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If you worked for another company and every single year you worked harder, took on more responsibility, and never once received a pay raise, you would quit.

So why are we doing it to ourselves?

This is the final episode of the 2025/26 financial year, and I am not sending you into the new year with another motivational pep talk. I am giving you five habits that will actually change how the next twelve months feel: in your bank account, in your calendar, and in your body.

Because if another financial year passes and you are still overwhelmed, underpaid, and running your business from memory, the problem is not your revenue. It is your habits.

→ Habit 1: How to review your numbers weekly and set aside GST, tax, super, and leave before you spend what is not yours
→ Why "save 20% for tax" is dangerous advice and how to calculate the right percentage for your structure
→ What Payday Super starting 1 July 2026 actually means for your cashflow
→ Why leave entitlements quietly cripple businesses that are not preparing for them every single payroll run
→ Habit 2: How to give yourself a proper pay raise and why being the last person paid in your own business leads to burnout
→ Habit 3: The weekly saving method that means Christmas, equipment upgrades, and team events are never a financial emergency
→ Habit 4: The Sunday CEO reset that took me from reactive and overwhelmed to clear, intentional, and in control
→ Habit 5: Why time management is not your problem, and what self-management actually looks like using ClickUp and Google Calendar
→ Why your brain is for creating ideas, not storing them, and how to build the system that finally gets things done

You do not need a new business. You probably just need new habits.
If you know another business owner who is constantly overwhelmed, underpaid, or carrying their entire business around in their head, send this episode to them.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:
→ Profitable Pricing Calculator: https://beautyindustryleaders.com.au/profitable-pricing-calculator
→ Breakeven Cost Calculator: https://beautyindustryleaders.com.au/breakeven-cost-calculator
→ ATO Industry Benchmarks: https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/income-deductions-and-concessions/small-business-benchmarks/in-detail/beauty-services

Connect with me and join the Beauty Industry Leaders movement:
→ https://www.instagram.com/sammykennedycoach/
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→ https://beautyindustryleaders.com.au/

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