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Faith and Business: Army Veteran started skin care product line and Fade Shop barbershop brand. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome the Money Making Conversations. Y'all don't know host that,
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Speaker 1: But what y'all don't know This young man is sitting
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Speaker 1: there brother me those everywhere the owner afraid Shot. Why
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Speaker 1: did you name it the fade shot? You know, mister
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Speaker 1: Rashan is funny. I was actually in the military over
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Speaker 1: in Bosnia and being one of my military brothers who
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Speaker 1: sat down and was just kind of coming up with
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Speaker 1: a name, said, what can I call this thing? What
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Speaker 1: can I call it? That's gonna stick? You know, you
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Speaker 1: think about the major brands like Ford and Walmart, and
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Speaker 1: it's like, wow, you know everybody know those brands, right,
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Speaker 1: So I'm just dueling and dabbling on the.
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Speaker 3: Piece of paper and I came up with the phase
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Speaker 3: shot and I said, you know what, that's it. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna name it the phage. Now what what what year
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Speaker 3: was that when you were saying that, this was nineteen
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Speaker 3: ninety six. Nineteen ninety six, yes.
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Speaker 1: And so at that point it was a dream. It
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Speaker 1: was all a dream. So were you couldn't hair when
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Speaker 1: you was in the military, Yes, sir, I was cutting
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Speaker 1: hair in the military, and it was just you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to boost up the morale of the
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Speaker 1: troops because we was deployed away from the United States
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Speaker 1: and in Europe and being away from home. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's if you look good, you feel good, you feel good,
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Speaker 1: you do good, you do good. Guess what, you don't
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Speaker 1: get paid good, so you're gonna get that rank. So right, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: So I was just the person that was just boosting
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Speaker 1: that morale up, you know, keeping them guys groom. So
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Speaker 1: where were you originally from? Where were you born and raised?
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Speaker 1: So I'm born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Okay, yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: big d big deep. That's why you love the dread
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Speaker 1: You got the dress. Where you're from? The big guy
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Speaker 1: if you don't dress, you can't claim d That's right.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And so that. So you went
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Speaker 1: from there and then you joined the military or well no,
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Speaker 1: there was an option for the other versus other education.
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Speaker 4: So when I was twelve years old, I moved to
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Speaker 4: southeast Missouri. Okay, it's called the boot Hill. Now, that
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Speaker 4: whole Boo Hill population is probably about sixty thousand people.
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Speaker 4: But the town that I moved to had a population
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Speaker 4: of six hundred and twenty five people.
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Speaker 1: So I moved in with my grandparents. Okay, yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Now when we start talking about dreams and aspirations, like
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Speaker 1: you said, the fade, Yeah, you know, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: the getting into the barber career. Now, when you was
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Speaker 1: doing it in the military where you certified as a
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Speaker 1: full barber, or you just had the skill set. I
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Speaker 1: just had the skill set. My father was a barber
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Speaker 1: in Troy, Alabama. Wow, so it's them a DNA.
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Speaker 4: But I didn't know it was them a den until
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Speaker 4: until you know, I met my father and saw what
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Speaker 4: he was doing, and it just ate start rocking and
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Speaker 4: rolling with it.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I don't, I don't. I can't talk
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Speaker 1: now because I ain't got no hair, but I do
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Speaker 1: respect the process of the importance of a barber because
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Speaker 1: I remember when I players for turning to their college.
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Speaker 1: You know, they told me shape cut somebody the hair.
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Speaker 1: I messed that hair up so bad because it looks
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Speaker 1: like it should be something simple. But it's not talk
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Speaker 1: about these skills that are the gift that it tends
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Speaker 1: to be a good barber. Well, it's it boils down
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Speaker 1: to the attention of detail, treating people like you want
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Speaker 1: to be treated. If someone asked for something, give them
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Speaker 1: what they want. If they ask for advice, you give
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Speaker 1: them the advice. So it's just really the attention to detail.
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Speaker 1: And that's what makes a good barber. The attention.
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Speaker 4: You know, if a person has bumps on the back
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Speaker 4: of their neck, right know that, So your attention to
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Speaker 4: that detail is going to tell them, hey, gets this
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Speaker 4: checked out or what they need to use to help
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Speaker 4: resolve that issue.
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Speaker 1: Now because I've seen that, I've seen that the bumps
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Speaker 1: of the rolls and you see bumps, what what is that? Now?
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Speaker 1: Them rolls, that's that's that's just that's just uh, that's
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Speaker 1: is family. But the bumps we can do something. Okay,
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Speaker 1: talk to you about that.
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Speaker 4: So, so that's called pseudo for likolitis barber you know,
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Speaker 4: in other terms, raise the bomps. So what happens is
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Speaker 4: sometimes you know, you have irritation from your collar on
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Speaker 4: your neck or if you wearing hands, or you just
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Speaker 4: you know, scratch in the back of your head. So
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Speaker 4: what happens is when that that hair starts growing out
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Speaker 4: a lot of times there scar teachers just start growing
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Speaker 4: on it and their hair starts.
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Speaker 1: Curling up and growing back up under the skin.
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Speaker 4: So it's very important for that barbera to notice that
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Speaker 4: and start pulling those hairs out and not necessarily prescribes you,
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Speaker 4: but direct you to a product that's.
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Speaker 1: Gonna, you know, make those bumps go away. Now you
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Speaker 1: have a product in your at ease because you mentioned
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Speaker 1: that at the very top at ease. What exactly is
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Speaker 1: the addes at ease, which is at ease? Right, that's
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Speaker 1: a military that's a military turn that means to be relaxed,
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Speaker 1: worry free.
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Speaker 4: And that's what we want you to think about. What
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Speaker 4: you're thinking about the Addies products. Let's relax, no worries.
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Speaker 1: We got you, we got you, we got you. Well,
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Speaker 1: those razor bumps like I would be honest with you,
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Speaker 1: I can't shave with a razor. I use the electric
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Speaker 1: razors on my face. If I use a razor like
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Speaker 1: you know, uh, then I will bump off. And so
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Speaker 1: you have understood. We just talked about the rage the
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Speaker 1: hair growing underneath the skin. You have a product for.
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Speaker 4: That, correct, Yes, sir, so in our ADDIE's hairs can
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Speaker 4: care a product like we have a product called the
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Speaker 4: Razor Bomp Therapy. And what that's gonna do is that's gonna,
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Speaker 4: you know, for one, keep that area clean and reduce
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Speaker 4: the swelling and the inflammation of those bumps so the
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Speaker 4: hair can be able to break through the skin out
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Speaker 4: and be able to you know, grow out and make
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Speaker 4: those launch.
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Speaker 1: So I'm sitting across a barber, a doctor or scientist. Well,
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Speaker 1: if you know the history of bar barber used to
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Speaker 1: be surgeons, you know what I mean. So we have
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Speaker 1: to go back to the foundation where you really have
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Speaker 1: to care about people. And that's what barbin is about.
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Speaker 1: It's more than just a haircut, right, And so that's
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Speaker 1: the respect because you kind of trivialize, I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: honest with you. You come in, sit down and get
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Speaker 1: that haircut and and you see it on TV. Lebron
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Speaker 1: James got his show on the HBO. He said, in
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Speaker 1: the barbershop because we know it's all about the talk,
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Speaker 1: It's all about the cultural environment. Is it like that
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Speaker 1: the fair chop? It is it is you know, the
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Speaker 1: face shop is the corner store of the community. So
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Speaker 1: this is a place where people have problems and they
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Speaker 1: come in and they look for sound advice. Right. So
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Speaker 1: you know what you have to understand is these people
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Speaker 1: are trusting you and they you are close to them
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Speaker 1: that you will be to anybody that you're really in
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Speaker 1: their personal space. Right.
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Speaker 4: So being in that personal space, you have to give
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Speaker 4: out positive energy. Well you know, I sit down on
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Speaker 4: him because you energy energy that God. I first met
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Speaker 4: you at the Neighborhood Awards or Hoodie Awards. It was
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Speaker 4: hosted by Steve Harvey. I was producing and you want
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Speaker 4: several orders to fade shot for best Barble, not just
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Speaker 4: in plan On, not just in Dallas, not just for work,
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Speaker 4: not just in all, not just in Texas.
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Speaker 1: With the entire country. Yes, and recognized as one of
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Speaker 1: the top barbers shops in the country. What did that
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Speaker 1: type of recognition do for your business, mister shant. What
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Speaker 1: I tell you, just what they said at the top
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Speaker 1: four barber shops in the country is number one. Do
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Speaker 1: fad shops right right? And people just start calling any
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Speaker 1: talking about y'all on Steve Arbishi, they talking about jall
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Speaker 1: where y'all located. We're located.
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Speaker 4: It just really boasted our business at that point. It
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Speaker 4: really it really shined the light on the fade shop.
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Speaker 4: When you when you're looking at secrety success, you.
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Speaker 1: Started in why did why was that dream so clean
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Speaker 1: when you were serving our country?
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Speaker 4: You know, miss I'm must be one hundred percent honest
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Speaker 4: with you. Growing up as a kid, I don't want
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Speaker 4: to be a barber. I wanted to be a greyhound bus.
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Speaker 1: Driver, right, but I joined the military to learn how
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Speaker 1: to drive, and once I started driving, I hated driving right.
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Speaker 1: So right before I left to go over and over
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Speaker 1: the journey, my dad took me to a crash course,
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Speaker 1: gave me some clippers and said we'll go make some money.
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Speaker 1: And when I went over there, I fell in love
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Speaker 1: with it. My first celebrity did I ever come without
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Speaker 1: a license? Was Usher? Right? Super Bowl Usher? Super Bowl Usher?
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Speaker 1: Okay you know so yeah? So Usher Genuine came over,
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Speaker 1: no Lemon came over, Snoop Dogg, all those guys came
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Speaker 1: over and I was cutting their hair. So it was
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Speaker 1: like at that point I said, well, this is bigger
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Speaker 1: than the military. Right, So when my time came up
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Speaker 1: to get out, I was like, okay, you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: ready to go and follow this stream. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: left got out with the school in Arkansas and at
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Speaker 1: that point it got my license and I moved to
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Speaker 1: Texas and it changed my life. Was when we talked
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Speaker 1: about your career nineteen years in this business, any moments
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Speaker 1: to you with man, why am I cutting hair? No?
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Speaker 1: You know, I've never hit the moment of why I'm
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Speaker 1: Why am I cutting hair? It was why am I
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Speaker 1: running these shops? Okay?
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Speaker 4: Because it's more so like I'm running a halfway house.
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Speaker 4: You know, I have to deal with with grown men
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Speaker 4: with kids problem.
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Speaker 1: But those outside problems become inside problems. And now they
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Speaker 1: can't pay their rent, right you know, they come in
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Speaker 1: and make the money, but they take the money out
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Speaker 1: and spend it in the streets and they don't want
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Speaker 1: to pay you know, the house. So there's never been
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Speaker 1: a time where you know, I didn't enjoy cutting hair
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Speaker 1: because I love doing this here. You know, I do
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Speaker 1: it for free. That's how much out now because now
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Speaker 1: we're going to the community. Yes, because I can't believe
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Speaker 1: that the individual who served our country and thank you
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Speaker 1: for your service, it's not involved in the community. And
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Speaker 1: I say, I can't believe. I'm just saying, I know
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Speaker 1: there's an obvious decision you made in your life. Talk
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Speaker 1: about your community service, you know, mister Rashon. Without the community,
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Speaker 1: there's no us, there's no need, you know.
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Speaker 4: So my pride is to be in the community, you know,
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Speaker 4: minturing to youth, you know, back to school here because
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Speaker 4: I even you know, go back home and give out
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Speaker 4: turkeys to.
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Speaker 1: My neighborhood in Missouri. Because you know, I wasn't an athlete,
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Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't a singer or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: I just came here. You know, I can't hit a
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Speaker 1: couple of notes now, I'm not gonna do that, right,
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Speaker 1: but but just to go back and show them that
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Speaker 1: you don't have to be an athlete or entertainer to
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Speaker 1: give back to your community, because somebody's always watched, somebody's
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Speaker 1: always watched you and if you want them to if
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Speaker 1: you want to be a good example, then you have
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Speaker 1: to produce a good example. This is right here. This
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Speaker 1: is just one of your products, you know, Eddie E's yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: just talking business. How did you come about with the
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Speaker 1: logo design? So I went to Fiver. I told the
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Speaker 1: guys that I wanted to say Eddie's hair and skincare well.
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Speaker 1: In the military, AT is the preparatory command. EASE is
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Speaker 1: the command of execution. Right, So when he brought it back,
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Speaker 1: I was like, okay, he had at Then he had
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Speaker 1: the hair tentacles up in the air, which is they
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Speaker 1: was up, they was at attention and as they went
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Speaker 1: into ease they laid down. Okay, And I was like,
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Speaker 1: that's my logo right now, right right right, yeah right yeah,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I went to Fibrant and had a designer
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Speaker 1: to design that low. Now the reason I The reason
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Speaker 1: I wanted to show everybody is because people are how
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Speaker 1: is the process? Because a joke to say you're order
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Speaker 1: you a doctor or scientist or a barber, but you
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Speaker 1: had to put this together the chemicals to make sure
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Speaker 1: it doesn't burn people hair or or irritate them when
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Speaker 1: they put how's that process? Where you start sharing your
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Speaker 1: secrets to success of manufacturing products outside of being a
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Speaker 1: traditional barber. So it boils down to just send down
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Speaker 1: with the chemist who has a plan, because every product
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Speaker 1: out there has a foundation, and it's just like building
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Speaker 1: a house. You know, if you want the crown molding,
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Speaker 1: you want the granted top, then they'll get cool.
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Speaker 4: I need a little bit of this, so I want
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Speaker 4: a little bit of that, and then you're go and
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Speaker 4: test it because you know, to have a product line.
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Speaker 4: These companies they have millions dollars of insurance, right you know,
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Speaker 4: behind your products, so you're going to be covered.
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Speaker 1: With that and they're testing improved by you know, licensed chemists.
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Speaker 1: You know so.
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Speaker 4: But but when it comes to just being in business,
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Speaker 4: you have to be all you have to be. You
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Speaker 4: have to be the marketing, you have to be the designer,
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Speaker 4: you have to be the spokesperson. You have to be
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Speaker 4: all of those things if you want your business to
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Speaker 4: be a success. You know, you can't expect no one
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Speaker 4: to do something for you that you're not willing to
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Speaker 4: do for yourself. So when you get ready to get
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Speaker 4: into the business of being an entrepreneur, just be willing
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Speaker 4: to put on many hats, because you're gonna have to
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Speaker 4: wear many hats if you're trying to be successful.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in the barber industry.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who are who retire
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Speaker 1: out of the barber industry. What type of organizations out
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Speaker 1: there that are like holding on to the actual culture
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Speaker 1: or honoring the culture of barbers. So I'm a part
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Speaker 1: of the OG Barber Conference. And when I say OG,
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Speaker 1: that means you're offering game and the offering game offering
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Speaker 1: game a game being, what game being, knowledge, their mentorship,
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Speaker 1: things of that nation there. And what we're trying to
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Speaker 1: do is just bring barbers together, old and young, just
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Speaker 1: bring the unity back. And when I say you know
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Speaker 1: old and young, you have maybe an older.
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Speaker 4: Guy who's a new barber or a younger guy who's
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Speaker 4: been cutting her for a long time. So it doesn't
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Speaker 4: matter what the age the person is. It's just you
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Speaker 4: know how long they've been in the industry, and we're
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Speaker 4: just trying to unite these brothers and sisters and you know,
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Speaker 4: so we can educate them a mentor and they can
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Speaker 4: you know, we see what they're doing. So what we
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Speaker 4: do is this is our third year and we have
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Speaker 4: an annual event to where we honor individuals that's been
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Speaker 4: doing some amazing things in their community.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Wow, And so it's like so it's like it's
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Speaker 1: a three day event or a single day event. It's
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Speaker 1: a two day events event. Talk about to walk us
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Speaker 1: through the steps of the event. It's called the o G.
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Speaker 1: The O G Barber Offering Game.
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Speaker 4: Offering games because when you know what people think about OG,
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Speaker 4: they think about some original gangsters.
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Speaker 1: We're just about offering game, right because you know what
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Speaker 1: a game is, knowledge and game. It's not because mister Mashan,
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Speaker 1: you're OG.
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Speaker 4: Because because you've been offering gang along, you offer me
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Speaker 4: some game, game, you motivating me, Well, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: So so that's what it's all about. So it's it's
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Speaker 1: just like I said, it's an event.
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Speaker 4: We search barbers from across the country that's really active
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Speaker 4: in their community that's really doing things that's really mentally
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Speaker 4: because that's just.
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Speaker 1: Really you know, setting a stone or trail blazing through
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Speaker 1: this thing. And we just bring them in and and
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Speaker 1: you know, give him award to just sell them. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: keep up the good work. You know, we see you.
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Speaker 1: And what that does is either turn that fire up,
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Speaker 1: motivates do something else, and they're going to inspire somebody else.
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Speaker 1: So how did you find this location and plan? Old?
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Speaker 1: So when people understand the process that one goes about
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Speaker 1: finding a location to set up a barber shop, So
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Speaker 1: this location here to plan a location, it's all about
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Speaker 1: your network, right, your network is going to be your network.
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Speaker 4: Well, somebody called another barbor friend of mine and say, hey,
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Speaker 4: do you want to buy some barber chairs? So when
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Speaker 4: they called me to say you want about the dressing?
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Speaker 1: No, what's up with the shop? Right? Okay, yeah, what's
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Speaker 1: up with the shop?
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Speaker 4: Well, the guy who owned the shop passed away and
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Speaker 4: his kids don't want it, and I will let me
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Speaker 4: check the shop out. And when I came in, it
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Speaker 4: was some very old antique chairs and I was like,
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Speaker 4: you know what, this is the new spot for the
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Speaker 4: Phase shop.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, plano text and planeo texts. But but anytime
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Speaker 1: that you're going out and wanting to do this here,
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Speaker 1: you have to be about the location, location, location, location, right.
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Speaker 1: Don't open up no barbershop in an alley. Don't open
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Speaker 1: up no barber shop in no warehouse. You know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. You have to have apartments, you have to
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Speaker 1: have businesses that you can drive off of. You have
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Speaker 1: to have residents in a community. And that's what's going
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Speaker 1: to feed your barbershop. Let's talk about what is the
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Speaker 1: traditional barber, because you know, one of things of a
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Speaker 1: traditional barber's male individual. Is that still the standard today? Oh? No,
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Speaker 1: not at all, not at all. No.
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Speaker 4: There are some very cold and cold female barbers out here,
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Speaker 4: you know, and they don't want to be called female
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Speaker 4: barber because they say, you know, there's not a female doctor,
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Speaker 4: and you.
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Speaker 1: Know it's a barber. So they are really coming out
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Speaker 1: of trapling. And when I tell.
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Speaker 4: A woman barber, listen, a man would give you everything,
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Speaker 4: but it's id because he needed ID to get everything.
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Speaker 1: You land in the chair. That woman's touch, she's cutting you,
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Speaker 1: she's picking those those hairs on your hair, bumpside of
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Speaker 1: your faith. She's beside of your faith you in heaven.
17:36
Speaker 1: Thirty minutes later, you're like, okay, how much is it's
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Speaker 1: forty dollars? Okay, here go take a hundred right right, right? Hey,
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Speaker 1: I see you next week, right right. It's all about
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Speaker 1: the care and the relationship exactly. One thing I wanted
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Speaker 1: to use. You slid this in when we was talking
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Speaker 1: about the og. You talking about mentoring. Yes, the important
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Speaker 1: of mentoring and relationship please expire. Yes, Well people look
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Speaker 1: up us, you know, so it's it's very important that
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Speaker 1: we sold those positive seeds back into people, you know,
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Speaker 1: to mentor. It is important because kids are coming here
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Speaker 1: that don't have a father, so they're looking to us
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Speaker 1: to be their father figure. It actually goes back to
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Speaker 1: the movie Barbershop, was said entertainer. He said that Barbara
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Speaker 1: is is a father, he's a brother, he's a fashion consultant,
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Speaker 1: you know, he's a doctor, he's all of these different things.
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Speaker 1: So we wear a lot of different hats from behind
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Speaker 1: the chair. And to be a successful Barbara, you have
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Speaker 1: to be willing to wear all these different hats. Because
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Speaker 1: if that kid's come to here and he's being a
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Speaker 1: little disrespectful to his mother, you know what as that
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Speaker 1: barbie say, hey, hey, hey, we ain't doing that up
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Speaker 1: here doing get around to sit out right right right,
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Speaker 1: and that kid is gonna get in line. And what
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Speaker 1: that kid is going to do is he's going to
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Speaker 1: find a liking to you. There's one little kid right
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Speaker 1: now and I met him two years ago, and when
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Speaker 1: he first came into the barbershop, I cut his hair.
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Speaker 1: The first question this kid asked me was are you saying?
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Speaker 1: And I said, that's strange. I never really thank you question.
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Speaker 1: I said, yes, I'm saying. I'm used to asking like
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Speaker 1: what you like basketball? What what's your favorite team? He's alright,
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Speaker 1: you saying so talking to him and said, but what
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Speaker 1: do you want to be when you grow up?
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Speaker 4: He said, I want to be the presiding Bisshion of
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Speaker 4: the church and God at Christ. And this young man
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Speaker 4: and when I tell you, this young man right here,
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Speaker 4: he walks in that lane strong twelve years old. He
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Speaker 4: walks in that lane.
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Speaker 1: So when you talk about mentorships, see, you inspired me
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Speaker 1: to go from the rack to be spoken, right. So
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Speaker 1: I just bought him his first custom suit. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: So you know this young man here, he's he's he's
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Speaker 1: very phenomenal. He's very you know, driven, and God has
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Speaker 1: his hands on this guy. But he looks up to me,
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Speaker 1: he watches what I do. He listened to what I say,
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Speaker 1: and that's very important. So that's what mentorship is about.
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Speaker 1: Does you have a product line like this have an
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Speaker 1: impact on people?
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Speaker 5: Your people?
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Speaker 4: It does, because what happens is when they hear you
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Speaker 4: say it and they watch you do it, then they
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Speaker 4: know there's action behind the words.
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Speaker 1: You know. So when they come in and they see
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Speaker 1: the Addies brand and I'm using on the man, what's
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Speaker 1: that right there?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 1: This is Addie such okay, man, that's male good? Where
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Speaker 1: do I get that? When you get it right here? Right? Wow?
20:34
Speaker 1: Well are you represented for the company? No, I'm the
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Speaker 1: owner of the company. Wow. Oh how did you get
20:37
Speaker 1: started with that? And then you just start talking and
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Speaker 1: inspired people and it's like, well, what do you enjoy doing? Well? Man,
20:43
Speaker 1: I like to wash cars? Okay, Well have you ever
20:46
Speaker 1: thought about, you know, starting your own business? Well? Man,
20:48
Speaker 1: you know that.
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Speaker 4: Well, listen, you can always work for them, you can
20:52
Speaker 4: work for you. Are you going to be more loyal
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Speaker 4: to them than you are going to be to you?
20:56
Speaker 4: If you are, then you have to, you know, sell
20:58
Speaker 4: what they're going to give you.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people have stepped out and jumped
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Speaker 1: into the entrepreneurship and come back and say, you know what, man,
21:04
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you pushing it because at that point,
21:07
Speaker 1: once they step out, you don't want to leave them
21:09
Speaker 1: out there, right. You always want to be that person
21:11
Speaker 1: that they can talk about. Well, you know, as we
21:14
Speaker 1: talk about secrets to your success and motivation and information,
21:19
Speaker 1: somebody wants you to get into business of being a barber.
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Speaker 1: You know what steps to success would you offer to them?
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Speaker 1: So the first step, if you're trying to be a barber,
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Speaker 1: I want you to ask yourself, is this really what
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Speaker 1: I want to do? Am I passionate about this? Will
21:38
Speaker 1: I do it for free? If you say no, then
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Speaker 1: you're not ready to be a barber? Right, But if
21:44
Speaker 1: you get past.
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Speaker 4: That one, step two is I want you to find
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Speaker 4: you a good school, a school that's going to teach
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Speaker 4: you a to z not just cutting hair.
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Speaker 1: They need to teach you business, They need to teach
21:55
Speaker 1: you marketing, they need to teach you personal skills. And
21:58
Speaker 1: once you have that school that's going to teach you
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Speaker 1: all of those things there, then.
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Speaker 4: When you get into a barber shop, you have a
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Speaker 4: strong foundation and you build from their foundation there. So
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Speaker 4: once you build from that and you feel okay, you
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Speaker 4: know what, I want to open up my own shop. Okay, Well,
22:17
Speaker 4: now you start looking at people that's doing the things
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Speaker 4: that you want to do or have the things that
22:22
Speaker 4: you want to have, and understand it's okay.
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Speaker 1: To be a copycat. Just copy the right cat. It's
22:28
Speaker 1: okay to be a copycat. Just copy the right cat.
22:32
Speaker 1: And once you do that there, then you're going to
22:34
Speaker 1: be off to success because people know if you're real
22:37
Speaker 1: about what you're trying to do. Thank you for allowing
22:40
Speaker 1: me to come into the Fade shop and hear your
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Speaker 1: story and learn some of your secrets to success.
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