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Small business in Waukesha is celebrating Small Business Day [Video]

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE. TODAY AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOP LOCAL IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND JOINING US LIVE IS VAN MCNEAL AND WAUKESHA WITH HOW YOU CAN FULLY SUPPORT TODAY. VAN LOOKING GOOD WITH THE BEAUTY ADAMS SO NOW WHAT DO WE HAVE? WELL, WERE TAKING CARE OF OUR SKIN. WERE TAKING CARE OF OUR BODIES. WERE AT JP BEAUTY SERVICES HERE ON SOUTH STREET IN WAUKESHA. JOSH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SPACE HERE. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU FOR COMING IN. ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF SERVICES. IM LOOKING HERE FROM BROWS TO FACIALS. WHAT WHAT WAS I SITTING IN THERE EARLIER. OH FUNNY. YOU ASK. ITS THE IRRIGATOR. IM OKAY. WE HAVE THE EAR DETOX FACIAL, WHICH IS GREAT FOR DEEP CLEANING THE EARS. I AM GREAT FOR THOSE THAT WEAR EARBUDS. THE WAX BUILD UP, THE SKIN CELLS BUILDING UP, BUILDING UP IN THE EARS. IT WILL ONLY WORK AT 98.6 DEGREES TEMP TEMPERATURE, SO IT JUST FEELS REALLY NICE AND LIKE A NICE LITTLE BUBBLE BATH FOR THE EARS. SO IF YOURE HAVING SOME EAR ISSUES, MAYBE YOU CANT HEAR CLEARLY. I MEAN, THIS IS ONE OF MANY SERVICES THAT YOU OFFER. WHAT ELSE DO YOU OFFER HERE? I AM FACIALS, IM ADVANCED SKIN SERVICES, CLINICAL HOLISTIC ESTHETICIAN. IM A 19 YEARS THE BRAND AND I RETAIL IS ALINA ORGANICS OUT OF MICHIGAN. OKAY IM ALL THE FORMULATIONS ARE SMALL BATCH I AND I MADE RIGHT IN MICHIGAN AND WITH ABOUT 4 TO 5 DAYS I GET THOSE THIS IS A COMMON THREAD. IM SURE THIS HAPPENS ACROSS MAIN STREETS IN OUR REGION HERE, BUT ITS ITS LOCAL SUPPORTING OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES. CORRECT? YES, YES, WERE ALL ABOUT SMALL BUSINESS, ALL ABOUT THE COLLABORATION AND THE COMMUNITY AND JUST BRINGING COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITIES. ALL RIGHT, LETS GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS. LETS TALK ABOUT THE FACIALS AND WHAT HAPPENS HERE IN THIS ROOM. COME ON IN. WERE IN THE TREATMENT ROOM. WE HAVE THE BUBBLES FOR YOUR TROUBLES FACIAL, WHICH IS THE OXYGEN INFUSED FACIAL THAT ALSO USES RADIOFREQUENCY AND ULTRASOUND THERAPY. LED THERAPY, WHICH IS GREAT FOR KILLING BACTERIA ON THE SKIN, ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL THAT HOLIDAY FOOD. YEAH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. JUST THAT SEBACEOUS ACTIVITY INCREASING, CAUSING MORE ACNE ENVIRONMENTS. MICRONEEDLING. AND AS WELL AS CHEMICAL PEELS. GREAT FOR GETTING THAT HOLIDAY GLOW BACK TO THE FACE. I DONT THINK PEOPLE REALIZE YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS OUR MONEYMAKER, RIGHT? OH, LOOK, WERE TAKING THE PICTURES WITH IT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. ITS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO TAKE CARE OF. YES. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT. I USE LIKE, A POOR SUCKER AND, YOU KNOW, CLEAR OUT THE BLACKHEADS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT THIS IS ON A MAJOR LEAGUE LEVEL. YEAH, ITS ON A MAJOR LEAGUE LEVEL. THE BIG THING IS, YOU KNOW, JUST MAKING SURE TO GET THAT WATER INTAKE, YOU KNOW, AND BE INTUITIVE WITH YOUR MOVEMENTS, BE INTUITIVE WITH YOUR PRODUCTS. AND YOU KNOW, REALLY BE EXCITED TO BE DOING IT. LASTLY, WHAT DO YOU HAVE GOING ON HERE FOR SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY? SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY? I HAVE IM A SERVICE SPECIALIST. I ALSO DO LASH EXTENSIONS AS WELL. SO THERES A LASH EXTENSION SERVICE PACKAGE AND THEN A BUNCH OF JUST AMAZING SKIN AND GLOW PACKAGES AS WELL. AND GOING SEVEN YEARS STRONG HERE. YES. JOSH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JOSH JP BEAUTY SERVICES IM GOING TO GO GET A LITTLE BIT OF PAMPERING HERE. WHY NOT. AND ON A LOCAL LEVEL DUKE. OH VERY GOOD. BACK TO YOU. OH I NEED THE GOGGLES. JOSH? YES, YES, PLEASE GET THE GOGGLES AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO MAKE SURE THOSE PORES ARE CLEAR. SO YOUR FACE IS GLOWING, SHINING BRIGHT. WHEN WE SEE YOU NEXT RELAXING. IT DOE

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Avocados, tequila and other iconic Mexican products are jeopardized by Trump’s tariff threats [Video]

Mexicans are worried that threats by Donald Trump to impose 25% tariffs could affect a wide range of iconic Mexican products and threaten entire regional economies.In western Mexico, no crop supplies an income for so many small growers as avocados. But avocado growers, pickers and packers worry that U.S. consumers, faced with 25% higher prices, may just skip the guacamole.”I think that when there is an increase in the price for any product, demand declines,” said avocado grower Enrique Espinoza. Orchards like his are the economic lifeblood in the western Mexico state of Michoacan. “It would be a tragedy if they closed down (the border) on us,” he said.Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration when he said he would impose tariffs couldn’t come at a worse time: It’s around when Mexico starts shipping crates of the green fruit north for Super Bowl Sunday, the annual peak of consumption.Jos Luis Arroyo Sandoval, a manager at an avocado packing house in Michoacan, says the economy would be affected.”Work for us could decrease because it won’t be quite so attractive to export,” Arroyo said, “because avocados would get expensive, and avocados are already expensive.”It may not just be Mexican producers who are affected; U.S. consumers may also be howling.Mexican business leader Gina Diez Barroso told a news conference Tuesday that one U.S. agriculture official told her he had never had as many complaints as when the U.S. government halted import inspections on Mexican avocados in 2022.”Never in his life had he had so much chaos in his office, because they halted Mexican avocados,” Diez Barroso said.Espinoza agrees that consumers are likely to share the pain.”The gringos need avocados, it is a good product, and I don’t think they are going to stop consuming it,” he said.Rather, the reverse effect has him worried; if Mexico retaliates with its own tariffs, as President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested, Mexicans will face not just a drop in income, but high prices for U.S. products like corn, which is a main supply of feed for animals in Mexico.”There are more poor people here, so in some ways it is going to hit us,” Espinoza said. “The United States can pay 25% more for Mexican products, very few of us have enough money to pay 25% more for what we import from the United States.”It’s not just the guacamole; Mexican tequila producers have seen a bonanza in the U.S. market. In 2023, the U.S. imported $4.6 billion worth of tequila and $108 million worth of mezcal from Mexico.That has raised cautious concern among tequila producers, including farmers who grow agave on some of the driest, marginal soils that couldn’t support many other crops.”We are analyzing the statements by the authorities and their reactions, and in the coming days we will establish a position,” the National Tequila Industry Chamber said in a statement.And industry representatives say a drop in the consumption of tequila America’s third-most popular spirit, behind vodka and pre-mixed cocktails could affect U.S. bars, restaurants and clubs.”At the end of the day, tariffs on spirits products from our neighbors to the north and south are going to hurt U.S. consumers and lead to job losses across the U.S. hospitality industry just as these businesses continue their long recovery from the pandemic,” the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. said in a statement.The tariffs would probably plunge Mexico into an immediate recession. Mexican financial group Banco Base estimated in a report that for every 1% that Mexican exports increase in price, their volume falls by 1.33%Supposing that Americans might absorb half the impact of the tariffs and just pay higher prices for Mexican goods, they still might reduce their consumption by 12%, Banco Base estimated.”This would be reflected in a 4.4% drop in gross domestic product,” the bank wrote, adding “the decline would not just occur in 2025, but would get more serious the longer the tariffs last.”And the tariffs could affect some products that aren’t thought of as particularly Mexican at all.Mexico’s Economy Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, said Wednesday that 88% percent of all North American pickup trucks come from Mexico, though it was unclear if he meant just parts of the trucks or their final assembly.Ebrard claimed that 25% tariffs would mean U.S. consumers might have to pay $3,000 more per pickup truck.”It is shooting yourself in the foot,” Ebrard said.