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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm Rashawn McDonald, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,

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Speaker 2: where we encourage people to stop reading other people's success

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Speaker 2: stories and start planning their own. Listen up as I

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Speaker 2: interview entrepreneurs from around the country, talk to celebrities and

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Speaker 2: ask them how they are running their companies, and speak

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Speaker 2: with dog profits who are making a difference in their

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Speaker 2: local communities. Now, sit back and listen as we unlock

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Speaker 2: the secrets to their success on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.

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Speaker 2: The interviews and information that this show provides off for everyone.

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Speaker 2: It's time to stop reading other people's success stories and

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Speaker 2: start living your own. My next guest is a graduate

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Speaker 2: of Morgan State University that's in Baltimore, Maryland area. She

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Speaker 2: is revolutionized scap care that's haircare with her innovative braid

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Speaker 2: lock and scap refreshing wipes as WPS wipes. Please welcome

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Speaker 2: to the Money Making Conversations Master Class. Keana Pearson, Canada.

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Speaker 3: Say your name correctly, you did, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And y'all was in the room. Canopias and canopis because

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Speaker 1: I know it's important to get the name. My name

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Speaker 1: is was Sean McDonald, the lawd and Merchant. I mean

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Speaker 1: people have said my name right before, they said it

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Speaker 1: right correctly.

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Speaker 3: Now the friend, I understand and thank you so much

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Speaker 3: for having me great.

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Speaker 1: First of all, Morgan State University. Why Morgan State University,

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Speaker 1: my friend HBCU grad.

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Speaker 3: Well, I come from a family who embodies black culture, okay,

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Speaker 3: and so I have an older sister who was searching

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Speaker 3: for an HBCU herself. So once it was time for

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Speaker 3: me to pick my college, I remember going around to

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Speaker 3: the different HBCUs and I knew that I wanted to

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Speaker 3: stay close to home. I'm a mommy's girl, and so

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Speaker 3: for me it was either Howard Morgan copping State or

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Speaker 3: at the time you had her journal, Douglas. And I

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Speaker 3: knew more than was for me. Once I crossed that bridge,

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Speaker 3: I said, you know what, go there, let's do it.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, go do it. You know, like you know,

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Speaker 1: all ideas happen, you know, sometimes they come to you spontaneously.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you've just been kind of like living the life

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Speaker 1: and you kind of like figure that out, figured out

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. Your product that deals with braids, to

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Speaker 1: deal with locks, that deals with maintenance, that deals with Cleaniness.

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Speaker 1: How did this idea come about? And give everybody the

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Speaker 1: exact name of your product?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so my product is braid Locking scot Refreshening Life.

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Speaker 3: The company itself is trust Clean. And this wasn't actually

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Speaker 3: a quick get rich skin you know. This wasn't like

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Speaker 3: an episode of Martin where I came into some money

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Speaker 3: and I was forced to start a business. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: like real spoons, you know, right. I wasn't forced to

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Speaker 3: start a business. I never sought out to be an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 3: especially in the hair care industry.

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Speaker 1: Why you say, especially in the hair care business, what

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Speaker 1: is such a competitive what is it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It's oversaturated, right, It's an oversaturated market. It's dominated

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Speaker 3: by non black males targeting black women, which is a

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Speaker 3: problem in itself. So again, it wasn't something that I

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Speaker 3: sought out. This was actually to fulfill a personal hair

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Speaker 3: care need for myself. I remember years ago hugging a

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Speaker 3: smell of her hair. There was an odor, and so

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Speaker 3: after that point I was extremely conscious of what my

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Speaker 3: this really wasn't living up to their claims, and so

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Speaker 3: I realized in order to get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: So, how were you taking care of your hair before

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Speaker 1: you had the product? You had that moment, WHOA, don't

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Speaker 1: smell like hers? So what were you doing the first

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Speaker 1: of all, before you became conscious and aware of that

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Speaker 1: that's not the smell you want to put off? What

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Speaker 1: were you doing to take care of your hair? And

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Speaker 1: what hairstyle were you wearing at the time? All were

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Speaker 3: Always braids, always braids. So braids is a part of

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Speaker 3: my lifestyle. I also come from a family of block wearing,

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Speaker 1: You know, It's like not taking a shower and putting

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Speaker 1: I take a jour later. Okay, really, okay, okay, exactly right.

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Speaker 1: I understand exactly what you're saying now, And so.

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Speaker 3: I realized that in order to you know, get rid

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Speaker 3: needed to find something that was quick, that was actually effective,

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Speaker 3: I created a prototype and I started using natural products

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Speaker 3: and I would put them in different types of whites.

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Speaker 3: That necessarily wasn't what I wanted. So I created what

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Speaker 1: Now, did you go to a like sometimes they have

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Speaker 1: these loveliest love chimp scientists or food scientists or people

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Speaker 1: that you can go to and they can help you

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Speaker 1: develop your product. Or you just did all this in

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Speaker 3: I did it all in my kitchen.

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Speaker 1: I go girl, You go girl, Thank.

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Speaker 3: You very much. I'm a pat myself on a back

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Speaker 3: tested the product for two years to make sure that

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Speaker 3: it's safety was up to par, make sure that its

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Speaker 1: So when you I'm not trying, not trying to get

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Speaker 1: of people on the show, and I really admire entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: you know, sitting in that kitchen grinding and becoming scientists,

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Speaker 1: you know, and trusting their thoughts and becoming a guinea pig,

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Speaker 1: So as I'm just gonna talk about I've worn when

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Speaker 1: You know, I was trying to look good. And so

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Speaker 1: of maintaining that look but also a refreshing smell. That's

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Speaker 3: Correct exactly. So when it comes down to braids and locks,

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Speaker 3: of course, we want to protect our timely, costly investment.

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Speaker 3: don't want our hair to start frizzing up, and so

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Speaker 3: when it comes to washing, it is also time consuming,

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Speaker 3: And so we don't want to submerge our hair as

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Speaker 3: often because we really don't even have the time, right

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Speaker 3: or we're just leaving a restaurant that's not properly vented

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Speaker 3: product was created for a busy lifestyle when traditional washing

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Speaker 1: Right now, in your credit it said the first black

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Speaker 1: woman owned hair wipe company specifically designed for braids and locks.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk. Let's go back to that first black one

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Speaker 1: on you know, we know how dominant black women are

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Speaker 1: in the hair care business. How are you the first?

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Speaker 3: So again, and it's still that the concept of wiping

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Speaker 3: your hair to consent is completely deal really, Oh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that in disbelief.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying this, like you know, that means there's

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Speaker 1: a section of this industry that sells us products that

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Speaker 1: push a lifestyle on us but don't care about the

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Speaker 1: end results. That's what comes out of my mind, where

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Speaker 1: you are a person who lived the lifestyle, care about it,

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Speaker 1: and then the light bulb went off that you can

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Speaker 1: design something that works and will benefit the masses, which

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Speaker 1: is the black community. Is am I right in that direction?

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Speaker 3: You're absolutely correct?

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, do you get mad when I do that?

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Speaker 1: Did that make you mad?

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Speaker 3: It didn't make me mad because again, I wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: here if we didn't have that dilemma. So when I

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Speaker 3: actually was looking for some wipes myself for my hair,

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Speaker 3: I found wipes, but more so for women of other

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Speaker 3: cultures that they had Sarrem wipes. So it wasn't necessarily

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Speaker 3: to cleanse the scalp and yushing the hair file holes.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, big time, big time. You know, we create

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Speaker 3: so many of our own issues when it comes down

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Speaker 3: to the scalp, know, the separag demotitis, the dryness, and

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Speaker 3: the dandrus. We use so many products, so the excessive

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Speaker 3: oil and dirt build up. Uh, we use a lot

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Speaker 3: of edge control. We got a baby hairs down.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know about that, the baby hair Okay.

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Speaker 3: Now those that creates issues.

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Speaker 1: Now, now Trust Clean, that's Trust Clean, t R E

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Speaker 1: S S. Clean. How does the name trust because that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a that's a tongue twister for me, Trust Clean.

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Speaker 1: How did that title of the business product come about?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, trust is usually equated to your hair, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: While I you know, well, you're in the room where

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Speaker 1: you did the wile I hope you didn't do that

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Speaker 3: Job listen I do while I in public. I have

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Speaker 3: meetings in my head wherever I am, I'm like, listen,

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Speaker 3: don't you see me in the meeting.

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Speaker 1: Trest Clean stands out in the twenty six point one

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Speaker 1: billion dollar natural hair care industry by focusing on natural,

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Speaker 1: non toxic ingredients. Now, you know, it's really interesting how

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Speaker 1: the none you know, the natural hair industry has exploded,

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Speaker 1: you know, because of you know, recently, you know, Congress's

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Speaker 1: Players laws. Laws have been passed where you know, women can,

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Speaker 1: especially women of color, can wear their hair to work

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Speaker 1: and not be stigmatized or stereotype by the employer or

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Speaker 1: their supervisors, and which is allowed for this industry to

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Speaker 1: really take off. And have you to am I correct

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Speaker 1: in my assessment that that has really benefited and also

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Speaker 1: created a need for trust cleans.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so we are have that stereotype that braidsen locks

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Speaker 3: are little maintenance, unkeptain, unprofessional. So of course they did

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Speaker 3: create laws, the Crown Act, to allow us to eventually

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Speaker 3: start wearing our braidsen locks and our professional lifestyles. And

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Speaker 3: so I again wanted to make sure that I had

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Speaker 3: a way to have the maintenance enough on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: No, man, as you can because you said, Rau Sean,

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Speaker 1: I've been a brave person all my life.

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Speaker 2: Correct, correct?

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Speaker 1: Okay, talk to me about your journey and this lifestyle,

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Speaker 1: because I'm sure you know other people have said, assume, uh,

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Speaker 1: stereotyped you. Have you felt that you were placed in

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Speaker 1: I told them, I tell them that it's a journey.

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Speaker 1: She has revolutionized a scap care with her innovative braid

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you I enjoyed this call. You're

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Speaker 3: So my website again is trustclean dot com. You can

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