Ep. 229 • Client vs. Hairdresser: Who's The Boss? w/ Sharon Spellman
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Sharon Spellman @sharon.simplyinsane continues sharing her journey to becoming an indie stylist. We discuss numerous meaty topics such as client expectations, setting boundaries, and knowing your worth.
This week's topics:
• Quitting position for influencer and striking out on her own from her boyfriend's spare bedroom
• Moving to salon atmosphere and leveling up her content
• Her approach to client expectations & authority
• Her experience with a racist and combative client
• Setting boundaries and knowing your worth as a stylist
• Where she is spending her time online and behind the chair
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| 0:00.0 | So essentially it comes down to respect for individuals. |
| 0:05.9 | Like take the client, um, stylus aspect out for a second. |
| 0:09.7 | Like a lot of people, or not a lot of people, but there's people in the world who just |
| 0:15.5 | have lack of respect for others. |
| 0:18.7 | Hi, I'm Neil Malick. |
| 0:19.8 | Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. Steve Sleeper from the Professional Beauty Association. Hi, I'm Philip Malick. Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. |
| 0:21.1 | Steve Sleeper from the Professional Beauty Association. |
| 0:23.5 | Hi, I'm Philip Wolfe, and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:31.2 | Hope your new year is going well so far. |
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| 0:37.6 | The first episode of every month, we give away 500 bucks in cash to one listener who's written |
| 0:42.9 | us a review on the Apple Podcast app. |
| 0:45.5 | I'll give you more details at the end of the show. |
| 0:48.6 | Now to the continuation of my conversation with Sharon Spellman. |
| 0:53.3 | Okay, so last week, we were leaving off on your somewhat poisonous mentor-mantee |
| 1:01.3 | relationship with an LA hairdresser that will remain to go unnamed. |
| 1:07.9 | And so all of that, listeners, if you haven't heard Sharon's first episode go back to last week |
| 1:13.7 | and then listen to this one afterwards okay so you came back from Vegas your hair is fried |
| 1:19.3 | you realize that your relationship you're an assistant to this hairdresser but there's no |
| 1:26.9 | respect in the relationship you're not learning what you want to learn and you're an assistant to this hairdresser, but there's no respect in the relationship. |
| 1:28.5 | You're not learning what you want to learn. |
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