HIGHLIGHTS • Education & Inclusion in the Salon Industry w/ Keya Neal
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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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 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
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| 0:35.7 | You can find it there. |
| 0:36.9 | All right. |
| 0:37.1 | Now to our episode with Kia |
| 0:38.4 | Neil. What are you learning, going into the C-suite and these big brands, which are big |
| 0:45.3 | multi-billion dollar brands, you know, whether it's L'Oreal, which is the biggest, or Wella or any |
| 0:51.7 | of these cow, what are the interesting things that kind of surprised you after having spent time in groups like that? |
| 1:01.0 | That is a great question. And I would say the biggest surprise or aha was that most of the brands that we are focusing on, most of the brands that I have a relationship with or have had any type of education, any type of consulting with in the C-suite, I realize that a lot of their brands are not even in North America. And so over in Europe, |
| 1:29.9 | their relationship with racism is totally different. Like, their understanding of diversity |
| 1:35.0 | hits very different. So a lot of the information, the marketing, the R&D is coming from a place |
| 1:41.7 | where they're like, what do you mean? We're not diverse. Like we do. We got a tall one. We got a short one. We got a plus size. We got an agent. |
| 1:48.8 | We got a short hair. We got a long hair. We got, you know what I mean? They're like, what do you mean? |
| 1:53.8 | This is not diverse enough. |
| 1:55.2 | Like, we got, you know, kids. |
| 1:56.8 | We've got, we've got, you know, seasoned folks. |
| 1:59.7 | What are you talking about? |
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