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Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

Curly Nikki Explains Why Hair Love is Self-Love

Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

Studio71

Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Licensed therapist and best-selling NAACP award nominated author, Nikki Walton (aka Curly Nikki) joins Jeannie to talk about how loving your hair is loving yourself. Nikki discusses why the words we use to describe hair have a direct correlation to the energy we direct to our bodies and more topics she'll be covering in her new podcast, New Growth. Plus, Nikki recounts to Jeannie how Tracee Ellis Ross helped her on her spiritual journey. Follow Curly Nikki Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Listen, honeyanai! Hey everybody, I hope everybody's safe out there. I'm chill like a villain.

0:19.2

At home, still quarantined, and, um, but I've been really thankful for quarantined because of the type of guests and the discussions that I've had that have just been very different only because of the mood we all are sharing.

0:32.0

It's deeper, it's more introspective. only because of the mood we all are sharing.

0:33.0

It's deeper, it's more introspective,

0:35.0

and it's healing, it's been very healing,

0:37.7

which is why I'm so excited about my guest today.

0:41.4

You know sometimes when you meet those people and they're not only like

0:46.0

great to talk to you but you feel like there's so many gems that you want to

0:49.2

write them down and you want to like share them with other people and then you find out they go and they get a

0:53.7

podcast and you're like yes like I feel like my my thought about it put it into the

1:00.3

atmosphere and help you know bring it into fruition so my guest today I'm

1:03.6

excited to have because not only is she a phenomenal woman but she's also

1:06.5

launching her podcast and I'm very proud to help endorse it so curly Nicky's in the

1:11.0

house right here. Nicki.

1:12.8

She's a psychotherapist.

1:14.8

She's also a best-selling N-W-A-C-P award-nominated author.

1:20.1

And I love that you call yourself loves messenger.

1:23.0

So tell my fam who you are, introduce yourself to my world.

1:27.0

Yes, thank you so much for having me first of all.

1:29.0

Very excited.

1:30.0

Thank you for coming on my show too, which will be launching, and I'll tell you all about that in a second.

1:35.0

I started a natural hair blog in 2008.

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