Why Salon Education Is a Never-Ending Journey | R+Co Excursion

Luxury Brand Partners' CEO Tev Finger sits down with salon owner Rachel Voss to talk about her Excursion I takeaways and the power of connection. She says: I’ve been to Excursion I multiple times, and every time, I take away different nuggets of knowledge to share with my team. The first Excursion I attended was in Las Vegas and I brought one of my managers with me. Afterward, I tried to jam three days of knowledge into a 30-minute download with the extended team—it didn’t work. So the second time I went, in Dana Point, California, I brought four of my managers with me. It changed everything. We were able to experience it together, and they understood why I was saying what I was saying. They even exchanged numbers with other salon managers on-site. That’s the thing about this experience: I’m hearing the same information, but it lands differently because I’m in a new location, with different people, in a different headspace. The second time, I was like, Oh my gosh—I got this the first time, but now it makes so much more sense. You can hear the same thing twice and still walk away with ten different takeaways. Through Excursion, I’ve met salon owners from all over the country—people I wouldn’t normally cross paths with—and built some truly great friendships. I’ve also built deeper relationships with the R+Co team. Excursion makes the industry feel smaller and more intimate, especially in moments when you feel alone as a salon owner.