“Entimide” However, Rose as a Queen by Helping Others , Pt. 2 "The Professionals Edition"

Natural Born Sistah

Episode 2: The Professionals Edition
Pt. 2 “Entimide” However, Rose as a Queen by Helping Others
YouTube Version https://youtu.be/NFhfEnUNOkY
Host: Lisa. E.
Professional Guest: Gladia Etienne

EPISODE SUMMARY

This podcast is dedicated to celebrating the journey of black women to embrace their natural hair, with our host, Lisa. E, aka Natural Born Sistah, who inspires black women to groom and confidently flaunt their natural hair.

In this episode with Gladia Etienne, Professional Hair Healer and Podcaster, talks about her experience being an influencer in the world of hair. She has helped many women while identifying her own hair journey by teaching women all over the world how to maintain their hair. Gladia also talked about the stigmatas she’s experienced with her family and others. She even broke down how 4c hair is a protein texture and how 4c sistahs cannot get the same treatments as any other textures due to the amount of protein us 4c textures that are held on their own without protein treatments. .

Gladia talks about how she grew her FB page on the strength of helping women with the maintenance and styling of their hair. She grew her page by researching and sharing advice whether it was answering specific or general questions. What she learned will astound you. She realized that it’s the same process for everyone, no matter where you’re from.

Key points from this episode include;

• [01:50] Gladia started her FB page which was followed by friends and family.
• [03:23] Learned why 4c hair types were resistant to products..
• [05:09] Porosity tests became more popular.
• [07:42] Gladia talks about how her skin color and hair was a stigma.
• [15:21] Her Facebook page went from 26 members to 5k members..
• [17:17] Gladia speaks about the weekly workshops she used to give at her local church..
• [22:04] 2019 was the year that Gladia wrote her first E-Book “The Ultimate Guide to Rocking your Natural Hair”
• [34.53] Gladia is talking about how important it was to rock her natural hair at work while being a nurse. Wearing different hair styles.
• [39:58] For you to want me to look like that, it requires me to harm myself to attain a false image of myself, Gladia mentions.
• [42:40] Gladia says she feels like her and her sisters created the “Bantu Knots”

QUOTES

• “I’m big on looks, because I have low self-esteem"
• "There’s a foundation for each and everyone of us. There’s no such thing as you have good hair and she doesn’t "
• “Your hair is suppose to thrive, you just have to know how to make it thrive”
• “I went from the bottom of the barrel to the most talked about”
• “I was the black sheep of the family”

Connect with Gladia.

FB - @gladiasnaturelle

Connect with the Host

IG - @naturalbornsistah

IG - @kinkyinthekitchenpodcast

FB - @Natural Born Sistah

www.kinkyinthekitchen. hair

Resource

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