Ep. 237 • Why Making Fear-Based Decisions Can Lead to Failure w/ Candy Shaw
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Candy Shaw aka @thebalaylama traded haircuts for schoolwork as a means to get through high school due to her learning disability. This grit & hard work carried through to her career as a hairdresser, salon owner, and educator. We discuss her journey, as well as making difficult decisions as a leader.
This week's topics:
• Trading schoolwork for cutting hair due to learning disability
• Doing apprenticeships in Europe instead of beauty school
• Working at her father's salon & buying father's salon business for control and ownership
• Leading her salons during covid: making tough decisions
• New trends in client behavior
• Her best advice for stylists
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| 0:00.0 | And I grew up really literally cutting hair in the locker room of my high school in trade for math homework because I had a learning disability. |
| 0:11.5 | And the only way I ever got through school was literally using my comb and my scissors as a resource. |
| 0:19.1 | Hi, this is Naima LaFond. |
| 0:20.9 | It's Alfredo Lewis. |
| 0:21.8 | This is Amanda Libergert. |
| 0:23.0 | This is Victor Valverdi. |
| 0:24.3 | It's Robert Kromins here. |
| 0:25.3 | Thank you for listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:30.7 | Hey, listener. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:32.9 | Next month, our Podlute giveaway will be free education for a yet to be named Hair Hero of |
| 0:39.2 | yours, yet to be named only because we want to build the suspense. |
| 0:43.6 | We know who it is, but we don't want to tell you because that's more suspenseful. |
| 0:48.5 | Stay tuned for more details. |
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| 0:55.6 | I'll give you more details at the end of the show. Now to the episode with Candy Shaw. |
| 1:01.6 | Hi, Candy. How are you? I am wonderful. Thanks for having me. I was just complimenting Candy on |
| 1:08.0 | her appearance through Skype. You're all put together. She has a matching |
| 1:13.6 | background. She swears that she didn't plan it. But you're just the quintessential image of |
| 1:20.9 | beauty and perfection right now on the screen. Well, thank you. So I'm going to introduce |
| 1:26.9 | you. You're an going to introduce you. |
| 1:31.5 | You're an Atlanta hairdresser, an expert in baliage and French cutting. |
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