Mini Moment #14: The One Block of Time Salon Owners Can’t Afford to Skip

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[00:00:04] Jen: Welcome back to Salon Rising, the podcast mini moments brought to you by timely locked in your bedroom, Sam.

[00:00:13] Samara: Uh, coming to you from my bedroom. This is my wardrobe coming to you from your lounge room. This is what, look, this is what's happening this year. We just need to find the time and sometimes it just cannot, even though Jen and I see each other every week, it just sometimes cannot be in the same place.

[00:00:31] Jen: I don't, I don't wanna record a podcast when we catch up. don't wanna do

[00:00:36] Samara: No, neither.

[00:00:37] Jen: mean?

[00:00:37] Samara: Neither. Yes. Agreed.

[00:00:39] Jen: my friend do this for work stuff.

[00:00:43] Samara: Agreed. So sometimes it's just easier. I'm at home today, Jen's at home doing admin. I'm at home. It's my admin sale and rising day. So it's just easier to get on and and come to you from our homes.

[00:00:55] Jen: And I think that's probably a really nice thing to talk about our brief mini moment today is that, I have taken a leaf out of our book this year have provided myself a day to work on my business, not just in it,

[00:01:09] Samara: Yes, me too. Actually, this is the first year that WILD is going to kind on a Monday,

[00:01:14] Jen: And so we can

[00:01:15] Samara: so.

[00:01:16] Jen: day.

[00:01:17] Samara: Dedicated day. And also Mondays are my day, so it will be some of my salon rising day, but Mondays are my day, like you said, that dedicated business to do. You know, the money stuff that I always do, that I always talk about, but sometimes it's really jamming that in between kids and his sleep and all of the stuff that it just.

It provides a little bit more space for us. I'm also going to use that day, and I talk quite openly and honestly about this. I'm really, really being dedicated this year to my health and upgrading my systems, and so that will be a day that I see my psychologist. I have just, you'd be so proud of me now I am.

Booking in my, I've just booked in like three physio appointments because my body is really sore, and if I don't have those in, it's like I don't wanna go to meltdown stations this year. I really wanna be like resourced so that when the things hit, I'm good and I'm resourced up. What about you?

[00:02:13] Jen: exactly the same, right? I sent you that picture of me when I wrapped up the year for 2025

[00:02:20] Samara: Mm.

[00:02:20] Jen: was like in full nervous system shut down.

[00:02:24] Samara: Mm-hmm.

[00:02:24] Jen: sores breaking out all over my face and it's just like, uh, whilst I completely agree that. Again, that's like building phases.

Sometimes you've just gotta work until you feel

[00:02:36] Samara: Yes.

[00:02:37] Jen: wall.

[00:02:37] Samara: And it was your first Christmas with a team.

[00:02:40] Jen: that

[00:02:40] Samara: your first big team. Yeah.

[00:02:41] Jen: big, like there was

[00:02:42] Samara: Yeah.

[00:02:42] Jen: changing. So I, I acknowledged that that had to happen. I also acknowledged, and we talked about the fact that this year had to come with more things in place to stop that being a downward spiral and really looking after myself, and I'm the same as you.

It's like if I, because I still have Mondays on my full admin days, it's when I do payroll, it's when I do reconciling and all that sort of thing. But if it came down to, oh, I need to go and get that ultrasound, or I need to go and get that blood test. But I would always put the work stuff first, whereas allowing that business day, it's just that

[00:03:19] Samara: Yeah,

[00:03:20] Jen: Like to be like,

[00:03:21] Samara: absolutely.

[00:03:22] Jen: those are things I still have to do that day, but the other stuff I wanna do for work or to go to that appointment, I'm allowing the

[00:03:27] Samara: Yep.

[00:03:28] Jen: in life to do it.

[00:03:30] Samara: To do it, you know, and it's not, those are the days too. Like I don't, I'm not gonna schedule hangouts on that day. I'm not gonna schedule things for me, like my luxury stuff that day. I'm actually, I'm going back into the salon a little bit more this year. I've got some team that are unfortunately.

Moving away. So I'm gonna be in back in a little bit more while I, you know, get my, like, structure a new team or just, I just really enjoy being on the floor, to be honest. So it's just easier sometimes to be on the floor. But I have structured to take off a Friday once a month, and that's my me day.

That's not a work day, that's not a catch up on Workday.

[00:04:08] Jen: For me, therapy, physio, all that stuff,

[00:04:12] Samara: No. No.

[00:04:12] Jen: maintenance that is not to

[00:04:14] Samara: That is work that goes in on the Mondays. Yes, on the Fridays. It's like a facial.

[00:04:20] Jen: Yes.

[00:04:20] Samara: A lunch by myself, uh, soak, if I wanna lie in bed all day and binge watch something, or I just wanna lie in bed and read my book, it is no one home. It's just a day to not feel guilty to drop everyone at school and have five hours just to do something that I wanna do.

[00:04:37] Jen: Oh my gosh. Every like mother out there just orgasmed at the thought of five

[00:04:43] Samara: But if you don't, I've booked it in, I have booked it in

[00:04:46] Jen: gotta do.

[00:04:46] Samara: every month book in. So like book the things in like every month. I'm like, no, no, this is just a no day. If the sky is falling and everyone is off sick, we cancel everyone. 'cause that is my day and that's, and then it's like my non-guilty day because our team can take sick days.

We generally do not. So it's like this is our rest and reset day once a month. That's it.

[00:05:09] Jen: I think I'm so cautious of us not being like, yeah, we're doing all these things. At the beginning of it, like everything that we are talking about right now, we have actually diarized and committed to

[00:05:21] Samara: Yes, , it's in the work diary. It's in my diary. I am booking the therapy. I am booking the phys I'm, or it's just booked. So now I'm like, I can't cancel that. They are times at work. There's a few other things that I wanna book in as well, and it's just literally putting it in the diary so that.

You know, and I will revise this as you probably will at that six month mark because it's hard to make appointments much further than that. And then we'll put 'em in for the rest of the year so that we are really taking care of ourselves before that. So that come the end of the year. Jen's not texting me full sobbing photos with cold sos all over her mouth being like, oh, why?

[00:05:58] Jen: Shaking in the fetal position on the couch. yeah. And one other parting note, I will leave you with friends as we will probably have this one out still, and the very end of January is please schedule your holidays for the year. I have made

[00:06:14] Samara: Agreed.

[00:06:14] Jen: that I have put in, um, just mini breaks, you know, like long weekends and stuff like that.

And then also, I have scheduled one larger holiday. Doesn't mean if something comes up, I won't take another holiday, but I know that that one

Yep.

which is what I'm working towards for the end of this year, is in the diary.

[00:06:34] Samara: Agreed and book something so that you can pay it off financially. I would say we have booked like Sandstone Point with the kids because it's a perfect holiday for us. But we've booked it and quite far in advance because with our, all of our children's schedules and us and work and everything, at least now it's in.

And I'm just like, if it's in and the salon's quiet, whatever, let's just work towards that. So I agree with Jen gets some weeks in, 'cause we all know how Christmas, how important Christmas is to us and book in those like little pockets of time where you can just take a little bit of a moment to like.

Regroup and have your life and be with your kids, and if you're prepped for that, it doesn't feel as stressful.

[00:07:16] Jen: So that's our mini moment, back into it for 2026. So we will leave

[00:07:21] Samara: just.

[00:07:22] Jen: now everyone to go and. Put in your diaries, all the things that you need to have in for the year. Remember that maintaining yourself is like maintaining your car. You would not feel bad about putting it in for a service, otherwise you can't drive anywhere.

Your body is the same. So

[00:07:38] Samara: Yep.

[00:07:39] Jen: that guys, enjoy this mini moment and we will be back again with a full podcast episode very soon. Thanks for listening. Bye.