What happens when you’re running multiple businesses, raising nine children, and your world is completely shattered by grief?

In this episode of Tell Me About It, Cait Muir sat down with salon owner, hair educator, and foster mum Prue Taylor - for a raw, unfiltered conversation about business, loss, motherhood, and healing.

Prue shares her journey of building a hair salon from her garage…

Scaling to multiple thriving salons…

And what it really looks like to be a female entrepreneur in the hair and beauty industry.

You’ll hear about the realities of salon ownership, leadership, staff turnover, training apprentices, and why stepping off the floor is sometimes the most powerful move a business owner can make.

Prue opens up about:

✅Losing her partner suddenly and navigating grief as a business owner

✅How trauma impacts the nervous system and emotional regulation

✅Why breathwork and somatic healing became essential tools in her recovery

✅Raising children through kinship care and foster care while running businesses

✅Balancing motherhood, leadership, and survival when life falls apart

✅Why trusting your intuition matters more than expert advice

If you’re a salon owner, female entrepreneur, or a woman holding everything together while quietly falling apart… you’re in the right place.

Key moments:

00:03:40 From Garage to Empire
00:07:40 The Day Everything Changed
00:11:40 The Truth About Grief
00:17:40 Signs from the Other Side
00:23:40 Anger & Grief
00:27:40 Discovering Breath Work
00:34:00 The Business Brain
00:38:00 Training vs Losing Staff
00:47:40 Nine Kids One Roof
00:56:00 Managing Business and Babies
01:01:00 Hair Education Journey
01:09:00 Trust Your Own Intuition

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👉Connect With Prue

https://www.instagram.com/pruby_26
https://www.instagram.com/ladyandthehair

https://www.tiktok.com/@pruby26
https://www.tiktok.com/@_ladyandthehair_

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https://iconiccoaching.com.au/coaching/

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👉Here’s how to connect:

https://www.instagram.com/tellmeaboutit__podcast
https://iconiccoaching.com.au

If you’re a salon owner wondering why your best stylists are disengaging… whilst low performers coast… your reward system is the real problem.

In this episode of Tell Me About It, I break down why blanket rewards are destroying your workplace culture, killing staff motivation, and quietly driving your top performers out the door.

I’m sharing the uncomfortable truth about equality vs equity at work, why “treating everyone the same” isn’t actually fair, and how your reward structure might be breeding mediocrity (without you even realising it).

Tune in to hear about:

✅The real difference between equality vs equity in the workplace

✅Why high performers leave and underperformers stay

✅How poor reward systems create a toxic salon culture

✅The psychology behind motivation and performance at work

✅How to build performance-based rewards that actually motivate

✅Using KPIs, accountability, and transparency to retain top talent

This episode shows you how to build a high-performance team, improve staff retention, and create a culture where effort actually matters in your salon.

Key moments:

00:00:20 Blanket Rewards & Culture
00:02:00 Equality vs Equity
00:05:00 The ‘Communism in Business’ Effect
00:09:40 Why Top Talent Leaves
00:15:00 Teaching Teams to Coast
00:18:40 Learned Helplessness
00:21:00 Building Performance-Based Culture
00:24:00 Rewarding Contribution & Loyalty

Ready to stop funding mediocrity and start building a team that actually wants to perform? Listen now and discover the culture shift that could transform your business.

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👉Find out more about how we can work together:

https://iconiccoaching.com.au/coaching/

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👉Here’s how to connect:

https://www.instagram.com/tellmeaboutit__podcast
https://iconiccoaching.com.au

If you’re a woman in business or simply a woman who knows they’re capable of more - this episode will inspire you with the discipline, confidence, and self-belief to actually go all in.

Katie Alexander joins us to share a masterclass in high-performance mindset, resilience, and identity shifts.

Katie is a FIFO underground sparky, bikini bodybuilding pro, and walking proof that discipline beats motivation every single time.

And whilst the conversation discusses bodybuilding and fitness - the lessons shared are giving you the exact skills required to scale a business, survive burnout, and stop giving a f*ck what people think.

Tune in to hear about:

✅What it really takes to go from last place to winning (in sport, business, and life)

✅How to stay consistent when no one is cheering you on

✅The best ways to handle judgment, criticism, and tall poppy syndrome as a woman

✅How to stop people-pleasing… and start backing yourself instead

✅A simple way to build resilience during intense seasons of growth

✅The truth about the mental crash after you hit a big goal (and how to handle it)

If you’re a service-based business owner, coach, or ambitious woman who’s tired of Instagram-perfect advice and wants real talk about discipline, sacrifice, and self-trust - tune in now.

Key moments:

00:02:44 Katie's Competition Wins
00:04:20 Fear of Judgment
00:05:20 Using Loss as Fuel
00:07:40 The 1:30 AM Training Routine
00:11:40 Glamorous vs. Reality
00:15:00 Post Comp Recovery
00:18:00 The Intuition Shift
00:21:40 Teaching to FIFO Sparky
00:25:00 Escaping the White Picket Fence
00:30:20 People Pleasers
00:37:00 Advice to Younger Self

If you've ever felt trapped by other people's expectations of who you should be, this episode will light a fire under you.

Hit play now and discover how Katie went from people-pleaser to Pro Champion.

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👉Find out more about how we can work together:

https://iconiccoaching.com.au/coaching/

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👉Here’s how to connect:

https://www.instagram.com/tellmeaboutit__podcast
https://iconiccoaching.com.au