#391 - My Rough Start as a Salon Leader
Thriving Stylist Podcast
Britt Seva
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what it really takes to lead a salon, especially when thrown into the deep end? This is a situation I know all too well from my personal experience, and today I'm going to pull back the curtain and tell you about my rough start becoming a salon leader.
In this episode, I reveal how I started in salon leadership and why I really needed to work hard due to some of the choices that were made for me as I entered the role. Get ready to hear the messy, challenging, and ultimately transformative beginning of my salon leadership journey…
This isn't your typical leadership story; it's a raw, honest account of navigating immense pressure, learning on the fly, and building a thriving team from a truly rough start!
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| 0:00.0 | Do you feel like you were meant to have a kick-ass career as a hairstylist? |
| 0:05.8 | Like you got into this industry to make big things happen? |
| 0:09.1 | Maybe you're struggling to build a solid base and want some stability. |
| 0:12.5 | Maybe you know social media is important, but it feels like a waste of time because you |
| 0:16.1 | weren't seeing any results. |
| 0:17.9 | Maybe you've already had some amazing success, but are craving more. Maybe you're |
| 0:21.9 | ready to truly enjoy the freedom and flexibility this industry has to offer. Cutting and coloring |
| 0:27.2 | skills will only get you so far, but to build a lifelong career as a wealthy stylist, it takes |
| 0:32.6 | business skills and a serious marketing strategy. When you're ready to quit just working in your |
| 0:37.4 | business and start working on it, |
| 0:39.0 | join us here where we share real success stories from real stylists. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Britt Siva, social media and marketing strategist just for hairstylists, |
| 0:46.3 | and this is The Thriving Stilist Podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | What is up? |
| 0:52.9 | And welcome back to The Thriving Stilist Podcast. I'm your host, Britt Siva, and it is |
| 0:56.8 | Storytime. So I'm going to talk about my very rough and bumpy start as a salon leader. I'm going to |
| 1:04.1 | pull back the curtain a little bit and talk about the not so great situation I was in when I first |
| 1:10.4 | started leading my salon team. I think I've done a |
| 1:13.8 | really great job over the years of talking about like the glory of it all and what we were able to |
| 1:18.9 | build and the good times and all of that is great and all of that is accurate too, but it's not like |
| 1:25.0 | it was all sunshine and rainbows. It was actually really bad during |
| 1:28.9 | peaks of it. In my perception, I remember it, there was two lows in my time as a leader. The first |
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