Hair Educators Lab Shareena Hansen

Today I'm talking about how important the why's are when you are educating!

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This episode is with Dana who is a National Master Trainer with Davines North America (pretty sure I messed up her title in the intro-sorry Dana)

We discuss here journey from the corporate side of a brand into becoming a hairdresser and trainer. She's a gem and so happy she came on the podcast! Enjoy.

Where to find Dana

IG: https://www.instagram.com/alchemyandreverie/

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In this episode we chat about NAHA, Beauty Underground, the state of eduction and so much more! I hope you enjoy this episode.



Where to find Charlie:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/charliepricehair/

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This is part 1 of 2

Charlie and I had so much to talk about that I'm splitting our interview into 2

Charlie wasn't an overnight success he spent 15 years working very hard at it. He didn't arrive on the platform stage he spent years teaching regional classes, working on his craft as a hairdresser and educator.

4:18

With my training at the Tony & Guy Academy I had this awesome experience to go to London and work alongside Anthony Moscato. So here I am like 10 months into the industry I didn't even have my license yet and I'm working alongside Antonin Mascolo and he and the team showed me how big this industry could be.

9:08

So, when I started working with Steve at EL salon his basically philosophy and education is it's your duty to complete the education wheel. You were taught, so therefore it's your duty to pass on that information. So I've always had that concept in my mind. So, it took me a little while I started teaching at the salon and educating and sharing. The first classes I taught where, you know, I was pulling stuff together from, you know, outer space to try to put an education plan together, but over the years I've became more practiced and it just has become part of my success as a hairdresser. It's my duty to learn and I'm obligated to share.

11:25

I say okay if you go to the supermarket and your basket is full what do you leave with? Not very much extra right? So empty your basket put it all in a safe pantry and let's fill up your basket with more stuff so you can add it to what you have. I think it's an important conversation because you always have those people coming into your programs, their ego is protecting them as well like what are you going to teach me. Yeah, it's like disarming them really helps because it's both ways you know when you're standing in front of a group of people together I'm here to share I'm not here to show off.

14:59

Yeah, I think all of us hairdressers innately I think kind of have a little bit of a rebel in them. That's why we're in this industry right when you know it's when you're doing this doctrine of because I said so-Immediately we want to fight back. 

Yeah, like give me the why 

a good friend of mine Eric, Gomez says you know the whys are more important than the hows sometimes.



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Go in knowing your stuff go in knowing what you're facilitating and playing off the cuff, that doesn't necessarily work so when I've seen somebody that looks super polished, in a way where I'm like yeah they know what they're doing. You earned the right silently, with with that group. Yes.

32:48

I think the other facet would be as an educator hairstylist I think being authentic to yourself. Knowing your passion knowing your brand and then being okay with sharing information and kind of being tested in a way. I learned more in front of a group of people than I do when I go take classes on my own. And that just always happens.

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I never knew that being a hairdresser was a job. I had no inclinations on doing hair whatsoever. My mother never took us to the hairdresser she cut our hair in the kitchen. My mother is of course not a hairdresser either so you can imagine how fantastic that was. I got a job in a salon at the age of 17 as a receptionist.

So that's when I decided I want to do hair.  I'm sitting here at this opening ceremony in this huge Convention Center, and these half naked men that were models strung out with this, you know, loud music and lighting, there might have been pyrotechnics and I'm sure Robert Cromeans was still doing hair with a fork and a razor. 

I would 100% agree with that, you know, as I was thinking about this call, we were going to be making I was relating everything to how I teach other hairdressers in the salon and everything. I was thinking about could absolutely relate to people that want to be that do education or want to be educators, you have to make a connection with people.

I started working with scruples 17 years ago and I literally would volunteer and donate my time for free, like my very first show I drove seven hours in a traffic jam, to make it to the show to work for free for a weekend.

Being aware of the fact that you don't know everything, and there's no way anybody can know everything. I see a lot of potential educators come in thinking that they know it all and have it all and that they are going to be, you know, the next best thing and that can often be very off putting. Yes, and difficult to train, because each company has their own culture, if you will. 

I think the bottom line is when doing public speaking is knowing your audience and being prepared. Yes, it is being prepared, knowing your material, knowing your audience and your material. I think a lot of educators show up to class, totally want to wing it you can't.

I love watching social media videos and not for the reasons, most people think. My biggest pet peeve on watching these videos is how hairdressers are not aware of their environment. The background says so much about you.

So, have you have you worked with any of what we call the famous educators and are they all they're cracked up to be like, do they have the skill set like Do they have the talent?

One of the things that was really surprising for me was their lack of ability to verbalize what they're doing, because not not having practice verbalizing you saying the words, saying the description saying the steps out loud.

All right, you've heard it here first here on Hair Educators Lab that men's getting perms is what's coming

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