Mount Pleasant Magazine Nov/Dec 2016

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Biggest Hearts
G iving back in a big way
is not always something you plan.
Rachael Geib, owner of Salon
Salon of Charleston, credits much
of her business’ success to giv-
ing back to the community by
volunteering locally with Susan G.
Komen, the March of Dimes, Pet Helpers and more. But
just a few months ago, the stars
aligned and Geib found herself
driving to a small town in Michigan to help someone she
barely knew have a chance for a new life.
Geib had been anticipating opening a second salon,
but, due to personal circumstances, she decided not to.
She did, however, have all of the equipment necessary to
open a second salon in storage. A chance conversation
with her roofing contractor was all it took for Geib to
figure out what to do with her $15,000 worth of salon
equipment.
“He told me a story about his sister in Michigan, who
was a wonderful woman and fellow salon owner. She had
always been a giving person and was very involved in her
church, and one day she wound up in the hospital with
lung disease – out of nowhere. She was put on a waiting
list for a double lung transplant and had to sign papers
for disability. Life as she knew it basically stopped,” she
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