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Send us Fan Mail Post Partum Hairloss ~ Navigating your body's changes.  Jennifer Walderdorff Is the founder of Look at the Labels, a sustainable fashion style consultancy. Jennifer has a background in merchandise financial planning. she loves numbers and fashion. She saw consumerism beginning to shape the nation, and began to embrace sustainable fashion before it was popular! Jennifer suffer...

Send us Fan Mail Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia ~ is it becoming an epidemic?  Dr Archana Rao is the educational lead for the British Hair & Nails society, along with running a hair loss clinic in Kingston Hospital and a dermatologist and hair loss specialist.  We discuss the latest progress and treatment around FFA, as well as current guidelines and why we may be seeing this condition more often!...

Send us Fan Mail Season 9 Break Another season finished! Thankyou so much for supporting the show! Please take a minute to rate, review & subscribe/ follow the podcast, and share it with anyone you  think would like it.  There have been tons of great guests, so please take this time to go back over the previous episodes to catch any that you may have missed. We will be back soon with some more...

Send us Fan Mail Get off the tools ~ How to grow your business and get out of your comfort zone!  Katie Godfrey is a salon owner, educator, product developer, business strategist and author.  She left school at the age of 13 with no qualifications, after being bullied. She studied beauty at college and ended up opening a business at just 19 with a loan and no experience! Katie has built her brand...

Send us Fan Mail Shit I told my hairdresser  Jason Townsend from Seattle, & Jack Abernathy from Denver have been in the hair industry for over 30 years. They met working at Toni & Guy, and have worked in LA, where they have hosted some legendary celebrity clients. They have hundreds of crazy stories that they share on their podcast every week, telling tales that can only happen in LA. Some...

Send us Fan Mail Building a Freelance Business ~ How to charge your worth Ruth Lundstrom has been in the hair industry for over 20 years. After working in a salon and not enjoying the culture, she decided to go freelance and set up her own business. She struggled with not being allowed to work in lockdown and wanted to find a way to earn money, She began to go live on Instagram and share education...

Send us Fan Mail Stress & Hair Loss ~ Retraining your brain to reduce cortisol  Keira Smith is a solution-based hypnotherapist. She used to be a personal trainer and yoga teacher, but she found this stressful and ended up developing unhelpful coping mechanisms. She then found hypnotherapy and discovered it was a way to help people reduce stress and anxiety. She could help them deal with stress...

Send us Fan Mail College or Apprenticeship training? ~ The future of Hairdressing Education  Mariana began her hairdressing education as a mature student of 25. After qualifying, she was keen to become an educator, and now teaches level 2 & 3 hairdressing at North Kent College. She wants to instil a passion for the industry into her students. She shares how the Lee Stafford academy approach wi...

Send us Fan Mail Reverie ~ Clean, ethical sustainable products for the future of haircare.  Hillary Markenson has a background in Interior design. Her husband created the haircare brand Reverie, whilst working in his Salon, and she made the move to join the brand and learn all about hair. The aim was to create clean, sustainable, ethical products with innovative concepts & formulations. They e...

Send us Fan Mail Living and working with trichotillomania ~ from hairdresser and client perspective  Sarah & Liz: Sarah Sullivan is a hairdresser & educator. She trained in extensions, which led her to train in hair systems and wigs. This then inspired her to further train in trichology, and she now runs a private hair salon and separate air loss clinic.  Liz has had trichotillomania since...

Send us Fan Mail Travelling to Turkey for a hair transplant ~ is it the answer?  Dr Anthony Bared has a background in plastic surgery, with over 15 years as a surgeon. He trained as a head & neck surgeon and now also specialises in hair restoration. He concentrates on just these few areas, so that he can develop and perfect his craft. Dr Bared stresses the importance of communication to manage...

Send us Fan Mail Supporting women in the hair industry Kat McEwan is 37, a hairdresser of over 20 years, who is now a coach who focuses on supporting working women and working mothers. She suffered with postpartum depression & found it really difficult to get help, and to try to balance work and motherhood. We also discuss the pitfalls of hidden employment. She has been a single parent herself...

Send us Fan Mail What is PRP and can it be effective in treating hair loss?  Ruth Collis is a clinical trichologist who began hairdressing at the age of 14. She followed a few different career paths, but was always drawn back to hair. She also has her own experience of hair loss, which led to her researching the causes and factors related to hair health, and becoming interested in trichology. She...

Send us Fan Mail The Good Hair Tribe ~ Could Hair Coaching be for you?  Atilola Moronfolu is a Certified Trichologist & a Cosmetic Scientist, After developing hair products, she wanted more knowledge to be able to help people with hair & scalp concerns. After completing her Trichology training in 2014, she set up a hair clinic and also developed a love for teachign & education, sharing...

Send us Fan Mail The importance of skin testing & the consequences Adam Haste is a specialist insurance broker, who has been in the industry for over 24 years. He works with very large companies with huge turnovers and high service expectations. After helping a large number of salons gain payouts for loss of earnings during COVID, he began to work with Sentio salons to build more sector specif...

Send us Fan Mail Lichen Planopilaris ~ Living with cicatricial alopecia Rebecca is a third generation nurse, who works in mental health nursing with young people, offering trauma therapy. She also has an interest in crime and forensics. Two years ago her hairdresser noticed a couple of small bald spots, She recommended a hair loss shampoo which triggered a huge allergic reaction, resulting in pain...

Send us Fan Mail Anorexia, eating disorders & hair loss Dr Laura is a GP in Leeds, and also has a focus on functional medicine. She says sometimes she feels rushed and struggles to build the relationship with patients that she would like to have. She has to focus on time critical conditions rather than those who may be seen as less serious. As a young person, she had eczema and acne, and was b...

Send us Fan Mail Strategies to reduce stress & help to combat hair loss Lisa West has been in the hair industry for over 40 years, and is the owner of Synergy Hair Loss in Portsmouth. She began to take an interest in trichology after she trained in hair systems, but soon realised that without the underpinning knowledge on hair loss, she risked her clients missing out on getting help, or possib...

Send us Fan Mail Mohs surgery & skin cancer ~ how to recognise the signs Dr Rex, a dermatologist who treats skin & scalp conditions is back once more to discuss the different types of skin cancer, and what to look for if you notice something suspicious on a client or patient's skin or scalp. We discuss Mohs surgery, and how it is used to incrementally remove skin cancer without removi...

Send us Fan Mail Understanding the science behind trichology & haircare using research & clinical reviews Marta Teixeira is a clinical trichologist who has conducted clinical reviews and has published two articles. In school, her hair made her a target for bullies, as it was big and curly, and even at the age of 14, she began to straighten and chemically relax it to fit in. She found over...

Send us Fan Mail We are as strong as we are fragile ~ Hair loss and self esteem Dame Clarissa Burt is from the US, and is currently in Italy. She was a model for a long time, and is now creating her own wig brand, along with producing a self esteem book which she refers to as a manual, where she encourages you to be your own cheerleader, challenging how you speak to yourself. She also shares her s...

Send us Fan Mail How hair systems could have a positive impact on your clients and your business. Rob has been in the hair industry for 20 years, and now owns Novo Cabello where he provides wigs & hair systems for clients as well as education for hairstylists and barbers so that these services are accessible. These salons can partner with him as well as learning how to fit the systems. He deci...

Send us Fan Mail Making better product choices & understanding your hair & scalp needs Kameese Davis, a mother of two from Birmingham, is a self-proclaimed entrepreneur, visionary and information geek. She has created her own vegan haircare brand, Nylah's, after she struggled to find products for her daughter's needs when she was only 4 years old and suffered from seborrheic derm...

Send us Fan Mail Creating supplements that really work ~ Seed and Soul Deborah Maguire, along with her business partner Katie Hemming, both have a background in agriculture and have a sustainable ethos, with a passion for ethical, organic, fair trade products that are good for the planet and their clients. They have a salon in the Cotswolds, and whilst Katie specialises in hair extensions, Deborah...

Send us Fan Mail Another season finished! Thankyou so much for supporting the show! Please take a minute to rate, review & subscribe/ follow the podcast, and share it with anyone you  think would like it.  There have been tons of great guests, so please take this time to go back over the previous episodes to catch any that you may have missed. We will be back soon with some more amazing guests...