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You’re not “just” a hairdresser and this industry is anything but small.
Not Just a Hairdresser is a podcast about leadership, entrepreneurship, and resilience in the hair and beauty industry, an industry that’s been overlooked, underestimated, and blazing a trail for decades.
Hosted by Ally, founder of The Beauty Grail, the podcast features bold hair and beauty leaders who are building real careers and businesses from the ground up. Through raw conversations and real world experience, Ally uncovers what it actually takes to grow, scale, and succeed in an industry that doesn’t follow traditional rules.
If you’re ready to challenge the narrative, back yourself, and build something bigger than the chair, this podcast is for you.
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Three generations of hairdressers shaped Natalie Anne’s path. Weekends in her mum's salon. The smell of perm solution. The gossip. The glam. Hair chose her long before she chose it. She took the long road. An apprenticeship at Toni & Guy. Early assisting. Mentorship under strong, no-nonsense industry women. Then, like many ambitious 19-year-olds, she left too soon, started her own thing, and fell flat on her face. More than once. The reset came in her mum’s garage. That’s where she rebuil...
What happens when you stop shrinking your work down to “just hair” and start owning everything you really are? In this very first episode of Not Just a Hairdresser, Ally sits down with Kaine and Ayden Vakai, the co-founders behind House of Vakai, for a raw, funny, emotional, and deeply honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a career and a business in the hair industry. Kaine takes us all the way back to growing up in a hairdressing family, starting his apprenticeship at 14,...
You’re not “just” a hairdresser and this industry is anything but small. Not Just a Hairdresser is a podcast about leadership, entrepreneurship, and resilience in the hair and beauty industry, an industry that’s been overlooked, underestimated, and blazing a trail for decades. Hosted by Ally, founder of The Beauty Grail, the podcast features bold hair and beauty leaders who are building real careers and businesses from the ground up. Through raw conversations and real world experience, Ally...
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