Stop Telling Your Vision – Show Your Vision with Popular Nobody
Beauty Means Business Radio Stop Telling Your Vision – Show Your Vision with Popular Nobody @popular_nobody John Mosley or Popular Nobody, is a barber, shop owner, educator and mentor. John is the owner of Popular Grooming Lounge and Popular Nobody Brand. He is a Hanzo Shears and Andis Clipper ambassador and Paul Mitchel Educator and the Campus Leader of the Paul Mitchell Barbering Program in Arlington, Texas. John has been recognized as Modern Salon’s Top 100 Industry Game Changers, 2019’s Barber Educator of the Year from Barbershop Connect and his work has been featured in Television and Film and on the cover of top Magazines like Rolling Stone, Billboard, GQ. In this episode, John Mosley’s robust energy overflows with conviction on creating your own success story. A dynamic leader and family man, John provides endless nuggets of powerful wisdom, words to live by, and how to build your own success story. Which John says, to be successful you’ve got to build your own character. John takes us on a story of defying and denying critics. His mentality is stop telling people your vision and starting showing your vision, and that he’d rather be in a fight with 20 underdogs than one top dog. And he’s standing true to it. John is an ex-football player turned barber, a veteran in the industry, with 19 years of experience under his belt. He’s used sports to drive his business strategy and leadership style. Mosley’s career focus is on motivating owners and stylists to play as a team. We dive into how he leads both students and shop owners. Students, he pushes to identify the right mentor. He calls out the misconceptions of looking for mentors on Instagram. And he challenges owners to not be afraid to let your barber or your stylist to be that talented individual inside of the name you’ve helped build. Don’t be afraid of their success, support their success. We talk about the Mamba mentality, the legacy that Kobe left and how Mosley’s skills of patience and effective communication stems from his lifelong journey in coaching kids, teenage sports and being an athlete himself. John, who is now working on a non-profit organization that will help the beauty and barber industry and regular life, is also focused on building the Popular Nobody Brand. A team of people that have been told no and come back to prove their ability. What drives him, is a platform to change the view of the industry which impacts the world. Takeaways: When talking to students about picking a mentor, John says find a person that can guide you through life not just through the beauty industry. Do not be afraid to let your barber or your stylist to be that talented individual inside of the name you’ve helped build. Don’t be afraid of their success, support their success. You can get the best out of people if you know how to communicate with them. Success is not about the mountain tops, but about the peaks and the valley. Handsome App is a free professional network for the beauty and barber industries to build a digital portfolio, find career advice, education and jobs.
