HIGHLIGHTS • Sam Villa!
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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Legendary platform artist & educator @samvillahair joined us at ISSE 2022 and shared his journey towards hair. We also discuss how he has kept evolving in the digital age and how teaching continues to drive his passion for the industry.
This Week's Topics:
• Creating his education & tools company
• Growing up in the barbershop with his dad; going to beauty school
• How he kept evolving in the digital age
• Upgrading your client's experience & raising prices
• The important of embracing change and keeping up with trends
• Being purposeful in choosing collabs and opportunities
• His Hair Horror Story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.1 | Hey everybody, Donovan here, editor of the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm filling in for Eric on the intro and outro this week. He is under the weather. |
| 0:15.5 | Let's start by letting you know that Salon Republic is opening a new location in Huntington Beach. |
| 0:23.6 | We are going to be opening it this winter, so if you are interested, go to SalonRepublic.com |
| 0:29.6 | and you can book a virtual tour. We'll give you the rundown. |
| 0:33.6 | Also, it is Podlude Giveaway. |
| 0:36.6 | We will be giving away a Sam Via light professional Ionic |
| 0:40.5 | hair dryer. And the winner is Megan Hudgin. Congratulations, Megan Hudgin. Go ahead and DM us |
| 0:50.9 | at the Hair Game podcast. Let us know that you heard your name and we will send you that |
| 0:55.4 | hair dryer. If you are interested in being in the giveaway, all you got to do is leave a review |
| 1:01.1 | on either iTunes or Apple Podcasts app. You can just give us a review, write a review, and then |
| 1:08.2 | also make sure to leave your Instagram handle so we know who you are. We do the pilot giveaway once a month, the first episode of every month, |
| 1:16.7 | we do the giveaway. So get your name in the contest. Now to Sam Via. |
| 1:24.2 | Education for me has always been the heart and soul. |
| 1:28.3 | So that said, I think education is what put me on the map. |
| 1:33.3 | And then my thinking was, well, how long can I do this? |
| 1:36.3 | How long can I sustain, how long can I sustain being just a platform artist? |
| 1:43.3 | Or Redkin, I know, eventually everybody, it's a cycle of artists coming in and going. |
| 1:49.0 | I would like to be like Kobe Bryant in my career with Redkin. |
| 1:53.0 | I don't want to be, excuse me, a whore of products. |
| 1:57.0 | I want to focus on a product, believe in that product, and stand behind that product, |
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