What happens when you’re running multiple businesses, raising nine children, and your world is completely shattered by grief?

In this episode of Tell Me About It, Cait Muir sat down with salon owner, hair educator, and foster mum Prue Taylor - for a raw, unfiltered conversation about business, loss, motherhood, and healing.

Prue shares her journey of building a hair salon from her garage…

Scaling to multiple thriving salons…

And what it really looks like to be a female entrepreneur in the hair and beauty industry.

You’ll hear about the realities of salon ownership, leadership, staff turnover, training apprentices, and why stepping off the floor is sometimes the most powerful move a business owner can make.

Prue opens up about:

✅Losing her partner suddenly and navigating grief as a business owner

✅How trauma impacts the nervous system and emotional regulation

✅Why breathwork and somatic healing became essential tools in her recovery

✅Raising children through kinship care and foster care while running businesses

✅Balancing motherhood, leadership, and survival when life falls apart

✅Why trusting your intuition matters more than expert advice

If you’re a salon owner, female entrepreneur, or a woman holding everything together while quietly falling apart… you’re in the right place.

Key moments:

00:03:40 From Garage to Empire
00:07:40 The Day Everything Changed
00:11:40 The Truth About Grief
00:17:40 Signs from the Other Side
00:23:40 Anger & Grief
00:27:40 Discovering Breath Work
00:34:00 The Business Brain
00:38:00 Training vs Losing Staff
00:47:40 Nine Kids One Roof
00:56:00 Managing Business and Babies
01:01:00 Hair Education Journey
01:09:00 Trust Your Own Intuition

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👉Connect With Prue

https://www.instagram.com/pruby_26
https://www.instagram.com/ladyandthehair

https://www.tiktok.com/@pruby26
https://www.tiktok.com/@_ladyandthehair_

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👉Find out more about how we can work together:

https://iconiccoaching.com.au/coaching/

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👉Here’s how to connect:

https://www.instagram.com/tellmeaboutit__podcast
https://iconiccoaching.com.au