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Spotlight On
Young Professionals
Joaquin Herrera
Founder & CEO
GoodFellas BARbershop
GoodGirls HairBAR
El Chopp-O Hair Cartel
My name is Joaquin Herrera and I am the founder and CEO of the GoodFellas BARbershop, GoodGirls HairBAR, and El
Chopp-O Hair Cartel. My business is the first of its kind concept merging the Salon, BARbershop, Craft house and Spa. We
specialize in men, women and children. We are committed to creating an experience like no other.
I have been cutting hair since I was 12 years old. As I became older and more involved in my industry I started to notice the
lack of commitment my industry has had towards creating quality of life and stability to the culture and industry. I set out to
build a company focused on its team. Bringing in healthcare, benefits, retirement and everything that a career should bring
its people. I love my craft and my industry but I wanted to leave it in a better place than when I walked in. As far as the
customer I’ve seen for hand that customers want consistency, reliability, and an experience they can brag about.
Somewhere where the mom loves it for her kids, her husband and herself.
My greatest accomplishment in business is being able to create my vision from scratch. I love seeing my customers smile
and brag about the person that cut their hair and love the entire experience of GoodFellas. Being able to raise the
standard for my industry has become my single most greatest accomplishment I’ve done in business. As for the future of
the company the vision is clear. We hope to bring in healthcare this year for the team, we are expanding into our 2nd
location and prepping to open our Barber and Beauty University in 2019.
My focus has been quite simple, to help build entrepreneurs and help make dreams come true, but I will except nothing
less than excellence from my team but that will be completely on me as I teach and inspire them moving into the future.
We hope to become the Paul Mitchell of the barbering industry and then create our very own category as the new
standard and concept for the hair industry. We want to help change not only the industry but to make a better world in a
small way.
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