Ep. 218 • From Ranch Hand to The Top of The Salon Industry w/ Sal Salcedo
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Cut Artist and salon owner Sal Salcedo @salsalhair grew up as a ranch hand in Mexico. In this first of two episodes, we hear his amazing story about his journey to the U.S., and how he discovered his passion for being behind the chair.
This Week's Topics:
• Finding his way to hair: working on a ranch in Mexico
• Having an absentee father and how that affects his parenting
• Moving to US without knowing English; teaching himself how to cut hair and starting to to do it for money
• Finding fulfillment in cutting hair and going to cosmo school (for real :) )
• Working with older stylists and learning from them
• Outgrowing his salons and finding his next steps
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| 0:00.0 | And now being a dad, you know, my big drive in a way, it's also providing and not so much providing like financials, but providing presence to my, to my children and to my wife. |
| 0:12.0 | Time. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, time. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, this is Naima LaFond. |
| 0:17.4 | It's Alfredo Lewis. |
| 0:18.3 | This is Amanda Libergert. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Victor Valverdi. |
| 0:20.7 | It's Robert Kromyens here. Thank you for listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. Thanks for tuning into the Hair Game podcast. For our new listeners, |
| 0:33.0 | we do this thing called a Podlute giveaway. On the first episode of every month, we give away |
| 0:38.4 | $500 in cash to one lucky listener who's written us a review on the Apple podcast app. |
| 0:44.4 | I'll give you more details at the end of the show. |
| 0:47.1 | Now let's get straight to the conversation with Sal Sal Salsato. |
| 0:52.0 | Hey, Sal, how you doing? |
| 0:55.0 | Hi, Eric. Doing well. |
| 0:56.0 | Having a good day here in LA. |
| 0:58.0 | Awesome. |
| 0:59.0 | Awesome. |
| 1:00.0 | Sal and I were just talking. |
| 1:01.0 | We just met and Sal is downtown in downtown LA right now. |
| 1:05.0 | And it's like 95 degrees. |
| 1:07.0 | We're in hopefully one of the last heat waves that we have of the year, right? |
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