This is on point. I'm Magnuchakrabardi. This year, at least three states put their state-based

occupational licensing requirements on the chopping block. Nevada, Ohio, and New Hampshire

are all moving toward universal licensing recognition, meaning if you've got an occupational

license in something like court reporting, landscape architecture, cosmology, or cutting

hair. And you're in good standing in your home state. Those states want to welcome you

to move to them. And you won't have to get resurified. Well, over in Boise, Idaho,

Teddy O'Catch says it's about time, especially when it comes to careers in hair care, something

she knows a thing or two about.

As long as I could remember, I grew up around hair, people braiding hair, straining hair,

coloring hair, doing whatever with hair. Hair has always just been a part of who we are.

Teddy is a small business owner now. She was 10 years old when she and her family, refugees

from Sudan, first moved to Boise in 2005.

My mom used to pull my hair way too tight and he would have hurt for days. And I was like,

I can't do this anymore. I want to figure out how to do my own hair. And so I started

practicing on myself and I became so good at doing it on myself that I get a lot of other

people started recognizing it and wanted me to do their hair.

Our family, when we moved here, we didn't speak any English whatsoever. So after we lived

in Idaho for a few years down the road, we started to realize like, wow, even though we

would like to get our hair done, it is very hard to find someone here who knows what to

do with black girls hair.

So in 2008 was when I started getting pretty decent with braiding hair. And so I would put

my hair in box braids and then I would walk around and then sometime we'll be at Walmart

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