Ep. 185 • An Incredible Journey to Hair w/ Leysa Carrillo @leysahairandmakeup
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Redken ambassador & 2020 AIA Textured Stylist of the Year Leysa Carrillo gives us a glimpse into life in Cuba. She shares her amazing story of defecting to the USA and finding hair.
This Week's Topics:
• Life in Cuba & defecting to the USA
• Finding hair and struggling to connect with clients
• Learning English and appreciating what we have
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| 0:00.0 | I got to America and I was that this cannot just be it. You know, I have to feel that I'm doing |
| 0:06.8 | more than just going to a work and come back. You know, I feel that I want to impact people in a |
| 0:13.1 | different way and get to connect with the world. |
| 0:17.9 | Hi, I'm Maddie Conrad. I'm Tabitha Calfi. Hi, I'm Mustafa Avesi. I'm Andrew DeS Hair. Hi, my name is Kelly O'Leary, and you are listening to The Hair Game Podcast. Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. So it's late March now, springtime, the time of rebirth. The weather starts to turn nice, the sun comes out, the birds start chirping. |
| 0:38.7 | And of course, it's good timing because COVID numbers continue to fall. Thank God. Most states |
| 0:45.0 | have their businesses open, have had their businesses open. Certain states like Texas, no mask |
| 0:50.3 | mandate at the state level. I think it's a very important thing to mention. If there's |
| 0:56.3 | an outbreak in a certain city or a county or whatever, that county can impose a mask mandate, |
| 1:00.9 | like I believe the city of Austin has, not because there was an outbreak, but just because |
| 1:05.1 | they thought that they needed it, they can do that. That's fine. But the state is not |
| 1:09.7 | imposing a mask mandate in Texas. |
| 1:14.2 | Cases falling everywhere. Even California is reopening, if you can believe it. This past week, I've eaten inside restaurants a few times. |
| 1:22.6 | It was a nice little slice of normalcy. Finally finally movie theaters and gyms are finally |
| 1:29.3 | reopening in California even and of course salons are opening at a greater |
| 1:34.4 | greater and greater capacity I think it's 50% capacity now in the state of |
| 1:39.8 | California you know depending on which tier you're in, but even LA County has moved, moved up in |
| 1:46.6 | tiers to the better tiers. Really important to mention that facialists in LA County are still not |
| 1:54.1 | allowed to work without their client wearing a mask. Now, this is a county regulation. This is not a state |
| 1:59.4 | regulation. The state of California is allowing it. |
| 2:01.6 | For whatever reason, County of LA Public Health thinks that it's really dangerous for someone to get a facial without a mask on, |
| 2:09.6 | even though of course you can go get your teeth cleaned or do any other number of things that are clearly more dangerous. |
| 2:16.6 | But LA County Public Health very stubbornly is |
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