The Michael Berry Show.

Our podcast from the archive this week is a conversation we had some years ago with Tippy Hedron.

You don't know who Tippee Hedron was,

rather famous actress that your grandmother would have really enjoyed.

But hippie, hippie, hippie, hippie,

Tippee, Tippee, Tippee, Heddron's perhaps greatest contribution and

should say long lasting legacy will be the fact that she is credited

with teaching Vietnamese refugees who came here after the Vietnamese war and the Vietnam War.

She is credited with having taught them or paid to have them taught by her own nail professional who traveled with her.

Tippy Hedderon liked to look good, how to do nails. And out of those refugee camps, the Vietnamese women who didn't speak English here, didn't have any you know marketable job skills because they couldn't communicate

and so they began entering the nail salon business, first as nail techs and then as entrepreneurs owning

them.

And now if you or your wife, fellas, goes to a nail salon salon there's a better than average chance that the person who

owns it and is working on her is Vietnamese and it all started with Tippy Hedron.

Enjoy. Our guest is Tippy Hedron. The new

memoir is out. It's called Tippy and I know that most people probably want to

talk to you about the traditional topics, but I am a nut for entrepreneurs and I am a nut for the immigrant work ethic and so if you don't mind Tippy I would first like to focus heavily

on what I think is one of the great contributions you or any person in film could ever make and that is how you change the lives of Vietnamese

refugees and if I can get you to tell that story I'm fascinated.

Oh well that was I think one of the most important times of my life and I was a

gift to me and certainly a gift to these women and their families and you know when I looked back on it it was it was

just serendipitous.

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