HIGHLIGHTS • How Salon Life is Different Across the Pond w/ Conor James Doyle
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 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.
Hairstylist and educator Conor Doyle @conorjmd has spent a lot of time in different areas of Europe and shares his thoughts on how life in the salon is different there. We discuss the image of the hairdresser, training and licensing requirements, and the challenge of pricing. We had an amazing convo and will be back in a couple weeks with Conor for part 2!
This Week's Topics:
• Growing up when hairdressing was viewed as a 'dropout option'
• The qualifications for hairdressing in Ireland vs. USA
• Differences between USA and Europe salon life
• How price increases are viewed over there
• What he would change about the industry
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day and Thanksgiving weekend and able to get a little rest and relaxation before the upcoming crazy holiday |
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| 0:43.8 | YouTube channel for you to watch if you want to see our guests and our host Eric |
| 0:47.4 | Taylor what they look like you can subscribe to our channel the hair game on YouTube |
| 0:52.5 | check out the Hair Game podcast playlist all right now to our channel the hair game on YouTube check out the hair game podcast playlist |
| 0:54.7 | all right now to our episode with connor doyle our industry i always say about hairdressing |
| 1:02.8 | it's easy to be a hairdresser it's hard to be a good one so i think you know the idea that |
| 1:09.5 | there could be nothing to kind of, you know, for somebody to, |
| 1:13.8 | even again, from a self-sabotage point of view, I think it could be really detrimental in what |
| 1:17.5 | it could do to somebody if they had no idea how hard it could be. |
| 1:21.3 | Because I remember, and again, this is, this is coming back to me challenging my old |
| 1:24.5 | perceptions before I got into the industry. |
| 1:26.9 | I remember because I used to do |
| 1:29.5 | my friend's hair, right, be like totally unqualified. I had like a fake little Sally's card. I'd go in. |
| 1:36.5 | I'd just look at the shade chart. I'd be like, perfect. Everything was bleached and we just put a |
| 1:41.0 | color over it, right? And I was like, I'm basically like Picasso. |
| 1:45.3 | This is literally what I thought, because I can do these basic things. And obviously, when I look |
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