Leadership Podcast with Stef Fox
Real conversations about leadership, retention, and performance in the
professional beauty industry.
Growing A Salon With Partners
How do you scale a salon business from 7 team members to over 100 across multiple locations without losing your culture—or your mind? Is bringing on trusted team members as business partners the secret to sustainable salon growth?
In this episode of the Stef Fox Podcast, Stef sits down with the powerhouse leadership team behind Privé Salons: Monica, Aliscia, and Dayna. Together, they unpack how they turned stylists into co-owners, built a tight-knit culture across three salon locations, an aesthetic studio, and a suite model, and navigated the messy realities of balancing business, motherhood, and leadership.
RECENT EPISODES
Why Your Salon Doesn't Have a Coaching Culture (And How to Get It Back)
How do you keep your top stylists engaged, motivated, and growing in your salon? Is compensation enough, or is there a bigger leadership piece missing?
In this solo episode, Stef Fox dives deep into one of the most powerful levers for salon retention and business growth: building a true coaching culture. She unpacks why so many salon owners fall into the trap of "check-the-box" coaching, how backhanded compliments (like the infamous "butt sandwich") shut down growth, and what it actually takes to remove performance blocks for your team.
The 70% Commission Myth (And What Actually Keeps Stylists)
Is offering 70% commission really the secret to keeping top salon talent—or is it a hidden trap for salon owners?
In this episode, Stef Fox and Jen LeBlanc break down one of the most controversial topics in the beauty industry: salon compensation structures, stylist retention, and the true cost of high commission rates.
Rest: The Key to Better Leadership Decisions
Most leaders think they'll rest when the work is done. The problem? The work is never done.
In this episode, Stef Fox shares why rest isn't a reward for working hard—it's one of the most powerful leadership strategies you have.
Drawing from leadership research and her own experience as an entrepreneur, salon owner, and leadership coach, Stef breaks down how intentional rest improves decision-making, regulates your nervous system, and transforms the energy you bring to your team.
The Leadership Podcast with Stef Fox explores the leadership behaviors that drive retention, performance, and sustainable growth inside of businesses.
Through real conversations with business leaders and practical insights from doctoral research, the podcast helps business owners and managers lead with more clarity, confidence, and capacity.
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Not sure what to say when something isn’t working? Start here. Get the exact language I use to start common leadership conversations around expectations, performance, and accountability—so you can say the thing sooner without making it bigger than it needs to be.
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Better coaching conversations start with better questions. Get my Growth Coaching Framework, quick video training, worksheets, and 15 real salon coaching situations to help you know what to ask and how to coach your people toward growth.
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Learn how to lead the conversation. Three quick, practical trainings on Leadership Frequency™, Coaching, and Feedback to help you become more confident in the conversations that grow people.
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Become the kind of leader people grow with. Leadership Lab™ is my 12-week live leadership experience where we learn, practice, and actually work on how you lead—from your Leadership Frequency™ and the clarity you create to coaching, accountability, feedback, and developing people who take ownership of their own growth. Learn More →
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For businesses ready to build a leadership culture across the entire team. A dedicated program that brings The Leadership Lab™ framework inside your organization, so your whole team rises together and the business stops depending on one person to hold it all.
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Bring me the leadership situation you’re stuck on. Once a month, we get together live to coach through the real conversations, people challenges, and leadership moments you’re navigating—because sometimes you don’t need another training, you need help figuring out what to do next.
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Build better leaders across your business. I work alongside beauty business owners and their leadership teams throughout the year to develop managers, strengthen coaching, create consistency across locations, and build a culture where growing people isn’t something the owner has to carry alone.
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"But remember...it's the challenges that shape the strongest leaders. Every obstacle you overcome brings you one step closer to the success you've dreamed of. Keep pushing, you're building something extraordinary." Stef
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