Ep. 160 • How Online Reviews Built Ryan Weeden's Career
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 160 is part 1 of a two-part series with Ryan. He tells you the fascinating and inspiring story of finding his way to hair, leaving it (and losing everything), and how he clawed his way back.
We discuss:
• Finding his way to hair
• Building experience at Supercuts quickly to move to higher end salon
• Sacrificing his career in hair for a relationship
• Going bankrupt & living on his little brother's couch
• Finding his way back to hair with a purpose
• Building his clientele through soliciting online reviews & growing his business
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| 0:00.0 | So are you going as far as to say that your lame-ass corporate job and maybe some subsequent jobs actually helped you building a clientele? It actually did. Amazing. Right. Hi, I'm Maddie Conrad. I'm Tabitha Calfi. Hi, I'm Mustafa Auxi. I'm Andrew Does Hair. Hi, my name is Kelly O'Leary and you are listening to The Hair Game Podcast. Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. So a couple news items this week. California opened nail |
| 0:26.4 | salons finally. But LA County, board of supervisors and Barbara Ferrer, the health director |
| 0:32.1 | here, they are dragging their feet as usual. They think that they're going to put some additional |
| 0:38.9 | judgment to it, which is going to be wise, more wise than every other government leader, everywhere |
| 0:44.8 | in the Western world. They're going to think of something unique and different and beneficial. |
| 0:49.6 | Meanwhile, of course, nail artists go starving on the streets. |
| 1:00.0 | Ellie County is within the COVID metrics to qualify for Tier 2. This, by the way, once we're in Tier 2, |
| 1:03.0 | facials, brows, waxing, lashes, massage, etc. |
| 1:07.0 | will be able to operate indoors. |
| 1:10.0 | So we need to be under these certain numbers for two weeks. |
| 1:14.6 | By the time you get this, it will have been about one week. So hopefully we maintain these numbers for |
| 1:22.2 | an additional week from when you're listening to this and we're able to move to Tier 2. And of course, |
| 1:27.2 | hopefully Barbara Ferrer doesn't think that she has some unique wisdom and delay that further. |
| 1:35.8 | Florida is reopening nearly all businesses to full capacity, including bars and restaurants. This |
| 1:42.2 | is following a decline in cases, but more importantly, |
| 1:46.0 | a dramatic decline in mortality, which by the way, we're seeing everywhere, regardless of whether |
| 1:53.0 | cases are increasing, which is in a few places, primarily because of college kids going back |
| 2:00.0 | to college and, you know and they're socializing, |
| 2:02.7 | so they're catching COVID, but of course, not dying from it. The mortality numbers across the |
| 2:09.6 | population are dropping drastically. So for Florida, I mean, it is scraping the bottom of the |
| 2:16.9 | table, you know, near the zero line on a daily basis. |
| 2:22.1 | So that is highly positive. |
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