The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast

Nicole Otchy - The Styling Consultancy
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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.

  1. 3d ago

    What’s Making It Hard to Raise Your Prices as a Personal Stylist

    You know you need to raise your prices. You also probably know exactly which clients you’re afraid of losing when you do it. Maybe they’ve been with you for years, you genuinely enjoy working with them, and raising your prices starts to feel personal, like you’re doing something to those clients. The problem is that if you’re already busy, staying at the same price means you have to keep the same amount of work coming in to make the money you need. And if you’re already working too much, there isn’t a lot of room left to go. Add in the belief that charging more means you’ll need to give clients even more, and it makes sense that changing your prices can start to feel much bigger than changing a number. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, I’m talking about why staying in your head about pricing usually makes the problem bigger and what you need to understand about the business you’re already running before you make the next move. Because sometimes the price is the issue, and sometimes it’s just the most obvious sign that you’ve outgrown other parts of the business. 2:12 – Why raising your prices feels so personal when you’re thinking about current clients 3:05 – Jessica raising her prices by thousands of dollars and what her existing clients said 6:31 – What happens when you stay at a price you already know is unsustainable 8:38 – The fear that charging more means you’ll have to give clients more 11:04 – Looking at the business underneath your pricing before you change the number 12:45 – When customizing everything starts creating problems in your client experience 15:45 – How Liza changed her offers and client experience before raising her prices 19:15 – What to look at if people really are pushing back on your new price 21:15 – What to review before you pick a new price 22:06 – How Income Accelerator helps established stylists work through pricing and the business around it Mentioned In What’s Making It Hard to Raise Your Prices as a Personal Stylist Apply for the Income Accelerator Program Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

    What’s Making It Hard to Raise Your Prices as a Personal Stylist

  2. Aug 27

    How Should Personal Stylists Be Thinking About AI with Nove

    Personal styling is changing, and technology and AI are becoming a bigger part of how people discover services, work, and do business. There’s a lot of anxiety about what that could mean for stylists, but there’s also a much bigger conversation to have about what technology could actually make possible for this industry. Megan Wright and Kaitlin Oran, co-founders of Nove, came into personal styling from the tech world after hiring stylists themselves and seeing how much of the business behind the client experience was still being done manually. Since then, they’ve spent the last few years working closely with stylists and seeing firsthand how the business side of styling is changing. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, Megan, Kaitlin, and I talk about how personal stylists should be thinking about AI, what’s changing in the industry, and where technology can make the work easier without replacing the human side of styling. We also get into recurring revenue, ShopMy, new ways stylists are being discovered, and some of the conversations we’ll be continuing live in New York this October. 2:06 – Megan and Kaitlin on the biggest shifts they’ve seen in the personal styling industry over the last two years 4:59 – Consistent revenue as a growing challenge for stylists building more stable businesses 7:24 – Recurring revenue and what changes once the initial high-touch client work is done 9:38 – VIP clients, time tracking, and the business data worth paying attention to 12:23 – Closet digitization, AI tools, and making the upfront client work more useful long term 15:33 – Stylists’ anxiety around AI and the opportunities Megan and Kaitlin see instead 16:04 – The parts of styling that still depend on trust, presence, and a real human relationship 20:04 – Nove’s ShopMy integration and what it opens up for affiliate income and brand relationships 21:41 – A look at the ShopMy conversation coming to the New York event this October 25:59 – Corporate styling, in-store relationships, Substack, bridal, and other revenue opportunities 29:27 – AI search as a new way potential clients are finding stylists 30:20 – Authenticity, branding, and showing up as yourself in a more technology-driven industry Mentioned In How Should Personal Stylists Be Thinking About AI with Nove How Nove Helps Power Your Personal Styling Business with Founders Megan Wright and Kaitlin Oran Nove | Instagram ShopMy Clozzie Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

    How Should Personal Stylists Be Thinking About AI with Nove

  3. Aug 20

    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 styling business built to match that level of experience. When we started working together, Molly was still charging hourly, without clear packages, onboarding systems, or a real marketing plan. She was also raising two young kids and trying to relaunch her business while they were home for the summer. Within weeks, she had raised her prices, sold a premium styling package at roughly ten times her previous rate, launched her new website, and was close to a waitlist for fall. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, Molly and I talk about moving from hourly rates to premium styling services, building packages around the clients you actually want, and creating the systems that make a high-end personal styling business easier to sell and deliver. 2:12 – How Molly’s background in luxury fashion and retail led her into personal styling 7:12 – The experience from Molly’s retail career that now sets her apart as a personal stylist 11:27 – How Molly identified the clients she wanted to serve and built her styling business around them 15:01 – The systems Molly added after joining the Income Accelerator and what she is still refining 17:24 – What Molly gained from working inside a small group of personal stylists 20:28 – How Molly approached creating packages and significantly raising her styling prices 23:34 – How to set expectations with high-end clients without assuming wealth automatically means demanding 25:18 – The hardest part of building a personal styling business while raising young kids 30:03 – Why the upfront work of creating systems pays off and what Molly wants to build next Mentioned In From Hourly Rates to Premium Styling Services with Molly Hudson The Wardrobe Editor | Instagram | Pinterest | LinkedIn Income Accelerator Application Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review Summer Series: Taking Time Off in Summer Without Going Quiet in Your Styling Business How to Stay Visible in Summer Without Being Online All Day How to Audit Your Styling Business Before Fall Gets Here What Fall Looks Like When Your Styling Business Has a Plan

    From Hourly Rates to Premium Styling Services with Molly Hudson

  4. Aug 13

    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 something obvious must be wrong and start looking at what other stylists are doing differently. That is where a lot of expensive guessing begins. The number can show you the outcome of the choices you have made up until now, but it cannot explain what created it. Without understanding that first, you can spend months changing your marketing, investing in support, or rebuilding parts of the business that were never the real problem. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, I’m talking about why income alone cannot tell you what needs to change in your business. I’m also looking at how stylists end up spending time and money on the wrong fix when they skip over what created the result in the first place. 3:00 – Income, slow months, and fewer inquiries as symptoms of a larger business problem 4:08 – The fixes stylists reach for first when something feels off in the business 6:23 – Marketing as the easy answer when income is not where you want it to be 7:28 – Unclear positioning showing up in your messaging, pricing, and styling offers 8:23 – Investing in the wrong solution and deciding help does not work 14:58 – Two personal stylists making the same income with completely different problems to solve 17:47 – Comparison, avoidance, and the role they play in how you read your own business 19:04 – Nicole’s answer when a stylist asks how long it will take to reach six figures Mentioned In Fixing the Wrong Problem Keeps Your Income Stuck Booked, Profitable, and Magnetic Private Podcast Income Accelerator Program Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

  5. Aug 6

    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 disconnected from what you’re saying. That does not automatically mean you’ve done something wrong. Sometimes your marketing stops working because you’ve grown as a stylist, your expertise has developed, and the client you want to work with has changed, but your messaging has not changed with you. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, I’m talking about why your personal stylist marketing may stop attracting new clients. I’ll explain where transactional marketing starts to fall short, what clients looking for a transformation need from your content, and why your messaging has to evolve as you do. 1:45 - How your marketing not working could actually be a sign of your growth 7:05 - The first thing to decide when you start noticing that your marketing isn’t working anymore 11:22 - One common marketing mistake that leads to a lack of response to your messaging 14:43 - The need to reinvigorate your marketing message with your purpose and how to re-anchor and remind yourself of it 20:28 - How to make sure your content or desire matches up with the kind of clients you want to attract 25:06 - The importance of honoring your preferences as a personal stylist and using that as your advantage 28:15 - An obvious thing you might not be doing that accounts for your lack of clients Mentioned In Why Your Personal Stylist Marketing Stops Attracting New Clients Why Your Marketing Might Not Be the Problem in Your Personal Styling Business What Personal Stylists Who Are Killing It Right Now Do Differently Evolving Your Personal Styling Business and What’s Working Now  Mastering Accountability as Your Superpower Unlocks Business Success Transactional Styling Defined: How to Be a Successful Transactional Personal Stylist Transformational Styling Defined: How to Be a Successful Transformational Personal Stylists Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

    Why Your Personal Stylist Marketing Stops Attracting New Clients

  6. Jul 30

    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 the pattern stays exactly the same. Last spring, I was launching the Income Accelerator when I received a serious health diagnosis. It was caught early and handled quickly, and I am fine now, but I was not fine in the middle of it. I pulled back, did the bare minimum, and still closed six of eight spots because of what I had already built before things got hard. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, I’m talking about what waiting for the right time costs your styling business, why some kinds of consistency do not create clients, and what the stylists with real momentum do differently. 0:19 – What Nicole discovered about her own capacity when a health scare hit in the middle of a live launch 2:45 – The pattern that stylists repeat every single season 4:39 – The deeper cost of tapping out of your business during slow periods 7:51 – The fallacy of training your brain to see waiting for perfect conditions as a valid strategy 9:52 – Why marketing consistently doesn’t always attract clients 11:37 – What stylists who never chase clients have in common 14:14 – The question that separates the stylists who stay stuck from those who build real momentum Mentioned In Stop Waiting for the Right Time in Your Styling Business Booked, Profitable, and Magnetic Private Podcast Income Accelerator Program Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

    Stop Waiting for the Right Time in Your Styling Business

  7. Jul 23

    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 client Mary Komick felt like she’d done everything. She’d had her personal styling business for three years and worked with just about every stylist coach out there. And while she certainly had clients, she felt like it wasn’t working. Something was still missing, and that feeling led her to me. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist podcast, you’ll see how honing in on the right niche for you can make your messaging, marketing, and lead generation feel more consistent and effortless. You’ll also discover the importance of diversifying your marketing channels and how focusing on building business relationships impacts your marketing efforts (online and offline). 3:25 - Mary’s history as a stylist and the kind of clients she had before working with me 5:52 - The mistake Mary made before adopting the niching change that made things more effortless 8:52 - What it takes to make your business feel effortless and the change in Mary’s marketing that increased online engagement 14:06 - What Mary wanted for her styling business that she wasn’t getting elsewhere when she came to me 17:26 - The game-changer that made Mary start feeling more confident and consistent in her marketing efforts 21:47 - How Mary diversified her lead and client generation channels to bring in income she otherwise wouldn’t have had 25:40 - How establishing relationships offline can affect the marketing you do on social media 30:47 - What Mary is most looking forward to in her styling business over the next year Mentioned In Growing Your Styling Business by Changing Your Niche with Mary Komick Mary Komick | Instagram |  TikTok | Pinterest Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

    Growing Your Styling Business by Changing Your Niche with Mary Komick

  8. Jul 16

    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 enough money to buy whatever she wanted. And every single item, including the shoes, still had its tags on. So she hired me to help her wear them. At least, that was the problem she told me she had. She was new to this level of wealth, overwhelmed by a bigger life, and unsure how to put it all together. It was a reasonable problem to have, except it wasn’t the real problem. What was actually going on ran much deeper, and no lookbook I put together for her was going to fix it. The problem she thought she had was a decoy, a substitute problem that kept her focused on something safer than the real issue. And I see personal stylists create the same exact pattern in their businesses every single week. In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, I’m talking about why your styling business can feel busy while still not growing, how decoy problems show up in pricing, marketing, platforms, websites, and the economy, and what changes when you stop solving the problem that feels safe and start facing the one that actually needs your attention. 0:00 – What my client’s story reveals about the hidden barrier that might be showing up in your business 7:14 – What the decoy problem often looks like in a personal styling business 10:10 – The “motivated reasoning” for why our brains pick up decoy problems, and how these problems show up for us 16:01 – What stylists are often trying to avoid addressing when chasing decoys, and why your pricing is rarely what's actually holding back bookings 20:38 – What happens when you’re willing to give up your decoy problem 21:31 – The four things that actually build a healthy, sustainable styling business 23:18 – One question that will reveal exactly where to focus your problem-solving energy Mentioned In Why Your Styling Business Feels Busy But Isn’t Growing Booked, Profitable, and Magnetic Private Podcast Income Accelerator Program Follow Nicole on Instagram Leave a rating and review

    Why Your Styling Business Feels Busy But Isn’t Growing
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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.

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    Nicole Otchy - The Styling Consultancy
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    2024 - 2026
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