Ep. 346 • Price Shaming & How to Overcome It w/ Mirella Manelli
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Indie Educator and salon owner @mirellamanelli was in a toxic environment early in her career when she priced her services higher than others around her. She explains how she dealt with it, as well as how she fell in love with education and began a journey of improving herself and applying over and over for a chance to become an educator.
This Week's Topics:
• Mirella's Background and Family Expectations
• Struggles with Family Expectations
• Insecurity and Drive for Success
• Early Career and Pursuit of Education
• Transition to Booth Rental and A La Carte Pricing
• Working at Hairy Situation Salon
• Getting Shamed for Charging More for Services
• Salon Walkouts and Making Decisions for Yourself
• Getting Married and Moving to Alaska
• Managing Salons at Ulta
• Applying to Kenra and Overcoming Adversity
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| 0:00.0 | You charged $145. |
| 0:02.9 | Yep. |
| 0:03.6 | And the hairstylists around you who are a little bit more tenured, they were charging $95. |
| 0:10.7 | Yes. |
| 0:10.9 | And they looked at you and they were like, who was she to charge $145? |
| 0:15.3 | Hey, this is Nina Covener with Passion Squared. |
| 0:18.1 | This is Anthony Pauso. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Jessica Warburton. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, this is Ryan Weiden. |
| 0:21.8 | Welcome to the Hair Game Podcast. Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. I have exciting news today. |
| 0:31.8 | We've got two new Salonery Public locations opening this summer. The first one is Westwood, right in the middle of the city. Westwood Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard. Amazing location. Go to Salonorepublic.com to check that one out. |
| 0:48.3 | Second location is West Hollywood. It'll be our second West Hollywood location in the same building as John |
| 0:55.7 | Reed Fitness of for those of you who know this area. John Reed Fitness is that new really awesome |
| 1:01.7 | high-end gym brand. It's like half nightclub, half gym. Anyway, we're going to be in that same |
| 1:09.1 | building. We've got a huge patio and it's both of these |
| 1:12.2 | locations. They're going to have all the goodies that we offer as Salon Republic towel service |
| 1:17.1 | in salon beauty supply, full-time on-site manager, all the goodies that we offer. Check us out at |
| 1:24.4 | salonrepublic.com. Some of you DM us occasionally with suggestions on who we should bring on as guests onto the pod. |
| 1:34.3 | We love this, by the way. We love any feedback, but this in particular is fantastic because if you want to hear from John Doe, we want to get John Doe on or anybody that you like. |
| 1:45.9 | So if there's somebody that you think we should bring on to the show, but we haven't. |
| 1:49.5 | Shoot us a DM at The Hair Game podcast on Instagram and let us know who you want to hear from. |
| 1:56.1 | And now to the episode with Morella Manelli. |
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