Inside Aesthetics

Episode 185 hosts Babak Moini, co-founder of Laser Clinics Australia. Babak previously joined us back in episodes 45 and 59, where he shared his story and his predictions for what the COVID-crisis would mean for aesthetic businesses.  Two years on, we reflect on the post-COVID era and the current as well as predicted global economic crisis that is looming. We explore:  Babak's current view of the Australian aesthetic market Some of the key trends that have emerged since our last podcast We then discuss the financial issues including: Whether the predictions he made in April 2020 were right, wrong or are simply delayed and still going to happen  The post-COVID demand for injectables and what this showed about the resilience of the market What our governments did to cope during COVID and the hang over effects of these including: - stimulus payments and printing money to fund it - borrowing more money, increasing national debt - the effect of lockdowns & stimulus payments on the labour force - why t