Someone asks how your styling business is going and your stomach tightens before you've answered. You start calculating. How much to say, how enthusiastic to seem, how to make it sound like enough. Underneath all of it is a quiet belief that if the number in your bank account were bigger, or your months were more consistent, or you had a waitlist, the question wouldn't do this to you anymore.A client of mine recently said she'd know she'd made it when she could feel calm in her body during that exact conversation. I knew what she meant, because I spent years thinking the same thing. Then I signed a $36,000 contract, went to a family event, got asked about my "little styling business," and realized the calm I was waiting for had nothing to do with the size of the check.In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, I'm talking about the feeling stylists are actually waiting to feel when they say they want to "make it," why no external marker is going to give it to you, and what to start doing right now if you want to stop bracing every time someone asks how business is going.1:34 – The marker one stylist named for what success would actually feel like3:19 – The $36,000 contract, the family event, and the moment Nicole realized the calm she was waiting for had nothing to do with the check5:55 – Why outside things never rewrite the story you have about your business6:35 – The unconscious belief that's keeping a lot of stylists under-earning even when they're doing everything right9:43 – The question almost no stylist can answer about their own version of success11:01 – Why hitting bigger milestones doesn't deliver the calm you think it will13:43 – What the stylists who get where they want to go are actually doing differently16:52 – The question to ask yourself if you want to start building real internal markers of legitimacyMentioned In What Personal Stylists Get Wrong About "Making It"Booked, Profitable, and Magnetic Private PodcastFollow Nicole on InstagramLeave a rating and review