Ep. 183 • What Is Creativity? (And How to Get More of It) w/ Caitlin Ford @caitlinfordhair
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
2020 AIA Hair Colorist of the Year Caitlin Ford lost her index finger in an accident two years ago and had to adapt to her new situation. We discuss this, as well as her love of self-teaching and how she followed her creativity into coloring hair.
This Week's Topics:
• Losing a finger on a table saw remodeling her studio: how she adapted doing hair
• Landing a position at a high end salon, but losing motivation due to the salon culture
• Moving to another salon that encouraged social media
• Getting into creative color through watching Guy Tang & Rebecca Taylor and experimenting
• Creativity – What is it and what does it require?
• Rainbow Bangs: Her creative process for placement of color
• The relationship of creativity and engineering
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| 0:00.0 | I think that's a really interesting thing about this industry and what I kind of like tell people who are younger looking to enter it is like you really have to make sure that you're passionate about it because that's what's going to drive you forward. |
| 0:12.2 | Hi, I'm Franco. |
| 0:13.5 | This is Daniel Mason Jones. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm celebrity stylist. |
| 0:16.1 | Kaya Wright. |
| 0:16.7 | This is Patricia Nicole, painted hair, and you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, listener. I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:25.4 | We're going to start with the PPP this week. |
| 0:27.8 | Big changes recently in the PPP that are meant for people like you, independent hair professionals. |
| 0:35.3 | This does not include employed hair professionals. There's other |
| 0:39.8 | programs for that. You guys all know that. Independent hair professionals, sole proprietors, |
| 0:45.3 | small LLCs, et cetera, independent contractors. They've made big changes to the PPP program. |
| 0:51.3 | For example, no longer are they calculating deduction expenses when they |
| 0:58.3 | calculate your total income. Okay, that's enormous. Okay, that basically means that you can get |
| 1:04.2 | more money from PPP. Another big change. If you didn't get PPP in 2020, you can apply for the first time and now get two |
| 1:13.8 | draws. So each draw is about two and a half months worth of your income that is then granted to you |
| 1:21.6 | if you use them for business, if you use that money for business expenses, which includes paying yourself. |
| 1:28.4 | You can now get two draws if you did not get a PPP loan dash grant in 2020. |
| 1:36.0 | That's five months of income. |
| 1:38.0 | I've spoken to a good number of you who have gotten the money already. |
| 1:41.4 | I've also spoken to a good number of you who have not |
| 1:44.4 | because you think that it's too difficult. |
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