A Hair Stylist

What It's Like To Be...

Dan Heath

Curiosity, Jobs, Careers, Business, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Human Interest

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Cutting to accentuate the client's eyes and ears, plotting to tame Einstein's hair, and riding the ups and downs of entrepreneurship with Ona Diaz-Santin, a hair stylist and owner of 5 Salon & Spa in New Jersey. What's the most irritating way a client can respond to a haircut? And why was she christened "The Hair Saint"? Our show takes a lot of inspiration from Studs Terkel's classic book Working. It features interviews Terkel did with more than 100 different people from different jobs: ...

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0:00.0	Ona Diaz Santin has been a hair stylist for 27 years.
0:04.5	She's known as the Hair Saint.
0:08.2	A client gave her that name.
0:10.3	It was a musician who traveled a lot.
0:12.8	He was somewhere where it was like hot and his hair was super dry, super dehydrated.
0:19.6	And he came in and we treated him.
0:22.3	You know, we cut it.
0:23.8	And he was so happy.
0:25.4	And at the end of that, he's like, oh, you're like, you're like the Santa of hair and the saint.
0:32.1	And I started cracking up.
0:33.7	And I'm like, okay.
0:35.5	The Hair Saint.
0:37.0	It was a joke, but also not a joke.
0:40.3	Ona takes her work seriously, and when she looks at a head of hair, she sees potential.
0:46.5	I asked Ona if she could cut anyone's hair, who would it be?
0:50.7	Einstein.
0:52.0	Einstein.
0:53.7	Man, did I... He doesn't need a haircut. I look back at these pictures and I'm... Einstein. Einstein. Man.
0:55.4	He doesn't need a haircut.
1:01.1	I look back at these pictures and I'm like, my dude, but what happened?
1:03.9	But it's kind of on brand, right?
1:05.8	It's like the mad scientist look.
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