Joining us in the booth this week is Mark, Founder of SliderCuts and an award winning barber. This episode includes: How SliderCuts was born Setting up his barbershop with no money How Mark got celebrity clients like Lebron James, Anthony Joshua, Stormzy and much more Follow Mark on Instagram here Learn AI, Cybersecurity, Data Science & more with Coursera. Ato has personally used Coursera to obtain an AI certificate. This is an affiliate link so if you purchase a course or sign up to the monthly or annual subscription, we will receive a small commission from Coursera, however there will be no additional charge to you. Learn on Coursera here: https://imp.i384100.net/savvywallet Follow me on: Instagram , Tiktok, Twitter Check out: https://www.youtube.com/savvywallet for the video version 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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