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The Hair Game

HIGHLIGHTS • How My Dream Job Destroyed My Hair (But Changed My Life) w/ Shalita Grant

The Hair Game

Salon Republic

Business, Arts, Fashion & Beauty

4.6570 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

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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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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the highlights of the full episode.

0:08.6

Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor.

0:11.0

In news, we have video versions of our episodes on our YouTube channel called The Hair Game.

0:15.9

Free to subscribe.

0:17.0

We got over 20 videos from previous episodes over the years you can watch us instead of just

0:24.2

listening to us also in news our Huntington Beach salonry public is now open da da da da da da da

0:31.5

if you missed it last week go to the salonry public Instagram page to see Donovan's

0:37.1

live look at the brand new space

0:39.5

and to book a tour of your own. Details also at Salonorepublic.com, of course. Now to my conversation

0:48.0

with Shelita Grant.

0:49.0

It's sometimes even hard for you to imagine a life that could be different from what you're experiencing.

0:57.0

And luckily I watched a lot of television, so I did get to see things.

1:02.0

But, you know, to really believe that's possible for yourself, sometimes that's harder than people really understand.

1:09.0

And what I really appreciated about Baltimore School for the Arts

1:12.9

it makes me choke up a little bit but what I appreciated about those people were that you

1:19.2

know they we would have like classes like that last year where we would just spend like 45

1:25.1

minutes in a meditation a guided meditation and it was just like your best

1:30.3

day five years from now and so like how do you wake up what do you see is there someone with you

1:38.5

is there someone in the house what do you have planned for today when you walk into your living room

1:43.4

are there awards are there magazine like what it? And so for you to really like vision for yourself what's possible? Yeah. And so I did that at that school. That's cool. I love that. Yeah. I kind of do that on my own, actually. I've always- Beautiful. I've always done that on my own. But it's, yeah, it's one of those

2:03.8

very valuable things. And I imagine most people don't do it. And that's too bad because that's

2:10.5

kind of how we, we create. Yeah. I mean, I didn't want to say, I was going to say schedule out your

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