Sara Jade

Day two, I sat in a room listening to Lou Rice talk about nearly running out of cash. Borrowing money to cover stock nobody bought. The specific loneliness of holding a business together while everyone assumes you have it handled.

I recognised every part of it. Not because it was inspiring. Because it was mine too.

I have reinvented this business half a dozen times now. Through COVID. Through staff leaving for their own reasons. This time was different. This time I got to rebuild it just for me.

If you are a hairdresser who has ever run the business and done the hair and smiled at a client while working out if payroll clears, this is for you. Strength is not the photo on the deck with thirteen other women. Strength is the version of me that kept showing up to a chair for clients while deciding, quietly, whether the whole thing was going to survive.

By day three, my mind had finally slowed down enough to feel any of it. Sound healing for the first time. A friend I want to know more of, not less. A final breakfast I did not want to end.

The answer did not change. It just got clearer, and for the first time, I could feel it too.

If any of this sounds like your year, I would love for you to stick around.

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