Salon Staff Quit? Do THIS In The First 48 Hours

Salon Staff Quit? Do THIS In The First 48 Hours

June 19, 2026 · 13 min

About this episode

Phil Jackson discusses the critical steps to take in the first 48 hours after a staff resignation to protect your salon business.

The moment a trusted team member hands in their resignation can feel like a punch to the gut. You’ve invested in them, trained them, and now they're leaving. But how you handle the first 48 hours after they tell you is absolutely critical. Get it wrong, and you risk losing loyal clients, creating team drama, and suffering significant damage to your salon business. In this episode, Phil Jackson shares his non-negotiable rule for staff resignations and a clear, actionable playbook to ensure a smooth transition, protecting your clients and your profits. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 RESOURCES: Get Paid Properly: getpaidproperly.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 WORK WITH ME: 1:1 Coaching: https://buildyoursalon.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 LISTEN: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildYourSalon Spotify: https://go.philjackson.me/Spotify Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3MZp6jP ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS: 0:00 - The Inevitable Reality of Staff Leaving 0:47 - Why Resignations Feel Personal (And How to Act Professionally) 2:10 - Phil's Non-Negotiable "Out Today" Rule 3:27 - The Devastating Impact of a Malicious Departure 5:05 - Applying the 'Out Today' Rule to Renters and Freelancers…

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