ITV news contacted me not long after I opened Geri's Barbershop and asked if they could do an article on me as they were studying young people making changes.
I was so nervous during this video as you can tell but it was some great promotion at the time!
'Next, leaving school is a daunting prospect at any time, but at the moment with work difficult to come by for many young people, the future can seem even more uncertain.
19-year-old Michael Geri from Long Eaton was told he couldn't carry on into 6th form after problems at school and several run ins with the police but, despite that and just a few years later, he's opened his own barber shop as Michael Sibert reports.'