Owning a salon is hard. The money, the staff, the feeling of doing it all. We help you sort it.
The online course and podcast for Australian salon owners ready to run a profitable salon they're actually proud of. Built by a salon owner who's done it.
What is Salon Rising?
Salon Rising is an Australian salon business education company. We help independent salon owners run profitable, sustainable businesses through online education, free podcast content, and the methodology behind La Sorella salon, run by founder Samara Scott-Hunter since 2008.
The podcast is two working salon owners going deep on the parts of running a salon nobody else talks about. The course teaches the operating model behind La Sorella, refined over sixteen years of running an actual salon. Both are made for Australian salon owners and built around the way you actually run your business.
Since 2008
Methodology refined over sixteen years
Australian
Built for the Australian salon industry
Hair & beauty
Every kind of hair and beauty salon
Over 100
Podcast episodes
Weekly
New podcast content
100s
Australian salon owners taught
Is this you?
- You're great at the work but feel out of your depth on the business side.
- Your salon makes money but you never see any of it.
- You work seven days a week and still feel behind.
- Your staff keep leaving and you don't know why.
- You're avoiding looking at your bank account.
- Everyone else seems to have it figured out and you don't.
If any of that lands, you're exactly who Salon Rising was built for.
What is The Rising Method?
The Rising Method is the self-paced online course behind Salon Rising. It teaches you how to run a real Australian salon from start to finish: how to run your numbers, price for actual profit, build a team that stays, retain your clients, and stop running yourself into the ground in the process. Built by Samara Scott-Hunter from sixteen years of running La Sorella.
If you're a solo operator, this course is built for you. If you've got a team, this course is built for you too. The first chunk is the same for everyone. After that, you follow the version that fits how your salon actually runs.
See what's inside The Rising Method
Listen to Salon Rising: The Podcast
Salon Rising: The Podcast is the podcast where Australian salon owners tell their stories. Hosted by Samara Scott-Hunter and Jen Veivers, with new guests every week. Real conversations about the money, the staff, the wins, the mistakes, and the moments nobody else in the industry talks about. Free to listen.
Over 100 episodes deep. Salon owners across hair, beauty, and skin telling the truth about what running a salon actually looks like, plus brands and suppliers from across the Australian industry weighing in. Real stories. Real numbers. Real lessons.
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Why salon owners choose Salon Rising
Salon Rising comes from women who have been there and actually done it.
Samara has owned La Sorella for sixteen years, through the good times and the hard ones. Jen has been in hairdressing for thirty years and now runs her own salon, August Hair Co. Every guest on the podcast runs theirs. Nothing taught here is theory. It came from being on the floor, doing the work, and figuring it out the long way.
Most salon business teaching comes from people who studied salons or watched someone else run one. Salon Rising comes from women doing it right now, teaching what's worked across hundreds of Australian salons since 2022.
Real results from real salon owners
"Can I give 10 stars?"
"I recently completed Solo Rise and it has helped me grow from a tired and just getting by, to a THRIVING business owner. The ease of working at your own pace through the modules with videos, audio, and transcripts was incredible. I want to do this course again and again and again."
Jess Adams ★★★★★ Google Review
Browse by topic
Six topics that cover the realities of running a salon. Each topic page brings together the most relevant podcast episodes and the parts of The Rising Method that go deepest on it. Find what you're stuck on, listen, learn.
Salon finance and pricing
Money, profit, what to pay yourself, how to price for actual profit, and how to take it home.
Explore →Staff and culture
Hiring, retention, hard conversations, and building a team that stays.
Explore →Clients and retention
Why clients come back, why they don't, and the systems that bring them back again.
Explore →Marketing and growth
How salon owners get found, get booked, and grow without burning the brand.
Explore →Salon owner mindset
Confidence, comparison, burnout, boundaries, and the mental load nobody talks about.
Explore →Solo salon owners
Running your own chair, alone, profitably. Without burning out.
Explore →