The Hair Game

Modern Salon Connective stylist Jessica Warburton shares her truly amazing journey to hair, as well as some techniques she learned in the military for analyzing and using non-verbal communication to your benefit. We go more in-depth with the techniques in the next episode!

SHOW NOTES:

• Joining the military after 9/11 & what it's like in the military/boot camp

• Being diagnosed with late-stage ovarian cancer & finding hair after surviving

• Dealing with her near-death flatline experience

• Learning counter-intelligence techniques and adapting them to life as a hairstylist

• Recognizing and following happiness

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Donovan and Eric hit the streets of Hollywood, CA to ask random people ALL about their hairstylists. This episode includes topics such as:

- Do you get a consultation each time?

- Does your stylist teach you about styling and products?

- What makes you leave a stylist? What makes you stay?

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We took some choice clips from episodes 41 through 50 and put them together for a look back. This episode is packed full of valuable info & insights regarding your salon business, social media, & the beauty industry.

Show Notes:

Ep. 41 - @hairbypaulaperalta gives some great tips on marketing yourself as a hairdresser.

Ep. 42 - John Mosley @popular_nobody gives his thoughts on the industry & education, as well as what needs to change.

Ep. 43 - Dave Kirby from Summit Salon Business Education talks about the importance of educating yourself on the business aspects of hairdressing, as well as the top 3 mistakes hairdressers make.

Ep. 44 - @alfredo_lewis speaks to beauty students at Sassoon Academy LA about knowing your worth as an upcoming influencer and how much you can make.

Ep. 45 - @lucasdoney tells the importance of client satisfaction & his challenges behind the chair

Ep. 46 - @shelleygregoryhair gives tips about building clientele in a new city & advice for struggling stylists

Ep. 47 - Don Godfrey @nothingbutpixies give tips & tricks to grow your reach on Instagram

Ep. 48 - Jason Reyes @iliketocuthair shares his journey to becoming an educator

Ep. 49 - @ameliahairmakeup discusses the importance of having a social presence & mistakes people make on social media

Ep. 50 - Andrew Dale, founder and CEO of Unite speaks about the power of caring and how selling retail is extremely important in this

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At the Salon Republic Holiday Festival 2019, SR's Digital Marketing Coordinator and THG editor Donovan set up a hair horror story "confessional" and invited attendees to come in and give us their worst experiences as a stylist. We also included some of our listeners' horror stories who called in using our voice message feature!

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As a salon owner, will you be legal? As an indie hairdresser, will you become an employee? California's new employment law takes effect Jan. 1st, 2020 with many other states watching to see how it all shakes out. ⁠ ⁠ @loveerictaylor spoke once more with employment attorney Jason Ross, who specializes in this new law as it relates to hairdressers. There have been updates and exemptions for our industry since the law was passed, so we asked Jason to fill us in on what's going on. ⁠- For an in-depth discussion on the law, check out his first interview on Ep.68

Show Notes:

• Review of the Supreme Court decision & ABC Test for employee/indie worker

• What has happened since the change: AB5 taking effect Jan 1 2020

• Examining your salon philosophically as opposed to legally

• Examples of things beauty pros need to do to remain independent within salons

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Ashlee Levitch is the Owner/CEO of Bangstyle, a website and agency dedicated to hair inspiration and branding. They discuss her thoughts on the beauty industry and what hairdressers should be working on to improve their personal brand.

Show Notes:

• Her history as an young actor and how she transitioned to the beauty industry

• The history of Bangstyle; how it began and how she become the owner

• Her blog post: Keeping social content and conversations positive and helping other stylists

• Dealing with online hateful comments

• Bangstyle as an agency for brands / beauty pros

• Other social platforms: should a stylist be present on each of those?

• 'Horror' Story of being born with curly hair

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A precision haircutter turned founder & CEO of The Ben Mollin Project, Ben is an independent thinker. He has used his experience in TV and hair education to create a mentoring program dedicated to giving stylists the tools they need to live the life they want.

Show Notes:

• His early days as a stylist; getting into a higher end salon and gaining a mentor; buying an existing salon when young and hating it

• Bravo Shear Genius & life after the show

• Education and Being On-stage; being entertaining and making things memorable - how that led to developing The Ben Mollin Project – Teaching stylists public speaking

• Top 3 things to do to become a better public speaker

• Living a minimalistic life: cutting down on the things in life that add stress but you don't need

• His incredible Hair Horror Stories!

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We took some choice clips from episodes 31 through 40 and put them together for a look back. This episode is packed full of valuable info & insights regarding your salon business, social media, & the beauty industry.

Ep. 32 - Advice for new stylists w/ @wesdoeshair

Ep. 33 - Being flexible to change and the power of personality w/ @robertcromeans

Ep. 34 - Street Interviews w/ the everyday client regarding retail and recommendations

Ep. 35 - @hairgod_zito - his career switch to vivid colors and social media influencing

Ep. 36 - @thehairnerds - Starting & running a hair-centric media company and the state of the hair industry

Ep. 37 - Founders of @pulpriothair David and Alexis Thurston discuss creating their product

Ep. 38 - A roundtable discussion of the importance of attending hair events

Ep. 39 - @luiiisc_ & @kristenmichellehair discuss tactics and strategies to build clientele

Ep. 40 - Starting and scaling up a salon and assisting your stylists with social media w/ @jacobkhan

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Styling Specialist & Cosmoprof Artistic Team member Cate "Ruby" Torrealba specializes in red carpet glam-style. As a freelancer, Cate goes into the details of what it takes to succeed in a very challenging field of hairdressing.

Show Notes:

• How she found her way to hair and her nickname

• How to deal with inconsistency of freelance work & working with a spouse

• Cate's production work & search for representation

• How she deals with rejection

• Her story of her doggo Moose

• How to be successful during production work and photo shoots

• The one thing she would do differently: Go to a much cheaper beauty school

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TONS of great advice and inspo in this Episode! Andrew & Ryan sat down in front of stylists at LookBook 2019. They discussed some great topics & questions:

• How Ryan & Andrew gained an upper hand in Men's hair & Why you should learn to do women's hair

• If you are already really good at what you do, to succeed further you have to learn something else

• Making the client the hero, not yourself

• How to successfully guide a client towards a new style or what they truly want

• Being yourself on social media & in person; focusing on what you do best and what you want to do

• How to balance growing your clientele w/ having a life: raising prices