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Welcome to episode 5 of Anthony Presotto’s Business Insider Podcast.
In this episode:
This episode I am chatting with my good friend Russell Mayes. We talk about The Wizard Council, Education and Mentoring for stylists. Russell also shares some great stories from his younger days. I list some of my favorite education online at the moment, which there are links to below. Check out the link for Russells MODERN/CLASSIC haircutting education DVD’s. I love them and still refer to them after 8 plus years. Highly recommended to hairstylists of all levels.
I would love to hear your feedback and maybe any thoughts you have on training, and who is your current favorite educator?
Websites mentioned in this episode:
* HAIRMAVEN DVD’S – Russells Modern Classic Cutting DVDs.
* HAIRBRAINED.ME.– Awesome website that both Russell and I are members.
* HAIRMAVEN.COM – Russell’s own forum.
* FREESALONEDUCATION.COM– Matt Beck’s site and podcast.
* JOSHXO – Josh Flowers website.
* THE FACTORY TV – DJ Muldoons website.
Transcript:
Today I have the opportunity to catch up with a dear friend of mine, Russell Mayes, some of you may know Russell from his online forum, hairmaeven.com, or his latest venture, The Union, which is a group of awesome guys who are providing independent education to stylists in the United States, and that’s what Russell and I are talking about in this podcast, the Union Wizard Council, free education, paid education, and his current project, mentoring 10 stylists starting out in their career.
Okay, so Russell tell us a bit about the Wizard Council.
Russell: The Wizard Council was originally a group of guys you know, John, Allen, Authen and Mark, Ruth and myself that got together and we started thinking about how it’s inspiring for us, the three of us to get together and just kind of talk hair, and sometimes there’d be somebody there that needs a haircut and we’re just kind of jamming just in hair, and we thought that that’s what really makes the industry great and it’s that connection that you have with other like-minded hairdressers, and so we originally started that well maybe we could do like a…there used to be a…something here in the United States called a National Cosmetology Association, NCA, and I think they’re still around but not in the capacity that they are today…they used to be…they had little individual, little groups in every city across the country and you would have a monthly meeting and sometimes they would do presentations and they’d get together with different people and it was just a monthly membership you know, you had your own little council in every city across the country and then they’d have a national meeting where everybody would come together. It was a really great grassroots kind of thing that built a lot of camaraderie in the industry, and I thought that that would be a really great thing if we got together a group of like-minded people, so I thought if we could do something kind of like that where we would have just like some cool people get together and we would just all share. And it grew to where we ended up trying to make a natural coherent presentat...