Brand Talk With Rachel and Drew
Welcome to the ”Brand Talk with Rachel and Drew,” where we dive deep into the world of beauty, entrepreneurship, and salon success. If you’re a stylist, salon owner, or beauty enthusiast with big dreams, you’re in the right place. We’re here to unlock the secrets, strategies, and stories behind building million-dollar beauty empires.
Welcome to the ”Brand Talk with Rachel and Drew,” where we dive deep into the world of beauty, entrepreneurship, and salon success. If you’re a stylist, salon owner, or beauty enthusiast with big dreams, you’re in the right place. We’re here to unlock the secrets, strategies, and stories behind building million-dollar beauty empires.
Episodes
Jul 17, 2026
Jul 17, 2026
14 min
Your clients love the products you recommend and they are buying them somewhere else. This episode breaks down why salon exclusive retail is dead, what product diversion is actually doing to your clients and what Rachel and Drew are launching at Salon Con 2027 to fix it.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
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► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)
https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLS
Build your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-edition
The AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbook
Leave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTEN
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandtalkwithrachelanddrew
Podcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOW
Rachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexo
Drew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomas
Boulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMER
Rachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jul 17, 2026
14 min
Jul 13, 2026
Jul 13, 2026
26 min
The beauty industry is moving fast and most salon owners are the last to know. This episode breaks down what is actually happening with your retail brands, how Rachel built a carousel that outperformed by 864% and the AI tool Drew built in a few hours that changed how their entire team operates.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)
https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLS
Build your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-edition
The AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbook
Leave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTEN
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Brandtalkwithrachelanddrew
Podcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOW
Rachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexo
Drew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomas
Boulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMER
Rachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jul 13, 2026
26 min
Jul 10, 2026
Jul 10, 2026
26 min
You already have everything you need to start making money today. This episode breaks down the exact five steps that drive revenue in any business and why most people skip the ones that actually matter.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jul 10, 2026
26 min
Jul 6, 2026
Jul 6, 2026
27 min
Managing people is the hardest part of owning a business and nobody teaches you how to do it. This episode breaks down exactly why feedback feels like an attack, how to stop running the ball yourself and what it actually takes to build a team that performs without you.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jul 6, 2026
27 min
Jul 3, 2026
Jul 3, 2026
30 min
Your phone is the only equipment you need. Stop waiting until you have the perfect setup and start making content that actually grows your business.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jul 3, 2026
30 min
Jun 29, 2026
Jun 29, 2026
26 min
Most salon owners can't take three days off without their income stopping. We took five kids to Italy for three weeks and the business kept running. This episode is how, and it has nothing to do with working harder.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jun 29, 2026
26 min
Jun 15, 2026
Jun 15, 2026
20 min
E187 - Nobody Does It AloneYou think you have to do everything yourself, and that belief is the exact thing keeping you capped. Here is every role that runs our business so we don't have to be in all of it.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jun 15, 2026
20 min
Jun 12, 2026
Jun 12, 2026
20 min
E186 - There Is No Parade When You Finally Get ThereYou hit the goal you chased for years and it was quiet. No parade. Most salon owners feel that and assume something is wrong with them. Nothing is. This episode is what changes it.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jun 12, 2026
20 min
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
14 min
E185 - You Don't Need a Website. You Need an Offer.You have spent months tweaking a website nobody books from. An offer is what sells, and most salon owners have never built one. Here is how.
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Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jun 8, 2026
14 min
Jun 5, 2026
Jun 5, 2026
20 min
E184 - Get Out of Your Client's Purse and Start Pricing for ProfitYou price for what you think your clients can afford instead of what your work is worth, and that habit caps your income more than your schedule does. Here is how to fix it.
Brand Talk with Rachel & Drew is the podcast for salon owners who are great at their craft, capped by their hours, done making the big brands richer & ready to build a product brand THEY actually own. Each week, Rachel & Drew Thomas break down how they built a private-label hair extension brand inside their own salons & how hundreds of salon owners are now doing the same. You get the REAL systems, the ACTUAL numbers & none of the hustle-harder noise. You bring the 10 percent only you can bring, and we show you the engine that carries the rest. If you are done trading hours for dollars, follow the show and start building something YOU own.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► ATTEND A BRAND WORKSHOP (start here)https://www.thebyob.com/discovery-session
► WORK WITH US + FREE TOOLSBuild your business (course): https://course.thebyob.com/business-editionThe AI Team Playbook (free): https://course.thebyob.com/ai-team-playbookLeave a review + send a screenshot, get our BYOB Hiring Guide free: https://www.thebyob.com/review
► WATCH + LISTENYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrandtalkwithrachelanddrewPodcast: https://themilliondollarsalon.podbean.com/
► FOLLOWRachel: https://www.instagram.com/rachelpaigexoDrew: https://www.instagram.com/mdrewthomasBoulevard ambassador: https://get.joinblvd.com/ambassador-rachel-paige/
#salonownereducation #salonownership #salonowners #hairextensions #salonbusiness #productbrand #recurringrevenue
DISCLAIMERRachel and Drew are not CPAs, attorneys, insurance agents, contractors, lenders, or financial advisors. Nothing here is tax, legal, insurance, or financial advice, and it may be outdated or inaccurate. Verify everything yourself. For educational and entertainment purposes only.
Jun 5, 2026
20 min






