Ep. 166 • Why Becoming Vulnerable Took Lisa Walker @lisalovesbalayage To New Heights
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Educator & Global Brand Ambassador Lisa Walker spent 16 years in the hair industry before realizing she had much to learn in regards to color theory. We discuss her journey towards education and how showing her vulnerability gained her a huge following.
Episode Notes:
• Finding her way to hair; wanting to prove her instructor wrong
• Working at a diverse salon and learning different techniques
• Moving to an indie commission salon & why only following formulas hinders your progress as a hairdresser
• Moving on to a new salon and starting over – the advantages of new clients
• Going full indie and trying new color lines – reading the manual & the realization she knew nothing about coloring hair – how this changed her whole outlook and attitude
• Sharing her journey on social platforms and how being vulnerable pushed her toward education
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| 0:00.0 | And here I am reaching out to these people to give them discounts. |
| 0:05.1 | When I can be getting new people who have no idea what I charge and charge a whole new price and do a whole new service and have a whole new experience with. |
| 0:11.8 | Hi, I'm Neil Malick. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. |
| 0:14.3 | Steve Sleeper from the Professional Beauty Association. |
| 0:16.7 | Hi, I'm Philip Wolf and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. In news, not the election news, not U.S. political news, which we've all been bludgeoned over the head with. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm going to talk about Salon News. We're opening a new location in Linwood, Washington, and a new location in Sunnyvale in |
| 0:41.3 | Northern California. |
| 0:42.7 | Go to SalonRepublic.com for details and to set up a tour. |
| 0:48.2 | And now we're going straight to the Podlute giveaway. |
| 0:52.6 | We're giving away a Harmon Cardin Onix Studio 4 Bluetooth speaker and the winner is Shades by |
| 1:02.4 | Chavonda. |
| 1:03.4 | DM me at the Hair Game Podcast Instagram with your mailing address and we're going to send |
| 1:07.9 | you the Harmon Cardin speaker. |
| 1:10.1 | At the end of the show I'll tell you what we're going to be given the Harmon Cardin speaker. At the end of the show, |
| 1:10.9 | I'll tell you what we're going to be given away next week and how you can win it. Now to Lisa Walker. |
| 1:18.2 | All right, Lisa Walker, how are you? I'm great. How are you? Good. AKA, by the way. I don't know. |
| 1:25.5 | What? What? I'm lying. I'm not great. I'm doing this, like, remote school thing for my son, and it is the worst thing ever. |
| 1:35.8 | You're not the only one listening right now engaging in this podcast who's experiencing this. Does that make you feel better? No. It would |
| 1:47.9 | make me feel better if the teacher actually showed up every morning and did this for me. |
| 1:52.3 | Right, which is the way it typically works. Okay, so other than that, I'm fine, I guess. |
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