Hairstylist Brad Mondo's Career Evolution and Big Break
Brad Mondo's Journey From Assistant Stylist to YouTube Stardom
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"I was a little bit hesitant about being a hairstylist at first. I wanted to get away and really achieve great things."
It was a dream come true. He immediately began focusing more on content creation. "Everybody who subscribed, I wanted to give them exactly what they wanted — focus a ton, dedicate my whole life, [and] literally not leave my house for six months, and that's what I did."
Hitting a million subscribers on the platform was equally mind-blowing and terrifying. "I was so worried that it was just going to be a quick thing," he says, recalling how it dawned on him that it all could be taken away if YouTube were to disappear. That's when he asked himself: "How can I make this sustainable and really make it into a job rather than just something I do for fun?"
This led him to the idea of launching his own hair line. "That was a way to feel more stable and have something off of social media — something that I could really invest in and build into something that might be more recognisable than myself," Mondo says. It was (and still is) his dream that XMondo Hair become more well-known than he is and "live on its own."