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Hosted by Drakeel Burns · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 46 episodes
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The first #naturalhair podcast uplifting Black women sharing raw firsthand stories of acceptance and how to embrace your authentic crown and self.
Drakeel Burns hosts Hair! How I Grew It, a arts show with 46 episodes published.
On today’s show, I interview Tanya Wright. Tanya is an actor who for the past 25 years has been on some of the most iconic shows on television. Shows that include NYPD Blue, True Blood andOrange is the New Black. The New
Hair! How I Grew It has lost one of our natural hair sistahs. Talented artist and entrepreneur Keturah Bobo passed away earlier this month after a long illness. As a loving tribute, we’re revisiting her inspiring episode
Hair How I Grew It tops Feedspot’s and MillionPodcasts’ best lists. 25 Best Natural Hair Podcast Best 10 Natural Hair Podcasts Best 10 Black Beauty Podcasts Best 50 Hair Podcasts On today’s show, I interview business own
Hair! How I Grew It tops Feedspot’s and MillionPodcasts’ Best Natural Hair Podcasts. On today’s show, I interview Kassidi Jones. Kassidi is an assistant curator at a Black research library. The Hartford, Connecticut nati
Hair! How I Grew It tops the 25 Best Natural Hair Podcasts on the web. Thanks Feedspot for this incredible honor. On today’s show I interview curly hair influencer Janel Caminos. Her authentic voice has paid off in partn
On today’s show, I interview Michele Joseph. I met Michele years ago at a networking event in the Washington, D.C. metro area. As the organizer, this striking sistah commandedthe room. Not surprising since she was a high
On today’s show, I interview Endia Henry. Endia, pronounced India, is a principal consultant in the healthcare technology industry. She is also an entrepreneur, who started selling bamboo wig caps out of necessity. More
On today’s show, I interview my Delta Soror Shannon Beasley Taitt. Shannon used to work with my Delta line sister Erin and past Hair! How I Grew It guest Sharron Fletcher at the U.S. Department of Justice. Listen to epis
On today’s show, I interview Heather Dolland Tamam. She is an author, lifestyle content creator and model based in New York City. Heather typically wears her soft, coily and pillowy Afro in a wash and go. She prefers the
On today’s show, I interview Tanya Turner. Talking to Tanya really did seem like old times because back when we were broadcast journalism students at Ohio University, we often talked for hours. Ready to conquer the world
On today’s show I interview Dominique Kizer. She is a linkage coordinator at her alma mater Shaw High School. My cousin and other folks that I know graduated from there. The Shaw High School marching band is legendary. W
On today’s show I interview Lori Danley. Lori is a project manager in Washington, D.C. She is also the cousin of past Hair! How I Grew It guest Sylvia Danley-Smith. When one of my podcast guests fell through, Sylvia imme
On today’s show, I interview Kamarah Green. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kamarah now lives in Washington, D.C. She is a multimedia artist. I asked her to explain what that means.
On today’s show, I interview attorney, author, activist and radio host Lurie Daniel Favors. Lurie is the Executive Director at the Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College. In January 2013, she self-publ
On today’s show, I interview Sylvia Danley-Smith. Sylvia is living her best natural hair life, and she’s showing it off as a content creator and social media influencer. Her target group—women over 40.
On today’s show, I interview my Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Sister Nichelle Smith. Nichelle is the enterprise editor for racism and history at USA TODAY. Saying Nichelle and enterprise in the same sentence makes me think
On today’s show, I interview AJ Watkins. She is the founder and CEO of All Natural Kinks, a natural hair care company based in LA. It’s inspired by AJ’s struggles to grow her natural. More on that later in the show. Let’
On today’s show, I interview St. Clair Detrick-Jules. She’s a photojournalist in Washington, D. C., her hometown. St. Clair’s love letter to her younger sister Khloe is called My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair St
On today’s show, I interview Mercy Chikowore. Mercy is a publicist in the Washington, D.C. metro area. She is also my Delta Sigma Theta Sorority sister. I always start my Hair! How I Grew It interviews with, “Where were
Kassidi Jones
Black research library
1 appearance on this show
Shannon Beasley Taitt
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1 appearance on this show
Sharron Fletcher
U.S. Department of Justice
1 appearance on this show
Lurie Daniel Favors
Center for Law and Social Justice at Medgar Evers College
1 appearance on this show
Nichelle Smith
USA TODAY
1 appearance on this show
AJ Watkins
All Natural Kinks
1 appearance on this show
Bernita Cooper
Bernita Cooper Communications
1 appearance on this show
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Hair! How I Grew It is hosted by Drakeel Burns. The show is categorised under arts (fashion) and has published 46 episodes.
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