Sebastian currently lives in New Jersey.With locations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, Blind Barber is hands down the most definitive barbershop experience in the U.S.
Before coming to Hearst, Sebastian was a media reporter for Advertising Age, covering the profound changes affecting the industry. He graduated with honors from The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and began his career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Both Fortune and Advertising Age named him to its annual “ 40 Under 40” list, which recognizes the people shaping the media, marketing and agency industries, in 2019. Under his lead, traffic to the newsroom content grew from less than 1 million to more than 15 million monthly unique visitors. During his tenure, he led Hearst Magazines’ digital media coverage of the 2016 presidential election and launched and oversaw a news department in the U.K. Sebastian joined Hearst Magazines in 2015 to run the digital newsroom. In March 2019, had more than 20 million unique visitors, a year-over-year increase of 156 percent. Pierce” membership program, an expansion of Charles Pierce’s unique combination of reporting and powerful opinion writing designed for political junkies, Esquire readers and Pierce’s existing fan base. He spearheaded the launch of the “Politics With Charles P. Sebastian had been digital director of Esquire since 2017 where, during his tenure, he expanded Esquire’s digital content to include more in-depth feature reporting and writing, exclusive interviews, ambitious political coverage and a new fashion vertical. Michael Sebastian was named editor-in-chief of Esquire in June 2019 where he oversees print and digital content, strategy and operations. Last week, however, Nixon finally got some good news when the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination awarded him $100,000 for wrongful termination. I want to take him before I lose my vision. "I've never been to Disneyland, and I want to take him. "I could wake up someday and be completely blind, but my goal is to have a nice home with a nice backyard for my son," Nixon told the Boston Herald.
Oh, and there's also the possibility that Nixon might go completely blind, forever. He's moving his family to a small apartment tomorrow. He was unemployed for three years, his condo went into foreclosure, and he was forced to apply for food stamps and went to charities for Christmas gifts, he said. He couldn't find a job nearby, and his wife had a high-risk pregnancy that made it difficult for him to work far from home. He was fired that day.Īt this point, his story starts to sound like the Book of Job.
It was then that the business's proprietor, Tony Morales, discovered Nixon's condition, according to Nixon. The next time you're complaining about something trivial, like the design of your Starbucks holiday cup, think about Nixon, who is following his dream of cutting hair despite blindness.Īnyway, a year later, everything started coming apart for Nixon. On March 3, 2012, he was working at Tony's when he tripped twice. "My vision does not compromise my ability to do my job." "When it comes to hairstyling, I'm an artist and I take pride in what I do," he told the Boston Herald. Later, he attended the Massachusetts School of Barbering and, in 2011, landed a job at a place called Tony's Barber Shop.
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According to the Boston Herald, Nixon learned how to cut hair from his mother using a set of clippers from Wal-Mart. Nixon suffers from a hereditary condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision, leaving him legally blind. There is a chain of $40-a-cut barbershops in New York City called The Blind Barber, which, as far as we know, doesn't actually employ barbers with vision problems. But that is exactly the case in the small town of Norton, Massachusetts, home of Joel Nixon, who is both legally blind and a barber.
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