From Human Trafficking Survivor to Beauty Industry Innovator
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Escape if you can. And I didn't have that in that time. Nobody told me escape if you can. I escaped because I want to. I escaped because I needed to. You don't know if you are trafficking. You don't know. They never tell you that. The promises are so huge and so beautiful.
Sol Kaczynski is a beauty entrepreneur, educator, and the founder of Planet Sol Salon. Through her work, she advances the beauty industry with innovative hair extension techniques while mentoring the next generation of stylists to achieve excellence and long-term success.
I think to get to where I am today, you have to walk a path, and the path that you walk make you or break you. When I walked that path, I was determined that it was going to make me and not break me. I did, I changed my name at that time because everybody was looking for me and I didn't want nobody to find me. So when my husband met me, I was Vicky. When he find out that I was Saul, then he say, okay, so tell me your story.
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welcome back to another episode of the living your legacy podcast uh joining me today is sol which is translates to sun but i know that because her and i speak spanish so we began your interview a couple hours ago one of our longest interviews and i have to and i have to only giggle and and and give you a little bit of shit it's because we're latino we're designed to suffer so the beginning segment one is a lot very long very long and then you get to your success yes so welcome to your success thank you such a pleasure to have you here my love thank you how do you feel oh gosh um
You know when you dream in a cloud, that you're in a cloud? Well, I feel like I'm dreaming that I'm in a cloud.
This is quite the cloud.
It's a perfect cloud, too, yeah. I always dream that I'm flying. And this time I'm really dreaming that I'm flying. But I'm flying to the right place. You know, that's what makes it so unique and so special. Getting to be here and to do this is a dream. It's a dream that wasn't in my plans.
Yeah, I know.
But, I mean, who doesn't dream about having a podcast? And it's here.
Here you are. Your journey begins at... Your first entrepreneurial journey was four years old. Your first job, some insane age that only Latinos would understand that it's quite normal. Yeah.
When you when you start working at the age of six or seven years old and you're really making Hot cocoa at 4 o'clock in the morning when you should be sleeping is the beginning of being an entrepreneur. It's actually the beginning of a life full of good stories because not everything is a bad story. It's the best part of them.
When I heard your story, especially your personal background, which we'll touch upon, it reminded me a lot of my story of my mom growing up in Manawa, Nicaragua, where it was just like you wake up already hustling. There's already an urge of service because you have to thrive. You have to survive. Every day is not easy. Every day is a blessing. Can you talk about that culture in your country?
Gosh, yeah, I was not the only child that has going through all this. I mean, I still go back to Colombia and I see little kids at early, early, early hours of the day walking with the Ranas. with the Colombian granas, which is like a jacket because it's so cold. And you can see the fog all over the mountains. And you see them walking around trying to get to the coffee plantations to pick up coffee. I did that when I was six, seven years old. I went and picked up the grass from the ground so my mother can make the brooms to sweep the house. You know?
That's crazy.
literally the straws to the room get out of here oh yes no yeah yeah and of course the house was uh was um dirt so you need those those and you pick it up with the knife yeah imagine you are seven years old six years old with a knife in your hand and you just ripping pieces of uh
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:18
2
How did Sol’s childhood in the Colombian mountains shape her early survival and work ethic?
10:18–14:22
3
What cultural realities did Sol describe about child labor and rural life in Colombia?
14:22–18:32
4
When did Sol experience a mindset shift from surviving to setting long-term goals?
18:32–29:09