HIGHLIGHTS • From High School Dropout to Successful Entrepreneur w/ Kathy Nunez
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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@kathynunezhair struggled in high school, but found her true talent in hair and never looked back. She shares her experiences that led her here, including her first job as an 18 year old doing hair at JC Penny.
This Week's Topics:
• Finding a beauty school program in high school
• First salon job at 18 yrs old at JC Penny Salon – afraid of coloring
• Her first experience in booth rental – learning to color hair
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:10.0 | Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. |
| 0:12.0 | We are right in the middle of the holiday season now, a big season for our industry. |
| 0:18.0 | Hope everybody is staying safe and busy |
| 0:21.6 | and you make it through the season alive. |
| 0:25.5 | November is Podlute month. |
| 0:27.1 | Everybody wins this November in terms of Podlute. |
| 0:31.1 | We are doing an all month 50% off your first two months |
| 0:34.5 | of Gloss Genius by using the promo code Hair Game 22. |
| 0:37.9 | It's good until January 6th. Now to my conversation with Kathy Nunez. |
| 0:42.7 | It was just something I was always interested in and I was very bad at school. I hated school. |
| 0:50.8 | Definitely ADD and naturally I went into cosmetology in high school. We actually |
| 0:58.9 | still, to this day, have a program where you can start cosmetology school while you're in high |
| 1:04.8 | school, your junior year. And it counts with science and art credit. So that was a no-brainer for me. |
| 1:14.5 | And that was a no-brainer for me. And that was probably the I'm curious about that because I have heard that a few times. But it's, I wouldn't say it's the |
| 1:21.0 | majority of ways that people start with beauty school. And so my question is with the with the high school thing, |
| 1:29.5 | was that were those classes done in your high school or did you have to go to like a, |
| 1:33.7 | you went to a local community college. At the beauty school. At the beauty school. |
| 1:39.4 | At the beauty school. Yeah. So we have a program here called tri-tech. It's a trade program. And so somehow the beauty school is plugged into that. So even though you're basically, you're kind of being overseen by the trade school, you get to attend cosmetology school just like a regular student. |
| 1:56.6 | Pretty cool. But half day. Yeah. Half day. Okay. So did that and and were you like all in from the |
| 2:03.9 | get-go yeah so it was probably the first time i really felt like i was good at something because i was so |
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