From the Dressing Room to Ten Locations: Faith, Friction, and Partnership at Circa Barbershop
What happens when two men pray the same prayer on the same day without knowing it? On this episode of Holy Business, Candice sits down with DR Granger, founder of Circa Barbershop, and Sam Myers, one of his partners, to talk about how God shapes a business and the people who build it. DR shares how he came to faith after years of chasing what he thought would make him happy, and how a phone call to an ex-girlfriend about The Purpose Driven Life changed his story and his marriage. He walks through how Circa started in 2014 in a converted dressing room and storage closet behind his family's clothing store, and how it grew into a partnership model built to keep great barbers growing instead of hitting a ceiling. Sam talks about growing up in a home where his parents fostered and cared for medically fragile children, leaving full-time ministry, burning out managing a Starbucks, and praying for a new job on his way to a haircut, only to have DR ask him, "Have you ever wanted to be a barber?" They're honest about the conflict that nearly ended their working relationship, how Leadership and Self-Deception helped them "get out of the box," and how tools like Working Genius shape their partner meetings today. Both close by coming back to the same thing: your identity is in Christ, comparison steals joy, and no goal you reach will fulfill you if it isn't Him. Find a location at circabarbershop.com.
