One of the biggest things that I faced there is that I had multiple people tell me, this is what I want, whatever, during our consultation, but then they would look me dead in the face. And I'm not talking about looking at me in the mirror. I'm talking about like they would turn around and look me in the eyeballs and say, just as long as you don't make me look like you. Hi, I'm Neil Malik. Hey, I'm Jenny Streby. Steve Sleeper from the Professional Beauty Association.

Hi, I'm Philip Wolfe, and you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast.

Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor.

For those of you who don't know, I started and run Salon Republic, a salon group with 22 locations. I spend my days trying to make

each of our salons the very best possible places to work. Our mission has always been for all of

our beauty professionals to have happy and successful careers. And as I say that, that kind of reminds me that it is the mission of the

Hair Game podcast as well. So how do we do that at Salon Republic? We have wholesale beauty

supplies in the salon. It's kind of like having a salon-centric or cosmo proff right there in the

salon where we carry up to 80 brands. We offer free towel service. We have

in-person education and we have managers at the front of the salons that take care of you and

your clients. We have locations in L.A., San Diego, the Bay Area of Northern California, Seattle,

Denver, Dallas, and Austin, Texas.

Check us out anytime at salonrepublic.com.

And for the podcast audience exclusively, if you go into one of our salons,

tell the manager that I sent you from the Hair Game podcast,

and we will give you a special credit if you choose a studio.

Think of it like friends and family.

All right.

Now let's talk about the Podlute giveaway.

On our next episode, our Podlute giveaway will be free education from a yet to be named

Hair Hero of yours.

Stay tuned for more details.

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