Join us in Costa Rica for the Industry: UNPLUGGED Retreat April 2027

In this episode I’m sitting down with Janean, The Healing Therapist — a hairstylist of 22 years, a yoga teacher of 10, and the woman I asked to lead all the movement at our Costa Rica Industry Unplugged Retreat. This one is full circle in the best way, because Janean first found this podcast when money was her whole story, and now she’s sitting across from me as a friend, a peer, and someone I get to build something beautiful with.

We get into the stuff that doesn’t get talked about enough behind the chair. Janean shares how she quit doing hair three times and rebuilt her clientele a fourth — this time through grief, a neck injury she didn’t think she’d recover from, and major debt. We talk about the difference between hearing the information and actually implementing it, why being in the room changed everything for her, and how she dug out of her lowest point not by fixing what was most broken, but by leaning into what she was already good at.

This is a conversation about the mind-body connection, self-sabotage, worthiness versus capability, and why hairstylists are quietly some of the most powerful people in their communities. We laugh, we almost cry (more than once), and we land on something I believe with my whole chest: you don’t have to do the big scary version of healing. Sometimes it’s just staying curious and not overthinking it.

In this episode we cover:

• Why yoga is less about flexibility and more about building a relationship with yourself
• Rebuilding your career with everything you already know instead of starting from zero
• The difference between consuming information and actually implementing it
• Self-sabotage — how to start catching it in the moment instead of years later
• Why focusing on what you’re best at (not what’s most broken) can pull your whole life up
• Worthiness vs. capability, and the money stories we don’t realize we’re carrying
• How hairstylists create real change in the world, one client at a time

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