HIGHLIGHTS • The Power of Sacrifice & Putting Your Business First w/ Melissa Maloney
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Educator, Coach, and BTC team member Melissa Maloney @live_love_dohair quit her job selling DSL internet to pursue a brand new career in hair. We discuss the lessons she learned starting her own salon immediately after hair school, as well as learning to put your business (& happiness) first.
This Week's Topics:
• Quitting sales job & going to hair school w/o any past hair interest or experience
• Starting her own salon right out of hair school w/ no clientele
• Lessons learned starting her own business – sacrifice
• Learning to put her business & happiness first – boundaries
• Her first teaching experience & journey towards education
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up are the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.3 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:10.5 | Before we get started, video versions of these episodes are on our YouTube channel, free to |
| 0:15.5 | subscribe the Hair Game YouTube channel. |
| 0:18.3 | Go to the Hair Game podcast playlist. |
| 0:22.6 | We already have a lot of videos on there for you to watch also Salon Republic Huntington Beach is now open right across from |
| 0:27.9 | the beach go to Salonrepublic.com to check us out we have everything that we do |
| 0:33.6 | there towel service we have the in-salon beauty supply, full-time manager, all the great |
| 0:41.1 | things that we do at Salon Republic. Go to salonrepublic.com to check us out. Now to our conversation |
| 0:48.0 | with Melissa Maloney. While I was in school, every single day after school, I would go and shadow the girl who did my hair. |
| 0:58.5 | And that's something I think that's really important for people to understand is like the amount |
| 1:03.4 | of effort you put into something directly affects your result, always. |
| 1:08.1 | Amen, sister. |
| 1:09.9 | Even in the age of, you know, self-care and work-life balance, |
| 1:14.3 | which I completely believe in, you will go farther, the harder you work. So every day after |
| 1:19.8 | school, until she was done working, I would go shadow her. And honestly, in that experience, |
| 1:26.0 | I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do. |
| 1:30.2 | So then, yeah, I graduated in 2010. |
| 1:33.7 | I think that was May of 2010 and immediately started looking for just available spaces for salons. |
| 1:42.7 | And I signed my lease on my salon in June of 2010. |
| 1:47.4 | Right out of the gate. |
| 1:48.8 | So you never worked in a salon owned by somebody else? |
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