HIGHLIGHTS • How Changing Cities Was My Big Break w/ Kendall Dorsey
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
These are clips highlighting some of the topics discussed in the full episode! Check it out if you want a bite-sized version of the full episode.
Celebrity stylist and Global Ambassador @kendalldorsey1 was very successful for years without a cosmo license, but came to a point where he needed it to advance his career. We also discuss how changing your location can be daunting and extremely challenging... but can also be the big break you need.
This Week's Topics:
• Going to school for fashion; doing hair unlicensed in dorms
• Becoming very successful for years without a license; finally going to beauty school
• Move to Washington D.C. and working at a high-end salon
• Move to NYC; Finding Ballroom Culture and meeting Rhianna's stylist
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, your producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | First of all, I want to put an end to all of the rumors, rampant speculation, and conspiracy theories about your host Eric Taylor. |
| 0:23.0 | Eric Taylor is fine. He is not missing. We know his whereabouts. He will be back soon. |
| 0:30.2 | I have just been filling in doing the intros and outroes. He was under the weather for a couple |
| 0:34.1 | weeks there, had a couple things to do, so he will be back soon. |
| 0:43.9 | No need to worry. Huntington Beach, our newest location for Salon Republic. It's opening soon. |
| 0:48.5 | It's opening in April, everybody, coming up quick, and we're doing in-person tours. |
| 0:55.6 | So go to SalonRepublic.com and book a tour. You can just go check the schedule, see what works, |
| 1:01.9 | and book it right there on our website. So go check out the space, and we will show you around, |
| 1:05.6 | talk to you a little bit, what's going to work best for you. It's coming up quick and it's looking great, so check it out. On to the episode, Kendall Dorsey this week. He shares his |
| 1:10.7 | story of how he found hair, going to school for fashion and doing hair |
| 1:15.4 | unlicensed in the dorms, becoming very successful at it, and then finally going to |
| 1:20.0 | beauty school when it came to a point where if he was going to go any further, he needed |
| 1:24.4 | to get that license. |
| 1:25.4 | So great story. |
| 1:27.0 | This is a first of a two-parter because he's got so much good stuff to share with us. |
| 1:31.3 | Enjoy. |
| 1:32.3 | I got fired. I got fired on my birthday right from the salon right before I graduated. |
| 1:38.3 | She said that I was too focused on trying to become a hairstylist. So she gave me $500 and she said to go to beauty school. So I didn't get fired because I did anything wrong. I got fired because she's seeing so much passion in me. I would be asked her so many questions then I would be like staying after and basically like, so when you do it this way, how do you do it? And when you bring it over here and I didn't understand, she was like well kenta kenta you're layering and then you're graduating i didn't understand what that meant |
| 2:03.7 | and i'm like well what she's like well so she's like babe listen today's your last listen i found i found |
| 2:09.9 | someone here it's five hundred dollars and i was having a party that day i was turning 21 years old |
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