Mark Bustos: The Humanit-hair-ian, on The Power of Kindness
The Dissenters with Debra Messing and Mandana Dayani
Dear Media, Mandana Dayani and Debra Messing
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Debra and Mandana sit down with renowned haristylist, Mark Bustos to discuss his travels around the world to provide free grooming services to the homeless, how he founded the #BeAwesomeToSomebody movement, and why all need to be a little more compassionate.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Hi, this is just a friendly reminder to make sure that you are registered to vote for the upcoming |
| 0:06.4 | elections this November. Please text the word voter to 2697 to check your registration. You will also receive reminders for all local, state, and |
| 0:15.3 | federal elections and your polling locations. And don't forget to follow, I am a voter for |
| 0:19.7 | more civic engagement opportunities. That's voter to 26797. Hi, this is Deborah Messing. I'm an actress and social justice advocate. I am |
| 0:36.0 | Andana Dayani, creator and co-founder of the nonpartisan movement, I am a voter. |
| 0:40.0 | So Mondana and I are best friends and were constantly sending each other inspiring stories of people around the world who are doing incredible things. |
| 0:48.0 | And then one day we realize something. |
| 0:51.0 | Most of them had no intention of becoming heroes. They just knew they had to do something. Most of them had no intention of becoming heroes. They just knew they had to do something and did it. |
| 0:56.7 | So after months and months of research into these accidental activists, we created our list of the 20 dissenters who blew us away. |
| 1:05.0 | Based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's iconic Id dissent slogan, a dissenter is someone who stood up |
| 1:11.2 | to an injustice or challenged the status quo. is someone who fought to build a better way. |
| 1:14.0 | This week we speak with the amazing Mark Bustos. |
| 1:20.0 | Mark is a renowned international hairstylist with a huge roster of A-L-S clients. |
| 1:25.0 | He also travels the world to provide free grooming services to the homeless. |
| 1:29.0 | It is the founder of the Be Awesome to Somebody Movement, which is focused on spreading compassion. |
| 1:33.8 | The images of Mark cutting hair on the streets have been covered by major media around the world. |
| 1:39.0 | I actually met Mark at the Global Citizens Conference a couple years ago and we instantly became friends. I was so moved by his work and we instantly became friends. |
| 1:44.2 | I was so moved by his work and he's just like so cool and so inspiring. |
| 1:48.9 | Mondana and I just loved meeting Mark so much, not only because of his amazing work as an activist but |
| 1:54.9 | also because of the simplicity of it because of what it teaches us all about our |
| 2:00.0 | potential when we set out to create this podcast, we wanted to show people that we all |
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