Hair We Share Donation - The Chop: Shedding the Past and Welcoming New Beginnings

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Have you ever considered the profound impact of a haircut on your personal journey? Join us as we explore the emotional and transformative experience of growing and donating my hair. This episode isn't just about what happens when scissors meet strands; it's a story of evolution, a leap from past to future, and a release of energy. Picture this: nearly 30 inches of natural hair, nurtured from a state of being heavily processed and platinum blonde, transformed into something that speaks to change and new beginnings. At a recent retreat, I made the decision to cut 14 inches off my hair, marking a significant milestone not just for me personally but also for the new presence I aim to bring on stage in the coming year.

But there's more than just the story of a haircut. This episode is packed with insights into hair care that could revolutionize your own routine. Say goodbye to damaging extensions and excessive product use and embrace a simpler, more natural approach. Inspired by a fellow competitor, I share tips that taught me the power of doing less—washing less frequently, minimizing heat, and allowing natural oils to work their magic. It's not just about the hair; it's about shedding the past, simplifying life, and making room for growth. Tune in to discover how these small shifts can lead to significant transformations in all areas of life.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So if only you could see me right now.
You may or may not notice, ifyou're following me on social
media, that I got a big haircut.
I had been growing my hair downpast my butt like a total of I
think it was something like 28,nearly 30 inches from scalp to

(00:20):
tip.
I had been growing this foryears and I always knew that I
was waiting for a specificmoment to be able to donate and
I knew that I wasn't going towant to have like a really,
really short haircut.
So I've been growing andgrowing to be able to make a big
chop.
So at the retreat just a fewweeks ago, I decided it was the

(00:42):
perfect time, the perfect timeto let go of some old energy, to
do a complete update on how Ilook and what presence I'm
bringing with me on stage now,and so I cut 13 inches off my
hair and this is pretty big forme it's.
I've had long hair for aboutthree, four or five years now,

(01:03):
and this is all natural neverbeen dyed.
I've had long hair for aboutthree, four, five years now, and
this is all natural never beendyed.
I've just been growing my hairand I've learned a lot about how
to actually care for your hairalong the way.
Because it's actually reallyfunny.
If I think back to 2017, when Istarted growing my hair out, it
was just after I wasbodybuilding, and when I was

(01:24):
bodybuilding, all I ever wantedwas to have the long hair all
the way down to my butt.
Like all the pros, I also wasreally into having blonde hair
at the time and, if you cancatch my drift, I fried my hair
so much to get this platinumblonde look.

(01:46):
Then I started putting inextensions.
I started wearing the hairhalos.
I've had clip-in extensions,I've had tape-in extensions,
I've had the little beadedextensions.
I was just doing it all and ittook a toll on my hair and I
could never really get my hairto grow.

(02:07):
So I remember sitting there justbefore my competition at a
posing seminar, and at thisposing seminar, there was a
young woman next to me who hadthe most beautiful long, dark
hair.
It was thick, it was juststraight, it was just so
beautiful and I was like, oh mygosh, I have to ask you what do

(02:27):
you do to your hair to get it tolook so beautiful?
I was like what are you using?
What products?
What's the trick?
There's got to be somethinghere.
So she's like oh, okay, youwant to know.
I'm like, yeah.
So she's like get something totake notes.
Okay, perfect, take out myphone ready to take notes.
She says nothing.
I was like what do you meannothing?

(02:48):
She says I do nothing to myhair.
Stop putting product on it.
It's only damaging your hair.
It's drying it out so that youhave to use the product again so
that it feels moisturized, sothat it dries it out.
So she said stop using product.
Stop washing your hair so much.
Get your hair used to beingable to go three and four days
between washes.
It's like okay.
She said stop aggressivelybrushing your hair while it's

(03:12):
wet.
Allow your hair to mostly drybefore you're brushing it.
Okay, cool, like all of theselittle bits and pieces was
taking away versus adding.
I was using less heat on myhair.
I was washing my hair less,using less products on my hair.
Yes, every now and again I'llthrow some natural oils some
coconut oil, some olive oil,some avocado oil and some others

(03:36):
in there on my ends just tokeep them nice and moisturized.
But it was very far and fewbetween that.
I would be doing that and what Ilearned was that with my hair,
less was more, and so I stoppeddoing everything and I continued
to grow my hair out from 2017,all the way till all the blonde
that had been dyed.
I went through the painstakingphase of growing it all out

(04:01):
versus continuing to dye it tomatch, and it was a very long
process, but I eventually got itto where all of that hair had
been cut off.
So now I was working with allnatural, virgin hair that had
never had any treatments done,had never been dyed, had never
nothing.
It was all just virgin, naturalhair.
So I started to grow that outover the last few years and

(04:25):
that's what I wanted to donate.
So it was a really coolexperience getting to shock and
awe everyone, because my teamknew about the cut but the
guests at my retreat did notknow, and every one of my guests
at some point or another onthis retreat had complimented my
hair, how long and howbeautiful it was and how great

(04:46):
it looked and how healthy itlooked.
And I just giggled insideknowing that on day four of this
retreat I was going to becutting off over a foot of my
hair to be able to donate.
So I it was pretty significantand I know that this hair is
going to be able to be turnedinto a wig that's going to help

(05:09):
someone who's struggling througha very difficult time feel
beautiful.
And that is what I wanted wasthat this hair served me and
helped me feel beautiful, and Iknow the power that I have and
how energy transfers, and I knowthat the woman that receives
this no matter if she's inremission and she's in the

(05:32):
process of beginning to grow herhair back or whether she's
still going through the journeyof processing through cancer I
just know that this is gonnahelp them feel better.
And anything that I can do tohelp outside of just donating
money, that's really what feltbest to me, because it's one
thing to donate your money andplease do.

(05:54):
I have found a phenomenalorganization.
That was another reason Iwaited so long.
I said I wanted to make sure Iwas donating to right places,
because some of these places,I've heard, will take your hair
and sell it.
Some of these places will passon the cost of creating the wig,
which is about $600.
They can pass that on to theperson with cancer and I don't

(06:18):
want to leave that person with abill.
So I found an organization.
It's hairweshareorg.
Again, that's hairweshareorg.
It takes about $600 to make awig, but I will be sending in
that money.
I will be fundraising thatmoney.

(06:39):
I did a video while doing thecut and I planned to put
together a little bit of a story, putting that email out to some
people I know, crowdfunding the$600, that that person doesn't
have to pay it on the other side.
So whoever it is that's blessedwith this, whether I get to see
a picture of her or not, it'stotally fine.
I just want to know thatsomeone feels loved, they feel

(07:03):
supported and they feel thecontribution, because I have
intentionally grown this hairfor this purpose for a long time
and it feels so good to letthat part of me go, to know that
this was the 2018 to 2022 me inthis hair, to know that I now

(07:32):
feel so much lighter.
I feel like my hair is likebouncy, so it makes me feel a
little more joyful.
I think I have a little pep inmy step, like there's something
about this cut and this lengthof hair and I still haven't
gotten it cleaned up.
It's a little choppy because weliterally just stuck it into
four little ponytails andchopped my logistics person.

(07:54):
Gosh, michelle.
She was just not breathing.
I had to remind her to breathea few times because it's just
hair and I didn't care.
And in fact I'm pretty sure itwas like at a diagonal and we
went out that night and all Idid was just it's fine, I'll
just put some curls in it, throwthe curls in there.
You couldn't even tell it wenton my way, because it's the
significance of the statement,not how I looked, that mattered.

(08:18):
So here I am another week laterand I still haven't gone and
gotten my cleanup haircut.
I did take a chunk out of ittoday because it was just really
standing out there, and so Ijust took a pair of scissors to
it myself.
I figured it couldn't hurt, itcouldn't make it worse.
So all that to say, we candonate in more ways than just

(08:41):
money.
So sometimes finding somethingthat's important to you and
making a donation whether thatis to donate to something like
this, to help create more wigs,so that more women can be
blessed with this, after someonehas spent so much time
intentionally growing the hairwhich is the hard part to avoid

(09:03):
coloring it, and you can't sendin grays they're going to have
to pull out five or six of myhairs.
They're going to lose a couplethere, and while I still have
this ability to do this, I knowthat it's powerful what we can
do when we come together tosupport people.
So if that means donatingfinancially to a cause that

(09:24):
means something to you, then doit.
And that means showing up tohelp support a cause that means
something to you, do it.
That means growing your hairout and donating that, do it.
Whatever it is for you.
Find that thing that is goingto bring you to life.
Find that thing that's going tohelp you feel connected to the
communities around you, becausewe are not an island.

(09:47):
We are connected.
So reach out and do something,and if you would like to
contribute towards the making ofthis wig, I'd be more than
happy.
Please reach out on any of thesocial media platforms jaynaswan
and Healthy EmotionalRegulation.

(10:11):
You can DM either of thosesocial media accounts.
On Instagram, we can chit chatabout how you can help donate
towards this.
Otherwise, I'm just grateful tobe able to share and I'd love
to hear your stories if you'veever donated to hair before what
that felt like, how freeing anduplifting it was, how long you
let yours grow too before youcut it off and how much you cut

(10:34):
off.
I'd love to hear more untilnext time.