Ep. 265 • Rising Above Her Parents' Addiction w/ Marquetta Breslin
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Wig educator, entrepreneur, and founder of the @americanwigassociation - Marquetta Breslin @marquettabreslin has been helping people learn to make lace wigs nearly 20 years. She shares her journey to hair, which included taking care of her siblings while both of her parents struggled with drug addiction.
This week's topics:
• Living with parents who struggled with addiction
• Entering the Armed Forces and braiding hair
• Starting a company with braiding education
• Embracing the digital evolution
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| 0:00.0 | To be a teacher, you have to really break things down to where anybody can understand it. |
| 0:08.4 | And that's when I became a teacher. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, this is O'Sill. |
| 0:12.8 | This is J. Cash, the Hair Tech. |
| 0:14.3 | This is Adrienne Derrett. |
| 0:15.3 | Hi, this is Jacob Kahn. |
| 0:16.4 | This is the Platinum Giraff. |
| 0:17.8 | And you're listening to the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. It is PodLute Giveaway Day. We do this on the first |
| 0:29.7 | episode of every month, and this is the first episode of October. So today, right now, |
| 0:35.4 | we're going to give away Jamie Dana's social stylist plan. It's the |
| 0:38.6 | ultimate education for being great on social media. It includes things like post-training, content |
| 0:44.8 | planners, hashtag generators, all sorts of amazing things. So it's worth 400 bucks. We're going to |
| 0:51.3 | give it away right now. Donovan, drumroll, please. The winner is |
| 0:57.4 | Mookie Jones Hair. Mookie. DM me on the Hair Game podcast on Instagram, and let me know that you |
| 1:04.3 | heard me call your name. And the rest of you guys, for a chance to win, please, please write a review |
| 1:09.7 | on the Apple podcast app and include |
| 1:11.4 | your Instagram handle. I'll give you more deets at the end of the show. Now to my conversation |
| 1:16.7 | with Marquetta. Hi, Marquetta. How are you? I'm doing amazing. How are you? I'm doing really well. |
| 1:24.6 | So Marquetta and I were just talking and right before getting on to this interview, I got on to her stories just to see what she was up to. I'm always kind of interested, you know, if, you know, my guests say anything, you know, right before the interview. Like sometimes they say, I'm nervous, sometimes they say I'm excited or whatever. And you were |
| 1:44.4 | chilling. I don't know if it was your backyard or whatever, but you kind of had a babbling brook |
| 1:49.0 | in the in the background, some water. And you're talking about taking a deep breath. Yes. Yes. I was |
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