HIGHLIGHTS • How Losing Her Hair Strengthened Her Passion w/ @lacygadegaard
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Mom, Salon Owner, Educator, and CEO of @lacedhairextensions Lacy Gadegaard-West felt a true feeling of confidence when she wore extensions for the first time. This led to a passion for changing women's lives and starting @lacedhairfoundation to uplift those in their fight against hair loss challenges. We discuss it all with Lacy!
This Week's Topics:
• Getting her start at the Bellagio Las Vegas
• Getting into extensions due to her fine hair
• Starting an entire business based on extensions
• Finding a brain lesion due to Multiple Sclerosis
• The challenges of hiring people to help your business
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:08.3 | Hey listener, I'm Eric Taylor. This week, we're going straight to the conversation with Lacey. |
| 0:14.4 | So I, and I don't have my extensions in right now, which is, you know, really sad. But I've always had really fine, thin hair. |
| 0:23.7 | It will age me a little bit, and that's okay. I'm proud of it. But when I was in high, |
| 0:28.7 | when I was a senior in high school, the first flat irons came out. So I just remember my friends |
| 0:33.8 | with this big brick, a big hot tools brick for people that have been doing hair for 20 years like me. |
| 0:40.3 | And my friends would just flat iron their hair and they just had this long straight hair. |
| 0:44.3 | And my hair would just like get to a certain length and break off. |
| 0:49.3 | And it was so thin and I always just wanted this luscious, thick hair. |
| 0:53.3 | And I got into extensions when I was working |
| 0:56.6 | in Las Vegas and I was obsessed with extensions. I loved I got them on myself and then I just thought |
| 1:04.7 | literally every woman needs to feel like this if she chooses right like I never I'd never had |
| 1:10.8 | beautiful hair and um and i just |
| 1:14.6 | definitely um loved it changed it really changed my life as some people may think that sounds |
| 1:21.3 | cheesy or vain um extensions change women's life um i've had multiple women sit in my chair and cry because they've |
| 1:31.9 | never had thick hair or hair that will hold a curl or felt the kind of confidence that they |
| 1:38.2 | get when they wear extensions. So I just fell in love with it and that's all that I wanted to do. |
| 1:45.0 | You mentioned that I was diagnosed with the brain tumor, which led to an MS diagnosis. |
| 1:50.6 | Hold on. |
| 1:51.4 | What year was that? |
| 1:53.2 | 2015. |
| 1:54.1 | And how did you know? |
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