HIGHLIGHTS • Is Taking Over a Failing Salon a Good Idea? w/ Kathy Nunez
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
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16 years ago, @kathynunezhair bought an existing salon instead of starting her own. We discuss the pros and cons, as well as adding teaching and an extensions brand to her plate. She also shares a hilarious hair horror story that may have been the reason she avoided coloring hair for years at the beginning of her career.
This Week's Topics:
• Purchasing a salon while 8 months pregnant
• Changing the established culture of the salon
• Adding education in her salon and off-site
• Why she wanted to launch an extension brand
• Her key principles of success
• Most difficult convo with a client
• What she would change about the industry
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.6 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:10.9 | It is the first episode of December. |
| 0:13.5 | And if you know anything about the pod loot, you know that today is the pod loot episode |
| 0:19.4 | for December. |
| 0:22.6 | What are we giving away? We're giving away a six-month membership to Kathy Nunez's private education page, Studio One EDU. That is, Studio |
| 0:32.1 | One, spelled out, O-N-E-E-D-U on Instagram. Six-month membership. All right. The winner is |
| 0:42.2 | Amy Taylor Stylist. Amy Taylor, by the way, we are not related, so there has not been |
| 0:50.7 | anything illicit in this contest, but Amy Taylor stylist has written us a review |
| 0:56.4 | on the Apple podcast app and her name was chosen. Congratulations, Amy Taylor. You need to reach |
| 1:02.2 | out to us within two weeks and we will give you your six-month free membership to Kathy's |
| 1:08.9 | private education page. For more information about the podalute, listen to the |
| 1:14.5 | end of the show. I'll give you all the details. But for now, the rest of my conversation with |
| 1:20.2 | Kathy Nunez. In that salon, right? You still have that salon. And so how many years has it been? |
| 1:27.6 | So it's been 16 years. |
| 1:29.1 | Wow, 16 years. |
| 1:30.3 | Amazing. |
| 1:31.1 | That's fantastic. |
| 1:32.1 | Yeah, it's been a long road. |
| 1:36.8 | So what's the hardest part? |
| 1:38.5 | Let's look back. |
| 1:40.2 | What's the hardest part of having that salon? |
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