Is selling your clients sleazy? Or is giving them away for FREE even dumber?

Michelle & Chrissy from 👉Beauty Pros Exchange <---yes click here! the first online marketplace for independent beauty professionals - join Paula and Chrissy to blow up the industry's dirtiest secret: your client list is your biggest asset and you should be cashing out on it.

If you've ever had to rebuild your clientele after moving from Dallas to Seattle, got stuck discounting with Groupon, or got a fake 1-star Yelp review from your ex-husband named Brian... this one's for you.

IN THIS RAW EPISODE, WE GET INTO:

• How to sell your clientele and why every independent hairstylist, booth renter, and salon owner needs an exit plan
• Why Groupon is the devil and the 4-letter word that keeps you stuck at $85 for a partial while your suite mate charges $300
• The difference between selling PEOPLE vs. selling contact info to a vetted pro you trust
• How to buy a ready-made clientele instead of starting from scratch when you relocate
• Why Google and Yelp reviews are dead and what clients actually look at now
• The real cost of giving your book away for free: "No skin in the game, just fucking give it to me"
• How to stop discounting your work - because if you discount your work, you DO discounted work

Beauty Pros Exchange is hairstylists helping hairstylists. No handouts, just a hand up to finally monetize your book on the way out and help another beauty pro grow fast.

Stop begging for referrals. Stop living on Groupon. Start banking on your book.

GUESTS: Michelle & Chrissy from Beauty Pros Exchange Follow them om insta @beautyprosexchange/

HOSTS: Jason & Paula from Shit I Told My Hairdresser

👉 LEARN MORE: Beauty Pros Exchange - link in show notes + on our Instagram @shititoldmyhairdresser

Got shit to tell your hairdresser? Email us: info@shititoldmyhairdresser.com

Website: shititoldmyhairdresser.com

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Jason Townsend and Paula Dahlberg pull back the curtain on the beauty industry with unfiltered conversations about salon culture, hairstylist life, toxic work environments, nightmare clients, celebrity encounters, relationships, burnout, and the chaos that happens behind the chair.

From hilarious salon horror stories to serious conversations about identity, mental health, beauty standards, and industry politics, Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser says the quiet parts out loud with raw honesty, dark humor, and zero filter.

New episodes weekly featuring hairstylists, salon owners, beauty insiders, celebrities, and real stories the industry usually keeps behind closed doors.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is professional bleach at TJ Maxx the new normal?!

This week on Shit I Told My Hairdresser, we're diving into TWO things pissing off hairdressers everywhere.

First up - THE DIVERSION SCANDAL. Stylists are finding Wella Blondor and other pro-only lightener at TJ Maxx from LA to North Carolina. We brought in diversion expert Elyse aka @eleserocks to break it down: Is that viral video real or fake? Did Wella change the Blondor formula with new metal chelators? Why is professional color being diverted to discount stores like TJ Maxx and Nordstrom Rack? And why are hair brands using us to build hype then dumping product?

Then - PAULA'S BEAUTY SCHOOL VISIT FROM HELL. Paula went to a cosmetology school and has... thoughts. We get into the uncomfortable truth about beauty school fundraising, where that $20k+ tuition really goes, why students with no money are being asked to fundraise, and that $300k educator travel budget. If you're thinking about cosmetology school or you went to beauty school, you need to hear this.

We talk:

• Wella Blondor diversion at TJ Maxx & Nordstrom Rack explained
• Professional product diversion: how brands divert pro hair products
• Is the viral TJ Maxx bleach video real?
• Beauty school / cosmetology school red flags
• Beauty School fundraising and student experience
• Why the hair industry is built on word of mouth but brands aren't giving back

GUEST: Elyse - @eleserocks on Instagram

This is a must-listen for hairstylists, cosmetologists, beauty school students, salon owners, and anyone sick of professional-only products showing up at discount stores.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Professional bleach at TJ Maxx? WTF

01:00 - Welcome to Shit I Told My Hairdresser

03:00 - The Wella Blondor diversion drama with Elyse

20:00 - Nordstrom Rack, Bed Head, and 20 years of diversion

30:00 - Paula's cosmetology school visit

58:00 - Dirty Shitology: Are beauty schools scamming students?

Tell 10 friends you love and 20 you hate. And stay shitty.

Jason Townsend and Paula Dahlberg pull back the curtain on the beauty industry with unfiltered conversations about salon culture, hairstylist life, toxic work environments, nightmare clients, celebrity encounters, relationships, burnout, and the chaos that happens behind the chair.

From hilarious salon horror stories to serious conversations about identity, mental health, beauty standards, and industry politics, Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser says the quiet parts out loud with raw honesty, dark humor, and zero filter.

New episodes weekly featuring hairstylists, salon owners, beauty insiders, celebrities, and real stories the industry usually keeps behind closed doors.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your salon booking system is scamming you.

On this episode of Shit I Told My Hairdresser, Jason and Paula sit down with Om, founder of Prexi the brand new salon booking app built ONLY for licensed professionals.

We’ve all been there. Your booking system does half the job, you spend more time FIXING what clients booked than actually booking them, and when you call for help they send you to a forum full of pissed off hairdressers. Sound familiar, Avenue? Boulevard? Whatever.

Om did the research on 40+ booking platforms and discovered the dirtiest secret in the beauty industry: You can become a licensed cosmetologist, esthetician, barber, and hairdresser in 60 SECONDS without touching hair or showing a license. No license verification. No accountability. Just profits.

This is why we needed Prexi

HELP BUILD PREXI !

Contact Om via the link Om@theprexi.com. Or on Instagram @helloPrexi Tell him what you want to see. This is our chance to have a booking system run by hairdressers, for hairdressers.

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Jason Townsend and Paula Dahlberg pull back the curtain on the beauty industry with unfiltered conversations about salon culture, hairstylist life, toxic work environments, nightmare clients, celebrity encounters, relationships, burnout, and the chaos that happens behind the chair.

From hilarious salon horror stories to serious conversations about identity, mental health, beauty standards, and industry politics, Sh!t I Told My Hairdresser says the quiet parts out loud with raw honesty, dark humor, and zero filter.

New episodes weekly featuring hairstylists, salon owners, beauty insiders, celebrities, and real stories the industry usually keeps behind closed doors.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.