Ep. 293 • Why You Need to 'Go Fail' w/ Travis Parker
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We continue this week with @travisparkerhair and have an amazing conversation on the fear of failure, discomfort, and struggling with new experiences. We also discuss the creation and details of his education platform @travisparkeracademy and how his failures have led to the best version of it.
This Week's Topics:
• A discussion on luck vs success
• The Fear of failure
• The details of his education curriculum
• What makes a good educator
• When experienced hairdressers struggle with new things
• Our industry's relationship with technology
• His Hair Horror Story
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| 0:00.0 | Well, you're going to fail more than you're going to succeed by a million. |
| 0:04.0 | So, I mean, we kind of have to find what we need to find to find comfortability with it. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Candy Shaw, aka the Bali Lama. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Cassandra Platinum. |
| 0:15.5 | Hi, I'm Samantha Harmon. |
| 0:17.0 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Ritz Siva, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | Hey, listener. I'm Rit Siva, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. Hey, listener. I'm Eric Taylor. So it was nice to see some of you guys at the first premiere show in Anaheim. |
| 0:30.4 | This is the show that took over from ISSE that was put on by the PBA for so many years. |
| 0:36.0 | So that show is now called Premier Anaheim, |
| 0:40.0 | run by the same operators that run the other premiere shows around the country. And so what was my |
| 0:46.6 | impression? My impression was that for the first premiere, I guess it wasn't so bad. It definitely |
| 0:54.0 | was not Premier Orlando, but that show has been going for a long, long time. |
| 0:59.7 | So maybe it's unfair to expect it to be like premiere in Orlando. |
| 1:05.4 | Was it like ISSC, you know, five years ago? |
| 1:09.2 | I would say no, it wasn't. but maybe unfair to expect it given that it was |
| 1:13.5 | first one thing they did differently in this show versus former ISSEs or past ISSEs is the |
| 1:22.6 | the show creators required that in order to have a classroom, in order to do a talk or in order |
| 1:36.1 | to have a classroom and do some educational event or a panel like we so often have done in the |
| 1:40.8 | past, you had to actually buy show space on the floor. |
| 1:46.0 | So what that basically meant was that kind of the nichey sort of deals like the Hairgame |
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