Salon Owners Collective

The 5 Christmas Cracks About to Break Your Salon (and How to Fix Them)

You either love Christmas in a salon, or you hate it. Most Salon CEOs feel both. With six weeks to go, this is the moment to decide how December is going to go, before it

If We Walked Into Your Salon Tomorrow, This Is What We’d Change First

You walk into your salon every day. Which is exactly why you can't see what your clients and team feel the moment they walk in. After Joel walked into a salon last week t

The Real Reason You Can’t Sleep the night before Payday: How to Build a Salon That Prioritises Profit

You make the money. You pay the bills. And you still can't sleep on payday. Straight out of her monthly profit workshop inside Salon Mastery, Larissa Macleman, Founder of

Why You Sabotage Your Salon the Moment It Starts Working

You finally have a great month. And then, somehow, you find a way to wreck it. Recorded at the bar in Bali the day after the Turning Pro intensive, Larissa Macleman, Foun

Delegate Faster in 5 Minutes: Stop Doing Manager Jobs on an Owner’s Schedule

You didn't achieve anything today. And it wasn't because you didn't work hard enough. In this episode, recorded poolside in Bali just hours before Larissa switched off fo

The 3 Problems Facing Every Salon Owner in 2026 and How to Fix Them

54% of salons aren't going to make it to 2030. That's the number Larissa and Joel landed on when they ran the research. In this episode, recorded poolside in Bali during

The Question That Separates Salon Leaders From Everyone Else

You don't get in life what you want. You get in life who you are. And if that's true - and we believe it is - then the question isn't "What strategies should I implement?

Your Manager's Not In. Here's Why - And What To Do About It

Your manager isn't the problem. The relationship structure is. In this episode, Larissa and Joel break down the exact framework, the Triple T, that transforms the owner-m

The $50K on the Shelf

Your bank account is nearly empty. Your revenue looked solid. Your team showed up. It doesn't compute. But here's what I know: the money isn't gone. It's in your salon ri

Why Your Team Meeting Isn’t Working (And What To Do Instead)

The Five Meetings Your Salon Actually Needs You've sat down to run a team meeting. You've talked about goals. Everyone nodded. And then nothing changed. So you stopped d

Nine Minutes That Add $100K to Your Salon

You've hired the right people. You've trained them. And somehow they're still performing at 60% of what's possible. The trap? If you're still the most important person in

The One Number That Ends the Payday Panic

The One Number That Ends the Payday Panic Six times a year, Larissa Macleman was convinced her salon wasn't going to make it. Bad week. Team off sick. Clients cancelling.

You Can't Build a Million-Dollar Salon While You're Hustling

The Answers Come in the Gap You know that moment. You're not trying to solve anything. You're in the shower, or you're swimming in the pool, and suddenly the answer is t

The $48 Gap Between You and a Million Dollar Salon

The $48 Gap Between You and a Million Dollar Salon A million dollars in revenue. You've said the number. You've thought about it on a Sunday night. And then Monday hits,

The AI Mistake Quietly Costing You Clients

The AI Mistake Quietly Costing You Clients Every salon owner has access to the exact same AI tools right now. And most of them are using them the exact same way, which me

It's Not a Marketing Problem. It's a Mentoring Problem.

The Real Reason Your Best People Keep Leaving You've raised your prices. Possibly more than once. And yet the book still has white space, the roster still feels gappy, a

Become the Mentor your salon needs to grow $100K

Are you leading your team into the next level, or waiting for them to find it on their own? This is where so many Salon CEOs get stuck: You hire the team. You train the

10 Years. 9 Lessons: The Final Four… and a Half. What We’ve Learnt From a Decade Coaching Salon Owners.

The Final Four (and a Half) Lessons - Continuation of the 500th Episode Ten years. Five hundred episodes. And the same handful of sentences Larissa and Joel still say mor

The 9 Things We’ve Said Every Single Week for 10 Years

The 9 Things We've Said Every Single Week for 10 Years   500 episodes. Ten years. And the only way to mark that is with the truths that made it possible.   This isn't

If Your Salon Doubled Tomorrow, Would It Break?

If your salon doubled tomorrow, would it actually feel easier? Or would the same problems simply get bigger? More revenue does not fix team drama. More clients do not fi