Faith and Business: Army Veteran started skin care product line and Fade Shop barbershop brand.

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Ozell Graham. He is a US Army Veteran who started The Fade Shop Brand in 1996 inside a tent while serving his country deployed in Bosnia during Operation Joint Endeavor. After eight years of Honorable Service, Ozell transitioned back into the civilian workforce, moving to Arkansas to pursue his career in Cosmetology. Upon graduation, Ozell moved to Dallas, Texas, where he worked in several barbershops where he learned more about hair and how to run a business. In 2005, Ozell stepped out on faith and followed his dream of entrepreneurship, and opened his first barbershop in Dallas. He currently has three successful locations in the Dallas Metroplex, and a Hair and Skin Care Product Company called AT Ease!

AT Ease Hair and Skin Care's Mission is to provide universal hair and skin products, education, and training to consumers so they can maintain personal grooming for healthy hair and skin, leaving them relaxed and worry-free.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. I am Rishon McDonald, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
0:10.0	where we encourage people to stop reading the other people's success stories and start planning their own.
0:16.0	Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country, talk to celebrities and ask them how they are running their companies and speak with
0:24.0	nonprofits who are making a difference in their local communities. Now sit back and
0:28.5	listen as we unlock the secrets to their success on money-making
0:32.3	conversations masterclass.
0:34.0	Welcome to Money Making Conversations.
0:37.0	Y'all don't know what you all know is this young man sitting in front of me.
0:41.0	O's everywhere I'm the owner of the Trade Shop.
0:44.0	Why did you name it the Trade Shop?
0:46.8	You know, Mr. Rashan, it's funny.
0:48.5	I was actually in the military over in Bosnia.
0:52.0	And me and one of my military buddies was sat down who was just kind of coming up with a name saying what can I call this thing what can I call it that's gonna stick because you know you think about the major brands like Ford and Walmart it's like wow you know you think about the major brands like Ford and Walmart and it's like wow you know
1:04.8	everybody knows those brands right so I'm just doodling and daddling and on the paper and I came
1:09.9	up with the phase shopping I said you know what that's it I'm going to name it the phase
1:14.4	now what year was that when you were saying that this this was 1996 1996 yes and
1:20.1	and so at that point it was a dream, it was all a dream.
1:23.5	So when you couldn't hear when you was in the military?
1:25.6	Yes, sir.
1:26.0	I was cutting hair in the military.
1:27.3	And it was just you know, you know, trying to boost up the morale of the troops.
1:30.7	Because we were deployed away from the United States in Europe and being away from home, you know,
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