About MASTERS Audio Club
Welcome to MASTERS, the monthly audio program featuring interviews, success secrets, and business-building presentations by the absolute best leaders in and out of the beauty industry.
With subscribers in countries around the world, MASTERS boasts the most complete library and history of what makes the beauty industry great. Founded in 1995, MASTERS lets you hear the actual voices of your favorite artists, educators, and mentors as they tell their own stories and share their amazing wisdom for success.
Winn Claybaugh, founder and host of MASTERS Audio Club, has interviewed over 325 industry icons for MASTERS to date, including NAHA winners, best-selling authors, major manufacturers, distributors, salon owners and stylists, makeup artists, and more. The MASTERS roster includes luminaries like Vidal Sassoon, Yosh Toya, Sam Brocato, Robert Lobetta, Ruth Roche, Vivienne Mackinder, and Robert Cromeans, to name just a few.
“MASTERS is a non-exclusive gathering place where the entire professional beauty industry comes together to learn and share.” – Winn Claybaugh
About Winn Claybaugh
MASTERS founder Winn Claybaugh is the author of Be Nice (Or Else!) and “one of the best motivational speakers in the country,” according to CNN’s Larry King, who wrote the foreword for the book. A business owner for over 27 years with over 12,000 people in his organization, Winn is the founder and co-owner of a leading beauty school network with more than 95 locations throughout the United States. The young company was ranked three years in a row (2006–2008) in the top 10 of Franchise Times magazine's Fast 55, a ranking of America's fastest growing young franchises.
A popular speaker having facilitated thousands of seminars, Winn is a frequent guest on national radio and a regular contributor to online publications that reach millions of subscribers, including Dr Laura.com, Beliefnet.com, HealthNewsDigest.com, BrandNewDad.com, Wellness.com, and SheKnows.com.
In 2010, Winn was named a finalist in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (Utah region). In 2004, the North American Hairdressing Awards (NAHA) recognized his outstanding contributions to the hair and beauty industry by making him the youngest person ever named to their Hall of Leaders. From 2004 to 2010, Winn and his schools raised over $4.6 million for multiple charitable organizations, including the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Larry King Cardiac Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network, Habitat for Humanity, Food 4 Africa, hurricane relief, AIDS and breast cancer causes, City of Hope, the American Cancer Society, and many others.