HIGHLIGHTS • Her #1 Principle for Success: Never Give Up w/ Marquetta Breslin
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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We continue with Marquetta this week and get into the details of her business: how she started it and why, her principles that guide her, and the inspiration behind it. We also have our first Hair Horror Story that ended with a trip to the hospital!!
This week's topics:
• How making her mom's wig fighting cancer started her business
• Starting the American Wig Association
• Principles of success: never giving up
• Who is inspiring her in the industry
• Her hair horror story
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:10.6 | New location announcement for Salon Republic, Huntington Beach, California. |
| 0:14.6 | It's right across Pacific Coast Highway from the beach just south of the pier. |
| 0:19.1 | We just started pre-leasing studios, so for more information, check us out at salonrepublic.com. |
| 0:26.2 | Podlute giveaway every month on the first episode of every month. |
| 0:30.0 | We give away something amazing. |
| 0:31.4 | Last month was Jamie Dana's, one of Jamie Dana's social media education programs, $400 value. Something amazing is coming for next month. |
| 0:41.7 | What is next month? What is this? This is October. So for November, I'm not going to announce |
| 0:46.8 | it yet, but it's going to be amazing. As always, for a chance to win, write a review on the Apple |
| 0:52.0 | podcast app and include your Instagram handle, more Dietets at the end of the show. Now to the rest of my conversation with Marquetta. |
| 1:01.6 | So right now, my primary focus is on wigs and wig education. So the part of my story that I left |
| 1:09.8 | out is my mom, how my mom plays a significant |
| 1:14.1 | role in my story. In 2006, while I was still on active duty, she got diagnosed with stage |
| 1:20.4 | two breast cancer. And my mom, although, you know, she had her fault. We had our issues when, you know, she was using drugs. |
| 1:30.1 | She was like my best friend. |
| 1:31.7 | So I was completely, I was as devastated as she was. |
| 1:35.0 | So I go with her to her first oncology appointment and I was blown away by her first question. |
| 1:42.0 | It wasn't, am I going to die? |
| 1:44.0 | It wasn't, do I have to have? It wasn't, do I have to have |
| 1:45.8 | surgery? It was, am I going to lose my hair? And do I have to have chemotherapy? And that just hit |
| 1:53.8 | me while I was sitting there. I was, I did not expect for that to be her first question. And it just made me realize how many other women and men who go through cancer and, |
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