Ep. 312 • Are Noncompete Agreements in the Salon Legal? w/ Carrie Smith
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Paul Mitchell Educator and soon-to-be salon owner @carrielovesedu hears many stories from her students about the issues they have with noncompete agreements when joining a salon. We discuss the legality of these forms, as well as state of the beauty school and the importance of industry integrity.
This Week's Topics:
• Her advocacy for industry integrity; protecting the stylist and following laws
• Non-compete clauses within the salon industry
• The state of cosmo schools: deregulation, attendance levels, graduation rates and placement levels, federal oversight
• Her experience as an educator
• What she would change about the industry: valuing yourself
• Her hair horror story
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| 0:00.0 | You know, if you want to go be a lawyer, that's great. |
| 0:02.8 | Doesn't make you better than a hairstylist. And so the hairstylist needs to remember that. What makes you successful is how well you do the thing that you're passionate about, not what you do necessarily. Hi, I'm Maddie Conrad. I'm Tabitha Kofi. Hi, I'm Mustafa Avesi. I'm Andrew Does Here. Hi, my name is Kelly O'Leary, and you are listening to The Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | Hey, everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game Podcast. |
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| 1:13.3 | Also video versions of our episodes are on YouTube. |
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| 1:26.6 | playlist. You can see those. |
| 1:28.3 | We've been doing that for a few months now, so we've got a bunch of episodes. |
| 1:31.3 | All right, now to the episode with Carrie Smith. |
| 1:34.3 | Hey, Carrie, how you doing? |
| 1:37.3 | Good, Eric, how are you? |
| 1:39.3 | Good. We're straddling the country right now. |
| 1:41.3 | I'm in California. |
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