Off The Books
"Just work harder, raise your prices, and post 5 times a day." If this was true, we’d all be millionaires working 4-hour weeks. The reality?
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Double Trouble: Hair Extensions, Sisterhood & Salon Life | Jordan & Charlotte Hair Lounge (opens the original)
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For the first time on Off The Books, it's not one guest but two!They started a salon when they were teenagers! Fifteen years later they run Jordan & Charlotte Hair Lounge in Darlington together — hair extension specialists, sisters, and by their own honest admission "warm, honest and a little bit chaotic." This is what it's really like to build a business with your sister: the arguments, the balance, and fifteen years of graft from handing out leaflets in a town centre to training educators in A
Cutting Through the Noise: The Sensory Barber Making 'Impossible' Haircuts Happen | Stacey's Barbers (opens the original)
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Stacey never wanted to be a barber. She wanted to be a paramedic. But, for Stacey — the universe had other plans. From barbering in car parks to today, where she runs Stacey's Barbers. Traditional shop out the front. Sensory room out the back. And every day she's making haircuts happen that parents were told were impossible. Superwoman. ✨Why there's zero SEND training in barbering qualifications — and what she's doing about it ✨Why "quiet clippers" don't work, and what everyone gets
Redefining Aesthetics: Stigma, Women's Health, and the Chair That's Changing Lives | Nicole, Dolce Aesthetics (opens the original)
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Nicole was told she'd never get aesthetics into a hospital building. Her answer? "Give me time." In this episode, I sit down with Nicole, founder of Dolce Aesthetics — nurse, practitioner, and the woman now working full-time from Tyneside Surgical Services, where what she's doing goes way beyond aesthetics. We get into: 💉 From student nurse at 17 to founding Dolce Aesthetics — and why nursing never left the picture ✨ Reclaiming aesthetics — the stigma, the "big lip clinic" phone call, and what g
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