HIGHLIGHTS • How Changing Your Thoughts Can Change Your Life w/ Sara Botsford
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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BTC Team member & Brand Specialist @sarabotsfordhair left hair school because family members discouraged her from doing 'just hair'. After becoming a History teacher, she realized she was happiest when she was doing hair on the side as a hobby. We discuss her path back to hair and towards educating, as well as her move to Denver and starting over with zero clientele.
This Week's Topics:
• Leaving hair school to get a college degree in education
• Her path from behind-the-chair to hair education
• Her move to Denver and building a clientele
• The realities of hiring an assistant & double booking
• How to judge opportunities with brands & collabs
• Most difficult convo with a client
• What she would change about the industry
• Her Hair Horror Story
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:09.9 | In news, we have video versions of our episodes on the YouTube channel, The Hair Game. |
| 0:14.9 | We have a playlist called The Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | Free to subscribe, go on there, and you can watch us do our episodes. Very, very fun, actually. |
| 0:24.1 | Also, we've got our Huntington Beach Salon Republic location, which is now open. If you missed it |
| 0:30.7 | last week, go to Salon Republic Instagram to see Donovan's live look at the brand new space, |
| 0:36.8 | see people moving in, and see the |
| 0:40.3 | birth of a new amazing salon right across from the beach in Huntington Beach. |
| 0:45.6 | For more information, go to salonrypublic.com. |
| 0:49.4 | Now to my episode with Sarah Botsford. |
| 0:53.6 | Someone said to me probably like in my first year of doing hair. |
| 0:57.9 | So is that all you're going to do now? |
| 1:00.2 | And right? |
| 1:01.7 | Like every hairstylist has heard this question asked to them. |
| 1:04.5 | And I did really well in high school and I got good grades. |
| 1:07.8 | I think it like confused people that I was just doing hair. |
| 1:11.4 | And I don't know. |
| 1:12.2 | No one could see me doing air quotes, but I'm just doing hair. |
| 1:16.4 | And it rattled me because this person mattered to me. |
| 1:19.6 | And I was like, you know what? |
| 1:20.2 | I'm, no, I'm going to do more. |
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