Ep. 202 • Stop Trying to Please Everyone! It's Sabotaging Your Business w/ Dawn Bradley
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Hairstylist, educator and business coach Dawn Bradley @dawnbradleyhair has struggled with anxiety and imposter syndrome throughout her career. In dealing with her anxiety and insecurities, she has developed effective teaching courses for hairdressing as well as business. We discuss how setting boundaries can improve your business (and happiness) behind the chair.
This week's topics:
• Getting her dream job at 24 and having anxiety & self-sabotage; quitting and moving back home
• Avoiding unfamiliar situations and people to avoid anxiety
• Moving to Calgary and building a clientele out of her basement through social media
• A bad client experience that caused a major panic attack & wake-up call
• Top things a hairdresser can do to improve their situation behind the chair
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| 0:00.0 | So I was like, like, you want your hair down on Sunday? |
| 0:03.0 | No problem. |
| 0:03.9 | I'll make you like, I'll make you happy. |
| 0:05.9 | Like you need to, oh, my hours don't work for you. No problem. Oh, this isn't in your budget. Oh, I got you. Like I like thrived off of it. And it like built my ego, right? because of that insecurity and that like that dual thing that you're saying about like a lot of times |
| 0:21.7 | cockiness which can appear as confidence is actually like really low self-worth. |
| 0:28.4 | Hi, I'm Franco. This is Daniel Mason Jones. I'm celebrity stylist. Kaya Wright. This is |
| 0:33.4 | Patricia Nicole, painted hair and you're listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | Hey, listener. I'm Eric Taylor. Okay, so L.A. County has reimposed a mask mandate, and here is my |
| 0:47.3 | opinion on it. I'm going to try to not get too theoretical, but it expressed myself at the same |
| 0:53.7 | time, which sometimes is going to sound |
| 0:55.7 | theoretical. |
| 0:57.3 | I see it as a recognition very generally of risk. |
| 1:01.7 | Risk is a natural part of life, and every choice that we make has a certain amount of |
| 1:06.6 | risk, varying from so little risk that it's almost imperceptible, like walking down the street |
| 1:13.4 | on the sidewalk, to very risky such that if you make a certain choice, there's a good chance that |
| 1:20.4 | something bad will happen, like walking across a freeway and rush hour. Very likely, you're going to get |
| 1:26.6 | hit. There is never a scenario in life |
| 1:30.3 | in which there is absolutely no risk. Even sitting on the couch watching TV has risk. It's just so little that it's not worth even considering. |
| 1:42.3 | I find that people who take extreme positions related to |
| 1:46.1 | COVID misperceive the actual risks of the available choices. Let's talk about the current situation |
| 1:53.7 | with increasing COVID cases in LA County. Of course, due to the Delta variant versus the alpha |
| 2:00.2 | variant, which was kind of the original variant. |
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