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34 - Nick Ossais

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Sinopsis

Regulars at the taproom have probably seen our host Nick and his glorious beard before, and this episode we talk to the man responsible for it! Nick Ossais, owner of Marda Loop Barbershop, tells us how cutting hair is in his genetics in this interview recorded live back before social distancing guidelines made the taproom pick-up only. Nick Ossais has been spending time in barbershops since he was just a kid, helping out sweeping floors and pricing product in his dad’s barbershop. A few years later while attending university and feeling lacklustre about the direction he was heading he got asked to make the trip from Calgary up to Spruce Grove to help his dad out at what was then a massive shop with 27 chairs and close to 50 employees. During the two years he spent helping out in his dad’s shop he started to miss all his friends and family in Calgary so he packed up and headed back down, discovering once he arrived that the Marda Loop Barbershop was up for sale. He scooped it up, starting out small with only 3