HIGHLIGHTS • How Stepping Away From Hair Saved My Career w/ Joy Williams
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Joy Williams shares her experience of burnout and the importance of self-care in the beauty industry. She discusses the toll that a busy schedule and constant travel took on her physical and mental health, leading to major surgeries and the need for a sabbatical. Joy emphasizes the need for hairstylists to prioritize themselves and find a balance between work and personal life. She also provides practical tips for taking care of your body behind the chair.
This Week's Topics:
• Building Strong Relationships through Professional Maturity and Communication
• Balancing Work in the Salon with Productions and Education
• Enhancing the Client Experience through Knowledge Sharing
• The Importance of Self-Care and Balancing Work and Personal Life
• The Toll of a Busy Schedule on Physical and Mental Health
• Taking Care of Your Body: Tips for Hairstylists
• Quality Over Quantity: Building a Successful Salon Business
• Continuing Education and Growing as a Hairstylist
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| 0:00.0 | coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
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| 0:58.0 | All right. |
| 0:58.7 | On to our episode with Joy Williams. |
| 1:02.5 | I knew that I didn't want to be in a salon setting in a four walls every day for the rest of my career. |
| 1:09.7 | I had just changed my, you know, entire career |
| 1:13.1 | goal from, you know, pursuing law to going into cosmology because I wanted the ability |
| 1:19.6 | to create and have freedom. And so I was not about to turn around and put myself back in a box. |
| 1:25.3 | You know, you are only, I always tell people, you're only as small as the box you allow yourself and other people to put in. Like all of us can show up big. We don't have to show up small. And so because of that reason, I wanted to make sure that, um, I still had that ability. So even when it came to being in a salon, working, you know, and I've done, I'm 41, I've done a lot of different, I've worked in commission salons. I've had a booth. I've had a suite. I've owned a suite salon. I've owned a commission salon. You know, like I've done all the, all the different things. And, you know, it's really about pivoting and adjusting to what works for you. |
| 2:04.3 | But making sure that even as I started to attract clientele, I always attracted clientele that one had a certain lifestyle where they knew that they could be flexible. |
| 2:16.5 | Like they would need me to be flexible with them. You so I my clientele for the last you know 15 20 years has consisted of |
| 2:24.1 | you know teachers um attorneys doctors like yes I've done celebrities and they're amazing but my |
| 2:30.1 | bread and butter is my everyday celebrities um And so, you know, making sure that, you know, hey, my kid has a thing or, hey, I have to stay after work. |
| 2:42.0 | Can we reschedule? |
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