Today's guest is an amazing multi-talented loctician and registered nurse from Poughkeepsie, New York. Her loc oriented services range from traditional locs, traditional loc extensions, instant locs, and microlocs. She also offers a range of all-natural hair and body hydration products that she developed herself such as loc moisturizers and oils. 

Inspired by her mother who owned a salon when she was a child, she always had a passion and talent for doing hair and impacting others.

The Loc Artistry by AV was founded in March 2021 and is a full-service Loc and Braiding Salon.

Connect with Amoy:
Instagram: @TheLocArtistrybyAV

Facebook: The Loc Artistry by AV

Today’s guest is a health coach who embraces the holistic approach to healing and living a healthy lifestyle. After enjoying a successful career in global banking. She continued to travel the world studying the healing arts and practicing what she learned. She has had the opportunity to travel to 7 countries on 3 continents. 

She is one of the few people who loves public speaking and uses her platform to empower others in the use of plants as medicine, holistic remedies, and “fooducation”. Her passion is to use her God-given skills and wisdom to help you look, live, and feel well!

Her favorite Bible text is James 1:5 “If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.” 

Her personal quote is, “God made me, and he does not make mistakes. Therefore, I can do, I can learn, I can succeed.”

Connect with Penny:
Instagram: @PlantBasedPennyLife
Website: PlantBasedPennyLife.com

Today’s guest has worked as a licensed hairstylist for the past 13 years. She began installing and maintaining traditional locs 10 years ago and started offering microloc services around the same time she started her own microloc journey.

She is also a mother, pastor’s wife and evangelist with a heart for ministry. She seeks to bless and share with others the insights that she has gained in these various roles.

Connect with Toccara:
Instagram: @Mrs_Tassie
Blog: Conversations with Toccara
TikToK: mrs.tassie

Today’s guest is the mother of 3 and grandmother of 7. She is a former Restaurant and Retail Manager of 20+ years. As a manager, she became very interested in trading and investments. That led her to various ventures and entrepreneurship.

With her busy schedule, she almost never had time to the salon. So in 1999 she started her last set of locs and has been loc’d eversince. 

Over the past 20+ years of having locs she’s come to feel that having locs offer much more than convenience; they offer cultural pleasure and self-respect because they symbolize our African heritage instilling a sense of pride and boldness. As well as courage because you have to be courageous to face possibilities that you may miss out on jobs, networking and business opportunities because of having locs.

Connect with Hope:

Facebook: hope.hayes.5817

resides in Florida where she works as an Oncology Research Manager. She has advanced degrees in the biological sciences from Hampton and Clemson University. And an MBA in Health Care Management.

She was the original author to focus on the science of tightly coiled hair. She launched a movement of authors that began to write on the science of hair care, merging trichology, science, and general practice into organic practice.

She began to formally intertwine her love of science and research natural hair care alternatives voraciously, first becoming a Certified Personal Exercise Trainer (CPT), then a Certification as a Natural Hair Consultant (CNHC) specializing in lock care with expert experience consulting national and global clients.

She poured her experience into The Knotty Truth™ series for public access. Her first book The Knotty Truth: Managing Tightly Coiled Hair at home DIY Survival Guide was published in 2009. Her second is The Knotty Truth: Creating Beautiful Locs on a dime! A Comprehensive Guide was published a year later in 2010.

This book holds the distinction of being one of the most referenced book on hair locking on YouTube and the most reviewed book on hair locking on Amazon with a 4.6-star rating and 296 reviews.

For more than a decade these books have enlightened, educated, and inspired a host of men and women seeking to grow healthy natural hair and beautiful locs.

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The Knotty Truth by M. Michele George

Today’s guest is a stay-at-home wife and mom of two adorable little boys. She was born and raised in Canada but recently relocated with her family to Mexico! She originally started her microlocs last year in April with twist locs but now has recently installed her third set, braidlocs, and can’t wait to see where the journey takes her.

Connect with Destiny:
Instagram: frombraidstolocs

Today’s guest is an innovative self-taught loctician from Atlanta, Georgia. She specializes in microlocs and microloc extensions. When not locking clients hair she uses youtube to spread techniques and information about the micro loc community

Connect with Ashley:
Instagram: TheLeyLocs
YouTube: LeyLocs
Website: LeyLocs.com

Hair product brand mentioned:
The Brand Lovely

In this episode I share some things that I learned in the first few days of my natural hair care specialist program, which is the prerequisite to becoming a licensed loctician here in North Carolins.