Nerdy Business: Building a Brick-and-Mortar Business

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Opening a brick-and-mortar business isn’t for the faint of heart. This episode, Sean and small-business Nerd Rosalie Murphy interview Uyen Le. Le owns Beauty Bar, a full-service beauty salon with two locations in Colorado Springs. Le walks us through the ups and downs of securing financing to open her first location, getting a liquor license, hiring and growing her employees and weathering the COVID-19 pandemic. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	Welcome to the NerdBallet Smart Money Podcast, where we typically answer your personal finance questions
0:39.3	and help you feel a little smarter about what you do with your money. I'm Sean Piles.
0:43.7	And I'm Rosalie Murphy, a nerd wallet writer who focuses on small business. Today, we are bringing
0:48.6	you the next installment in our nerdy business series in which we interview entrepreneurs about
0:53.3	starting and growing their businesses.
0:55.4	Rosalie, who are we talking with today?
0:57.5	Today we are joined by Gwen Lee.
0:59.6	Gwen is the owner of Beauty Bar Inc., which is a full-service salon, bar, and boutique,
1:03.8	with two locations in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1:07.0	Gwen grew up working in her mom's nail salon and took over the business when she was pretty young,
1:11.3	and then she launched her own concept in downtown Colorado Springs.
1:15.2	Very cool. Well, Gwen, welcome to SmartMoney.
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