Jul 21, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
Ashleigh Hodges - where is she now and life after being President of the Fellowship. * * * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You came along to a wellness conversation that I was having recently, hosting with lots of professionals.
We were talking about wellness and what that means and how we're much more open to the idea of wellness, not just being the absence of illness, but being how we all feel and look after.
Do you see that having changed over the last 10, 20 years in your relationship with clients? Do you think hairdressers broadly are more aware of how their clients are feeling about coming and how what their sort of experience of the salon is?
Yeah I think so for sure I mean that was such a brilliant evening so thank you for putting that on and it's so needed I feel like that whole topic in our industry is so important right now and I personally went along to it because almost every single one of my clients in some way is dealing with some form of hair loss at the moment.
so yeah i think it's really interesting like i've always i'm a science nerd so i mean when i started in the industry 20 odd years ago um as soon as i started learning all the science behind color and hair growth and um my consultation was always like your hair is fed from your blood and what's going on inside you is going to be affecting your hair and how are you doing as a person yeah was always kind of a key thing but it was not a key thing to everyone in their consultation and I feel like now it is.
I feel like that's something that even if 20 years ago you weren't saying that, you are now.
Which I find really fascinating because the world in general is so about optimization of people, which I personally don't necessarily agree with.
I feel like we should humble ourselves into nature a bit more yeah um but that is also where wellness comes in um so yeah I think it's most most clients are they're keyed up on it so we have to be keyed up on it so
You came along to a wellness conversation that I was having recently, hosting with lots of professionals.
We were talking about wellness and what that means and how we're much more open to the idea of wellness, not just being the absence of illness, but being how we all feel and look after.
Do you see that having changed over the last 10, 20 years in your relationship with clients? Do you think hairdressers broadly are more aware of how their clients are feeling about coming and how what their sort of experience of the salon is?
Yeah I think so for sure I mean that was such a brilliant evening so thank you for putting that on and it's so needed I feel like that whole topic in our industry is so important right now and I personally went along to it because almost every single one of my clients in some way is dealing with some form of hair loss at the moment.
so yeah i think it's really interesting like i've always i'm a science nerd so i mean when i started in the industry 20 odd years ago um as soon as i started learning all the science behind color and hair growth and um my consultation was always like your hair is fed from your blood and what's going on inside you is going to be affecting your hair and how are you doing as a person yeah was always kind of a key thing but it was not a key thing to everyone in their consultation and I feel like now it is.
I feel like that's something that even if 20 years ago you weren't saying that, you are now.
Which I find really fascinating because the world in general is so about optimization of people, which I personally don't necessarily agree with.
I feel like we should humble ourselves into nature a bit more yeah um but that is also where wellness comes in um so yeah I think it's most most clients are they're keyed up on it so we have to be keyed up on it so
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