Jason Everett, Kayla Swanson
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Salon leadership coaching with profit in view.
Profitable Salon Owner Podcast is a brisk coaching show for commission salon owners trying to build stronger teams and healthier businesses. Kayla Swanson leads practical conversations on recruiting, compensation, accountability, expansion, self-care, and the mindset work behind better leadership.
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Profitable Salon Owner Podcast is a business-coaching show for commission salon owners who want their companies to run with clearer standards, stronger teams, and more profit. It is practical first. Kayla Swanson frames each conversation around a problem that sounds familiar on a salon floor: staff not listening, team members avoiding responsibility, owners struggling to delegate, or leaders wondering how to pay fairly for work that does not happen behind the chair. The show has a brisk, conversational pace, but it does not rush past the details. Ideas get repeated, reframed, and translated into everyday examples until the business lesson feels close enough to use. Recent episodes show a clear emphasis on leadership behavior. Jason Everett’s appearances focus on accountability, compensation, staff ownership, and the physical and emotional steadiness required from a leader. His tone can be blunt, but the function is practical: vague frustration gets converted into expectations, incentives, and responsibility. Team culture is another major lane. Stephanie Fox’s conversation looks at recruiting people who believe in the salon’s mission while still recognizing that employees have lives outside the business. Mandy McCullough brings a different angle, treating celebration as part of training rather than a decorative morale boost. Her episode argues for noticing small wins, measuring progress individually, and building a culture that keeps people moving. The show also makes room for the internal side of ownership. Carla Unger’s return visit moves from EFT tapping into beliefs, energy, and the way owners carry themselves around staff and clients. Leah Hakeem’s episode on multiple locations brings the expansion question down to risk, support, facts, and not growing from ego. Mandy Pulse’s story adds a personal thread, connecting passion outside the salon to resilience during hard seasons. Across these conversations, the show keeps one foot in business mechanics and one foot in owner mindset. It is not a polished lecture series. It feels more like guided shop talk with people who have lived through hiring, training, walkouts, expansion, burnout, and the awkward middle ground between wanting a supportive team and needing a profitable company. Sponsor reads appear often, and the format regularly points back toward High Performance Salon Academy resources. Still, the core appeal is the salon-specific coaching. The show knows the difference between generic small-business advice and the real friction of stylists, schedules, clients, commissions, culture, and owners who still have to lead when the day gets messy.
Made for: Commission salon owners, salon managers, and beauty-industry leaders who need practical help with team performance, compensation, training, culture, and expansion. It especially suits owners who want direct coaching that stays close to salon-floor reality.
What sets it apart: The show keeps generic business advice out of the clouds by tying leadership concepts to salons, stylists, service work, guests, schedules, and owner behavior. Its best moments turn messy staff problems into language an owner can actually use with a team.
Listen here with Kayla Swanson and leading industry experts to keep you in-the-know and up-to-date on the latest for the salon industry! If you feel that your current business model is not working for you and hasn't changed in the last two years or for two decades, we're here to show you the light! Profitable Salon Owner Podcast helps commission salon owners grow their business, profits and an amazing team! High Performance Salon Academy has helped hundreds of salons and thousands of stylists grow their personal income and find their passion for the industry once again. Their infectious high energy...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A practical salon owner show about growth, team leadership, training, and profit that stays close to the business floor.
Profitable Salon Owner Podcast is built for the daily pressure of running a salon, not for vague business inspiration. Kayla Swanson keeps the guest conversations close to ownership: hiring, training, listening to staff, keeping people supported, and figuring out what leadership…
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A salon mindset conversation that links self-belief and energy to practical self-awareness.
Kayla Swanson and Carla Unger shape a salon-centered conversation about the limits that can sit beneath technique, training, and routine. It moves from EFT tapping into the quieter work of self-talk and self-belief, showing how those habits can affect the way people show up with…
A steady leader makes it easier for the team to hear, trust, and act.
This episode stays focused on a familiar leadership problem: how a salon leader gets a team to hear instruction and then act on it. It keeps returning to three basics, physical, emotional, and relational self-management, and that gives the argument some practical weight.
A practical salon-team discussion about fit, retention, and culture that clients can feel.
This episode is about building a salon team around mission fit, high standards, and steady recruiting. Stephanie Fox keeps the focus on treating staff as people, not placeholders, and the link to client experience stays clear: if the team believes in the brand, it shows.
A steady case for using small wins to shape training and healthier team culture.
Celebration is treated less as a feel-good bonus and more as a practical management habit, which gives the conversation its center of gravity.
A grounded look at salon expansion, with support, judgment, and a clear warning against ego.
This discussion offers a practical look at multi-location growth, with useful attention on what it takes to handle a second, third, or fourth location well.
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Salon success starts under the haircut.
Kayla Swanson opens by asking how to get a team to finally listen.
Kayla sits down with Stephanie Fox to talk about what it really takes to build a dream team in a salon.
Kayla Swanson opens the episode with a clear thesis: celebrate to accelerate.
Kayla Swanson talks with Leah Hakeem about what it takes to run more than one salon location.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how to compensate salon staff for non-service tasks and motivate them to take on additional responsibilities.
Host Kayla Swanson interviews salon owner Mandy Pulse about finding passion in life and business, sharing her 25-year career journey and passion project.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how salon owners can train their staff to solve problems independently and take responsibility.
Kayla Swanson interviews Lindsay Compton about building effective leadership teams in salons, distinguishing them from managers.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how AI can be used as a thinking partner to enhance salon business operations and eliminate certain jobs.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss implementing a 'code of honor' system to improve team culture and solve problems in salons.
Kayla Swanson interviews salon owner Danielle Cherwick about helping staff become high-performing service providers and achieve six-figure incomes.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how to become the highest performing salon by focusing on continuous improvement and getting the best out of your team.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss common gift card mistakes salon owners make and how to use them profitably.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how salon owners' perspectives on others affect their business mindset and success.
Kayla Swanson interviews salon owner Shelby Bills on how to create a five-star guest experience beyond technical service.
Salon owner Kayla Swanson interviews mentor Danielle Cherwick about strategies for making a profit in the salon industry.
This episode discusses how salon owners can help their stylists use ChatGPT to advance their careers and improve business operations.
This episode discusses how salon owners can strategically price their services for profitability and effectively communicate price increases to clients.
Kayla Swanson and Jason discuss three ways salon hiring has changed in 2025 and how salon owners can adapt.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how to create six-figure service providers in the salon industry, based on a new collaborative book.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Effort discuss strategies to avoid burnout from creating social media content for salon businesses.
This episode discusses six strategies for salon owners to survive and thrive in 2025, focusing on avoiding industry hype and preparing for economic challenges.
Kayla Swanson interviews salon owner Angie Lorenz about turning her business from loss to 19% profit in nine months.
Kayla Swanson and Leah Freeman discuss how to bring quality back into salon services and improve the client experience.
An interview with salon owner Danielle Cherwick about retail and expansion strategies for salon businesses.
This episode features salon owner Leah Freeman discussing how excessive inventory costs salons money and sharing her experience managing multiple businesses in the beauty industry.
This episode features an interview with Alisa Rogers about implementing an effective associate program for training new hires in a salon setting.
Kayla Swanson and Jason Everett discuss how salon owners can correctly use AI to improve their business operations and stay competitive.
Kayla Swanson interviews Alicia Soulear about turning the back bar into a profit center for salons.