In this episode, Brandy shares a candid life update about life outside the salon.
Season 2 kicks off bringing you up to date on what life has been like for Brandy since she's retired from hairstyling.
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I wanted to tell every stylist that I knew that girl people are out here having brunch. They are out here shopping. They are out here at picnics. They are doing the Casper slide. They are having whole entire lives that we have not been privy to because we have been behind the chair, serving our clients.
You're tuning in to the sheer resilience podcast . The Brown girls guide to facing life's hurdles without giving up Tune in weekly, as we share candid conversations and an occasional Kiki to help you bounce back and be the best version of yourself. I am your host, Brandy Lucas, let's cut up. What is up good people.
We are back with episode 11, the first episode of season two of the sheer resilience podcast. I'm miss y'all. I hope you're doing well. I hope that your Thanksgiving holiday was just good. Yes, it was different, but I hope that it was good. You ate well, you didn't have to be shuffling around to everybody's house.
Overall. I hope that things are well, so happy to be back. I definitely missed this platform and just chit chatting with you guys about things that are pressing in our lives these days, but I'm back. So today I am kicking off episode. 11 season two or with the dope things that I'm digging. And I am hype again, y'all probably feel like I always be high, but I'm hype again because this week's dope thing that I am digging is my new product.
It's called the Pixi ish molding mousse. So if you have not heard my story, I am a retired recently retired llike. Just this year, a hairstylist of nearly 20 years. I have been a short hairstylist in both Chicago and here in Dallas, and I have been cutting hair and styling hair for a long time. So. When I was behind the chair, I always had a desire to bring about more high quality products for the women that I was serving.
But my time was just like, I had a time to do it. I was running my salon, being a business owner, as well as serving my clients behind the chair. So while I had this great lofty idea and all of these things, that's the perfect short hair. foam would do for my clients. I just really didn't have the time to do the research and get that thing done.
But your girl has retired. From hairstyling. It has afforded me the time to do some things that I was not able to do when I was behind the chair. And I recently launched my new product. Again, it is called pixie is Modi moose, and it is a. Styling foam short hair is all about being pulled together and polished in this foam is the ideal product for molding, for waving, for setting four rollers.
It does all the things I am so happy about it. The launch has been explosive. I have been so busy. So this couple of weeks that I was off from the podcast, I was not sitting somewhere with my feet kicked up. I was. Moving into this new season of, launching my product and getting the product into the hands of the short hair community.
So that is this week's dope thing that I am digging. The pixie is molding moose. Of course, you guys know that if you would like to get your hands. On this product that you can visit the show's website@sheerresiliencepodcast.com. Or you can just click the link in your favorite podcast player because I leave the links in the show notes below.
So let's get into the show. So this episode is going to be a bit of a life update. I recently walked away from my career as a hairstylist, closed my salon to just figure out this next season of my life. There were some things that I had on my agenda that, like I said, I. I felt like I wanted to do, but really didn't have the time to do it.
Or even just the, the brain space to figure out the next steps to get those projects rolling. but there were a lot of gray areas in steel are now mind you. It has only been since October that I have officially walked away. So things are still fresh and new. But in this episode I wanted to share with you guys just a bit of a life.
Update and some things that I have realized already that are major changes in my lifestyle. The first thing that is a major adjustment is money. Money is different these days. I am so incredibly blessed. I am not about to act like, you know, things are just terrible, but being a hairstylist for nearly 20 years, I have been making money every day that I was working well.
Okay. There have been some days where it might've been a slow day or something was going on early on in these 20 years where I wasn't making money every day, but for the bulk of my career. And especially recently, every day that I have showed up to the salon was the day that I was making money. That is a major adjustment to go from every single day that you go to work, you're making money.
I was not waiting on a check. There was cash or, you know, a debit or whatever, some form of currency flowing your girl's way every single day. So I'm not behind the chair. So this is a major money adjustment. I have to be so much more mindful of my spending. If you guys caught my previous episode about my whole, why behind, why I walked away from the salon, you know, That one major, decision that I made before I completely walked away was to make sure that I was aligning my finances in a way that gave me a bit of cushion so that I wasn't out here struggling, struggling while I figured out my next steps.
So yeah. That requires me to be very mindful about the way that I spend my money, my money is flowing in different, but my addiction to home goods and, and Amazon and going in target those things are still very much present. So I have to check myself often and realize that. Aye girl, you might be doing a bit much because you don't have six to seven people on your book tomorrow that you're going to be able to replenish this money.
I have been blessed
too.
you know, start getting my income from the salon and make money in other ways, since I'm not behind the chair, but it's different, it's different. And there is an adjustment. So the major adjustment
that,
I feel like I try to prepare for, but I couldn't really be completely compared until I got out you're living.
It is the money adjustment. Another amazing adjusting. Mint that you know, has snuck up on me. I was a little bit prepared, but now I'm living is my time y'all Oh my goodness. My life has been so consumed with going, going, going my entire weeks had been just etched out that my life was based around my work schedule.
So I worked. For many years, I worked Tuesday through Saturday. So Sunday, Monday, where my days to kind of stuff in everything that I needed to do outside of the salon. So grocery shopping, cleaning my house, doing my laundry, taking my kids to do something, you
know,
that they wanted to do just. Every thing had to be stuffed into those two days, a little further into my career.
I started to not work on Tuesdays and then it was Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday steel safe team components. I got one extra day to, you know, do all of the many
things,
that my life entail. But. It was still basically focused on my work
schedule.
recently when my daughter got into her, I want to say junior or senior year, maybe her senior year.
I stopped working weekends. And
I,
eventually as I got closer to retiring, stopped working on Wednesdays. So I was like in there and out of there, it gave me a glimpse of what it was like
to,
still make the money that I was used to making. And. Have some more freedom in my time. So once I kinda got bit by that bug, I was like, wait a minute, people are out here having whole lives.
I knew nothing about this when I stopped working Saturdays. Listen, I wanted to tell every stylist that I knew that girl people are out here having brunch. They are out here shopping. They are out here at picnics. They are doing the Casper slide. They are having whole entire lives that we have not been privy to because we have been behind the chair, serving our clients.
I really felt
like,
a different part of the world opened up to me. So I was like, Ready when it was time for me to finally retire and walk away from hairstyling, that was a major pro just knowing that my time was my own same time. There can be some cons to the whole time thing. I have a busy man. I'm gonna just put it out there.
I don't want to diagnose myself as having nothing, but your girl's mind goes amount a minute. So it's difficult for me and still is difficult. If I'm 100% with y'all to take this time that I feel like God has given me a break from the life that I've known. For nearly two decades to kind of slow down a bit.
I'm still like utilizing my time to do all the things. There is not still a lot of. Me prioritizing rest and relaxation. Just last week I
spent,
the majority of one day, like really doing what I had to do, getting back in the
bed,
just took a nap midday and I was just like, Oh my goodness. So I have been off work for nearly two months, and this is really like the first day that I committed and didn't have guilt behind just doing nothing.
I'm still working out how to manage my time. The bulk of my time has been, go, go, go. I do find myself now that I'm not working, still putting stuff in those places that have me go, go going. But I feel like because I'm conscious of it now. I'm going to try to do better. It's definitely something that I'm mindful of.
I'm going to talk to my therapist about it too, just to see if she can kind of help me work through why I'm always like putting something in the space and why it's so difficult for me to relax. I really have the mindset. That to just chill is like a waste of time. Like I couldn't, I, I should be doing something.
I have so many things on my plate that I need to
do.
so just like straight out, I ain't put no clothes on today and I'm like in the bed at one, two an afternoon, it's just not my seat, but I know that my body needs to relax. And rejuvenate more often. So managing my time and the adjustment to my time is something that is.
I ain't figured it out yet. Another major, major adjustment that I am only still dealing with. I ain't even gonna try to find, like I have figured this thing out is my self image. So for so long, my self image has been wrapped up in the, what I do. I have been Brandy Lucas, the hairstylist, the salon owner, like it did not occur to me.
Well, it occurred to me, but I don't think that I put as much time attention focus in the other parts of myself that are just as valid, if not more, just as in need of nurturing and
developing.
you know, as my. Career hat. So that's something that I've had to face and sit with. Like, who am I, if I am not the hairstylist, if I am not the salon owner.
Where is my identity and I'm still working through that. Like I always say beauty is such a major part of who I am. I feel like I will always be connected to the beauty industry, but the way that I am connected to it now is much different than what I
have,
you know, known for so long. So it's an
adjustment.
I am working through understanding that my gifts, my
talents,
my purpose here on earth is so much bigger than just a singular focus. And I also realized that. We are assigned to things for a seasons. So for a season, I was a child for a season. I was a stylist for a
season.
you know, I'll be something else.
And if I get too hung up, if you get too hung up, In the season or the title that was attached to the season that has now passed. I asked you, I, we run the room risk of stifling, our growth, our development, and really fully tapping into whatever our next is. So I'm careful about that. But. To be honest, it has been and continues to be an adjustment.
As I figure out the space that I am to take up in this world now that it is not the same space that I've taken up for two decades. It's not something that is like a, Oh, I'm having an identity crisis because I'm not
a,
after stylists anymore. 98.5% of the time. I am so, so, so, so overjoyed with my choice to walk away from the salon.
It's just these little moments that I have, especially with the adjustment that I'm making in
finances.
figuring out my time and also this self image, clarity part of
things,
that makes me slow down a little bit and really think about it now. How do I move forward? Okay. The adjustment that is necessary to be made, what does that look like?
But again, this life update. In regards to what is life like for
me?
it's been amazing. I feel so completely and utterly blessed. I feel relieved. I feel less stressed. I feel more clear. I feel. Amazing. I really do. I'm proud of myself for taking a big leap and not knowing how everything would work out, not having all of the ducks in a row, but knowing that God was leading and guiding and is leading and guiding me on a different path.
And I'm going to just roll with it. I'm going to trust him. Of course things will not ever work out how we create the narrative in our head or how we would ideally love for them to work out. But that's what faith is. It's trusting when you don't completely know what's next. And if I'm going to be out here creating episodes where I'm talking about going from safe to full faith, then.
They're going to be some moments on this journey where I got to really live it, talking something is different than really living it. So there are points where I have to slow down and really live it and know that yeah, girl, you made a choice to close some doors, but know that other doors will open. So that's where I am with it now.
I am adjusting in my money, my time and my self image. What about you? What are some areas in your life that you are looking to make a major shift in in the year to come? We are on the tail end of 2020 praise. God. Hallelujah. I ain't got nothing else to say, but praise God, hallelujah. I will not be one of those persons that has all of the negative to say about 2020, because 2020 came, sat us down and got us all the way together.
If we were willing to sit down and listen to what the Lord had to say, it has not been all bad. There has been a lot of bad, but I'm just a glass half full type of girl. So I'm going to take. The pros from 2020 and sweep the cons under the rug. But I'm ready to, I want to hear from y'all share squad. Let me know what are some major moves, some adjustments, some big leaps that you are thinking considering praying about taking in the year to come.
If you are not already following the podcast. Page on Instagram. I need y'all to join the Instagram community. That is going to be our hub in our home for us to chit chat. I am considering now that we have made it into season two. Doing a Facebook community for the podcast. I would love to hear if that's something that you guys would be interested in, where we can connect more.
I can learn about what you guys want to hear on the show. We can get in there and live stream and get faces and names and really make it. This is why the community of strong women who are striving to be better versions of ourselves together. So if y'all are with that, I would love to hear feedback. If you are not also following me on Instagram, I would love for you to do that.
I'm always on Instagram. Yep. I'm always on there. You can find me at, I am Brandy Lucas on Instagram. So that's two spots that I need y'all to show up. On the Sheer Resilience,page and I am Brandy Lucas. If you are interested in partaking of this week's dope thing that I am digging. The pixie is molding moose for your short hair, your natural hair.
However your hair is rolling. Then I would love for you also. Head over to the sheer resilience podcast.com and check out the dope things that I am digging page, where you can find links to all of the dope things that I have been digging and sharing with you guys. And as of late, so that is episode 11 of the podcast.
I am so happy to be back and rocking with you guys. I look forward to connecting with you all. Let's keep,
keep learning, keep living and keep loving.
Awesome.