Ep. 324 • Education & Inclusion in the Salon Industry w/ Keya Neal
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Curl Specialist, educator, and industry activist @keyaartistically has spent the past few years working with the largest brands in our industry to educate them on diversity & inclusion. She shares the challenges she faces when trying to change the narrative in salons as well as corporate offices. We also discuss online product sales and why she recently left her salon after 10 years.
This Week's Topics:
• What has changed in 3 years since joining us last
• What she has learned working with the corporate big brands on diversity and inclusion
• Black Owned brands being taken over and formulas being changed
• A discussion on product sales
• Her involvement in Not So Pretty documentary on HBO
• Her time on social media
• Leaving her salon of 10 years
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| 0:00.0 | I realize that a lot of their brands are not even in North America. |
| 0:04.3 | And so over in Europe, their relationship with racism is totally different. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:11.2 | My name is Kirill Hairfarker. |
| 0:12.6 | It's Duchess of the Dolls. |
| 0:13.7 | This is your boy Wesley Palmer. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Caitlin Ford. |
| 0:16.4 | Hi, it's You Ney Damtu, and you are listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey, everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:28.2 | Salon Republic, Emeryville is going up fast. |
| 0:31.0 | We will be open sometime next month. |
| 0:33.5 | So, book your tour now. |
| 0:35.1 | You can book a virtual tour online, or you can go schedule one in person and see the spots available left. We have a few studios left. So check it out. Go to Salonrepublic.com or check the link in our Instagram bio. You can find it there. All right. Now to our episode with Kia Neal. So I went into my notes |
| 0:57.5 | from the last time you and I spoke. Do you remember when that was? Was that in 20 or 21? It was very early. |
| 1:06.3 | It was almost three years ago. A lot has happened since then. A lot has happened since then. |
| 1:12.7 | A lot has happened since then. |
| 1:18.4 | I mean, it didn't feel like three years ago when Donovan said you're on the schedule. |
| 1:19.5 | I'm like, sweet. |
| 1:22.7 | I haven't talked to Kia since then. |
| 1:24.9 | And I was thinking it was like a year. |
| 1:28.2 | And then I look back and I'm like, whoa, that was episode 170 and I think we're in the 300s now. So yeah, almost three years ago. Wow. You know, |
| 1:37.1 | and he was, you know, DM in me and I was like, I need to get back on this schedule. I think I |
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