Ep. 205 • Why Beauty Schools Can't Prepare You 100% for Life in the Salon
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The most common complaint we hear about beauty schools is how they don't prepare stylists for real life in the salon.
As the President/Owner of Salon Success Academy, operating 6 locations in Southern California, Robert Gross gives us the inside look at what it's like running a beauty school and the challenges that are constantly presented.
He has long championed the need to raise the professionalism and image of the beauty industry in the state of California by co-founding, and participating as an active board member of the Professional Beauty Federation of California.
This Week's Topics:
• The complications of beauty school and funding for students
• Accreditation issues when trying to modernize beauty school
• Trying to change and update state requirements
• SB 803 – the good and the bad
• Response to the complaint of beauty school not preparing them for life in the salon
• What he would change about the industry – the industry's image from the outside
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| 0:00.0 | The hardest thing for us is our students think we make up all these rules. We don't make them. You know, we have basic school rules, but some of the other things is, why can't I do that? Well, because the law or the regulation, I mean, they'll put me in jail if I let you do that. Hey, guys. My name's Charlie Gray. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Alison Alhammed. |
| 0:22.2 | Hi, I'm Erica Keelan. |
| 0:23.3 | It's Kia artistically Neil. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Kimberly Taye Hare and you're listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
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| 1:10.5 | you more details at the end of the show. Now to my fun. And this is what we're doing right now. I'll give you more details at the end of the show. |
| 1:13.9 | Now to my conversation with beauty school veteran Bob Gross. |
| 1:19.1 | Hi, Bob. How are you? I'm good. How are you, Eric? I'm doing fantastic. I'm going to introduce you |
| 1:24.8 | and you can interject if I screw anything up. |
| 1:27.6 | You're the owner of Salon Success Academy, a family-owned and operated beauty school with a long history in Southern California going back 60 years. |
| 1:37.7 | It's founded by your dad, Richard, Richard Gross. |
| 1:41.3 | And it was originally known as Richard's beauty School, I understand. Is that correct? |
| 1:46.1 | Beauty College. |
| 1:48.0 | Richards Beauty College. So that was the original name 60 years ago. At some point, it became |
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