On todays show we are speaking to some of the founding members of the Salon Employers Association (SEA). Created to ensure fairness and parity across all models in the hairdressing & beauty sector, will be learning the SEA aims and ideas to protecting and preserving the future of the industry. The SEA founding members joining me for this conversation are Co-Founder at The Chapel, Toby Dicker, Director at Alan d Hairdressing Education, Edward Hemmings and CEO at Hershesons, Luke Hersheson. We …
Rachel Williams is one of America's new superstar Hair Educators. It's easy to understand why! With currently over 155K followers on Instagram, BTC OneShot Overall Haircut Winner 2021 and one of the originals pioneers of the modern Shag haircut currently seen all over Instagram, Rachel has built an incredible name and profile for herself. She's joining the show today to share some of that story that's led her to this place, and why being a hairdressing educator really matters to her. Trained in all …
A drastic career change may not be for everyone. But gently pivot on your career journey might be just the change your life needs. As I once read in a book, "The only move that matters is your next one!" I love this and that’s why today I wanted to talk about ‘why it’s time to pivot in a new direction for 2022’. Life is packed full of surprising twists and turns. I don't know about you, but from time to time …
For the last episode of 2021 I'm keen to bring you a podcast that embraces change. In what's been a difficult year with uncertain times ahead, you maybe approaching the New Year with momentum towards a change towards something new. Great! But what for those fearful of change? Fearful of what change could bring. Could it be this that's holding you back from all the possibilities change could give you going forward. For todays guest, Sheila Jackson, change is something she …
Some of my favourite episodes here on the podcast are one's like today's. It is episodes where I get to chat to somebody who is not just a talented educator in hair colouring, with a deep understanding of the science behind it, but somebody who shares the in's and outs of owing your unique fingerprint and becoming a true specialist. Today's guest, Sarah Spiers co-created Chaulk education with Lianne Storer, because of being bored of the same way day in day out …
Since the Lockdowns of 2020/21 there has been an explosion of online hair educators. Using video call services like Zoom and social media platforms, it has never been so accesseble for taking the first steps into providing online education. But what about taking that hair education to the next level by starting your very own online platform that you have full control of? Thats what todays guest, world renowned hair educator Ben Brown has been doing for the last few years. …
I'm so excited for this episode. We are covering a subject I wish I could have heard myself when I first started out I’m my hairdressing career. Because today I’m talking with International Celebrity Hair and Make-Up artist, Kevin Fortune, on how to work in the art of Session Hair Styling Across Fashion, Red Carpet, Film & TV. As the co-founder of the Kevin Fortune Hair Styling Academy in London’s West End, he seriously knows his stuff when it comes …
We all need to charge our worth. But lets be honest here, how many of you really are? This topic is to be the centrepiece of my conversation today with Maddi Cook of Boss Your Salon. Maddi is somebody I got to know over lockdown, and eversince I have become seriously impressed by. Because in getting to know Maddi, I've got to see how she is a mentor on a mission – teaching our industry how to stop winging it, …
This past week I interviewed David Kinigson, who is an amazing haircutter based in the America with great heritage in the industry. David has worked closely with great names at the Vidal Sassoon Fifth Avenue Salon, New York in the 1970's and Vidal Sassoon himself contributed to David's iconic publication, The Hairctter's Handbook. David was once described as the most famous hairdresser you've never heard of. This made me smile lots. David is one of the founding members of the Intercoiffure North …