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Dwayne Phelps

Dwayne Phelps

Master barber and owner of The Shop by Lefty's barbershop in Phoenix, Arizona; podcast guest known for building 30-year career after losing his dominant hand.

Jul 22, 2026

12:24
when, when was the moment you realized that this is a career? This is, this is for real, for real?
12:28
real?Hmm.
12:30
You know, it's, it's a, that's a really good question.
12:32
Uh, I worked at, at...
12:33
Like I said, I got out of school in 1997.
12:36
I worked right away at AG's, and at that point in time, you had to have a, uh, a live person to pass your cosmetology test.
12:42
Now I didn't know a lot of women, um, that had straight hair, so it was really hard for me to find someone to take down there to state board of cosmetology to actually go through all the steps of doing their hair.

9 MINS LATER

21:55
Yeah.

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