Joining us in the booth this week is Mark, Founder of SliderCuts and an award winning barber.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Preview

00:37- Take Off Intro

01:12 - Intro to Founder of SliderCuts Mark

06:19 - Born in London, home life is Nigerian

08:47 - Living between rich and poor

12:11 - This makes you middle class!

18:19 - Not belonging helped me!

25:00 - Haircuts from mum & cutting my own hair

28:18 - Try this haircut hack

28:41 - Birth of SliderCuts, cutting hair for free

34:34 - Always saw myself as a business

38:09 - Opening up a shop with £0, Borrowing £200k+

41:18 - Belief should be backed up!

45:48 - Patience paid off!

48:14 - Balling on £30 per week!

49:32 - Don’t leave your parent’s house!

53:29 - Getting celebrity clients: Anthony Joshua, Stormzy, Lebron James

57:03 - No validation from Celebrities

58:51 - I failed creating an app!

01:02:47 - I don’t dwell in defeat!

01:08:19 - Driven but not ambitious

01:15:09 - Live in the present, not the past or future

01:19:41 - Create your own luck

01:24:05 - Cutting Dwayne Wade’s hair

01:25:32 - Final Messages

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