Episode 162

Ep. 162: Stop Wasting Time: How Beauty Business Owners Should Be Using AI with Alicia Phoenix

https://www.laurenlappin.com.au/private-coaching

In this week's episode Lauren is joined by the amazing Alicia Phoenix (Owner & CEO. of Prolong Lash). Alicia is a fellow AI user and advocate in the beauty business space, and this episode is a deep-dive into both getting started with AI in (and for) your Salon business, and also how you might want to increase your understanding and expand the application of AI going forward.

What Lauren and Alicia Talk About:

• How did Alicia get started with AI? (05:15).

• Using AI for your Salon's content creation. (10:45).

• Refining and renaming your individual AI chats. (18:00).

• How Alicia uses AI day-to-day. (22:00).

• Using AI to save your business money. (26:00).

• ChatGPT: Free vs Premium/Paid (as at November 2025). (31:00).

• A super valuable tip for ChatGPT Users. (33:00).

• How Alicia is using AI in her Mum-life. (36:30).

• How Lauren uses AI to assist with optimising her diet. (38:30).

• Using Voice-to-Text is a game changer. (39:30).

• "I don't want to read stuff that a robot wrote." (43:30).