Hey, Hair Game Listener. I'm your host, Eric Taylor. Before we get to the episode, I'll choose the winner of the Amazon Echo SmartSpeaker. Donovan is right in front of me, filming this for Instagram Stories. I put the names in a bag. Well, it gets another free plug. I'm going to randomly pick one winner. and the winner is Yassid Castro.

DM me at Love Eric Taylor or Salon Republic on Instagram with your mailing address.

Thank you to everybody who entered.

Your names remain in the bag and may be chosen next week.

At the end of this episode, I'll tell you what we're going to be

giving away next week and how you can win. Now down to business. This episode is with Cassandra

McLaughlin, aka Cassandra Platinum. Hi, Cassandra. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Thank you

for doing this at the end of an extremely long day. It's my pleasure.

I'm excited to be here.

So for the listeners, Cassandra has already warned that her voice is giving out because she's

been on stage all day to day, but I think it sounds fine, so we're just going to fly with

it.

I'm good with that.

So where are you from?

I am from Tampa, Florida.

Tampa, Florida.

Born and raised and still living?

I was born in Missouri in a small town called West Plains, Southern Missouri.

Moved to Tampa when I was nine. I lived there until like 22.

Went to college, went to beauty school.

And then actually like around 22 and a half, almost 23, I moved back to Missouri.

My siblings were there, my sister and my sister's and my brother, and lived there for five

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