HIGHLIGHTS • The 'Reality' of Salon Ownership w/ Gina Micheletti
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Salon Owner and Reality TV star @gina.doesmyhair shares her experiences and challenges of salon ownership. We discuss the difference between running a salon in a suite vs. storefront environment, as well as the balance of working BTC in your own salon.
Gina also shares her unique experience from starring in 'Married at First Sight,' discussing the challenges of navigating relationships under the scrutiny of cameras, the awkwardness of being matched with a stranger, and the impact of editing on public perception.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up are the highlights of the full episode howdy hair gamers donovan here producer of the |
| 0:11.4 | hair game podcast we have a couple new locations for salon republic coming up in the future we have |
| 0:16.8 | one in encino our second location there as well well as one in San Carlos up in the Bay Area |
| 0:21.8 | near there. So go to SalonRepublic.com or our link in bio. You can book your tour and get |
| 0:28.0 | dibs on your new space. All right, on to our episode with Gina McAletty. I'd worked in a commission |
| 0:34.7 | salon and then I kind of became an independent and hopped into a suite. |
| 0:37.8 | And so I had my own studio. And that's when I really started just hitting it on social media. |
| 0:43.0 | I was like, this is a good way to advertise. And I would say that I built the majority of my clientele through social media. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah. Yeah. Right. Just posting your work? Yep. Just posting my work. And I think today it's still kind of the same thing that I tell my stylist is like, you can't just post and assume that people are going to like show up at the door, but you can use it as your gallery. So for me, I've always been like a yapper. I can talk to a brick wall. So every time I would meet someone, it's like, oh, follow me on Instagram or, you know, let's be friends. And from there, they would see social media and be like, oh, she's actually like good at hair. So that's really how I built was not so much posting to get clients, but posting so that when I met people, they found credibility in my work. |
| 1:29.4 | Totally. And so I assume that you met a lot of potential clients or people who became your |
| 1:35.3 | clients, probably long-term clients, when you're working at the honky talk. Is that what you called it? |
| 1:40.7 | Did you call it a honky talk? Did I just make that up? The name of it is literally honky tonk central. |
| 1:46.0 | Okay. |
| 1:46.3 | That is the name of the bar. But all the bars on Broadway, they call them honky tonks. Yeah. Do you say you're from Dallas? I'm from Dallas, yeah, but I haven't spent that much time in Nashville. I've been there maybe two or three times. |
| 2:01.0 | I've, you know, I've been downtown |
| 2:02.9 | and I've been on Broadway. But I tend to stay with a friend of mine who lives south, |
| 2:09.5 | you know, maybe 30 minutes. And, oh, what's the place called where he lives? |
| 2:15.6 | What, like Franklin or Spring Hill? |
| 2:18.1 | Yeah, south of Franklin actually. |
| 2:20.4 | Columbia. |
| 2:22.0 | Anyway, it doesn't matter. |
| 2:23.8 | But I like it a lot. |
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