Ep. 301 • The Power of Sacrifice & Putting Your Business First w/ Melissa Maloney
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Educator, Coach, and BTC team member Melissa Maloney @live_love_dohair quit her job selling DSL internet to pursue a brand new career in hair. We discuss the lessons she learned starting her own salon immediately after hair school, as well as learning to put your business (& happiness) first.
This Week's Topics:
• Quitting sales job & going to hair school w/o any past hair interest or experience
• Starting her own salon right out of hair school w/ no clientele
• Lessons learned starting her own business – sacrifice
• Learning to put her business & happiness first – boundaries
• Her first teaching experience & journey towards education
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of times now people look at social media and they think of it as an either or, right? |
| 0:05.8 | So you either grow your clientele by word of mouth or you grow your clientele through Instagram. |
| 0:10.9 | And actually what it is is that word of mouth always works and Instagram makes your word of mouth work better. |
| 0:19.2 | Hi, I'm Franco. |
| 0:20.6 | This is Daniel Mason Jones. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm celebrity stylist. |
| 0:23.1 | Kaya Wright. |
| 0:23.9 | This is Patricia Nicole, painted hair, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:33.1 | Before we get started, video versions of these episodes are on our YouTube channel. |
| 0:37.7 | Free to subscribe the Hair Game YouTube channel. |
| 0:41.0 | Go to the Hair Game Podcast playlist. |
| 0:43.7 | We already have a lot of videos on there for you to watch. |
| 0:46.8 | Also, Salon Republic Huntington Beach is now open right across from the beach. |
| 0:51.4 | Go to SalonRepublic.com to check us out. We have everything that we do |
| 0:56.1 | there. Towel service. We have the in-salon beauty supply, full-time manager, all the great things |
| 1:03.9 | that we do at Salon Republic. Go to salonrepublic.com to check us out. Now to our conversation |
| 1:10.5 | with Melissa Maloney. |
| 1:14.2 | Hey Melissa, how you doing? Good. How are you? Good. So Melissa was just warning me and now I'll |
| 1:21.2 | warn the audience that she's been accused of being Stevie on Schitt's Creek for her monotone vocal delivery. Yeah. Did I say that right? Yes. And I'm going to work on it. Give us an example. No, no, no, no. I don't want you to work on it. I want you to really lean in to being Stevie. And by the way, I don't know, I don't watch Schitt's Creek. I watched the first, like, okay, first of all, I had like |
| 1:45.6 | 20 people tell me, you have to watch Schitt's Creek. So I turned it on with the wife, and we spent |
| 1:51.9 | maybe five minutes watching the very first show, which was probably the pilot, if they even do |
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