ASHLEE NORMAN
Hairstylist + Educator + Mom | AshleeNormanHair.com
EPISODES
Beyond Trends: True Education, Sacrifice, & Financial Freedom:
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Finding Balance & Success via Focus, Determination, & Discipline:
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change By Stephen Covey
EPISODES
Beyond Trends: True Education, Sacrifice, & Financial Freedom
Tune in to hear Ashlee share her story, how to think about education, and how to find your financial freedom!
Key Takeaways
Ashlee went to cosmetology school during High School and then went to University while working part-time in the salon.
The ability and habit of focus and hard work was a natural fit to become an independent educator.
She married her high school sweetheart, and ten years into hairdressing, she had her first child, and her husband joined her company to become a business team not long after.
Out of school, it was hard to build a clientele because there was no social media.
Ashlee got into education through visiting NYC, re-teaching at her salon, and building an apprenticeship program.
In order to invest in her education and career, she did not go out much and took financial advice and this meant living in a 450 sq ft apartment ... hard work, sacrifice, and investment!
If you want to have a truly enriched life, you must learn to manage your finances, which means not always getting your fancy coffee or nails done. It means staying in and saving sometimes when others are going out. Like the bible says: "A debtor is a slave to the lender" or in other words, living paycheck to paycheck is a form of modern-day financial slavery, and the only way to break the bondage is to make sacrifices of spending money and putting value in places that others around you may not see. Saving and budgeting early in your career is one of the most important things you can do.
Getting into education before social media required working with a brand and working your way, slowly, up the ladder. Now, anyone who knows how to build social media can skip those steps of training and become an independent educator. Ashlee is working to bring back the super high quality of academy training from before social media to the world while using social media’s relevance.
Finding Balance & Success via Focus, Determination, & Discipline
Tune in to hear how Ashlee inspires us all to be our best through focus and determination!
Key Takeaways
Ashlee made her financial goal from teaching in order to make their family goals, which looks like Ashlee teaching and traveling instead of staying home with the kids.
After childbirth, she recruited and paid her mother-in-law to be their on-the-road nanny and assist with child care to enable Ashlee to have someone she could trust and was familiar with to watch her children while she worked!
Sometimes, we hold back from taking leads to opportunities and don't follow up for various reasons like fear and anxiety.
If you want something, it will likely be hard. Do not give up; push through the work and the harder times to get to the other side of success.
During the pregnancy of her 2nd child, Ashlee left her salon for a salon suite, decided to film her education and sell it, and out-earned her husband that year in the spire of pregnancy and delivering child #2!
Maintaining financial discipline will enable you to manage your finances during emergencies...even a pandemic!
When you are independent, but in all aspects of the hair industry, you have to do a good job to get a referral and continuously grow to be successful!
You dream of good health, but you PLAN for the things you want.
Do not let outside factors determine your worth or place in this world. Have security in yourself and trust in God.
Find balance through planning, focused execution, & not letting distractions of social engagements, other's opinions, or any other external force get in your way. Stay focused, keep your eye on your goal, but enjoy the journey along the way.
Nothing is guaranteed in this life, so focus on your craft, passion, and progression.
