#418 - The Second Job You Need If Clientele Is Building Slowly....
Thriving Stylist Podcast
Britt Seva
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Are you working 60-hour weeks, juggling chair time with a second job, and still feeling like you're just hanging on by a thread? Stylists everywhere are asking if they're the only ones having to pick up a side hustle just to get by, and today, I want to shed light on what's happening right now in our industry and what exactly is going on.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you feel like you were meant to have a kick-ass career as a hairstylist? |
| 0:05.0 | Like you got into this industry to make big things happen? |
| 0:08.0 | Maybe you're struggling to build a solid base and want some stability. |
| 0:12.0 | Maybe you know social media is important, but it feels like a waste of time because you weren't seeing any results. |
| 0:17.0 | 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. |
| 0:51.6 | What is up and welcome back to The Thriving Stilist Podcast. |
| 0:54.3 | I'm your host, Britsieva. |
| 0:55.3 | And this week we're talking about the second job you might need if clientele is just building too slowly for you. |
| 1:02.6 | This is an episode I've probably owed you for a long time. |
| 1:05.7 | I know that there is a lot of concern right now about building as a stylist. Our industry is super cyclical, |
| 1:13.3 | and we're coming out of what was the easiest to build period that this industry has ever seen. |
| 1:19.3 | I don't know if it will ever be as easy to build clientele as it was from 2021 to 2020. Those were |
| 1:24.9 | like the epitome of the glory days. Second easiest was probably |
| 1:29.0 | 2016 to 2019, like the heyday of social media. It was harder before. It was harder in between |
| 1:36.3 | and now it's harder again. And I naively didn't realize what an outcry there was for second jobs. I've always known that we're |
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