#404 - 2026 Predictions Podcast
Thriving Stylist Podcast
Britt Seva
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Are you ready to discover what's really coming for the salon industry in 2026? What if everything you've been told about pricing, marketing, and client retention is about to change? Every year, you wait for this episode on The Thriving Stylist Podcast, and this year, it's more crucial than ever. Today, I’m bringing it to you with the help and input of Coaches Nine and Carly!
In this episode, I’m giving you a hard look at the truth, and as you know from previous years, my predictions that have historically been correct, even when they’re uncomfortable.
This isn't just a list of guesses, you’re getting 14 predictions that make up a strategic roadmap you need to navigate the future. Don’t get left behind Thrivers and let’s start preparing your business for what's next, together!
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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. |
| 0:51.2 | What is up and welcome back to the Thriving Stilist podcast. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm your host, Britt Siva, and this is an exciting one. It's the episode everybody waits for every single year. This is our 2026 predictions podcast. And I went and looked before I recorded this episode. I was like, well, I've been doing these for a few years. |
| 1:08.3 | 2018 was the first time I did one. I thought it was more recent than that. |
| 1:11.5 | I thought it was in the last five years. |
| 1:12.7 | Nope. |
| 1:13.4 | 2018 is when I first did a predictions podcast. And if you Google search Thriving Stylist Podcast predictions, you can see the old episodes or if you just scroll on iTunes or Spotify or wherever you like to listen. They're all still there. You can listen. what you'll find is the predictions are correct. The predictions |
| 1:28.5 | do end up panning out. And people always ask, how do you come up with this stuff? Especially when |
| 1:34.6 | sometimes I'll say some predictions that aren't what the industry wants to hear. And whenever I sit |
| 1:39.1 | down to release these episodes, I always have to ask myself, what information do you really want to put out there without |
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