Ep. 155 • What the PBA Does For You w/ Steve Sleeper
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Steve Sleeper, Executive Director of the Professional Beauty Association (@probeautyassoc) gives us a rundown on all aspects of the PBA and how it helps you and your fellow hairdressers. We also included an update from him on what the PBA has been doing during the pandemic to assist us.
For more info or to join, visit https://www.probeauty.org/
SHOW NOTES:
• How he got into the beauty industry
• When & why the PBA started
• What the PBA does: gov't affairs – deregulation & license requirements
• What the PBA does: gov't affairs - taxes, labor, wage issues
• PBA expos and shows: what the PBA does to set them up (pre-covid)
• Trends in the industry: product purchasing & digital presence
• Researching and data: having info available for people
• Membership benefits of the PBA – insurance, advocacy, tools & how much it costs
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| 0:00.0 | There's no way when you talk to a consumer, you said, hey, would you want to go to a salon that's |
| 0:04.5 | unlicensed, unregulated? Anyone who is a regular customer would be like, would be horrified, right? Like, uh, no, no thank you. I don't want to be the guinea pig. Hey, this is Nina Covener with Passion Squared. This is Anthony Pausos. I'm Jessica Warburton. Hey, this is Ryan Whedon. Welcome to the Hair Game podcast. Hey, listener, I'm |
| 0:23.2 | Eric Taylor. It's week seven of the second California salon shutdown order. Governor Newsom |
| 0:28.9 | is the only governor in the United States who has closed salons a second time. In fact, I couldn't |
| 0:35.7 | find salons closed anywhere else in the Western world. |
| 0:39.3 | Italy, salons are open. Spain's salons are open. Sweden, of course. Sweden never shut down. |
| 0:45.3 | Their numbers are doing amazing. Look at the numbers for Sweden if you want to know what |
| 0:50.3 | not shutting down an economy looks like. Holland salons are open. |
| 0:56.0 | The UK salons are open. |
| 0:57.0 | Everywhere I looked, salons are open, but not in the state of California, |
| 1:02.0 | where Gavin Newsom seems to see something different than elected officials and leaders all over the world. |
| 1:10.0 | Or, of course, his judgment is simply that much worse and his analysis is that bad. |
| 1:17.6 | Other states around the U.S., especially the hotspot states that were hot spots when California was a hot spot, They're doing great. They didn't shut down |
| 1:28.4 | salons and their numbers are falling faster than hours. So it seems like that |
| 1:33.2 | would be pretty good evidence that opening salons is just fine. |
| 1:39.3 | All right, so today is Monday, August 24th. I will be in Beverly Hills at noon today in the beautiful park at the corner of Santa Monica |
| 1:48.7 | Boulevard and North Beverly Drive protesting for the reopening of salons. |
| 1:54.7 | It's that park right across from Alfred Coffey, that coffee place with the horns, like |
| 2:00.6 | the elk horns or something, which is, by the way, |
| 2:03.6 | amazing espresso. |
| 2:04.6 | Hopefully you'll join me there and we need to keep putting pressure on the governor to lift this |
| 2:10.6 | ridiculous moratorium on safe salons. |
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