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What's Next for Strategies: A Fresh Start

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“Get off the freaking sideline” and try a different way to run the company.

Robert opens with a plainspoken note about the audio imperfections and says the team kept them because the conversation mattered more than polish. He welcomes Barbara and Brett Pierce and frames the discussion as a look at what the next era of Strategies really looks like. The interview centers on a brand that has gone through a year of new leadership and renewed energy. Its purpose stays the same: helping beauty business owners build profitable, people first companies that actually last. Robert starts at the beginning and asks about the path they chose in business. The answer comes back to a team first philosophy that leans on Dennis Gullo’s reminder that going far means going with a team. That idea shapes the rest of the conversation. Strategies is looking for people who can keep learning, stay in the work, and avoid burnout. The goal is not speed alone. It is service, consistency, and a group that can keep showing up for customers. Robert names the company’s long running foundations as poor business outcomes, team based pay, and no compromise leadership. Barbara and Brett treat those as cornerstones rather than things to rewrite. What changes is the way those ideas are taught. The discussion moves into the role of the education directors and the creative work behind the shift. Strategies Academy is part of that shift. So are the in person classes, which now lean more heavily into doing, collaborating, and learning by hand. The point is to make the learning richer. They want the education to build community instead of just delivering information. That matters because the beauty industry has felt a little splintered. The conversation keeps coming back to the idea of knitting people back together. Robert and the guests also talk about how the team itself keeps evolving and finding new ways to teach. By the close, the episode feels like a practical reset. Strategies is trying to protect what has always worked while changing how it reaches the people who need it most.

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A clear look at Strategies updating its teaching without losing its core.

Strategies treats this episode as a reset, but not a reinvention. Barbara and Brett Pierce join Robert Miraglia to discuss new leadership, a bit of new energy, and the same core aim: helping beauty business owners build profitable companies that still put people first.

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