my older brother he always got word up magazines when I was growing up and I
love the hairstyles Bobby Brown kidding play two part in the movie juice Big
Daddy Kane those were the characters it went from
wanting to rock their styles to wanting to do those cuts but over time I've
brought Barbarin into youth work passing on something to a young person that can
help benefit their lives everything I learned I learned off youtube
growing up I struggled at school and I turned to drinking at a very early age
started making poor decisions call myself caught up in some criminal
activity just kept struggling in that same cycle no real break free and for me
it was really when I came across barbering that helped to change my
mindset and hoping he realized that I couldn't break free of some of the
habits that I had I was doing some haircut sometimes up to 103 in the
morning I was having that much fun but I've never ever looked at it as a
potential profession I felt a bit inadequate because I hadn't gone to
barber school and that's when I turned to you I started with Victor Baba
he's 360 GZ Chris Basia deal the Papa I finally began to understand the process
the tools and the craft every night once I put the kids to bed watching tutorials
you know I just was so excited guys that were jumping in the chair would ask me
you know what did you learn Barbara and I said you Chi and I'd see that it looks
like what it went from being my side hustle to becoming an actual carrot
barber shop business and then I realized that the goal is further on from that
it's barbering and youth work joined together the grandpa barbershop program
is a program running out of grandpa boys high school working with young
disengaged students teaching young men how to become gentlemen and teaching the
youth life skills through the art of Barbara the boy selected were from our
disengaged year nine group he just went doing school they weren't engaged in
their classroom learning some of them were training classes some were involved
in physical altercations skipping class a lot and skipping school sometimes
please make trouble trouble trouble their players in the program so we get
the same class when you carry Misaka mad feeling
we've seen as a privilege was debris present education to these boys and help
them see education in the whole different way you know in the barbershop
boys you know this is the place where we learned to have dialogue man this is
what the space is here for as a young person I didn't really feel like I had a
voice then I tried to keep that in my one I'm dealing with young people and
then I go up easy everything was hard for him like us he tells his personal
stuff tonight and then we teleport and so we can trust
each other from being bonded who'sa is that my brother hello beauty
class next year after this is an opportunity for me to be something for
these young people that I wish I had you're looking after your tools menu
looking at their customers basics ad and it's been a tremendous impact on us go
there we go so I am sometimes you might be the only positive influence in some
of these kids life so you have to keep turning up and I don't want to take that
for granted we've got to set the standards from John Charles is
irreplaceable he's the heart of that program in a
perfect world we'd be able to take it everywhere but we only have one Charles
I've come to an understanding left and that you don't have to be certified to
be educated but you have to be experienced to be qualified it's
important to pass on to young people the possibilities of education through a
platform like YouTube it's empowering it's helped me see education in a whole
different light and it's just changed my life
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