HIGHLIGHTS • How to Be Patient (And Impatient) in Achieving Your Goals
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 13 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.
- Transitioning from Salon to Education
- The Evolution of Editorial Work
- Challenges and Rewards of Competitions
- The Creative Process in Hair Artistry
- Investing in Your Craft
- The Importance of External Feedback
- Perfectionism and Vulnerability in Art
- The Impact of Criticism on Creatives
- Balancing Passion and Profession
- The Essence of Artistic Integrity
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | Salon Public has locations in the Seattle, Washington area. |
| 0:17.3 | So go to Salonopublic.com and go to locations. |
| 0:20.9 | You can see all of our locations around the Seattle area and surrounding area there. |
| 0:24.8 | And to find your new hair home. |
| 0:27.2 | All right, onto our episode with Brianne Gershahn. |
| 0:30.5 | You wanted more because you started doing that. |
| 0:33.4 | When did you start doing editorial? |
| 0:35.0 | How many years after you started educating did you start doing |
| 0:38.2 | editorial? Yeah, I started doing it when I still lived in Medicine Hat when I was still |
| 0:44.7 | working behind the chair. So I started that when I was like I started like maybe like 19, but I |
| 0:51.9 | wasn't fully committed to it. I had just heard about competitions and was like, |
| 0:55.5 | you know, entering randomly, but like not consistently or with any skill. So when I was 23, |
| 1:02.0 | I kind of revisited the idea. I was like, I think I want to start competing actually. So yeah, |
| 1:07.4 | I started. And then when I moved to Calgary, I had competed for a few years, hadn't won anything. And then, yeah, when I moved here and started teaching, I just maybe like, I don't know if it's because I had more time where I was just more committed or had was exposed to more people in Calgary where I had better options for like who I wanted for photographers and models, things like that. |
| 1:28.1 | Like even the photographer I hadn't met in some hats still shot with me when I moved to |
| 1:31.6 | Calgary for years, but it was just the expansion, I guess, of my world a little bit, |
| 1:35.3 | where I was like more committed to it. |
| 1:38.5 | And then I started entering like fully like doing my best. |
| 1:43.9 | Interesting. Okay. So, um, so you use your entering that there seems to be a |
| 1:53.6 | correlation between doing editorial work and award shows, right? And the, the editorial can be doing it for an award show or it could be doing it for a |
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