HIGHLIGHTS • Guiding Your Client's Hair Journey w/ Mz. Lady Lox
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Loctician and natural haircare icon @mzladylox creates unique hairstyles where no two are the same. She describes her client experience and shares the importance of making them feel good during their journey of growing locs. We also discuss her reasons for leaving a commission-based salon to go independent.
This Week's Topics:
• Attending the first natural hair school in Virginia
• Moved to Georgia for corporate job but transitioned to hair full-time
• Choosing to leave a commission-based salon and going indie
• Describing her client experience; the importance of her client's journey
• Building her brand and monetizing her techniques
• Advice for young hairdressers focusing on natural hair
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:09.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:11.3 | So Salon Republic, Emeryville in Northern California is opening later this year. |
| 0:16.0 | Click our link in the bio on the Hair Game podcast or Salon Republic Instagram to get more info and book |
| 0:22.5 | a virtual tour. Or of course, you can always go to SalonRepublic.com. Our guests always ask us |
| 0:29.6 | if you hair game listeners liked their episode. If you discovered one of our guests from the |
| 0:34.3 | podcast and started following them, please send them a message and let them know, |
| 0:37.7 | thank them for the time that they spent with us here. Also, guys, video versions of the episodes are on the |
| 0:43.8 | YouTube channel, free to subscribe, go to the YouTube, the Hair Game podcast playlist on our YouTube |
| 0:51.0 | and you're going to see all those videos right there. |
| 0:54.8 | Now to my conversation with Ms. Lady Locks. |
| 0:58.7 | I think it was a little comment she made to me and it was out of love, |
| 1:02.6 | but she was like, you know that your commission is paying for the receptionists |
| 1:08.4 | and the shampoo people. |
| 1:10.8 | And that's what made me go home and really like calculate how much money I'm making |
| 1:15.7 | because it was a 6040 shop. |
| 1:19.2 | You don't know what I was a 60 40 shop. |
| 1:21.2 | And I was really satisfied with my 60% because I'm coming out of Bank of America |
| 1:27.2 | and I'm not making no money at Bank of America. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm living check to check. |
| 1:31.1 | So as long as in my head, I'm going to be so honest. |
| 1:34.5 | Back then, that was like 2009, I know I brought home after taxes and insurance. |
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