The Health Leader Podcast

Healthy competition in business can be a great PUSH that owners need to STRIVE for excellence and look to for industry standards and best practice. BUT what happens TOO often is that COMPETITION turns into PARANOIA and all of a sudden, there are DOZENS of businesses operating on their own islands out of FEAR that their knowledge could be used AGAINST them by their fellow practitioners. Tamara Shaw saw the NEED for a central support hub for professionals in the beauty industry to BREAK DOWN those barriers in order to SUPPORT each other, get ADVICE from people living the SAME daily reality, and compare notes in order to BETTER their own businesses and standards. It was at THAT MOMENT Beaute Industrie was born. Listen to how Tamara has brought hundreds of business owners TOGETHER to COLLABORATE ideas, SHARE experiences, and act as a beauty industry SOUNDBOARD for practitioners, and the CHALLENGES that come along with facilitating an ENTIRE online community!

When we think of the TYPICAL uniform seen in the massage and beauty world, the words 'FASHIONABLE' and 'STYLISH' don't exactly come to mind! Leesa Dawson is CHANGING the GAME with her business, The Uniform Stylist, bringing FASHION, COMFORT, and PRACTICALITY into the industry's workwear. Backed by 20 years in the fashion industry and armed with a PASSION for helping the wellness and beauty fields ENHANCE their business aesthetics, Leesa's 12-month young business is BOOMING with demand. Born of a NEED expressed by industry professionals for a more DYNAMIC and APPEALING uniform choice, Leesa spent COUNTLESS hours working hand-in-hand with people in the biz to trial and test what worked and what DIDN'T work for them until they perfected the prototype. Listen to how Leesa marries fashion and FUNCTIONALITY in her custom uniform designs that offer a much-needed ALTERNATIVE to the traditional tunic.

We could ALL talk for HOURS on the BAZILLION different ways massage therapy can help people. From relaxation to remedial, increasing someone's range of movement and helping to restore BALANCE to the body can have a STRONG and LASTING impact. Nowhere is this MORE evident than in the disability community. Tim Nelson comes from a HEART-WARMING journey of specialising in the field of disability massage therapy with a career spanning 20 years in treating clients with intellectual, physical, and acquired disabilities. Starting out as a jack of ALL trades in cattle boning, gym instructing, and an Aussie rules footy career cut short by injury, Tim gave it all up for a career in massage therapy. His first four clients ALL had disabilities, and he made the decision THEN AND THERE that disability massage was his calling. Tim takes us through how TRUST and UNDERSTANDING underpin his business model, and the UPS and DOWNS of specialising in such a niche field of massage.