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The Conscious Salon

Nicola and Tessa

177 episodes

5 days ago

Start strong, breathe deeper, and write the year you actually want to lead. This guided intention setting session with Tess is for salon owners and leaders who want less stress, stronger culture, and sustainable growth in 2026. Through calm structure and practical reflection, you will move from vague goals to clear leadership behaviours that shape how your salon feels, functions, and grows. In this episode, we guide you through: • A short breath practice to settle your nervous system • Defi...

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Entrepreneurship

Health & Fitness,

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Start strong, breathe deeper, and write the year you actually want to lead. This guided intention setting session with Tess is for salon owners and leaders who want less stress, stronger culture, and sustainable growth in 2026. Through calm structure and practical reflection, you will move from vague goals to clear leadership behaviours that shape how your salon feels, functions, and grows. In this episode, we guide you through: • A short breath practice to settle your nervous system • Defi...

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Entrepreneurship

Health & Fitness,

Episodes (20/177)

The Conscious Salon

Blueprint: How to get your word of the year for 2026

Start strong, breathe deeper, and write the year you actually want to lead. This guided intention setting session with Tess is for salon owners and leaders who want less stress, stronger culture, and sustainable growth in 2026. Through calm structure and practical reflection, you will move from vague goals to clear leadership behaviours that shape how your salon feels, functions, and grows. In this episode, we guide you through: • A short breath practice to settle your nervous system • Defi...

5 days ago

12 minutes

The Conscious Salon

Our Reflection Blueprint (steal this for your team!)

Ready to close 2025 with clarity rather than chaos? In this guided reflection, Tess leads salon owners and leaders through a calm, intentional review of the year that was so you can carry the right lessons forward and release what no longer fits. This episode is designed to help you slow down, breathe, and reflect honestly before stepping into 2026. In this reflection, we cover: • A short breathing practice to settle your nervous system • Key prompts to recognise what you are prou...

1 week ago

16 minutes

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"I became a salon owner at 17" with Karla Daddo

A 17-year-old with salon keys and no driver’s licence. Two decades later, Karla Daddo steps into a new season, trading a bustling team-based salon for DOYENNE., a luxury rental-chair space built to give freelancers real freedom, community, and profit. We dive deep into the moments that shaped her: early sabotage and isolation, the kitchen-table bookkeeping with her nan, the rebrand to BRONDE., and the powerful shift that happened when numbers finally told the truth. It’s raw, honest, a...

2 weeks ago

37 minutes

The Conscious Salon

Listen to this Christmas week in the salon

What if the busiest season in the salon could feel steadier, clearer, and more in your control? This solo pep talk is your calm reset for the Christmas rush. It gives you grounded tools you can use today to slow your breath, steady your energy, and lead your space with intention even when the salon is buzzing. ✨ Inside this episode: • A one minute breathing ritual to regulate your nervous system • Simple language swaps that strengthen leadership and boundaries • How to hold ...

3 weeks ago

19 minutes

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"I was going to sell my salon." with Dominique Molluso-Pigott

What happens when the dream you chased becomes the cage you’re stuck inside? Dom from NEIKE Hair joins us for a brutally honest ride from opening a salon at 22, to surviving lockdowns, to nearly selling everything when burnout and doubt took over. The twist: one hard conversation made her choose community over exit, and that choice reshaped everything. We dig into the early wins and hidden costs of being fully booked, how a scrappy pivot to tint kits and e‑commerce kept the lights on, and w...

1 month ago

39 minutes

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How to rebrand and reinvent your salon with Lauryn Mathrick

A tired but functioning salon is easy to tolerate. The real challenge is admitting it is not the business you truly want and having the courage to rebuild it into the space you imagine. In this episode, we sit down with our friend and client, Lauryn Matrick, to explore how she transformed an inherited and successful salon into Self The Salon, a place designed for deep client connection and a work environment where mums can thrive. Lauryn shares the twenty four hour crossroads that changed the...

1 month ago

39 minutes

The Conscious Salon

How becoming health obsessed changed our salon business

What happens when you treat your health with the same urgency you give a boardroom deadline? In this episode, we run a real-time experiment on discipline, systems, and self-trust — and the results surprised us. One of us jumps from an average of 874 steps a day to 10,000 plus structured strength training. The other reframes yoga and movement as daily anchors for a neurodivergent brain. The shift was undeniable: better thinking, stronger boundaries, and delegation that finally stuck because mo...

1 month ago

19 minutes

The Conscious Salon

Building Sakara Collective - with Tamsin Kirkus

A suitcase, $300, and a window out of a small coastal life — Tamsin’s story begins with a bold leap and unfolds into one of the most powerful salon journeys we’ve shared. We sit down with Tamsin, founder of Sakara Collective, to explore how a teenage dream became a decade-long vision of artistry, culture, and leadership. From leaving school at 15 to building one of Australia’s most beautiful salons, her story is raw, honest, and deeply human. Tamsin opens up about the highs and heartbreaks: a...

1 month ago

37 minutes

The Conscious Salon

Buying a commercial salon space - featuring Carla Crowley

What if the gap between where you are and where you want to be is simply how fast you act on what you already know? In this episode, we sit down with salon owner and mother of two, Carla Crowley, whose quiet fire turned a spare room in Gembrook into a thriving clinic, a trusted team, and now a commercial property that will become her forever business home. Her success didn’t come from hacks or luck, but from decisive action, self-awareness, and a money system that turned stress into structure...

2 months ago

31 minutes

The Conscious Salon

Why I sold my skin clinic - featuring Rache Mahon

In this powerful conversation, Rachel Mahon shares her courageous decision to sell her high-performing skin clinic after eleven years in business and begin a new venture with her daughter, Soul Society. This isn’t a burnout story or a highlight reel. It’s a grounded, human reflection on identity, leadership, and letting go with integrity. From journaling a truth she didn’t want to face, to safeguarding her culture through a values-aligned buyer, Rachel walks us through how she honoured her te...

2 months ago

35 minutes

The Conscious Salon

We put our Salon Manager in the hot seat

Freedom sounds amazing, until it bumps into your need to control every detail. In this episode, we sit down with Tae, our salon manager, to unpack how control quietly creeps into salon leadership, and what truly shifts when you replace micromanagement with trust. This isn’t theory, it’s lived experience. We get real about giving someone a title without real power, double-checking that crushed initiative, and the moment we realised our “supportive” words were actually restricting action. Tae s...

2 months ago

23 minutes

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What you need to know about Salon Team Development Days

What if the key to building a strong, connected salon team before the silly season isn’t another checklist but honesty, pressure, and celebration? In this episode, we take you behind the scenes of our Life Ahead Team Development Day: a mix of raw journaling, a horror-themed escape room, and a practical debrief on communication, roles, and trust. It was messy, emotional, and incredibly powerful. The biggest surprise? How clearly our team patterns showed up, and how small shifts in language and...

2 months ago

37 minutes

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How Jess Lewis went from a Home Salon to a Blonde Empire

The moment you meet Jess Lewis, you feel it: a rare mix of warmth, authenticity, and unstoppable drive that has made her a legend among millennial hairdressers across Australia. From humble beginnings in a home salon with her sister as an apprentice, Jess built one of the country’s most recognised blonde specialist salons, attracting clients who would travel hours for her craft. Her influence extends far beyond the salon chair. Jess pioneered live workshops that transformed the way stylists l...

2 months ago

49 minutes

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We have to answer each other HONESTLY! NO SMOKE AND MIRRORS

Ever felt like your brand looks like a swan gliding gracefully across the water, while underneath your legs are thrashing just to stay afloat? In this episode, we dive straight into the “smoke and mirrors” that so many salon and clinic owners face: the glossy grids, pedestal leaders, and feel-good routines that often hide shaky numbers, wobbly culture, and leadership habits we’d rather not admit. No shame. No spin. Just truth, clarity, and the real power that comes from facing what matters....

3 months ago

20 minutes

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Tess' Truth: An Abusive Relationship

In this vulnerable episode, Tess shares her story of a past relationship that left deep emotional scars, and the strength it took to walk away. She reflects on how grief made her more vulnerable, how the red flags were easy to dismiss, and the pivotal moment that gave her the courage to finally choose herself. Seven years on, Tess speaks with honesty about the lingering impact of shame and self-doubt, while also showing how her healing has given her a renewed sense of purpose. She opens up ab...

3 months ago

27 minutes

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Listen to this when a team member resigns (pep talk)

That gut-wrenching moment when a team member resigns. We have all been there. The sinking feeling, the self-doubt, the questions about what this means for your business. You are not alone, and you do not have to navigate it from a place of panic. In this episode, we offer your emergency pep talk for when a resignation lands on your desk. We share our own vulnerable mistakes (yes, even the tearful clinging!) and the lessons that helped us shift from taking resignations personally to seeing the...

3 months ago

18 minutes

The Conscious Salon

The Queen of Blondes: Amelia Jane's Journey from Home Salon to Empire

In this riveting conversation, Amelia Jane—known as Australia's Queen of Blondes—reveals the extraordinary journey behind her meteoric rise in the hair industry. What begins as a shocking revelation (she actually abandoned hairdressing for six years and once hated colouring hair) unfolds into a masterclass on resilience, reinvention, and authentic entrepreneurship. Four years ago, Amelia launched Milly the Space, naming it after her grandmother's nickname for her. With raw honesty, she recoun...

3 months ago

49 minutes

The Conscious Salon

The Conscious Motherhood Experience - Tess' story

In this final episode of our Motherhood Series on The Conscious Salon Podcast, we close out with a deeply personal conversation as I (Nicola) interview my sister and co-host, Tessa. This time, Tess takes the hot seat as she shares her journey into motherhood, her experience of maternity leave, and the lessons she has learned about balance, presence, and control while running two thriving businesses. Tess is a business owner, mentor, stepmother, dog-mum, partner, and now mother to her little b...

4 months ago

21 minutes

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I prioritised my salon over my baby

In this episode of The Conscious Salon Podcast, we continue our Motherhood Series with a very special conversation that turns the microphone onto one of our own. I sit down with my sister and co-host, Nicola Pollock, to unpack her deeply personal journey into motherhood while simultaneously running a salon during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nicola shares what it was like to give birth in 2020, a time of strict lockdowns, curfews, and immense uncertainty. From the surreal experience o...

4 months ago

26 minutes

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Business Dot Motherhood with Tegan Mac

In this episode of the Conscious Salon Podcast, we welcome Tegan Mac, a leader in the beauty industry, to discuss her journey through balancing a thriving business and motherhood. Tegan shares her personal experiences of pregnancy loss, the transition into motherhood, and how it has shaped her leadership style. The episode also explores the importance of authenticity in the beauty profession and provides a heartfelt glimpse into the emotional and practical challenges of merging bu...

4 months ago

49 minutes