Carley Bayne, owner of Carley Bayne Hair and freelancer Francesca Harrison are friends and colleagues in hairdressing in their home area of Epsom, Surrey. They join Respectfully host Lauren Stone to discuss how rewarding it is to shape your working life to suit your desire for a work-life balance.   Hairdressers finding a balance Carley Bayne has worked in West End London salons her whole career and recently decided she needed to make a change in order to have a family and be a working mother. She has now built up a clientele in her home area in Epsom, Surrey to be now able to make her o ..read more

A conversation between the producers of Colour World Nicky Pope, Ellie Scott and Renee Myburgh on their journey to making Colour World a phenomenal success! They look at how the event was established in 2016 and has gone from strength to strength. L-R: Nicky Pope, Ellie Scott & Renee Myburgh   The Colour World journey The team discuss what they wanted to create for hairdressing, and refer to a quote from hairdresser and colourist Carolyn Newman on why it was so timely. Nicky explains how the Colour World event is anti-zoo, immersive and 100% dedicated to colourists. Independent and d ..read more

Tom Smith joins the Respectfully podcast host Nicky Pope for a conversation about having a portfolio career in hairdressing! They chat about how to find a great balance in what you pursue including session styling, salon work and being a brand ambassador. Tom shared his views on working with the owner of a salon to create a mutually rewarding way of running a client list while undertaking roles away from the salon. As an educator, innovator and sessionista with many calls on his time, Tom has great advice. Growing a massive Instagram following has been important in creating his personal brand ..read more

Welcome to the new series of Spring podcasts for 2024! We open with a retro look at one of our earlier recordings. In 2021 we hosted a podcast recording with Jo Irving and Oliver Blackaby. A hairdresser, salon owner and business coach, Jo had been working with Ollie on how to focus on his mental health whilst also launching his first salon. The Hair Salon in Hove on England’s south coast is now three years old, and going well. Now for this new series of podcasts, Jo and Ollie return to tell Respectfully podcast host Nicky Pope how they continue to work together. Their mutual respect for one a ..read more

  Trevor Sorbie MBE invited us into home to meet his wife Carole and dog Lisbon, and of course to share stories and reflections on his life in hairdressing. Chatting in his studio in December 2023, Trevor is now retired from seeing clients in the salon, and entertaining thousands of hairdressers with his celebrated shows. But he remains very much engaged with the industry. He works closely with his artistic team (Trevor Sorbie International has six UK based salons), led by Giuseppe Stelitano the creative director at @trevorsorbie and continues to run his My New Hair charity work. When C ..read more

Salon owner and Kerasilk educator, Taz Daddi-Addoun joins Ellie Scott to discuss the skinification of haircare. A hot topic in the industry right now as we see more and more hairdressers comparing haircare routines to skincare routines (after all our scalp is just an extension of our face right?) Taz talks about the treatment menus he has introduced to his salon and how brands such as KERASILK and KMS are supporting this. You may remember Taz from when we last spoke in the Summer – HERE About Taz Hairdressing since 2010, Taz started his career by working weekends in a salon. He grew a love f ..read more

Hairdresser and salon John Gillespie joined Respectfully host Nicky Pope for a conversation about the changing needs of the hairdressing industry. How can professionals adapt in marketing, services and communication with clients? John has a powerful proposition with the UK launch of the Salon Suite model of business. As managing director at Phenix, the first-ever Salon Suite in the UK, John heads up a brave new project for our industry. His mission is to empower others to build their own successful businesses in beauty and hair. With 38 years experience, he’s well placed to do this.   Ph ..read more

Joe Hemmings, salon owner and leadership coach, talks to Respectfully podcast host Nicky Pope about how to be a great leader rather than just a good manager. There is a difference in inspiring and guiding your team as a leader, rather than focussing solely on management and operational issues. It’s a fascinating conversation and you’re sure to be intrigued.  Having founded the Bristol-based Bloggs salon group in 2010, Joe added a second site in 2017. His approach to business has shifted dramatically over time; from being what he calls ‘lead by numbers’, to being ‘lead by emotion’. In 20 ..read more

Leah Durrant is a hairdresser and salon owner, having started out as a junior at Toni&Guy and progressing first to be an art director, then salon owner of Essensuals in Guildford by the age of 24. More adventures came then she moved onto owning her own salons starting with her first in 2019. Today Leah is a trained business coach and as well as running her own salons, works to support owners and hairdressers across all marketing needs from financial to social. In this episode of the Respectfully podcast, host Nicky Pope asked Leah what is preoccupying business owners and team leader ..read more

In this episode of our podcast we talk about photographic collections and how they ‘fit’ into hairdressing! From winning awards to promoting your business, to extending your skill set, photography is a key focus. Nicky Pope talks with hairdressers Bruno Marc and Tomer Nagar to find out their thoughts on where photographic collections can help drive our creativity and our success.  Tomer Nagar wins The Experimental One 2022, presented by Emanuel Esteban (left) and Nicky Pope (right Tomer Nagar is a hairstylist and style director Toni&Guy South Shoreditch and an educator at the Toni&a ..read more