Welcome to Sugar & Soul...our candid conversation on The Couch with Licensed Therapist, Rachel Chisenhall.

Each month we are going to choose a topic that Sugaring professionals are tackling either with themselves or their clients.  Our job is not to diagnose or prescribe but to understand how to be a listening ear for our clients.  We also must be careful to not take on the Anxiety that 2020 brings...or take it out on our families and friends when we get home.  We are bombarded with 2020's challenges...this episode will help us not reach for the wine bottle or chose poor coping methods! We got this!

We discuss:

The definition of Anxiety 2020

Heathy Coping skills

Ways to Navigate Your Feelings

We Need to Be Ok with 2020 Sucking

Taking Back Your Power Back

How to Navigate Irritable Clients and their Anxiety

Healthy Boundaries with your Clients

 

Rachel is a licensed marriage family therapist with a private practice in Folsom as well as an empowerment...

2020 has been a doozy of a year and navigating the ever changing rules and regulations has been a challenge.  In this episode of the SugarShow, we introduce you to Karen Hodges, Co-founder of Salon-Gurus.com. 

"Education is what I'm all about. I was the person they sent to workshops to learn new software or office programs and products in my first career in the business world. That's certainly followed me into my second career in the beauty industry!" --KH

Karen shares with us the proper way to use PPE in the Sugaring treatment room.  Shannon even learned a new thing or two about the proper way to "don and doff" a mask the right way!

Karen and her partner Janet McCormick have authored many high-quality educational training programs for the beauty industry. In addition, the partners offer advanced foot care training for nurses and medical assistants, permanent makeup training programs and others. Today, Karen often travels to US tradeshows as a speaker for...

A business that sells to customers is the technical description of a distributor. Alexander’s is so much more than that! 

Alexander’s Aesthetics started in the family. The love of skincare prompted him to purchase many many products over the years trying to find the best ones out there. In the end, this led to a formation of a very large company that was centered around education of doctors and estheticians. This ended up becoming our foundation--to educate and provide information for clients while they are trying to find the right products for them and their businesses.

Q: Wendy, when did you decide to jump into the family business? 
A: My mom took it over while I was an adult so I didn’t grow up with it. My husband and I both worked in the volatile business of tech in Colorado and decided we wanted something different. At the suggestion of my mother, we jumped into opening Alexander’s Aesthetics in Colorado. Once I opened the business, I...

This episode is a MUST LISTEN! Don’t make the mistake of picking a sugary sweet name for your biz without learning more from our guest, Joey Vitale from Indie Law. 

When Joey Vitale was in college, he was bribed by his father to go to law school with a new car. He quickly realized he was not the ‘shark.’ Due to it not fitting, he started his own graphic design business. Through networking, he realized how many people in business had questions. So, he started a law firm to fill the need in order to help cut out the noise.

Many people go with less expensive solutions than hiring a lawyer. They resort to quick fix, low cost solutions. The problem with that is there is one solution for everyone--which is not the right solution for everyone. Instead, Joey works with people to educate and empower them in their business decisions.

His law firm focuses on the must haves for a business and has solidified the process into programs for those starting their...

Welcome back to episode 4 of The SugarShow. We are here with Joelle Lee to share her story and share some nuggets of wisdom on mindfully creating and pricing your menu.

Joelle Lee is an esthetician, previously a medical esthetician. She proceeded to specialize in laser treatments with a focus in people of color. One of her first clients happened to be Michelle Obama! This was long before anything was attached to her. All of the sudden, her client was now the first lady. She moved to D.C. to follow her client and took the opportunity to recreate and launch her line.

While momentum was building, she wasn’t happy with the product line 7 years later. Life took off as she began to grow her family. It was at that moment she let the products go and refocused on clients. Shortly after that change, she was able to start teaching and consulting other estheticians.

This led to publishing her first book! And she discovered traveling with her book, teaching other estheticians, and...

Welcome to Love2Sugar’s The SugarShow’s 3rd episode “Summer Sugaring--Keeping Your Cool!" I’m Shannon, the “SugarMama,” here to guide you on keeping all things cool this summer.

Aaahhhh Summer. Sunshine, beaches, bikinis...and beautifully smooth skin. Music to an estheticians ears! 

This is the busiest hair removal season for the beauty industry and the best time to build your clientele. Seasoned sugarists know they have a consistent tool to bring clients in the door no matter what time of year--even the hot summers. After 10 summers in the treatment room in hot California, here are my tips for keeping you and your clients cool and perfectly smooth.

8 Musts for Summer Sugaring Success:

1. Chill Out Your Room: Keep the temperature in your room around 70 degrees to keep your sugar paste consistent. When you are sugaring back to back, it is important to keep you cool and keep your clients body temperature down if they have been outside...

On today’s podcast, we welcome Annie Mayo with Advanced Mineral Makeup. I’ve always seen Annie at shows and her booth is always crowded! She created a line a mineral makeup that provides natural color coverage with minerals that support healthy and happy skin. I am so thankful to have her on the show today to share her knowledge!

Advanced Mineral Makeup is more than makeup. In fact, it is so much more that the work “makeup” shouldn’t even be used. It is a skin treatment that colors skin. And the best part, it is the perfect addition to an after-sugaring treatment! Advanced Minerals are made up of just that—minerals! These minerals are bacteria fighting, skin calming, inflammation fighting wonders. Annie suggests adding this as a finishing touch to your treatment because it will benefit everyone’s skin plus add a “finished” touch.

• DURING TREATMENT: At the end of sugaring, you can add value to your client by using...

Welcome to our first ever LIVE SugarShow!  This will be a new format so we can reach more sugarists with our message of Sweet Success!

Shea has been a renowned Esthetician in Boise, Idaho since 2010.  She is the owner of SUGAR & BLO, a Sugaring Studio and Blow Dry bar.  She is an Advanced Educator with Sweet & True Sugaring, holding classes regularly in Meridian, Idaho and traveling for trade shows to educate estheticians on sugaring techniques around the U.S. Her expert approach teaches industry professionals superior ways to remove unwanted body hair by sugaring.  Her students learn how to manage and treat their clients, how to maintain a growing clientele, and how to make every client feel comfortable. When Shea isn’t spreading her love of sugaring or facilitating her growing business, she is raising two beautiful children while competing in Olympic lifting. Whether sugaring, growing a business or Olympic lifting, Shea is a match to...

In these uncertain times, it's always best to reach out to our business gurus and find some certainty when it comes to our beauty businesses.  We will get through these restrictions and come out the other side.  And when we do, this episode will come down and a new fresh episode with Angela will go up!

Angela Green is the founder of Skin Biz School, a veteran esthetician, and educator for Se Brazil.  She experienced the recession of 10 years ago and is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to knowing your business numbers in order to make educated decisions about your sugaring business.  In this episode, she discusses how to make time each day while we are at home to focus on your business planning.  Specifically how to manage your finances and do a cost per service analysis of each treatment you perform.  When it is time to return to business, as usual, you might be tempted to just push a discount, but Angela warns that if you discount too steep...