Her Power

In this episode of the Curl Power Podcast, Zoe Fox shares her hair story, from growing up curly through the years, curl icons,  the explosion and impact of Instagram and finding a naturally curly community. 

Naturally Curly Conversation with the Curl Squad

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The Power of Alignment when Empowering a Community with Renée Davis 

In this episode of the Curl Squad's Curl Power Podcast, I speak to Writer, Journalist and Founder of Out The Box Renée Davis

• Cutting off her friend's hair with IKEA scissors
• People and their opinions on her natural hair journey
• Learning to feel attractive
• The impact of the video vixen
• Creating Out the Box
• Collaborations with brands to empower the Black community
• Divine alignment

Timeline:

02:07 Quick Fire Curl Talk

05:14 Natural hair journey to self-love - "Everything  I saw, everyone on TV and everyone I knew growing up, the adults, everyone's hair was relaxed".

27:08 The road to journalism - "No complaining in this time and season".

44:30 Alignment in empowering a community - "Those are the moments where I feel like no one is helping, no one sees, no one supports I don't know where to go and people would be just coming across my path all the time, God was just lining up people to help me..."

56:36 Book recommendations, plugs and Renee's final word of wisdom

Connect

Instagram

Renee Davis https://www.instagram.com/renee.cd/

Out The Box https://www.instagram.com/outtheboxuk/

Linked in 

Renee Davis https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneedavis89

Out The Box https://www.linkedin.com/company/outtheboxuk/

Twitter

Twitter https://twitter.com/renee__cd

Out The Box  https://twitter.com/outtheboxuk

Out The Box Link Tree

https://linktr.ee/outtheboxuk

Links:

Tangle Teezer https://amzn.to/3ruNHg2

Scrunchie - https://amzn.to/3sxJ9qi

Eco Styler Gel -https://amzn.to/2QGnUEF

Jamaican black castor oil - https://amzn.to/3d8wxzy

Shea Moisture Deep conditioner - https://amzn.to/3tYSNTi

Activilong - https://activilong.com/en/

African Pride Coconut line - https://africanpridehair.com/

Cantu - https://www.naturalisticproducts.co.uk/collections/cantu

Mielle - https://www.naturalisticproducts.co.uk/collections/mielle-organics-1

Quaker Street Coffee - https://quakerstreet.co.uk/

Books

The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy - https://amzn.to/3w4f57T

All about love - Bell Hooks - https://amzn.to/3fgqiwi

About the Curl Squad

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls. We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two.

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss the natural hair community, representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables. Please do subscribe and rate and review to help us amplify our important voices. Curly Girls, join us in the ongoing conversation:

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Following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021, you'll be well aware of the heightened conversation around the safety of women.

In this episode, I discuss my experiences of times when I have felt threatened, abused, violated and imitated at the hand of toxic masculinity.

So this conversation is important because women deserve to be safe, all women deserve to be safe.

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls. We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two.

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss the natural hair community, representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables. Please do subscribe and rate and review to help us amplify our important voices. Curly Girls, join us in the ongoing conversation:

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In this episode, I speak to my Mom.  She is a Windrush Generation Immigrant who came to this country when she was just 6 years old in the early 1960s.  Sadly my Mom's Mom passed away in childbirth when my Mom was only 8 just a couple of years after arriving in this country.  This Mothers Day Special is dedicated to my Mom.

We discussed:

• Embracing her natural hair journey and her previous hair fails.
• Arriving in this country as a young immigrant and her memories of coming to England.
• How not having a Mom around impacted her relationship with her hair. 
• Uncomfortable looks. 
• And what it's like being about being a Mom to two Mixed-race kids.

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls. We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two.

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss the natural hair community, representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables. Please do subscribe and rate and review to help us amplify our important voices. Curly Girls, join us in the ongoing conversation:

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An impromptu show in response to the headline news surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan's recent interview with Oprah.

In this episode, I talk about my personal experience of growing up Mixed-Race, White British and Black Caribbean in 1980s/1990s Britain.  Whilst I'm now very proud of who I am it wasn't always easy for me to navigate my duel heritage.

I discuss:

Being self-aware outside of major cities

Feeling vibes that remind you that you're different

How other people's opinions impacted my sense of self

Not seeing myself represented impacted my self-confidence

Wanting to end it all.

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls.

We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two. 

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss the natural hair community, representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables.

Please do subscribe and rate and review to help us amplify our important voices.

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This week I'm in conversation with Charlotte Williams, Founder of SevenSix Agency

We discuss:
Identity
Wash day routine
Natural Hair Journey
Going Viral
What it takes to build a successful influencer marketing agency 
How working as an influencer inspired Charlotte to make a change in the industry
Success despite sucking at maths
Building a team that plays to individual strengths

Timeline

02:42 Natural Hair This or That "Satin Pillow Case All Day Every Day"

04:45 Go to Products / Accessories "I have been using the same products for ages"

07:45 Curl Icon " When I was younger I don't remember anyone having curly hair, apart from…"

09:48 When we first met

10:32 Stalkers sending flowers

11:33 "This is actually something I spoke with my therapist about last week"

12:47 "My hair was very much put away"

13:53 "I didn't realise my hair was curly until I was 15"

15:00 "Things got different when I started to realise I was curly, I started to experiment"

18:10 "I never saw anyone with hair like mine"

24:30 "and so I went natural"

30:23 Marketing experience

35:14 "Curly and afro hair can't be professional ?!"

37:30 "We just don't have access to those types of influencers"

40: 31 Going viral

45:05 "It's really easy to come up with an idea and just do it"

48:04 Health Habits  I've taken my phone out of the equation in the morning, I've now got an…"

53:40 Book Talk

56:22 Michelle Obama

58:00 The plug

Books:

The Lonely Londoners, Sam Selven - https://www.newbeaconbooks.com/caribbean-fiction/the-lonely-londoners

Becoming, Michelle Obama

https://www.newbeaconbooks.com/african-american-non-fiction/becoming?rq=obama

Links 

Charlotte Williams

https://instagram.com/charlottesevensix

SevenSix Agency

http://www.sevensixagency.com/

https://instagram.com/sevensixagency

Sustainably Influenced Podcast

https://instagram.com/sustainablyinfluenced

Natural Hair Products:

Boucleme Website

https://www.boucleme.co.uk/collections/style

Boucleme Instagram

https://instagram.com/boucleme?igshid=ehet4g6b85eg

Dizziak Website:

https://dizziak.com/product/dizziak-deep-conditioner/

Dizziak Instagram

https://instagram.com/dizziaklondon

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In this episode of the Curl Power Podcast, Zoe Fox talks about her experience of having a spinal cord injury during the 2020 pandemic and explains how Cauda Equina Syndrome changed her self perception. 

Cauda equina syndrome is a rare and severe type of spinal stenosis where all of the nerves in the lower back suddenly become severely compressed.

Symptoms include:

• sciatica on both sides
• weakness or numbness in both legs that is severe or getting worse
• numbness around or under your genitals, or around your anus
• finding it hard to start peeing, can't pee or can't control when you pee – and this isn't normal for you
• you don't notice when you need to poo or can't control when you poo – and this isn't normal for you

Cauda equina syndrome requires emergency hospital admission and emergency surgery because the longer it goes untreated, the greater the chance it will lead to permanent paralysis and incontinence.

The Spinal Injuries Association - https://www.spinal.co.uk/

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls.

We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two. 

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss the natural hair community, representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables.

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In this episode of the Curl Power Podcast, Zoe Fox lets you know what you can expect from the show and she introduces you to her first three guests.

Charlotte Williams, Influencer and founder of SevenSix agency

Renee Davis, Writer, Journalist and founder of Out The Box

Jamelia Donaldson, Founder and CEO of Treasure Tress and Co Founder of The Teen Experience

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls.

We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two. 

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss the natural hair community, representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables.

Please do subscribe and rate and review to help us amplify our important voices.

Curly Girls, join us in the ongoing conversation:

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Naturally Curly Conversation with Zoe Fox 

The Curl Squad represents all things community, conversation, confidence and curls.

We discuss growing up curly, overcoming obstacles, traumas and triumphs as well as sharing a natural hair care essential or two. 

I'll be introducing you to some incredibly inspiring curly creators and innovators as we discuss representation, doing meaningful work and building bigger tables.

Please do subscribe and rate and review to help us amplify our important voices.

Join us in the ongoing conversation:

www.thecurlsquad.com

www.instagram.com/thecurlsquad

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