Ep. 216 • Knowing When to Pivot Your Career w/ Heather Chapman
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hair Styling Educator Heather Chapman @heatherchapmanhair was inspired by the success of her stylist was and realized she needed to go back and finish beauty school.
Through self-teaching, she became a styling expert and realized her future was moving toward educating. We discuss that transition and how she has taken her in-person education online.
This Weeks Topics:
• Her journey to finish hair school
• Learning skills and refining at home through YouTube and instructional videos
• Moving to New Mexico and starting on IG
• Gaining a following and moving to full-time educating
• Building her online education platform and marketing
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| 0:00.0 | And I also want to say that that makes me a little sad, right? |
| 0:05.0 | Like I kind of didn't, I don't want to let go of working with clients and working with brides and working with models, right? |
| 0:12.8 | But as my career has evolved to where is that now, I have a certain responsibility and I am just, this is what I'm good at. |
| 0:22.6 | Hey, this is Nina Covener with Passion Squared. |
| 0:25.4 | This is Anthony Pazos. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm Jessica Warburton. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey, this is Ryan Whedon. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:34.2 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:36.8 | So the last two intros were big ones. Now, I'm just, if you |
| 0:40.6 | haven't listened to those episodes, please go back. The last two episodes, I spoke about the |
| 0:44.8 | City of LA vaccine mandate and how that affects salons. I did so in pretty excruciating detail, |
| 0:52.0 | although I tried to do it as quickly as possible. |
| 0:55.0 | Also, I did so on my Instagram, my last Instagram post. |
| 0:59.0 | It took me about 15 minutes to get through the details of what this vaccine mandate means for the city of LA. |
| 1:07.0 | And there's a lot of important information on there. |
| 1:10.0 | And then last week's intro was about inflation across the economy and what that means to you as a hairdresser. |
| 1:15.6 | Do not ignore it. Ignore inflation at your peril. |
| 1:19.6 | You run a business. Even if you are in a commission salon, |
| 1:23.6 | it's important for you to know what is happening out there and what you need to do to combat |
| 1:28.1 | it and to put yourself in a good position going forward. Okay. For new listeners, we do this thing |
| 1:34.6 | called a pod lute giveaway on the first episode of every month. That means next week's episode. |
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