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In this captivating episode, we sit down with the legendary Mario Tricoci—iconic hairstylist, entrepreneur, and founder of Tricoci University. Mario shares his powerful insights on how the beauty industry transcends borders, blending culture, creativity, and opportunity. From working in fashion capitals across the globe to shaping the next generation of beauty professionals, his story is a masterclass in passion and purpose. Whether you’re in the industry or simply inspired by visionary leadership, this episode is a must-listen.
Show Notes
– The beauty industry as a universal language and cultural connector
– How fashion and hairstyling opened doors to the world
– Mario’s vision behind launching Tricoci University
– The role of mentorship and education in the beauty space
– Empowering future stylists and salon professionals
– Stories from around the globe—Paris, London, Brazil, Japan, and more
– Why beauty isn’t just a skill—it’s a lifestyle and a legacy
Links
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6pmvEwwzCH4
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4h4iFK7y26myp4zXQ5EdlJ?si=mdg84xqIR9W9qmmDWnUEXw
Transcript
We are here to make people feel good about themselves.
We really have to feel like we are a day maker for the guest
You’ve made my day.
How great is that when you hear those words from your guest.
Hey everybody, this is David Dolce.
I wanna welcome you to the Day Makers podcast.
I have the opportunity today
to interview the legend himself, Mr.
Mario Tricoci. Mario, how you doing this morning?
I’m doing great. Thank you very much, uh, David,
for inviting me to this.
It’s, uh, it’s up my sleeve, if you will.
So let’s, you know, let’s go on with it
because I think it’s a wonderful thing.
Thank you. And I know you’re a really busy guy,
so you being able to show up
for us today is just truly incredible.
This is a full moment for me. Um, I always say Bleed green.
I love Tricoci and everything it stands for.
So this is an honor for me. Thank you. You’re very welcome.
So, I mean, we call this the Day Maker podcast
because like, that’s your phrase, right?
That’s what you’re known as. We have to be day makers.
That’s what we teach in the universities.
Where did that come from?
That’s right. What does that mean to you?
Uh, well, let me just start by saying, uh,
being a day maker, uh, it’s exactly what it says.
Uh, I learned that to make my guests,
my clients, uh, a day for them.
So therefore, it was, you’ve made my day.
I heard that phrase many times
when I was a young hairdresser behind the chair.
Mm. I would do a, a beautiful hairstyle,
and the lady would look in the mirror
and says, God, you made my day.
And I never forgot that phrase,
perhaps way back from early sixties and and so on.
And, and it was just a wonderful thing.
And I carried on with that phrase, uh, forever.
I can relate, uh, to that.
Uh, in one instant, uh, we
donated a small salon, uh, to Mr.
Cordia. Mm-hmm. If you know what Miss Cordia is, it’s a,
a sister Rosemary, with a wonderful woman that took care
of, uh, of children.
And, uh, we made a very small beauty salon for the kids that
otherwise would not be able to go to a, a beauty salon.
They were in a wheelchair or they were handicapped.
So we donated a small salon, we built it.
And, uh, sister Rosemary called it
Tricoci Day making day.
Really?
Absolutely.
So it’s a small place and there, which, which I support Mr.
Cordia, uh, tremendously. So, but anyway, that’s, uh, yeah.
Uh, make my day
and it’s a, it’s an international, a universal word
that if we can, let’s make somebody’s day,
let’s start in a positive way.
Mm-hmm. Rather than making somebody feel bad
and then trying to make ’em feel good, initiate
with that in mind.
I love it. And like, I mean, I know I’m from the c
and w campus, born and raised.
Right. And a lot of our campuses,
you’ve got that sign Absolutely.
Be the day maker for your guest. And I know, like Mr.
E or Barbara instructor, like points to that all the time.
Exactly. And teaches from that.
And you find, like, I tell my students,
I’m teaching you a lot more than just doing hair
or doing skin or doing makeup.
Like we are teaching you how to make somebody else’s day.
The customer service aspect sometimes is
lost and they don’t get it.
You’re not gonna be successful in this
unless you grab that day maker mentality first.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
I think that the philosophy stands within KO University,
that we’re not just teaching people how to do hair.
It’s a lifestyle. It is.
You’re there in the beauty industry, not
to get a job one day,
but to have a career in the beauty industry.
And if you have a career, then you are going
to be a day maker.
Mm-hmm.
I agree. That’s why I wanted to do hair.
I wanted to make somebody feel good about themselves.
That’s right. Exactly. There’s the whole fashion.
There’s this and that, but making
Someone feel better, you know, it’s, it is so true.
If you make somebody feel good about themselves,
you feel good doing it.
Yep. I mean, that’s the, that’s,
and that’s when you are going
to be successful in the industry.
It’s true. I could be a bill collector. Right?
That’s right. Make everybody stay horrible.
But I get to do this for a living. It’s awesome.
Exactly, exactly. What inspired you to,
’cause education’s a passion, right?
It’s not for everybody. You have to be patient. Patient.
What made you wanna get into the education
aspect of this industry?
Well, uh, both my brother Franco
and I started in the, uh, in education.
Uh, uh, as, as a hairdresser, uh,
I have accumulated a great deal of knowledge, right?
Mm-hmm. I’ve been in the industry for many years now.
The the universities are 20 years old. Mm-hmm.
And, uh, and they’re growing up,
Yes. But,
uh, having accumulated so much knowledge
in haircutting, uh, uh, have been, uh, connected
with the vid soon, with the Leo past of, um,
of Pivot Point.
Mm-hmm. Uh, uh, the Rockwell Bel, the Horse Rocken Barker,
uh, the Jean Louis w the Jean Markman Paris
hairdresser, where I, I participated
and did a lot of shows in, in Paris and all over the world.
So you accumulate all this education,
what are you gonna do with it?
Are you gonna keep it it to yourself?
No, I want to, uh, lend and,
and give whatever I know
to the next generation of professionals.
So I’ve truly been, I believe,
a professional hairdresser. Mm-hmm.
For Sure. So, and I wanted to share that, that
the word beautician is used a lot.
I try to have canceled that for my vocabulary
because we are professional hairdressers.
Mm-hmm. We, if you are a professional hairdresser,
then you can be a day maker
for your guests, for your clients.
So, and I thought that I have this knowledge, let’s
teach it from the beginning.
So let’s start a beauty culture school
called Trico University.
And the reason why we call the Trico University is
because we have colleges within the universities.
Mm-hmm. If you want to really be a great haircutter,
then we excel you in Hairing.
If you want to be a great hair colorist, then we’ll try
and excel you in the hair coloring department.
And if you want to be involved in skincare,
then we will teach that
and excel you in being a
skincare specialist, a provider
of services in the skincare field.
So you excel in that.
So basically we said, okay, then it’s a university, right?
Because we have different colleges,
different schools within the one establishment.
Mm-hmm. You want to be a barber,
but a barber is a hairstylist that excels
in men care in
all sorts of, of different styles of hair cuts
and beards and what have you.
So therefore, it is a college within the university.
It’s a school within the university.
And, and that is really using all
of the knowledge that, uh, that we have
acquired over the years and teach the next generation
what it’s all about to become a professional hairstylist.
And being a professional hairstylist, then
you love what you do.
You do. I love
what you’re saying about the different schools
within the university.
’cause one of my big, um, points with being a part
of this is that in the same building you do have barbering,
aesthetics, cosmetology.
And not only do you get exposed to so many different types
of things in this industry,
it really brings together this community of, um,
beauty professionals exactly
where the barbers are in the aesthetics department,
getting facials, learning about that.
And the estheticians are out on the cosmetology floor.
They’re getting, um, networking opportunities.
They’re coming, coming out, doing hand massages
and exfoliations on the cosmetology clients.
And just to have that great group of people even
before you graduate that you know,
and network with is fantastic.
That that is absolutely true.
What it is that we should all be
experts in everything that we do.
But of course, if you wanna master something,
you are involved in one
of the colleges within the university.
If you want to be a master in barbering,
you should really concentrate on that.
And you should have experience
and knowledge of everything else around you.
Perfect example of what a university stands for,
There are so many barbers that start our program Oh.
That leave color experts. Oh. Because they have no clue.
That’s, and they’re seeing this and all the fashion colors
and the greens and the blues,
and they just are like obsessed
With it. We, we understand that
clearly from the Tricoci, uh,
hair salons and day spot,
because obviously, uh, we have a great,
uh, uh, connection with the university.
And, uh, the students that come from the Tricoci University
to the Tricoci Salon,
and Day Spa, they already have an idea of
what that is all about.
They already have the knowledge
of being really a professional in their craft rather than
just a general, uh, you know,
that you have experts in everything, but a master of none.
So we want to have people that are truly master
of their craft.
It’s true. I mean, even at the salon,
your training program is second to none.
So nobody’s going out there scared,
going straight into a chair.
You get them comfortable, the extra training that they need.
And, um, I just hear great things about my students
that go there, go through the training program. They
Absolutely no question about this.
I wanna circle back to the education.
I wanna show you something, Mario.
So my mom was one of your students back in the day. No. Yes.
This has been hanging proudly on the wall.
She gave it to me when I started working for Tricoci.
Oh my God. This is a co I wish I had the
original someplace.
I I might have it.
This is an award that I received,
I believe it was in Belgium.
I received an award, the winning first place in day style.
And this was the, uh, award with a cup.
My, oh my God, it is amazing.
My aunt went to the school there in Albert also.
Oh, I would love a copy of this because I don’t
Have it. Oh, I will.
Oh my God.
I will. It is amazing. Wow.
And then we had one of these hair cutting books.
Oh my God. As well.
Holy, I don’t wanna say the word a holy god.
This is amazing.
This is, I believe is the first education book that, uh,
both Franco and my brother and I put together.
Oh my God, I have dark hair. Look at this guys.
Oh my God, may I open this?
And, and, and what this is, look at this.
This is the art. This is where the passion really started.
This was the first, in the beginning
of training and teaching. This
Looks like art when I was going through this.
And, and, and what this is, is how to sculpt
and how to create great basic.
Because if you have good foundations,
then you can go straightforward.
And really, oh my goodness. What?
Oh my God, this is amazing.
The tools, how to create waves. This is amazing.
And I believe that some of this is still taught today
in the classrooms
because it’s truly the great foundation of our industry. It
Is. It
Really is. And this is,
uh, uh, now this is going back to 1968.
That’s nuts. That’s how long you have been in education.
That is correct. And over the years,
I kept on accumulating knowledge.
Uh, uh, there was a man that, uh, uh, uh,
Alexander de I watched him dress hair,
and he was phenomenal.
Uh, Guam, my idol, uh, Guam, uh, uh,
actually worked for our company when we were with, uh, uh,
Elizabeth Thorns.
He was one of the great stylists. Wow.
Uh, then he went back to Paris
and he was the hairstylist, uh, to the Queen of England
and to the royal unbelievable team.
And it was just amazing.
So these are some of the people that I’ve been,
uh, connected with.
Uh, and, uh, and you just, it’s, it’s truly passion.
And, uh, but I always taught
and spoke to students in this fashion.
Uh, it’s great to have passion,
but the real passion is when you have
it and you don’t tell anybody.
Yes. Then it’s real passion.
Let the people say to you, God, you’re passionate about
what you do, and you might answer Yes.
But truly, if you have passion,
you do not have to yell it out.
It will show That is beautiful.
And that is something that I hold dear,
because I think I am very passionate.
I’m saying it now. Uh, I was passionate,
but I really did not, uh, announce it.
No, you’re very humble human
Being. You just do it because it’s
the right thing to do.
Yeah. And you are very humble
for all the things that you’ve done.
You’re talking about La Queen of England
and these people you’ve watched, and it’s just incredible.
Sure. You’re pure test testament to
what lifelong learning is all about.
No, exactly. You did not stop at one point
and say, I already know everything. Oh,
Listen, if you, you truly are a student,
and if you’re truly, uh, love what you do,
you will be a student for the rest of your life.
There’s always something new to learn, something always
to excel upon.
So, and, and that’s, that’s really then being passionate.
It is. It’s true. Yeah. Yes.
So if you could go back to young Mario, what’s one thing
that you would’ve done differently?
Or what’s a word of advice actually
that you would’ve gave yourself? Well,
That I would advise myself.
Uh, uh, I,
it’s something that I have to, you think about probably
more often than none.
What would I have changed perhaps,
or what advice would I give myself, uh, to, uh, I would
probably say be true to yourself
when you have the knowledge, share it.
When you don’t have the knowledge, learn it.
So that is something that I would say to someone
that is young, that it would be a Mario at
18, 19, 20 years old.
Uh, acquire all the knowledge you can and then share it.
Because if you really have an expertise,
you can share it with other people,
because they cannot steal it.
They can only share yours. They cannot copy yours.
They can only help yours along.
So those, those are some of the things
that I, that I would do.
And, and to always feel like
you want to do what you’re doing.
Mm-hmm. You know, not doing it as a burden.
Do it because it makes you feel good.
Find a way to feel good about going to work on your day.
You so, uh, therefore, then you will enjoy it
and you will do it well.
And I always say, look, uh,
if you like it, you will do it well,
and if you will do it well, you will be successful.
So you must love what you do in the beginning.
So learn to love it early.
So try not to ever have
your profession be a burden to you.
Mm-hmm. You know, try to enjoy every moment of it.
And, and I know that when I was young,
probably I was a little bit anxious and,
and I wanted to do more than I should.
Mm-hmm. Because I wasn’t quite ready to do it.
But I always persistent to learn
to do it for the end result. That’s
That’s great. Yeah.
So you’ve created, I mean, Mario
to coach you wear this t-shirt around.
Right. Everyone’s got a Mario story,
or I’ll be at the university and a student,
or a client will tell me, like, sure.
Oh my gosh. I was here at the beginning
and one time who walked out, but Mario,
And he gave Me the best blowout.
Like, everybody’s got a Mario story. Right.
Was there a point in your life when you finally wore like,
wow, like, I did this, I made it.
Uh, well, you know, yes.
There are moments like that
because, uh, everyone has, uh, uh,
an example of their work.
Uh, I can, uh, talk about a couple of people, uh,
the five point haircut to the, uh, with Mary Kwan mini skirt
with a short three point haircut, the short bob,
that was amazing.
Um, a Leo, the sculptor of fine
styling and hairdressing, that was phenomenal.
Uh, alexandre a hairdresser
to royalty into wonderful pieces.
Uh, uh, and, uh,
and something that I’m proud of what I did
that I believe it’s a haircut that I created
that it was amazing, uh, for our team.
And it was called, uh, a Avav, a messy type of a haircut,
a hairstyle in the late seventies that was, um,
not sculpted, not stiff.
It was messy and, and wild. It was city hair, windy hair.
It was hair for, uh, the aggressive people.
And it was called cavage.
The hair was really messy, but it had a purpose.
It had a great style to it.
That’s when we introduced that haircut,
uh, with straight hair.
And then we introduced it with permanent wave, that it was
curly and wavy and messy.
And that was something that I was sort of, yeah, I did that.
I proud of that. It was my con
contribution to the hair cutting
and styling, uh, at my point in my life. That’s
Great. And that’s still
trendy today. Yeah, exactly.
Everybody wants that messy look.
And you know, when I hear people come in
and they say like, that’s what they want.
They want that movement. I’ve never even
correlated to like, that’s you. Right.
Right. So that, that’s Incredible.
Uh, exactly. Something that I’m very proud
of, uh, that I’ve done.
And lots of, uh, uh, cover magazines
and lots of magazine picked it up and,
and did, uh, stories on it
and so on, which I’m very proud of. Yeah. Um,
Yeah. So 20
years later
to Coach University Beauty culture, we’re still here.
We’re still killing it. This is even year 21.
What, um, did you see this for the future? Uh,
You know what, perhaps not in the beautiful structure
that it is, but I always saw it to going forwards,
because the beauty industry is stronger than ever.
The need for professional barbers, uh,
institution hairdressers is
stronger than ever, ever has been.
The industry’s really coming back strong.
And it’s obvious at District Coach University, we have
around 3000 students.
That is enormous, I think is, and,
and I am sure that it’s number one ed, you know, uh,
education in the beauty industry and,
and the country, if not the world.
Uh, I think that, uh, uh, the management, the instructors,
the teachers, uh,
and I know that I’ve spoken
to the teachers on several occasions that they’re
really, they accept to have the responsibility
for the success of the students
because they’re helping them.
And they believe that. Mm-hmm.
They believe that they’re helping them
for a career in their life.
They’re life changing careers
that are available in the beauty industry.
I can share one quick little story of two young people in,
in, in the Peoria campus, uh, that I went down and,
and the, uh, manager says, do you know,
I don’t remember their names.
Mm-hmm. But two African American beautiful girls, uh,
they graduated school within a year.
They opened up their own spa in Peoria.
And I was, uh, I went to visit them.
It was great for me to see the success
and the passion that they had,
and that I had to give credit to the instructors
because they were able to really lead them
in a way that they would have a career, not a job.
Yeah. That’s job. Really true job.
Because if they want a job, they can get a job anywhere.
But to have a career, it’s, it’s gotta be in here.
And if the instructors have it, then
the students will have it.
That’s cool. I have it. The instructors have it.
You know, you have it. Everybody will have it if they are
really true to themselves, you know?
So don’t become an instructor if you just want
a job to instruct. I’m
Passionate, passionate About it. And that’s the
Way it’s, you have to be.
And that’s what I coach a lot
of the educators now. That’s what I try to
Yeah, Absolutely. I’m
like, I could teach you all this other stuff,
but I can’t teach you to have passion.
David, where were you 25, 30 years ago.
And you were a baby right? By otherwise, oh, man.
You on the street to Chicago. Certainly.
You certainly would be on my team.
That’s darn sure. I love it. Oh,
Absolutely. It’s one of my proudest
moments.
Mario was getting to go
through the teacher training program.
Uh, Amy Zo was the
Director. Oh my God. Yes.
I remember her telling me, like, our first day,
there’s no positions available now,
but that doesn’t mean something will happen in the future.
No. And I wanted it so bad, and then finished that program.
We had space, um,
and I was the night educator there at c and w.
Oh. And that’s one of my,
that’s the best position I ever had.
I miss the classroom. I miss that engagement.
I miss seeing them on the first day
telling ’em, you’re here.
It’s gonna be up to here by the time you leave.
And every color.
But you are 15 campuses deep, three different states.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. It’s, it’s wild.
Yeah. It’s really wild.
And, and it is great to see, uh,
somebody really having and struggling to learn, you know,
I I at the campus in, in Chicago and Harlem Avenue.
Mm-hmm. Uh, we have a brick wall in a couple of the rooms.
Yep. And I always, when spoke to the, you know,
there’s going to be occasions from time to time
that you’re gonna smash into that brick wall
and fall on your tush.
But then you get up through perseverance
and determination, you will do it again.
You will learn it, and then you will share it. Mm-hmm.
And it is true that at the beginning it might be difficult,
but the moment that you discover that you are
learning and that you’re comprehending what you’re doing,
then you’re beginning to conquer.
And that’s, that’s the beauty of, of the industry,
because we’re always learning.
So again, uh, the coach university
has the culture.
Mm-hmm. The culture of learning, being gentle.
Of course I can, it’s my pleasure to do so. Mm-hmm.
And, uh, it’s of course being
a day maker in thinking that way, when that guest comes in
and the student works on it, that’s the beginning.
That’s where they learn to become a day maker.
And if they can do that in the beginning,
can you imagine the world of the beauty industry would be
so much better and so much stronger if we continue with
that philosophy?
It would be, it would be, you know, I went to,
I looked at two different schools when I wanted
to do my teacher training program.
Sure. And I remember the second school
I looked at was Tricoci.
And I walked in and the students were in aprons.
Everybody had a client.
It was completely different than
what I saw at the other school.
Absolutely. They were, no one was dressed nice.
They weren’t even working on clients.
They really weren’t even working on mannequins.
And I’m like, Chaco. I’m like, this is it.
This is what I want to do.
I saw the office, this big marble desk, speaking
of the desk, there’s legends about that desk
and how it even got in the building.
That thing weighs a hundred million pounds. Yes.
How did you get that desk,
this big marble desk into that office? Uh, you know
What, ed it, uh,
I had just finished my residence in Chicago.
Mm-hmm. And, um, uh,
and I imported all the marable from my house, from Italy,
from Carra Wow.
In Italy. So it came in huge blocks.
And, uh,
and I had some of the marble, uh, in my possession.
And I said, this would make a great deck.
So it is about six inches thick.
And it Is, I think about nine feet wide
and no nine feet long,
and maybe three feet wide or four feet.
And it’s a, just a, a piece of art in itself.
It is. It’s a, it’s a beautiful
Thing. It is. And that
won’t budge.
That was one of my proudest moments too, to be the director
of that campus and sit behind that desk
and knowing that was your desk
and sitting behind with this great man once set.
No, no, no. It meant a lot to me. No, it’s just crazy. Yeah.
Those are good moments. Um, it’s like things like, I mean,
you’ve just talked about this.
The difference between the Tricoci way is
that we are creating these professionals in the industry
instead of just like you said, a beautician.
Um, and that’s what we tell the students all the time.
Like, you’re here because we’re teaching you business.
We’re teaching you how to speak to people, how to retail
to your clients, how to be a true, true,
true professional. And
I really, and and to share, uh, the product
that you are using Yes.
With your guest. Tell them they should know exactly
what you’re using and what you’re doing.
So they love good when they go home too.
Absolutely. And, and you always have, uh, at least
it’s still my philosophy that our students should say
to the guest, uh, it was my pleasure to take care of you.
I’m looking forward to see you again.
So those are the things
that we teach from the very beginning.
That’s how you build yourself a business,
or you build a clientele, if you will, so that you say
to the guests, please tell your friends.
I would love to take care of them.
Tell ’em that I love what I do,
and I love to have your friends to, you know,
and I will take care of them.
Because if you do that when you are in school, you will do
that when you are at the salon.
Because you see the salon companies,
they will give you clients,
but then it is your job to retain those guests.
Mm-hmm. And you, it is your job
to build your book from that.
So every guest
that you will do at a salon, you should say, thank you.
It was my pleasure to take care of you.
And please, if you have any friends that need a haircut,
I love to take care of them.
You see your guests, they love
to send your friend their friends if they’re proud of you.
Mm-hmm. And if you do a great job, they love
to send you their friends
because they want their friends to experience
what they have experienced.
If they have a bad experience,
you’re not gonna see their friends.
That’s a really good way of putting it.
And that’s the truth. That is the
Truth. It’s, exactly.
So if you had a student in front of you right now
as their first day of school, what advice would you give
to them on that first day?
Oh my God. Well, um,
there’s quite a bit of advice that I would give.
I mean, let, let me just say that.
But one of the things that I would say, I hope
that you’re here as a student
to love this industry.
You’re here because you already like it,
otherwise, you would not be here.
So therefore, let’s start by saying to you, you must love it
because if you love it, you will do it well.
Mm-hmm. And if you do it well, you’re going
to be successful.
Mm-hmm. So that is the advice that I would give them.
And those are worth, you’re here
and think about your future.
This can be a
lifestyle change for you.
The beauty industry has so much to offer.
It is a global language, if you will.
You can work in Italy, you can work in Paris,
you can work in London, you can work in Brazil, in Japan,
whatever you go, you can admire and share with them,
or they can share with you the same knowledge.
So it’s not a language, it’s a culture.
It is a culture. That’s everything.
That’s number one. And you know, and,
and I would say, uh, remember that
from time to time, as you’re learning,
you will not understand everything.
But you have to have perseverance, determination
in order to be successful.
You just don’t stretch out your arms
and say, I’m going to be a great stylist tomorrow.
You must pay the price, if you will. Mm-hmm.
You must be open-minded to learn.
And, and sometimes when you don’t understand anything at our
university, at the Tricoci University, we have the culture
to say, Mr.Instructor, miss instructor, dear teacher,
I don’t understand it.
Help me to understand this.
And we are obliged to work with you
to have the success that you’re here for.
So, I mean, that’s what it’s all about. Mm-hmm.
So when you don’t understand something, be a thorn
in your instructor’s side
because you want to understand everything she knows
and then some more.
That’s good. And that’s what it’s all about.
I mean, and that’s not even in beauty
school that goes through life.
That was inspiring to me. That Exactly.
Um, but beyond a day maker, you this university,
it’s been a life maker, a life changer for me.
Like if you really know, like
how this really changed the whole course of my life.
Sure. Starting that teacher training program, I’m beyond,
absolutely beyond honored.
Because you as an instructor, a teacher,
an instructor of beauty culture,
whether it is in the barbering, aesthetics, manicuring,
pedicure, whatever the sector of the industry is,
you are helping people to have a career.
You’re a life changing instructor. Mm-hmm.
That feels good. You can change their lives.
Because the beauty industry, I think is one
of the only industries in the world that
you can start your own business as I did
back in the early sixties with five, six chairs, salon.
It’s nuts. Now, some of our salons have 60 chairs.
Yeah. Very. But you can start small, be passionate,
because you will grow.
I mean, that’s, that, that’s the beauty of the industry. Oh,
That’s cool. Mario,
I feel like I could talk to you all day long,
but I know you’ve got a lot of stuff going on.
But again, like this has just been one of the,
this is one of the biggest moments in my life.
I’ll remember this forever.
Well, thank, thank you so much. I, I appreciate it.
I appreciate, God, the, the, the history
that you have in your possession.
I’m so glad to bring it.
It is, it is amazing.
Uh, I’m just extremely proud, uh, uh, to know
that the coach university is in great hands.
I mean, that I really
and truly believe that, that the culture that, um,
that the university has is, is the same culture
that it was born with.
So I think that, uh, uh, the instructors, the management,
it takes it really hard.
Mm-hmm. Because they want to, uh,
graduate students not only with a passion,
but to really believe
that they’re day makers for their guests.
And that is something we hope
Through. And, and I think that, um,
that the coach university will
continue, uh, to have extreme high success
because they really believe that their
rendering, uh, professionalism to the industry mm-hmm.
And the people that graduate have that
themselves to go on for the rest of their life.
So I’m extremely proud to say that, uh, uh,
the coach university truly is what they say. It’s,
Thank you. And like
we’re honored to be part of it.
So thank you so much, Mario.
Thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank
You. Thank you. Really
Appreciate you. That’s
fantastic, man. Great. Thank you. Yeah. So much.
Yes. Peace.