HIGHLIGHTS • Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Worth Issues w/ Anthony Giannotti
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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We have a candid conversation with @anthonythebarber916 covering anxiety, self-worth struggles, and the challenges of entrepreneurship. He discusses the imposter syndrome he faced, the chaos of running multiple businesses, and the realities of launching a product line.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
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| 0:52.3 | Book your tour for those. Get dibs on your new space. All right, on to our episode with Anthony Giannati. I've talked to a few guys that are kind of my generation of barbering. We were the first wave of the new world of barboring between the classic cuts coming back in and instant social media blowing up. It the wild west like we didn't know if this was gonna keep |
| 1:11.6 | I was like strike while irons hot you know make hay when the sun shines like I gotta do this who knows how long this barber boom's gonna last I mean now it's not going anywhere I can confidently say that 20 years later but you know I felt like we had to and it was just it was interesting you know like my first hair cutting job was in a world that I knew nothing about. |
| 1:28.3 | Like, I'm a white kid from Chico, man. |
| 1:31.3 | My first education job was with exotics. |
| 1:34.3 | They invented barber battles. We did barber battles on Skid Row in these nightclubs. |
| 1:38.3 | Like, it was interesting. It was a culture I'd never experienced, a part of barbering I'd never really experienced. And then it was like, Lerite started hiring me. |
| 1:46.0 | And we got to build out the education program. We got to like, you know, and then you're meeting so many people too. It was so interesting to meet all these barbers from all over the country, all over the world. Like, I taught with Pacino on one of his tours. And I got to meet, oh my god, Jody, Blankanlon's last name, |
| 2:00.1 | a super famous UK hairstylist barber, |
| 2:03.2 | like winning all these awards and all these And I got to meet, oh my God, Jody, Blankanin'on's last name. Now, super famous UK hairstylist barber. |
| 2:03.2 | Like winning all these awards and all these dudes are like trying to take a selfie with Pacino |
| 2:07.8 | and this like legitimately famous, like does editorial work. |
| 2:12.0 | Guy is just standing there in the corner with a beer. |
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