LEO (Full Movie)

Summary

Leo Passage, a luminary in the hairdressing and education world, transformed lives and reshaped the beauty industry. His journey from a small European town to becoming an international icon is inspiring. Known for his groundbreaking pivot point education system, Leo empowered countless stylists worldwide, fostering creativity and excellence. His life story is a testament to passion, resilience, and a profound desire to uplift others, transcending continents and cultures to make a lasting impact in the world he loved so dearly.

Highlights

• Leo Passage used his hairdressing skills to bridge cultural gaps across the globe, becoming an international ambassador for creative education. 🌎
• Despite a tumultuous childhood during World War II, Leo cultivated a profound sense of resilience and creativity. ✂️
• He transformed a simple passion for hairdressing into a revolutionary educational system that's still influential today. 📚
• Leo's tale is one of not just personal success, but about upliftment and empowerment of countless others. 🤝
• Pivot Point, under Leo's leadership, became a cornerstone for modern hair design education, marrying art with precision. 🎨

Key Takeaways

• Leo Passage revolutionized hairdressing education with his innovative Pivot Point system, impacting millions worldwide. 💇‍♂️
• Despite facing numerous personal and professional challenges, Leo's passion and resilience steered him to global success. 🌍
• Leo's legacy extends beyond hairdressing, touching lives with his commitment to education and creativity. ✨
• His journey underscores the importance of following one's passion and breaking boundaries in creative fields. 🚀
• Leo's ability to turn obstacles into opportunities is a lesson in perseverance and vision. 🌟

Overview

Leo Passage wasn't just a hairdresser; he was a visionary who saw beyond trends and styles to the very essence of design. His journey from the Netherlands to launching Pivot Point International in the United States is a story of passion meeting opportunity. He started by honing his skills in Europe, entering competitions, and quickly became known for his unique approach to hair styling.

Leo faced numerous hardships, from a disrupted childhood due to war to the challenges of moving across continents. However, his unwavering commitment to his craft and belief in education as a transformative tool drove him to create a system that went beyond traditional boundaries. Through Pivot Point, he formalized hair design education, focusing on creativity and precision, which enabled students worldwide to think and design like true artists.

With his life's work, Leo positively influenced millions, creating a legacy that continues to thrive and inspire in the hair and beauty industry. His story is not just about styling hair, but about crafting an educational legacy that empowers people to embrace their creativity, no matter where they come from. His ethos of sharing knowledge and nurturing talent remains the cornerstone of hair education globally.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 18:00: Introduction and Early Life The chapter titled 'Introduction and Early Life' provides an overview of the initial stages of the individual's life, emphasizing their humble beginnings. Despite achieving success, the person remains grounded and maintains a simple lifestyle.[Music] signifies the presence of music in the transcript, suggesting it might play a role in the individual's early experiences or personal journey. The chapter sets the stage for understanding how these early life experiences and characteristics influenced their path to success.
• 18:00 - 42:00: Challenges and Resilience during War The chapter titled 'Challenges and Resilience during War' discusses an individual's journey and adaptability during wartime. Initially working as a hairdresser, the individual demonstrates the ability to pivot and adapt to new situations, highlighting themes of resilience and versatility.
• 42:00 - 66:00: Discovering Passion for Hair Design In this chapter, we are introduced to Leia, a hairdresser who was not only embraced and loved by people but also considered exceptionally gifted. The narrative captures Leia's unique abilities, likening his intelligence to having a 200 IQ brain and hands with a 500 IQ. These attributes paint a picture of Leia as a remarkably talented individual, with the suggestion that his long fingers could have made him an excellent pianist as well.
• 66:00 - 90:00: Immigration to America and Career Development The chapter discusses the journey of immigration to America and the subsequent career development of individuals with exceptional skills. One such individual, possibly a surgeon or a hairdresser, is highlighted for having unparalleled artistic talent. This person's unique ability to structure knowledge has made education accessible to countless students globally. The narrative emphasizes the impact of a 'master teacher' who revolutionized an educational field, laying foundations unlike those taught in conventional institutions and ultimately transforming the industry and the world.
• 90:00 - 114:00: Establishing Pivot Point International The chapter focuses on the achievements of graduates who have been part of Pivot Point International. These graduates have made significant impacts in various fields, including Hollywood and Broadway. They have started schools and companies, excelled in education, and attained considerable success. Some have worked with and become celebrities, contributing creatively across different domains.
• 114:00 - 138:00: Global Expansion and Educational Philosophy The chapter discusses the global impact and educational philosophy of an influential figure named Leo, whose graduates demonstrate his unique creative styles in beauty shows worldwide. Leo's influence extends across numerous individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• 138:00 - 162:00: Personal Reflections and Legacy This chapter delves into the universal impact of a transformative training system introduced 50 years ago, which has influenced people worldwide across all professions, cultures, and regions.

LEO (Full Movie) Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] and almost this success layer always stayed a simple guy
• 00:30 - 01:00 he started was a hairdresser he didn't have to be he could go anywhere and do anything
• 01:00 - 01:30 people loved him and and embraced him and wanted him to join them he wasn't just a hairdresser I personally always felt that Leia was particularly gifted from our Lord that his brain had a 200 IQ and his hand had a 500 IQ era hands with long fingers this man could have been a pianist he could have
• 01:30 - 02:00 been a surgeon oh he could have been a hairdresser I've never seen artistic raw material like that he could lay it out in such a way that it is available for hundreds of thousands of students from all over the world what is the master teacher it wasn't taught the way lay over college he changed an industry leo changed the world
• 02:00 - 02:30 if you look at his graduates you'll say they've been in Hollywood they've been on Broadway they've started schools they've started companies they've been educators they've been so successful in so many different ways people who have worked with celebrities and become celebrities themselves they've created
• 02:30 - 03:00 products creative styles his graduates speak for him go to a beauty show in any given time in any part of the world and if you look you will recognize the impact Leo has had on people its millions and millions of people they come from all backgrounds
• 03:00 - 03:30 all walks of life all cultures all geographies what they all share is the system and solid training that 50 years ago changed this industry amongst the
• 03:30 - 04:00 population of professional hairdressers he is not only the Omega the zenith of our industry it's Leo's vision the became pivot point it's the core of the industry everyone knows Julio Sanchez because he affected hairdressers across
• 04:00 - 04:30 the world [Music] I think the longer-lasting larger legacy is the impact he's had on individuals on their families and on their communities and I think that's a really important thing to keep in mind just found port in the salons are to our communities any town you go to is going to have lots and lots of salons and if you aggregate that and think about in the larger sense there are a million stylists out there and each one of those Styles is seeing lots and lots of people
• 04:30 - 05:00 that you can actually do in Islam his approach to education in life touches millions and millions of people people who didn't have an opportunity to go to college perhaps people who really didn't have a lot of opportunities and choices he's given people an opportunity to earn honest livelihood to have a sense of pride and to really touch the people around I'm gonna be part of the economy it was never about the money for my
• 05:00 - 05:30 father it was far more important to him that people took this wonderful education that he was able to develop and make something of their lives you know that was really his primary goal in life it's always been about pure passion for him and about sharing everything that he can possibly share and so again for me it comes back to who is this man really I don't think he could fully realize
• 05:30 - 06:00 what it all meant [Music] he always had stories to tell I don't think you've really realized how different events had such an impact on his life it was important beyond the hairdressing world it was about creativity and a creative ability to adapt if necessary about stretching the
• 06:00 - 06:30 boundaries of what was possible it was about doing what he loved to do having an opportunity to express his passion and just giving other people the opportunity to do the same [Music] and life we start here and we end there all we do in between makes the difference I was born in the Netherlands
• 06:30 - 07:00 and March 21 1936 after three weeks my father moves to Belgium 15 kilometres away that was small town named Hammond that was the place where Leo Amador robbed in the area where are we born we ariza was more farmlands Hartman's was important crossroads in that small town
• 07:00 - 07:30 the railroad was really important connection for Germany to Antwerp through Belgium to the Netherlands traveling to Islands the influence from my mother to Leo was really important she never say no she never complained she always ready to help you and everybody and when my father have problems with a or me my model stay
• 07:30 - 08:00 always in the middle of us he was a strong disciplinarian my father would tell about how hard he was toward him and his brother in the sense I can understand because he did have this presence and he expected a lot from his boys and he let him know it her father was a hairdresser he was a very proud person if only to thing in his life
• 08:00 - 08:30 that was his family and his barbershop he loved his barbershop that was the place to be my grandfather worked seven days a week in fact he never took a vacation he was always working from early morning into the evening and even once the barbershop was closed late into the night that's who he was his work was
• 08:30 - 09:00 who he was the barbershop was who he was it was the focal point people would go into the barber shop every week talking about what was going on he did the mayor's hair he did most of the people who lived in that town it was not just a place to go get your hair cut but also to discuss the things that were going on he was very well-respected in the
• 09:00 - 09:30 community my father used to tell me that people would actually go to him and get medical advice he knew everything about everyone and those people had a deep trust in him he strongly believed in a responsibility to the community and eventually he felt it was important enough to basically put his life and his family's life on the line in 1940 we are
• 09:30 - 10:00 propelled in the best circumstances the Germans invaded from two sides across from us was a bakery and remembers being at that bakery looking at the Germans coming through is their horses thanks that can sense this remember very vivid just get going I'm gone my parents
• 10:00 - 10:30 they were scared a lot of my father's and my mother's family we're in concentration camps because of of being picked up German take the people that have to dutch nationality to work in germany slave live games weapons factories so everybody that had to dutch nationality was so scared and run away to the south to reach France once the
• 10:30 - 11:00 Gestapo cross coming looking for my father they were going through the house from room to room my mother was just as pale as it could be my father has come to hide and succeeded to escape and my mother was along with me she was afraid to tell my father my mother thought she was never gonna see him come back it was a very dangerous time while he was in hiding my
• 11:00 - 11:30 grandfather felt it was important to take a stand and join the underground in Belgium the underground what we call the white Brigade if my father would have been caught by the Germans they'd shoot him there was reading no questions asked after six weeks German army had already moved in they needed workers they needed hairdressers my father came back he was very brave and very scared
• 11:30 - 12:00 because my grandfather was the town barber some of his customers were the German soldiers because he spoke and understood German it made it easy for him to find out information that maybe otherwise wouldn't have been available to most others I could feel that anxiety that consignee was around us knowing that my father was in the Underground's at the same time during the daytime he was cutting Germans hair and he could hear from them information that he could
• 12:00 - 12:30 later on tell to the other ones but I know his heart was bouncing every time there were meetings in the house and what they were gonna do next you could feel the tension they were helping to get Jews across the border and into safety I think what my father saw in his father is that my grandfather saw that something was wrong something wasn't right during this time of war the Jewish community was being persecuted in the
• 12:30 - 13:00 worst possible way and despite the fact that my family happens to be Catholic my grandfather saw this happening and realized that it was wrong and you know instead of turning his eyes to it and not doing anything about it he felt it was important enough to take a stand and and and even put his his family and himself at risk in order to help a strong characteristic of my father is that he's very calm and doesn't panic
• 13:00 - 13:30 easily and I think he learned this when he was a small boy his father sort of recruited him to help him with his efforts in the underground and my father used to get on his bike and because he knew all the back roads and areas where he could sort of hide he would lead the Germans chase him and then divert their attention so that the other people who were working in the underground could help get the Jews over to safety that's
• 13:30 - 14:00 what he grew up and he didn't know any better at that point I think it wasn't until he got older that he really realized what danger he was in I think you're born was a certain character and layers character is extremely positive even as a four and a five year old and he wanted to see the world he loved nature I think it willingly helped him during the war he would go into the
• 14:00 - 14:30 woods he would find bird eggs a bird nest and bring little birds that had fallen out and bring him home he would pick wildflowers for his mother that's the thing later was when he when he was a young boy I think spending time out in the woods became an extremely important part of his creativity he saw much more than what other people
• 14:30 - 15:00 saw you can look at nature and see what nature expresses that can be how a branch of a tree our groves or leaf express themselves I [Music] saw the world getting itself this wonderful education that he was having was a very creative one let it was cut
• 15:00 - 15:30 very short during the war [Music] this is war forget about texture forget about color they had black and white two different opposites contrast when you really actually saw people that got killed and you had those Rockets flying over you hear these whistles Wow doing crushing walls and windows see the burning places
• 15:30 - 16:00 that they were and where everything was gone I'll never being at home with my mother and at once we hear this this whistle of this bow just like it was coming right home to our house my father my mother and me on the floor and he put himself right on top of me when the bomb exploded the winds flew out of the house
• 16:00 - 16:30 at that time I was already nine years old so how are you guys very much that war is a dangerous game in the end of the war Leo learned there to have trust of people to share information with people when you live in a small community it's all I have to help each other you need each other it was a dark chapter in the history of Germany total destruction you lose your
• 16:30 - 17:00 home you lose everything we had nothing left people were under the German occupation they have the same condition there was nobody to help them either so they were starving like we were right after the water there was basically no economy left so people had to rebuild themselves the economy was to shatters and everybody that wanted something better and wanted to survive took responsibility for his own future Leo must have had a tremendous inner Drive that was never damaged really by
• 17:00 - 17:30 the war and all the sad circumstances his inner drive to create something new must have been tremendous Leo became quite sickly and so his parents decided to send him to Brussels to lift wishes and an uncle they seemed to have better means and they took care of his health there and then he went to school there as well that's right learn to speak French but now I'm in the big city I'm not more
• 17:30 - 18:00 in a small town and in the big city I just experienced a whole different view of life mr. streetcars and busy people seeing all these beautiful places and men and then back to me Dan at that age to say wow you know there's another world outside my hometown I think here he then knew that he couldn't live in a small town that he needed to be in a bigger city and I think Parcells is what did
• 18:00 - 18:30 that if you just knew he just had to travel the experience of the school and the war I think that shapes why he became the type of personality they became his there is no institution to take care of you and life is full of uncertainties then the only certainty you have is who you are and your own skills in your own attitude above all to making something out of your next day back in the Netherlands about 16 17 years of age my father wanted me to go
• 18:30 - 19:00 on to college she wanted me to be a doctor a lawyer or anything you know how parents are it was an excellent student he don't want to go anymore to school so my father said okay what you're gonna do my dreams was Himalayas Amazon all the exciting places around the world no waste of my father you come in my barber shop and so it started that I had to
• 19:00 - 19:30 apprentice under my father and that was like being in a war zone I mean this is where my father and I did not get along I just hated to assist I'm not into hairdressing at all because the hours of my father put in my father had given me one of these white collar no ropes like you know stiff like a board Oh totally out of my element in
• 19:30 - 20:00 that salon and their smelter lotions pneumonia and all that I about fainted at first this is gonna be murder if I have to stay into that my father was Restless he was always taking off into the woods he'd hop on his bike and travel to towns and even countries he was just always on the move I think that restlessness affected his work in his father's shop we handed him a shaving
• 20:00 - 20:30 brush and he said start putting soap on this person's face Leia would just take off he would have to fear us and sit with just soap on his face and then just take off and and not come back they were work in the barber shop by my father six seven weeks and my father say no way because he was more on the street than in the barber shop he don't like it not at all he saw his father just dredging away cutting cutting cutting there was no interest no feeling of wow this is
• 20:30 - 21:00 something I really want to do he didn't show any autistic impress at all because he never had a chance to do anything of testing then I fought after idea to send him to a good friend of him and he lived in ain't dawn Garvin Hunter was his name my father used to always tell us an apprentice is only as good as they appear to be the key is finding someone that will actually mentor you and actually teach you something and I could see in that I could do creative stuff
• 21:00 - 21:30 and I didn't know at that time that I had that in me to to be seeing things in a different way he apprenticed and actually started working on ladies versus men sometimes you don't know yourself what's hidden in you until somebody brings it out in the hairdressing community there's a lot more involved to just cutting hair there's design here there's coloring hair there's perming hair which typically barbers didn't do govern on trapper was president for the
• 21:30 - 22:00 hairdresser's Federation he was organized in groups and we would go to different towns and competitions in hairdressing he wanted me to compete right away but I didn't know anything about competition what's her competition about it's a competition evening of sports but this really was to expand your horizon if you will to stretch out and let your imagination go to work to create a
• 22:00 - 22:30 hairstyle that was better than the next hairdresser that was better executed it has to be such meticulous work every square inch on your head is part of the design you competed against a hundred 150 different hairdressers the churches they usually have been successful hair stylists who thought along the same lines who appreciate a detail work competition was a very important element
• 22:30 - 23:00 of my career and my life and my boss he took me to these competitions and I had to learn it by myself because I didn't have a trainer so my eyes fell the trainer and then my to work out it is but make me damn see the first competition I did I didn't even come close the fifth one I think it was about halfway there it took eight competitions before I
• 23:00 - 23:30 finally got an award in competition when he got in to the beauty field he didn't have a talent he developed the talent if you have a strong desire and you see what others can do that you could do too but boy you have to work at it that's made the strongest impact why I fell in love in being a creative hair designer he always was an extreme extreme shy
• 23:30 - 24:00 person when he was working in the salon he always made a joke he always said I had the most beautiful backs on the clients hair because I would always hide behind the clients head and I would work on the back so that they couldn't see my face he didn't have confidence until he started competition styling and he became so good at it later on from Holland I was able to start travelling to Germany to Austria to France to Switzerland and I was starting to get
• 24:00 - 24:30 into international competitions and World Championships competitions I so fabulous working and he got good at it he won every award imaginable he had a feel for what they needed and for what looked good after the war they needed beauty in Europe the desire to see more joy and prettiness which there was not much prettiness because it was poor
• 24:30 - 25:00 there was basically no fashion because it was money the harder times became then the woman definitely wanted that moral uplift of a hairdo it's not that they would not go to the hairdresser anymore as a matter of fact I think they went in spite of things people would come to the salon and bring a towel and bring a piece of wood so that it could be heated
• 25:00 - 25:30 it was obvious that the desire for beauty was there was always there Malaya walked into my life he had made a wonderful name for himself through competitions my mother was the oldest of three girls I think my mother always had a strong sense about fashion and beauty and those things were always really important to her she got her first job the receptionist for the salon was a
• 25:30 - 26:00 five-star salon was top salon in the whole area about three months before he came the bus was going around that many of the book had hired a hairstylist by the name of Lee oppa Sasha as time went on people kept talking and talking about and I couldn't wait to meet Lee a massage the big layoff massage and I'll never forget he walks in and I take one look at him and then my ice
• 26:00 - 26:30 went to his hands and I thought they were the most beautiful hands I've ever seen they were hands with long fingers Cheers back perception is a salesperson it was very young 14 but she looked fabulous for 14 when he started doing clients he did hair like you wouldn't believe it was absolutely fantastic he made little ladies look 15 years younger he
• 26:30 - 27:00 made young girls if they wanted to look a little older he just had a way of making people feel good about themselves Leo had a very kind and sweet personality he got along with people and he had a way of styling hair that before you knew it everybody wanted to be styled by Leo she loved working in the salon then when she met my father it was an
• 27:00 - 27:30 opportunity for her to explore even further those things that she loved fashion and hair and makeup they've started their love affair because of of my competition and winnings I could do the better clients that came in there and my boss was really pushing me hard in that salon do you wanted me to compete right wait Leo was here for about in the salon about six months he had a steady model that he used for competitions she couldn't make it this is where Laney
• 27:30 - 28:00 came in I have got to tell you I mean my hair just swell I couldn't believe it that leopa saj asked me to model for him she had big black hair nice nice hair but at that time when we were doing competition we bleached hair to a pale peach color sugar sponge hair it'll be very light because that's how you could see a beautiful style you did not see details on dark hair they were fine with
• 28:00 - 28:30 me to do this but there was no way I thought my mother for sure was going to agree to this she said what you mean how beautiful black hair you're gonna bleach it out it's just I promise you when I come back after the competition she gets [ __ ] black hair again no problem we had about a week I think to get my hair light every day we bleached and we bleached and we bleed and it just didn't want to lighten up enough because of the dark yet all this pigment in the hair I
• 28:30 - 29:00 remember going home that night and my mother I think she just couldn't believe it so we went to it like the next day and we went to that competition and there were several hundred people in the competition and I know we placed sixth place which was fantastic was very good and then finally I had to haier haier back to black that came out a little greenish and my mother law was
• 29:00 - 29:30 absolutely just very upset it was such a drama we didn't talk for six weeks because now she was so proud of from here now she didn't have here that's all breaking off really before you knew it my hair was back to to manageable and was back to good and here thank God goes so no big harm was done and from there anything lay you wanted to do you want to be on my hair you want to number hair to go for it do it you know as long as you do a good
• 29:30 - 30:00 job perfect we made up no later on she became my model in many competitions we went to Vienna we went to Germany we went everywhere about German competition the Holland's are competitions I personally never travelled before but when I met Leo Leo always had this restlessness I learned to love travelling through him as well we did many competitions just about every weekend we would be going somewhere and of course not having a car
• 30:00 - 30:30 either by bus or we went by train this one competition on a member was in Germany we took one bite he hold the bike and I was sitting on the backseat with my little suitcase and of course at the time the dresses were big and fluffy was too big petticoats and so I remember being on that bicycle with my big petticoat on my lap and my little suitcase all packed and we made it she
• 30:30 - 31:00 and my father were just a great love story an amazing match between the two of them she complimented him and he complimented her there's sort of the yin and the yang which works really well for them although it sometimes leaves a little wreckage next big competition which was an international competition was called to Golden Tulip we ran and she would help me so she would do the front while I was doing the last hour and she was picking me I remember that
• 31:00 - 31:30 we were both on edge getting in more and more nervous and he said be quiet be quiet and I was very very nervous myself I had my tempo there she had her temper then the aggressor has to leave the model stays on the platform for the judges to come and judge that before the next style gets redone again and again the judges had done their work and then
• 31:30 - 32:00 the Heather was supposed to come back again I didn't show up and I'm thinking he wouldn't do that he couldn't do that to me and I'm waiting and I'm waiting started I'm sitting there and I'm thinking now what am I gonna do in a moment I got up I got an applause from the audience they all knew what had gone on I could have killed it but the beauty of competition is only what you see when you're sitting on the stage and when the hair that I
• 32:00 - 32:30 saw - your hair and it's all very beautiful and it's perfect I remember that hours and hours we practiced and it was always in my parents kitchen of course you can imagine what happened to my mother's kitchen with all the colours and the hair she had hair everywhere that I was old and cold I hear that they used for hair pieces she had and go ahead everywhere and she said to Leo one of these days I cannot take this anymore you're gonna have to go
• 32:30 - 33:00 somewhere else oh come on mom and you could call my mom mom mom I love you let me do the hairstyling it's important for future and she said melter then she said okay go ahead I think during those years that he was on the competition circuit it sort of was his exploratory years so he spent that time sort of stretching the boundaries of what was possible but what he knew at the end of the day was that in order to continue to be successful it wasn't about the ego it
• 33:00 - 33:30 wasn't about who leopa saj was he knew back then that it has to start with the the foundation of being a very grounded relationship he really found that with my mother he and my mother had a deep deep trust between each other with that they knew that anything was possible so as time went on and Leo and I became more serious we talked Mavic Leo's father decided
• 33:30 - 34:00 that it would be a good thing for us to move to Belgium so that Leo could work full-time in his father salon I think layer started realizing that if he were to do that that would really be the end of his traveling what happened was in the German trade magazines Leo saw that people from the United States wanted to have European addresses as they were supposedly very professional and their job layer decided Chicago it
• 34:00 - 34:30 was good that we came to Chicago because we're in the middle of the country Metro as being very Americans friendly the old way to play Andre his future boss sent back within three months I want you to be here he wasn't gonna leave me behind so we would have to be married so I could be on his visa the big question became what are we going to do with our parents we told him we have changed our minds we are going
• 34:30 - 35:00 to emigrate to America at that point Leo's father absolutely lost it my father wanted me to come back to the hometown to take over the business and then my father kind of got into it and he said listen if that's what the kids want to do I think I support him because that's their future it's their life for them America bus will never see him again to go to America at Ted time in the 50s
• 35:00 - 35:30 meant you didn't just get on an airplane you had to take a boat you left and you most probably never came back being young and in love to us it didn't matter as long as we were together and we could go to the States we didn't really consider what we did to our parents it was probably very very selfish Leah father I think here he then knew that
• 35:30 - 36:00 layer couldn't live in a small town that he needed to be in a bigger city [Music] Leo still air disaster sness he cannot sit still in one place he needs to go he needs to see people he needs to go places he needs to see new things we took the boat from Rotterdam and November 1958 and it's going to be a
• 36:00 - 36:30 seven-day trip to get to New York City but the storms were so awful that lasted nine days leah was one of five people that did not get seasick even the help was seasick I mean I was seasick we hadn't even left the harbor of a lot of them I was seasick my father came to this country with $75
• 36:30 - 37:00 in his pocket from New York was TWA we are I find me in this snowy city and here my boss beyond rihanna's five boots heavy clothes on it you know like did I land on the North Pole he you think you know pl3 Google Jean was the name of the employer he was a shrewd businessman he recognized that the European address is
• 37:00 - 37:30 at that time were far superior to the American we had that certain ambience he felt if you had an accent and you came from Europe the ladies feel like it's you know and that would be a good presence by itself and he was right about that I met Leo in 58 we used to work for the same company except he worked in
• 37:30 - 38:00 Evanston I was in Highland Park and we actually met as the employer had a Christmas party and I was the only one who had a car and he was asking me if I could drive layer and leaned it to the Christmas party and that's how the whole romance started we just became friends because we were young immigrants and we spoke sort of the same language and we liked each other we danced we would go to other little nightclubs and hang out every Saturday night when you look at at
• 38:00 - 38:30 the statistics of people who left in northern Europe in Europe between 1950 in 1960 s all that same type of a person basically that strive of being someplace was different not fearful my whole generation at that time rejected what happened during Hitler and lost war so to speak put a great Paul on our
• 38:30 - 39:00 ideology or enthusiasm about Germany as kids who all went through three years of apprenticeship and hard core based training as young 13 and 14 year old kids we had a lot of Drive we were too far down and the the uplift was just not fast enough and here's America all that promise you can make it in America all that so it
• 39:00 - 39:30 was our dream and we pursued that one for us it was relatively easy to establish ourselves here who we we're superstars coming from Europe because we had a much better education than what the American schools were offering I personally felt that I was pretty average hairdresser good hair was about an average hairdresser good training good basics kindness politeness skills good enough to make everybody happy you
• 39:30 - 40:00 must understand that when Leo came over here he was already a champion in his own right in Europe he was way ahead of everybody I must say my boss was smart enough to advertise me really the European champion he had 95 awards and so I got quickly clients coming and I started to work as soon I could get into that salon all six days he had absolutely no hangups
• 40:00 - 40:30 he was never negative he didn't come across like he was any more genius than we were didn't very modest was in six months to the first year I was able to do 40 lines a day I just had them lined up and sometimes they were for four weeks waiting on appointments to it to get in I have all his clients for two years I built up at two assistants and the army calls me in because one of the
• 40:30 - 41:00 things when you came to America you get a green card when I called Sam calls you you go in I was to go over Haines in boot camp in Georgia on Monday I went to the doctor for a physical and I found out that I was expecting so I said to my doctor in my broken English what am I going to do when he says go to the draught and maybe he will
• 41:00 - 41:30 get out of it this is Thursday Friday I was on my last customers doing this as you know I'll see you when I come back and thank you know that but I was really down down my wife walks in the salon on this busy day and I said play out to us let me talk to you said I'm busy just please leave me not you know talk later you can't can't wait he said no I think you want to hear that what is it I said
• 41:30 - 42:00 maybe you don't have to go in the army what do you mean you don't have to cover Monday it's postponed but what does that mean postponed but sport means you don't have to go Monday why I'm pregnant that changed his story you know so here all of this at the last minute she's pregnant our son Robert kept him out of the army I had the feeling at that time of course
• 42:00 - 42:30 neither one of us knew what's gonna happen in the future but he always had that dream of progressing I want to compete in Italy because that helped me in Europe be to the Greyhound bus from Chicago to Detroit it was a two-day competition so like 200 competitors but only 25 would do the second day they didn't know what to do with this work because it was so excellent they
• 42:30 - 43:00 couldn't give him the first prize because he was not in a quote trend and trend at their time meant one particular yes had to be followed through and he did something fabulous and wonderful and I couldn't do anything with him we won I think third place or something like that he caught on very quickly and then he adjusted to the Train and then it was up and running back in Germany I went to
• 43:00 - 43:30 those international competitions to watch as a fish I could do that but where do you learn that you know nobody was really teaching there Leo said I need somebody to drive me if you wanna drive me and I teach you how to do competition work I think there was a lot of camaraderie in the competition world there were a lot of other immigrants that he met early on in his career that came from similar backgrounds he
• 43:30 - 44:00 actually created a club where these competitors would travel together from competition to competition share ideas and help each other to become better we had a weekly meeting where I read life models when we would do a bottle then we would take a picture slide of it we were projected against a white wall and then I would draw for them what is fun and I will take that silhouette on
• 44:00 - 44:30 front backed up inside and shut the light off so you only could see an outline just like a sketch what is the form and then we would put the light back in and whatever they designed inside or I designed inside movements of texture of color then I would go into details and and draw the next component part was in that form Leo was basically training a little group of us and thank God he did
• 44:30 - 45:00 that because I learned a lot about advanced hair styling his vision of the profession was way above what I was used to he awakened and us the competitive spirit we entered competition and we did very well as a group from Chicago we sort of called ourselves facetiously the club artistic of Chicago vol 3 never
• 45:00 - 45:30 regretted - a competition ly always at the first price and the rest of our city is second or third who also ran if not always on the top my father was very talented and he rose to the top very quickly because of that success people gravitated to him because they wanted to learn from someone that had been so successful himself my partner who was also in the pier on Theresa la France Wagner was his name he and I started
• 45:30 - 46:00 salon and Glencoe emelius we started out so loud there all these competitors I wanted to have training we are coming to us Palm Sunday to absalom so during the week we building up this clientele we have all of us part it was a bombing Slough at the same time on weekends here we teach he knew what he was talking about he was giving you a silent you know if he said this is not right it
• 46:00 - 46:30 wasn't right but he didn't just criticize he showed you how we could improve what else could be done where is division in the hairstyles first time this idea of designing came into being we were following a new course in education he wanted to teach people to sort of spread that knowledge and the
• 46:30 - 47:00 passion and joy for the industry he wanted to have that go further than just what he could produce with his own hands what he wanted to teach was how to create predictable hair designs there was a time when he was doing a competition and my mother was the model he had spent many many many hours preparing a hairpiece the hairpiece in this particular category was extremely important and it was the one thing that could be done ahead of time he had put
• 47:00 - 47:30 it in a box and my mother had it on her lap I'm sitting there and he's taken the piece out of his office box and at one point I heard he went in to take the hairpiece out of the box and was then gonna put it place it strategically on her head then he said I just dropped my hairpiece I said pick it up pick it up and don't pretend it didn't happen don't even think about it I mean my
• 47:30 - 48:00 heart went into my throat I couldn't imagine the work that had gotten into it and I couldn't see the hairpiece so I didn't know how damaged it was because of his skill he was able to then take that hairpiece put it on her head and create something different I remember people clapping when he was done they just clapped because to have this happen they were all hair stylists that were in competition so they all
• 48:00 - 48:30 knew the work that had gotten into this and if something like that happened and to make the best out of it and make it probably even prettier than it was before definitely deserved a round of applause and I think that's really what my father could do he could produce what he intended but he also had the creative ability to adapt if necessary I think at the end of it he still was thinking in the back of his mind well then how can I
• 48:30 - 49:00 make that teachable to others or to myself how can I take that information and be able to do it again so it's not just a fluke that I did it this time he wanted to better articulate what he was experiencing and imagining especially because English was in his first language he didn't have a background in teaching he realized that there must be a better way or an easier way so he spent time at the Art Institute here in Chicago learning about different art forms Leo said to almond
• 49:00 - 49:30 I'm gonna go to the Art Institute because he always had this vision with forms and the shapes we need to know more about design more about art the two of them would then go once or twice a week to Chicago and take classes I got really involved in the Bauhaus who influenced me mostly it was Paul Klee who very much knew how to break down the design applied design into mathematics
• 49:30 - 50:00 ways of measuring things so that you could analyze a particular design no matter what it was and while johannes itten he was more like a Zen Buddhism he would be able to give you to your internal part because he would involve you to to to neutralize yourself so all your thoughts away and I'm bringing back I want you to draw a lion he would say you know but before you're gonna draw a
• 50:00 - 50:30 lion I want you to be a lion and he would have his students just express themselves lions different roaring different things like that and he got the emotion back going and then he says now put it on paper so each one had a different expression and this is what design is all about you it's not being a robot of copying things and so so it influenced me a lot of device and how that you achieve a sensitivity to design
• 50:30 - 51:00 and then learn about design we have to sensitize these young people about applied arts and how it relates not just a head but everything about them you go in metropolitan cities you see around that but even more basic is nature you can look at nature and see what nature expresses it can be how a branch of a tree how it grows or leaf or you see how the water runs or how stone so water has
• 51:00 - 51:30 chains or sand of a desert all of these are expressions and has design elements that particular the Bauhaus was constantly relating to and that's what we tried to do and bring young young future designers into the world of design and make them creative not robots that house was actually applied to many different crafts in Europe and there was a language already there that he could apply to the craft of hairdressing the
• 51:30 - 52:00 Bauhaus read the most logical sense for me I used the design of terminology I used in an analysis that was proven already by these girls and to me but all logical sense just put everything back together I was able to share that with my peers and in competition where we were challenged that even more it became very exciting those feelings that if education is done well anyone can
• 52:00 - 52:30 understand whatever of the five senses that the using order to get the education by 1962 we opened our first school in Chicago and border of Chicago in Evanston Howard Street and Clark five students the same time we were importing wigs being from Europe I knew the quality of wigs and in half pieces of competition I knew the
• 52:30 - 53:00 real fine materials when pivot point started going he didn't have that opportunity anymore to teach except for weekend competition teaching still had the salon having this during the imports doing the extra planning doing the shows platform work and all that at the time I was working like crazy it became too much he was constantly under pressure the pressure was so hard
• 53:00 - 53:30 that at one point we were afraid he was going to have a nervous breakdown because of the hours he put in was just too much I had not enough time as my family had been from my wife but not of success she balanced it out no they don't I was able to pull it back together you know he was a artist and for him to all of a sudden be a businessman was very difficult for him he just didn't care for that I think that he got a much more pleasure in
• 53:30 - 54:00 helping a fellow hairdresser becoming someone and succeeding that was a transition in his life he made the decision that standing behind that chair wasn't something that he wanted to do any longer but rather he wanted to teach he had too much knowledge to leave it behind the chair Leo was very much from the generation that you couldn't you could make and shape the world driven by how he grew up after after the war when so much of institutions weren't in place
• 54:00 - 54:30 anymore I think he's always had this attitude that you can in fact make a shape not only your own future but you can also make and shape institutions and you are really convinced of it you can go into a country and you can create something from scratch well insisted that we use language that was universal in the early days we had lots of incredible people who were working for the company and when you learn something that works it becomes your own vocabulary we got more school
• 54:30 - 55:00 people coming to us and they said you need a book sorry sake we do a book and we call it on trade to have life we need answers some visuals filmstrips overheads we need answers and lesson plans we need a curriculum but also we need to have our staff trained so within 62 to 65 we started to actually become this educational publishing group and when we started the school bus cause of
• 55:00 - 55:30 France nao they're my friends left me one of the government to a different direction and that one became 50 points Leo is really instrumental in the whole philosophy that a hair designer is a designer not just to elevate the profession but to really make the student think put the end in mind before you begin just like a architect does a blueprint everything starts from a point
• 55:30 - 56:00 multiple points make a line a line that you connect to another line makes a shape a shape becomes two-dimensional the shape becomes three dimension what article six of the key forms of a circle of a square of a triangle how do these two dimensional three dimensional
• 56:00 - 56:30 form relate to form a jungle how do they relate to shapes of movements of its high angle circle or combinations of those how do they down data um relate to color so the whole concept was to take that systematic approach of thinking and be able to explain to break it back down and the whys and in the beginning we
• 56:30 - 57:00 called the point of origin then we call it the pivot point system they had heard Leo speak at different shows and you knew that he was different he knew that he had a gift I met Leo in 1966 in a hairdressing show in Rochester New York I went up to speak to him after his two-and-a-half hour
• 57:00 - 57:30 class and he invited me to have lunch I learned more and two and a half hours about what I was doing then I had in the whole eight years that I was in the salon when I decided to approach Leo and say Leo I am a good hairdresser I love what I do but I idolize you I'd love what you do I'd love what I saw you do on stage how can I learn some of that I realize that
• 57:30 - 58:00 everything that I did was guesswork and that was the thing that really impressed me to the point where I had to go to Chicago for further training I get the impression from Leo that what's mine is ours and it's mine to share and it will make you a better person Mario it will make you a better hairdresser Mario and maybe Mario someday you can share that with somebody else I was used to make
• 58:00 - 58:30 things by common sense not because I knew what the results were me as a young hairdresser I I had a vision of what I wanted to to have something to look like did not have a system I saw mr. Prasad competing in New York you know my god I wish I can do that when he finished and he took to us about oh pretty soon I'm
• 58:30 - 59:00 gonna have this program maybe plural we could can have her he said I have a place in Howard Street it's called pivot point come and see me he says you can come and practice here anytime you want and I did and then Leo asked me if I would do some classes if I would be part of his team I said oh my god leo that'll be my dream but I I cannot express so well in
• 59:00 - 59:30 English and he looked at me and he said that would be no problem you can do it remember that hairdressing is like love you don't have to talk to be understood Leo was truly a visionary in the sense of creating the future for the industry creating that roadmap that you could get
• 59:30 - 60:00 to the result that you were looking for it happens to having a team of devoted people we really knew it was the right thing felt right about you love to do it love to educate people on the hows and whys of disappoint there really hasn't been anybody else individual or a group or company that's been able to emulate that because there's been so many people that have added input into creating a in
• 60:00 - 60:30 developing an absolutely foolproof system to teach people hairdressing that certainly it wasn't always an important thing to him to be able to create educational materials that could be taught and understood by anyone leo says this is gonna be the results and there they were right away he wanted an educational system that anybody could teach and learn despite was delivering
• 60:30 - 61:00 the education that is truly a revolution if you will in the beauty industry it did not exist before Third Point navigated us to and throw the hair styie for beautiful end result that was truly vision of Leah visage during that period in the 60s and 70s I bought all those famous gurus from my industry from your
• 61:00 - 61:30 particular World Championships European Championships to this country he would work hard but at the same time you know he had a family growing up we constantly had people staying at her house coming to her house people from all over the world and at the time I didn't know that these were superstars in our industry and you know world class competitors it was just sort of part of our family life I think probably that was a big part of the excitement for my
• 61:30 - 62:00 mom to why she continued to you know work with my dad and model and all that was you know the people she was meeting and the places they were going it was a really exciting time we were working hard but I've got to run home and I've got to put the children to bed hairdressing was vitally important to him but I think his family came first ego was never any part of my father's being he's just not that type of person it was always about the education it was
• 62:00 - 62:30 always about the people that he was able to nurture I equated to developing disciples who would go out and teach the pivot point word one of my first licensed member schools were in Puerto Rico in the 60s I start working with needlepoint and learning all the techniques and all the program I kept competing but then I kept winning and winning and winning
• 62:30 - 63:00 I was so big for the Puritan people and I start climbing the comparators with the program and they will start winning to lioska okay you haven't been in you competed you wanna go I take care but if you win then you work my field what I told my husband and he said he should do it and I did and I won in
• 63:00 - 63:30 Belgium and then from there on I was only training you know more competition mmm I start travelling with people point first around United States and international Japan and Europe and one day she came home and said you know Leo told me if you want to be a distributable to the point if they looking for the children and then my husband started distributing people thought all over the Caribbean all Latin
• 63:30 - 64:00 American so with the people the program and the techniques I merely after English's the first time situation pretty much greeted was Spanish the Puerto Rican played a bigger role in the early stages to connect to the language from their Dominican public to Mexico to Argentina they serious and a major league event either in New York sit here on some run and people from
• 64:00 - 64:30 South America would go they say okay can we have this umbrella Zarrella good at Khan Academy a dozen even Ecuador in Brazil and San Paulo can we have in Santiago Chile and so before you know it evolved itself and through that a platform to really penetrate education deeper and deeper and deeper into the Hispanic market I'm gonna learn about the world I want to see the world that adventurousness in
• 64:30 - 65:00 me you know created and also destroy a city and education gave me the road to do that and find the right people the most important thing is family you don't realize that sometimes to take a lot in a career because you're so involved in that debts you suffer understands of the balancing act we lived in an apartment
• 65:00 - 65:30 for nine years that we only paid $75 while my friends were having big homes because they were putting money into homes when I was putting money in the business my wife would say and how are we gonna buy a house my family lived the top floor of a duplex a small little apartment until I was 6 years old and then we moved to a pretty modest three-bedroom home a few miles away and it's the same home my parents live in
• 65:30 - 66:00 today if your family isn't right doesn't matter what you have their passion was really about having the freedom to move around and to travel and it wasn't important to have this big flashy house and and it was more important to have the ability to get up and go whenever we wanted to my parents believed the best education was had by living life and experiencing things in life and doing
• 66:00 - 66:30 that through travel was an important piece of it he would take a break from work for a week or two and take us on a vacation my father was on the road a lot teaching and working and the way we were able to stay in contact with my dad was to go on the road with him my father bought this rickety old Winnebago that my mother absolutely did not want to have well we were definitely the Beverly Hillbillies when he came to vacationing he thought
• 66:30 - 67:00 that by putting her name on the top of the Winnebago that she would be so thrilled to own this vehicle I can't say she was thrilled our family vacations consistent usually a jumping in the motorhome and traveling to different parts of the country [Music] all of our vacations were tied in with some kind of work that he was doing along the way very much like Sam Waltons locations worrying though I mean the family went with but it was business as
• 67:00 - 67:30 usual what I experienced when I was with my father at shows and at different events in the industry was everybody knew him he was really a celebrity it was fun as a kid we were treated kind of special because you know we were with my father my mother has been a great caretaker for my father over the years they both had their roles she's the wife and the mother the caretaker the homemaker and she loved that role she
• 67:30 - 68:00 plays an important role in raising both myself and my sister you know which gave my father the opportunity to focus on his business my father was the breadwinner and he loved that role there wasn't really any sort of conflict with that they both appreciated the other for doing what they were doing she understood what it took to be successful not that my mother ever worked in the business per se but she played an important role obviously for my father
• 68:00 - 68:30 and his success they've had a lot of fun over the years too they've traveled together I think they have the same sort of morals and philosophy about life the deep important things are similar but sort of the peripheral things are very different so they complement each other a family business that started by a true entrepreneur like my father the company really becomes that person's child and
• 68:30 - 69:00 in the case of a man it's really the only child that he can give birth to and I think in my father's case that's really true pivot point is his real true child in that sense he gave birth to it he nurtured it it wasn't having an opportunity to express his passion and just giving other people the opportunity to do the same I don't know if you know his schedule of
• 69:00 - 69:30 that times because Lanie would tell he would be flying from Hong Kong and Lanie would meet him on the airport with fresh under there and he'll fly to Germany imagine that to have that type of phenomena and sometimes he would come in and he would be beat obviously beat and you start talking about something of interest and it's not just hair you know you could start a conversation about the Galapagos Islands and he was literally
• 69:30 - 70:00 perk up he got this adrenalin shot and I never could figure that out where you got that energy [Music] - Hong Kong really then develop the rest within Indonesia we did Singapore with it Malaysia with it even the Philippines at that time and we started to devolve that that Southeast Asian even Korea started to come into that particular
• 70:00 - 70:30 time we had to do it in their languages but we adapted to that market we were also the very first ones to be invited into China has from our industry that was in 79 President Carter at that time had met arrangement so my international team from Europe from Asia from Australia from United States we their tour was called a technical tour of in China now think about 79 destroyed after the Cultural Revolution lemon and man
• 70:30 - 71:00 everyone had the same outfit Bremen had just two braids just like everyone who likes Equalization I read that with our flamboyant hair design of steam it was such a total different world actually found out that audience that we were demonstrating had nothing to do as a profession I mean they send in their government people are there
• 71:00 - 71:30 army people and they were all sitting there we wonder why we didn't get any reactions when we were doing all these exciting new hairstyles and calls and things we have to do these makeovers you know that was like a big shock value you know because even right after the show these girls would take it quickly all because they could not it would feel very uncomfortable to be in a society who had forbidden this Manila and Shanghai there was a government salon they were doing perms permanent waves
• 71:30 - 72:00 there were like two blocks of ladies in line waiting to get that perm down so it shows that people wants to beautify themselves of feel different when we saw that to be good see wow the future of this in China that's gonna be something else then we walk into town and it was like hundreds of people behind us just walking behind us like we came from
• 72:00 - 72:30 another planet the way we were dressed away we're look and we did find finally some profession in one town in hyung Han Chao I come in front of a salon looking a hair salon so we look into the window and there is also general there's a white coat from top to bottom like a doctor you know when I started remember I said my first apprentice I had this white coat on and stiff collar here I
• 72:30 - 73:00 see this elderly man teaching a group of other hairdressers in that salon we introduced herself and they were a little bit afraid of sharks you know they were not used to that you know in particular the little gentleman he felt like the mastering without these people during them quickly as a professional you look into each other's eye and be the same so he was cutting here was a sea of this big so he's using shears like that really using shears this big
• 73:00 - 73:30 all different technique in discussion came after getting familiar system which one massage to do a demonstration so I take this little chill out and I started to do the techniques the camaraderie between two different cultures and multiple cultures and just having a common thing open the language by itself
• 73:30 - 74:00 everyone got so excited and later on we invited him in Shanghai for our lecture at least where some of the experience is that it shows you that you can connect to people if you have something in common before in China hairdresser just cut the hair after leopa charge after pivot point come to China we are nothing he'll do is I need the education is hairstyling hair started help you
• 74:00 - 74:30 have better life Leo not only has this uncanny nobility to attract people to him because of his engaging personality but it also this because he has the brain and the educational knowledge base that he shares that is magnetic you want to learn more you want to see what he sees once years ago he asked me you ever thought about becoming a missionary I never thought about becoming a
• 74:30 - 75:00 missionary me no not at all not at all and that I looked at him and I thought he's actually not asking me something he wants to tell me something hasn't he proceeded and he said yeah that's what I wanted to do when I was very young I wanted to be a missionary I wanted to help people and I wanted to travel around the world and that's what the image was that he had of a missionary a drive to empower other people define being globally we sense the needs of
• 75:00 - 75:30 giving back and doing whatever we can and we're fortunate to live in this country where we can do these things and offer so many opportunities serve in the City of Hope or any other charity that we are involved to and it's about people what does education do to them how can you help them and that's who we are that's what we fought about it was always about giving back to people I think that's probably why he spent so much time over the years in poor
• 75:30 - 76:00 countries many third world countries where he wanted to share something that he loved with people that would give them the basic necessities to earn a living my father was diagnosed with a progressive lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis he was told he probably had between 2 and 5 years to live lady owed the type of person he is who doesn't take no fun answer said doctor I have contacts all
• 76:00 - 76:30 over the world where can I go in the doctor said if it if we don't have that nobody has it my father just doesn't give up he contacted a lot of people through his network of friends and business associates deep Marc liner from Sweden new good friend of his who worked at the University of Vienna in Austria and happened to know of a study that was going on on pulmonary fibrosis I said doctor I wanted to go old was this man and he said don't worry you will well
• 76:30 - 77:00 obviously it was very difficult time in our family you never even think about something like that until it happens we went back for the first two years every three months to Vienna the only ones that knew about it was our children it ended up being that a great result came from the tests that he did they now are able to treat it here in the United States and he's actually in the medical books as a success story and part of this fabulous treatment that they discovered where he gets his positive attitude from I don't
• 77:00 - 77:30 know but he always comes across as a typical survivor and deals with new reality in an extremely positive way I had no idea that there was this huge corporation called pivot point it was just where my mother had taken me to get my hair cut when I was a little girl and I fell in love with industry and decided that that's what I wanted to do I went to beauty school and I did very well in my basic trainee and I graduated at the top of my class however I felt like I
• 77:30 - 78:00 needed more I went to beauty school in Japan and at the time I spoke hardly any Japanese so it was always like kind of monkey-see monkey-do I had to copy what everyone was saying before I went to pivot point I actually went to barber school first and you know barber school in the 70s was a pretty uninspiring place one of the educators that Leo had international traveling her name was Emma Ayala she came into our school and when I saw this woman cut hair and design hair and move here I was so inspired I
• 78:00 - 78:30 got to know very good hairdresser he said you have to go see Leo massage if you ever want to work for a company in our industry that's the company you need to work for I said I'm won a gold earn or you were taught she said well you need to go to pivot point in Chicago and you need to go see mr. Leo Passage I said I would love to I'll never forget the first day that I went to view the school I'm from a very small town outside of Chicago and I had never seen
• 78:30 - 79:00 such colorful people in my entire life beautiful mix of European artists commingling with American artists was just awe-inspiring even though I had gone to beauty school for a year it gave me more of a perception being how to get volume and it was the scientific approach to hair when you were taught a certain way to cut and design hair in the time of the 70s and then you married the bridge between pivot point it became so much more clear the language itself
• 79:00 - 79:30 that directs you to create it's it is very very elegant pivot point has put a meaning behind the word and if you open a dictionary and look at it me that's what it relates to the language of pivot point is all around the world Leo did stress not using trend terminology in language make sure that that word that we use our word choice can be translated by a dictionary so that it can be easily
• 79:30 - 80:00 moved into a different language pivot point language is timeless it's very empowering to learn some tools you can see that in young kids when they learn the letters of the alphabet and they can suddenly start spelling word it's not different I think Leo has set out to create the alphabet of hairdressing how it's done and you learn the letters you learn the basics and then simple words more complex word phrases and in the end you write your own novel and then you decide whether you're right romantic novels or action
• 80:00 - 80:30 thrillers but it all starts with the same thing so instead of teaching people haircuts it would teach people just the elements that make up a haircut or as you will the letters that make up a word I think it's like taking the most complex and turning it into simplicity basically what they would be able to do is present a much more consistent approach both internally in their delivery it would link much stronger to the salhan and the commercial OneNote and really what we would end up with is a less confused individual but one that
• 80:30 - 81:00 was undoubtedly a really good hairdresser there are no teachers and podiums we used to gather people from all over the world and we would teach pivot point concepts and we would have students from our own school who were there assisting us now we had teachers from all different backgrounds and once our students saw that the teachers didn't know as much as they knew because they didn't have a strong pivot point background yet it was very enlightening to them when those young designers
• 81:00 - 81:30 learned the philosophy a pivot point it's like a wildfire it just keeps going going going and it's just emerging more and more and more I think people underestimate the learning tool in a pivot point and Leo created the more you learned the pivot point system the more satisfied you were his ability to share his knowledge is so genuine he's so authentic you can see in his eyes he gets a lot of joy from people
• 81:30 - 82:00 learning they always felt if I had something to say I could come to him or if I had to ask him something if it was a hairdo or a fishing line he would show me exactly how to tie that knot and people show you one time and then they go fishing but he was there and got it let's do it that's a teacher I remember when Leo said to me transpose hairdressing is the same job as a doctor because he had to
• 82:00 - 82:30 touch you have to speak you have to think and you have to make people better pivot point today educates more than a hundred thousand people a year the numbers of people that we've educated in the last 50 years you literally can say that we've touched the lives of millions of people not just people that we've taught the craft of hairdressing to but also the clients that come to the people who we've taught it's a language of expression that
• 82:30 - 83:00 relates to design its blades to people and no matter what culture you are it connects he wants all of us to share it and he knows that the students that are in our schools today are the future of the hair design industry [Music] you have to trust Leah visage and if you trust Leo then you're open-minded you
• 83:00 - 83:30 begin to learn sufficiently and enough that then you are going to be able to begin to share that's what Leah Sascha's created pivot pointed that will be handed down from generation to generation to generations and generations to come as a family we've known mr. Prasad and of course his dream and my father's dream was for Kareem and Robert and I to work together as the second generation and as children of the founder you know we have a responsibility to sort of carry on his
• 83:30 - 84:00 legacy and yet find a way to carve our own path and that's really complicated to sort of find that balance between preserving the good things and and the important things and continuing to change and evolve my sister and I didn't have any choice as far as going to beauty school was concerned it was a given it was something that my parents felt was important they always felt like if we got our hairdressing license we'd always have a way to earn a living as
• 84:00 - 84:30 we've developed our families employment policy for future generations one of the prerequisites that is that you have to go to beauty school the influence from my mother when my father is to drive him to work hard and enjoy your work but the drivers to make people happy to make people nicer beautiful Leo Sasha's contagious what he shares with you it
• 84:30 - 85:00 wants to make you shared with someone else Kollek point if you like but it's the opposite he's not gonna teach us pivot point he's gonna share pivot point with us and that's what I really love about the whole it's the core of of the beauty industry this leo's addition the became pivot point and I think that we are all harvesting the fruit from that he was teaching without airs I don't know if I
• 85:00 - 85:30 could have behaved like this with this success many hairdressers have incredible talent in their hands probably as good as leo in his hands but they don't have the brain to put this together any student that knocks on Leo's doors is for him an opportunity to see the magic happen all over again and he spends time with students I think that's what he would prefer doing every single day I think he saw it as a vehicle to allow him to do the things
• 85:30 - 86:00 that he loved to do travel be creative bring groups of people together from all over the world and share ideas the two important pieces that my father wants to preserve in the company because it's just sort of the root of who he is and where he came from one is education my father has a vision that it that pivot point could educate beyond the hairdressing world the other passion that will always be with my father he would love to find a way to see that it
• 86:00 - 86:30 continues to be an important part of what we do is his competition I think because my father knows what it did for him and how it launched this passion in him and it was the beginning of everything for him in this industry he strongly believes that it's the vehicle that people in the future can use to do the same for them as it has done for him I know Leo was happiest when he could teach a lot of people he loved teaching
• 86:30 - 87:00 people what he knew he felt by teaching other people he learned from them as well how do you make people successful and to make them successful is understanding that is not only in the outside but the inside you have to feel good look good sound good and do good [Music]
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