Ep. 208 • Leaving Everything & Moving to LA w/ Dean Lauer
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.9 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Men's hairstylist and educator Dean Lauer @deanothebarber_ built a foundation of skills early by grinding hard.... owning a shop AND starting a barber school within the first few years of graduating hair school.
He left it all behind to follow his dream to work in LA. He shares the whole story this week!
This week's topics:
• Trying to set up his future in baseball; gets injured
• Going to a primarily African-American barber college
• Opening a barber shop at 19; and then a barber school shortly after
• Leaves everything to move to LA
• Advice to new stylists
• His Hair Horror Story
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| 0:00.0 | I feel like if you don't question your sanity throughout the process of you really pursuing your goals and your vision, then it's not really that crazy of a feat. You're not dreaming big enough. |
| 0:11.1 | Hi, I'm Christina Cretel. I'm Maggie Mulhern from Modern Salon Media. Hi, I'm Eric Vaughn. Hello, Todd to Head Best East in the Land. This is Guy Tang and welcome to the Hair Game podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. All right, so let's talk about stimulus money. Same thing I mentioned |
| 0:27.0 | at the beginning of last week's episode, the Employee Retention Tax Credit, ERC, to all employers |
| 0:34.5 | anywhere in the U.S. This can amount to tens of thousands of dollars per employee. |
| 0:40.5 | The PBFC Professional Beauty Federation of California, they've been leading the way on this thing. |
| 0:45.2 | They've been talking about it a lot. It was news to us. |
| 0:49.3 | We have a big accounting firm that helps us at Salon Republic. |
| 0:56.8 | They did not bring this to us, but the Professional Beauty Federation of California did. Okay. There's so much stimulus money and so many |
| 1:02.0 | things out there, so many new laws and changes that have been put in a place over the last 18 |
| 1:07.0 | months, that most of these accounting firms simply don't know about it. And they have to put a |
| 1:13.7 | lot of effort into figuring this stuff out, reading the new laws and the legislation. Well, |
| 1:18.8 | bottom line is, you as a salon, if you employ somebody, even if it's one person, you could get |
| 1:27.4 | tens of thousands of dollars |
| 1:28.5 | per employee. Go to beauty federation.org to figure out if you qualify for this thing, |
| 1:35.1 | I want you to get free money. I want you to get as much of it as possible from the feds. |
| 1:39.7 | Okay. So I'm going to keep bringing this up. Any employer nationwide. |
| 1:45.7 | Okay, beauty federation.org. |
| 1:46.2 | Check it out. |
| 1:49.2 | Professional Beauty Federation is working really hard on this. |
| 1:50.5 | All right. |
| 1:51.0 | What else? |
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