Touch of Joy

Joy McLaughlin-Harris (Joyspeaks2u) is a serial entrepreneur. She has a background in the beauty industry, organisational leadership and development. She recently sold her salon in 2018 to become a full time empowerment speaker, business coach, and beauty industry educator through her new business Touch of Joy, International, LLC.  She stepped into the deep waters again and started another business from the ground up with a toddler and husband. So you can only imagine the work/life, balance this time around. When asked why she sold her salon, she responds, ‘Being behind the chair as a cosmetologist was just my good but my great is helping others make their dreams a reality, maximise revenue, or rebrand their business.

Being a salon owner was where she was taught some of her biggest business lessons on making the shift from being self-employed to being a business owner. Her salon was not always producing 6 figures and there were times when it was a struggle to keep the doors open. Joy restructured, rebranded, and put multiple streams of income in place, and within 2 years, her profit over doubled while Joy worked less hours. That’s working smarter and not harder!

She wrote about her 20 year entrepreneur journey from owning the salon and other businesses in her new book Making the Shift from Self-Employed to Business Ownership.  She did not want other entrepreneurs to take 10 or more years of being in business to figure out there is a difference in being self-employed and a business owner. She has shift points throughout the book to keep your mind shifting towards business ownership.

If you stay in your good, you will never be able to operate in your great.

Joy McLaughlin-Harris now travels the world and speaks on/teaches entrepreneurship, leadership, and financial literacy. Whether speaking to a large crowd, a small business group, or working with her 1 on 1 clients, she encourages multiple streams of income in their business model. Her approach with her business clients is to look at their existing model and see how she can assist each client to make more money in their sleep, maximise revenue through multiple streams, and be sure their business image/brand matches where they are trying to go in business.

Joy often tells people she named her brand Touch of Joy International, LLC before getting her 1st international client, speaking event, or media interview. Today Joy is not only being featured internationally but has been booked internationally. 

To really maximise entrepreneurship, the key is to renew your mind and see yourself successful in business. Build your brand for where you are going and build your business from day 1 with multiple streams of income.  Be sure to upgrade your head shots, social media, and brand images as you grow. ■

Joy McLaughlin-Harris (Joyspeaks2u)

www.touchofjoy.org