Above The Line with Sharon Mudgett: Recent Episodes
Salon Innovations
What does it mean to show up as your best self, ready to create positive change that could affect the entire salon? How can retail unlock new possibilities and opportunities? Join the conversation to find out!
Salon life can have many challenges that lead to frustration and burnout. So how do we overcome these difficult encounters? By having resiliency and adapting to the changes around us. In this episode of Above the Line, Sharon discusses the importance and the strength of being resilient and adaptable in the chaotic salon environment.
How do we bring out the best in us? What is it that we need to understand to achieve the success we want? Join Sharon Mudgett and learn about the different areas we can explore to reinforce communication with customers and bring back some control into our learning and empower our growth and career!
Join Sharon as she explores different ways to become the customer’s hair advocate. She will discuss how we can move our mindset with an emphasis on the importance of going back to knowing and understanding the basics. By strengthening our foundational knowledge and building up our confidence, we can step up to our role as the hair expert.
The pandemic has brought many challenges to the industry that we are all experiencing. Join Sharon as she explores this collective trauma and how we can achieve personal healing through simple practices to fill our personal cups, for our body, mind, and emotional health to help us stand behind the chair with confidence and a new outlook.
Sharon examines the way we form beliefs and use them to guide our actions - even when they are not always based in reality. These beliefs can lead to seeing others, not as they are, but as we believe them to be. How does this affect our interactions with the clients in our chair?
Welcome to Above the Line! Sharon gives a little history on her career in the cosmetology industry. It's time to begin exploring the role of personal choice when it comes to attitude and work.
Are you ready for Season 4 of Above the Line?
This season will focus on Sharon's top 6 favorite episodes of Above the Line!
Being an industry expert isn’t easy, and it certainly doesn’t happen instantly. But with the right skills and motivation, any stylist can become an expert in their salon. In this episode of Above the Line, join Sharon as she blends every soft skill we’ve discussed into one focus, being the industry expert!
Salon life can have many challenges that lead to frustration and burnout. So how do we overcome these difficult encounters? By having resiliency and adapting to the changes around us. In this episode of Above the Line, Sharon discusses the importance and the strength of being resilient and adaptable in the chaotic salon environment.
How can we as stylists, take ourselves to the next level? By being a better communicator. By learning how to understand your customer, how to listen to what they are saying, and how to respond to them in effective and helpful ways. Learn with Sharon Mudgett as she discusses the variety of elements needed to be a great and effective communicator in your salon!
Being an effective retail professional begins with listening! We have to be able to listen to the client's wants and offer suggestions that help them. Join Sharon Mudgett as she discusses the importance of applying active listening skills to the retail process and how every stylist can benefit from the art of active listening.
How do we bring out the best in us? What is it that we need to understand to achieve the success we want? Join Sharon Mudgett and learn about the different areas we can explore to reinforce communication with customers and bring back some control into our learning and empower our growth and career!
Get ready for Season 3 of Above the Line!
In this season, We are going to focus on the empowering soft skills, or interpersonal skills needed to succeed in our industry.
Join Sharon Mudgett for the Above The Line Season Finale as she interviews professional photographer, salon owner, and founder of American Crew, David Raccuglia. Listen as David discusses his career, his life as a barber and hairstylist. Learn about his journey to become an industry icon and where he found his inspiration to change the grooming world that continues to motivate him today.
Join Sharon as she explores different ways to become the customer’s hair advocate. She will discuss how we can move our mindset with an emphasis on the importance of going back to knowing and understanding the basics. By strengthening our foundational knowledge and building up our confidence, we can step up to our role as the hair expert.
The hair industry is facing a stylist shortage as we have never seen before. Salons and stylists across the country are faced with stress, exhaustion, and difficulty finding their value. Join Sharon Mudgett as she talks with Jen Planck, TIGI international motivational speaker, salon owner, and stylist behind the chair, as she coaches stylists, managers, and salon owners on ways they can change their approach to teamwork to become a cohesive team.
At a time where it seems as though the pressure to perform is always on, more and more people are admitting to experiencing burnout in the workplace. Join Sharon Mudgett as she talks about what this phenomenon is, its effects, and ways you can cope with it if it happens to you.
The pandemic has brought many challenges to the industry that we are all experiencing. Join Sharon as she explores this collective trauma and how we can achieve personal healing through simple practices to fill our personal cups, for our body, mind, and emotional health to help us stand behind the chair with confidence and a new outlook.
Hello Friends,
Join me for the 2nd season of the Above the Line podcast. I will be interviewing Icons in our industry and hear their motivating stories of success, talk to fellow stylists and barbers as they share their tales of accomplishments, and offer tools for personal growth and development.
You don't want to miss this season!
In this special season finale episode, Sharon interviews Randy Ferman, owner and founder of Shark Fin Shears. They talk about the history of Shark Fin, Randy’s outlook and life philosophy, and what makes the hair industry so special. You won’t want to miss this!
When we take a moment and choose our response to the situations we encounter, we have better outcomes and more power in how we show up in our lives. Sharon describes a new approach to responding, rather than reacting, to get us back into the driver's seat of our daily experience.
Sharon examines the way we form beliefs and use them to guide our actions - even when they are not always based in reality. These beliefs can lead to seeing others, not as they are, but as we believe them to be. How does this affect our interactions with the clients in our chair?
Sharon dives into the mystery of how we think and shares some insight from her coaching training. Where do our thoughts come from? How do these thoughts help or hinder our professional lives in the salon?
Welcome to Above the Line! Sharon gives a little history on her career in the cosmetology industry. It's time to begin exploring the role of personal choice when it comes to attitude and work.