Ep. 135 • Balancing Your Income With Public Health w/ Eric Vaughn @realericvaughn
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Eric Vaughn @realericvaughn talks about the current situation with his salon @revhair and his advice to other stylists who are struggling to make ends meet during this time. He also explains his strategies and mechanisms for continuing his sobriety in a highly social industry.
SHOW NOTES:
• The process of closing his salon & handling the situation with employees
• Suggestions for stylists during this downtime
• How to prepare for reopening
• Advice for stylists in a cash crunch & current stimulus bill requirements
• How to avoid depression during this time
• How he got into hair, his salon, his time on the road, his onstage education
• His battle with alcohol; getting (and staying) sober
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| 0:00.0 | I, for one, always say I don't have time to take a class because I'm so busy either behind |
| 0:05.2 | the chair or teaching classes. Take advantage of the free education. |
| 0:10.1 | Hey, this is Nina Covener with Passion Squared. This is Anthony Pauso's. I'm Jessica Warburton. |
| 0:15.1 | Hey, this is Ryan Weiden. Welcome to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey, Hair Game listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:22.3 | It is Monday, April 6th, and I'm really, really hoping that as you're listening to this, |
| 0:27.4 | you're healthy and you're safe and you're sane as you're spending likely way too much time |
| 0:34.2 | at home with your loved ones, hopefully, or your fur friends. |
| 0:39.3 | Hopefully your sanity is hanging in there, along with the amount of food in your refrigerator |
| 0:45.3 | and of course the amount of toilet paper next to your toilet. |
| 0:49.3 | These are such incredibly weird times. |
| 0:53.3 | You know, part of what lends to the weirdness is that it is pervasive |
| 1:00.2 | throughout the world. We are all going through this together, yet alone in our respective |
| 1:07.8 | apartments and homes in caves. So just to let you know, I've been really busy, Donovan and I have been really busy. |
| 1:15.6 | Everybody at Salon Republic, frankly, has been really busy to make sure that we're putting out content, |
| 1:20.6 | which is valuable and accurate and hopefully a little bit entertaining. |
| 1:25.6 | On Friday, that would be April 3rd. |
| 1:29.3 | We put out an episode about the CARES Act, which is the government stimulus plan. |
| 1:34.6 | That's episode 134. |
| 1:37.7 | You're listening to episode 135 right now. |
| 1:39.7 | So the previous episode 134 is about the CARES Act and what you as a beauty professional can get out of this enormous government stimulus plan as we all sit at home twiddling our thumbs and watching Netflix. |
| 1:56.0 | Hopefully not, of course. Hopefully you are finding some pockets of productivity as you mine |
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