In this episode we welcome guest Mark 'SliderCuts' Maciver & discuss:

• What it's like for SliderCuts going from local neighborhood barber to award winning, celebrity barber

• How having a PA can stop you getting numbers from DMs

• How local Black businesses can help give work to young people in the community

• Ways to help deal with mental illness in the Black community

• Barbershops acting as a middle ground between the streets and the corporate world

• Vanessa Carlton not wanting to be associated to Chris Brown after a shout out due to his DV history

• Skepta's comments regarding racism in GQ magazine

• Tips for barbers

• Nightmare hair stories

• The African-barbers-can't-cut-hair sterotype

• If being respectful to women can be seen as being condescending

• What Black men really say/think about Black women behind closed doors

• If social media gives a false misrepresentation of real society

• The idea that broke men will leave a woman once they come up

• Men waiting to build a foundation before a relationship and if that's a good idea

• Financial literacy in the black community

• If men step up their game when they have more responsibility.

• Wahala's #Fatwatch: 123kg

• #StavrosSays Recommendation : 60th Anniversary live reading of Chinua Achebe's seminal book 'Things Fall Apart' at the Southbank Centre on Sun 15th April

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@slidercuts on Instagram & Twitter, also www.slidercuts.com

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