HIGHLIGHTS • Is Hustle Culture Necessary or Toxic? w/ Morgan Thomas

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.6 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 15 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.

Award-winning stylist & educator @jadebeautyco discusses her experiences from working in editorial to building a successful salon career. We dive deep into topics such as hustle culture, brand ambassadorship, pricing, and the evolution of beauty services.

This Week's Topics:

• Navigating the Hair Industry: Lessons from Experience

• Building a Clientele: The Importance of Trust

• From Editorial to Independent: A Career Transition

• Finding Balance: Life as a Hairdresser and Educator

• Advice for New Hairdressers: The Path to Success

• Understanding Brand Ambassadorship

• The Hustle Culture Debate

• Navigating Client Relationships and Pricing

• The Changing Landscape of Beauty Services

• The Importance of Professionalism in Customer Service

• Restoring Customer Service Standards

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0:00.0	Coming up are the highlights of the full episode.
0:08.8	Hey, hair gamers, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast.
0:13.1	Salon Public has a new location opening up in Philadelphia this fall in the center city location.
0:18.3	Our first one on the East Coast, so go to slanderpublic.com or our
0:22.1	link in bio, book a virtual tour, check out the space, and get dibs on your new hair home.
0:28.6	All right. On to our episode with Morgan Thomas. Like, okay, I'm going to move to Chicago. Being
0:34.6	from Minneapolis, I was like, I want to raise kids in the Midwest,
0:38.9	be closer to my family. So it made sense for me to move here. And I came with no job. I came with
0:47.1	very little money in my bank account at that point and was like, okay, I want to get back into a salon
0:53.3	and had to start completely over, which is not fun, but we did it.
1:00.3	Scary and exciting.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:02.5	And how did you do it?
1:04.2	How did you find the first salon that you worked in?
1:07.5	I, this was back in, let's see, 2011, and I found a Craigslist ad, which you would
1:14.6	never do now.
1:15.5	But that's how you found jobs.
1:18.0	That's true.
1:19.0	A Craigslist used to be the kind of built bulletin board online for the younger hair
1:24.3	jesters.
1:24.7	This might be strange for all the rest of them.
1:28.9	Everybody remembers that.
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