Ep. 417 • The Essentials of Professionalism w/ Antonio Estrada
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Antonio Estrada @antestradahair shares his journey from a small town in New Mexico to becoming a successful hairdresser. We discuss the significance of enhancing client experience, as well as the imortance of professionalism & setting boundaries with clients.
This Week's Topics:
- Antonio's Journey to Hairdressing
- Enhancing Client Experience at Cast Salon
- Empathy in Service
- Balancing Professionalism and Personal Relationships
- Redefining the Hairdressing Profession
- Navigating Emotional Boundaries with Clients
- Setting Professional Boundaries in Conversations
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| 0:00.0 | I always think about like what kind of service would I like if I went somewhere. I would want to know like where the bathroom is. I'd want to know where to go sit down. I'd want to know who's working on me. I'd want to feel comfortable with, you know, everything. Hello and welcome. I'm Candy Shaw, aka the Bali Lama. I'm Cassandra Platinum. Hi, I'm Samantha Harmon. What's up, guys? I'm Rit Siva, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey, everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:31.5 | Salon Republic has a new location opening soon in Philadelphia. |
| 0:35.0 | So if you're in the area, go to SalonRepublic.com or our link in bio |
| 0:39.0 | at the Hairgame podcast. You can book a virtual tour. We'll show you around the space what it's |
| 0:44.5 | going to look like. And you can get dibs, first dibs on your new hair home. All right, on to our |
| 0:50.0 | episode with Antonio Estrada. Hey Antonio, how are you? |
| 0:56.0 | I'm good. How are you? I'm great. For the listeners who don't know you yet, you're an |
| 1:00.5 | Arizona hairdresser and extension specialist. You're an ambassador for sexy hair, |
| 1:06.2 | salon-centric, and bio-ionic. And we're going to get into your whole story. Let's just start from |
| 1:12.4 | the beginning. Where are you from? And why hair? Why not? Why didn't she become an attorney |
| 1:18.3 | or a doctor? Yes. Your parents might have told you that, right? Yeah, I don't know. They |
| 1:25.1 | were very chill. My parents had me when they were very young, so they weren't really like the best, what's the right word? I don't want to say adults because they were good adults, but they weren't very like motivating. So there was kind of a free. Yeah. That's funny. That could be good, by the way. Yeah, I feel like it kind of shaped me to be the hard worker that I am today. |
| 1:46.9 | Yeah, so I'm from New Mexico. |
| 1:48.5 | Southern New Mexico, it's a border town, very small town. |
| 1:51.6 | I was raised with a firefighter as a dad, so I thought that that's what I wanted to do. |
| 1:57.7 | As I grew up, I realized that I was very social and I love the creative side of life. |
| 2:04.5 | I love to like go to parties and get dressed up. And then that's when I realized like, |
| 2:09.4 | oh, I think my path is going to be more on the creative side. Even though it took me, |
| 2:14.2 | you know, five or six years to figure out exactly what I wanted to do. I always had |
| 2:19.7 | the passion for hair. For me, I was in the closet a lot of my life, so I thought that hair would be |
| 2:25.3 | like the for sure, you know, coming out story. So as soon as I, as soon as I came out to my parents, |
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