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

Natural Born Sistah

Check out the YouTube version here - https://youtu.be/09A0UZFa4C0

Episode 2: The Professionals Edition
Pt. 1 “Entimide” However, Rose as a Queen by Helping Others
YouTube Version https://youtu.be/09A0UZFa4C0

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 bullied as a child. Gladia is what I like to call the healer of hair based on her hair journey that allowed her to learn her hair and its beauty. Gladia took all that knowledge and packaged it into a 2 hour workshop that allowed her to help many women with their natural hair. .

Gladia talks about her hair events through big chops and curl discoveries. The more she learned the more she was impressed with her hair and how to take care of it. Gladia is a real gem, despite all she has been through as it pertains to her natural hair. And with her resilience through it all, she has become more confident, more educated as it relates to the maintenance and styling of her natural coils.

Oh and by the way, Gladia is 37 years old. She chopped a few years off in this episode by saying she was 34 years, when she looks way younger than both ages!

Key points from this episode include;

• [03:40] Meet Natural Born Sistah, Gladia Etienne..
• [04:22] How Gladia’s natural hair journey started.
• [05:15] Gladia talks about the days of using 2 boxes of perms per session.
• [06:23] Getting teased in school was very traumatic, as she did not want to go.
• [07:41] Remembering the kids in school would pull her hair and call her Haitian Booty Scratcher.
• [11:21] Gladia talks about how people around her wanted to perm her daughter’s hair, because it will be prettier.
• [15:54] Gladia talks about how she wanted to be a role model for both her children.
• [18:21] Gladia talks about watching YouTube videos for her hair and following OG influencer Naturelle 85.
• [20:27] Gladia became embarrassed when her father would ask her, why don’t you do your hair like your sisters?
• [20:44] Enduring negative comments about her hair, because she was the only 4c texture in her family.
• [32:32] Gladia’s trip to the Dominican Salon.

QUOTES

• “The perm is making my hair look good and long and healthy"
• "I can’t sit here and keep telling my daughter don’t perm if she does not have one example around her to convince her to love herself as she is "
• “I’m trying to maintain 2 different textures that were complete opposites”
• “I had my husband’s support if I needed to make a decision”
• “Accept what you have and then work with what you want”

Connect with Gladia

FB - @gladiasnaturelle

Connect with the Host

IG - @naturalbornsistah

IG - @kinkyinthekitchenpodcast

FB - @Natural Born Sistah

Resource

Get your T-shirt “Textured Queen, w/Gold Tiara”in white selected by Gladia today for only $20 up to a Large @ Natural Born Sistah All other sizes are at least $2 or more. Thank You!

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