Cultivating a Collective: Working with Staff and Customers


This week, we’re talking with Beth Doyle, owner of The Collective, a salon in Birmingham’s Pepper Place neighborhood.  Beth brings her creative passion to both her hairdressing skills and her business. She started as a teacher, and one of her salon’s main goals is to support new stylists through an associate learning program, complete with curriculum and multiple levels. Carrie and Beth talk about how the pandemic, and more recently social media, have changed the game for The Collective — and so many other businesses, too.

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The Collective

The Collective Instagram

Localist episode with Clay Conner

Meet Your Stylist quiz

Kizzie Warren (social media) LinkedIn

Kizzie Warren Instagram

Kizzie Warren hair Instagram

About Carrie

Carrie Rollwagen is host of the Localist podcast and cofounder of Church Street Coffee & Books. Currently, she works as Vice President of Strategic Planning at Infomedia, a web development company in Birmingham, Alabama. Find the Localist at @thinklocalist on Instagram and follow Carrie at @crollwagen.

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