Behind The Mirror Glasgow Podcast
Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 7 segments
On today’s episode we have Maddi Cook the legend who’s responsible for helping thousands of stylists get their pricing right. Noticing a gap in the market between busy salons and profitable salons…
... because obviously, uh, so we're in your group on Facebook where there's s- people will have done your calculator or they haven't done it yet, and they've got-
... it's the same questions over and over and over, isn't it? It's like geo- geography.
Like, I can't charge extra 'cause the area I live in is this.
So I'll give an example of a real-life thing that happened with Laura and I the other day.
It's all women, and it can be anything about, can someone help me with advice for this, or thingies.
But quite a lot of the time it's recommendations for hairdressers.
So the other day a person had come on anonymously and put up, "I've just been to a stylist who's charged me 150 pounds for half-head foils, a blow-dry, and a trim.
Does this sound right?" And the comments were-
Yeah.
And the comments were, oh, painful actually.
And now loads of backing, there was loads of beautiful comments saying like, "Well, did you like your hair? Did you like the-
...
the experience that you had? That's what's important." And she, this person never actually responded to anybody, but then there was the sort of particularly hideous comments that were things like, "That's extortionate.
I own a salon, and I only charge-
... 80 pounds for the same thing."
... because obviously, uh, so we're in your group on Facebook where there's s- people will have done your calculator or they haven't done it yet, and they've got-
... it's the same questions over and over and over, isn't it? It's like geo- geography.
Like, I can't charge extra 'cause the area I live in is this.
So I'll give an example of a real-life thing that happened with Laura and I the other day.
It's all women, and it can be anything about, can someone help me with advice for this, or thingies.
But quite a lot of the time it's recommendations for hairdressers.
So the other day a person had come on anonymously and put up, "I've just been to a stylist who's charged me 150 pounds for half-head foils, a blow-dry, and a trim.
Does this sound right?" And the comments were-
Yeah.
And the comments were, oh, painful actually.
And now loads of backing, there was loads of beautiful comments saying like, "Well, did you like your hair? Did you like the-
...
the experience that you had? That's what's important." And she, this person never actually responded to anybody, but then there was the sort of particularly hideous comments that were things like, "That's extortionate.
I own a salon, and I only charge-
... 80 pounds for the same thing."
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