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Speaker 1: New show called Breakthrough with Dr Perry a new daytime

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations, Dr Steve Perry, My main man. How are you? Damn?

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Speaker 1: How you mad? It's why to talk to you? Both

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Speaker 1: how long we've talked about people are different networks? Have

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation, Calvin Kalas, thanks f having me,

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Speaker 1: My man, appreciate being here. Okay, first of all, you're

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Speaker 1: a barbershop guy, right, that's your background, right, Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I owned the barbershop. It's it's my background, and my

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Speaker 1: mom also owned the beauty problem in barbershop when I

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Speaker 1: was a kid. So that means you can talk. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you talk, you're talking. You've been you've been. You've been

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Speaker 1: talking North for a long time. How long were you

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Speaker 1: are the barbershop business, sir? Um? So, I actually owned

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Speaker 1: the barbershop for just three years. But again, I grew

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Speaker 1: forced my brother and I to pretty much spent every

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Speaker 1: years in the barbershop. So where are you based at

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Speaker 1: in New Jersey? And hes star in New Jersey? Oh?

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Speaker 1: He big talk? Oh my god? All that sports up there? Man?

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Speaker 1: What's what's what? What's you get? Before we getting into

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Speaker 1: it for? Up there? What sports team? Um? I mean,

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Speaker 1: since I was a kid, Patriots has always been my mind.

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Speaker 1: Your Jersey boy, your Jersey boy. I'm a Jersey boy.

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Speaker 1: I was born in Brooklyn. But but yeah, a Jersey boy.

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Speaker 1: You just gift all over the Giants, gift all over

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Speaker 1: the Jets, and when well done to the Patriots, I know,

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Speaker 1: well they'll be giving you, they be giving you a

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Speaker 1: hard time. You look, you're not in the barbershop business

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Speaker 1: no more. Boy, you mayfy ride you and you can

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Speaker 1: just be smiling too. Yeah. Uh wow, that's awesome. So,

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Speaker 1: so tell us your background to make you to be

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Speaker 1: become an entrepreneur. Like you said, you your mom brought

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Speaker 1: you up into business, you and your brother. You know,

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Speaker 1: so you had a clear understanding of what that lifestyle was.

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Speaker 1: Was that income, the income possibilities of what you can generate,

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Speaker 1: you know, to take care of your family, because we

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Speaker 1: all have bigger aspirations than what your family presents to you.

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Speaker 1: How did you get in the barber business? And then

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Speaker 1: how did you start developing this product line? Absolutely so?

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Speaker 1: Um so. I mean I recalled being uh broken and

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Speaker 1: frustrated college to it, and I wasn't quite sure what

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Speaker 1: I wanted to do with my life. Um. But I

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Speaker 1: do recall, you know, every other Friday, I take the

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Speaker 1: last twenty dollars that I had in my pocket and

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Speaker 1: I'd go get it cut and I leave the barbershop

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Speaker 1: feeling like I literally could take on the world. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I also remember my time from my mom's barbershop. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know. So so these experiences, you know, I've witnessed

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Speaker 1: firsthand how grooming had the potential to help people feel

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Speaker 1: better about themselves. UM. And so with these unique experiences,

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Speaker 1: specifically only my own barbershop, and noticing an issue that

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Speaker 1: the customers had UM in our shop, uh, predominantly African

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Speaker 1: American and Hispanic men very dry frizzey damage here and

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Speaker 1: beards um always a pretty good problem solver went home,

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Speaker 1: Uh board with the daytime job. So let me back

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Speaker 1: up and say, um, let me back up and say

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Speaker 1: that the first job that I had out of college

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Speaker 1: was at a global design firm UM, and I hate

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Speaker 1: it it. UM. Then I moved on to working and

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Speaker 1: find into the market research firm, and I hated that

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Speaker 1: even more. It was something about, you know, spending the

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Speaker 1: rest of my life behind an office cubic who felt

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Speaker 1: like a death sentence UM. And I felt a little

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Speaker 1: so crushing each and every day. And somehow I knew

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Speaker 1: that I was supposed to be doing something more. UM.

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Speaker 1: So when I had the opportunity opened up the barbershop

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Speaker 1: and spotted an issue. UM. And because I was bored

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Speaker 1: with the daytime job, UM, I became very passionate about

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Speaker 1: solving this issue that our customers had. And so every

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Speaker 1: UH weeknight and on the weekend, I'd be home learning

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Speaker 1: everything that I could about skinning here and and crafting up,

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Speaker 1: crafting products and bringing back to the shops UM to

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Speaker 1: hand off to the barbers and customers to get feedback. UM.

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Speaker 1: So that's how it all started. UM ended up, you know,

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Speaker 1: really creating a set of products that the customers love,

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Speaker 1: UM love so much that word spread and folks were

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Speaker 1: coming from New York in Connecticut to a little New

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Speaker 1: jer the barbershop purchasing products UM. And out of necessity,

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Speaker 1: we had launched UH dot com to make it easier

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Speaker 1: for those folks to get products UM. And you know,

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Speaker 1: six months into launching the business in the shop and online,

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Speaker 1: UH from the kitchen of my home has did a

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Speaker 1: million dollars in sales. UM ended up quitting the daytime job,

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Speaker 1: and UH did up also closed in the barbershop because

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Speaker 1: at that time I felt a little scatter brain UM

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Speaker 1: in that I had full time job is making products

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Speaker 1: UM every moment that I had, and I owned the barbershops.

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Speaker 1: So I ended up closing the barbershop and UM quitting

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Speaker 1: the job and focusing on Scotch quarter um, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it proved to be a really great idea. UM. And

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Speaker 1: in the three short years that we've been in business,

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Speaker 1: we've we've sold over four hundred thousand units in eighty

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Speaker 1: seven countries. Let's let's keep talking about that. Sure, how

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Speaker 1: did you come over with the name? Really cool? Um,

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Speaker 1: it's the culmination of the things I love. So I

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Speaker 1: love Scotch. I'm a Scotch drinker. And uh, Gregor Reporter

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Speaker 1: should should get into. Um. So, yeah, the culmination of

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Speaker 1: of the things I love. Let's talk about the launching

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Speaker 1: this business because online has been like you on Amazon

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Speaker 1: and you can go to your website, so just the

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Speaker 1: whole that. Also, you're in Walmart? Correct? We are not

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Speaker 1: in No, we are not in Walmart. Okay, cool? So

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Speaker 1: but you're just online correct right now? I mean eighty

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Speaker 1: percent of our businesses is online Scotch Reporter dot com.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, we're selling we sell on Amazon and

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Speaker 1: that about a hundred and forty small boutiques and high

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Speaker 1: end barbershops across the country because you have two things

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Speaker 1: that you have the moisturizing and then you have the conditioner. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's the difference. UM, So we have both in our

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Speaker 1: in our product. UM, nothing can nothing can moisturize the

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Speaker 1: beard other than water. Water is the only thing that

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Speaker 1: can really truly moisturize a beer. UM. There are what

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Speaker 1: they call emollients UM that can help give the illusion

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Speaker 1: of softness. UM. But nothing can truly moisturize a beard

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Speaker 1: UM other than water. But there are some conditioning agents

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Speaker 1: in in our products as well. UM. So it does

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Speaker 1: help with moisturizing and conditioning the beard. UM. Conditioning the

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Speaker 1: beard is UM. Conditioning the beard helps with like making

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Speaker 1: the beard feel softer, more manageable, so it's easier to

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Speaker 1: comb UM and again moisturize moisturization is is basically UM.

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Speaker 1: You can only get that through water. So including water

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Speaker 1: in your products. I'm I'm looking at a website, uh,

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Speaker 1: and it's uh, it's really nice, it's really clean, it's

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Speaker 1: really uh you know, you know, if you know, like

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Speaker 1: I said, you can get a gift card on it

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Speaker 1: for seventy five dollars. So this is really good to know.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know, you know, young man with a beard,

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations, Karema Westbrook. Thank you for having me. Oh

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to say one thing. All American is

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Speaker 1: What did it all start? What did it all start

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