Ep. 147 • Finding Your Creativity Through Independence w/ Neal Malek @nealmhair
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How creative do you get to be at your salon? @nealmhair found that he needed his independence to fully express his creativity behind the chair. We chat with him about the move to indie hairdressing as well as his move to LA and how he built a clientele.
SHOW NOTES:
• Getting past a troubled youth
• His experience in hair school not ever having touched hair before
• His struggles in traditional salons restricting his creativity
• The move to indie /studio rental: key strategies
• Exploring different aspects of the hair industry: what is right for you?
• His IG and use of his account
• His advice to new cosmo students
• The move to LA and starting over with clientele
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| 0:00.0 | I was, I think I was just so grateful to have found hair. I still am. I'm like every single day. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm so fucking grateful that I found hair. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello, I'm Rebecca Taylor. Hey, I'm Buddy Porter. This is Ben Malin. |
| 0:12.2 | Hey, it's Sophie Po. Hi, this is Kate Tori-Alba. And you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:18.5 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. In New York, salons have finally reopened. The COVID numbers there |
| 0:25.3 | continue to be very good, meaning the fatality numbers continue to fall. In San Francisco, |
| 0:31.7 | salons were supposed to open Monday today, but the mayor has since pushed that back. I haven't seen a new date announced |
| 0:38.7 | for San Francisco salons. Across the country, as testing has increased, confirmed cases have |
| 0:46.6 | increased similarly. This should not be a surprise. The more we test, the more cases we're going to |
| 0:53.0 | have. What matters is hospital's capacity, which is great everywhere I've looked except Houston, |
| 1:00.0 | and fatality numbers, which are still trending down just about everywhere I've looked. |
| 1:05.0 | Certainly in Southern California, LA County, which is the county that I watch, most the fatality numbers are trending down |
| 1:12.7 | very, very nicely, even though the confirmed cases go up as we keep testing. All right, |
| 1:19.0 | it's important to keep that in mind as you're reading headlines or reading some of the |
| 1:24.1 | news articles because they're a little misleading. |
| 1:28.0 | So this doesn't mean that we're out of the woods and we can forget about COVID, not at all. |
| 1:34.1 | We're still in an environment of safety over comfort and convenience. |
| 1:38.5 | Please wear your mask. |
| 1:41.0 | If you're extra concerned, wear a face shield. |
| 1:43.4 | Why not? It's not weird anymore. Actually, it's a little weird If you're extra concerned, wear a face shield. Why not? It's not weird anymore. |
| 1:46.6 | Actually, it's a little weird if you're not wearing a mask, okay? Wear the mask, wear a face |
| 1:51.6 | shield. When I see somebody with a face shield, I don't think, oh, this weird, they're |
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