HeyJaredThe Starting Messy Podcast
On this show, we're flipping the script on perfectionism and embracing the messy, imperfect journey of growth as a hairstylist.
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The 3 Things That Sold Out My Retreat For Hairstylists in 5 Months (opens the original)
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Click here to get on the Industry: UNPLUGGED Retreat Waitlist This week on The Starting Messy Podcast, I'm pulling back the curtain on something I don't usually get vulnerable about — the stuff that's actually gone right for me. I'm walking you through exactly how I took my Industry Unplugged retreat from an idea in my head to (nearly) sold out in under six months, and the three things that made it happen. Here's the thing — I didn't wait until everything was perfect. I put out a waitlist before
Why I Was Terrified to Spend $6,000 Alone in a Room of Strangers (opens the original)
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In 2019, I was a year into running my own suite — thriving on paper, lonely in reality. I didn't have anyone around me who understood where I was trying to go, and that kind of isolation messes with your confidence more than people talk about. Then I found a retreat on Instagram, marketed as "summer camp for hairstylists," and something in me said go. I flew alone for the first time. Slept in a room with strangers. Spent $6,000 I didn't feel ready to spend. And it changed the entire trajectory o
Why Deciding Is Harder Than Doing (opens the original)
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Misty is calling out something nobody warns you about: the decision to change is almost always harder than the change itself. She takes you inside two of her own — quitting drinking, which took a full year of stressing, questioning, and mourning the “party girl” identity before she ever said her last drink, and growing out her natural gray at 41, which meant two weeks of tears, research, and asking herself if she was willing to feel “ugly” before she felt the prettiest she's felt in years. Then
Why I'm Finally Growing Out My Gray (And What It's Really About) (opens the original)
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At 41, after coloring her roots every two weeks for over two decades, Misty made the decision to grow out her natural gray. In this solo episode, she gets brutally honest about what came up in the first month — not just the logistics of the grow-out, but the much bigger thing underneath it: how much she was still outsourcing her sense of pretty, her sense of okay, to other people's opinions. When she shared the decision on Instagram, the encouragement felt good. But it was the pushback — the "do
Is Survival Mode Is Running Your Business (opens the original)
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Last week's episode was about living in survival mode — this week, Misty gets specific about how survival mode actually runs your hairstyling business without you even noticing. If you've ever people-pleased your way into a schedule you hate, felt too guilty to charge what you're worth, or avoided a conversation because conflict feels unbearable, this episode is your mirror. Misty walks through the real story of the year she finally took Saturdays off after 14–15 years behind the chair — the fea
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