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The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast
The styling consultancy is the first "stylist only" business consulting firm dedicated to making personal stylists like you into 6-figurecreative CEOs.
We’re dedicated to pioneering a new category of badass, wealthy industry shifting stylists who run businesses that are ridiculously fun, have dreamy AF clients, and are making so much predictable monthly income, saving items in your The Real Real cart instead of checking out right away becomes a thing of the past.
Everything is about to change for you.
Listen in each week as host, Nicole Otchy, takes you inside the world of Six Figure Personal Stylists and what it takes for you to step into this world for yourself.
Episodes
122 episodes
From Hourly Rates to Premium Styling Services with Molly Hudson
Molly Hudson already knew luxury retail. She had worked at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Barneys, understood what quality actually looked like, and knew exactly which clients she wanted to serve. What she didn’t have was a personal styl...
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Fixing the Wrong Problem Keeps Your Income Stuck
Income is often the scoreboard we use in business, especially when we are trying to understand how far we have come or how long it should take to reach the next level. When that number is not moving the way you expected, it is easy to assume so...
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Why Your Personal Stylist Marketing Stops Attracting New Clients
You’ve been showing up consistently in your styling business and using the same kinds of marketing that once brought in clients. Then, all of a sudden, people stop reaching out. Your content starts to feel stale, and you may even feel disconnec...
Stop Waiting for the Right Time in Your Styling Business
Every slow season comes with a reason why now is not the right time. The kids are home, clients are traveling, or everyone has already spent their money over the holidays. Then the season changes and a new reason takes its place, even though th...
Growing Your Styling Business by Changing Your Niche with Mary Komick
Sometimes what you see on the outside doesn’t tell the true story of what’s going on with you internally. You might have the looks of a successful business externally, for example, that don’t match up with how you feel about it inside.My...
Why Your Styling Business Feels Busy But Isn’t Growing
My client had a closet most stylists could only dream about. Designer pieces, famous vintage finds, clothes that fit her perfectly, all in a beautiful walk-in with room to spare. She had deep fashion knowledge, places to go, and more than enoug...
What Personal Stylists With Consistent Income Do Differently
There are personal stylists who have a good month once in a while, and then there are personal stylists who know how to create consistent income in their business. The difference is not that they never doubt themselves or that every move they m...
Building a Personal Styling Business Around Identity Work with Anna Rova
Anna Rova came to personal styling from a place I don’t hear very often. She built a seven-figure dating coaching business, closed it down, and then decided to become a personal stylist, even though she had never styled friends and family or re...
What Fall Looks Like When Your Styling Business Has a Plan
There’s a version of success in your styling business that doesn’t usually get posted about because it isn’t dramatic enough. It’s not the viral post, the big press placement, or the six-figure reveal that makes everything suddenly feel legitim...
How to Audit Your Styling Business Before Fall Gets Here
If you’ve been with me for the last two episodes, you know summer is the setup season. So if you’re not where you want to be right now, this is a really good time to stop assuming “summer is just slow” and look at what’s actually happening in y...
How to Stay Visible in Summer Without Being Online All Day
You know going quiet in your marketing during the summer is part of what creates a slow fall. But knowing that doesn’t magically solve the real-life problem of kids being home, trips being planned and paid for, clients still needing you, and yo...
Taking Time Off in Summer Without Going Quiet in Your Styling Business
Every spring, stylists get busy. Client delivery picks up, the calendar fills, and the marketing starts to slow down. You're still showing up, maybe sharing what you're wearing, leaning on the links, but that deeper thought leadership that actu...
Building a Custom Clothing Brand for Women From the Ground Up with Lauren Linnane
Most stylists have seen the gap firsthand. A client wants something custom and the options are fast fashion off the rack or a men's tailor who adapts a suit to the female form. The fabrics are limited, the fit is a compromise, and nothing about...
The Part of Transformational Styling That Most Stylists Misunderstand
I recently finished a full year of working with a nutrition and weightlifting coach, and I ended up weighing the exact same amount as when I started. On paper, that looks like a failure. But I actually think it may have been the first real shot...
What Personal Stylists Get Wrong About "Making It"
Someone asks how your styling business is going and your stomach tightens before you've answered. You start calculating. How much to say, how enthusiastic to seem, how to make it sound like enough. Underneath all of it is a quiet belief that if...
Why Color Knowledge Belongs in Every Personal Styling Business with Carrie Harkin
A client asks you why a color washes her out, and you answer, but it's a little wishy-washy. She holds up two purples and asks which one, and you pick the right one on instinct, but you can't fully explain why. Most stylists I know are good at ...
What Keeps New Personal Stylists From Feeling Ready to Start Their Business
I hosted a stylist meetup in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I was sitting there listening as the established stylists traded client war stories and laughed, completely unfazed. Then it hit me tha...
Corporate Experience Is a Hidden Advantage for New Personal Stylists
If you're transitioning from a high-level corporate career into personal styling, you probably feel like you're starting from zero. You look at polished stylists on social media and decide that your years in HR, finance, marketing, or consultin...
How to Get Your First Personal Styling Clients Without Social Media
You've probably been preparing. Building the website, working on the branding, telling yourself you'll start reaching out once everything looks more official. From the outside it looks like progress. But none of it is what actually gets you you...
Two Things That Need to Be in Place Before You Build Your First Styling Package
You've been preparing. You have the saved videos, the notes, the ideas for how your package should look. But if your sessions are still running four or five hours and your sales calls start with the client telling you what they need, that prepa...
What Keeps New Personal Stylists From Feeling Ready to Launch
You've probably said some version of "I'm not ready yet" about your styling business and felt like that was the responsible answer. Maybe you're still researching platforms, tweaking your offers, or telling yourself you need a few more clients ...
What to Actually Focus on at Every Stage of Your Styling Business
Every stage of a styling business comes with its own challenges, and it doesn't matter how long you've been doing this. When you're focused on the wrong problem for the stage you're actually in, everything feels so much harder than it should.
Why Personal Stylists Get Stuck in a Boom-and-Bust Business Cycle
You've been doing this long enough to know your work is good. The client results are there. The testimonials are there. And still, every time a slow season hits or life gets in the way, you feel like you're rebuilding from zero. Not on your pac...
Raising Your Prices Even When You're Scared with Michelle Loo
Six months into her personal styling business, Michelle Loo had done everything most stylists think they're supposed to do. She had training. She had systems. She had clients who were strangers, not just friends doing favors.On paper, th...
Why Your Niche Isn't Filtering for the Right Personal Styling Clients
You have a niche. It's probably something like "helping working women feel confident getting dressed every day" and it's sitting in your Instagram bio right now. You post about it. You're getting people onto discovery calls who seem like a perf...
