Ep. 255 • How 'Not Fitting in' Can Lead You to Happiness w/ Presley Poe
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Salon owner and educator @presleypoe faced negative attitudes and was suppressed career-wise at her first salons due to looking different. She shares her journey finding her place, as well as learning what it takes to be a good leader.
This Week's Topics:
• Balancing work / life
• Not fitting first salon's 'aesthetic'
• Moving to Portland and finding her place
• The values of being a good leader
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| 0:00.0 | I didn't quite fit their narrative, right? I didn't fit their aesthetic and I didn't fit their |
| 0:06.8 | narrative even though I worked harder. I knew I was more talented. I knew that I had more in me |
| 0:12.2 | than what they saw and they kept elevating everyone above me. |
| 0:18.1 | Hey friend, this is Don Bradley. It's your girl, Robbie Rogers. Hey, this is Carly Zanoni, The Blonde Chronicles. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, Sleigh, hey, everyone. |
| 0:24.6 | It's me, Jay Latner, and you're listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:32.6 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:34.6 | Let's talk about the pod lute for August. |
| 0:36.6 | This will be Sam Via's episode, |
| 0:39.5 | the next episode, and we will give away Sam Via's light professional ionic hairdriar worth |
| 0:45.0 | about 200 bucks. For a chance to win, write us a review on the Apple Podcast app and include |
| 0:50.9 | your Instagram handle. I'll give you more details at the end of the show. |
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| 0:59.8 | And by the way, guys, that's not the only reason to write us a review. If you like our show, |
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| 1:10.6 | and they absolutely keep me |
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| 1:16.9 | encourage those of you who haven't to please write us one that it's worth your two minutes to |
| 1:22.6 | throw us some love. Now straight to my conversation with Presley Poe. Hi, Presley. How are you? |
| 1:30.0 | I'm good. How are you doing? I'm doing great. It's been a while since you and I have seen each other. |
| 1:35.8 | And we got on here on Skype and we just started riffing about life and then I just, I abruptly |
| 1:42.9 | stopped it because I want to riff on life here on the |
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