You know you need to raise your prices. You also probably know exactly which clients you’re afraid of losing when you do it. Maybe they’ve been with you for years, you genuinely enjoy working with them, and raising your prices starts to feel personal, like you’re doing something to those clients. The problem is that […]

Personal styling is changing, and technology and AI are becoming a bigger part of how people discover services, work, and do business. There’s a lot of anxiety about what that could mean for stylists, but there’s also a much bigger conversation to have about what technology could actually make possible for this industry. Megan Wright […]

Income is often the scoreboard we use in business, especially when we are trying to understand how far we have come or how long it should take to reach the next level. When that number is not moving the way you expected, it is easy to assume something obvious must be wrong and start looking […]

Every slow season comes with a reason why now is not the right time. The kids are home, clients are traveling, or everyone has already spent their money over the holidays. Then the season changes and a new reason takes its place, even though the pattern stays exactly the same. Last spring, I was launching […]

My client had a closet most stylists could only dream about. Designer pieces, famous vintage finds, clothes that fit her perfectly, all in a beautiful walk-in with room to spare. She had deep fashion knowledge, places to go, and more than enough money to buy whatever she wanted. And every single item, including the shoes, […]

Anna Rova came to personal styling from a place I don’t hear very often. She built a seven-figure dating coaching business, closed it down, and then decided to become a personal stylist, even though she had never styled friends and family or really seen herself as the stylish one. Anna grew up in Moldova thinking […]