What's up, brands are welcome to satisfy school. Let's talk today about braiding hair culture and, of course, side hotline, on the programme. We don't normally feature nonprofits, because sawdust school is all about helping individuals make money. That's our mission. It's just a narrow mission, nothing wrong. It always starting a non profit and offer the people feature end up. In good in the world. Maybe even have a motivation to go and do good in the world, but they also want to make a financial profit for themselves. In case it that's our mission, that's our focus today stories about unique because it covers along his we wish, the Chicago woman who is now operating a nonprofit, helping trans racial adopted families, but for many years before she changed structure

create an organization etcetera. She did this as a side, hustle earning up to four thousand dollars a month. So we'll look at several aspects of that in this unique story. It's all about hair, braiding workshops stay tuned, to make us whence interest inheriting started at an early age or mom her hair every week by the time she was old enough hold a calm, Jamaica was pestering hurt to pass on what she knew and then, by the time she reached her early teens she'd master. The styles of corn rose in dutch rates. My came time to go to college. To make it aside, she would turn her skills into a little extra income. She had a part time student

but the work was sporadic and unpredictable after enrolling in in completing a styling course in Chicago. She was ready to offer her own services starting. The business was pretty simple. To make us spend a few dollars to get flyers made up then handed them out on the campus. Quite she charged thirty five dollars for a minimum to our sitting, with the cost of fifteen dollars, every subsequent. Our these prices were based on what she was already earning at her student job, also about fifteen dollars an hour, so she could ensure she was at least can even on our new venture. Eventually, she was able to build up a solid client base through referrals inert a few hundred dollars a week round her studies after graduation. She took a job as a pearl agent. She stopped reading here for a while to focus our time and attention on work, but after a few years felt the urge to start back up again. There were loans to be paid off and it never hurt to have a second stream of income starting this site. Hustle back home was even simpler than at college. She called a few friends booked appointments and then use their heads is walking billboards to attract more client.

This may sound overly simplified, but to make promises it's how she ran her business for a number of years. This unconventional degeneration plan had its drawbacks. Being good in the world Herr care. It can often led to a sea of referrals you just can't handle this means. You need to improve at one of two things saying no or just working more and saying: no is an acceptable option. To make around this house offer a number of years working tend to twenty hours a week render job I now she had razor prices and was earning up to four thousand dollars a month. She didn't need a high volume of clients to meet these figures, because breeding someone's Harry can take between two and ten hours. Every few years would cause operating hustle to pursue other ventures. She went back to business school to get our masters degree got married and worked for husbands business when they got to force later. She found herself a job at an insurance firm and once again she began grading, hair it or spare time

let her out to be the last time she would give it up and eventually come back to it because to make it got involved in emission at church and went with a group to teach English two kids in Poland for two weeks there she's showing students how to break their own hair as a way to get them talking and learning she loved teaching and the kids responded really well back home. She does. She wanted to work more with kids. She started by simply expanding our services to include kits hair. She promoted the business using flyers in business. It's the same. What she had done in college and quickly found a number of families eager to sign up one of the family. She grew close to was a transformational adoptive family. They were white parents would adopted to offer

american daughters. It was in their hair at the two Mika felt she found her true passion. She saw that the two kids here needed some love. They had no idea how to take care of themselves, and neither did their adoptive mother to make a felt. She had a jump in show she style the daughters, hair and then taught them on how to do some basic care herself over the course of a few weeks to make her within contacted by a number of other transformational, adopt two families to see if she could help them out to she made the bookings did some starlings and show the parents of your tricks. This led her to start a not for profit called styles for kids. It's an organization that styles african american children's hair. You provides courses, unhurt management for adults,. Families much like or site. I sought to make a has built this purely on referrals and only recently started marketing through social media in twenty eight teen maker and are organizations bond tears were able to serve five hundred children in and around Chicago projected to serve one thousand this coming year,

Writing here is a real need and her transformation, fanatics twice awesome it reminded me of under ever so we were time long ago, and especially now, when I got from somebody who is Peter on the podcast back back on episode, sixty four Long haired men create tribal identity that was about this little business called along hairs out, which is all about, Herrick Sesar Ease and other items for men who choose to have long hair, which is an interesting business of its own, actually grown and really taken off a lot since we featured in the first year of the pot cast, but I just heard from crest the guy in that story that they have set against world record. They did this big event in California for the most hair donated to charity in twenty four hours they set up on it

Broadway Pure and something like thirteen hundred people from around the country. Hairstyle US hair, stylist and travelled in for this historic event, They also recently like two hundred thousand dollars, which is how goes to a charity called children with her loss, provides hair replacements, two kids with medically related here last some and it's completely free of charge for them. So that that was pretty cool, and I want to bring that up day to you reminded of episode. One forty oncology nurse creates products to regrow, hereafter chemo the person in that story is actually in the new one side of this book, which comes out very soon. We have Profile of her, along with ninety nine other people, what their idea why how they pursued it and what they learned like the Pike S, but in highly visual form I read about having not in the world, and I hope that you enjoy it too It is now the end of the week we gotta weekly recap coming up tomorrow in a whole new set of stories next week. I do hope, you'll join me. Inspiration is good, but instead What action is better to get today shone out?

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