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HIGHLIGHTS • Are Noncompete Agreements in the Salon Legal? w/ Carrie Smith

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.6570 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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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

Coming up are the highlights of the full episode.

0:09.1

Hey everybody, Donovan here, producer of the Hair Game podcast.

0:13.4

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0:18.5

Click the link in our bio on the Hairgame podcast or Salon Republic, Instagram,

0:23.3

to get more info and book a virtual tour to check that space out.

0:28.1

Also, we aren't the only ones who love to hear from you.

0:30.8

Our guests are always DMing me after their episode releases,

0:33.9

asking me how people enjoyed their episodes.

0:36.9

So if you discovered one of our guests from

0:38.7

the podcast and started following them or just really loved one of our guests' episodes,

0:44.8

please send them a DM on Instagram and let them know. It truly means a lot to them when they

0:50.8

hear from you. So let them know. Shout them out.

0:54.9

Also, video versions of our episodes are on YouTube.

0:57.5

If you want to see the people we are interviewing, as well as our host, Eric Taylor,

1:03.2

subscribe to the Hair Game channel on YouTube, and then check out the Hair Game

1:07.8

Podcast playlist.

1:09.5

You can see those.

1:10.6

We've been doing that for a few months now, so we've got a bunch of episodes.

1:13.8

All right.

1:14.2

Now to the episode with Carrie Smith.

1:18.1

But I've also just been an educator for, you know, 15 years now.

1:23.2

And so watching new students come into school and learn how to do hair and then watching their

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