Ep. 113 • How To Be a Successful Freelance Hairdresser w/ @catekettner
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Maddie Conrad. |
| 0:01.1 | I'm Tabitha Calfi. |
| 0:02.1 | Hi, I'm Mustafa Avesi. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm Andrew Does Hair. |
| 0:04.2 | Hi, my name is Kelly O'Leary, and you are listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:09.6 | Hey, everyone, Eric Taylor here. |
| 0:11.6 | So this speak pipe voicemail button on the podcast web page stopped working again. |
| 0:16.9 | So I apologize to anybody who went there intending to leave a hair horse story and you didn't see the button. |
| 0:22.6 | We're going to get on customer service with them and try to get that fixed. |
| 0:27.6 | So instead of talking about that, I'm going to talk about the Alexa app that we have every day. |
| 0:32.6 | And I have my Alexa here. |
| 0:34.6 | Alexa, what are my briefings? |
| 0:40.3 | Eric, here's what's new. |
| 0:43.5 | From the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | Episode 112, Q&A panel with Ryan Cullen and Andrew does hair. |
| 0:53.1 | During the time when it became real to me, I was competing to try to do better fades because barbers I didn't know online, we're |
| 0:55.0 | talking crap on my fades. You can't fade like a barber. Like, oh, you're not as good as us. And so I was like, oh, I'll prove you wrong. I'm going to get so good at fade. All right, so that's a snippet from the current episode. Every day we have little snippets of episodes, not always the current one. Sometimes we go back, we go deep into the catalog |
| 1:12.6 | and we bring out little tidbits of wisdom. So that's every day on the Alexa app. Hit |
| 1:17.6 | the link in my bio on Instagram and there's going to be a button there for the Alexa app and |
| 1:24.6 | you can enable it. Let's get to the PodLute giveaway. |
| 1:32.5 | All right, you hear the names in there. |
| 1:34.4 | This is a $150 Apple gift card. |
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