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Felicia Leatherwood Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest, she's on the phone and I was
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  Speaker 1: just in Los Angeles. We shared a little moment of
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  Speaker 1: concern and she's in good health. And the families are
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  Speaker 1: doing good because we all know that whole area out
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  Speaker 1: they're all the way up to uh Sacramento, is not
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  Speaker 1: doing good right now. My next guest is a celebrity
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  Speaker 1: hair stylus. Of course, I'm a ball hitted dude, So
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  Speaker 1: why am I interviewing the celebrity hairstylus Because guess what
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  Speaker 1: she's gifted? She's talented. You have to stop people always
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  Speaker 1: why he got he got no hair in his head
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  Speaker 1: right now? For over twenty six years into industry. She's
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  Speaker 1: a natural hair aspect, a natural hair expert and inspirational
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  Speaker 1: beauty speaker and entrepreneur creative her own signature for Lesia
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  Speaker 1: Leatherwood Dtangler brush. She conducts hair care workshops around the
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  Speaker 1: world and creates a host of innovative hairstyles for a
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  Speaker 1: range of clientele. In the entertainment industry. Her styles include
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  Speaker 1: high profiles as It's Ray on HBO's Insecure, one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite shows, Oscar Award winning Oscar Award nominee Able
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  Speaker 1: do the Name? You know the director of Selma Mega Superstar,
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  Speaker 1: Will Smith, Grammy Award winmer Jail Scott has know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these people, my man Terence Howard and who
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  Speaker 1: started Who's on Iron Man the first before they brought
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  Speaker 1: in Don Cheetle. He was the first one, and then
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  Speaker 1: the Empire Blackish Anthony Anderson know him? You know the
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  Speaker 1: color Poper composing and Grammy and Tony Award win nominee
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  Speaker 1: Brenda Russell, Actress Nicole Arey Parker know her Kimp Coach,
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  Speaker 1: no her Kimberly, no her Boar and m Girl or
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  Speaker 1: play Misty on Luke Cage or it was mcgirl right
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  Speaker 1: there anybody winning coffee. If you know the show, you
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  Speaker 1: know I'm talking about Okay cool, as well as a
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  Speaker 1: host of entertainment executives, rising stars, and beauty entrepreneurs. Her
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  Speaker 1: magazine cover and editorial spread exposure include Vogue, Variety, Essence,
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  Speaker 1: l Ebony, and more. Please work on the money making
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  Speaker 1: conversation for Licia Leatherwood. Hello, how are you come on? You? You?
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  Speaker 1: You got a lot to talk about talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to men? You am I gonna talk that long? You
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  Speaker 1: have a career twenty six years. Tell us how it
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  Speaker 1: all started? Uh? Well, of course, like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: women who may or may not admit this, my mother
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  Speaker 1: didn't know how to do my hair. I had to
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  Speaker 1: take matters into my own hands. And you know, back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, we didn't have all these wonderful natural
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  Speaker 1: hair products that we do now. Uh we had pro Line,
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  Speaker 1: some soft Shine, you know, things like that. So basically
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  Speaker 1: I started doing my own hair. I was my as client.
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  Speaker 1: And from that point, when you say that doing your
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  Speaker 1: own hair, what does that mean? I have a daughter?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I actually had to take the comb, the brush,
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  Speaker 1: the pony till holders, all those things and come up
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  Speaker 1: with stuff. Getting the mirror and try to figure out
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  Speaker 1: my texture because my hair was a bit rough growing up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't soft, it was dry. There were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of uh, just a lot of issues. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're young like that, it's built into your self esteem,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if your hair doesn't look like the other
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  Speaker 1: girls on the block. So I wanted to look or
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  Speaker 1: feel pretty. It's a young girl, you know, and that
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  Speaker 1: included my hair. And so I am basically asked my
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  Speaker 1: mom if I could do my own hair, and she
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  Speaker 1: said sure, and they kept going from that point. Now,
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  Speaker 1: m it's a difference from uh, you learning it in
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  Speaker 1: your own it becomes a childhood it was about your beauty.
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  Speaker 1: It's about self esteem. What what what's self esteem? When
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  Speaker 1: did you realize that this is something that you should
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  Speaker 1: be doing as a career. I think that I was
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  Speaker 1: working in corporate America and I didn't feel the freedom
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  Speaker 1: I felt when I was working on hair, like when
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  Speaker 1: I was doing people's hair and how they would feel
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  Speaker 1: so good and beautiful after I finished. I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: that same accomplished feeling going into work, punching a clock,
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  Speaker 1: being in a very high air conditioned room in a
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  Speaker 1: cubicle with a bunch of people that I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I was doing most of the work for. So for me,
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  Speaker 1: I decided when I remember just being frustrated and looking
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  Speaker 1: out the window of my uh you know building and saying,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be outside, and I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a chance and I'm gonna figure this
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  Speaker 1: out and go to Conson School because I went to
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  Speaker 1: school late. I went to school at like thirty one. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and those people when they go to Constetology school, they
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  Speaker 1: go at like nineteen twenty. They start young. But I
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  Speaker 1: left corporate America, I'm a little four one K plan
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  Speaker 1: and all that to pursue hair. And everybody was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what makes you think hair is the way there's a
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  Speaker 1: hairstaruce on every corner. What's gonna set you aside and
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  Speaker 1: make you different? And natural hair was what made me
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  Speaker 1: different because at that time, there weren't any natural hair
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  Speaker 1: specialists and I only wanted to work on women that
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  Speaker 1: had my texture because I knew what I went through
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  Speaker 1: as a child and I didn't want anybody else to
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  Speaker 1: stuffer through that. Now. So you know, really I love it,
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  Speaker 1: you know story, because it happened to me when you
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  Speaker 1: when you lead corporate America because everybody sees that that
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  Speaker 1: income at eight to five, you know, lunch break, you
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  Speaker 1: get up, you go home, vacation for one k. But
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  Speaker 1: when you step out of that that lane, how are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna make money? Are you sure? Did you pray
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  Speaker 1: on this? Yeah? Well you don't come this way if
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  Speaker 1: you if you, if you make a mistake, I love you,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't love you that much. So so what
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  Speaker 1: made you go ignore that, ignore the doubters to say
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  Speaker 1: this is I've slept on it Because I remember when
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  Speaker 1: I left IBM. I made a decision a year in
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  Speaker 1: advance to leave IBM, and I remember when I made
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  Speaker 1: that decision. I actually had tears in my eyes because
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  Speaker 1: it was such an emotional moment for me to say
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  Speaker 1: that I was gonna do it. Because there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't understand when you make these decisions, they
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  Speaker 1: don't happen overnight. You you you have you have to
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  Speaker 1: build confidence within yourself. You have to believe that because
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  Speaker 1: there are so many people who don't believe it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they pat you on the back to you actually tell
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  Speaker 1: them the truth, and then all of a sudden they
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  Speaker 1: kind of scatter from you because they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be there and they think you're making a big mistake.
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  Speaker 1: So you incorporate America people already to you got a
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  Speaker 1: hairshops everywhere. How are you gonna jump out there, miss thing?
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  Speaker 1: How are you gonna go out there and and make
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  Speaker 1: a difference? How are you gonna get a check? You know? What? What? What? What?
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  Speaker 1: What was the driving forcing you? What? What? Really think
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  Speaker 1: that one of the things that we don't do enough of.
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  Speaker 1: We don't look at our resources. There's so many different
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  Speaker 1: types of resources we have around us that we do
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  Speaker 1: not use um And I noticed people don't ask for help.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know how to ask for help. Uh. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't mean asked call somebody and ask them to
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  Speaker 1: give you money because someone and asked them if they
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  Speaker 1: know someone in your field or doing what it is
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  Speaker 1: that you want to do, who can give you advice?
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  Speaker 1: Like those are key tools, you know, is to get
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  Speaker 1: the proper advice from people. And so for me, what
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  Speaker 1: I did was I was already leaving work, leaving my
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  Speaker 1: nine to five and doing hair after work, doing hair
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  Speaker 1: on the weekends, and I had to sit down and
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  Speaker 1: look at the money I was making. I said, let
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  Speaker 1: me not count this money moment to moment or day
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  Speaker 1: to day. Let me look at what I'm making in
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  Speaker 1: a month just off of doing hair, and let me
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  Speaker 1: compare it to the salary I make at work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if I leave this job, if let's say I'm making
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  Speaker 1: half the money I made that work and I leave
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  Speaker 1: the job, that means I can make more. So it
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  Speaker 1: would only make sense to leave the job and and
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  Speaker 1: to act on faith. And the other thing I had
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  Speaker 1: was a very good resume, so if it didn't work out,
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  Speaker 1: I could always go back to corporate America. But that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't what I wanted. And when you really want something
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  Speaker 1: and you have the will and the willpower to get it,
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  Speaker 1: it manifest. And so it's so important for us to
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  Speaker 1: recognize how strong our will is and how bad we
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  Speaker 1: wanted and to go for it, because that means the
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  Speaker 1: God is trying to tell you something. It's your time.
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  Speaker 1: And so I don't think that people understand that they
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  Speaker 1: feel that feeling they want to move and they want
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  Speaker 1: to change, that they left fear interrupted, and that's not
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  Speaker 1: what it's there for. That that feeling of change and
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  Speaker 1: move means it's your time. I love it now, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna come right act because I want. Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about the engineer in her, the technologist, the technology
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  Speaker 1: side of her, the the Tangler brush because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that that's a different step. When she was eleven
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  Speaker 1: years old, she wasn't thinking about that brush. She's just
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  Speaker 1: trying to get her hairstyle together. We were right back
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  Speaker 1: with more with Felicia letther Wood on the Phonecus celebrity
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  Speaker 1: hairstylus right now. For over twenty six years in the industry.
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  Speaker 1: She's an expert, and she started when she was eleven
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  Speaker 1: years old. Um, mom couldn't do it, so she decided
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  Speaker 1: to do herself. So earlier, at the early stages of life,
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  Speaker 1: she knew that she had to do some things in
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  Speaker 1: her life and was willing to accept the challenge. And
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  Speaker 1: she turned that love and at the thirty one thirty
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, she decided to go to beauty school. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as she said earlier in her conversation, that's usually an
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  Speaker 1: age as reserved for eighteen and eighteen year old people.
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  Speaker 1: She left Corporate America. A lot of doubters questioned her
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  Speaker 1: move because they go, Okay, you've got so much competition
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  Speaker 1: out there. What's gonna acceparate, She's gonna make you special,
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna make people come to your brand? Your thought?
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  Speaker 1: And she said natural hair. She wanted to first focus
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  Speaker 1: on people who had hair like hers because she felt
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  Speaker 1: there was a market out there and it was an
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  Speaker 1: underserved market in the natural hair scope. And so now
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  Speaker 1: she has a new lets just the new you have
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  Speaker 1: a you have a you have a brush out there.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about this brush that you designed and how
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  Speaker 1: did they come about? Because I get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs on the show, because you have the pattent things
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  Speaker 1: you have to get sometimes get down with engineers and
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  Speaker 1: architects to find out exactly if it's going to really work.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about that journey and developing this brush,
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  Speaker 1: the Tangler brush, So the de Tangler brush. I worked
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of brands that have amazing hair products,
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  Speaker 1: but there aren't enough tools out there for natural hair
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  Speaker 1: and so um I basically took something that existed and
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  Speaker 1: made it better, made it for us by us. And
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  Speaker 1: that was important for me is to you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out like what is that thing we
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  Speaker 1: we want to sell or what kind of products we
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  Speaker 1: want to have and there were products that were around
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  Speaker 1: that just kind of died down or disappeared, and that's
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  Speaker 1: your opportunity to take that uh and make it better,
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  Speaker 1: you know, remake it, make it better, and invest the money.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, um, the tangler brush is a brush that
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  Speaker 1: opens up and moves with the hair. The bristles move
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't tangle the hair or break the hair.
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  Speaker 1: If your hair is tangled or you have single strand
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  Speaker 1: knots sometimes they call them fairy knots. Um, the brush
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  Speaker 1: will uh the tangle the hair and if it comes
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  Speaker 1: across a tangle, it will pause and release it into
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  Speaker 1: a curl or a coil. So it actually defines your
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  Speaker 1: texture as well. And men love it for their beards.
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  Speaker 1: My how to get a lot of women writing to
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  Speaker 1: me telling me how their husbands stole their their brush
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  Speaker 1: because they're basically using it on their beards. Kids, little
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  Speaker 1: kids who usually run from the brush, can now you
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  Speaker 1: brush their own hair without crying, without having any problems,
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  Speaker 1: without ripping their hair out. And so this brush has
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  Speaker 1: been uh, it's been amazing, um just to hear the
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  Speaker 1: testimony of so many people using the brush and how
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  Speaker 1: it's changed their life and how it's helping with their
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  Speaker 1: hair to become more manageable. Um and for them the
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  Speaker 1: style its so I'm really proud of the brush. It's
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  Speaker 1: black owned, first black female owned brush company, Brush with
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  Speaker 1: the Best, and I'm really happy about that. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: Now you just hear you hit your more here with
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  Speaker 1: that brush for beards. Now, because I may not have
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  Speaker 1: hair on my head, I do have hair on my face.
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  Speaker 1: So tell Rashan McDonald how he because Rushan will be
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  Speaker 1: buying this brush today. I was talking about my daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Now I realized I got about two not for her,
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  Speaker 1: what for me. So please please tell Rishan McDonald and
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  Speaker 1: my listeners how we go about purchase in this brush
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  Speaker 1: and brush and what's the cost. The brush is fourteen
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  Speaker 1: dollars and it is on the website called brush with
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  Speaker 1: the Best dot com. Um. You can also find it
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  Speaker 1: at the Felicia Leatherwood dot com site. Uh, Instagram, it's
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  Speaker 1: brush with the Best, Twitter, Facebook, you can google it.
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  Speaker 1: You can google my name and you'll see the brush. UM.
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  Speaker 1: So it's everywhere. It's it's easily accessible. And uh, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you do bond because the holiday is a comments.
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  Speaker 1: Why not get again Miss leatherwood. I don't say what
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do. It will be Roshan McDonald's gonna
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  Speaker 1: pop up on your machine today with the number two
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  Speaker 1: quantity too, and it's gonna be coming to Georgia. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the fact that I'm always looking for ways
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  Speaker 1: to First of all, I'm always looking away for support entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 1: And then if it's and you have a value system
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  Speaker 1: within that I can use personally, I'm a quickly supportive
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  Speaker 1: because in the end, it's about getting the word out
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  Speaker 1: and recognize that you have a product, and then you've
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  Speaker 1: done your research on the product, and plus you know
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  Speaker 1: you're famous. Now I'm not getting my brush from just
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  Speaker 1: for more some some regular person. I'm getting it from
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  Speaker 1: a famous you know, Will Smith, Will Smith have Violar,
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  Speaker 1: David he Sa ray ever do for Nate, you know
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  Speaker 1: you put your hands and some famous heads. Now that's
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  Speaker 1: when we're telling my daughters, going, thank you, Dad, thank
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  Speaker 1: you Dad. You gotta sell these young people. You know
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  Speaker 1: you gotta sell me. You gotta sell these young people.
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  Speaker 1: Why so special Dad. I'm gonna tell you who she
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  Speaker 1: is now, I'm gonna tell you, go googler. She will
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  Speaker 1: come running back here. Thank you, Dad, Thank you. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you. Now let's talk about let's talk about you
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  Speaker 1: as an individual who where's the future for you? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your your revolutionary and obviously when I say that,
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  Speaker 1: because your visionary, because of the fact that you, at
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  Speaker 1: eleven years old, made a conscious decision that you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take matters into your own hands. And and at thirty
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  Speaker 1: you're not afraid to make change in your life. Because
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  Speaker 1: we talked about fear and I reviews are prior to
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  Speaker 1: us going to the break. What is the future of
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  Speaker 1: you and your brand? So at this point, I really
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  Speaker 1: want for people to understand that their hair texture is
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  Speaker 1: not about their ethnicity UM and so what I am
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  Speaker 1: on a mission to do, it's just to help people
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  Speaker 1: understand where products work best with their hair and as
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  Speaker 1: a result result of that, that's where the brush comes in,
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  Speaker 1: that's where other tools come in that I'm working on.
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  Speaker 1: UM and I also have started a management company called
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  Speaker 1: Texture Management, and that is an exclusive company that basically
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  Speaker 1: sends hairstyles and makeup artists out to people in the
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  Speaker 1: entertainment industry that are natural or thinking about going natural.
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  Speaker 1: Because a lot of the actresses on set don't have
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  Speaker 1: the proper care for their hair, so now they have
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  Speaker 1: somewhere to go, they call texture management to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they can get their hair service properly, so the
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  Speaker 1: brush texture management. I'm still traveling the world. I'm speaking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still working on Insecure with Easter Ray, and we
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  Speaker 1: have some other films coming out next year. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good life. But you know, you're so calm
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  Speaker 1: about your success, which that's what I love about it.
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  Speaker 1: Are you working with any charities or any any gearback
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  Speaker 1: programs for girls or anything like that. So I do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of charity work. I don't say anything. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but I think my parents
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  Speaker 1: kind of raised us to do do these things without
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  Speaker 1: making a big deal about it. But you're a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: You're a big deal today. You're a big deal though.
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  Speaker 1: You are a big deal young ladies. Let's let's always
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  Speaker 1: realized that I brought your money making conversation. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I feel I feel honored that you're on my show.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think that my show is that big,
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  Speaker 1: and then people tell me it's big. When I get
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  Speaker 1: a guest like you on the show, I'm so appreciative
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  Speaker 1: because what you're saying and what my listeners are doing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this show is broadcast on all HBCU campuses,
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  Speaker 1: So you're telling you're saying things to me and saying
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  Speaker 1: things to my listeners that are going to change their lives,
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  Speaker 1: their life and their lives male and female and so
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  Speaker 1: so what do you always realize that your brand because
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  Speaker 1: I'm just asking you to understand that your value is
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  Speaker 1: so tremendous and to have you on my show is
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  Speaker 1: because this is a version of giving back, I'm using
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  Speaker 1: your name to get back and educate people of color.
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  Speaker 1: M hm. So I um have been. I really want
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  Speaker 1: for people to get involved and not because you know,
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  Speaker 1: anybody because Oprah said or Will Smith said or you know,
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  Speaker 1: but just be motivated to support your community city. I am,
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  Speaker 1: UM really a big advocate for supporting black owned businesses,
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  Speaker 1: and I go around the community and find businesses to
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  Speaker 1: showcase because I think people don't understand what social media.
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  Speaker 1: We have a lot of followers, we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: chance to use our influence to showcase others. So if
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  Speaker 1: I have a hundred thousands followers on Instagram, then I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to put other people down that don't have that,
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  Speaker 1: that are starting businesses, but businesses with integrity. So make
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  Speaker 1: sure like your business is gonna do what it says
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna do and that you have good uh customer
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  Speaker 1: service about your business if things go go haywire. But UM,
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  Speaker 1: I really like to support in that way in my
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  Speaker 1: community by going around and showcasing black owned businesses that
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  Speaker 1: are newly operating or I have been around for a while. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And today there is an event UM and here in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles at my friends home and it's for the
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  Speaker 1: homeless veterans and a lot of my colleagues, barbers and
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  Speaker 1: hairstylists are going from ten am this morning at four
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  Speaker 1: be servicing the homeless veterans today so they can get
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  Speaker 1: free haircuts and hairstyles and facials. So I donated brushes
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  Speaker 1: to that, I've donated money to to the organization. UM.
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  Speaker 1: There is UH also UM some things happening over in
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  Speaker 1: West Africa and uh in Nigeria and in Senegal where
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  Speaker 1: they're raising money for schools. Uh there, and so I
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  Speaker 1: support in that way, and I just really try my
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  Speaker 1: best to let people know what's happened so we can
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