We had the good fortune of connecting with Reggie Walker and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Reggie, do you disagree with some advice that is more or less universally accepted?
As kids we are asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I think the question we should be asking is is “How do you want to live?”

What should our readers know about your business?
Maybe about 2 years before the pandemic, I worked as a team lead at Chick-fil-A inside the CNN Center. I always been interested in how money worked and how some people got more ahead in life than others. My father presented to me this book called Rich Dad Poor Dad when I was younger & this thing called the CashFlow Quadrant started to make complete sense.

As much as I liked the company, I truly didn’t want to be an employee. I didn’t want anybody to determine how much I could make nor how often I could work.
If I wanted to work 60+ hours a week & get paid accordingly I knew I had to do my own thing. Like Jim Rohn says “Profits are always better than wages.”

Luckily I had consistent exposure to the best industry in the world (the beauty industry) where I’d go to get a haircut every Friday in the West End.

That instilled the confidence in me picking up a pair of clippers & giving my little brother Mykahl (pronounced Michael) a bald fade.

I tagged the barbers in the shop I was visiting on a weekly basis the results & they was like “Yo! That looks really good!” “We didn’t know you could cut!” I was like “I don’t…it took me an hour and a half lol.”
They told me come up with a method and speed will come. They also encouraged to go get my license. I took their advice, graduated from Profile Institute of Barbering located on Cleveland Avenue and here we are!

I always been into personal development and the self help industry. Most people think I got the name Ghost from the Stars Tv Show “Power”.

Ghost is actually an acronym.
Get….Hyped… Off…. Self…Transformation. I believe everyone should strive to become the best version of themselves even if it makes their peers uncomfortable. If that is the case , they may not be ready to do the same and that is ok.

Everybody’s timing and “why” is different. I had the hard skills but my soft skills wasn’t always up to par. I quickly learned how important it was to use the transferable skills I learned from Chick-fil-A to acquire new clients & have positive client retention.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Haha well I’m 28 and it’s funny because the friends I do have are older than me & have either lived in Atlanta already or visited multiple times before I moved to the city after living in Clayton and Henry county the majority of my youth. I usually don’t go out unless it’s a crowd of people I’d like to network with & my friends are the same. Id take them to the Hobknob Restaurant or the Atlantic Grill in Atlantic Station. They have decent food and it’s generally an area you can make good business connects. We’re all focused on chasing are goals than anything. You won’t ever catch me out in the nightlife. It doesn’t excite me no where near as much as me perfecting my craft.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I would like to shoutout @barthussle for inspiring me to become a barber when I would visit Celebrity Status Unisex Salon years ago in the West End.

I also would like to shout @cutsbyblac, @benthebarber101 , @diggzthebarber & @iamtrelljones for giving me the straight talk I need to keep pushing at times when I want to give up or getting in my own way. Those guys are family.

Instagram: @ghostxbarber

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