Ep. 168 • Finding Your True Self Through Hairdressing w/ @LuGarciaReynoso
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When @barbersocietyla & @modownbarberexhibit founder Lu got her haircut from shoulder-length hair to a skin fade, it turned her life upside down. She shares her journey toward her authentic self and how she chose to keep living.
SHOW NOTES:
• Her experience in barber shops shaping her journey to hair
• How getting a haircut showed her the power of hair and freed her to explore her true self
• Growing up and experiencing discipline and work ethic
• Contemplating suicide and choosing life
• Starting Barber Society
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| 0:00.0 | I was still holding on to that piece of my femininity, right? |
| 0:03.5 | When I go from that to a skin fade and I show up to anywhere, it was like, boom, it was in people's face. |
| 0:11.7 | And the reaction to that, it really turned my world upside down. |
| 0:16.5 | Hi, I'm Franco. |
| 0:17.8 | This is Daniel Mason Jones. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm celebrity stylist. |
| 0:20.4 | Kaya Wright. This is Patricia Nicole, painted hair, and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:29.6 | Let's start with something, a little nugget of gold from Seth Godin. |
| 0:33.6 | If you don't know Seth Godin, he's an author, he's a podcaster, has a great podcast called |
| 0:38.7 | Akembo, and he's got a brilliant daily blog that you can sign up for. |
| 0:44.5 | And that's what I'm going to read you. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm going to read you something from his daily vlog. |
| 0:47.7 | And it deals with something that I think about all the time, which is our propensity |
| 0:53.2 | as humans to never want to be wrong. We make a decision and even when |
| 1:00.7 | we realize that that was the wrong decision, we still want to continue to act like that was the |
| 1:06.8 | right decision. So on this blog he calls it the right answer. Here it goes, which is better? Feeling |
| 1:14.1 | like you're right the first time or actually being correct now. When we double down on our |
| 1:20.3 | original estimate, defend our sunk costs and rally behind the home team, we're doing this |
| 1:26.5 | because it's satisfying to feel as though we are right all along. On the home team, we're doing this because it's satisfying to feel as though |
| 1:28.5 | we are right all along. |
| 1:31.0 | On the other hand, if the outcome is important and we're brave enough to learn, we can say, |
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