Spend some time with your host, Shannon the SugarMama where she dives into the mental side of being a sugaring professional.  In this episode, she guides you through understanding that once you shut that treatment room door, sugaring is more than just your technique it encompasses all of the senses for your clients.  Clients tend to open up and dump their emotions into the room...and YOU need to know how to not absorb those emotions.

Shannon helps you to understand how to create not only a safe and calm space for your clients...but for YOUR mental state as well.  The senses matter to US!!!

Take this time to stop and start your day of service with some calming breaths...to take your vibration from all around the room to focus on you.

When you can center your thoughts and focus on what is in front of you, you can fully be present for your clients and your business.

In between clients, it will benefit you SO MUCH MORE to take a moment to ground EVERY TIME.  A few moments will change t...

Now that you have (or your business has) decided how to categorize yourself as an employee or an independent contractor, its time to get PAID!

In Part Two of this Series, Kenesha and Shannon explore how to make sure you get paid properly depending on your business.  Working smarter to be strong and sweet in 2021!!

1. What is an Independent Contractor or Self-Employed Beauty Professional?
   1. You are the business owner
   2. May receive Form 1099 from salon/spa owner or you are receiving monies from your clients and accounting for it yourself
   3. Responsible for paying and remitting all taxes - federal and state income and payroll taxes
2. How you should pay yourself depends on how the business is structured:
   1.  Sole Proprietorship/SMLLC/General Partnership/MMLLC: 
      1. take an owner’s draw from your business banking account. 
         1. Best if done at regular intervals and amounts
         2. Best if transfer in electronic
      2. Still responsible for all taxes
      3. Misconception: If you don’t take an owner’
      ...

Have you been looking for different services to compliment your Sugaring Business? Maybe you've been thinking about adding anther lucrative, less time consuming, additional treatment to pamper your clients. Consider Spray Tanning!   

Meet Kelly Callaghan! In this episode, she is sitting down with us to talk about how to add spray tanning to your sugaring biz, and how we can collaborate together to take our businesses  to the next level. 

Kelly is an industry trailblazer who notoriously started an international spray tan business and grew it from $0 to multiple 6-figures in a few years and has professionally trained over 1,000 women to grow their sunless businesses. Her next step in beauty biz domination is taking the show on the road with her Slay the Spray training tour, holding marketing + inspirational events with her Wake Up to Level Up event and her podcast, Beauty Business Babes. She’s lit up by mentoring other women/boss ladies and roots everything we do around here in the imp...

Today we welcome Tajina Rocke, successful sugarist and owner of Bare Bodies Sugaring, located in New York!
⁠
⁠Tajina dropped amazing knowledge and advice for up and coming Sugar Pros and spoke about how she began her journey as a Sugarist. From switching career paths, to now growing and thriving in her own sweet salon, Tajina wants to expand even more and is ready to help inspire other sugar pros to do the same. ⁠
⁠
"After leaving the banking industry, I decided to pursue my passion in skincare and became a licensed esthetician. Hair removal became an obsession for me , as I found sugaring especially helped those with troubled skin. My obsession soon became my career and I has never looked back. I am the proud owner of Bare Bodies and is excited to share my love and knowledge of sugaring with others". ⁠


You can connect with Tajina Rocke: 

IG: @barebodies_sugaring

https://www.barebodiessugaring.com
https://www.sweetsourcesugaringcertification.com

NEED MORE SUGARY INSPIRATION?

To meet more...

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 coach. She is also a t...