A Salon Rising Program
The Culture Reset
In 16 days, a few minutes at a time, get clear on the business you actually want, and how it should feel to run it.
A daily culture reset for Australian salon and spa owners. One short voice note from Samara each day, and one thing to do.
Start your Culture Reset · $199Instant access. Yours to keep, and to run again whenever you need.
Your culture didn't break. It just drifted.
You didn't set out to feel like this. It crept in. A few too many yeses. A boundary you keep meaning to set. A standard that slipped and nobody reset. You're busy, you're giving, and somewhere in there the business stopped feeling like the one you actually wanted to run.
You don't need a retreat, or a course you'll never finish, or one more thing on the list. You need a bit of quiet, a few honest questions, and the time to answer them. That's what this is.
Why 16 short days instead of one long session?
Because nobody changes their business from a 90-minute video they never finish. Real change is small and daily. You listen for a few minutes, do one thing, then get on with your day. Sixteen days later you've done the deep work, without ever finding a spare 90 minutes to sit down and do it.
Every time I teach this, I go, oh, I need to get back into that myself.
SamaraThat's the point. This isn't something you do once and file away. It's something you come back to, which is exactly why you keep the Workbook for life.
What do you actually do across the 16 days?
You move through three parts. It starts with you, then you build your foundation, then you set how you run. One short piece a day, written in your own words into a journal you set up on day one. By the end, that journal is the complete foundation of the business you want.
Start with you · Days 1–5
A temperature check on how it really feels to walk in. The one thing that's quietly out of alignment. The brave conversation you've been avoiding. Looking after your own energy. And the gratitude habit that keeps resentment from growing.
The foundation · Days 6–10
Your purpose, written in a sentence or two. The handful of values that are genuinely yours. Turning each one into a daily behaviour. Catching the limiting beliefs you treat as facts, and flipping them into ones that serve you.
How you run · Days 11–16
Small commitments to your clients, your team and yourself. Naming your boundaries and actually setting them. What you can hand off, and to whom. Where your standards have slipped, and one to reset this week. And on day 16, you've got it.
What do you walk away with?
A complete culture foundation in your own words: your purpose, values, beliefs, boundaries and standards. You capture it day by day in a journal you set up on day one, so by day 16 it isn't a worksheet you fill in once. It's the real foundation of the business you want to run.
Then on day 16, two things land in your hands to keep.
Everyone gets this
Your Culture Reset Workbook
A self-guided version of the whole reset, yours for life. Run it again next year, after a team change, or any time things start to feel off. No re-listening, everything you need is in the pages. This is what turns a 16-day program into a reset you come back to forever.
If you have a team
The Team Reset Day Guide
A run sheet for taking everything you've worked out and turning it into a Culture Reset Day with your staff. The activities, the values list, the timings, all of it, so the clarity becomes the whole salon's, not just yours.
What if you have a team?
The 16 days are yours first. You get clear on what you want before you ask anyone else to follow. Then, if you have a team, the Team Reset Day Guide gives you everything to run that same reset with them. You walk in already grounded, ready to lead the day rather than work it out live.
So often we make decisions based on what we think they want. We need to get in a bit deeper. What do you want to feel next year? How do you want them to feel? What do they want for their year?
SamaraIf you're solo, none of this is a gap. You get the complete reset, start to finish. The team guide is simply there waiting if you ever grow into it.
The conversation most owners avoid
Boundaries are the part everyone knows they need and quietly puts off. Here are Samara and Jen on why it matters.
You still have people that work for you. And you still can love them deeply, but you've still gotta make sure that there's a boundary line put in place, otherwise you end up feeling resentful. And I've had that happen.
SamaraAnd that's actually not fair, because you're projecting that resentment onto someone that doesn't even sometimes know that they've done anything. 'Cause it's this whole transaction that you've created in your own mind, that you didn't even invite them to that party.
JenDays 12 and 13 are where you find your lines, and actually set them.
Who is The Culture Reset for?
Any Australian salon or spa owner who has felt the drift. Solo operators and owners with a team. Hair, beauty, brows, nails, skin, it doesn't matter what you do behind the chair. The language is written for the feeling, not the trade, so it works whatever your service.
If you've ever walked in foggy and wished you felt clear, if there's a boundary you keep meaning to set, or a version of your business you can picture but haven't built yet, it's for you.
Who guides you through it?
Samara Scott-Hunter, owner of La Sorella on the Gold Coast since 2008. She is the voice in your ear every single day of this program. Not teaching theory, sharing what she has learned across more than sixteen years of running her own salon, including the times she didn't listen to herself.
It's the difference between being told what to do and being walked through it by someone who has actually lived it. You can read more about Samara Scott-Hunter and the team behind Salon Rising.
Where I thought I'd be at the start of the year and where I am now is really different. I stayed instinctual, I thought about how things actually make me feel, and I learned to act on it rather than not.
SamaraQuestions, answered
How much time does it take each day?
A few minutes on most days. The deeper days might ask for up to 30 minutes, but you'll know which are which and can pick your moment.
Do I need a team?
No. It works completely on your own. If you have a team, you get an extra guide to run the reset with them.
What if I fall behind?
It's yours to move through at your own pace. And the Workbook means you can re-run the whole thing whenever you need.
Do I have to watch long videos?
No. Short daily voice notes from Samara, never a long session.
Is this just for hairdressers?
No. It's written for any salon or spa owner in Australia and beyond. The language works whatever your service.
What do I actually end up with?
A complete culture foundation, your purpose, values, boundaries and standards, in your own words, plus a workbook to do it all again whenever you need.
One last thing from Jen
"Even if you've done the culture offerings in the past, things evolve and change, it's absolutely worthwhile doing it again. Even if you know it, sometimes you just need someone to tell you again."
JenStart your Culture Reset
Sixteen days to the business you actually want, here's everything that's included:
- 16 days of short daily voice notes from Samara, plus one task a day
- Your own culture foundation, captured in your journal
- The Values List to work from
- Your Culture Reset Workbook, yours to keep and re-run for life
- The Team Reset Day Guide, if you have a team
Instant access. Yours to keep, and to run again whenever you need.
Not ready yet? Start here.
The Culture Reset is one piece of The Rising Method, our full system for building a salon that feels as good as it looks. If you're not ready to buy, the Salon Rising Podcast is the best place to start. It's free, and it's where a lot of this began.
