The Conscious Salon
Why did we become mentors?
The journey from salon owners to business mentors has taught us that every question, no matter how odd, holds the potential for growth and insight, something we're eager to pass on to our mentees.
In the salon world, where creativity meets commerce, we've discovered that the right mindset can be as transformative as the snip of shears. We open up about our own evolution and the Life aHead program that sparked our mentoring passion. Join us as we share how we guide fellow salon owners towards a mindset of gratitude and opportunity, fostering personal growth alongside professional success. We're not just changing hair; we're changing lives, one business owner at a time.
To follow our journey:
Instagram @aheadhair_
@the_conscious_salon
This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
The journey from salon owners to business mentors has taught us that every question, no matter how odd, holds the potential for growth and insight, something we're eager to pass on to our mentees.
In the salon world, where creativity meets commerce, we've discovered that the right mindset can be as transformative as the snip of shears. We open up about our own evolution and the Life aHead program that sparked our mentoring passion. Join us as we share how we guide fellow salon owners towards a mindset of gratitude and opportunity, fostering personal growth alongside professional success. We're not just changing hair; we're changing lives, one business owner at a time.
To follow our journey:
Instagram @aheadhair_
@the_conscious_salon
This podcast has been produced and edited by Snappystreet Creative
Here at the Conscious Salon, we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land in which we stand today, the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Welcome to the Conscious Salon, tess. Welcome back, thank you. It's like you're talking only to me, so guys tune out. This is just a podcast for me today, welcome back to the conscious on podcast.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Nikki's just choosing herself, so we'll just give full context one super duper, full glass of water and quite a heavy pour. If I'm honest, just a low pour for me.
Speaker 2:I've got to drive.
Speaker 1:Nikki's got the vat of wine over there.
Speaker 2:Well, tess, this podcast comes out every Monday morning at about 6am, so this is actually being recorded live.
Speaker 1:So just going open with.
Speaker 2:Nikki's problem, no judgment, but we are back with another episode of the Conscious On podcast're having a v-notice. We are, uh, because we are recording this at night, which we don't do very often, no, unless we're traveling we've only done it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, uh, and certainly drinking on the um podcast is something we like to keep to a minimum because you know we can get a bit. We're already a bit, but then when you add alcohol it can be like it can really go anywhere.
Speaker 2:So, um, we're drinking a beautiful glass of uh pinot grigio, though it's very nice and it's savvy b, it's savvy b and it's very needed after the week that we've had. Like is it? Has it been busy?
Speaker 1:well, let's get into the week that was and reflect on what we've.
Speaker 2:Let's start. It has it been busy? Well, let's get into the week that was and reflect on what we've.
Speaker 1:Let's start with you. So you need to unpack some things it's just been a big week.
Speaker 2:It's been a big week, um, we can say what we're doing tomorrow night. So it's dad's 70th birthday and by the time this podcast goes out, the surprise will well and truly be over I think it's well and truly over now.
Speaker 1:I think I don't know why we're playing along. He's guessed it already, so like bit of a clue that he knows what's happening. Yeah, it's the event that will like be a surprise on this last.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we touched on this last week's episode as well. We touch on what we're doing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean greek's birthday, to be fair, is a happy birthday. Dad, love you very much. Look the big dog's turning seven. Oh, so I get it, but it's it's kind of like it's quite an event, it's going quite extended. So we went off to the local fave for just a casual family dinner, um, and then this week we've got the private chef coming, which apparently no, he definitely knows about it. He is mum, like bless mum and like love you, al, but also bless mom.
Speaker 2:I'm not blessing mom with anything.
Speaker 1:She's ruined the surprise she's ruined a couple of them, which is fair. I've ruined one she did she said to me today.
Speaker 2:I said mom, why would you say that to him? Like I was a bit hard on her, I was like why would you say that to him? You've ruined this right. And she said I'm not good at these things oh yeah absolutely you.
Speaker 1:No, but I don't think anyone in our family is actually very good at surprises. It's a miracle that we got mum 60th under right. But anyway, we're all over the place. We're going to stick to what's going on. So Polkat's had the big birthday, the birthday dinner, at the local fave. He's got the chef's dinner tomorrow night, the private chef's They've also got no idea who polecat is so our surname's pollock and everyone calls dad polly.
Speaker 2:But he claims that one of his nicknames when he was at school was polecat, so we we were like.
Speaker 1:I reckon one of our mates gave it to him in high school. No, I reckon it was like he, he, you know, when you know when people try to make nicknames, launch like you with dolly babe. When people that was my email address chicky babe 1080 like all of your emails can go straight to nikki. Yeah, chicky babe never really took off.
Speaker 2:But dad claimed polecat was his, was his nickname, and we were just like that never happened I don't reckon that he did, because that just seems like a bit of a weird one.
Speaker 1:I have a really strong memory of beck calling him polecat and I feel like that's where it's come from. Anywho, so he's got that. So yeah, we've got the dinner that. We've already had the chef's dinner. Tomorrow night they're going to Chicago.
Speaker 2:I ruined that one because I went and saw Chicago Dan's right in the group chat, the family group chat. Oh my God, you guys are in for a treat with chicago and I just texted test privately um send your message.
Speaker 1:Greg doesn't know that you're going to, that they're going to chicago. It's a surprise and dad had already read it. We're like good, excellent. To be fair, he's just sort of played in the dark about that, and then we also he was a good sport.
Speaker 2:He just sort of like he's pretending that he doesn't know.
Speaker 1:But I know that he knows and that's cool, whatever like oh it'll be nice to go to chicago, I mean oh, totally, but then. So then we've got hamilton island that we're taking him to as well in june, and how did he find? Out about that because mom said that he had a poverty mindset with um something and yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:He was listening and he overheard the conversation because mom said, yeah, that dad wouldn't pay, like wouldn't be comfortable, if we spent too much on accommodation, because he's got a poverty mindset yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's a little punch to him as well as finding out the um, what was what was going on? So that's another celebration to look forward to, but the last one that we had. Hang on, I just had it. Now I've lost it again. Damn, oh, mom's decoy plan. I am going to talk about that. So mom had an idea that um for with getting him out of the house tomorrow. She first said to me I want you to get him out of the house, which I was like oh, that's totally random, that I would be the person to like come and remove him.
Speaker 2:It's just like. He's not a person that likes to be told what to do or like directed with what to do. So if you said to him, like let's go and do this, if it wasn't his idea, he just be like absolutely. Oh no, he's not into it at all. You've got to like, you've got to always like new things.
Speaker 1:He doesn't like like things that he hasn't come up with, like it just yeah. So it's one of those things where you've got to kind of like, let him lead the way, like you can guide him to it, but then let him take credit for it being him his idea, and then it will go really well. So mum said to me I've got an idea. What I need you to do is come down and he's got some jeans that he needs to return. And if you say to him that you don't like those jeans and then convince him to come with you now to Chadston to go and change them, he'll go with you because he'll really value you coming through, through and taking him to to Kmart as well. So I'm like we're going to Levi's um to go and get some new jeans, um, and that will mean a lot to him, and I went. Don't you think that he'll be?
Speaker 2:onto something she's also picked the person that lives 90 minutes away. I said to her mom I live over an hour away, if you drive down there and say I don't like those jeans and he says, no, I don't want to go jean shopping right now, also at night time. I was like allison.
Speaker 1:What's the thought process there? I live the furthest away. He's probably going to be onto it if I'm like hey guys, I'm just in the area I thought I was going to go to chadston a little jean intervention. Do you want to come and have some jean shopping time with me? I just said to her, no, and it would make more sense if you got him out of the house, because he will go with that.
Speaker 2:That just seems but it would also just make sense if you just did like a normal plan, like asking a friend to ask him to go out for dinner and plan a dinner which obviously wouldn't eventuate because we would have our dinner but then they would like go out and have a drink or something before. Like just that just makes no, that's yeah, I mean idea.
Speaker 1:So anyway, we'll keep you guys posted. I'm sure he's onto it. I don't even reckon he'll leave. I reckon he'll just stand in the house as we're setting up or when he gets it he'll be like, yeah, I know about this and I'll be like, yep, cool, so that's tomorrow night.
Speaker 2:We're all very excited and that's pretty much that's been like most of our focus for the week. We've had our first couple of weeks with the renner, which has been really beautiful. Busy week closed for anzac day today, which has been nice to have a little bit of a breather and straight back into it tomorrow yep but tess, we run a little segment around here every week.
Speaker 2:What's it called? It's called hot girl hotline. So, for anyone new around here, we run a segment each week. It's called hot girl hotline. We ask you on instagram, we put up a questions box and we ask you for your troubles, your woes, your business blues, whatever's keeping you up at night and test.
Speaker 1:Today's listener question is uh, none of those, because I put up an anonymous box oh, the ngl everyone knows about. It's like not gonna, not gonna lie, can you actually?
Speaker 2:not tell who writes them in I don't know, but someone.
Speaker 1:We've obviously got some fans and I thought no, you know what? None of these were about business.
Speaker 2:When we put those up, we get the weirdest questions like yep, we got some really weird questions asked. I remember someone was asking like sexual questions. There was like there was some strange questions yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I think they found us again, so I was happy I thought what helped you need in your business. Oh, I think I made the mistake of putting the spicy emoji there as the link thing Cause. Anyway, first one is what are you doing tomorrow With dad's birthday?
Speaker 2:We just covered that in the week that was right.
Speaker 1:We've got dad's birthday. We just covered that in the week. That was.
Speaker 2:That's right, we've got dad's birthday tomorrow, hopefully giving him a surprise. Second question are you seeing anyone on n right now, right?
Speaker 1:now, yeah, or are you single, nikki? I'm seeing someone casually. He just got the baby in the house like what?
Speaker 2:what is this? Like a bot I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't want to think that. I definitely want to think that I'm causing quite a. I was going to put this story up, so I'm really hoping that I've driven the internet wild, but maybe it's a bot. I'd like to think not. Anyone that does these regularly. Are these like bot questions? They must be. What else is there? Well, I'll answer. I am saying someone uh, let's talk more often please. That's harder because I don't know who that is. So, yeah, I'm asked if that's you, we're happy to chat next question I really want us to be friends, okay.
Speaker 1:And then lastly, uh, do you have any exes?
Speaker 2:yeah, there's a few, but like no, no one worth talking about on a podcast like yeah, I mean, my shorter list would be if I've had any serious relationships.
Speaker 1:We've talked about a few of your exes on the potty. Yeah, I mean, probably most of the vile men in melbourne are mine, so a little punch to them, um. So yeah, that's as good as I get. And the last question that we had was from um, an anonymous person what do you love most about your mum? So who do you think that's from?
Speaker 2:are they all from mum? No, absolutely not. So, mum, we're not answering that. What do we love the least? You can't keep a secret uh, yeah, no, I.
Speaker 1:My favorite thing about mum is, um, she's always very happy to hear from me and I.
Speaker 2:She hears from me constantly darling, darling, that's what she always says darling, how are you? Hi, my darling darling hi, baby girl.
Speaker 1:The other day she just said baby.
Speaker 2:I was like oh I don't know, you're more of a baby girl sort of um, but can we have?
Speaker 1:an actual hottie g question. Well, I'm sorry, mate, but that's what the people gave, so that's that's as good as it's gonna get. We have no, I'll give you. We did have one serious one.
Speaker 2:They were the weird ones that came through and they're not gonna lie.
Speaker 1:But we put up a question I'm not doing, they're not gonna lie again because someone asked us about why we went into mentorship.
Speaker 2:I'm just gonna say yeah, I've just I do have a good question.
Speaker 1:Yes, we've got. Why did you become business mentors?
Speaker 2:would love to hear thank you, mom, for asking um. This is a beautiful question. Why do we become business mentors? I really hate when people like there was a gap in the industry because there is like mentorship, uh sorry, mentors within our industry. It's like it's quite overpopulated. Every second person is becoming a mentor.
Speaker 1:Um, so we thought we'd join them. Let's do it as well.
Speaker 2:We'll follow the trend you know what I actually feel like. We literally fell into this. So we have been really focusing on personal development in our salon business for about eight years, and something that's really special about our salon ahead is our personal development program, the life ahead program, which we've literally run in the salon for eight years. So we run these incredible team days and they are what I feel they are what makes our salon special from an outsider's perspective and definitely probably for the people that work in there as well, like from an insider's perspective. But we started doing these days and really showing them on social media and I feel like that got us quite a lot of like a warm reception from our industry and I feel like that sort of put us as I don't want to sound like a flog here it put us as doing something different in the industry.
Speaker 1:I thought you were going to say something like inspiring or something no, no. I'm not that I like Greg Pollock.
Speaker 2:No, like I think it was something different. Like people saw us just doing our own thing, so that got us quite a lot of followers that have salons and other people in the industry through social media. And then we were like quietly mentoring for quite some time. So we were just sort of like casually doing, um, helping other salon owners with their team days and helping other salon owners um with their client journey process and all these different things and, like often our friends in the industry would ask us for advice. So we started with that and then we actually started with building online stores. So we almost like fell into it.
Speaker 2:A lot of people were like how do I build an online store or whatever, and then we would start.
Speaker 2:We started building online stores for other salons and that's how it sort of started growing. And then when we were, obviously we would just do the online store, but then we were giving advice around how to grow the online stores and really refine, because like it's one thing to have an online store, but actually to have it and have it creating really good turnover is another thing. So then we were giving advice on that and advice around marketing and things like that, and it sort of just grew from there and then a lot of people would regularly ask us about different team advice, different personal development day advice, and I felt like people were really interested in what our process was. So that's how we became mentors. It just sort of grew from there and then we had this podcast before we started like actually going public with our mentorship. So we actually started this podcast about our salon and like just behind the scenes of running a salon, just because we really loved giving information. Do you want to add to that and take it from there?
Speaker 1:so the podcast used to be called a head full of dreams as well, for anyone that's new around here, so our salon's called ahead I feel like this would actually be a perfect opportunity for us to kind of like reintroduce ourselves, because I think you summed up why or how we sort of fell into it, how we came, how we became mentors. Yes, I know we've got a lot of newbies around here. Um, hey, hotties, thanks for tuning in with us. We love it, um, but we are. For anyone that doesn't know our story or our situation, I'm going to keep it super brief, but just so that you have a little rundown, um, because we're not just, you know, two little cackling hags in your ears every Monday.
Speaker 2:Yes, having your own long enthusiasm.
Speaker 1:So Nikki and I are sisters. We have had our salon head. For 11 wonderful years We've been in the industry. This is my 20th year in the industry, jesus Christ. Which is yeah, she's a dinosaur. How many years for you?
Speaker 2:Well, I, if you want, want to like I. I went into hairdressing when I was 15, so I started here when I was 15, left that went to beauty and then have, like, obviously gone back to hair.
Speaker 1:So I'm 33 or something now yeah 33, 32 you had a couple of little breaks in between, though, when you, um, you went off and did some, some bakery things, some hospo things.
Speaker 1:I did a bit of everything, a bit of everything, really. Um, we've had our little salon ahead for 11 wonderful years and for us or for yeah, I would say we did genuinely fall into mentoring. But I think for us, what really changed the game was we felt we, with our first mentor, got really, um, heavily invested into personal development and how that really changed our lives. And I can say from my perspective, with getting into mentoring and personal development, I have really stepped out of being a martyr and a victim, which is where I sat for a large amount of my life. I always was kind of sitting from the point of view of like life happens to me, not for me, like life happens to me, not for me. And since learning a kind of new way of looking at the world and getting out of my negative mindset, I'm really taking the opportunity to make the most of my business, my life, my experience on this planet, while I have it to really like take it by the horns and go for it. And I think, with that, when we started stepping into that new way of thinking and being and rather than kind of, you know, really looking at motivating and inspiring and supporting our team sorry, not, rather than doing that, starting to do that rather than not doing that, we had a really pivotal, pivotal experience with our salon and our business and then from there forward, that then bled into our personal lives, our friendships, our entire life in general.
Speaker 1:I think for us, we started seeing how life-changing this sort of work can be and that there is a bit of a gap with and I understand it because I was in there I would always blame everything that wasn't working the salon on my team at the time, you know clients not being appreciative of us, like kind of constantly in that kind of resentment. And then when I started actually being quite accountable and realizing, well, hang on a minute, how am I showing up, what's my impact here, what's my responsibility, and starting to flip that, then we saw a great opportunity to then be able to help other people who wanted to change that for themselves as well. Yeah, absolutely, and I think when we we are very, you know, quite a niche um brand with what we do, I think we really work alongside people with the business or with their businesses and kind of inside their businesses. Rather than kind of just giving a one blanket rule, we kind of really customize it to each person and what they're needing and what their team's needing.
Speaker 2:We do, and I actually think that that would not work for some people who want to um, like I thought about this the other day. I was like when I was talking to someone about what we do, I was like you know, it's not for someone who is not willing for us to get in there and pull everything apart and see it and become a team member in this business.
Speaker 1:Like it's not for you If you don't want us to be a team member, if you're not willing to get us within your community, within your team, like within your financials, we are like deep diving into all that shit so if you don't want us to say that, it's not going to work yeah, and I think this is the thing we so we only work with a very small crew of people, um, as we're working with businesses and business owners, but I think for us, the biggest thing is we just really want everyone that we're working with to really have the life that they're worthy of and deserving of, but also have real gratitude and appreciation for those lives that they're getting as well. So it's all you know building strong mindsets, see all the opportunities that they have and making the most of those opportunities, rather than just waiting for them to come to them or like sitting there going oh, why won't this happen for me?
Speaker 2:yeah, we do definitely have a very niche way of mentoring and it's really funny. I really don't like the word coach. I never refer to us as coaches because I feel like a coach should have a hat and whistle.
Speaker 2:I just feel like a coach tells you what to do. They just like tell you their strategy. And if you think of like a football coach or something I mean not that I watch the footy, but if you think of like a sports coach they're just in there like barking orders, telling people what to do and instructing them what to do, whereas I feel a mentor gets you to think for yourself. But also, I think there's a level of what I believe that we do really well. There's a level of getting people to have self-trust, which we talk about a lot of the conscious salon, you know, really getting people to be able to think independently and not rely on being instructed with what to do.
Speaker 2:And I think one thing that we do do differently is that we are able to bring a really beautiful mesh of resilience training and mindset training things like ice baths and breath work, that we relate to our personal experience of overcoming things like anxiety and being able to think clearly and calmly and having compassionate leadership, and we match that with having equal parts of strategy so because, naturally, in this industry and you know, if you've listened to this podcast before, you probably heard us talking about this in the hair and beauty industry, as leaders and people who are drawn to the hair and beauty industry, majority of us are artistic or creative and and often people who are more creative minded aren't as logical, so it's harder for us to follow processes and be really like I can't remember if it's like left brain or right brain, but like whichever brain it is.
Speaker 2:It's harder for us to do the more analytical stuff, yep, so we bring a good mix of logical stuff and then also the spiritual. You know self-development yeah, resilience training, mindset training. And then also the spiritual you know self-development yeah, resilience training, mindset training when we really break it down.
Speaker 1:I think we teach people logistically how to like run their business with policies and procedures and strategies, and we also help a hell of a lot with mindset and then really sitting in a place of gratitude, really starting to like open your eyes and look at the world from a place of opportunity and rather than victim, which I think a lot of like that. That's a hard flip and we've done that through our own experience with that. So I think that that's probably how we sort of fell into mentorship. But I truly believe that's one of the things of why we're so good at what we do because we are able like we've walked this walk. We're still standing behind the chairs, we still have our own business and we have. You know, we always go back to if we have. We've either gone through this, have are going through it or will go through it.
Speaker 1:And when we have that as our forefront, with when people are coming to us with problems, it's kind of like getting to, I guess, silent business partners who are coming into your business to help help support you with navigating through, getting it to where you want it to be, and then you can continue on your merry way absolutely, and giving you like sustainable, sustainable lessons in how to run a business, for sure, but yeah, that is one big point of difference.
Speaker 2:I think that we have in this space is that we are actually still standing behind the chair and we do still have a business that's operating this space. I know that it can be hard. I've found it hard in the past. You know, if we're getting advice, like like globally, for every container that we've done, even if it's like a short course, or if it's like a year-long mentorship or whatever. Um, it can be hard if that person's a not in the industry or b not actually currently owning a business in the industry, because things change so drastically and so often that if you're not actually walking the walk it's really hard to understand and have that level of empathy.
Speaker 2:But we do definitely have a lot of structure, like I think one of the things that we realize that we both need is a lot of structure. So we fully customize a mentoring plan for every client, send them a massive business audit got a new client starting, uh, next week, which is exciting, hi, carla um. But we send out a massive business audit, um, and then we create a fully customized mentoring plan around that, which I really love because I feel like for me and the way that my brain works, I want to know what the whole picture is going to look like. I think that's a massive win, especially for people that have creative brains yeah, absolutely so, mate, why did you want to be?
Speaker 2:what will? What lights you up about mentoring people?
Speaker 1:I think for me it's and this is a thing and and I do really want to like say this, so it's, it's really. I know people can often get drawn to us because they look at our Instagram see people like jumping in ice, overcoming things, having breakthroughs, all of those things. That's always parts that I really love about what we do. That's obviously the stuff that I'm really connected to, cause I like those transformative moments are like you know, you want those big Kodak moments. But I do want to be transparent with this is that there's also a shitload of tears. There is a shitload of hard work. It is very confronting. It is very deep, tough work.
Speaker 1:It's not just the highlights reel that we see on Instagram and a lot of those things. Even if you look at some of our content, you can see people are really going through stuff as they're doing that sort of work with us. See, people are really going through stuff as they're doing that sort of work with us. So I do really want to highlight that because I think a lot of the time, people think that if they're jumping in with us, that it potentially is just going to be like laughing and fun and silly, and it's not. It's a lot of like, really tough things that you have to face, a lot of things that come up, and this is part of personal development.
Speaker 1:I think it's really important to acknowledge that what I get most lit up by it is truly being able to connect with people in our industry and be able to start to heal the industry, because I do feel there's still so much toxicity in our industry. There's still a lot of broken parts of it, there's still a lot of, you know, competitiveness and it's changing and it's getting better, but I really, for me, I really want to like leave this industry better than how we found it or how we've been into it. That's beautiful.
Speaker 1:I truly believe that. So for me, that's what I really value with when we're doing this work. I really value how much connection we can create in these moments with the right people. This is not going to suit everyone and we are quite a niche type of mentorship to work with. I will 100% say that we are not going to suit everyone and we work with very small groups of people and it really has to feel super aligned. But with that, for me, my truly my favorite part of mentorship is watching that connection between owner and team becoming one collaboration and it stopped being that kind of battleground or that kind of like push-pull relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and seeing that, um, when owners start sitting in their vulnerability and then team are also vulnerable with them and you can create this really beautiful bond together and start working together and creating huge impact, rather than just kind of having, you know, moments of impact but not really starting to progress forward in like the way that you're wanting. That, for me, is where the biggest impact is, because I personally really feel there is still that like how it was for me is how it's going to be for them. I don't like that. Like you know, I want kiss the ring sort of vibe. I don't like any of that.
Speaker 1:I really think that when, yeah, when we remove ego and when we actually like are vulnerable with our team and like share with them and give them opportunity, tremendous things can happen. So for me, that's what I'm really lit up by is watching connectivity and like people really stepping into their power with what they like, how they want to show up and how they want to actually like leave an impact and being truthful about that. That's what I like about it. What about you? What's your favorite thing? I mean, it's the reports, isn't it? It's like I love profit.
Speaker 2:You know what I? I'm going to be totally candid here. When we went into mentorship, we did not go into it for ourselves, we did not go into it for money. We did not go into it for, like, a job or a new business or freedom and flexibility, like there was literally none of that. We went into it to change our industry.
Speaker 1:As in when we became mentors?
Speaker 2:do you mean when we became mentors? Yep, we literally went into it with the intention of making our industry better.
Speaker 1:There was no like.
Speaker 2:I truly had on heart, no, that we went into this to make our industry better.
Speaker 2:There was no underlining factor of like we want to do this for ourselves or our own gain, and we also did the same thing with our salon. We went into it without any like, any focus on what we could get out of it. It was just like, oh, we want to create this really beautiful space for people to come and feel like they can be themselves, team clients, us, whoever like. It was just this really beautiful intention, and I think we went into mentorship in the exact same way.
Speaker 2:And what lights me up and what I feel like my purpose is on this earth is human potential and understanding what people can be and what they can overcome, and I've also had firsthand experience in this, like I've overcome huge things in my life and completely transformed the way that I feel on a day-to-day basis, previously living as someone who could barely leave their house to someone who could like go out and do big, scary things. So what really lights me up is seeing that transformation. Like the business owners, like I just think, sometimes I have pinch me moments of like is this actually our job?
Speaker 2:for being able to see a business owner step into being really confident um, you know, whether it's leadership or or putting in policies or you know, making having a profitable business, seeing team members really step into their confidence and becoming that professional who knows how to educate people on their hair and skin. Like I, I I love the transformations yeah, it's amazing it's definitely not an easy job.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of people would think that mentorship would be a really easy job, where it's like you know. Just work from wherever like, like it can be really glamorized online.
Speaker 1:Open your laptop, like you know whether you're poolside in shanggu, or I work three hours today, and now I'm done totally, whereas I'm like no, we're literally on call to our clients.
Speaker 2:Um, you know, monday to friday we are on call to them whatever they need and often that will like go over.
Speaker 1:We try and stay with our boundaries on that, but that often will bleed over 100 if you've got a client in crisis.
Speaker 2:What are you going to do? Put down the phone at 5 pm? No, you're not yeah so we, we are a huge emotional support, and often it's like it's not even about business. It can be I'm having trouble in my marriage or I'm you know, I'm having really dark thoughts, like it can be, a range of different things, so the level of support that we offer our clients. It's not an easy job, but I fucking love it.
Speaker 2:I love it. I'm so proud of the work that we do. I deeply love the company that we've built and because we work with such a small group of women, it just becomes you literally become like family, Like the retreat that we've done, the community that we've built, like we're about to introduce something new to our business, which is really exciting. Like we're doing a breathwork workshop every week with our clients and goal setting where they come together and do that, and I'm like that, like that's what I would have loved to have done at different points of having a business and to have that community and to have that really centered little thing each week would be incredible. So I just feel really proud and I'm grateful to do this work. It's beautiful, isn't it? Tess? We end every episode in gratitude. One of our major values at the Conscious Salon is gratitude. What are you grateful for in this moment?
Speaker 1:values at the conscious salon is gratitude. What are you grateful for in this moment? I feel super grateful, for I'm really proud of what we've created and what we're doing, but I feel so grateful that we have such an incredible crew that have enlisted us to help them and trust us to support them. It's truly a privilege and an honor to do that sort of work and to be by them and, as you say, it's not strictly business in there. We're talking all of the you know, we, we come together, warts and all, and I really feel a huge amount of gratitude for all of those incredible women.
Speaker 1:Um, I feel so much gratitude for the fact that we're so committed, so passionate and so like. I truly believe like our intention is to leave the industry better than what we found it and to see people stepping into their biggest potential. I feel really grateful for that. It's not about, you know, having a cushy life or making money or anything like that. It's just truly about helping people love the businesses that they have and I feel really fucking grateful for that. As I said, I truly see it as an honour and a privilege, and especially with the big things that we share in these spaces, yeah, I value it so fucking much so.
Speaker 1:I'm grateful to be able to have that opportunity. What about you?
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's a savvy bee, but that got me a bit emotional um you know what I echo, what you say but, I just feel so grateful for the opportunity to do any of this work.
Speaker 2:Um, you know this, this podcast is a really beautiful space for us to not only share our knowledge but also to debrief and have some fun, and I just feel so grateful for that platform. But this podcast literally started all of this like we just got a couple of microphones and talk and thought like let's just talk about how we started our business and it's grown into this beautiful business. And sometimes I have to pinch myself to be like wow, look at what we get to do, the impact that we get to make. It's pretty beautiful and, as you say, it's a privilege.
Speaker 2:But I just feel so proud of what we've done like so proud this is a beautiful, meaningful, purposeful business and I really do believe that we are leaving the industry like we are. I do believe that we're changing the industry. I don't care how small or insignificant our company could seem it could be a drop in the ocean, but we're planning world domination and this is I do believe that this is the way forward really conscious leadership, conscious business, conscious salons. Pardon the pun, but I'm proud of what we've built. Mate. Hell yeah, thank you so much for listening to the Conscious Salon podcast. Tessa, love you guys. Stay, conch, stay conscious, conscious.
Speaker 2:Thanks so much for listening to this episode and hanging out with us today To hear more about our journey. Follow us on Instagram at the underscore conscious underscore salon, If you're a shit speller.
Speaker 1:Check the spelling of conscious or at a head hair underscore.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for joining us today and we'll see you in the next episode.