Everybody, welcome to the Hair Game. This is Eric Taylor, and I'd like to start this episode

by reading a couple of reviews. And by the way, I thank you everybody for spending your time

to write a review. It helps other people find the podcast. It helps me learn what you guys like to

hear. And it's just so awesome.

So let's see, Sawa Team 34 writes, community over competition, loving this podcast.

Our industry needs this so bad.

The content here is amazing.

Thank you Jamie Dana for spreading the word about the hair game.

Just like Jamie says, community over competition.

And for those of you who have not listened, I want to say two episodes ago, Jamie Dana was

the guest on the podcast.

Another review by Taylor.

She writes, woo.

I love listening to this podcast on May Way to the salon in the morning.

So inspirational and I'm constantly utilizing this information I'm getting here into my everyday life as a hairdresser.

Thank you so much for this wonderful podcast. Thank you, Taylor.

All right, so this episode is a little bit different, something that I've wanted to do for a while.

I haven't been able to put the time into, you know, doing the research and looking into it because I wanted to speak from a position of

intelligence versus just kind of my own thinking. But this deals with smiling. And so I'm

titling this episode, How to Use a Smile. Okay, so I did a little bit of research, as I've said,

and so I'm going to give it to you. Psychologists have found that even if you're in a bad mood,

you can instantly lift your spirits by forcing yourself to smile. Smiling can improve your

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