Today we’d like to introduce you to Aminah Green.
Hi Aminah, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
My journey to entrepreneurship has been one. I have been on my entire life as a six-year-old. I joined a program at the Newark Boys and Girls Club because my older sister had joined, but there they taught a fundamentals of entrepreneurship so from the age of six I knew that I was gonna be an entrepreneur. I just didn’t know what I was gonna do and then when I turned 12, I discovered my love for Hair and begin being a shampoo girl for the local hair salon in my neighborhood and since I was a 12 year-old girl, I knew I was gonna become a salon owner. I owned a natural hair salon called peas and kinks in Orange New Jersey. We were open for three years and it had to close and then I got a small suite when sweets became available and started Tighten Up Loc Studio. After reading the book the four hour work week. I learned the formula that said take the 20% of what you do that makes you 80% of your income and do that and that truly transformed my business to be what it is today.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Absolutely not. Unfortunately, the road to success is never smooth. Some of the challenges that I’ve encountered have been making a pivot from a one-man band to a fully operational salon and handling gross and the natural abs and flows of businesses and making sure that we are able to sustain through a bad economy.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a master Loctician by specialty, so that means that I only do Locs or what people consider dreadlocks but we call them Locs the styling the maintenance of them. I think that I am most known for my ability to care for someone’s hair grow it out. My clients would most tell you about my personality they’d say bubbly and outgoing. I think was stands me apart from other salons is my work within my client community. I am very much committed to my community. I have an annual cook out where my clients and their families can come and have a day of fun. I host a college sendoff giveaway last year we sent 17 college bound students with the essentials they needed. Some of them were our clients some of them weren’t. And I have a program for my client who are having a tough time in this economy called the T.U.C program that stands for tighten up cares where they can come and get their maintenance of their hair for a discounted rate or an emergency voucher for free based off their financial deeds and assessment so that they don’t have to worry about not walking around and not feeling like themselves, so I’m very big and community work and that’s not to mention the cheer teams. I host the volunteer hours I put in high schools and everything else that my imagination can think of.
Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
I listen to a lot of books on Audible my most favorite book in the last 10 years is the alchemist, the book that helped transform my business is the four hour work week, the most inspirational book I ever read is shoe dog by the creator of Nike, the book that taught me to discipline of money is the richest man in Babylon the List can truly go on and on a books that I’ve read that I have found influential in my life.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://TightenUpLoCStudio.com
- Instagram: @tightenuplocstudio
- Other: TikTok @tightenuplocstudio.com
