Ep. 173 • How Addiction Nearly Cost Her Everything w/ Sarai Speer @theplatinumgiraffe
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
This is part 1 of an incredibly inspirational and candid conversation with Sarai Speer.
Artist, educator, and Artistic Director Sarai dealt with addiction through most of her adult life until one important person stepped in and kept her from losing everything, including her life. She shares her amazing journey with us.
This week's topics:
• Getting into hair and being stifled creatively at her first commission salon
• Buying a salon with a fellow booth renter 9 months after beauty school; falling into drugs and losing it all
• Dealing with addiction
• Her wake-up call that turned her life around
• Dealing with new found feelings during sobriety
• Learning to forgive and finding her passion again
• Avoiding fear & the power of positivity
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| 0:00.0 | When I say I have lost it all, I have lost it all. |
| 0:05.1 | I, at my lowest point, I was a homeless junkie. |
| 0:10.3 | I hit it and I hit it hard. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, this is Naima LaFond. |
| 0:15.5 | It's Alfredo Lewis. |
| 0:16.4 | This is Amanda Libergert. |
| 0:17.6 | This is Victor Valverdi. |
| 0:18.8 | It's Robert Kromynes here. |
| 0:19.7 | Thank you for listening to the |
| 0:20.9 | Hair Game podcast. Hey, listener. I'm Eric Taylor. I hope everybody has had a great holiday season |
| 0:28.3 | so far. I frankly have been totally preoccupied fighting against these horrible decisions |
| 0:33.8 | that especially California has been making, that has been, that have been decimating |
| 0:39.2 | our industry, that I've barely noticed that it was even Christmas last week. |
| 0:42.6 | I apologize for not even saying in my intro, Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate |
| 0:49.0 | Christmas. I do celebrate Christmas. So I just, my mind has been somewhere else, frankly. I'm sure I'm not the |
| 0:55.4 | only one, especially within our industry, as we're trying to hang on by a string through this, |
| 1:03.2 | through all of these elements of what's happening. It's truly bizarre time. This week is the end of |
| 1:09.5 | 2020. Thank God. I am, I bet I am not the only one who will say |
| 1:15.7 | that I have been begging for the end of 2020 since probably March. So here we are. We are finally |
| 1:24.7 | at the end and we are beginning 2021. Fingers crossed that 2021 is a much better |
| 1:33.1 | year than 2020. So let's all cross our fingers at the same time. Ignore the fact that all of |
| 1:40.3 | you are going to be listening to the podcast, probably at different times. But let's all across our fingers right now |
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