Ep. 296 • How My Dream Job Destroyed My Hair (But Changed My Life) w/ Shalita Grant
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Actor & Founder of @fournaturalshair Shalita Grant stepped away from her dream role on NCIS due to the constant damage her hair took on set. She turned that pain into a platform by diving deep into research on all-natural hair care practices from India and North Africa and developed a formula that revitalized her hair.
This Week's Topics:
• Growing up in her grandmother's hair salon
• Her experience in acting school; learning to envision a future
• How an acting role changed her hair forever
• Going through trauma therapy after quitting NCIS
• Studying & researching cosmetic chemistry to fix her hair
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| 0:00.0 | And as black women, you often feel like your hair is this other entity, right? |
| 0:05.7 | It's this entity that can get you dismissed from school. |
| 0:08.4 | It can get you dismissed from work. |
| 0:11.5 | Hello, I'm Rebecca Taylor. |
| 0:13.0 | Hey, I'm Buddy Porter. |
| 0:13.9 | This is Ben Malin. |
| 0:14.7 | Hey, it's Sophie Po. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey, guys, Lou Garcia-Renoser, founder of Barber Society, and we're hanging out on the Hair Game Podcast. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. In news, we have video versions of our episodes on our |
| 0:28.6 | YouTube channel called The Hair Game. Free to subscribe. We got over 20 videos from previous |
| 0:34.4 | episodes over the years. You can watch us instead of just listening to us. |
| 0:40.3 | Also in news, our Huntington Beach Salon Republic is now open. |
| 0:44.3 | Dada da da da da da da. If you missed it last week, go to the Salon Republic Instagram page |
| 0:50.3 | to see Donovan's live look at the brand new space and to book a tour of your own. |
| 0:57.3 | Details also at Salonrepublic.com, of course. |
| 1:00.8 | Now to my conversation with Shelita Grant. |
| 1:04.4 | Hey, Shelita, how are you? |
| 1:06.2 | I'm great. How are you? |
| 1:08.0 | I'm doing fantastic. |
| 1:09.6 | So I thought you're in L.A. And I was making reference to the rain |
| 1:13.9 | that's pouring down outside, but you informed me that you're in Mexico. Yeah, I'm in Puebla, |
| 1:20.2 | Mexico on top of a mountain surrounded by volcanoes. Wow. On vacation? I mean, that's amazing. No, I'm a temporary resident. So this is my home. I make it sound |
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