Mike Cherman is the Founder and Creative Director for Chinatown Market and also founded of ICNY.  His creative accolades are only surpassed by his unrelenting tenacity to keep pushing forward.

Gerard Murray is the founder of the School of Hard Knocks clothing brand and Tradition which is a collegiate license brand sold on various campuses across the country.  His father started a shoe repair store that later grew into the first Black Nike account in the country which became the headquarters for Gerard’s first brand.  Gerard’s son then started his own collegiate brand following in his family's footsteps. There are many jewels in here about building a future business while leveraging the past. This is a story about legacy, trust, and passing the torch from one generation to the next.

Peter Koytroulis is an apparel design director for Jordan Brand at Nike.  He has also been a footwear designer and has even owned his won brands and retail store.  There are not many designers that have a toolbox like him and have the ability to do graphics, footwear, apparel, go through production and understand the wholesale and direct to consumer market landscape from a retail perspective.  This is definitely a conversation for those looking to understand a multifaceted designer.

Antonio Gray is the VP and Divisional Merchandising Manager of Apparel for Down Town Locker Room aka DTLR , an over 250 store retail chain in 19 states.  Antonio talks about starting out in the stock room all the way up to becoming a VP and how looking back at his humble beginnings still helps him to navigate effectively to this day.  Antonio's knowledge of the industry allows for a great analysis of it and some of the commonalities in some of the great brands over the years.  This is definitely an interview for all those looking to understanding the large retail chain mindset, operations, entry, and maintaining a brand at that level.

Not enough can be said about Alan Ket who is not only legendary graffiti writer, publisher, marketing maverick, and co-founder fo the Museum of Graffiti in Miami.  Which is the only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the art of graffiti.  In this interview, he explains how he has made his passion his purpose.  Ket has taken on his own destiny into his own hands ranging from starting Stress magazine when he was a teen all the way to his foray into the gaming community, to marketing for clothing brands and helping to launch Complex Magazine upon many other things. 

I am personally never surprised by what Ket is doing as he is a great mind incapsulated in a beautiful person.  I have learned much over there years by working with him in two different companies and just having his tutelage along my life’s journey. I hope that you learn something from this as well and see how Ket is helping to change the landscapes of how we consume art through his Museum of Graffiti.

In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Sharifa Murdock who is the co-owner of Liberty Fairs, Capsule, Cabana Tradeshows, and also the owner of ENVSN Fest a festival focused around young women's lifestyle and culture. Sharifa has always been hands-on in fashion from she beginnings at Atrium in New York also known as the birthplace of Kith to her time at Louis Vuitton all the way to starting trade shows and festivals that have shown some of the best brands in the world. Her signature style of customer relationships and personal experience echos through all her ventures. She is a student of the game and pays it forward by mentoring various young women towards actuating their dreams and envisioning their place in business, fashion, and culture.

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Branden Peters who is the co-founder of ONLY Facts.  His company houses his brands DayOne radio an urban Podcast that has been running for seven years and Hip Hop trivia in Atl that is a reoccurring game night revolving around various facts in hip-hop culture. Branden has also worked in broadcast tv, digital and physical spaces from producing content all the way from marketing various assets and has worked on the Sprite campaign that debuted at LIII (53). Branden is currently a Senior Culture Marketing Manager for Redbull.