HIGHLIGHTS • How Investing Your Time Can Pay Off Big Later w/ Stephanie Brown
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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BTC team member and educator @vividsandbalayage shares her journey from struggling in cosmetology school to becoming a successful hairstylist and content creator. We discuss the importance of investing time into social media and doing free hair in building her clientele, the challenges of transitioning from commission salons to independent work, and the significance of authenticity in the beauty industry.
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.9 | Hey, hair gamers, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Salon Republic has a new location on the East Coast, opening later this fall. |
| 0:17.0 | It's our first one in Philadelphia, Center City, to be exact. |
| 0:22.3 | So if you're in that area, |
| 0:27.6 | go to Salonrepublic.com or the Hairgame podcast on Instagram, link in bio. You can book a virtual tour from either of those places and get dibs on your new hair home. All right, on to our |
| 0:34.9 | episode with Stephanie Brown. |
| 0:40.0 | It was honestly really hard. |
| 0:41.6 | I do not like change. |
| 0:45.9 | I felt awful leaving my boss who was just amazing to me for eight years. |
| 0:48.5 | And obviously we had our tiffs like anybody else. |
| 0:52.2 | But it was kind of just like I was feeling super unhappy. |
| 0:53.8 | I didn't like the scheduling. I felt like I was |
| 0:54.9 | missing a lot of personal events, whether it be like birthday parties, just anything. And I kind of felt |
| 1:01.3 | like I chose this career to be happy and make other people happy and obviously have fun. And it just |
| 1:08.2 | kind of wasn't feeling that way anymore. So I had made the decision to put my two weeks in and the way it works there is they like |
| 1:15.2 | basically if you have any little bit of like requests or clientele, they basically I was done |
| 1:20.9 | that day because they don't want you taking your client with you, which I totally get that. |
| 1:26.4 | I don't know if things have changed |
| 1:28.0 | nowadays with anything like that, but it was a little bit, I felt badly thing. |
| 1:35.4 | Yeah, sure. After that amount of time. Now really quick, about the missing birthdays and such, |
| 1:42.1 | it's an employment situation, right? right I mean they employ you on an |
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