Ep. 75: C. Alan Bennett- C. Alan Bennett Shares How He Beat Kidney Failure + Successfully Runs The Only Black Owned Beauty School In D.C.

Friends in Beauty Podcast

Today on the Friends in Beauty Podcast I welcome the CEO + Founder of Bennett Career Institute, C. Alan Systems, & the Kidney Cafe, C. Alan Bennett to the Friends in Beauty guest chair.

How does one go from a Bachelors in Religion to opening a wildly successful beauty school in Washington, DC? Well you’re going to have to tune in to find out.

If you didn’t know I’m a proud graduate of Bennett Career Institute’s makeup artistry program. This is where my journey as a Makeup Artist began and I literally can not tell my story without including Bennett. In 2018, I was invited back to Bennett to be the instructor for the Makeup Artistry program so Bennett holds a near and dear place in my heart.

It was very important for me to have Mr. Bennett on the podcast because being in the beauty industry for almost 30 years he’s a wealth of knowledge and I knew he was going to give us exactly what we needed.

In this interview Mr. Bennett and I discussed:

-How he unexpectedly landed in the beauty industry

-The history and evolution of what is now Bennett Career Institute

-The sacrifices he’s made as an entrepreneur to continue to operate his successful businesses

-How he used beauty industry predictions in his favor and created the Celebrity Makeup Artist Symposium + other business ventures

-His battle with kidney failure, how he overcame it, and what’s next

-Plus loads of inspiration, motivation, gems, and everything in between

I have been waiting for this day to interview Mr. Bennett because he has been so influential to my success and I just had to give him his flowers while he’s still here to smell them. I even cried during the interview!. I knew it was going to happen.

So, definitely tune in, take some notes, and listen more than once. Go ahead & jump into this amazing chat with C. Alan Bennett and if you prefer to watch this interview then tune in on YouTube.

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Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

-Bennett Career Institute

-National Cosmetology Association

-Book - My Business Is The Beauty Business

-Occupational Outlook Handbook

-Celebrity Makeup Artist Symposium

-Kidney Kafe

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