HIGHLIGHTS • Overcoming the Challenges of Scaling Your Business w/ @dreamgirlshair
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Co-founders and stylists Tonya Thompson @hairbytonya and Sharie Wilson @iamshariewilson share their journey of creating a teachable system of hair care, as well as providing education to stylists on all types of hair textures. We also discuss how to scale your business when you finally realize that if you want to grow, you can't do it all yourself.
This Week's Topics:
• Starting their business by selling extensions
• Rising above the stereotype of Hair as a 'side-hustle'
• Starting The Healthy Hair Care Program and education
• Challenges of scaling their business
• What they would change about the industry
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| 0:00.0 | coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.9 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. So thank goodness for spring forward. California, weather, |
| 0:15.7 | this winter has been super cold and super rainy, which are good things, but I am ready for more sunshine. |
| 0:23.6 | So we had spring forward happen yesterday on March 12th, so I'm looking forward to longer days. |
| 0:31.6 | In news, Huntington Beach location, Salonbury Public is opening soon. |
| 0:36.6 | Go to Salonorepublic.com to check us out there for |
| 0:40.2 | details. Also, coming next week, video versions of our episodes will be on our YouTube channel |
| 0:47.6 | for you to watch. Subscribe to our channel, The Hair Game, on YouTube, and check out the |
| 0:54.0 | Hair Game podcast playlist. |
| 0:56.1 | Super cool. We already have nearly 20 videos from previous episodes from years past. |
| 1:02.9 | So that's very exciting. And now to the episode. |
| 1:07.6 | What happened was we end up opening, we end up selling hair. |
| 1:12.1 | We end up opening up a salon in L.A. just selling hair out of it. |
| 1:17.2 | And we had one station where we had another stylist come in and do hair. |
| 1:21.8 | And I remember asking my sister, like, listen, I need you to partner with me because I knew that she had the business |
| 1:28.8 | mind to take whatever business I had to that next level and she agreed to help we opened up the |
| 1:36.5 | first salon in L.A. And then we had some issues with stylist and I was like, listen, I need you to come in |
| 1:42.5 | and get your license and I need you to start doing and get your license. And I need you to start |
| 1:44.6 | doing hair with me. And that's all she wrote. She came in. We started doing hair. She left her |
| 1:49.4 | corporate. She stopped at the time. She was running a school and I was doing hair. And we end up doing |
| 1:57.7 | so many clients like to start growing their hair and my sister made a post one time |
| 2:02.4 | or somebody made a post i'm not sure yeah my sister made a post and was showing hair growth |
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