HIGHLIGHTS • From Carpenter to Hall of Fame Hair Artist w/ Paul Mac
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Award-winning stylist @paulmacspecial was a small town barber who secretly entered a hair competition - and won. He shares the amazing story of growing to be an internationally recognized hair artist, and the growing pains he had trying to leave small-minded individuals behind.
This Week's Topics:
• Paul's Journey into the Hair Industry
• The Turning Point: Winning Competitions
• Navigating Workplace Politics and Rivalries
• The Impact of Success on Personal Relationships
• Building a Brand and Future Aspirations
• Hair Trends and Styles in Ireland
• Balancing Work and Family Life
• The Creative Process Behind Headpieces
• Hair Horror Stories
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Salauner Public has a new location in Encino, our second location there. |
| 0:17.1 | It is opening imminently. |
| 0:18.7 | It is probably open by the time you hear this. |
| 0:21.6 | So go to slanderpublic.com or our link in bio, book a tour. |
| 0:25.8 | You can go check out the new space and we have some studios available. |
| 0:29.6 | Find your new hair home. |
| 0:31.7 | All right, on to our episode with Paul Mack. |
| 0:35.9 | Until I was 30, I had never done a photo shoot I never entered a competition |
| 0:42.1 | in any of that never kind of knew all that side of the industry and I won't name |
| 0:49.7 | any names but like the the boss kind of discouraged me kind of going oh like you're only a little barber |
| 0:57.4 | and car they'd only be kind of laughing at you up in dublin don't even butter wasting your time |
| 1:03.2 | and kind of money so i entered my first competition um even though he said that you entered it |
| 1:10.2 | yeah taught no one didn't tell my parents literally no one |
| 1:14.8 | my wife and the two models i winked um i won i was the first barber to ever win it um up against |
| 1:24.8 | all like the big huge salons. |
| 1:28.6 | Wow. |
| 1:29.7 | And one salon in particular that I had done work experience when I was in St. John's did it for a few months. |
| 1:39.4 | But one wanted to take me on, another of the owners didn't and I I beat the two them into |
| 1:48.1 | second and third place ha yeah and they they taught and they had already won the |
| 1:55.7 | women's come first and second it looked like they were going to clear the board, but then I won. |
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