Ep. 170 • Looking at Hair as a Fabric, Not a Race w/ @keyaartistically

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.9 • 571 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Can we look at hair as a fabric, not a race?

This week is part 1 of a beautiful conversation with Keya Neal - industry activist, educator, and visionary for @thekolourkulture & @texturevsrace

We discuss her path towards a multi-cultural salon, and how her experience helps her education: breaking past the fear of working on someone who looks different than you.

This week's Topics: 

Dropping out of college and finding beauty school
Learning the need to sacrifice time, energy, money to succeed
Running a salon for 10 years and building her brand, then closing it and moving to another state for a relationship
Getting back into hair after motherhood; choosing a multi-cultural salon to expand her experience and techniques
Her journey towards being an educator; developing her curriculum
Texture vs Race: educating how to break past the fear of working on someone who looks different than you

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0:00.0	All of us, we are so segregated.
0:02.3	It's like the church in the salon are the most segregated, overtly segregated, let me even say.
0:08.2	Institutions left.
0:10.2	Hello, I'm Rebecca Taylor.
0:11.5	Hey, I'm Buddy Porter.
0:12.4	This is Ben Malin.
0:13.2	Hey, it's Sophie Pope.
0:14.1	Hi, this is Kate Tori-Alba, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast.
0:20.3	Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor.
0:22.5	As of Friday, December 4th, which is when I'm recording this intro, salons in California
0:28.2	are still open.
0:30.1	But Newsom has lumped us in together with bars and restaurants again in his latest attempt
0:35.9	to control COVID. I and most others including L.A. County,
0:41.3	the city councils of Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles City Council, if you can believe that,
0:47.5	as well as the other 49 governors in the United States, as well as the leaders of just about
0:52.0	every other country on earth, don't believe that salons should be shut down, don't believe that salons have anything to do with the spread of COVID.
1:01.0	Only Newsom thinks that it makes sense to shut down beauty professionals.
1:06.0	It's completely unjustified and will have no effect on COVID cases.
1:10.0	But it will make the total situation
1:12.9	much worse by imposing further hardship on California's 621,000 beauty professionals and 53,000
1:21.8	salons who have proven that they can work safely. Fingers crossed that they come to their senses.
1:30.9	All right, so last week we played a little game with you for potential new theme songs
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