Sep 29, 2026 · 40 min · 10 segments
Lucan Salem talks on family legacy and future plans for the next 50 years of Hari's Hair Salon. In this episode we meet Lucan Salem who recently undertook a journey with his father, Hari. This was no…
Nikki PopeHost
You've inherited something amazing of which you've been seriously been part of anyway in the past years.
But what is the heritage of the brand? What are the sort of signature things that you've inherited that you will be taking forward? How would you...
It's not like a signature style in terms of what we're doing in a hair capacity.
I think what we would take is like the biggest thing for us is our staff, right, and our team.
And I know lots of people say that, but we have got people that have worked for us for 40 years.
That's the longest, right? And then a lot of people who have done 30 and 25 and...
If I was going to think of us as a brand and what we really are, it's something which is warm, something which is welcoming, something which is offering trust, quality, confidence, that kind of thing.
atmosphere like what's so amazing in our salons I'm obviously gonna be a little bit biased I think there's evidence there's proof in the pudding there's proof in the pudding right we're still here 50 years later and it is it's to do with that atmosphere and that buzz yeah and that is something that will stay for sure right that is something that is that's Harry that's his personality that's what he wanted everyone to have that individuality
and that is something that's really powerful and that's that that is never going to change that is Harry's
So the five locations are all in a similar area, sort of in that southwest London? Yeah,
So started in Chelsea back in the day when it was super cool, punk rock, Bob Marley living around the corner, that kind of thing.
You've inherited something amazing of which you've been seriously been part of anyway in the past years.
But what is the heritage of the brand? What are the sort of signature things that you've inherited that you will be taking forward? How would you...
It's not like a signature style in terms of what we're doing in a hair capacity.
I think what we would take is like the biggest thing for us is our staff, right, and our team.
And I know lots of people say that, but we have got people that have worked for us for 40 years.
That's the longest, right? And then a lot of people who have done 30 and 25 and...
If I was going to think of us as a brand and what we really are, it's something which is warm, something which is welcoming, something which is offering trust, quality, confidence, that kind of thing.
atmosphere like what's so amazing in our salons I'm obviously gonna be a little bit biased I think there's evidence there's proof in the pudding there's proof in the pudding right we're still here 50 years later and it is it's to do with that atmosphere and that buzz yeah and that is something that will stay for sure right that is something that is that's Harry that's his personality that's what he wanted everyone to have that individuality
and that is something that's really powerful and that's that that is never going to change that is Harry's
So the five locations are all in a similar area, sort of in that southwest London? Yeah,
So started in Chelsea back in the day when it was super cool, punk rock, Bob Marley living around the corner, that kind of thing.
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