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The Conscious Salon — 211 episodes

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How our Salon Manager Feels about Us Selling the Salon

2

How to sell retail with Sonia Tomas the Salon Doctor

3

Meet the New Owner of Our Salon with Jess Attard

4

We Sold Our Salon: Why We Walked Away After 13 Years

5

Founders on the Couch: Our team leader put us in the hot seat

6

The leadership lessons that built multiple award-winning salons | Maria Unali

7

How to build a SALES focused team

8

If you can't leave your salon for a month... This episode is for YOU

9

We've had 532 hours of team sick leave in 12 weeks. The crisis that revealed our Salon Culture.

10

From Luxury Business Owner to Rock Bottom: The Untold Story of La La Nails

11

We Almost Walked Away from Our Business (Here’s What Saved It)

12

The Reinvention Story Every Business Owner Needs to Hear | Natalie Chadwick

13

How to Remove Overwhelm - TRY THIS!

14

How to Build a Salon that Runs Without You - with Loz Main

15

This is why your team isn't performing

16

Your team IS NOT a 'Family'

17

How we run our salon in our busiest season

18

The One Leadership Shift that will calm your salon - featuring Julia Lambert

19

How to Hold Space Without Lowering Standards In Your Team

20

Why you don’t trust yourself as a salon owner (and what it’s costing you)

21

Salon Owners: You've gotta stop worrying what your team think of you

22

Leading a 20-Person Salon through Grief | Prue Taylor’s story

23

Our Salon Update

24

Steal our Morning Pump Up format

25

HR truths for Salon Owners with Taryn Evans

26

From 5 Chairs to a Salon City with Carla Tedesco

27

You need a Word of the Year as a salon owner

28

Kate Morris: We Have OUR Mentor In The Hot Seat

29

Money Habits That Build Real Wealth for Salon Owners

30

SALON Ins and Outs of 2026

31

Listen to this if you don't understand tax and accounting

32

The No BS way to motivate your salon team

33

From solo cosmetic nurse to 12-person team | Building Eltham Cosmetic Clinic with Amy Wright

34

Selling the Salon and Choosing Health with Maxi Dotorri

35

Blueprint: How to get your word of the year for 2026

36

Our Reflection Blueprint (steal this for your team!)

37

"I became a salon owner at 17" with Karla Daddo

38

Listen to this Christmas week in the salon

39

"I was going to sell my salon." with Dominique Molluso-Pigott

40

How to rebrand and reinvent your salon with Lauryn Mathrick

41

How becoming health obsessed changed our salon business

42

Building Sakara Collective - with Tamsin Kirkus

43

Buying a commercial salon space - featuring Carla Crowley

44

Why I sold my skin clinic - featuring Rache Mahon

45

We put our Salon Manager in the hot seat

46

What you need to know about Salon Team Development Days

47

How Jess Lewis went from a Home Salon to a Blonde Empire

48

We have to answer each other HONESTLY! NO SMOKE AND MIRRORS

49

Tess' Truth: An Abusive Relationship

50

Listen to this when a team member resigns (pep talk)

51

The Queen of Blondes: Amelia Jane's Journey from Home Salon to Empire

52

The Conscious Motherhood Experience - Tess' story

53

I prioritised my salon over my baby

54

Business Dot Motherhood with Tegan Mac

55

Big BODA Moves with Martha Kourt

56

Three's a Crowd with Tamara Reid

57

MAMAhood with Sheridan-Rose Shaw

58

This will change your team's productivity

59

Being money driven

60

QUIZ: Understand your Leadership Archetype

61

Spotting RED FLAGS in team members

62

This is why you need a team retreat

63

This will change the way you hire

64

You always have choice

65

The REVIVE Retreat

66

Accounting 101 for Salon Owners feat. Kate Slater

67

Feeling guilty with team

68

Business is a family affair

69

Our team are struggling

70

Entrepreneurs Escapism

71

The Ah Well Theory

72

We ditched Saturdays

73

Your consultations will never be the same after this feat. Louisa Shaw

74

Mumma Tess is back! Adjusting to motherhood

75

We got a client complaint - Let's debrief it

76

Steal our Client Journey Blueprint

77

Being a supportive partner to a business owner feat. Pete Young

78

Why bigger isn't always better

79

Mentoring will change your team forever

80

Going from Employer to Employee

81

Our first mentoring experience

82

You are choosing a high cortisol life

83

Our biggest life traumas

84

You have leaky boundaries

85

You need a word for the year

86

Are you trauma dumping on clients?

87

The Intention Setting Episode

88

The Reflection Episode

89

Our lessons from 2024

90

Are you the boss you'd want to work for?

91

Have respect for your cancellation policy

92

Questions to ask in an interview

93

Improving your salon team culture

94

Preparing for the Silly Season

95

Burning Out featuring Tae

96

Surviving, Not Thriving

97

Changing your language will change your business

98

Journalling prompts for a Team Development Day

99

The Conscious Leader

100

We *almost* won a Business Award

101

If you struggle to take time off in business...

102

Our definition of success might surprise you

103

Is comparison thieving your joy?

104

Revlon Professional took us to Cairns

105

The Conscious Baby

106

What triggers you?

107

Meditation: Gratitude for our industry

108

Do you reach for a vice?

109

Money is everywhere

110

What we spent on our salon renovation

111

It's scary staying stagnant - featuring Lauryn Mathrick

112

Holding your team accountable is an act of love

113

Manifestation - Is it real?

114

The aHead Retreat

115

The energetics in business

116

Are you reactive?

117

Is it quiet in your salon this week?

118

There are not enough hours in the day

119

Do you discount your team / clients?

120

5 things to do today to change your business

121

Men: Stop killing us.

122

Why did we become mentors?

123

How to motivate your team to perform better

124

Are you thinking of renovating?

125

When team members quit

126

So, you're feeling lost?

127

Knowing when to come off the tools feat. Rache Mahon

128

Debriefing Life aHead Day with The A Team

129

The Conscious Retreat Part II

130

The Conscious Retreat Part I

131

This is how we nail team bonding

132

"It's ok to walk away from toxic people."

133

"This is what the power outage taught us."

134

"We let our team down"

135

"I truly believe you can't build connection and trust without vulnerability."

136

"Lou, tell us about your mentoring experience."

137

"Turning down the inner critic."

138

"We are not doing the same shit we did in 2023."

139

"Did the water at your basin just go cold?"

140

The Intention Setting Episode

141

The Reflection Episode

142

"This is how we stay calm at Christmas."

143

"I never thought we would tell this story."

144

"I'm no longer a hairdresser, I'm a mentor."

145

"Revlon Professional took us to Thailand"

146

"There are 4 phrases that will heal the world."

147

"I'm being tested for ADHD."

148

"If you don't make these changes, what's the alternative?"

149

"Our team meetings alone cost us over $16k per year."

150

"We spent $5,000 in 40 minutes."

151

"There's a single phrase that changed my leadership."

152

"Talking to everyone is talking to no one."

153

"75% of problems in salons can be solved with this."

154

"That was what was stuck inside your body"

155

"Our biggest mistake was booking this client in."

156

"I trust myself to make a return on investment."

157

Doing things from a place of guilt

158

Girl Power

159

10 years in business

160

The way it was for you, is not the way it should be for them

161

Every business needs an online store

162

Lack mindset

163

Cancellation Policies: a MUST in your salon

164

Am I too old to have a hobby?

165

WWJLD - What would Julia Lambert do?

166

Yucks and Yums in business

167

Taking a mental health week in business

168

Leaving in Love, with Megan - Part 2

169

Leaving in Love, with Megan - Part 1

170

Women doing it all

171

Astrology is a must in business

172

Hiring GenZ

173

Resolving conflict in your team

174

Learn to unsend an iMessage

175

Spicy Questions

176

Getting a mentor

177

Cold as ice

178

The Art of the Interview

179

Retail is a dirty word

180

HOME

181

WOMEN

182

QUIZ

183

OWNERSHIP

184

SHITSHOW

185

PREGNANT

186

MICK

187

MEETINGS

188

AMY

189

ROUTINES

190

INTENTIONS

191

CLOSURE

192

ANONYMOUS

193

ARROW

194

TWENTY

195

PETE

196

KATE

197

DAD

198

GUILT

199

LAUREN

200

AVOIDANCE

201

BEC

202

RACHE

203

COMMITMENT

204

RETREAT PART 2

205

RETREAT PART 1

206

MUM

207

MINDFULNESS

208

TAEYA

209

aHead Part 2

210

aHead Part 1

211

PILOT