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The Modern Hairstylist ™ Podcast
Teaching you how to grow your beauty business as a hairstylist or salon owner without the overwhelm by implementing modern strategies so you can reclaim time, freedom and energy from working behind the chair.
The Modern Hairstylist ™ Podcast
Things AI Can Do For You Behind The Scenes
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In this episode of The Modern Hairstylist Podcast, Hunter Donia and Jodie Brown get into one of the most exciting shifts Hunter has been making with his Mastermind and Modern Stylist Movement members over the past year: moving beyond using AI as a chatbot and actually putting it to work as a behind the scenes operator in your business.
Hunter is clear that going back and forth with ChatGPT to make a caption is not what this episode is about. This is about what it looks like when AI is genuinely replacing labor, running automations, and doing things for you completely hands off so you can stay focused on the work that actually requires you.
Key Takeaways:
✍️ AI That Auto-Drafts And Posts Your Blog For You: Hunter walks through how his students have set up systems where AI pulls from their own content bank, writes a blog post on a consistent schedule, and either auto-posts it or sends a draft for a quick review before it goes live, and then automatically turns that blog post into a Google My Business update as well.
⭐ Automated Review Responses That Sound Like You: Hunter breaks down how his students have set up automations that respond to five-star Google reviews within 12 hours without them lifting a finger, including smart filters that flag anything that needs a human response before anything goes out.
📋 An AI Consultation Note-Taker That Builds Client Profiles: Hunter shares one of his favorite tools inside Modern Stylist Movement: a consultation recorder that transcribes your appointments, summarizes the conversation, builds a client history profile, integrates with Square, and generates a follow-up email ready to send in seconds.
🤖 A Custom AI App That Recommends The Right Service To Book: Inspired by a Mastermind student expanding into a micro salon, Hunter built a custom AI trained webpage that reads a client's digital consultation form answers, recommends the right service, and only shows the booking link for that specific service so clients cannot accidentally book something cheaper.
📧 AI That Drafts And Designs Your Email Marketing For You: Hunter talks through how his students are connecting AI to their email marketing software to create fully branded, beautifully designed email drafts that are ready to send with minimal effort, making it easier than ever to actually show up in their clients' inboxes consistently.
🌐 AI That Builds And Optimizes Your Website: Hunter shares how AI website builders are completely changing the game for stylists who have been held back by tech overwhelm, including the ability to add backend SEO code that Wix and Squarespace are not doing for you automatically.
Why You Should Listen: If you have been using AI to write captions and not much else, this episode will completely shift how you think about what is possible. Hunter shares real examples of what his students are actually implementing right now, and makes a compelling case that the real power of AI is not in the conversation but in the automation.
