Ep. 206 • How I Became Obama's Hairstylist w/ Yene Damtew
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Stylist and Mentor @yenedamtew shares her story of moving across the country for an assistant position she knew would be beneficial for her career. We also discuss the important financial strategies she has learned working independently and as a salon owner.
This Week's Topics:
• Going to cosmo school at 16 yrs old; leaving for college because of parents but going back
• Moving across the country for an assistant position in DC for the Obamas
• Her move to working independently & salon ownership; learning important financial strategies
• Her business education academy
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| 0:00.0 | I also just think that it's extremely important for the listeners to hear this. |
| 0:04.6 | We can't expect to be respected and for us to be treated as a business if we don't treat ourselves as a business. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello, I'm Rebecca Taylor. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey, I'm Buddy Porter. |
| 0:15.1 | This is Ben Malin. |
| 0:15.9 | Hey, it's Sophie Pope. |
| 0:16.8 | Hey, guys. |
| 0:17.2 | We're Garcia-Rinosa, founder of Barber Society. |
| 0:19.4 | And we're hanging out on the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. So I woke up this morning to an article in the New York Times. |
| 0:29.8 | This is Friday, August 13th, and I'm recording this intro. The article reads that the city and county of San |
| 0:36.0 | Francisco are imposing the first vaccine mandate in California. |
| 0:40.3 | But of course, you can't just read headlines, and frankly, you can't even just read an article. |
| 0:46.3 | You typically have to go deep into the details of orders like this to get the real nitty-gritty and what it actually means. And of course, |
| 0:55.9 | we did that. In this case, the details are certainly very interesting. Donovan will put the web link |
| 1:02.1 | to the order for the city and county of San Francisco in the show notes. If you want to read it, |
| 1:06.5 | he'll also put the link to the New York Times article that I'm referring to. |
| 1:12.5 | The vaccine mandate that they're putting in place covers inside dining establishments, |
| 1:18.7 | bars, clubs, theaters, entertainment venues, gyms, recreational facilities, yoga studios, |
| 1:27.4 | dance studios, and other fitness establishments, |
| 1:30.3 | as they say, where any patron engages in cardiovascular, aerobic strength training or other exercise |
| 1:37.3 | involving elevated breathing. The order also impacts mega events indoor, that is 5,000 or more indoor attendees, or 10,000 |
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