Ep. 197 • How Domestic Abuse Didn't Stop Leda Fazal
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Leda @ledafazal joins us again this week to share her story growing up in an abusive household and the toll it took on her family. Listen to her inspirational journey towards hair and how she has made the most of her past experiences to become the successful hairdresser she is today.
This Week's Topics:
• Growing up in an abusive household
• Running away and getting emancipated
• Using work ethic to support herself and go to college
• Having a bad experience as a client motivating her to hair school
• Reconnecting with her father & that experience affecting her as a mother
Hairstylists- you can learn the signs of Domestic Abuse - there's actually a program stylists can take called Cut It Out that teaches:
1. How to recognize signs of domestic abuse
2. How to compassionately communicate with someone in your chair about it.
Go to https://elitebeautysociety.com/cut-it-out-pba/ for more info on the program
Domestic Violence Hotline
800.799.SAFE (7233)
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| 0:00.0 | You have to have a before and after picture, not just for social media, but quite honestly, insurance, because people will be cray sometimes, you know. Hello, I'm Rebecca Taylor. Hey, I'm Buddy Porter. This is Ben Malin. Hey, it's Sophie Pope. Hey, guys, we're Garcia-Renos and founder of Barber Society, and we're hanging out on the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | Hey listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:24.2 | We've got a great show today. |
| 0:30.2 | Let's get straight to the Podlute giveaway, giving away a $150 Apple gift card. |
| 0:34.0 | The winner is J.D.Nandy. |
| 0:35.2 | J.D.Nandy. |
| 0:42.0 | DM me at the Hairgame podcast, and let me know that you heard me call your name and I'll send you the Apple gift card. |
| 0:46.9 | At the end of the show, I'll tell you what we'll be giving away next week and how you can win that. |
| 0:48.3 | Now to the episode. |
| 0:51.3 | Hi, Lita. How are you? |
| 1:04.0 | Great. Eric. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. So this is probably the first time that I ever did an episode with someone about a particular topic. Last week, you and I did an episode about TikTok. You have a monster following there. |
| 1:10.0 | A big audience. You do a lot of really cool things there. |
| 1:12.4 | We talked about that. We talked about all the functionality of TikTok and what to do. But then you and I |
| 1:18.0 | started talking off podcast about your background. And I said, stop. We just have to, let's do |
| 1:25.0 | another episode. Let's do a second episode. Okay. |
| 1:27.7 | So we're coming back one week later from the TikTok episode and we're going to talk about |
| 1:33.4 | your background, which is fascinating. |
| 1:35.7 | But before we go into that, I just want to talk about how tech savvy and social media |
| 1:42.4 | savvy you and I are, you primarily, me just following, because |
| 1:47.6 | right now, you and I are obviously recording a podcast, but what else are we doing at the same time? |
| 1:55.5 | We've got TikTok live going, and we just started a room in Clubhouse. So, I mean, and that's the way my brain |
| 2:04.0 | always thinks whenever you're shooting something. Let's see how many platforms you can get it on |
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