Subject Thread Podcast

Fashion. Tattoos and Style exude Kevin Laroy. With his, God-speed impeccable eyesight, and attention to detail his gift for portraits is undying, I don’t see him slowing up any time soon. Kevin is an amazing creature, a gentle soul which is not often showcased to appease his public persona his artistic and gentle side was captured in the exclusive with Subject Thread Podcast.

Dubbed the portrait king, Kevin has been a tattoo artist for 15 years and is renowned all around the world for his seamless and impeccable tattoos. He is best known for his extremely true to life and unparalleled photo-realistic portraits. 

Raised in Dallas, Migrated to NYC, and finally landing in Los Angeles Kevin’s first steps towards becoming an artist was when he would tattoo in his mentor’s garage in Dallas. Kevin has always gravitated to the arts and fashion world from youth. 

Other than being a tattoo artist with stunning and flawless work each and every time Kevin is a fashion forerunner and has also ventured into the television world. He has appeared in numerous television shows including How Far is Tattoo Far, Ink Master, and Black Ink Crew: New York.

Kevin also recently collaborated on an exclusive URBN WTR Artist Collection which was immediately sold out. 

During the conversation, Kevin spoke about entrepreneurship and the importance of structure, tattoo mastering classes in the future, fashion, brand collaborations, taboo subjects in the black community such as sexuality, and his love for the 90s especially rap icon Lil Kim.

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A maestro with clippers, Marcus Harvey is giving unparalleled fades to many A-list Hollywood celebrities and creating art with clippers while at it.    

The 30 something Atlanta based barber has a celebrity client list which includes Chris Webber, Nas, and Grant Hill to name a few. 

It is not just through barbering that Marcus makes big money. He also does consulting for brands such as Bevel and Squire and has also ventured into television work. He is popularly known for being part of the trio in ‘Ghost Brothers’ on TLC. He is also a curator, comedian, and a social media influencer. 

Marcus Harvey has recently ventured into art by opening up his own art gallery called ‘The Musa Lair Art Gallery’ in the west side of Atlanta. The Art Gallery is within his grooming studio. He has dedicated this space to emerging contemporary artists from all across the globe in hopes that the gallery will give them the exposure they need all while nurturing his love for the art world.

His grooming studio just doesn’t give the classiest haircuts and finessed fades but also offers luxurious nails, massage services, and therapy sessions. He also has some of the best hair technicians in Atlanta working under him. 

M. Harvey believes that while people may think it’s impossible if you have the gift of skilled barbering you can easily make some serious money. He claims that if you really put your heart and soul into it you can definitely create an entrepreneur lifestyle in the barber world. 

During his exclusive with Subject Thread Podcast, He spoke about his upbringing, Atlanta's growth, The Bevel Brand, Parenting, Art, and more. 

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This year alone, Americans have taken the approach of a plant-based lifestyle. According to Beet African Americans are the fastest-growing group to go vegan.

Naturally sparking a conversation between Subject Thread Podcast and Christopher Soul Eubanks out of Atlanta, GA  once working in finance now a full-time well-known activist and leader within Atlanta’s vegan community, In the areas of Climate control, Human rights, and Animal Activism.

Soul Eubanks also has a creative resume which includes freelance creative photographer and videographer he believes in putting his mind and soul into his activism and raising his voice to create a better world for animals.

Highly spirited and impassioned towards animal rights, Soul Eubanks fully converted to veganism after being a vegetarian for a decade. He had the epiphany of changing his eating habits after watching the documentary ‘Cowspiracy’. However, he didn’t just stop there.

After shifting to veganism, Soul Eubanks started to take notice of the extent of ongoing animal suffering and cruelty and sheer disregard for their lives and safety and decided to make an effort in order to spark a change in the way the world treats animals. It has now been over a year that Christopher has been an activist against animal cruelty

While talking to Subject Thread Podcast, Soul Eubanks spoke about the difficulties and challenges he faced when he shifted from being a vegetarian to a vegan and how his friends and family took it. He even shared tips for people who are planning to or have recently made the transition to veganism.

He talked about his experience working with different animal rights organizations and his activism work. He even shared insight about his work as a musician and his recent freelance photography projects.

Soul Eubanks is now conducting university talks and does creative work in order to generate awareness of and to promote veganism as far as wide as he can. He even has a YouTube channel called Culture Vegan where he tries to help people who have recently shifted to veganism in adapting to the new lifestyle.

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With everything moving into a digital space it's time to have that conversation with yourself if you don't have any web presence especially if you are trying to move a brand or product. In today's business scope it will be severely hard to sustain growth and a scale-up without a website, social media presence, and a great marketing rollout. Major corporations have begun eliminating positions based on the pandemic forcing them to look at scalebacks and budget cuts within the next 5 years. 

So many of the 35 and older crowd are against this model. There are ever-changing algorithms that it is essential to jump on board or at the very least incorporate. You don't have to get rid of your nostalgic side but you have to make some adjustments.

In this episode Subject Thread Podcast talks about the digital space of corporations and self-employed workspaces, the hypocrisy of science and religion, and the importance of wearing a mask.

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The adversity of life has always been a thing it seems when we put things in perspective. Some of us appreciate the culture on a large scale the art culture and gravitate to the talents that the most high has allotted to each of us no matter the circumstances and that’s what Mr. Faison affectionately known as Ron Faison has managed to achieve for decades now and simultaneously while going through some of the most difficult times of his life.

Ron started out playing the keyboard at a young age which migrated into the entertainment industry out of Jersey he was exposed to the music business at a larger scale going on tour with hip hop pioneer DJ Kid Capri in which he learned valuable lessons that formed his greater knowledge for entrepreneurship, publishing, events and promoting within the entertainment umbrella. Ron has worked with Sevyn Streeter, K. Michelle, The Diplomats, Yandy Smith just to name a few he has an extensive resume.

Ron is a serial philanthropist having formed the #TeamFaison brand which strives to educate and bring healthy options with annual events in the park emphasizing the need to exercise,  marathon walks, and donation drives for various causes.

In his conversation with Subject Thread Podcast, Ron spoke about the misconceptions of dealing with his illnesses diabetes and cancer, his questions to God, his work in the music industry, #TeamFaison, fatherhood,  and his new project The Hue Crew.    

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If you are going to get into any kind of entrepreneurial craft, it is super important that you treat it like a business. In this episode, we dive into the world of day trading and the reasons why it is essential to treat trading like a business.

Example of day traders schedule:

Prayer and meditation
1. Sunday chart time 7 pm -8 pm
2. Trading plan
3. Trading days designated Tuesday- Thursday
4. Set price alerts on trading view
5. Profit and loss statement
6. Journalling trading session

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When we think of Donuts from a traditional standpoint we think of Dunkin’ Donuts or Krispy Kreme. Most of us can't wrap our heads around the concept of a gourmet styled donut similar to how Starbucks arrived the concept of coffee in a gourmet style setting available to all was pretty much unheard of, With innovation and ideas sometimes those things change and bring us things that the masses can appreciate and enjoy, a gourmet styled donut in a way that's not hard to grasp and dives into the concept of new and old flavors is what Sublime Doughnuts has achieved for over 12 years and counting.

Founder Kamal Grant, of Sublime Doughnuts, had a dream of all dreams to put a footprint in the donut industry in the capital of the south Atlanta, Georgia. Kamal started dreaming of owning his own donut shop in Highschool and joined the Navy right after graduation. The Navy was his first stage to show off his skills as a baker on a large scale, it gave him ideas, patterns, innovation, and combinations of flavors which would be his future pallet for Sublime Doughnuts.

Sublime was birthed in 2008 with a prime real estate location in Tech Plaza and another location soon to follow in Briarcliff both locations have seen massive growth in Atlanta from an economic and population standpoint. According to Curbed Atlanta is the 4th fastest growing city in the United States.

The Atlanta of 2008 is not the Atlanta of 2020 so it had to have taken a level of vision and faith to be able to foresee some of the growth that has taken place with Sublime Doughnuts.

During his conversation with Subject Thread Podcast, Kamal spoke about what Atlanta means to entrepreneurs of color, how he got started in the food industry, The Sublime experience overseas, expansion ideas and he even rapped a few bars of one of his favorite hip-hop groups OutKast.

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We drastically forget to take time for ourselves and in true fashion, the world often faults us for putting ourselves first as an act of selfishness, Co-host @nailahlovell steps into why that should be debunked and her own personal history on how allowing things that are harmful can potentially harm you. During this episode, the co-host speaks about faith and how it was restored.

This episode tackles why it is essential to put yourself first above all and the importance of surrounding yourself with positive reinforcements.

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Tattoo Culture and Old Atlanta with Tattoo Pioneer @MiyaBailey

Co-Founder of City of Ink which now has three locations across Georgia alongside which was originally founded in 2006 with Tuki Carter and Corey Davis, Miya Bailey is known to be one of the most skilled and renowned tattoo artists in the world and one of the first people to specialize in color tattoos on people of color. But it doesn’t stop there; Miya has spread his wings across all things art.

Miya has been focused and encouraged to explore his artistic side ever since he was a child and soon discovered his love for fine art. His first experience with tattoos was in high school when he got an apprenticeship.

It wasn’t until he moved to Georgia from North Carolina for college that he considered becoming a professional tattoo artist. He has now been in the industry for almost three decades.

When talking to Subject Thread Podcast, Miya spoke about old Atlanta and how with time the art culture, gentrification has evolved and changed the city. Miya spoke about the LaFace Records and the staple it gave to Atlanta music and culture. He spoke about his love for Jazz artist John Coltrane and the meaning of Coltrane's spiritual hit "A Love Supreme", He even spoke about the differences between Jazz Legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

He even shared some insight about his fine art and how his work is contemporary and modern. He even shared what it’s been like working in the tattoo industry for so long and how dynamics have changed.

Miya is heavily involved in creating arts as well as being involved in the music and documentary world. He has been part of every Jack Honey Art, Beats, and Lyrics event to date.

Miya Bailey has also worked as an actor and producer. His most popular work is Color Outside the Lines (A Tattoo Documentary).

Miya's celebrity client roster has ranged from Kelly Price, Christie Michelle to Big KRIT just to name a few.

Miya Bailey continues to ink three to four people a week along with continuing to create art and is currently working on creating a community center in his neighborhood.

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Born in Tacoma, Washington, Ayindé Howell has been a lifelong vegan and an avid yoga practicer from a very young age. He built his business around his lifestyle and became an entrepreneur, vegan chef, and founder of ieatgrass. He has over 20 years of experience and training in being a restaurant chef.  

Ayindé’s breakthrough as a chef happened in Seattle as a co-owner of a vegan sandwich shop, which became quite well received amongst tourists and locals both especially during lunchtime. 

Ayindé’s recipes have been featured in the New York Times, Essence, VegNEws Magazine, and many others.
 
He is now working as an executive chef along with running ieatgrass in New York City. He is also an actor with over 30 credits to date in films and tv shows such as Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Dear White People, Foxes, and his own film Augustus and he is currently working on an upcoming movie.

He is also a published author of The Lusty Vegan: A Cookbook and Relationship Manifesto for Vegans and Those Who Love Them 

 While talking to Subject Thread Podcast, he discussed the functioning and process of food distribution, Whole Foods, and how it has become such a huge thing on a global spectrum as more and more people switch to plant based and changing the way they eat. He told us what it was like to be raised in a vegan household and what he had to deal with amongst his peers. He even shared some details about his recent movie project with us.  

His business, ieatgrass is very close to his heart as it has been brewing in his brain since he was a child.  

Ayindé wants to get rid of this common misconception that you had limited options when leading a vegan lifestyle. He creates delicious dishes such as Tacos, Mac & Cheese, and Sloppy Joes which are all vegan friendly and just as good as the real thing so you don’t feel like you’re missing out on anything. 

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