I want to say this “natural hair life” is new to me, but it’s not. I’ve been natural for eight years, but this year I learned to embrace it. After I turned 21, something inside of me clicked. I realized I was in charge of the way I live my life.. my was hair included.
To this day, I will never understand how a thick, white funky chemical can make my kinky, but thick ass hair manageable. Anyways, I tend to trail-off so please forgive me. I became natural when I was 21. I didn’t immediately cut my permed ends like the internet encourages us “natural girls” to do because I wasn’t brave enough. I say that in the least offensive way possible, so please forgive me in advance again :)
But honestly, my new growth was EXTREMELY short and I didn’t have the confidence to rock the TWA (Teeny Weeny Afro) look. My face is full and I didn’t and still don’t feel like a TWA would flatter my features.
I kept my hair under as many wigs as possible to ignore the new kinks emerging from my scalp. I kept my hair in six cornrolls braided back under my wigs; nothing fancy or neat because my braiding is shit. I hid under the wigs and protective styles for seven long years. I did the bare minimum to my hair and spent hundreds of dollars on synthetic wigs and “human-hair” lace fronts until I received some inspiring encouragement from my girlfriend.
I will speak more on my girlfriend in my proceeding posts, but she is nothing short of amazing. Her driven spirit pushes me daily to be more than who I think I am. For that I remain grateful :) Okay, enough mushy stuff. My girlfriend helped me realize I am more than this “Corporate 9-5” life that we all fall into. She works for herself and has a true hustler’s heart. That alone is pretty dope to me because most don’t have that quality.
Most of our conversations are about how she can improve her business ventures. The conversations are deep because we get into the topic of the amount of time I spend working for someone else instead of myself.
What opened my eyes to her logic was when she sent me a Youtube link to Robert T. Kiyosaki’s audiobook for his life-changing book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. I’m not going to get deep into the details of the book, but I will say this; I never knew how important knowing what an “Asset” and a “Liability” are/means and how it affects our lives and how we live until I listened to the audio-book.
The new information I gained from "Rich Dad, Poor Dad' opened so many doors for my imagination. I learned that I can turn a skill or a quality that I have and build a business around it! I spent years failing to get financially ahead; working 9-5 jobs, sometimes 50 plus hours a week just to come home with half of my check and a pile of leftover bills. The time I spent working these mundane jobs felt like I was doing nothing with my life. I allowed the companies I worked for, metaphorically speaking, to steal time from my life.
I was taught the secret of living a happy and financially free life; Build a business doing something you love! And this my good people is why you are reading this blog. I was lead to the idea of putting my writing abilities to work after doing some social media content writing for my girlfriend’s partnering company Buzz Local Atlanta (check out their Instagram @Buzzlocalatl ). My background for writing places me back to my childhood. I used to write the craziest love stories and poems, so it was pretty easy to get back into writing.
Somewhere in the mix, my girlfriend talked me into adding my “natural hair-ness” in my writing and thus became my blog! The content that follows this post will be true to my life, experiences with my hair, confidence, and so much more. I feel like I gave a pretty decent background so do this favor for me. After reading my post, I encourage you to click the Youtube link below and listen to “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. Please tell me what you took away from the book when you come back for my next post
Love&Light
To this day, I will never understand how a thick, white funky chemical can make my kinky, but thick ass hair manageable. Anyways, I tend to trail-off so please forgive me. I became natural when I was 21. I didn’t immediately cut my permed ends like the internet encourages us “natural girls” to do because I wasn’t brave enough. I say that in the least offensive way possible, so please forgive me in advance again :)
But honestly, my new growth was EXTREMELY short and I didn’t have the confidence to rock the TWA (Teeny Weeny Afro) look. My face is full and I didn’t and still don’t feel like a TWA would flatter my features.
I kept my hair under as many wigs as possible to ignore the new kinks emerging from my scalp. I kept my hair in six cornrolls braided back under my wigs; nothing fancy or neat because my braiding is shit. I hid under the wigs and protective styles for seven long years. I did the bare minimum to my hair and spent hundreds of dollars on synthetic wigs and “human-hair” lace fronts until I received some inspiring encouragement from my girlfriend.
I will speak more on my girlfriend in my proceeding posts, but she is nothing short of amazing. Her driven spirit pushes me daily to be more than who I think I am. For that I remain grateful :) Okay, enough mushy stuff. My girlfriend helped me realize I am more than this “Corporate 9-5” life that we all fall into. She works for herself and has a true hustler’s heart. That alone is pretty dope to me because most don’t have that quality.
Most of our conversations are about how she can improve her business ventures. The conversations are deep because we get into the topic of the amount of time I spend working for someone else instead of myself.
What opened my eyes to her logic was when she sent me a Youtube link to Robert T. Kiyosaki’s audiobook for his life-changing book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. I’m not going to get deep into the details of the book, but I will say this; I never knew how important knowing what an “Asset” and a “Liability” are/means and how it affects our lives and how we live until I listened to the audio-book.
The new information I gained from "Rich Dad, Poor Dad' opened so many doors for my imagination. I learned that I can turn a skill or a quality that I have and build a business around it! I spent years failing to get financially ahead; working 9-5 jobs, sometimes 50 plus hours a week just to come home with half of my check and a pile of leftover bills. The time I spent working these mundane jobs felt like I was doing nothing with my life. I allowed the companies I worked for, metaphorically speaking, to steal time from my life.
I was taught the secret of living a happy and financially free life; Build a business doing something you love! And this my good people is why you are reading this blog. I was lead to the idea of putting my writing abilities to work after doing some social media content writing for my girlfriend’s partnering company Buzz Local Atlanta (check out their Instagram @Buzzlocalatl ). My background for writing places me back to my childhood. I used to write the craziest love stories and poems, so it was pretty easy to get back into writing.
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Somewhere in the mix, my girlfriend talked me into adding my “natural hair-ness” in my writing and thus became my blog! The content that follows this post will be true to my life, experiences with my hair, confidence, and so much more. I feel like I gave a pretty decent background so do this favor for me. After reading my post, I encourage you to click the Youtube link below and listen to “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. Please tell me what you took away from the book when you come back for my next post
Love&Light
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