Clients have choices more than ever that they can choose anywhere they want to go. Why, you?

Many blessings. This is Miss Lady Locks. Hi, I'm Carrie Smith. Probably nobody here.

Hi, I'm Michael Cole Summit. And you're listening to The Hair Game Podcast.

Hey, everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast. Salaura Public has a new location

in Philadelphia opening soon. Go to Salonterpublic.com or our link in bio to book your tour of that

space. We're opening soon, so get first dibs on your new hair home. Also, a little bit later, we're opening another one north of

Philadelphia, just north, in Jenkentown. So if you're around that area, we also have links to

the location there on Salonapublic.com and get notified when we're starting tours for that one as well.

All right, on to our episode with Jennifer Alvarez.

Hi, Jennifer. How are you?

I'm so good, Eric. Thanks so much for having me.

You're welcome. So Jennifer is a salon coach speaker, podcaster,

teaching business to the beauty industry coming from Naperville, Illinois, right outside

of Chicago.

The accent will come out, yeah.

Yes, the accent.

It's a good accent.

So why don't we start with your beginning?

Where are you from originally?

I assume you're from around there, given your Chicago accent. And tell us how you got into the salon industry. Yeah. So,

thanks again for having me, Eric. It's always a pleasure to get in front of the beauty industry.

It's been my entire life. I actually grew up in a small town of about a thousand people. So country mouse here originally. And I was really fortunate to have the opportunity to go to beauty school during high school, which was a blessing because I was not a good student. I tried really hard to get a B. And when I went to

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