Entrepreneur Celebrity Hair Stylist Chaz Dean

You do what you can with it's your time, your money or resources. Everybody can do something and if everybody did do something, hey dr. bill here. Welcome back after leap. Oh, my gosh, it's been unbelievable from Norway to Italy, to Abu Dhabi. To leave by the way leap was off the hook, the biggest biggest. Thank you to Anthony Hopkins, who was phenomenal Mark Wahlberg, who was phenomenal, Paula Abdul who was phenomenal Jonathan Bennett. He was phenomenal, who else, Oh from 13 reasons why we had Devin. Tell me his last thing because I would say wrong: drew it. I'M phenomenal jazz Dean was there. I mean we had the best leap ever and next year. Leap will be the last week of July. Again then new dates for leap 2019, our July 21st, to the 27th again at UCLA. It will be epic. I promise you, as the last one was but and thank you to all the parents who sent their beautiful, beautiful students to the program and to the students who attended the program and all the beautiful notes that you guys gave me. I just I can't say enough about what an amazing leap week we had and thank you guys for all your support. There were some real surprises. I met an amazing man named Richard McDonald, who was one of the most prolific artists alive today, who made a surprise, appearance and spoke at leap. Jevon again came Jonathon sprinkles always knocks the cover off the ball. Who am I forgetting you guys? I mean it was and then all my lead, coaches, that got up on the stage from Christian, the Marty, Reid, Holly, Charlie and, of course, Charlie and Jane, to make this program work every year. So we are going to continue our series where we do a weekly meet the mentor where you guys get to know. You know some very successful people and a little bit more intimate level. This is my friend Chaz Dean Chaz and I actually met when we did brand new you back in about 2005 or 2006. So basically, it was a take off. Take extreme makeover, you bringing women from the UK to the US and they were hilarious. We had such a great time with these. Ladies, but let me tell you about Jess, a Los Angeles, stylist, Chaz Dean has a celebrity clientele list that reads like a who's who of Hollywood. Yet the humble hearted hair designer has a zen-like aura surrounding him. That instantly puts his clients at ease from photography to managing a hair salon to actually owning and running a salon. He then started creating the when hair and body products that are phenomenal world-class and some are category killers I use all of them now. Chaz has been using it from head to toe I'm Chaz Dean, he's an inspiration to people all over the world and he's changed so many lives by helping give people. The hair they've always wanted Chaz on a huggie. Thank you so much for being here and for coming and speaking at week to the students love them. We do these little mini TED talks at leap and Chaz was one of the speakers. So I know you started off in photography and you kind of segue into you know managing a hair salon, but then it exploded. You actually bought the hair salon, move the hair salon up into the Glen right, and that was the beginning of a huge career. Yeah kind of where did I started out right out of high school doing hair start. That was the 19 years old. I was 19 years old when I still are because of one thing, but it's just I I'm grateful. That'S why, speaking at leap, what I loved about it is not. Everybody knows that that hii run when you can take those out to two tests and you everything's in there and what career do you want like none of them spoke to me. So I, like, I, don't know what I want to do. I knew I loved photography, so it started out there. I wanted to learn more about my photography, so it was hair and makeup right, we're bringing all that and once I got into hair, I'm like it was a no-brainer. Oh my god. I love doing this and making people happy. I do it with hair face body and skin. Now this started with hair, you do with teeth, and you know how good it makes them feel about their smile me it's when you have a great hair day, you can be wearing anything. You feel great about yourself. So me it's hair, you its teeth now, but you know what you and I have something very similar, and this is gon na - be a different kind of interview that you've ever done before and no no don't be scared. I don't know where he's going with this? No listen. I went to go to school right. I learned teeth, yeah, that's what they teach in dental school. They don't teach you business. You know they didn't teach me how to build a tooth whitening company from 0 to 1.3 billion dollars in sales right uh. What I want to know is: okay, you know, you decided photography was your calling well, it wasn't. I mean it was big in E, but you know now you go in and and you're managing a salon. How did you learn the skills to actually manage? I mean a lot of the learning I did was kind of on that, like I started taking business classes at UCLA at night, while I was you know, building my company with my partners and stuff, because I know that how did you learn that? Or was it all kind of on-the-job learning, it was definitely on-the-job learning and it started out like becoming you know: first, an educator and teaching classes. Oh my god. I can do this and I enjoy doing this because teaching. Obviously, we all know that when you teach you learn, that's a huge part of it. As you learn from teaching, and then I became an assistant manager, a part of it was is the personnel was. The manager was someone who wasn't the happiest person, so my job was to go in and put a smile on everyone's face. Didn'T like they were happy. So, with every step I mean he didn't have. No, you know, I mean we read books. Do you have mentors, I mean? Well I mean, how did you learn the skills whirring to learn working through it just working now, honestly working it out? I mean I had to go and it was learning the hard way. Honestly yeah, I did take classes and I didn't go to school for it. It was literally I learned on the job training and it you know each lesson. Each thing you know you encounter, you grow from each step. I mean I was in charge of inventory. I was in charge of the receptionist hiring firing, you make your choices and it it it's. It is it's. Each step gets you further and further and when you look back at it, it's I never like. Even on my own salon, it wasn't in the cards like I want to own my own salon. I didn't reach out plan to do that. It just kind of fell in my lap because they happen to be selling the salon and offered it to me. I'M like I had never thought about all right. I was, I was doing my own thing and I loved doing my own thing, but this is what I love and - and there are two things that I really try and drill it into kids heads Italy number, one, don't wait for opportunities May and you were doing That but the second one is when you get an opportunity, don't take it master it, oh and that's what you were doing, but with the products. That'S where that started. Well, so, yes, you have words or you have this whole career in you and you've got a salon and you've got all these amazing celebrities and you're getting all this buzz boom products. How does that happen? It will not start it because it was when I was 19 and the company I worked for didn't have their own deep conditioner. I asked him why not and just because I asked that question there said we'll look, it was a lab, so he did and I met with Cyn Cynthia at the lab and she and I worked together to create a great deep conditioner later on. They want to create a more natural product line. I did that for them as well. That was all first and I had the knowledge to know how the experience with the labs, so it wasn't until years later, when I open my own salon, 1993 may 1st 1993, and I just knew every time I lathered up the hair. My hands would crack and bleed. I just knew how harsh the chemicals where I knew what it felt like on my scalp in my hair and color going down the drain, so I knew I wanted to change that so the day of my salon, I realized. I don't have to sell your shampoo anymore or your products anymore, that I can create. What it is, I feel, is best to use on myself and my clients and that's where it started and because I have the knowledge and because I asked the question so by asking questions is sometimes open doors and just because you may think it's as odd strange There'S no such thing as a lot, a question or a stupid question, or what not you hear that all the time right? If it's in your head, you want an answer for something. So I ask those questions because you have no idea what door they might open. So once I start developing my own products and I work with a lab - it was just like you know. It was amazing, because this was for now myself, not just for somebody else. If I had to say Chaz Dean. What would you say is the secret to your success. What would you say this staying focused, determined and motivated yeah? You can't you can't fall off that truck and I know I've talked about that uh you have to stay focused. You have to know where you're going and you can't you can't sway from that. You can't, and it didn't take me again came up on my radio thumb this morning is, is you you just have to know the goal if this day on it? Because it's it's a tough one like there. My point is it took me? Twenty plus I started when I was 19. You know that there's no secret! Oh, you know I've known as freighters, but the point is: is it wasn't until 2008? I really get that ceiling broke through that I didn't have to up until 2008. It was juggling bills and which one do I pain, but the lights turn off. Electricity turned off, I'm gon na lose my body when it was my home and it wasn't until 2008 that I said like okay, I can breathe and that's when my chronic line was able to grow as well, because I finally hit a plateau that like now, I Can start to see more growth, another is the other part. Is you have to grow incremental? I'Ve tried to help people, they want everything overnight and you can't if you want a success, that's not how it really works. I work with many people that are building either belt lines: clothing line first lines whatnot, and they want instant gratification like ever. Every dollar you make you need to invest 75 cents of that back in your business or you're not going to grow, and they don't understand that they don't understand how much it takes. Otherwise, if you do 50 50 degrees, that's fine, but you're gon na stay exactly where your honor, you need to put 3/4 a scam in order to keep a lot of people aren't long it they're not willing to do that one day. Other things I love about! You I also love the fact that he is so philanthropic and that you give back. You know along the whole way. You'Ve always made a commitment to help people out, and I think that that to me is a true sign of a successful person, because there's a lot of people in this world that make a lot of money and do really well and they don't really care about. Other people - and that's just not you your cell prophet, and I love that about you chest yeah. I always have been I'm being honored this weekend for Project Angel Food. I'Ve been involved with them for years upon years, erection, one of their vans cuz. We donate the band's in my angel, my four league angels are on it and when they did their interview with me, because I thought back when did that start because I've always been that way and I realized it probably was when I was priced seven or eight. My mom drove up us for disabled and she would britain we would be invited to dinner at their homes. They wait. She went to write them to dinner our homes and it made you appreciate, because you think everything can easily. I thanks for God, and it made you appreciate because many they have many differently cerebral palsy or whatever their issues were it made. You realize that really appreciate likes. I think that's what opened that up for me is to appreciate everything. That'S around you and I do realize that every step I do. I just hope that I have a team of people that are with me. I just hope that it ripples out and that they reach out and do things because a lot of people don't - and I don't understand - I don't understand that you know people that make a lot of money. It'S like there's, you got to me it's and that's for it's terrible. I just I've always done it, even when I didn't have the money to do it because it didn't come through until 2008, even back in 1993, when I opened my first one, we used to donate our time, cutting for the junior blind, doing all different tears. You do what you can with it's your time, your money or resources. Everybody can do something and if everybody did do something, it would be a much better world. Yeah. Okay, I agree last night. What'S next, oh I mean you've done all these amazing things. What'S next for Chaz Dean? Well, we are opening a location in New York and they've been asking for ever forever and I tried a couple of years ago, but with QVC and everything that was going on. I couldn't stretch that thin, but it was gon na be a full spot so forth, but this is going to be a retail space and a long space in Greenwich Village, which is amazing. I'M really excited and they're really excited. I purchased my space almost three years ago: it's in a landmark building, so it's taken a lot of time, so I'm hoping that by next summer it's open, but I'm really excited about that because I love coming to New York to live there. It would be a lot cooler, I need nature and all that around me like close by, but it really inspires me. You get off the plane or, however, you get there and just so much around here that it's really inspiring. So I'm excited about that, because the next step that'd be awesome. Well, when you do the opening, I want to be there. No one says that I'm hoping for June, I'm hoping for a June of 2019, because my this is crazy. You know my number 613 is my mom's birthday. I also have a product by 6:13 spirit became a part of I open. My salon in Hollywood, but also 6:13 happens to be my lot number, I'm not joking. The lot number in the city of Manhattan, that's great. I see on the planets from that's crazy. 85. It'S a lot number 613 can't make it happen, so I'm hoping to open. You want to hear something: no 2019, crazy. So at leap we talked about being a tenth act like a ten-block like attend talkback attend when we sold my company discus dental. We sold it on 10, 10, 10 at 10 a.m. October 10th. Ok, so your thousand and ten and I got the merger government's at 9:00 in the morning - I wait till exactly 10:00 signed it and we sold it at 10:00 a.m. chanty. Thank you so much you're the best thanks so much next week we will have another great meet the mentor till then dr. bill over and out