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Bare It All with Linnsey is where nothing is off limits. From thriving in recovery to building businesses, raising kids while chasing dreams, diving deep into mental health, and making a real difference in the world — we talk about it all. This podcast is raw, real, and completely unfiltered. Whether you’re healing, hustling, or just trying to make it through the day, you’re in the right place. We’re here to inspire, empower, and remind you that you can rise from anything.
I got found by People Magazine. They wanted to feature my hair bow. Lady Gaga actually sourced 1,200 items, and she goes, this is my favorite thing. That kind of rolled into me realizing the power of the Internet and the power of talking and the power of sharing.
Linnsey Dolson:Social media is incredible, and it's such a tool that a lot of people don't use.
Kat Fairchild:What you're doing matters. Your voice matters. Your consistency matters. Something that people really need to realize is that
Linnsey Dolson:You wouldn't believe what you could conquer, but our mind and the fear of failure destroys more dreams than anything else in the world.
Kat Fairchild:The basis of what grew my business is
Linnsey Dolson:That's the same here.
Kat Fairchild:I'm swallowing gum.
Linnsey Dolson:There should be some to spit it. I see-
Kat Fairchild:It's gone.
Linnsey Dolson:Does my hair look okay?
Kat Fairchild:Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay.
Kat Fairchild:Do you usually do half front half back?
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah, I think so.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah. Feel like we could talk for so long.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah, I feel like you're so.
Kat Fairchild:There's so much to like get to know.
Linnsey Dolson:There is. There's nothing needs to be perfect. Okay.
Linnsey Dolson:Welcome to Bear It All with Linnsey. You guys, I'm so excited.
Linnsey Dolson:I have my friend Kat here. And let me tell you, Kat and I met at the nail salon.
Kat Fairchild:I know.
Linnsey Dolson:I love it. I was sitting there and I had my phone out and I'm like creating content with Madeline. And you're like, do you do social media?
Kat Fairchild:Well, I like waiting in my head to say something to you, and I can be quiet sometimes, but I just kept feeling this urge to be like, I have to ask her what she does. What does she do? Like, I couldn't resist.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh my God, I love it. So we totally connected at the nail salon and we've been social media friends since.
Kat Fairchild:Yes.
Linnsey Dolson:So I'm so glad to have you here.
Kat Fairchild:I was just joking too when I got here. I literally have not touched up my nails since I saw you.
Linnsey Dolson:I can't tell because they're light.
Kat Fairchild:You have to tell me how often, how many times you've gotten your nails done since that time.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh my gosh, at least two.
Kat Fairchild:Are you kidding?
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. I did.
Kat Fairchild:No, I am on bad, a bad, bad way.
Linnsey Dolson:But you literally can't tell because they're light. So like, who cares?
Kat Fairchild:Who cares? Yeah. You know what, and that's one of things we're talking about today because my nails can take a back seat.
Linnsey Dolson:Right.
Kat Fairchild:Because I'm busy.
Linnsey Dolson:I love it. Exactly. 100% like priorities, right?
Kat Fairchild:Sure.
Linnsey Dolson:That's how like mine though, I get them like this color and they'll grow out and you can't really tell.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, you gotta get them out.
Linnsey Dolson:People are like your nails look good and I'm like, well because you're not looking at them closely but okay. Awesome, so tell us a little bit about your story and what you do and I do met, like learned a little bit about you at the nail salon. And I was like, so intrigued. I'm like, I have to bring her on.
Kat Fairchild:This is such a fun story. So I've grown up in the area for my whole life in California. And I just kind of always, just with the background and basis of entrepreneurship, I've always had that entrepreneurial mindset.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Kat Fairchild:I actually joke around a lot with people that I'm not actually sure if I graduated high school. Because I wanted to work so bad that I actually left high school to pursue working almost full time. So I went into homeschool. I got my parents to sign off a worker's permit. I was like 15, and I just really wanted that paycheck.
Linnsey Dolson:Right.
Kat Fairchild:And my parents were, we were well off. We lived in a nice home in El Dorado Hills, and I never had any complaints as far as that goes, but I just had that urge to want to make my own money.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Kat Fairchild:And so I ended up starting to work and I got a taste of having my own bank account.
Kat Fairchild:Of course, I got credit cards and blew those. I remember walking into an Express.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, yes.
Kat Fairchild:You remember express?
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, yes. Yes. Yes.
Kat Fairchild:And I got my first credit card. It was like $300 and I like racked it up and I just felt so ick about like the debt and all of the things, but I learned a lot of life lessons on my own. And it just kept rolling into more opportunities for me of wanting more. And so I ended up taking my, it was basically like a GED, I guess.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Kat Fairchild:And testing out of high school, like halfway through my junior year.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay.
Kat Fairchild:And I mean, looking at people that are that age now being like
Linnsey Dolson:They're babies.
Kat Fairchild:They're babies.
Linnsey Dolson:There's so little.
Kat Fairchild:In my mind, I felt so wise. And it's just crazy to I don't know if it's like the society back then was in a mindset. I think like you, you just have an innate mindset want to do more and want to empower
Kat Fairchild:No, I
Linnsey Dolson:totally agree with you. I was the same way I did homeschool. I had a work permit at 15. Yeah. I wanted to work.
Linnsey Dolson:I felt like school robbed me of time. Yes. You want me to sit in this classroom all freaking You're paying me. You want me to just sit here and do crap that a lot of this stuff you're teaching me, I'm never even gonna use in life.
Kat Fairchild:For
Linnsey Dolson:sure. Like, when does it matter who the hell was in World War II and my life? Tell me where that's
Speaker 3:gonna build my
Linnsey Dolson:bank
Speaker 3:wanna check that place.
Linnsey Dolson:Don't put
Kat Fairchild:the documentary on later.
Linnsey Dolson:Exactly. So no, I think it's the mindset. It's like, okay, you're wasting my time in this classroom. I don't have time for this.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah. Yeah. So that kind of pursued me into a lot of different roles. I've had tons of different jobs, but I really was always one of those people that my friends would come to, like, Where do you get your nails done? Or, Who does your hair?
Kat Fairchild:Or, How do you do your makeup like that? Or, Can you do my daughter's makeup for prom? I was never classically trained with makeup or hair. I just had a really big passion for it. But my big break, I always call this my big break, it's kind of funny how it came about, but And you probably don't even know this story.
Kat Fairchild:I do It's kind of like, is like cat deep cuts.
Linnsey Dolson:No, I love it. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. Bring it. Let's go.
Kat Fairchild:So this was like 2014 or so. Well, no, before that. I'm sorry. Like 02/2008, I was obsessed with Lady Gaga.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay.
Kat Fairchild:Do you remember, like, the big hair bows that she would wear? Yes. They're made out of hair?
Linnsey Dolson:Yes.
Kat Fairchild:It was like her paparazzi video from 02/2007, 02/2008. And I just remember like her music and I'm very connected and in tune with like how I feel with music and being inspired. And I just loved her. And she was not even that big of a thing at the time. And I really wanted to go to her concert.
Kat Fairchild:And it was this tiny little club in San Francisco. And I was like, how can I make something fun to wear? So I went to my sink and I had some hair extensions that were under the sink.
Linnsey Dolson:And I thought, how can
Kat Fairchild:I make like a hair bow? So I just like finagled this hair bow together. And when I it was so cute. It was like this big bow that was made out of real I can so see with that. It was so much fun.
Kat Fairchild:But my entrepreneurial mind is kicking in. When I got there, I had so many people that came up to me and they were like, Where did you get that? How can I get one of those? Where did you buy that? And so I was like, I don't know, I just made it.
Kat Fairchild:So I went home and I Googled Lady Gaga hair bow and there was nothing, nothing. And I was like, I bet I could probably sell some of these. So I went back home and I just started to do what I did. And they were messy at first and I figured out ways to do it. But I also had a blog that I put a buy now button on to buy it.
Kat Fairchild:And I blogged about Lady Gaga, blogged about fashion. And so that kind of rolled into me realizing the power of the internet and the power of talking and the power of sharing. And I got actually found by People Magazine and they wanted to feature my hair bow. I did a Oh, how cool. I did an experience with the Neiman Marcus.
Kat Fairchild:They put it on the front of their holiday lookbook. I did tons of other things that came from it, but I sold a lot and I was so busy doing it. But the last thing that I did that was really, really cool is Lady Gaga actually sourced over 1,200 items at an event in New York City at Barney's. And she had picked out my hair bows because she wanted them to be there.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, wow.
Kat Fairchild:And so I made three fifty hair bows. She walked people through this basically experience situation in Barneys in New York. And all of these different items that people purchased went to a charity that she was focused on. And she did an interview with Robin Roberts. And at the end of the interview on Good Morning America, they come around to all the products, they're talking about everything.
Kat Fairchild:And she goes, this is my favorite thing. This is the hair bow section. And she undoes the hair bow and she puts it on and Robin Roberts is obsessed with it. And it was just a really cool full circle moment to see, like, something that you created with your bare hands, being loved by people loved by the actual creator that inspired me to make So that kind of just sparked my fuel for social media. And I wasn't really on social media at the time.
Kat Fairchild:I don't even think there was Instagram. Was Facebook. How old
Linnsey Dolson:were you then?
Kat Fairchild:Oh gosh, I was 23.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay, so young.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, and it just changed me. It just made me really want to make something or do something.
Linnsey Dolson:You got like a taste of success. When you get a taste of success, you're like, oh, this good. I want some more of it.
Kat Fairchild:It was crazy. So, and then life got blurry because I got married and I had some kids. But about after my child, or my second child was born, social media started to take off, and I was like, You know what, I'm so bored. I'm really bored, I kind of feel lost, and I want something to do. And so I saw girls were starting to go live.
Kat Fairchild:There was an app called Periscope.
Linnsey Dolson:I don't know
Kat Fairchild:if you remember But girls would get on and just talk about their day or talk about makeup or clothes or cooking or parenting. And so a lot of people in my network started to use that. And I just came alive coming on camera. And it's just what I wanted to do every day. So I started doing that and everything just kind of, that was 2016.
Kat Fairchild:And really, the history has just been since then of me growing my platform, finding products that I love to share that are building an income for me, and just really having a connection with people that follow me. That's really my main thing, is I want everybody to feel heard. If someone sends me a message, I want to personally respond back to them. I hate when I go on influencers accounts and they have so many comments and nothing is common
Linnsey Dolson:to And they don't comment, right? It's interacting with There's times where when I'm laying in bed, I'll be like, okay, for the next three hours I'm replying to And you wanna do it because they're taking time out of their day to watch your stuff. They're commenting on it, all of that. So I love that.
Kat Fairchild:I think that's huge. And that's why live video, like this stuff, this live interaction Yes. Like if I can talk to you live and connect with you, even if there's only 30 people watching your live versus you post something and you get thousands of views, those 30 people are highly connected to you in that moment.
Linnsey Dolson:100%, they're taking that time that they're never gonna get Yes. You don't ever get those moments back to sit there and watch your live. Yeah. My daughter Melanie, she's a singer songwriter and she's been doing TikTok lives at night. And she likes seeing songs and all love TikTok lives.
Linnsey Dolson:And it's so great because it's like really connecting with your fans and they get to like tell you what they'd like you to sing and she sings it and all that, but it's just really that one on one connection with your followers.
Kat Fairchild:Yes. Yeah. So truly, is what is the basis of what grew my business is connecting with people, learning about them, really truly loving people for who they are, what they're showing up, and then teaching. I mean, I've loved to teach women how to simplify their beauty routines.
Linnsey Dolson:I love watching your beauty. I went there the other night and just watched over and over, and you just do this perfect full face and makeup with just a few steps. I'm like, what?
Kat Fairchild:Yeah. Yeah, so cool. It's interesting because I work in a network marketing space. Right. And so there's a lot of caveats that come with that because sometimes I'm really coaching people and helping them to dream big or to put themselves out there.
Kat Fairchild:And that can be challenging for people to, for me, it comes pretty naturally. I don't really have that button of where I get embarrassed or, I mean, my biggest hurdle is just time and consistency. Sure. So it is a balance. I mean, I'm still kind of coming into figuring out like a work life balance of being a mom being
Linnsey Dolson:That's like the big struggle, I think with all entrepreneurs and social media influencers. We were at, my gosh, what is it called? I can't even think of the name of it. It's coming up. It's a conference for social media influencers.
Linnsey Dolson:And they were talking about that. And they said that's the biggest thing is time and consistency. Or you'll get on a kick for a month and super consistent and you have a day and you're like, man, I don't even know if I have anything really interesting to say to the I'm tired.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, I do notice though, if you really dig into those spurts of when you have energy to go, you can skyrocket yourself in those big energy bursts. And I actually coach a lot on that is if you recognize your moods and how you kind of flow through the month. Like if you feel like you're not confident on any given day and you go on social media, a lot of people say, you know, the doom scrolling. If you're looking at someone else who's on fire, that that was probably her on fire day. Why?
Kat Fairchild:You're not gonna be on fire every single day. She might feel like crap today and she's not posting anything today. But it's just, you can't just look at what somebody else is doing and compare yourself. You have to find and just give yourself grace and know like, okay, yeah, I haven't had my nails done in a month. That's okay.
Kat Fairchild:I'll get them done in a couple days. You just, You gotta be realistic with your expectations.
Linnsey Dolson:No, I love that. And so many people can pair. And it is like, you're on fire. There's days where I'll film six videos in a day. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And then I'm gonna pop it out over. Or I've had days where I've like kept running back in my room and changing clothes and going to touch up my hair and then going to record so it looks like it's a completely different day because I'm on fire that Or I travel so much and I do so much things that you really have to balance it. So I love that talking about really embracing when you have those fire days. Nobody, nobody is on fire every single No. No human in the world.
Kat Fairchild:No. And if you think that they are, then you've got serious work to do
Linnsey Dolson:because it's Right, or they're doing really good on social media, making it look like Yeah,
Kat Fairchild:exactly. They've got a whole team that you can't even see.
Linnsey Dolson:That's usually what it is. Yeah. It's the whole team. The hair, the makeup, all the things. But social media is incredible and it's such a tool that a lot of people don't use.
Linnsey Dolson:I've been at business conferences and talking to business owners. They're like, yeah, we don't really use social media. What? Okay, so if you're at 20,000,000 a year and you don't use social media, you could probably double.
Kat Fairchild:Double.
Linnsey Dolson:Social media is incredible. With one post, you can reach such an audience that, I mean, it's incredible. But it also takes like a certain personality to get in front of their In my cleaning business, we just did a whole new recruiting campaign. Yeah. And so how we have it is it's a funnel to where they go in and they have to take like a test.
Linnsey Dolson:And then they have to answer questions we ask on video. Okay. And I never realized how hard it was for people to get on video. Yeah. And record their self.
Linnsey Dolson:I know. Yeah, and I until we did that did I actually realize because it's a norm for me and my kids Because like my little one, I've been doing it since she was little. Yeah. So she's got it down. She's like, show me the voiceover.
Linnsey Dolson:Okay, I got it. Because they're used to it and they see it and it's a norm for them. But so many people, it's not a norm.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, that's a lot of what my work kind of circles back to is just helping women build confidence just getting that first initial thought out. So I like to focus mostly on, especially if you're selling a product for you, for your cleaning business or company that we're talking about before, you don't always want to approach your product as the product. Want people to approach your social media as you, and you just happen to like this product. They trust you, they like you. They think, Oh, cat must I've tried something from cat before.
Kat Fairchild:Maybe I bought something on Amazon and a can opener. And I actually really liked that can opener. It was $10. Right? Right.
Kat Fairchild:If they bought the can opener and they trust that I'm gonna give them a good recommendation for that, why not something else? And so it just snowballs and snowballs. So I really try to get people to focus on their strengths and it can be anything. I mean, I give people like five topics to choose from. They picked five topics and one ladies I thought was so interesting, but two examples actually really took off.
Kat Fairchild:One was obsessed with ramen. Like, she loved ramen. And people started to follow her because they also liked ramen.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, how funny.
Kat Fairchild:And it just it like sparked this little fun, encouraging thing for her. And it was easy for her to share because she loved it. I had another lady that shared every week, she shared one of her favorite mugs. And like just the fact of her sharing a favorite mug was able to snowball her into having a successful business because she knows how to talk about a mug because she goes to HomeGoods every week and buys a mug.
Linnsey Dolson:Right, and she connects because there's mug collectors out there. Sure. Don't care what you're into, there is a group of people out there into the same thing. Mean, if you scroll through TikTok, you'll find people that eat on camera. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:That is what they do. I'm into coloring. All kinds of cool things and they all have millions of followers on There is a niche
Kat Fairchild:There is.
Linnsey Dolson:For everything.
Kat Fairchild:Yes. And so that's the thing. If you're too broad, and I I feel like for me sometimes I can be a little bit broad, but I feel like when you can bounce around to other topics and you don't really need to niche down, sometimes it can work too. But yeah, finding something that really excites you, if it's reading, talking about a book, whatever it is. But yeah, like you said, it is really painful for people to get on camera, but it's hard, but just finding something that brings you light.
Kat Fairchild:And there's so many different ways to make income online. And I think that's one of the things that sets people back is they think, don't wanna be like a walking billboard of selling something.
Linnsey Dolson:But you don't have to And it's not even that. It's really nobody wants that. If you see, I'll see people on my page and all of a sudden they joined some whatever company. And all they post is this, this, this, this, these shakes, these medicine, these vitamins, these all that. You're not selling to me.
Linnsey Dolson:If you wanna sell to me, show me your life. Show me you kicking ass in life with this. Show me you going on all these trips. Show me that it's giving you the body or the energy you want. I wanna watch you.
Linnsey Dolson:Right. And if I see what you're doing, wow. Okay, I want what she it's the same as like the Kardashians, okay? Yes. They have millions of brands that they sell.
Linnsey Dolson:I mean Khloe, her popcorn is going nuts. Yeah. So yeah, she came out with three flavors of popcorn. I love So whether it's popcorn or makeup or they clothes, whatever, it's because she sells herself, her life, her brand, who she is so instantly. If Khloe made it, I trust it because I follow Khloe, I connect with Khloe.
Linnsey Dolson:All of that, so it's really building that connection and not even worrying if you look stupid. It's you gotta get past we all look stupid our first time on We all look stupid. We all stuttered. All didn't know what to say. We were all way too close to the camera or the light was too bright.
Linnsey Dolson:I remember when I first started doing it, I hired a social media coach and she's like, turn down the light. My face is like flushed. You're an angel, glowing. Yeah, exactly. It was like glowing.
Linnsey Dolson:But it's like, you've gotta suck at something to get good at it. You gotta just have the confidence to get out there and try it. You are not gonna be great at first. You're not. No.
Linnsey Dolson:And if you are, you're pretty amazing because none of us were great in
Kat Fairchild:the And anybody has the come up stories. Mean, all start from somewhere. And that's the
Linnsey Dolson:thing, you just have to start. And you do have to start. And it's just like, I always tell people is get your feet there and your mind will follow. Yes. There's so many times, if you wait for your mind to be willing to do it, you're never gonna be able to do No.
Linnsey Dolson:You just literally have to get your feet there.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, our minds are more powerful than we can even imagine.
Linnsey Dolson:It's so wild, it's so wild. And watching what I love watching about yourself is it doesn't, I never feel like you're selling, right? So you just share what you use and it's kinda like, hey, this is what I use. But I'm so intrigued of how a palette, you can do so much with a It's so wild. I was like, I'm saying that they're really comforting.
Linnsey Dolson:I watch them while I'm in bed.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, Yeah. That concept is wild because it's the same thing for women. You feel debilitated. I don't think people would think this, but I hate decorating my house. I don't hate it, but it really overwhelms me.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Kat Fairchild:And even going into HomeGoods, I love going into HomeGoods,
Linnsey Dolson:but I It is overwhelming.
Kat Fairchild:I just think, oh, if I buy this, I have to buy that and they don't match, and then this doesn't match. And if I buy a chair, it's too big, I can't return it.
Linnsey Dolson:What do I do with it? Yes, that's my brain for sure.
Kat Fairchild:And so for makeup, I don't feel that way for makeup. I think you can try things and they're fun. But I do know that people do feel like that way about makeup.
Linnsey Dolson:There are so many of them. It's debilitating. Overwhelmed.
Kat Fairchild:Yes, for And so the concept behind makeup that I really grew my following on and that I used, it's a compact system. And so, if you really do think about it, and if you put yourself in the mindset of thinking the last time you did your makeup, 70% of the time that you're doing your makeup, you're looking for your brush or your pencil or this color or this eyeshadow or this blush, because they're all scattered, right, on your counter or
Linnsey Dolson:in your Right, exactly. It's definitely a story of my life.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, and so what this has done is it's taken away that time of where you have to really try to find what you need because it's all right there in front of you. I love it. And it
Linnsey Dolson:just has
Kat Fairchild:made such an easy and fun way for me to train people and to educate on using it because it is so simple. Simplify things.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. That is such, that's the best way to do it is to simplify things. I have so many people I know that are like, why don't we do makeup because I don't even know how. I don't even know where to begin. It's so overwhelming.
Linnsey Dolson:There's so many steps. Not too long ago, my girlfriend, she's my PR team as well. And we went to Sephora and she's like a makeup guru, right? So she just knows all of it. We went through and we just created a whole new makeup routine for me.
Linnsey Dolson:And I love it, but there was so many things that we added that I didn't even know existed or I didn't even know I needed that step or anything like that. So it is a lot. Really need somebody to teach you. Show me your ways. Yes, yes.
Kat Fairchild:There's so many brands, there's so many concepts, there's so many things, but
Linnsey Dolson:It's like, where does that even go?
Kat Fairchild:You're looking at something, you're like, I
Linnsey Dolson:use that for under my eyes, where does that go?
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, well, and really with makeup, it's hard because the more and more that you put on, the worse and worse your skin can look. Some people just think, Oh, I'll keep adding and I'll keep adding. Cakey is a thing.
Linnsey Dolson:Cakey is definitely a thing.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, but for a lot of people, it's like a security blanket and that's fine. But there is a way to, you know, I just got into sharing about skincare and I've never really been one to think about ingredients or really care about what I'm buying. I'll just buy something because it's cute or it smells good or someone else is using it or whatever. And so I think addressing like actual like your skin first is very important too, because then you can feel more confident in your skin and you don't have to kind of hide behind the makeup as much.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah, know that's super important. Skin care is so important. When I first got sober, because I had a twelve year addiction.
Kat Fairchild:Yes. My skin was so
Linnsey Dolson:bad. When I first got sober, it was horrible. Of course, because I've been abusing him for twelve years. And so I've done so many treatments and everything that now I've really became aware of over care for my skin. I sometimes think the med spa is my second home.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah, know. On my facials, laser, both, all the things that's just kill All the things. I did the full CO2 laser. Have you seen that? I've done that too.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, you did it?
Kat Fairchild:I wasn't put under. They called it a weekender. Okay. Yeah. Were you put under?
Linnsey Dolson:Under, so I got it at the same time I got my nose done. And so they put me under and then they did my nose as well. So then they couldn't CO2 my nose. Oh no. But I was like, no, no, no.
Linnsey Dolson:I want my nose done too. They're like, well, we can do it at the next, the appointment we take your nose brace off. Girl, what did they have you on when they did that? So
Kat Fairchild:go to the aesthetic center in El Jordan Hills. I love them. They did where they burnt your whole skin off. Yes. Yeah.
Kat Fairchild:So I was on, they had ketamine and a bunch of other things.
Linnsey Dolson:So like a cocktail?
Kat Fairchild:A cocktail. Yeah, I was on some cocktail.
Linnsey Dolson:I don't know.
Kat Fairchild:Just remember laying there thinking like, this hurts, but I'm just not gonna say anything. But yeah, it was And then they have like, which I didn't see I don't know if yours was like this, but they actually put this metal eye cover on my eyes so they can get all the way up to the under eyes.
Linnsey Dolson:Yes, they did. And they taped my eyes, like my eyelashes, it's gnarly. And then they did my nose and they just did like a local anesthetic. Girl, I can handle pain. And I have six kids and I've had several surgeries.
Linnsey Dolson:Was so And I could smell the burnt skin and all And I was just like, it's okay. I'm gonna love the results. I'm gonna love the results. I'm gonna let it was The hardest part is
Kat Fairchild:after though. Did you think?
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. Did you have to soak your face in vinegar?
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, and it smells disgusting and
Linnsey Dolson:it made me At Easter, I was like, you know what? We're skipping eggs this year. There is no vinegar. Loading is no.
Kat Fairchild:The vinegar
Linnsey Dolson:is You'll bring that shit in. Dusting. Literally, you guys, if you
Kat Fairchild:don't know,
Linnsey Dolson:your face is peeling, like And you have to soak it in vinegar, and then you have to put the Vaseline all over, right? And so my hair was just guys too.
Kat Fairchild:I put too much Vaseline on. I actually gave myself. It disgusting. I gave myself, I think like a little reaction and it was so itchy. Was yours itchy?
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, yeah. It was I
Kat Fairchild:scratched my face off.
Linnsey Dolson:But it was gnarly, but it's worth it. The results were so good.
Kat Fairchild:Well, great thing is when I was researching it, because they had approached me to influence for it. I shared my whole journey doing it and I was so nervous, but I kept stumbling across posts that were like, everyone talks about the halo laser, the IPL, all the different types of lasers. I love IPL. And I've never had one. This was my first experience with the laser.
Kat Fairchild:I just went all in and everything just kept saying CO2 is like the holy grail of lasers. And I was like, all right, I'll do it. And the nice thing is that even for our age, I think they recommended only every three to five years. I mean, I guess you could do it yearly, but I'm like, okay, I can get on board with every three years doing something of that experience of, know, it's pretty intense.
Linnsey Dolson:It is intense, but
Kat Fairchild:now, I mean, I had so much sun damage around my eyes, all down here that was taken care of. So it really did. Mean, I can tell your skin
Linnsey Dolson:looks It's Like all I had my cheeks were really rough just because, I mean, when I was out in my addiction, there was probably so I could have probably went a week without actually doing skincare and all of Who knows what the hell I was doing? So it was just rough. But you can come back.
Kat Fairchild:For sure. I thought
Linnsey Dolson:it was able to Come
Kat Fairchild:back queen.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah, be able to fix all those little things. Yes. Because when you feel good, and I say this is one of my favorite sayings. When you feel good and you look good, you execute at a completely different level.
Kat Fairchild:100%.
Linnsey Dolson:When they say, I know that people say looks don't matter, and it's not even necessarily looks, it's when I feel good. And whatever it takes for me to feel I'm one of those girlies that I need lashes, I need Botox, I need hair extensions, I need spray tan, I need lip filler, I need veneers. But that's just me. And that works well for me. And when I have all those things in place, can execute a whole new level.
Linnsey Dolson:And so that works for me. Not that everybody needs that to execute, but it's like finding what fills your cup. Totally. Right? Whatever that is, those little things, it's so important to like, you can't pour from an empty cup.
Linnsey Dolson:And so it's like taking care of you, making you feel good.
Kat Fairchild:Yes, celebrating that. I think that's one of the things too that people will hide that they get things done. I've always
Linnsey Dolson:just been
Kat Fairchild:so vocal about
Linnsey Dolson:it because I'm
Kat Fairchild:like, who cares if it's making me feel better I'm better for it, then, you know, the haters That is are gonna always hate
Linnsey Dolson:Oh, my God. Well, that's another thing we didn't touch on social media. Yeah. Dude, be prepared if you're on social to get the roots.
Kat Fairchild:Ridiculed.
Linnsey Dolson:Oh my god. Yeah. So bad. So I did a we did a campaign not too long ago for our clean the cleaning companies. And they put me on it.
Linnsey Dolson:And all the comments, you guys must be so expensive for her to afford all those expensive eyelashes and that just they made me alive. And I'm like, maybe we'll just just keep me off of the cleaning. Maybe I don't fit the brand for that.
Kat Fairchild:That's hilarious.
Linnsey Dolson:I know, but I was like, well, know what? Hey, all those comments, it works just as well as good comments
Kat Fairchild:for posting this And you know that your company's successful, right?
Linnsey Dolson:It is. And you can't even let things get to you social That's another thing is people will jump on social media on the bandwagon. And then the minute they start getting some of those hate comments, they end it. I've known a few people who have wanted to do it and they did it. As soon as they got that, I'm like, girl, that just means your stuff starting to be seen.
Linnsey Dolson:The stuff people say, are you know, and then it's funny, you get this comment and you go look at their profile and you're like, okay, you're clearly miserable. You're doing nothing with your life. Never It is
Kat Fairchild:so sad.
Linnsey Dolson:It is sad because hurt people hurt people. Yes. And so nobody who's doing great in their life or happy or has found love, has a great family, all this is on social media talking horrible to someone else. We don't operate that way. Right.
Linnsey Dolson:Right? When life and so it is super sad. It is sad because it's like, yeah, hurt people hurt people. Yeah. But you also have to know that that is not to stop you and totally gonna get that.
Kat Fairchild:I mean, it's human nature to think like, oh, sometimes it does make you second guess like something or
Linnsey Dolson:that's more common than not
Kat Fairchild:majority of people are gonna have that attitude. But it's working through it. And I've noticed for me too, especially working in an industry where I'm working with a lot of women, and there's a lot of competition. And when things like this come up, you always you have to not give a voice to the negativity. Because the moment that you give a voice to it, you're giving it power.
Kat Fairchild:Well, it's manifestation. Yeah. So it's like, just have to take a step back and think of, you know, for that three, four or five comments of those negativity comments, how much positivity was there? How many people were praising you? How many connections did you have that were positive?
Kat Fairchild:And so, you know, that's, of course, we'll a down moment.
Linnsey Dolson:You can't make everybody happy. No. You can't. Look at all the, I mean, some of the most famous, rich, successful people in the world have so many haters. And if you don't have haters, you're not doing big enough things in your life.
Linnsey Dolson:You're just That's
Kat Fairchild:of people.
Linnsey Dolson:Yeah. Honestly, every year that I've gotten more successful, I have had more people hating. I hear rumors about me that I'm like, oh, interesting. Yeah. Okay.
Linnsey Dolson:I didn't know that. Someone never told me that happened, but okay. Yeah. Like you do and I feel like you have to be okay with that, with You have to be okay with not everybody liking you. Being on social media and putting yourself out there, but see women seeing you do that gives them hope, right?
Linnsey Dolson:If Kat can do it, I can do it. So it's like you being a leader sets example for so many women who maybe could feel like they could do it because of you.
Kat Fairchild:Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's a good And I think we texted and talked about role models for our kids. Everybody is always watching, how you're reacting, how you're putting yourself out there, the time that you put in. And yeah, of course, the times that I was building my business big, my kids were little. And I look back on a lot of things that I'm like, Could I have spent more time with my kids?
Kat Fairchild:It's like every parent has regrets like that.
Linnsey Dolson:Makes sense.
Kat Fairchild:And it's hard, but at the end of the day, I've chosen a industry that is home based and I do have a lot of time freedom with my family and my kids. And it just makes such a difference to be able to have them see the fruits of your labor. But also sometimes, I don't know if this is the same for you, but I feel like I work my business so effortlessly into my life that my kids sometimes don't even realize that like Same. That what I'm doing is paying for us to go to Disneyland.
Linnsey Dolson:My daughter asks me all the time, my middle one, what do you do to make money mom? Yeah, they have no idea. She tells me you don't work. No, mom does work. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:You don't work. Yeah. No, mom does. But that's a part, I'm glad that it looks like mom doesn't.
Kat Fairchild:It's such a joy. And again, full circle. It's such a joy to be able to find something that you truly love that is bringing you an income.
Linnsey Dolson:No, that is that's so incredible. And it's like you were talking about the building a business. It's like finding that fine line of I want to build generational wealth. I want to build a life to where we can live a life beyond our wildest dreams. But I also want to spend every moment with that.
Linnsey Dolson:So I feel like, they say entrepreneurship is spending a few years of your life like most people are not willing to so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people are And I remember when I first got sober for the first several years, I worked all the time. I took no vacations, none of that. But now I was able to build there to where the lifestyle I live now like me and my kids, we travel all the time. That's all people are like, do you work? And I'm like, no, I do.
Linnsey Dolson:I'll be at The Bahamas like on my phone, working or and that's like the incredible thing is really being able to build. To me, that is the most valuable thing in the world. It's not the money, it's the time freedom. It's the time freedom that comes. Wanna live life on my terms.
Linnsey Dolson:Totally. And that's something, it's actually something that most people could create if they were willing to.
Kat Fairchild:Oh, for sure. And I think that's the hard part of where we are now is you get in a crossroads of like, oh, okay, this sounds great. I want to do it. How do I do it? And there's so many different ways that you could bring in income that it just gets really debilitating.
Kat Fairchild:So I think really digging your heels in and having a plan and picking something and going for it.
Linnsey Dolson:You're not giving up.
Kat Fairchild:Not giving up. I just had that conversation with somebody a couple days ago. Oh, it was my friend that she's becoming a Pilates instructor. It is hard. And I went to one of her classes and I didn't even realize, but it's like the timing and you have to be watching people and you have to know what next step.
Kat Fairchild:There's like 50 different steps that you have to do in a Pilates class. And there was a point where it gets discouraging, but she's now coasting. It took like a month and you dig in, you learn, you grow, and you are consistent and it gets easier and easier.
Linnsey Dolson:It's the consistency. I see so many people that do something and then they expect it to be easy. Yeah. Nothing worth having is gonna be easy and you just have to be have the attitude that failure is not an option. Yeah.
Linnsey Dolson:And you make mistakes. Right. You allow yourself to make mistakes. Allow yourself to fail and just get out of your own way. That's the biggest, when I coach people, I'm like, get out of your own Yes, yes.
Linnsey Dolson:You are your own limiting belief. If you just stop trying to overthink it, stop trying to make sense of it, all of that and just do it, your mind will follow. So it's like, if I could just tell some people that get out of your own way. Yes. You wouldn't believe what you could conquer, but our mind and the fear of failure stop.
Linnsey Dolson:It destroys more dreams than anything else in the world.
Kat Fairchild:Right. Well, and I think it's, there's certain personality types, clearly you have it, I feel like I have it,
Linnsey Dolson:where
Kat Fairchild:you can do something and get it done. But the majority of people, they need to hear it. And I love being able to, like you just said, just what you explained, just having the power to be able to coach somebody through a process and try this a different way or do this this way, or finding out, learning a new skill, like figuring out how to post on social media or on their stories or sharing some of their stories. So it just makes it so much more clear when you have a voice of reason that's like, Hey, I'm sure going through your sobriety I mean, what I don't even really know much about like the key moment of when you were like, hey, I'm done. Did you have a coach?
Linnsey Dolson:I I am, I tell that story. And I didn't have a coach. I remember walking down the street, six months pregnant, my feet were bleeding, I had nowhere to go. And it was at that moment that I either didn't wanna live anymore or I wanted to get help. And I called a rehab.
Linnsey Dolson:And then in rehab, have sponsors is what they're That's somebody who's been sober a long time and guides you through it. But it's the same thing as business and in life. You should always have a coach. And your coach should have a coach. And as you grow in life, who you use as a coach needs to change.
Linnsey Dolson:You need to outgrow your coach. If you don't outgrow your current coach, you're not growing, So you should always have a coach and you should always have a mentor and you should always be doing personal development, books and classes and conferences and all of that. So even with our personality type, we still need that, right? Everybody needs to be getting coached.
Kat Fairchild:For sure. Yeah, I was always one that I definitely skated along being naive for a really long time.
Linnsey Dolson:Sure.
Kat Fairchild:And I didn't really feel like I needed personal development. I was in that mindset of like, if I'm gonna do it, I'm just gonna do it. Don't need this. Don't need the personal I mean, I valued it because I know that so many other people needed it. But it wasn't until I had, you know, I think I kind of shared with you a little bit where I built a large business and then some things changed and the structure of my business wildly changed that I really thought in that moment, like, okay, I need some power here.
Kat Fairchild:Like, I need to just work through my mindset of, when everything is going great, forget that you need Not that you forget humility, but you kind of forget what it's like to really dig deep inside of you and know that you're capable of doing something. And one of the things that I really enjoy and kind of how I've been able to know that what I came through was powerful was that I built this business at first, and it was successful. It was great. It was fun. I loved it.
Kat Fairchild:And then when the turning point came to the end with that, I didn't want to give up on that same industry. I wanted to do that same industry again. And so I found a new company to work with. I dug deep in there, and I ended up being successful there. So I proved to myself that I didn't just get lucky that first time.
Kat Fairchild:I think a lot of us need that validation
Linnsey Dolson:of
Kat Fairchild:what you're doing matters. Your voice matters. Your consistency matters. I heard someone say the other day that an open mouth is an open business when you're talking and you're generating that.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that, yeah.
Kat Fairchild:And I really proved to myself, like I said, those spurts of energy. I know that it was me. I know that my power is inside myself. It's not just because it was given to me. And I think that that's something that people really need to realize is that you're fully capable of doing the things that you need to do.
Kat Fairchild:And you need to recognize through personal development and through things that this manifestation doesn't just fall in your lap. It happens because you do the work.
Linnsey Dolson:I love that. I love that. Well, we're gonna wrap it up. And I could talk to you forever. I do.
Linnsey Dolson:And I'm watching the timer and I'm like, oh my gosh, we went a few minutes over. I literally could have kept talking to you forever. I love that. I totally connected with you at the nail Thank you for coming. Tell everyone how they can find you.
Kat Fairchild:Yes. You can find me on Instagram at fairchildcat. That's my main hub. And send me a message. My inbox is always open.
Kat Fairchild:I would love to hear from Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye.