Salon Owners Collective

A second salon might actually make you less money and cost you more time. If one is on your vision board, listen to this before you take the leap. Larissa Macleman, Founder of Salon Owners Collective, and Joel Bouzaid, SOC’s Boardroom Coach, get real about what it takes to buy or open a second salon. Larissa shares what happened when she opened her second business, and the risks of chasing more pr...

You either love Christmas in a salon, or you hate it. Most Salon CEOs feel both. With six weeks to go, this is the moment to decide how December is going to go, before it just arrives. Larissa Macleman, Founder of Salon Owners Collective, and Joel Bouzaid, SOC's Boardroom Coach, unpack the five things every Salon CEO needs to get ahead of before Christmas: your team, your book, the money, January,...

You walk into your salon every day. Which is exactly why you can't see what your clients and team feel the moment they walk in. After Joel walked into a salon last week to pick up a gift, he and Larissa came straight back to the media room to share the changes they'd make if they walked into your salon tomorrow. Episode Overview: Not new strategies. Not new clients. Larissa Macleman, Founder, and...

You make the money. You pay the bills. And you still can't sleep on payday. Straight out of her monthly profit workshop inside Salon Mastery, Larissa Macleman, Founder of Salon Owners Collective, walks you through the money principles that take a Salon CEO from running on luck to running on a system. Most salon owners aren't paying themselves correctly, which means the profit they think they're ma...

You finally have a great month. And then, somehow, you find a way to wreck it. Recorded at the bar in Bali the day after the Turning Pro intensive, Larissa Macleman, Founder of Salon Owners Collective, and Joel, SOC's Boardroom Coach, unpack what happened when 40 Salon CEOs decided to stop living with their amateur habits. Episode Overview: Turning pro isn't a course, a certification, or a revenue...

You didn't achieve anything today. And it wasn't because you didn't work hard enough. In this episode, recorded poolside in Bali just hours before Larissa switched off for a week, she breaks down why overwhelm isn't a productivity problem at all, and gives you the exact system to fix it. Overview: Every salon owner has three types of work sitting on her plate, and most of them can't tell the diffe...

54% of salons aren't going to make it to 2030. That's the number Larissa and Joel landed on when they ran the research. In this episode, recorded poolside in Bali during their annual Salon Mastery intensive, they break down exactly why, and what separates the salons that will survive from the ones that won't. Episode Overview: Six years on from COVID, the economics of running a salon have shifted...

You don't get in life what you want. You get in life who you are. And if that's true - and we believe it is - then the question isn't "What strategies should I implement?" or "What systems should I build?" The question is: Who am I? Not as a person. As a leader . As the person running your salon every single day. Most salon owners never answer that. And the cost is massive. Episode Overview: In th...

Your manager isn't the problem. The relationship structure is. In this episode, Larissa and Joel break down the exact framework, the Triple T, that transforms the owner-manager dynamic. If you're still doing your manager's job while she "isn't stepping up," this episode reveals what's actually happening and how to fix it in days, not months.   EPISODE OVERVIEW: You'll discover why your manage...

Your bank account is nearly empty. Your revenue looked solid. Your team showed up. It doesn't compute. But here's what I know: the money isn't gone. It's in your salon right now. It's just in the wrong place.   In this episode, I'm walking you through where hidden cash lives in your salon, why knowing one specific number changes everything about how you manage your business, and the framework...

The Five Meetings Your Salon Actually Needs You've sat down to run a team meeting. You've talked about goals. Everyone nodded. And then nothing changed. So you stopped doing them. Larissa Macleman - founder of Salon Owners Collective, 20-year salon owner - sits down with Janine from Hair and Barber, and Colour Bar Manager. They've known each other since they were both baby salon owners trying to f...

You've hired the right people. You've trained them. And somehow they're still performing at 60% of what's possible. The trap? If you're still the most important person in your business, you're not building a business-you're building a job you can never leave. In this episode, Larissa reveals why team underperformance isn't a motivation problem-it's a visibility problem. And she shares the exact ni...

The One Number That Ends the Payday Panic Six times a year, Larissa Macleman was convinced her salon wasn't going to make it. Bad week. Team off sick. Clients cancelling. Every single time, she panicked. And every single time, when June rolled around, she'd made her goal. In this episode, Larissa Macleman, founder of Salon Owners Collective, breaks down the number that ended the panic for good, th...

The Answers Come in the Gap You know that moment. You're not trying to solve anything. You're in the shower, or you're swimming in the pool, and suddenly the answer is there. Clear. Simple. The thing you've been chasing for weeks. Most salon owners never get to that moment. They take holidays and bring the laptop. They step away and they're still checking emails. So their brain never actually stop...

The $48 Gap Between You and a Million Dollar Salon A million dollars in revenue. You've said the number. You've thought about it on a Sunday night. And then Monday hits, and it feels further away than ever. It's not. And in this episode, Larissa Macleman, founder of Salon Owners Collective and Salon Mastery, and Joel Bouzaid, Boardroom and Leadership Coach, sit down in Thailand and do the actual m...

The AI Mistake Quietly Costing You Clients Every salon owner has access to the exact same AI tools right now. And most of them are using them the exact same way, which means most of them are starting to sound exactly the same. In this episode, Larissa Macleman and Joel Bouzaid of Salon Owners Collective, sit down to unpack the three biggest AI mistakes they're seeing salon owners make right now. T...

The Real Reason Your Best People Keep Leaving You've raised your prices. Possibly more than once. And yet the book still has white space, the roster still feels gappy, and you're left wondering if the market has genuinely turned against you. It hasn't. Something else has shifted, and most salon owners are only seeing one piece of it. In this episode, Larissa Macleman, founder of Salon Owners Colle...

Are you leading your team into the next level, or waiting for them to find it on their own? This is where so many Salon CEOs get stuck: You hire the team. You train the team. You pay the wages. You carry the emotional load. Then you quietly wonder why they are not stepping up, rebooking properly, lifting their column, or acting like the business matters. The gap is not always skill. The gap is lea...

The Final Four (and a Half) Lessons - Continuation of the 500th Episode Ten years. Five hundred episodes. And the same handful of sentences Larissa and Joel still say more than anything else. Last week, on the 500th episode, they got through the first five (and a half). This week, they're finishing the job with the final four and a half truths that have carried Salon Owners Collective from a handf...

The 9 Things We've Said Every Single Week for 10 Years   500 episodes. Ten years. And the only way to mark that is with the truths that made it possible.   This isn't a highlight reel. Larissa Macleman and Joel Bouzaid, founders of Salon Owners Collective, sat down for the 500th episode and did something far more useful than looking back. They looked inward. They asked: what are the nine...

If your salon doubled tomorrow, would it actually feel easier? Or would the same problems simply get bigger? More revenue does not fix team drama. More clients do not fix retention. More growth does not fix a salon built around one person. In this episode, Larissa Macleman is talking about the part most Salon CEOs skip before they chase the next level. Because the goal is not a bigger business tha...

One salon works. So two must mean double the profit… right? Not always. A second location can grow your brand, your team and your opportunities. But it can also expose every weak spot in your systems, leadership and margins. In this episode, Larissa Macleman is joined by Sophie Anquetil, a Salon Mastery coach, to unpack what really happens when you make the move from one successful salon to two. B...

Your salon does not need more hours of you. In this episode, Larissa shares the 3 queen moves that help you step into the Salon CEO role, so you can build the right business structure and grow a salon that no longer depends on you holding everything together. If you have built the team, grown the clientele and done the hard yards, but your salon still depends on you to hold everything together- th...

For the first time ever, Larissa Macleman is sharing the founder story behind opening her salon at 20 years old  - and the hard lesson that changed the way she saw salon growth forever. She was the best stylist in the salon. Fully booked. Highest revenue column. Working harder than everyone else. And somehow… she was taking home the least. In this episode, Larissa opens up about the moment she rea...

Right now, the salons that are pulling ahead aren't doing more. They're doing different .  3 things, specifically. Most owners know about them. Very few will actually do them In this episode, we unpack the 3 behaviours most Salon CEOs probably won’t do, and why those behaviours matter if you want a salon that keeps growing while others pull back. This is not about adding more chaos. It is about in...