Meet Miles The Barber

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Miles The Barber. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Miles below.

Miles , thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

Not being afraid to fail. I know that I can’t fail. I know that if I continue to do things over and over agin, I’ll learn new techniques to get me closer and closer to accomplishing my goal.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

My name is Miles and I’ve been a barber for 15 years. Owning and creating a Barbershop and Salon was never on my bucket list of things to do. Although I knew I could do it. Over the years of working in many shops I’ve watched and learned from many owners. I’ve studied what has worked for them and what mistakes they’ve made that has worked against them. With all of that information I wanted to create a team of elite professionals in an environment where they can provide top tier satisfaction to their clients while maintaining a schedule that doesn’t conflict with their own personal lives. An environment that is drama free, friendly, sanitary professional and safe for both the stylist and client.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

Time management is the biggest. Days of waiting in the shop/salon for hours are gone. Especially in Hollywood where time is literally money. Everyone has something to do almost all the time. The biggest thing my clients would say they value (perhaps over the quality of the cut even) is my time management. Im extremely precise with my time. It’s super rare that I am even 5 min behind.I respect peoples time and they respect mine.

Relatability and easy going. People want to be heard. Agree or disagree, sometimes people just want to vent.Venting isn’t always bad either. Our lives can get tough sometimes and people just want a place they can go to and talk without being judged. A safe place where they can swap ideas and opinions and collab on thoughts.

The hair cut. Obviously

Looking back over the past 12 months or so, what do you think has been your biggest area of improvement or growth?

Patience. I’ve learned that I can’t control everything. I can’t want something for someone more than they want it themselves. That goes for clientele. People have to want to hustle and learn new marketing techniques to survive and remain relevant in this world. However I can’t put those desires and wishes for them onto them unless they want it themselves. I’ve learn that over time. They’ll despise you for it. So I let people come to me and be patience until that happens. I know I have a lot of knowledge I can share but until someone is ready I stay to myself

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