Kadi Lee
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Kadi Lee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think about what I knew back then, which was absolutely nothing about color and the gall that I had to be like, yeah, I'm going to be a colorist. And the first day showing up and them handing me my shampoo apron.
Maybe it's essential. I feel really lucky, but I also know that I created that luck because none of this was overnight. You know, this was all brick by brick.
Oh, it was 2020. It was 2020. Yeah.
But as all good things, a lot of good things in my life, the origin starts with Serge Normand.
It's so vivid in my memory, too. You know, so much was happening that day with... LA in general and the city and the protests. And I mean, I remember meeting you guys and A, you were so warm and both you and H like wrapped us up in these big bear hugs. And I was like, I don't even know these people and I'm not a hugger, but let's do it, you know, because I think everyone was just so...
Just needed like this exhale of, okay, like it's going to be okay, but what now?
It felt like such whiplash, and it felt like, gosh, we cannot get a break, you know? Oh, I understand. Yeah, we just said, you know, what else do we have to do? And it felt like we had just conquered this big mountain, my co-founder and I, Micah, and... I just remember when we'd made the decision to close, when it just started feeling so unsafe.
I mean, I literally am in a touch point business, you know, like I'm in very close contact with people. And I just remember feeling scared for my own, obviously, health and safety, but then just... The numbers running through my mind of rent and my team, how are they going to pay their bills? And then my clients, like, will they still be here when we, you know, if and when we reopen?
And when is that going to be? And it just felt... Like we're entering the unknown and it was really frightening. I mean, there's a photo that a team member took of me when everything was just starting to happen and my head is just literally in my hands.
And yeah, my heart breaks when I look at it because it just, I think is every founder who has just poured their everything into launching something and then being like, Not really sure what's next. Yeah. So it was, though it was a low time, about, I want to say two months had then gone by before I met you.
So in that two month period, we had, like we always do, because we figure things out, especially as Black women, we We had been mixing home color kits for clients. I mean, I was going around.
their fences or leaving at their door at nighttime and just scurrying away like a little mouse. But we did enough sales in just a few months to pay our rent on time, make sure our team had some sort of money coming towards them. I had a few clients who asked how they could help. Some paid for their services a year in advance so that I could write a check to every team member.
So all of this happened. It was incredible.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was, I mean, it's obvious. I am a Black woman and most of my clients, many of my clients are not. And then there's this conversation that's taking place in the world at large that I is not taking place in real time in the salon. And now we have to come together again and talk about that big elephant in the room.
And as we geared to reopen, I had clients calling, texting, emailing in tears, wanting, I think a lot of them were dealing with feelings they'd never felt before, feelings thoughts that they never had to think about before, whether that be guilt, whether it be just, wow, I've never had to really step back and say that Katie's existence may be very different than mine.
And now here, I'm asking her to take care of me once again, when really we should be taking care of her.
You know, my body was stealing itself for heaviness. We worked for like 42 days straight, no days off. That's how booked we were when we reopened. Whoa. Yeah. So imagine just the physical toll of that. But the emotional toll of 42 days straight of...
Yeah, you know, it was hard. I definitely felt that was probably one of the loneliest periods of my life. At the time I was single. So then coming home felt like a relief, but then also like What now?
Yeah. I mean, by the way, lots of wine consumption during that time. True. Fact. You know, just sitting down with a glass trying to let each day – go, leaving it in the past. And, you know, you're actually touching people. So it's like an energy exchange. And, you know, everyone knows I'm like the least woo woo person out there. But after that period, I really believe in it.
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