Ep. 220 • The 4 Core Principles That Guide Najah Aziz's Success
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stylist and salon owner Najah Aziz @najahliketheriversalon spent 16 years in the insurance industry before finding hair. She shares what she learned from corporate life and how she uses it to find success running a salon.
This week's topics:
• Finding her way to hair after working insurance for 16 years
• The joy of making a living doing hair
• Gaining knowledge outside the hair industry & being productive
• The principles Najah follows for success
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| 0:00.0 | There are certain stylists, you know, that work around me. |
| 0:03.4 | And even through the years that are just so addicted to their phones. |
| 0:09.7 | And sometimes just looking at, I call it, my dad always call it foolishness. |
| 0:14.8 | Like, you know, don't feed your mind constantly with foolishness. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, I'm Franco. This is Daniel Mason Jones. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm celebrity styles. |
| 0:25.6 | Kaya Wright. |
| 0:26.7 | This is Patricia Nicole, painted hair, and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:36.3 | So it's Thanksgiving week, lots of reminders this week to be grateful for everything that we have in our lives. I am certainly grateful for you listening to me and my guests every single week. So thank you. I'm also grateful to BarberCon, the big Barber show that was in Los Angeles this past weekend. |
| 0:55.1 | They honored me with their inspirational award for 2021. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm super humbled, and I want to recognize everybody who advocated for salons and barbershops |
| 1:05.4 | during the three shutdowns that we had here in California the last 18 months. |
| 1:11.1 | Thank you, Lee Resnick and Barbershop Connect. |
| 1:13.7 | They're the ones who put on BarbaraCon. |
| 1:16.2 | And by the way, there's one in New York and there's one in LA. |
| 1:20.6 | I think the one in New York, that's kind of their traditional BarberCon, |
| 1:25.2 | but they've been doing one in LA last few years it was super packed shoulder to |
| 1:29.2 | shoulder and pretty amazing to see everybody get back together and start connecting like that |
| 1:35.0 | in mandate news LA City finally realized how stupid including malls and shopping centers was and their ill-conceived vaccine mandate. |
| 1:47.0 | So the city council quietly removed it. They didn't even have any discourse. |
| 1:53.0 | You know, normally there's all sorts of conversation and discourse amongst the city council members, |
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