Is This The Worst It's Going To Get? (Salon Industry Update)

Pulling back the curtain from the swim spa on a cold Super Bowl Sunday. It’s been a challenging season at The Salon Center with major shifts like Color Wow moving to L'Oreal, but as one door closes, another opens. In this video, I’m getting real about the "retail diversion" hurting stylists and why I’m doubling down on truly exclusive brands like Gold Professional. I also share the story behind my new venture with Scissor Mall and how I'm navigating the transition toward semi-retirement through YouTube and AI. Whether you’re a veteran stylist feeling the industry's evolution or someone looking to build a side hustle, I hope my journey helps you navigate your own. Let me know your thoughts on the industry changes in the comments! 00:00 — Opening thoughts from the swim spa 01:23 — Busy schedules and home maintenance 02:18 — Industry changes and distribution shifts 04:06 — Transitioning to salon-exclusive brands like Gold Professional 05:13 — The challenges of retail diversion in salons 07:48 — Announcement regarding Leighton House 10:53 — Career longevity and industry evolution 15:10 — New venture: Representing Scissor Mall shears 21:47 — Celebrating the first successful shear sale 25:10 — Personal values and Super Bowl Sunday commentary 28:04 — Future channel direction: Side hustles and AI 30:57 — Using video content to improve communication skills 33:05 — Closing thoughts on retirement and community engagement 🛠️ Resources, tools, and links mentioned: My top recommended products: ➡️ https://kit.co/richrose_recommends 🎥 Essential Creator Tools & Gear 🖥️ My Software: 🎯 VidIQ Channel Optimizer: https://vidiq.com/richrose 📊 Tube Buddy Channel optimizer: https://www.Tubebuddy.com/richardjrose1 🎬 Streaming Software: https://streamyard.com/?fpr=richrose 📱 Vista Social for bulk social media posting: https://vistasocial.com?fpr=rich64 🤖 Jogg AI: https://www.jogg.ai/?fpr=richard-j77 🧠 AI Assistant: https://www.perplexity.ai/ ✂️ Capcut Video Editor (FREE and paid upgrades for Pro) https://capcutaffiliateprogram.pxf.io/rrose80 📈 Taja.ai Youtube Channel optimizer https://www.taja.ai/?via=richard-rose 📸 My Gear: *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 🎥 DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Creator Combo, Vlogging Camera https://amzn.to/3OUtLBb TRIPOD: https://amzn.to/4bTXbKw 🎯 Belkin Stage auto-tracking stand pro with dockkit https://amzn.to/4fcSX0A 📱 Iphone 13: https://amzn.to/4fIxk8x 💡 Pro Tip: These tools and gear are personally tested and proven to enhance content creation quality and workflow efficiency! My Amazon Storefront: Top Products I use and recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/richardjrose *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 💰 AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Some links above are affiliate links—I earn a small commission at NO extra cost to you. This helps me create more videos for creators like you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 WHAT'S NEXT: ✅ SUBSCRIBE: New videos every [Monday/Wednesday/Friday] 🔔 ENABLE NOTIFICATIONS: Never miss an upload 💬 COMMENT: What's your biggest YouTube challenge? 👍 LIKE: Helps YouTube recommend this to other 40+ creators ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 CONNECT WITH ME: 📧 Email: rich@richardjrose.com 📱 Instagram: @richrose1 📱 TikTok: @richrose1 🔗 My Kit.co (Recommendations): https://kit.co/richrose_recommends ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❓ MORE RESOURCES: • My YouTube Channel: @richrose1 • Beauty Content (Salon Center): [Link to beauty-focused playlist] • Creator Tools Playlist: [Link to gear/software reviews] • Email List: [GoHighLevel landing page] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL: Taming of The 'Do is dedicated to helping creators 40+ build YouTube channels for side hustle income. With 30+ years in sales & marketing and 61k+ subscribers, I share: ✅ YouTube tutorials for beginners ✅ How to earn BEFORE Partner Program ✅ Tech & AI tools that save time ✅ Digital marketing strategies ✅ Gear reviews & setups Never too old to start. Your age is your advantage. #YouTubeForOver40 #SideHustle #CreatorEconomy #DigitalMarketing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👇 THANK YOU FOR WATCHING! See you in the next one.