Ep. 272 • Building a Hairdresser Social Network w/ Gerard Scarpaci, Co-Founder of Hairbrained
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Co-Founder of @hairbrained_official Gerard Scarpaci shares his story of leaving behind his salon and educating to build Hairbrained online. We also discuss the rise of digital education, common mistakes in haircutting, and industry changes he has seen post-covid.
This Week's Topics:
• Dropping out of beauty school and turning to apprenticeship
• Moving from behind the chair to full-time educator
• Opening a salon in NY
• Building Hairbrained in 2006
• The rise of digital education; most important aspects
• Common mistakes in haircutting
• Industry changes post-covid
• Most difficult convo with a client
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| 0:00.0 | And so that's the first thing is finding and discovering those people that are great educators, |
| 0:06.0 | which is a very special and different things than other areas of the industry. |
| 0:12.3 | Hey friend, this is Don Bradley. |
| 0:14.2 | It's your girl, Robbie Rogers. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey, this is Carly Zanoni, The Blonde Chronicles. |
| 0:18.1 | Hey, Sleigh, hey, everyone. |
| 0:19.3 | It's me, Jay Latner, and you're listening to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:26.3 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
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| 0:32.5 | Everybody wins. |
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| 0:40.5 | The promo code is Hair Game 22. |
| 0:43.9 | Valid until January 6th. |
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| 1:02.4 | Now to my conversation with Gerard Scarpey. |
| 1:06.9 | How you doing, Jared? |
| 1:08.8 | I'm good. I'm good. I'm in beautiful sunny Southern California after a heat wave. |
| 1:14.8 | And now we've got some good weather. So I'm enjoying life. So what do you is, okay, so for the |
| 1:21.3 | listeners' sake, Jor and I were talking earlier because I thought you were a New York based and pretty |
| 1:26.7 | much stuck in New York type |
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