover. You can double
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your turnover, not just your profits, but
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your turnover. You can go from six figures to seven
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figures. You can go from seven figures to eight figures just
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by serving the clients you have at higher standards. And
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if you want to improve your standards, you should reach out to me because guess what? I'm
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fucking ninja at that. The third thing
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I learnt through the hairdressing industry, is
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everybody is trying to walk before you fucking
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crawl. Take the time to
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make mistakes. We are perfectionists. I
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get that and I'm so emotional about this today because
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it's what stops us from being perfect. Our
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perfectionism prevents us from making mistakes and
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we hide the things that we fuck up on because
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we think that we've made a mistake and that's bad and wrong. And
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it's not. It's so perfect. When we can
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own our mistakes, then we realise
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that they are our lessons, they're our initiations to
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be better. The more we suppress and cover up the
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things that we fuck up, the
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more we stay stagnant at this ceiling and we can't
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actually get to the level and the layer that we really want to
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be at. So don't fucking hide. Don't fucking hide
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who you really are. All of the shit that you're putting in
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your face and pretending to be somebody else is
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because you're hiding who the fuck you are. Stand
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up and be actually brave and bold. Show up authentic. And
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that doesn't mean that you tell your staff absolutely everything. They're not your fucking
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therapists, all right? Find a team, a
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mentorship, a mastermind like I have that
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can literally help hold and support you and
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witness you and the mistakes that you make so that
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we can grow and evolve together and actually initiate you
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into the next layer of your leadership and the next layer of
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your success in your business. Now the number four thing I notice
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the most is how disempowered salon owners
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make their team members. accidentally. You don't even
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realise you're doing it and I did it for a fucking decade. I
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thought that I needed to be the problem solver within my
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business and my staff could come to me for
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every fucking problem under the sun and I would fix it for them. Gross.
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I made my team dependent on me. And
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all of that responsibility and all of that pressure and that stress was
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up to me to solve. And I know that so
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many of you do that and it feels so fucked, doesn't it?
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The pressure becomes so overwhelming. And
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you can't even let yourself cry and you just keep on fucking drinking
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or going out and partying or going and fucking and texting
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or shopping and doing all of the things to actually stop
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feeling these fucking emotions of pressure and overwhelm because
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it's fucking intense. But
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you know there's a solution for that? All you have to do is
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help your team become problem solvers. So
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I used to have this thing that I would say to my team. You
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have a problem. I want you to think about the solution that you
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want and then the path to get there. And once you've figured those things out,
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then fucking come to me and tell me and we'll action them.
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And when I literally made that change, my staff completely shifted
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overnight. They became problem solvers. And
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you should have seen the difference in their work. You
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should have seen the difference in how they showed up for clients. It
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was like chalk and cheese. They went from being children
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to fucking leaders. It's
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so sexy when that happens. I can't tell you how
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relieving it is as a salon owner. It will change your
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life forever. So. rather
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than controlling your teams and having you be their problem solver. And
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I know that you love that, sweetie. I did too. I love being able to fix
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everybody and save everybody. But you know what? We ain't Jesus.
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We're not Mother Mary. We're not Mary Magdalene. We're
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not Yeshua. We're none of these people, right? We
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are salon owners. We are here to create
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leaders. We're not here to create more children. And
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when we disempower our teams, they become dependent on us, which means that we're their
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parents and they will treat us like their parents. That's why
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your team's retail fluctuates because your team are
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not empowered as adults. You've created children that
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come to you like little babies that
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want you to solve their problems. So allow your team to step up and be
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leaders, natural born leaders that they are, so that then you
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can become even stronger in your leadership. Then you can
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go from a leader to a pioneer. Now, the number five
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thing that I noticed within my 25 years
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of hairdressing is that salon owners have
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no idea of the gaps and the blind spots
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in their business. Obviously, that's why the gaps and blind spots, blithe
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idiot. What I mean by
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that is you have got gaps and blind spots in your business right
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now, even though you've got all those people helping you work on your business. But
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do you know who you don't have? Somebody that is able to come in and
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understand the accounting side, understand the energetics of
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your business, understand the energetics of your team, understand the
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overwhelm of a salon owner, understand the industry,
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how to work with the color houses, how to get everything you want from the
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power company to the apprentices to the garbage taker
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away-er-er. And those gaps are
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costing you money, time, freedom, energy,
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and pleasure, and love, and self-worth, and
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respect. So if
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you want to actually understand the gaps in your business and create
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a strategy to help you get from wherever you are
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now to that dream life that you know is out
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there, because it really is out there, I loved nothing
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more than being able to leave my salon six hours before my staff
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did every day, knowing that I had created a well-oiled machine.
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And my staff were literally the ones that would say, Blythe, can you get out of the salon because
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we make way more money, we serve our clients to greater capacity when you're
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not here. You're the bottleneck in the business, go to the beach, do something else,
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but just don't be here. And every time I did that, my staff would
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I got it, of course. I got you back. I've got you back.
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Now, the number six thing that I learnt from
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25 years of being in the hairdressing industry is that we as
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hairdressers don't understand our profit and
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loss statements properly. Yes, I do, Blithe. My accountant trained
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me. Baby, your accountant trained you to see like
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an accountant. Your ex-salon owner
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taught you to see like a salon owner, but they didn't
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combine the two. And then also they didn't combine the
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logistics behind that. I studied legislation also
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for 15, 17 years. So
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how I teach my salon owners to look at a P&L statement, a
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profit and loss statement, is different to other people. There
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is literally a way and a system to look at your profit and loss statement that
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if you know what you're doing, right now you could add an extra
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30% to your bottom line. Straight away, no
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more clients, no more staff, no more retailing, just by changing
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shit on your profit and loss statement would literally add 30% extra
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profit to your bottom line. How
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sexy is that? How sexy is that? Oh,
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is that why I can guarantee that people that work with me
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will double their profits in 90 days? Yes,
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it is, baby. Yes, it is. Sexy, isn't it? I
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know how to do a lot of different things, and I want to teach you so that you can do
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them for yourself, because I don't want you to be dependent on me. I want to
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teach you so that then you can go and teach other people, and we can revolutionize hairdressing
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forever. So let's go, baby. Let's fucking go.
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Now, the number seven thing that I learned from being in the hairdressing industry
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that will change your life and your staff's lives for
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fucking ever is the biggest scam that
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there is. Superannuation. What? I'm
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in a union super fund, Blythe. Oh my God, it helps us. Guess what I learned?
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I also learned investment. I learned how to be
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a financial advisor. I do not give financial advice though, definitely not.
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But I'll tell you what I learned, that you can go onto the same website
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that financial advisors and superannuation funds go onto, and
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you can do it yourself for your team. Your team can actually get it
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set up for them. And so what does that mean, Blythe? Why the fuck would I do that? Well, it
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means that instead of your superannuation company getting half of
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your superannuation, that you'd get that half. So instead of making 4%, the
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minimum that you could make would be 10%. And if they have a good year,
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you can make up to 15% in a year. But your superannuation company
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won't tell you that because they want to take that extra 10, 11% off
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you. Blythe, isn't that really hard? No, it's as easy
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as setting up a bank account online. Can you imagine if
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you knew how to get an extra 10, 15% in your superannuation every
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year? But guess better than that, guess what? When you do it
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with these companies, that money compounds every
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year. So instead of when you leave the industry to go and retire or
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you want to sell your salon, rather than having, you
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know, 100 grand or 200 grand, You'd have anywhere
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from $2 million to $50 million, depending on
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how much super you put in each year, because that money compounds every
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year. So you know how Bitcoin's going up exponentially? Ah!
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Decentralized platforms are so unreliable! But yeah, guess what? Superannuation
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isn't if you invest it, right? you can have
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that same exponential growth because that money would compound
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every year. And what compounding interest means is that it grows and grows and
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grows and grows without you having to put any extra money in it. But then
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if you put your super in there as well, then it grows like 10X,
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20X. So how cool would it be if your salon
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mentor coach was able to share
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with you a way that you could create that for yourself and your team?
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What if your team got that from working with
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you? Why? Like I'm giving you all these things so that your team
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never want to leave because working in your salon is like the
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most amazing place ever because you've got all these different skills
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and gifts that are gonna like change their lives forever. Can
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you imagine hairdressers that literally had a retirement fund
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of 20 million dollars? Baby,
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they ain't never gonna leave you. Now you've just got to help them
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Figure out what they really love so that they know what to spend their $20 million
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on. And maybe you need to figure out something outside
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of your business that you really love to spend your money on too.
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What I realised is learning how to harness energy
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and create a sacred space within your salon changes
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everything. everything. Like, I want to
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give you an example of my last salon. We worked in the city right near Parliament House.
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All of our clients, a lot of our clients, not all of them, sorry, the
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ones that weren't these things, I love you too, all of our clients were
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politicians, the people that wrote for the politicians, lawyers,
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doctors, plastic surgeons, all those high-end people up
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and around the city in Sydney, right? So we were dealing with these
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people and they had no respect for hairdressers, right?
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Because Hairdressers are dumb and stupid and we know nothing. I don't believe that,
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but that's often a perspective that people have and it's often a
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perspective that we have of ourselves as hairdressers. So
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there was many of these clients that would come into our salon and you know what it's like
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when they're a high-end, you know, making multiple six figures in their
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business being like, you know, I need to be out of here like yesterday, get
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exactly what I need done. And we'd be like, okay. And
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then, you know, I went to India, studied with some monks, saw the Dalai Lama over
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there, did all of these amazing spiritual things. with Anthony Robbins and
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learnt how to create sacred space
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within my salon. I taught my teams how
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we created together this beautiful healing hub in the city
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that was magnetic, that was able to draw these people in
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with its beautiful, loving, caring energy so that
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we could help heal the hearts of the city. We felt like we
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had an What's the word? We
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felt like we owed it to humanity to be able to share
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our beautiful hearts and our healing gifts so that these
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people could fucking fall back in love with themselves and realize their own
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internal beauty with the external beauty that we were
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creating for them, right? So these lawyers and doctors and
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people would come into our salons, being assholes and the C words, and
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we'd take them to our beautiful, relaxing ritual
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space, the basin area, of course, our beautiful relaxing ritual
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space. And then we would do these beautiful rituals on them.
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We'd have sacred smells and beautiful oils and like
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these amazing massages where we'd like touch their necks and their shoulders and
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put these beautiful towels over them with incense and just give them
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these beautiful blessings. And they'd come back from the
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basin area like, I'm
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What did you do back there? I feel so like, I
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don't know. I just haven't felt like this before. I feel really good. Yeah,
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I might just like stay here for a while. And what is
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the things that you told me to get? I'm totally gonna do
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Give me the treatment, give me the, give me the, I don't know, what
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is it? You want to change my hairstyle? You want to give me that beautiful color?
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Oh my gosh, this is amazing. Thank you, I would love to
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have that done. What are these things that I need to take home and do on
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my hair? How do I use them? Okay, yeah, I want to
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Wouldn't it be so nice if your fucking
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hardest clients, the ones that come in and you're like, this, C word, end
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up being the ones that love you the most, that are your bills
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that walk away spending two grand every time. And
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they come back excited for the next experience
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that you get to help them transform into. Because
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we're not here to change anybody. We're here to transform people. So
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these people would come into our salon like a fucking secret.
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And then they would leave our salon in their heart, happy.
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feeling loved up, feeling seen, feeling beautiful,
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remembering. To
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forget everything that they were literally coming in for, half of
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them would go to the movies instead of going back to work. It was great. So
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I would love you to be able to be holding
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this sacred space within your salon that is so
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beautiful and yummy for your clients that they are excited
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and they ask to book back in next time. When can I come and
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see you again? I really want to come and see you. Do I have to wait until I may haircut?" It's
27:10
like, no, you can come in for a treatment and a toner any time. Great, book me in for
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that. And then they come in between their
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haircuts and their colors for fucking services and end
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up spending like heaps of money there as well because they're excited. They
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love the feeling that your salon provides them. And some of you might
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be saying, well, Blythe, you know, that's just like stealing off people.
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Is it because people go and get massages every fucking day because they want to feel better?
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Is it because people want to go to get Botox because they don't feel like they look
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good enough or feel good enough? But what if you could help them look that good and feel
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that good from being in your energy? Just your
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energy. You don't even need to fucking stick a needle in their face.
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You can just give them that amount of beauty from your energy. So
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I want to help you remember, I want to help your staff remember
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the power that you have within you that can help
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people heal on layers and levels that you're
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not even yet aware of. Yum. Yum.
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I'm here for you for that. Now, the second last most amazing thing that
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I learned from being in the hairdressing industry for 25 years is
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getting your staff to fall in love with figures and
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making it fun. Oh my gosh, wouldn't you love it
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if your staff's reporting was fun for
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them? How can you make it fun for them? Blood Daddy's literally impossible. Pay
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them. Pay them to do the reporting. Pay them. Delegate
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shit that you don't want to do to people and then make it fun for them. How
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do I do that? Be a great leader. Be a great leader. I fucking
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loved coming in the morning. I would pay my staff to be there 15 minutes
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early so that they could go through their day, figure out what
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outcomes they wanted for each client, where they were in their figures, where
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their figures were from the week before, what gaps they had, how they were going
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to fill those gaps, and what like, intuitive, exciting
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things that they could do to create in that day that would make their day way more
29:01
fun, that would inspire their clients, and that would, like, get them banked
29:04
by the end of the day and hitting their targets by a Wednesday so the rest of the week would be
29:08
cruisy. Or they could, like, 10x their results if
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they worked full hard for the rest of the week. So, and
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I don't mean hard, like, extra time, blah blah blah, all that shit, I don't mean that. My
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staff worked four days a week, guys, like, It was fucking awesome in my salons.
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So getting your staff in love with their figures
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so that every morning, whether you're in the salon or not, it doesn't matter. Even
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if I was like in Tahiti or Fiji or in Mexico, it
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didn't matter where I was, they would show up online for
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me and be like, Hey, this is what I'm doing today. Oh my God, this is what I'm going to reach. Oh my gosh, this is what
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I'm on track for this week. And I'm going to rebook all these clients. I'm going to do
29:41
these figures. And I'm going to do this. And I'm doing this
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because I'm working towards blah, blah, blah, blah. They might have been going to
29:48
buy a new house. They wanted to go to Greece for a month. They wanted
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to go and do this amazing trip, they wanted to go and do this amazing trek, they wanted
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this amazing new apartment, they wanted a Versace bag. Whatever it was, everybody
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was working towards something and they knew that their figures were a way
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of getting them exactly what they wanted in their lives and they weren't, they
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had no ickiness or yuckiness or anything like that around it because they
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weren't selling fuck all anything to their clients. All they were doing was
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creating an amazing energy for their clients, a beautiful space for
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their clients to be in and then providing them with education because
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the clients when they're in that beautiful space and they're open and heart led and
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feel like nobody's selling to them, then we just come
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in and give them the things that they're literally asking for. So, allowing
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your staff to fall in love with reporting and figures will change
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your life forever. The last and final point that
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I learned from being in hairdressing for 25 years is how
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to make your staff never want to leave by
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giving them the most epic, amazing incentives. that
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inspire them for a lifetime. How do I
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do that, Blythe? Good question. Join my mastermind. But
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if you can't, you totally can. But the
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best way is to create a relationship with
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your team and work with each one of them individually. If you've got a franchise
31:11
and you've got multiple salons, then you need to be doing this with your managers so then they can
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do this with their team. providing incentives to each
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individual that are unique to them when they hit each target,
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right? And so a lot of people are like, yeah, I've got three layers of commissions,
31:26
you know, this, this and this. Well, I can guarantee you that newer
31:29
staff will just hit under or just on
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that first level, right? And then the second level of staff that
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have been there for a long time might occasionally around Christmas or
31:39
big periods hit the top one, but they'll generally stick to that middle one,
31:43
right? because you haven't given them enough areas of
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growth. That's what happens. So you need to give them more areas
31:49
of growth so that they can be like, fuck. I'm like
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tier number two. This is shit house. I should be tier number 10. So
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it will help them work their way up, right? So that
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there is these epic incentives. So give them more. Don't give them
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less. Give them no reason to leave. Make it
32:07
so that your salon provides everything that they could
32:10
ever have imagined. 10x that, right? So give them
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absolutely everything and your staff will never want to leave. And you know what's
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even better than that? They will have the best of their
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friends who are also in the industry, who are also high performers, high achievers,
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asked to come and work with you. That's how it got for me at the end. I literally
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had team members being like, hey Blythe, I've got a chick in Ireland who
32:31
really wants to come to Australia. Look, these are her figures. I know she'll fit in with the salon. like
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it'll be fucking awesome. So I would literally have staff members from overseas who I'd
32:38
never met before who had spoken to on a fucking zoom call. I would literally
32:42
sponsor them, get them to the country and they were already primed and
32:46
ready and knowing what level and layer they needed to produce at
32:50
because they were working with their mates and their mates also held them
32:53
accountable and be like Bitch, you're not hitting the targets. This is what we have to do in
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our salon. This is how we do it. So my team would educate
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the other team members, right? And wouldn't that be the best? If
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you didn't even have to inspire your team, the culture in your salon
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was so fucking strong that your team
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inspired new members and that culture was infective. And
33:14
infective in a positive way where everybody was so pumped up, so fired, so
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banked, so happy, getting amazing holidays, working four
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days, doing all these amazing things. And your clients fucking felt that because your
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staff are so empowered and confident. Yum.
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Now, let me know in the comments below, guys, what did you take away from
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this? What are the three top things that you think that if you implemented
33:37
would completely shift your salon? Pop it in the notes below and
33:41
let me know because I am so excited to hear more about
33:44
it. And then also, if you want to reach out to me, let me know what your challenges
33:48
are because I am a coach, a mentor. I
33:51
have been for 17 years now through health,
33:55
through business, through the hairdressing industry. I have been their bridge.
34:00
And I'd love to be that bridge for you. I've got a fucking epic mastermind for
34:04
salon odors that will change your
34:07
fucking life forever. It'll allow you to have the
34:10
salon that you actually want. And if you want to leave your
34:14
salon, it'll help you create the salon that will
34:17
scale so well and sell so quickly. So
34:21
if that's what you want to do, whether you want to scale or whether you want to sell, get in touch because
34:25
I can help you change your life forever and I guarantee my
34:29
results. If you work with me and you do not get the results you want,
34:32
I will give you 100% of your money back because I know what
34:36
I am capable of and I know how to get you to
34:39
the place where you want to be. So there's no risk, baby. There's
34:43
no risk at all. And you know what? I will even work
34:46
with you until you get the results that you want whilst you're not paying. Because
34:50
I guarantee my work. Do you guarantee your work? Of course you do. You're
34:53
a hairdresser. You're a fucking legend. That's how we roll. Anyway,
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I hope you loved this episode. I hope you took so much away from it.
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And I hope this really changes your salon so that you can be
35:04
part of the revolution that changes this industry forever. If
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