Ep. 263 • How Giving a Gender-Affirming Haircut Changed Charli Boell's Life
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Charli Boell shares the incredible journey of finding themselves through hair. After giving a client a haircut they truly felt themselves in, Charli realized it was time to face her own feelings and begin the process of showing the world her true self. We discuss the challenges and realities of such a drastic change in the middle of a career, and how it has affected their client-base as well as opportunities.
This Week's Topics:
• Starting cutting other skateboarders hair at 9 years old
• starting hair school at 30 years old
• How giving a gender-affirming haircut changed Charli's life
• Charli's career growth after affirming gender
• The rise of @hairslayerz
• The loneliness of coming out as trans
• Patience with clients and new pronouns
• People in the industry who are inspiring Charli
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| 0:00.0 | And that's when I just something snapped and I was like, whoa, something just like clicked where this person is non-binary and I made them feel like themselves. |
| 0:15.9 | Hi, I'm Neil Malick. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. |
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| 0:21.0 | Hi, I'm Philip Wolfe and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
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| 1:55.6 | Now to my conversation with Charlie Bowle. |
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