HIGHLIGHTS • From Restaurant Manager to Barbershop Owner w/ Sean Ralston
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
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Sean Ralston @seanscutshair was leading a comfortable life being a restaurant manager as a young adult.... but he realized he wanted a more creative career with room to grow. We discuss his journey towards opening his own shop, his work as an educator on YouTube, and more!
This Week's Topics:
• His switch from restaurant manager to barber
• Opening his own shop after two years in the industry
• Starting on YouTube and joining edu channel tomb45
• Finding quality barbers for his shop in a small town
• Approaching client education & pricing
• Mixing business and friendship – learning lesson
• what's inspiring him in the industry and what he would change
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:10.2 | We're opening a new salon in Huntington Beach, California. |
| 0:13.4 | It's right across from Pacific Coast Highway from the beach, just south of the pier. |
| 0:18.1 | We just started pre-leasing studios, so for more information, check |
| 0:22.2 | out SalonRepublic.com. Now to my conversation with Sean Ralston. How long it take you to get |
| 0:29.2 | in your own shop? So we opened the shop almost exactly two years after I started out of school. |
| 0:34.1 | Oh my God. Especially, you know, given that you didn't learn too much about cutting |
| 0:38.7 | hair in school. One thing I learned, and I hate to like generalize, and this is definitely |
| 0:42.7 | for the area I'm in, I can generalize because I know all the other shops. But at that time, |
| 0:47.7 | like I said, same way that YouTube was not quite what it is today, Instagram was the same way. |
| 0:56.2 | And I think barbering was the same way. I think barbering was the same way. |
| 1:02.0 | So there was a lot that was still old-fashioned with the barber world. And so I started to see, |
| 1:08.2 | before I ever came to something like ISSE or Orlando Premiere and saw like the newest innovative, |
| 1:12.5 | you know, all the new stuff that was out, I at least was using instagram to see those things and so i pretty quickly caught on that like there's a lot of cool |
| 1:17.3 | stuff going on in the industry and the area that i'm in is you know my city technically it's like |
| 1:22.0 | 50 000 owensboro everything is late to get there right so? So it's very old-fashioned. Kentucky's pretty old |
| 1:28.7 | in general. So the barbershops are like I said old, old checker floors, red, white and blue |
| 1:35.3 | everywhere, vacuum clippers, barber pole, vacuum clippers, hot towel shaves with lather. And you know, |
| 1:41.0 | I'm seeing these new companies come out. They're using shave gel and the cordless clippers weren't quite out yet, but a lot of innovation. And you know, I'm seeing these new companies come out. They're using shave gel and the cordless slippers weren't quite out yet, but a lot of innovation. And I pretty easily caught on |
| 1:49.1 | that like, this is what's coming. And I just started to put that out. So even though maybe my |
| 1:53.7 | knowledge wasn't quite there or my skill wasn't quite there, I was still doing stuff that was |
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