Juggling your passions with salon owner/ brand artist Cody Evans

I love that.

Thank you so much for sharing all that.

And so when you become an artist, obviously there's so much that goes into that training.

This is before your salon ownership, but now you're like in the throes of your teaching.

I'm assuming you're teaching most Mondays, which then therefore just logistically for a friend listening, that means that you're traveling either Saturday to teach Sunday, Monday, or traveling Sunday to teach Monday.

And I'm assuming you're on planes a lot.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

The miles are racking up.

Good.

Yeah.

Take a good vacation.

And then so you have all of that momentum happening.

And then you get home like at midnight on Monday.

Tuesday rolls around.

What does that look like for you?

Yeah, I'm actually glad you said that because that's something else that I like to kind of, like I said, be candid about whenever I'm speaking to someone who's interested in becoming an artist is that like, we like to call it work-life balance, but at this point it's really work-work-life balance, right? So yeah, it's pretty brutal sometimes whenever you're like flying in at midnight and you've got work at 8 a.m.

on Tuesday and you work a six-hour shift and you're back-to-back coloring and doing whatever else you do behind the chair.

At first it was like, ooh, I get to fly and I get to stay in hotels and see all these different places.

But at the end of the day, I do like to tell people, hey, this is a job, it's work.

So even though we do get to travel to really cool places and meet really cool people, it's still that moment of like planning, like class planning and then doing the flights and staying in the hotels and teaching and then flying back and then getting back in the salon and then resetting yourself to be available for who you're around, but also like your guests, right?

Mm-hmm.

So it definitely was an experience in the beginning.

I like to say that I'm like seasoned now because it's like now I've gotten so used to it.

But it is something that you do have to consider in the beginning whenever you're looking into something like this, because it's not just a fly by your seat of your pants day.