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Welcome to episode 2 of Anthony Presotto’s Business Insider Podcast.
In this episode:
I talk to salon owner, fellow business coach and The Fantastic Hairdresser in Australia Steve Winder. Steve shares some of his personal journey in the industry and how he came to Australia and what he is doing here now. Steve has been in the business for 35 years. The Fantastic business man that he is, Steve took his salon from opening to $2 million in turnover within 9 years. I also ask Steve what was the pivitol thing in making his salon business a success. In this episode I also explain why I changed the name of my podcast.
Websites mentioned in this episode:
* Steve Wynder
* Hair Biz Secrets
* Fantastic Hairdresser Australia
* SO Magazine
Transcript:
Anthony: Hi everybody and welcome back to the second episode. This is Business Insider and you may have noticed we had a slight change of name since the last episode. That’s because we were advised by a company with a similar program within the same industry that they have been using the name first and they didn’t like us using it. So, to keep things simple, I’ve changed the name of the Podcast to Business Insider and I think that gives us a little bit more scope on what we can talk about than Profit or Perish.
So, I have my friend Steve Winder with us today. Steve is a hairdresser from the UK who now resides here in Australia and we’re going to talk a little bit today about the program Steve is involved with called Fantastic Hairdresser and a little bit about Steve’s history.
So, Steve tell us a little bit about you personally because we want to get to know you and then give us an overview of your business.
Steve: I can say, well I have quite a long story but essentially I started hairdressing in 1980 and did a full apprenticeship for 3 years. Then I became a busy stylist and I now worked on the salon floor for a salon group over in the UK. I suddenly then became the manager and teaching hairdressing skills, colouring and communications skills. Along that journey I started to enter different types of competitions and actually became very successful with those. One, for example, is the L’Oreal colouring student of the year. That then led me onto becoming an educator up at L’Oreal and I run a course called the Complete Hairdresser. This was essentially a course which we taught hairdressers things they may have missed along the way. So, whether it be hair-up; it might have been a particular hair cut; it might have been just finishing skills. That is did for about 4 years and then I moved on from there and was asked to become, which was not sort of trendy now very trendy then, the UK perm ambassador for L’Oreal along with a guy called Guy Kremer. That I did for a couple of years and we went around salons and booked hotels and did demonstrations on perming and just trying to teach people different ways to perm hair. That was really good fun.
On the way I became a judge for a National Hair Federation and started judging competitions for those because the salon group that I was working for was very active and the salon owner Simon Harris from Headlines who was very active in that sort of arena. So, being a manager and a trainer educator within the salon and doing the stuff in London, I sort of went on to doing things there. Then after that, after doing shows and the expo in London and the things, I went on then to leave the salon that I was with and open my own salon. So, I grew tat salon from one salon to five but not all at the same time. I had done essentially three salons at one time but I’ve actually had five salons. When we had the three salons, we were employing over 60 add staff. That was very interesting because when you go from a very small salon and then into a much ...