Anthony Giannotti takes us through a story of how diverse the business of barbering can be. From barber to educator, barbershop owner, brand and product producer and champion for barber technology.

In this episode of Beauty Means Business, Anthony elaborates on how the very best in the industry have a combination of both technical ability and emotional ability. And tells you to ask yourself: “How well do I manage or mirror emotions?”

Chelle Neff is the owner of Urban Betty in Austin TX. Urban Betty is one of the most well-known salons in Austin. Urban Betty made Inc’s 5000’s list of the fastest growing privately held companies throughout the country and was one of the only hair salons to make the list. Urban Betty was named one of the top 200 salons in the US by Salon Today 9 times, from 2011 – 2020. Chelle has been in the industry for over 20 years and in 2016 was named as Entrepreneur & Startup of the Year by Austin Under 40.

Lee Resnick’s story tops the charts as quite the untraditional of career paths, starting by bootstrapping his way through record deals and ultimately leading him to up-level the barbering industry.

In this episode, we learn how Lee combines his savvy marketing skills for rappers and applies it to the barber industry, on building a successful business branding music videos through barbershops, and ultimately built a barbershop network that amassed 360K viewers per month which launched him into a partnership with Microsoft for the X Box as the entry point into US barbershops.

In this episode, Ashlee takes us through her expert understanding of how the education system has changed in beauty of the past 13 years. She’s seen education transform since an early Bumble and Bumble Network Educator, from when three primary brands ran the physical education industry into the transformation of brand education and ultimately, 2015 when the Independent Education revolution began. Ashlee discusses the positive and negatives to that.

In this episode of BMB Radio, Lauren takes us into the massive successes BCL has had on the beauty community. She talks about her career journey following her passion into cosmetology after she graduated university. She has a wealth of experience in the industry having been behind the chair, with Pivot Point International and now the Executive Director of a thought leader in non-profits for the beauty industry.

Andy Rosario is a dynamic creator in more than just the barber industry. In this episode of Beauty Means Business Andy takes us on a vivid journey of how he’s created a career path, roadmap, and legacy of what he looks to leave behind.

A very intellectual conversation around how to be intentional, how to overcome innate reactions to resist something you’re scared of or don’t understand.

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