Cosmetology School: "It's Giving Cult"

This week we head to Nashville, Tennessee — where a cosmetology school promising structure, opportunity, and "professionalism" turned out to be something else entirely. Our guest, Sophia, thought she was paying over $20,000 to learn how to do hair. Instead, she walked into a system obsessed with obedience, image, and silence — where being late cost money, smiling was mandatory, and your body, time, and labor were constantly monitored. Add in "motivational" rituals, public humiliation, and unpaid work dressed up as "education," and suddenly this isn't just cosmetology school… it's giving cult.

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Cosmetology School: "It's Giving Cult" is an episode from Was I In A Cult? by PodcastOne.

This episode is 55:37 long.

This episode was published on Dec 19, 2025.

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