Ep. 174 • Staying Sober & Successful in Our New Reality w/ Sarai Speer @theplatinumgiraffe
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Our candid discussion with Sarai Speer continues, plus we get into some important topics regarding your business and how to adapt in our new reality.
This week's topics:
• Her experience during COVID shutdown staying sober
• Back to work after shut down: figuring out how to be successful
• Adapting her education platform this year to digital
• Common mistakes stylists make in her classes
• Pricing your services
• Instagram and social media platforms: pros & cons
• Her hobbies – painting as a way to escape her thoughts
• What she would change about the industry: competition
• Her Hair Horror Story
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| 0:00.0 | It's amazing to me because even if you are not directly affected by addiction, you know somebody who is. |
| 0:07.5 | So there's a part of my story I think that everybody can relate to. |
| 0:12.6 | Hi, I'm Neil Malick. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. |
| 0:15.2 | Steve Sleeper from the Professional Beauty Association. |
| 0:17.6 | Hi, I'm Philip Wolfe and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. So here we are. We've wrapped up the worst year of my life. |
| 0:29.9 | I think a lot of you would consider it the worst years of your lives, probably in aggregate. |
| 0:37.4 | Certainly the most challenging. Seemed like at every turn, probably in aggregate. |
| 0:38.0 | Certainly the most challenging, seemed like at every turn something incredibly unfortunate |
| 0:42.5 | was happening. |
| 0:43.4 | Even when I was getting my legs under me with work or some of the personal things in my |
| 0:48.6 | life, then all of a sudden shit would fall apart. |
| 0:52.2 | So you're not alone if you feel the same way about 2020. So |
| 0:56.8 | good riddance. Here we are in 2021. For us in the beauty industry, 2020 seemed like a particularly |
| 1:04.8 | unfair year. It was a case in which we're getting our lives turned upside down for things out of our control, our income eliminated by government order all the while around us. |
| 1:19.6 | Things seem to be somewhat okay. Housing market at an all-time high, the stock market at an all-time high. I have friends that |
| 1:28.8 | working for companies that were doing great, even better than before COVID. And all of a sudden, |
| 1:35.4 | they're doing fantastic because of, you know, whatever they happen to be doing, fit in perfectly |
| 1:40.9 | with COVID. And of course, what we do does not fit in perfectly with COVID. And of course, what we do does not fit in perfectly with COVID. And of course what we do does not fit in perfectly with COVID. |
| 1:48.6 | We're not quite, we were not quite as in a bad position as movie theaters and gyms, probably, |
| 1:56.9 | but it certainly had the distinct sense of unfairness. |
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