You Learned How to Start a Career in Hair.
But did anybody ever teach you how that career was supposed to end?
You spent years mastering your craft, building clientele and learning things no school could have taught you.
When you no longer want to spend your days behind the chair, that knowledge shouldn't leave the industry with you.
TEACH YOUR FIRST CLASS
What happens when you still love the hair industry... but you don't love doing hair anymore?
Most of us entered this business thinking about how to get started.
We learned the craft, got clients, got better, built a reputation and
kept going.
Very few of us thought about what we would do with everything we learned
when we were finally ready for something different.
You can spend decades becoming valuable... and then walk away from the value you created.
You learn how to do hair.
You practice. You make mistakes. You find your specialty. You build clientele and learn how to make money with your hands.
You learn what school couldn't teach you.
Years of real clients give you judgment, techniques, shortcuts, problem-solving skills and an approach that newer professionals simply haven't had time to develop yet.
One day, you don't want to do it anymore.
And too many talented professionals leave hair completely and start at the bottom of an entirely different industry.
Why would you start over when you already spent years becoming an expert?
Think about what leaves the industry every time a seasoned stylist closes their book for the last time.
The techniques they perfected. The mistakes they learned not to make. The client situations they've already seen a hundred times. The shortcuts. The systems. The little things they do without even thinking anymore.
Then someone brand new enters the industry and has to figure those same things out all over again.
That is knowledge we should be passing down — not throwing away.
You shouldn't have to become entry-level somewhere else because you're finished taking hair clients.
Your passion for physically doing hair may change. That doesn't make everything hair taught you worthless.
At this stage of your career, there may be a client more valuable than a hair client.
A hair student.
Pays for your hands.
They pay you to perform the skill for them. When the appointment ends, you get paid for that service.
Pays for your knowledge.
They want to know what you know, understand what you understand and learn something that took you years to master.
You spent years getting paid to DO hair.
Now you can learn how to get paid for KNOWING hair.
I didn't want to teach other stylists my signature stuff either.
That was MY stuff.
I had spent years developing the styles and techniques people knew YonniRed for.
Those things made me different.
So when it came to teaching other stylists how to do them, my first thought wasn't:
“Let me show everybody everything I know.”
It was the opposite.
Why would I give another stylist the very thing that helped make my work stand out?
Until I realized that if I kept it all to myself, it could die with me.
Teaching wasn't giving away what made me special.
It was making sure what I spent my career learning didn't disappear when I stopped doing it.
Don't retire your knowledge when you retire your hands.
Pass the Torch helps seasoned hair professionals identify what they already know, turn that knowledge into a teachable class and prepare to teach their first students.
Pivot. Position. Present.
You don't need to teach everything you know. We need to find the right thing to teach first.
PIVOT
Look at your career differently and identify the skill, technique or experience you've already mastered that can become your first class.
POSITION
Determine who needs to learn it, what they'll be able to do differently after learning from you and why your real-world experience matters.
PRESENT
Turn what feels automatic in your hands into something another professional can understand, practice and learn from you.
You don't have to pretend you know everything about cosmetology.
Teach the thing you actually mastered.
Who would you rather learn a specialized technique from?
Someone who read about it?
Or the professional who has performed it over and over, corrected the mistakes, seen the problems and mastered the result?
Your first class doesn't have to make you the teacher of everything.
It allows you to teach the thing your career qualified you to teach.
You've been in the industry long enough to have something worth passing down.
There is somebody trying to learn what you already spent years figuring out.
You don't need to throw away one career to start at the bottom of another. Start by looking at the value you've already built.
Your hands built the career.
Your knowledge can build what comes next.
I'M READY TO TEACH MY FIRST CLASS
