HIGHLIGHTS • Resilience and Reinvention: Lala Chihaia's Story
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Bridal Styling Educator and Life Coach @lalasupdos shares her journey from growing up in communist Romania to becoming a successful hairdresser and life coach in the United States.
She shares her recent health challenges, including a diagnosis of arthritis and Raynaud's, which led her to reevaluate her career in the hair industry. She discusses her transition to online education and the launch of her life coaching practice, emphasizing the importance of mindset to acheive your dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | These are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, HairGamer's Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | Are you a hairstylist, barber, or salon owner looking to level up? |
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| 0:48.6 | Glendale just opened today, March 10th. So if you're interested, go to salonrepublic.com or our link in bio on Instagram. |
| 0:56.7 | You can get connected with our salon manager at those locations and see your new spaces. Check |
| 1:02.4 | them out. All right. On to our episode with Laura Chahya, also known as Lala's Updus. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, so talk about your life coaching. How much, how much time are you splitting, |
| 1:14.6 | well, here I am asking two questions at the same time. On your daily basis, how much time are you |
| 1:23.3 | spending doing bridal work with hair and how much time are you spending life coaching? |
| 1:30.2 | Well, I am not teaching bridal hair anymore. |
| 1:34.1 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:37.0 | I've been through rough times in 2021. |
| 1:43.2 | My husband was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. |
| 1:47.0 | So, so, so he had to go through a major surgery by the end of 2021. They removed one of his |
| 1:55.0 | kidney and then he had to do chemo. So that's when I decided to not travel anymore. |
| 2:01.0 | Most of my income was coming from traveling from salon to salon and through those hair shows and teaching. |
| 2:07.7 | Because I was not working behind the chair since 2016. |
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