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 […]

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 […]

There’s a version of success in your styling business that doesn’t usually get posted about because it isn’t dramatic enough. It’s not the viral post, the big press placement, or the six-figure reveal that makes everything suddenly feel legitimate. That Cinderella version of business success is what a lot of stylists think they’re waiting for, […]

Every spring, stylists get busy. Client delivery picks up, the calendar fills, and the marketing starts to slow down. You’re still showing up, maybe sharing what you’re wearing, leaning on the links, but that deeper thought leadership that actually gets people to trust you and hire you starts to slip. Then summer arrives, the kids […]

I recently finished a full year of working with a nutrition and weightlifting coach, and I ended up weighing the exact same amount as when I started. On paper, that looks like a failure. But I actually think it may have been the first real shot I’ve ever had at lasting change, because what that […]