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Wings of Inspired Business Podcast EP966 – Host Melinda Wittstock Interviews Erin Mills 

Melinda Wittstock:

Coming up on Wings of Inspired Business:

Erin Mills:

The psychological impact has been much harder than the financial impact because for me, I’ve always known that money comes and goes. I’m thankful that I know that I have the tools that if, if I lose it, it’s going to come back. But psychologically, me feeling like my business is my left and right arm, you know, is like part of my heart. It’s like, feels like it’s being ripped out of your body, and you have to look in the mirror and say, like, am I still a worthy human? But I’ve chosen to let myself feel all of the grief of it, all of the letdown, all of it.

Melinda Wittstock:

Today we’re talking about reinvention, because it is an inevitable part of the entrepreneurial process. That doesn’t make it easy, but embracing the uncertainty of change, accepting the things we cannot control, and leveraging all we learn in the process to adapt and thrive, is table stakes for anyone that wants to succeed as an entrepreneur. Erin Mills has spent over seven years as a multi-salon owner, building multi-million-dollar businesses and leading teams of more than 50 employees. Today she talks about the pain of walking away from a business she loved—and how it’s helped her reinvent her business and her life.

Melinda Wittstock:

Hi, everyone, I’m Melinda Wittstock, and I am sending love and light your way today and every day in my thoughts and prayers because we are living in dark times. This is Wings of Inspired Business, the podcast where we share the inspiring entrepreneurial journeys, epiphanies, and practical advice from successful female founders … and if you’re an entrepreneur you know building a successful business is hard enough in the best of times. Witnessing what I have in Minneapolis and beyond, I’m heartbroken yet all the more determined to fight hate with love, and encourage women who are changing the world in a positive way with their businesses to find support and strength from each other. We all do better when we mentor, promote, buy from, and invest in each other – and find ways to make our voices heard to protect the democratic rights, freedoms and rule of law necessary to build our businesses.  Together we’re stronger, and we all soar higher when we fly together and lift as we climb. If you’ve been listening to any of the past 965 episodes, please help us get the word out about the show. Please subscribe, tell your friends and colleagues, share the episode and leave a quick 5-star rating and review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We appreciate it. Thank you! 

Melinda Wittstock:

Today we meet an inspiring serial entrepreneur who is a powerful advocate for women’s healing and empowerment, driven by a mission to create spaces where safety, growth, and authenticity thrive. Erin Mills is the CEO and Founder of Theory Salons, and now walking away from all but one of her salons to build Flamingo Salon Software to change the game for the operational efficiency of her industry. Today Erin shares the deep emotional journey pivoting from her salon-owner identity to step into the tech world, and how it helped her distinguish between ego and true purpose. Now, Erin is focused on redefining leadership and company culture, and by letting go, she shares how she’s discovering more freedom and new possibilities in both her career and life. It’s not the first time Erin has “reinvented herself”, and her experiences have inspired her to help women break free from limitations imposed by trauma, grief, and societal expectations with her growing Be Brave Community and her podcast, “I Think You Should Be Brave.”  Having personally experienced the transformative power of creating true safety—internally and externally—Erin teaches that healing begins when we can sit with ourselves, listen to our bodies, and embrace both pain and joy.

Melinda Wittstock:

Let’s put on our wings with the inspiring Erin Mills.

[INTERVIEW]

Melinda Wittstock:

Erin, welcome to Wings.

Erin Mills:

Thank you so much. I’m so happy to be here.

Melinda Wittstock:

Well, I think we’re going to have a great conversation because it’s really about reinvention, pivoting, knowing when to walk away from things, knowing when to embrace them. So, you’re in a bit of a big change. Tell me what’s going on.

Erin Mills:

Yes. So, I have been a multi salon owner for seven years and before that, you know, the beauty industry was the only industry I ever saw myself in. And it is interesting because as I have gotten a little bit older in my mid-40s and have gone through having, you know, 50 plus employees and team members at a time, it in this year has been increasingly difficult to spread myself so thin in the wrong ways. And I pushed really hard to keep being in this same box that I was in for a really long time because that identity, that self-identity of successful in this way and you know, having many multi-million-dollar businesses like that was really, really my identity. And this year I was forced and not in a, in a necessarily negative way, but it came very clear that I needed to close my first business. And in this closing, it’s happening next week, actually, I’ve had to really go inside myself and see what was my identity, what was my ego, what was really no longer working and what is this telling me now, like, what kind of freedom is this giving me? Where is this leading me to next? And it is a choice every day to look at what I can learn from that, to let go of something that really felt like the ultimate failure and to see exactly how it’s freeing me to now train, transfer into leading my people again, really getting in there and making the culture 100 what I want it to be and to get to focus on my tech business that my husband and I are launching and speaking and all of the other things that have really become so important to me this year.

Melinda Wittstock:

Okay, so there’s so many things to break down in, in all of that. I want to focus in on the ego thing because we get so attached to our businesses like from the very moment that we have the temerity to think that, okay, we can do something better than anybody else. We have an idea that’s new or fresh or different, we can do it better than anybody and we take all the risk and all the things to build a business. So, it’s so wrapped up in our very identity. So, to walk away from it psychologically is, is, is, is tricky. So, let’s just zero in on that because, like, what’s the process that you’ve gone through in that… that psychological impact and how you’re, how you’re dealing with all of that.

Erin Mills:

I love that. I do think actually the psychological impact has been much harder than the financial impact because for me, I’ve always known that money comes and goes. And I have, I do a great job of, of planning and investing for myself. I’m thankful that I know that I have the tools that if, if I lose it, it’s going to come back. But, but psychologically, me feeling like my business is my left and right arm, you know, is like part of my heart. It’s like, feels like it’s being ripped out of your body, and you have to look in the mirror and say, like, am I still a worthy human? You know, I, I, this didn’t work. I’m self-reflecting looking at all of these things and it’s very easy to look at that and one, either give up or two, shut yourself down for a little while. But I’ve chosen to let myself feel all of the grief of it, all of the letdown, all of it.

Erin Mills:

And then once I’m done feeling that, to say, okay, well what now? But part of it in the back of my mind is, you know, this was, this was it, this was what your thing was. And look, it didn’t work. You weren’t better than all the people that you thought you were going to be. You know, all of the things that I’d hoped for in that specific, specific business did happen for a little while, but not for forever. Like, it wasn’t what I thought it could have been, you know?

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah. And so, what was the impetus? You’ve got these two salons and you’re letting go of one of them, but keeping the other one. And we’ll get to the technology business in a moment. But what, what was going on that made you say, I’ve got to close this rather than sell it or, or, or whatever. What was actually happening in the business?

Erin Mills:

Oh, that’s a great question. So, in the last year and a half, I, in the, in the salon industry as a whole right now, salon owners 10 years ago had a Lot of protection. All of their agreements were very much aligned with protecting the salon owner, not the people that were in there. Ten years later, it is now stigmatized to have any kind of agreement that would prevent a person from working anywhere else around you or doing anything. The only agreement that stands in the United States normally is one that says you can’t take from my team members to go open another salon. 

Melinda Wittstock:

It’s hard to keep talent, right? Because you…

Erin Mills:

Exactly.

Melinda Wittstock:

…You can’t tie them to non competes and that kind of thing.

Erin Mills:

Exactly. So unfortunately, I had four groups of people leave together and that was just, that was the final straw, the untethering. Because in that when you have people and groups of people leaving together, you, you don’t have the ability to have like the finances come in, that you need to keep providing for new people. And even if it’s nothing was wrong, they wanted to go out on their own and do this together. You understand that as a human. But your business side says absolutely not. That’s not okay to take six people with you. 

Erin Mills:

But I have learned so much in this because in my viewpoint, I thought if I can just be good enough, if I can just say yes, do all the right things, you know, this kind of thing won’t happen to me. But it happens to everybody. You know, it does.

Melinda Wittstock:

If you’re the best boss and you’re like kind….

Erin Mills:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

…And give everybody opportunity. I mean people change. They move on. They might have moved cities or they, they want to be entrepreneurs themselves. Like it’s very difficult but it sounds like you were shouldering all of this on yourself. 

Melinda Wittstock:

It’s easy inside yourself to think, oh, I could have done more, or I could have been better or what was it about me? And like that’s really hard.

Erin Mills:

It is. And you have to realize like everyone has choice. And the only choice I really have in this, I really felt like me being kind, open hearted, you know, good, all of these things, that was kind of actually a control mechanism. I’ve thought about this recently. That was a survival instinct kind of to. If I can do all these things, people won’t leave. Well, people are people. Whether or not they stay.

Erin Mills:

I have to make sure that I am in an okay place. So, what I realized is I have businesses with 50 people a half a mile from each other. That doesn’t work. What a great lesson that I can Learn to help other salon owners. What I can do from that is learn exactly how to have exactly the management team I need, exactly the amount of people I need. I have built the most incredible processes in the last year that I can license, that I can white glove that I can build into other cities. So, in this failing together, like, I can look at all the steps before and say, okay, that what they did wasn’t right, and I can’t control that. So, what can I be in charge of? What can I learn from and not spread myself too thin to where I don’t even have anything to give to the people who are incredible?

Melinda Wittstock:

Well, ultimately, I predict that you’ll look back on this and think, oh, well, this. This happened for me, not to me, because, I mean, I want you to get into this what you did differently in the salon business to make it a much safer environment and such. But having walked through this, now, you’re on the precipice of building a much more scalable, likely more profitable, more lucrative business by moving into this software area of this. Tell me a little bit what you’re doing in the tech space for the industry and. And how that’s building on what you learned, you know, as a salon owner.

Erin Mills:

Yes. Well, a few things. When I was a hairstylist for 17 years, and then I’ve been in the salon industry and had two locations with 55 people. And I realized with all the salon software booking systems that we’ve used and for my friends that own spas, my friends that own nail salons, my friends that have, you know, like 10 locations around the U.S. none of us have a software that has the exact kind of wording we want to say to our clients. The. The ability to edit and send in real time and keep up with the AI and keep up with what our clients need and our reporting and what’s great for our team, I noticed that six years ago.

Erin Mills:

My husband’s a software engineer. And I realized if. If I can tell you exactly what works and what’s missing and I can get all of my, you know, thousands of friends in the industry to tell us, use this beta version and tell us what for you, is going wrong, what is going right, what do you need? We can create a salon and spa software system that is the first ever hairstylist made that will be incredible because it’s from the eyes of the people inside the industry. So, what a way to look at what is missing. Than to look from the inside out, right?

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, 100%. So, what’s the stage of the company? The software company?

Erin Mills:

We are, we are beta testing right now. So, we are going to launch the software system in Q3.

Melinda Wittstock:

Okay, exciting. So is. And you’re doing this with your husband? Is he, like, a techie?

Erin Mills:

Oh yeah, he’s a programmer and has been for years. He just loves building stuff. He doesn’t do any of the graphics, but he loves the behind the scenes.

Melinda Wittstock:

Okay, fantastic. And so, and so then you get to work together. Have you ever worked together before? What’s it like for a husband and wife working on like. Because entrepreneurship is tough, right. It could be to do it with or maybe not. I don’t know. How is that all going?

Erin Mills:

I think both. You know, we have luckily, interestingly we have been together for 20 years and we met at work, but we were both in nursing school. Very. Yeah, that was a long, long time ago and we are in totally different businesses now. But we both have the same work ethic that we are problem solvers. Like we can find a solution, and we will look internally first. We both self-reflect first. So, we are different and we’re going to have to figure out how to work together and communicate in the great way separate from our relationship.

Erin Mills:

So that’s going to be all new. But we both are self-reflective and we are both really hard workers.

Melinda Wittstock:

Right. And so, you got to figure out how to stay in your respective lanes. How balance when you’re being when you’re at work and when you’re at home, so to speak.

Erin Mills:

Yeah, exactly that. You know, boundaries.

Melinda Wittstock:

Boundaries. Yeah. Oh man. Well, yeah, it can be tricky but as long as you walk into it with full self-awareness, you know, you know that helps and you get your communications right.

Erin Mills:

Yeah. And we know to stay in each other in our individual lanes. So I know what I am good at and I know what he’s good at and, and I think it’s going to be great to see that he’ll have his side of the back end team and I’m going to have my side of the relationship part and the marketing and the, and the getting to be involved in such a relational way in a connective way. And he is just going to be responsible for building and then helping what goes wrong and what goes right and fixing everything which is what he’s great at. And I get to still be a people person and connect and enjoy what I do in a different way. And Learn again, you know.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, there’s a through line here in your own life because you’ve reinvented before. I mean, you were in real estate before, right?

Erin Mills:

And yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

And so, tell me about that transition, what you learned from that transition, what was going on there that you can now apply to this reinvention.

Erin Mills:

I think I’ve always loved being an entrepreneur. I just didn’t know which lane to put myself. And it changes as time goes. And when I was in real estate, I was also a newly young mom, and I didn’t have the support that I needed to be able to focus in on that business because I needed to be there for my son as well. And I was a single mom at the time, you know, so as, as hard working and gritty as I am, I had to provide for him. And now that I’ve had the support of my husband, I do have, still have. My oldest son is 20 and I have a 10-year-old.

Erin Mills:

We both have that work ethic that I can go and build and do things and he’s going to take; he’s going to take the other end and be at home when I need to be out working. And then when he needs me, I’ll be there, you know, in the opposite ways. And real estate is incredible. It’s amazing that it takes so much time. It takes weekends and evenings and you really have to be there with your clients.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, no, 100%. Well, real estate and being a salon owner, I mean, both very people-focused businesses, right?

Erin Mills:

Oh yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

And so, there’s a lot of stuff you learned in that, in real estate. Tell me the type of real estate you were doing.

Erin Mills:

So, all residential. I didn’t do the commercial side of that. And what I loved about that and what I still love about salon industry is that you are dealing with people’s very vulnerable, vulnerable side. So, if people are, you know, purchasing a home, whether it’s their first home, second, 10th vacation home, whatever it is, there is a part of them that feels like that is, you know, where they can finally relax, where they can be themselves. You know, where you have to see maybe the messier side of things, especially when you see the homes that they’re selling, you see things they don’t really want to show people the skeletons in their closet and they look at their finances and it’s a huge, it’s a huge place to be that you have to be vulnerable and honest. And then when people come into the hair salons, it’s another place where you have to really let your guard down because you have people touching your hair. And when people are, are, are that close, it’s almost the same. They’re not maybe seeing all the skeletons in your closet, but they are up close personal with you.

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Melinda Wittstock:

And we’re back with Erin Mills, founder of Theory Salons and the new Flamingo Salon Software launching later this year, and also the Be Brave Community.

[INTERVIEW CONTINUES]

Erin Mills:

So, the relationships and the vulnerabilities that you have, then you’re presented with, you have the opportunity to make a difference and make an impact and build connections and relationships that might last a lifetime, you know. And I just am blown away by the ability. When you’re in a service-based business in real estate and any of the things where you’re dealing with people, we really have the opportunity to make a difference. And it may seem so small that it’s huge.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, Yeah. I mean the secret of entrepreneurship is so funny because everyone thinks it’s about like, okay, how good is your product? How good are you? Especially for women, you know, how competent are we trying? People-please… try and do all the things like we’re just going to be the best, right? And like all of that is great. But then there’s all these other things you can’t control, like timing. And even if you’re the best per people person in the world, you can’t really ultimately control people. So, there’s just like just gonna, it’s kind of like the Mel Robbins thing. It’s just like they’re just gonna do what they’re gonna do, right? So, like letting go and decoupling that from your ident. So that is like entrepreneurship is, is therapy in a way, right? Because you just learn all these things to. I’ve arrived at the conclusion now with five of my own businesses and a whole bunch of other side hustles and all the things along the way is that you just have to enjoy the process.

Melinda Wittstock:

Like and you can’t let others’ judgment or what you think you should be doing or any of these things define you. But it’s a real process to get there because we’ve been educated and socialized so differently than that, right?

Erin Mills:

Yes.

Melinda Wittstock:

And in all the comparisonitis and all the stuff, right. So, like I’m just on this mission now. How can women just own like you’re enough. You know what I mean?

Erin Mills:

Like, yes, because really women get judged immediately a little bit differently than men do when they are entrepreneurs because men automatically are respected. There’s, I don’t remember the percentage. But there are so many statistics that say that, that if you put a women and men in a room, they’re both have the same jobs, the same skill level, the men in the room are immediately going to be trusted and respected more than the women. And in the salon industry, it’s actually male dominated salon owner industry, which is interesting. Men also get tipped better than women. You know, there is still that psychological side that says if we as women talk about the vulnerable side of it and talk about, you know, the good, the bad and the ugly, we might be seen as weak. And so, we have to decide, are we okay with being seen how we’re seen and still feeling okay with who we are, or are we going to hide that part of ourselves and then stay a little lonely and not be able to build the connections we could with other entrepreneurs like us?

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah, one of the reasons I started this podcast actually is to really demystify and destigmatize all of this. Because when we talk about it out loud and own it, we realize that every woman, every woman entrepreneur is going through this exact thing. Like all of us. I mean, I remember, you know, just myself personally doing a startup years ago. I was, you know, pretty early on in, in AI, back in like 2010, 2011, and natural language processing and all of these things. And as a recovering journalist, you know, Times, BBC, CNBC, MSNBA, ABC, Guardian, you know, all of that, right?

Melinda Wittstock:

All the things that I did as a TV anchor and as an investigative journalist, you know, I had created a whole bunch of businesses around media and increasingly at the intersection of media and tech. So, I saw back in 2010, this burgeoning issue around social media and the, the propensity for disinformation and misinformation and like filter bubbles and people falling into deep conspiracy. I could see that that’s what was going to happen, the way these systems were architected. So, I set out to build an antidote for that using, you know, algorithms and early AI and all these things to really rate the relevance and reliability of actual crowdsourced social content.

Erin Mills:

Wow.

Melinda Wittstock:

It was way too early, like, but we had like 500,000 users, people actually, you know, contributing content and, you know, being part of this sort of algorithm to kind of fact check and crowdsource, pattern recognition and whatnot. It was very advanced. I could not raise money for this thing. Nobody saw the need for it. So, like, my timing was way off. Like, it’s, it’s obvious looking back at it now, this business now could really go, you know, like 15 years later, you know, wow. And it informs what I’m doing now. But at the time, I took it so personally. I’m like, because there must be something wrong with me, like, how come I can’t raise money? You know? But, like, nobody understood it even, like. Or even saw the need for it. And so, you know, but. But I just realized back then, the torture I put myself through, something wrong with me. What’s wrong with me? How come I’m not right?

Erin Mills:

Yeah. And that’s incredible. I mean, the fact that 15 years ago you even saw that, that means, like, you really have an eye for pattern recognition in business and media and journalism, all of that. That is incredible. I honestly just got chilled because that you saw the need before anyone ever knew that this could even be a possibility. So, yeah, you would think that would be incredible.

Melinda Wittstock:

100% So, when you realize, like, through your life experience, what made me uniquely able to see that it was my lived experiences. It was all the ups and downs and all the things and. And also, just who I am, I guess, you know…

Erin Mills:

Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

…as a person. The weird matrixy way that my brain works, right? But as a younger, as a young person, as a young woman especially, you don’t necessarily see that now that I’m older and I have no Fs left to give, you know, yes, I can talk about it. And also, it really informs what I’m doing now to kind of transform the podcasting space. But, like, you know, it’s interesting.

Melinda Wittstock:

So, I see these through lines when women get together. And that’s why, like, podcasts like this are so important when we get together and we just, like, actually talk about it in a real, raw way without apology, it gives everybody else the license, you know? 

Erin Mills:

When you’re open and vulnerable, everyone else feels the permission that they can be too. And I think it is so freeing when we don’t put on a mask anymore. I mean, yeah, when you get. In my opinion, when you go through perimenopause or any of those things, your mask kind of fades away anyway. But especially when you are an entrepreneur, it is complete therapy. It is looking in the mirror at all of your insecurities, all of your wounds, and it’s literally asking, are you sure you’re going to be the person you say you are? Like, are you going to be able to handle this? Because you can’t expect everything to go right. And, well, because it won’t so we have to be able to look at everything inside of us the longer we’re doing this.

Melinda Wittstock:

Yeah. It’s very iterative process. Right. Like, failure is part of the entrepreneurial process.

Melinda Wittstock:

It just is. And, like, so you need to really be able to embrace it. And. And the more you can change your mindset around that, just like, oh, yeah, it looks so good. I didn’t fail. It doesn’t mean anything about me. As long as I’m learning from it. It’s feedback.

Erin Mills:

Yes.

Melinda Wittstock:

So, you’ve retained one of the salons, right?

Erin Mills:

Yes. Yeah.

Melinda Wittstock:

What was your process there, like, why not to walk away completely? Or is it just that that one’s going really well, and it gives you credibility in the software side? Or what was the thinking about how all of that fits together with what you’re doing, you know, where you’re going next?

Erin Mills:

Well, I still love my people. I love that we get to, you know, make an impact in our community. We really having one solid, good, cultured salon will. I will always at least have one. I mean, I say always because who knows what happens, right? My goal is to always have one because I really enjoy, like, I get so much fulfillment out of building people. I also love building things in general. Building and creating. I get so much fulfillment out of.

Erin Mills:

The more fulfilled I feel, the more impactful everything I make has been. So, with this one, you know, it’s a very large salon. I get to make it the essence of my business, and then I can help other people still recreate it, because with this one, I can show with physical proof all my processes work. All my people can feel supported, because I cannot. I can be there and have my office at that one. And that one is. It is just the biggest location with the greatest people and really lets our light shine better at that one.

Erin Mills:

 I don’t think I could ever give one away. Maybe we’ll move locations in the future and, you know, build, buy buildings and things like that, but I have to have almost like my heart center still.

Melinda Wittstock:

Right? Yeah, that makes sense. And you’ve perfected these processes, so there’s a licensing opportunity, maybe even like a franchise. There’s so many things you can do with that, especially as you, as your software really takes off. So, the software is going to be used by salon owners, but it, is it like scalable to all the folks who have. Yeah, like nail salons or spa. Like it’s not just for hair salons.

Erin Mills:

Exactly. Hair salons, spas, nail salons, I mean, med spas. So many things. And I mean the more you’re in the industry and you meet other people who do other businesses, I mean, I feel like we all know someone who could use it. And this year I have met so many entrepreneurs from around the world that have been doing these amazing things, and they have been there when I’ve said, hey, I need advice about that. They are so quick to jump and give me advice for this and say, hey, have a friend who could help you with that. So, moving into this tech space of this, I have met some of the most amazing people and I think it’s so cool because now I get to go in a same, you know, industry direction, but in a different room of people and it’s even more expansive and I get to learn in such a different way. But it all comes back to opening my first business, like learning so much from that.

Erin Mills:

So, all of it was like a little steppingstone of becoming this different person.

Melinda Wittstock:

Amazing. This is so exciting. So, you’ve got a lot of work to do. You got to make market, you’ve got to get your customers going and you got to get the software built and well, it’s beta testing right now and all towards launch. So. So, okay, so it’s the start of the year, we’re in 2026 and. And you’re aiming for the third quarter. What’s your daily life like? Like, what are all the things that you’re doing, and do you feel a little over good?

Erin Mills:

I, I don’t feel overwhelmed now because I have spent 17 years building my reputation in this industry worldwide. So, I am excited to get to know, you know, talk to these, some of these people that I love and have them work with me. And I don’t have any assumptions that it’s going to, you know, blow up or take off in a way that I don’t, I don’t have any assumptions, but I do know that I’m going to get to help these same people that have said this is what we’ve been missing. Get to connect more with them and feel like really in alignment. Instead of pushing so hard in the wrong direction, you get to push hard now in the right direction.

Melinda Wittstock:

Ah, that’s amazing. Well, look, when your software launches, you’re going to have to come back on the podcast, Erin, and tell us all about it. What’s it called?

Erin Mills:

It is called Flamingo Salon Software.

Melinda Wittstock:

Flamingo Salon. You called it Flamingo Salon Software.

Erin Mills:

You know, there I thought in my head when we were choosing a name, and this was five years ago, Freedom with Flamingo. And that just stuck with me. And the same way I thought of theory salons. Everything starts with a theory. And what I want to give people is support and freedom with this software. So, Freedom with Flamingo is what made me think of it.

Melinda Wittstock:

Oh, amazing. Well, that’s wonderful. So, in the meantime, where can people find you, work with you, if they’re, they’re like, interested in supporting what you’re doing or potentially they’re a customer. What’s the best way?

Erin Mills:

The best way right now to connect with me in the fastest way is on Instagram at Erin mills or on LinkedIn. I’m also on LinkedIn there. And then our website is the bebravecommunity.com.

Melinda Wittstock:

Well, thank you so much for putting your wings on and flying with us today.

Erin Mills:

Thank you. This was amazing and I’ve loved listening to you as well.

[INTERVIEW ENDS]

Melinda Wittstock:

Erin Mills is a serial entrepreneur, founder of Theory Salons and the new Flamingo Salon Software launching later this year, and also the Be Brave Community. Check out her podcast called “I Think You Should Be Brave”.

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