The Modern Hairstylist ™ Podcast

In this episode of The Modern Hairstylist Podcast, Hunter Donia and Jodie Brown get into something Hunter has observed consistently across his own career and with every six figure stylist inside Mastermind: once you hit 100K behind the chair, the game changes completely. The strategies, the mindset, the client relationships, and the way you think about your time all need a significant overhaul, and if you do not make those shifts, you will not just plateau. You will start to go backwards. Thi...

In this episode of The Modern Hairstylist Podcast, Hunter Donia and Jodie Brown get into one of Hunter's most deeply held beliefs: your time is one of your most valuable business resources, and at a certain level of success, how you are spending it is either compounding your growth or quietly capping it. Hunter is direct that this episode is particularly relevant once you have hit the 75K to 100K mark in your business. Because at that point, the things that got you here, doing everything your...

In this episode of The Modern Hairstylist Podcast, Hunter Donia and Jodie Brown break down the client experience framework that Hunter has been building, refining, and implementing with his Mastermind and Modern Stylist Movement students for years, and what it looks like now that AI has taken it to a level that was not possible before. Hunter is clear from the jump: client experience is not just a nice to have. It is the foundation that everything else in your business is built on. Your marke...

In this episode of The Modern Hairstylist Podcast, Hunter Donia and Jodie Brown dig into a concept Hunter has been teaching since the very beginning of his career as an educator: how to use automation and technology not to replace the human touch in your business, but to amplify it. This episode sets the stage for a deeper dive into specific examples coming in the next episode, and it makes the case for why embracing AI is not a luxury for the modern stylist. It is a competitive necessity. Hu...

In this episode of The Modern Hairstylist Podcast, Hunter Donia and Jodie Brown get into one of the most common and costly gaps Hunter is seeing with the salon owners he works with inside Mastermind: a lack of a clear, fair, and measurable growth path for the stylists on their team. Hunter pulls directly from real conversations he has been having with new Mastermind members to break down what a growth plan actually needs to look like, which KPIs actually matter, and why getting this right is ...