Ep. 273 • From High School Dropout to Successful Entrepreneur w/ Kathy Nunez
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
@kathynunezhair struggled in high school, but found her true talent in hair and never looked back. She shares her experiences that led her here, including her first job as an 18 year old doing hair at JC Penny.
This Week's Topics:
• Finding a beauty school program in high school
• First salon job at 18 yrs old at JC Penny Salon – afraid of coloring
• Her first experience in booth rental – learning to color hair
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| 0:00.0 | So it was probably the first time I really felt like I was good at something because I was so bad at school. |
| 0:07.6 | So, and I don't encourage this, but I ended up somehow slipping through the cracks. |
| 0:12.7 | And instead of going to high school, I just stayed at cosmetology school every day. |
| 0:19.7 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Candy Shaw, aka the Bali Lama. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Cassandra Platinum. |
| 0:24.8 | Hi, I'm Samantha Harmon. |
| 0:26.4 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Rit Siva, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:32.5 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:34.5 | Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. |
| 0:36.8 | We are right in the middle of the holiday season now, a big season for our industry. |
| 0:42.3 | Hope everybody is staying safe and busy and you make it through the season alive. |
| 0:49.3 | November is Podlute Month. Everybody wins this November in terms of Podlute. |
| 0:55.5 | We are doing an all month 50% off your first two months of Gloss Genius by using the promo |
| 1:00.7 | code Hair Game 22. It's good until January 6th. Now to my conversation with Kathy Nunez. |
| 1:08.5 | Hey Kathy, how are you? I'm so good. |
| 1:11.6 | How are you? |
| 1:12.2 | I'm doing great. |
| 1:13.0 | So Kathy and I were just talking about Kennewick, Washington, which rang a bell when I |
| 1:19.0 | looked you up, and that's in wine country in Washington. |
| 1:21.6 | And I just happened to, one, be a wine nerd, and two, be a wine nerd for Washington wines and and you live in wine country there. |
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