HIGHLIGHTS • Rising Above Her Parents' Addiction w/ Marquetta Breslin
The Hair Game
Salon Republic
4.6 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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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 | You're listening to the highlights of the full episode. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, listener, I'm Eric Taylor. |
| 0:11.1 | It is Podlute Giveaway Day. |
| 0:13.3 | We do this on the first episode of every month, and this is the first episode of October. |
| 0:18.6 | So today, right now, we're going to give away Jamie Dana's |
| 0:21.5 | social stylist plan. It's the ultimate education for being great on social media. |
| 0:27.1 | It includes things like post-training, content planners, hashtag generators, all sorts of amazing |
| 0:34.2 | things. So it's worth 400 bucks. We're going to give it away right now. |
| 0:41.3 | Donovan, drumroll, please. The winner is |
| 0:49.0 | Mookie Jones Hair. Mookiee. DM me on the Hair Game podcast on Instagram, and let me know that you heard me call your name. And the rest of you guys, for a chance to win, please, |
| 0:53.3 | please write a review on the Apple |
| 0:55.0 | podcast app and include your Instagram handle. |
| 0:57.8 | I'll give you more Dietz at the end of the show. |
| 1:00.4 | Now to my conversation with Marquetta. |
| 1:03.7 | Right when I went into high school, they both relapsed. |
| 1:07.8 | And at this time, I had two younger brothers. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm the oldest of three. |
| 1:12.0 | My youngest, my oldest younger brother is, I think, 10 years younger than me. So I was, like, |
| 1:22.2 | I was, or eight years, eight years. The other one is 10 years. So I was like mom, I was like |
| 1:27.4 | their crutch from a very |
| 1:28.9 | young age, especially from high school. I was the one that had to get, make sure they got to |
| 1:34.6 | school and all of that stuff. And so I had the opportunity when I was in high school to go to |
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