68: How Felicia Leatherwood Became the Hollywood Hair Whisperer
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today in the Side Hustle Pro guest chair is leading celebrity stylist, Felicia Leatherwood. Felicia’s hair styles have been featured on such high profile stars as Issa Rae of HBO's Insecure, Oscar Award nominee Ava Duvernay, Grammy winner Jill Scott, as well as a host of other celebrities, entertainment executives, rising stars and beauty entrepreneurs.
With over 26 years of experience, Felicia also conducts hair care workshops for audiences around the globe under the brand "Loving Your Hair with Natural Care". Felicia's solutions and work have garnered her the "Hair Whisperer" title, as she is known for miraculously restoring health, beauty and vitality to her clientele's hair. She went so far as to conceive and manufacture her own Detangler Brush that allows easy detangling of all natural hair types.
On today’s show, Felicia gets into:
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How she got her start doing hair
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How she started working with celebrity clientele
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And the biggest and most expensive mistake she made in her business
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:07.6 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:11.3 | And I'm your host, Nikala Matthews. |
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| 0:55.0 | Today I am thrilled to welcome to the guest chair leading celebrity stylist Felicia Leatherwood. I've been following her business for a while now and was really pleased |
| 1:07.0 | when I reached out with a cold email and she accepted my offer to be on the show. |
| 1:11.1 | Felicia's hairstyles have been featured on such high profile |
| 1:15.2 | stars as Isa Ray of HBO's insecure, Oscar Award nominee Ava de Vernet, Grammy winner Jill Scott, as well as a host of other celebrities, entertainment |
| 1:25.3 | executives, rising stars, and beauty entrepreneurs. With over 26 years of experience, |
| 1:31.2 | Felicia also conducts hair |
| 1:33.2 | workshops for audiences around the globe under the brand |
| 1:37.2 | Loving Your Hair with Natural Care. |
| 1:40.3 | Felicia's Solutions and Work have guarded her the Hair Whisper title as she is known for miraculously |
| 1:47.1 | restoring health, beauty, and vitality to her clientele's hair. |
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