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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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At 21, Leticia Prado arrived in Australia with just $600, a suitcase full of keratin treatments, and a determination to build a better life for herself and her mum. Within 24 hours of landing, she'd booked her first client through a Brazilian Facebook group. Before long, she was washing clients' hair in her apartment bathtub and running a fully booked home salon. In this episode, Ally sits down with Leticia, founder of BKT (Beauty Keeps Transforming), to unpack the journey from home salon to ...
After 10 years behind the chair, Mackenzie Hayward was tired of balancing bowls, bottles and brushes while delivering premium colour services. She searched for a tool that would make life easier for hairdressers working solo. When she couldn't find one, she decided to build it herself. It wasn't an overnight success. The journey involved years of prototyping, countless manufacturer rejections, rebuilding her confidence after a major weight loss journey, and learning how to step out from behi...
Sheridan Rose Shaw left school at 14 and found her way into hairdressing after struggling to fit into traditional education. What followed was far from a straight line. Over the next decade, she experienced career highs and personal lows, including addiction, homelessness, recovery, and the challenge of rebuilding her life from the ground up. In this episode, Ally sits down with the founder of MAMAWEST to discuss the experiences that shaped her, the lessons learned through 13 years of sobriet...
Kirsty-Anne Sage comes from a long line of hairdressers. Her nan. Her auntie. And a school system that quickly realised traditional learning wasn’t going to be her path. With what she calls “crippling ADHD” and a deeply visual brain, she was sent to TAFE to try hairdressing. It clicked instantly. By second year, she was running a salon alone after the owner fell ill. Signed off early. Thrown in the deep end. From there it was two years here, two years there. Renting a chair. Opening a salon. ...
Dom Pelli was born into hair. Not metaphorically. Literally. His grandfather opened a barbershop in Western Sydney after migrating from Italy. His father followed. So did the rest of the family. Hair wasn’t just a career path, it was the language spoken at the dinner table. At 16, after being told school wasn’t where his future lied, Dom left and stepped straight into an apprenticeship. But instead of entering the world of Celebrity Syling, his career started behind a barber chair. For five y...
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