Ep. 262 • From Restaurant Manager to Barbershop Owner w/ Sean Ralston
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Sean Ralston @seanscutshair was leading a comfortable life being a restaurant manager as a young adult.... but he realized he wanted a more creative career with room to grow. We discuss his journey towards opening his own shop, his work as an educator on YouTube, and more!
This Week's Topics:
• His switch from restaurant manager to barber
• Opening his own shop after two years in the industry
• Starting on YouTube and joining edu channel tomb45
• Finding quality barbers for his shop in a small town
• Approaching client education & pricing
• Mixing business and friendship – learning lesson
• what's inspiring him in the industry and what he would change
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| 0:00.0 | And I pretty easily caught on that like this is what's coming and I just started to put that out. |
| 0:05.5 | So even though maybe my knowledge wasn't quite there or my skill wasn't quite there, I was still doing stuff that was drastically ahead of anyone else in town. |
| 0:15.1 | Hi, this is Naima LaFond. |
| 0:16.9 | It's Alfredo Lewis. |
| 0:17.8 | This is Amanda Liberger. |
| 0:18.9 | This is Victor Valverdi. |
| 0:20.2 | It's Robert Kromyens here. Thank you for listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:28.6 | We're opening a new salon in Huntington Beach, California. |
| 0:32.6 | It's right across from Pacific Coast Highway from the beach just south of the pier we just started |
| 0:38.3 | pre-leasing studios so for more information check out Salonrepublic.com now to my |
| 0:44.7 | conversation with Sean Ralston how you doing Sean I'm doing good glad to sit |
| 0:50.5 | down for a minute oh I bet I'm sure you've been busy. We're at ISSC. |
| 0:54.7 | Is this your first show back from pandemic? No, so we've done quite a few. Yeah, we just started, I'm trying to think of what the first one was. Probably New York. That is IBS, New York, I believe. So, yeah, we've done like probably six. Okay. First time back here since all that, though. About two and a half years. |
| 1:11.6 | And where do you live? |
| 1:12.5 | I'm in Owensboro, Kentucky. |
| 1:13.9 | So pretty small. Okay. First time back here since all that, though. About two and a half years. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. And where do you live? |
| 1:12.5 | I'm in Owensboro, Kentucky. |
| 1:13.9 | So pretty small town nobody's really ever heard of. |
| 1:16.8 | That's kind of cool, though. |
| 1:17.6 | Small area. |
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