Ep. 141 • Guy Tang @Guy_Tang: How to Transform an Industry
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Guy Tang created the blueprint for today's hair influencers and ambassadors by mixing entertainment, hair education, talent and personality.
However, what is comfortable and normal now WASN'T back then. Showing his authentic self wasn't seen as 'appropriate' or professional, leading him to forge the @guytang_mydentity brand all on his own.
He opens up about:
• Growing up in Oklahoma & a horrible experience with racism
• Finding purpose from doing hair
• Hiding his sexuality for many years & finally finding his identity
• Disrupting the hair industry; mixing education & entertainment while being his authentic self
• Other avenues of creativity; why he feels it is important for stylists to explore creativity in other ways.
• His thoughts on getting through our current quarantine situation
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| 0:00.0 | Who I was was very frowned upon. |
| 0:03.3 | Right. |
| 0:04.0 | Me being sexual and having my identity. |
| 0:07.0 | And for me, I'm not going to go back into a cage. |
| 0:09.3 | I just came out of the closet and you're telling me I need to be professional and go back |
| 0:13.0 | in the closet. |
| 0:14.0 | I can't show who I am. |
| 0:15.0 | At that point, I said, you know what? |
| 0:17.5 | I'm going to do me. |
| 0:18.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:19.4 | But I'm going to do me. |
| 0:20.4 | Hi, I'm going to do me. Thank you, but I'm going to do me. Hi, I'm Christina Kregal. I'm Maggie Mulhern from Modern Salon Media. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Eric Vaughn. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello, Todd the Hair Best Season of Land. This is Guy Tang and welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:32.6 | Week 9 of Coronavirus Bizarro Land, as I like to call it. |
| 0:36.6 | Many states have opened salons with safety |
| 0:39.6 | protocols in place. Two of the earliest states to open salons that I've been watching very |
| 0:45.9 | closely, Georgia and Florida have seen a decrease in COVID-19 infections, which is very good |
| 0:53.6 | news. The country of Sweden, which never shut |
| 0:56.6 | down businesses, is still faring much better than many European countries that completely shut |
| 1:02.0 | their economies. Salon owners and beauty pros in California have been pushing back against |
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