I am your host Ryan Salter, I’m an energy attorney, clean energy advocate and community outreach specialist, i’m also the principal attorney of imagined power. Llc got some exciting stuff. Today, we always say here on the show that it’s important to engage all stakeholders in the energy conversation, including those who may not be traditionally engaged in energy policy.
I think this prominently includes our communicators reporters and storytellers as it they you keep the public informed, engaged and educated about arts, culture, news and current events. So it’s not often these days that you come across a print magazine that just blows you away with its beauty, style and content, but that is what happens to me when I came across this month. Edition of summit magazine summit is Hawaii’s global magazine with in-depth coverage.
Art design style, business, civics and literature in the Hawaiian who’s beer summit connects Islanders and global travelers to the very best perspective, purveyors and products of the archipelago. I has between here today, akaike Hussey, the publisher and editor of summit magazine with us here in the studio today, so it kind of resides in co-ed and as a longtime leader in the community in a wide variety of areas he’s on the board of the domestic Violence, Action Center and the Hawaii Alliance for progressive action, just innings, you akaike, is a teacher author and thought leader with in his word.
The common goal of strengthening our Island home akaike earned a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is currently studying economics via the university of london and the London School of Economics. So, with all of that said, welcome ipega. Thank you. Riah so summit magazine, I think, is just it’s just gorgeous. I just you know I hadn’t come across it before and I was just so blown away by the 50 intriguing content, the the beautiful pictures, fashion style and yet still this really deeply intellectually engaging approach.
Global approach, so I’m just so excited to have you here to talk a bit about the magazine. Thank you, but first before we do, maybe you could tell me a little bit about yourself and your background and how you came to become a magazine, publisher sure. Well, I came to media from pro very unconventional path. I I came to it as as a person who had to offer up and talk to the media about things that are happening in the grassroots community, and so I come out of sort of an organizer community activism background fantastic.
What kind of wood that McGee renew a lot of our engaging with the news with what type of stuff for you? After a lot of things in the native blind community self-determination, sovereignty, demilitarization, land rights convention right things? And it was often by my job within our various hui tou to be the person who would go and talk to the press. I would read the press releases. I prayed the flyers and do that kind of thing, and what I realized was our press.
Our our media have an incredibly important responsibility and a lot of power and and it could be used, it could be used for incredibly wonderful things. My concern is, you know when I first started comin in the Hawaii independent was: was that oftentimes Native Hawaiians retreated sort of the problem? You know the wireless guys by those Hawaiian protesting, and the fact that we were protesting was was the problem, as opposed to the issue that we were protesting about being the problem.
So I wanted to flip the lens a little bit and to speak from speak about the world from a Hawaiian perspective instead of having media that just covers Hawaiian. So I want to tell a big different kind of story and then what was available in the in the media of the time wow that is so interesting sort of whatever you say. So the problem was speaking out. You know if only they would be quiet and not talk about these things, and so you were like let’s go ahead and and talk about these things.
Authentically is what I’m hearing right: ships, who’s speaking and shift a speaking and so a couple years ago. I was thinking about a lot about how do we how to create something? That’s really powerful and wonderful. Coming on Hawaii, I wanted to speak to a more global audience from a whole trigger a distinctly hawaii and hawaiian point of view, and it’s always been rattling around. In my my mind, this is quote from queen kapiolani, who was the spouse of David Clarke.
All of the last king of Hawaii – and it was during a time when Hawaii was very much a global place. It was much more cosmopolitan and had a very kind of modernist perspective and orientation, much more so than it than it did in the 20th century and her model. Kapila news model was coolio canoe, which means drive for the summit and try to achieve the very best that we can as an island community. And I think that the neat idea, and so what my goal with this particular publication, is to to try to elevate expectations.
For what Hawaii can be in this 21st century, to showcase the amazing people who are doing great things and media, like my pink tech or in fashion or in culinary arts, and a show that we really have a lot to offer the world? And so that’s about. Sixty seventy percent of the magazine and the other thirty forty percent is kind of straight up: international politics and business. So we cover big ideas that are driving the world right now, like the idea of universal basic basic income, which there comes from about later so, which is which is so interesting yeah.
I hope you know I well. I think it’s interesting, I think folks, reading low as well. So how does I’m curious? So how did you go from? You know the you know, writing the press releases. The sort of you know having this. You know international. You know magazine. Well, you know. Thankfully, we live in a time when a lot of the effort that it you should take to create on publication has been. It was blocked, easier, wordpress and Amazon Web Services and all of the a kind of readily available technology that the Internet has offered to us.
I started doing websites when I was like 17 or 18 years old in high school, and it was very much for him tinkering around and creating a pretty really simple website, so I launched an online news website called the whole independent in 09. Okay, I can remember just because my daughter was born right as I launched it, and I have this crazy habit of starting differences when carried I so you know it was relatively easy to get that off the ground just because with technology you know you must have Good enough to print and hire a truck to deliver yeah physical newspapers that make sense that yet at the same time, I think it must have also been you know your works at the knowledge and roots in the community.
You must have known a lot of artists because you can have all the trucks to drive and fancy print things in the world and not have sort of photographs of of the beauty that you have, and you know the richness of content so well. Some of the degrees, an art and a science summit really is a team effort. I play a. I would be a pretty minimal role in the actual creation of this. This thing that you have in your hands on the table.
We have an excellent art director and excellent in a managing editor, who really make them anything happen and copy editors and writers. Who, who put you, know wonderful thought into their words. I just help with, like. I literally drive amazing around people and try to set up the revenue so that it can keep going well, I’m always in a very important function, the audience for something who’s the audience.
So we have our core demo it’s sort of 35 to 45 year old. So, like you know me it dollars users when you create something for someone that you you know well, I happen to be right in the middle of that that demo ravi speaking mr. Department of mass affluent. So not quite though one percent – but you know, people who are professionals their business owners, they’re, deeply engaged in the life and our civic life.
They they made themselves have significant assets. We and we certainly have a lot of readers with with poor, very affluent, like I want to be in this integr attic me too, and so that that’s probably the age and income distribution and then geographically, we’re writing for an audience. That’s here, but also an international audience, so we have readers in Japan, their readers. We have read adult route: north america – I have a subscriber in slovenia that I need to send a get into, and you know so that’s where it it’s ironic now that i’m printing of physical magazine to get them with the deal the logistics of moving this.
You know 200 pages mmm paper around the globe while trying to trying, as best we can to mitigate the carbon impact, which we should talk about. Of course. But and that’s you know, that’s sort of a always an issue in hawaii shipping and you know absolutely and wanting to you know whole pages and local things and try to somehow still meeting to I’d like to say in carbon impact. Nava standing. But you know come things coming from this direction to the mainland, I mean that we want to increase that.
I think, especially cultural and intellectual part of our our orientation is that that this is our main lab like this is this is the center of our world, and so from this this particular locus. Oh, we can then speak about what’s happening in Asia and North America. South America, from Vermont prospectus you’re in my way, and it’s a very different way of thinking about the world. On the other hand, I can, from a lot of media, that’s produced, for instance in New York City, and I’m always struck by how writers in New York City assume that everyone knows York City.
They talk about the geography New York City edge of is that the daily commute of everyone in a spot. Of course. No, of course it’s not, so I don’t feel bad about interesting that our point of view should be from Hawaii but and at the least, it’s a very interesting way of a female world, it’s different, which is what you’re creating a product. Nowadays, it’s all about being different but creates, have been differentiated from everything else is out there.
Well, I I would agree that sounds like good advice in chronic Creator, so why don’t we go ahead and talk a little bit about how the magazines structured and when why? So you know I know they’re. There may be some variation, but I know this: we have lifestyle, arts, industry, common teaching for tomorrow, so you know how you sort of put this together. I’r sure you know that illuminates those perspectives.
So why did you decide to sort of place the magazine up in this way? Well, so the the first section is called annoy doing and honor a new england’s rainbow in Hawaiian, and so our magazine does not have a Hawaiian name right its summit. So I thought we have one section in the magazine has a Hawaiian in that would be okay and I figure on balance. People around the world probably have seen the word on Lulu at some point.
If it comes to Hawaii, they probably seen other people or sports fans know that that’s supposed to be our our sports team at university. So that’s our life attention and we think of it as the place where you go for information about where to eat. Where to what to make with your alcohol collection at home? Oh you know we’re about take break okay and then, when we come back, we’ll talk more about the structure of the magazine start digging into some of the content, so we’ll be right back with each Idaho’s.
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We’re here with I. I caca who see of some publisher of summit magazine, and we were just talking about the different sections with a magazine and actually they can reach the magazine at wwe.Com correct. So let’s go ahead and continue our discussion about magazines, okay, so real briefly, the protection of Unknowing you language is the lifestyle. The second section is originals, which is art, artists, primarily musicians, and it’s bouquet features on folks will create culture.
Industry is the third section. I hope I’m get in order right. That’s like business features. Commons is the fourth section, and that is essentially international politics, politics and social issues and in letters it’s the final section and that’s. I think it is a sort of our new yorker moment where we get to do poetry and prose, and then we also have a summit shop where we work with producers here makers who are creating wonderful products and we help it sell their product Ellis.
Well, that’s that’s fantastic! I just again, I think it’s really important to talk to folks who are purveyors of perspectives and cultures, because if energy policy folks don’t sort of engage with the you know the thought, leaders and let us, but you guys know that what you do is important to Us then you know: how can we expect you to come to us and talk about how what you do is you know about? We do can be important to you, of course you know and why everyone knows.
You’ve got a hundred percent renewable energy goal and I know there’s a great piece this month that folks might be interested in about on solar, hot water heaters and the need to sort of think of them as being cooler and sexier. Then we may usually think about them, because they are a real solution and something that can be an answer and in a way also for low to moderate income folks to participate in energy.
So thank you for covering measure, and I should mention that it’s a piece that we did on shipping energy, that in partnership with yes with energy failure, which it’s on a great work. Yet in really pushing the you know pushing innovation Ford, which we desperately need. Yes, absolutely um, so I’d also like to talk about a couple of the other articles that I found to be just so fascinating, so one of them is called mana for the people and it sort of it’s a historical book back at the Polynesian Panther movement.
Could you talk a little bit about that? First of all, sort of how did you come across this topic and why did you decide the you know to go ahead and bring that forth and some it sure? So it’s a story that was processed by one of our contributing writers based on Australia, and you know I’m as a student myself of a social lumen. Lava has been fascinated with how social moods are adapted and kind of spread all throughout the world.
So one of those obviously people Black Panther movement and so what we. What we found in healing is is a very local, New Zealand, Mallory and tan Polynesian. An effort to take some of the energy and language and sort of intellectualism of the Black Panther movement and turn it into a Polynesian movement in in on table of New Zealand, and I should mention too that there’s you know they’re also similar things happening here in Hawaii, during the same time, period where you know folks were following what was going on all around the world and and building social movements that that copied either the effects of things like the Black Panther movement and also a lot of the substance.
A lot of the honor, the thinking behind you know what what was going on in, like Oakland, for instance. Why do you think that that particular is black, American and Caribbean cultural message resonated amongst folks in the it’s a good question? I think you can make an argument and I’ll just say I’ll, make the argument that the black culture in North America and the Caribbean has has really been a the most creative Wellspring of culture.
For for, like our modern age. And if you look at all of the cool stuff, that’s come out of come out of the United States, rated if jazz the blue, it’s hip-hop, it’s rap. You know all the things that have come out of out of black culture and that’s me I find it very inspiring because it’s really about a group of people who you know history should have could have written him off. You know and that group of people taking things that were forced on them and then turning it into the the tools of their own liberation.
It’s really a beautiful I’m sort of getting emotional. It’s a very beautiful. You know his historical trend. That happened. That’s very beautiful thing and is the siege of that sort of wealth, framing it it’s as culture and also the social movements and the social activism and the stories of oppression. I guess helped create this diaspora of of resistance right. I don’t know what to call it, but there’s something that was it music.
Was it the afros something resonated you know and for heiping perhaps still resonates today, something you know if you know when you look at the pictures and I’m sorry I don’t have them to share you know it’s sort of a it seemed like such a natural overlay. You know you hear about this person, you know in New Zealand, picking up, you know, Huey Newton’s work and you know you know, wearing a beret and putting on a jacket, and it just sort of you know that the overlay is almost kind of seamless and what They decided to do in terms of helping young people with homework, and you know having at you working with after school, like was also very similar to seeing kind of scene.
We are trying to get it. What kind of I think part of? What’s going on in that particular in a particular episode they were describing is: is that we all you know everyone in for the english-speaking modern world. We also to live in one culture right and it’s a culture that is broadcast out through Hollywood and and and so everyone sort of share in what’s happening to this math English language, culture and as a result of that, the cultural minorities, even you know, in Hawaii Native Hawaiians are our minority of sorts in all table of New Zealand, even though there are some large percentage of the population under the exact number, but Maori are still treated as a minority in that community in that in that country.
What you have, then, is this situation where you have this kind of monolithic, English, language, culture and within that model of the culture black culture is it’s sort of the other, but it’s a very powerful other. It’s just an incredibly vibrant and and powerful and creative space. Where r alliteration can take place, and so I think when that culture touches places like New Zealand or Hawaii, it becomes a place for all the folks who don’t get to be.
You know the white man at the table we all get to play with in the black culture, because it’s so accepting and we can all find a void. There, take a look at in Hawaii. You have like the the movement – I think of God, like John John Prante, know, who’s leading the 808. The 808 girls furminator way. Excuse me, the Irving, a delayed group and they’re working with kids, who are using sort of the visual language of hip-hop, the visual language of street art of aerosol art to to tell their own story, because that is an available medium.
You know they can’t find a space in the light dominating culture, for the black culture is actually a an accepting place. I still interesting in the and the article talks about how did you know in this Polynesian, Panther movie movement in the seventies it began to become a app and polynesian pan-pacific. You know sort of diaspora sort of a movement to unify the Diaspora and reached out to you know, movements in South Africa, and so yes, I mean and that we are all applicant and one regarder another.
Originally, that’s that and I was going to ask – and you know I know so you this is in the current issue. So what isn’t? How do you think you know this topic is important today? Well, just pop my head, we live in incredibly interesting time. Right yeah. We do I’ll be there. It’s sort of amazing unbelievable that it’s been a month barely a month since the newly Trump aaron has taken place. But it’s a time where so many social limits are in communication, with each other able to find more and love and solidarity with each other code access pipeline 17.
Well back when we got ya, you know look at things like the the women’s for women’s bar yeah yeah on Inauguration Day. What was amazing about that for me was just how incredibly rich and multi multi everything those margins were so much more than like. The official inaugural events and the sort of kind of monoculture that you see in those in the Trump phenomenon you know what’s happening with the people is the people are getting together, and we need to celebrate that all these moon, all these people, that that coalescing is An incredibly powerful historical trend that I don’t think we’ll ever stop.
You know it’s in some ways: it’s an unraveling of of the way in which people have been divided last 500 years. Okay, it’s so interesting, I feel like we could have a whole show about that. In terms of what’s coming together and what some of the some of the challenges and the fissures some for very reason – and you talk about energy wave yeah well, I like that. What I wanted to get to I could talk about that.
We don’t have a lot of time, that’s what I really wanted to get to. Is this interesting article or you interviewed and economist who has an idea? This is the name of the actual name of the owner, described as universal basic, universal, debut accountant. So, basically, this concept that there can be a situation where everyone gets a taste income-based income and what that? What that means, in terms of you know in terms of fighting economic development and particularly for the poor, so tell us a little bit about why about this and why you chose protocol it your local bakery in communist.
Oh, thank you, be. I felt like yeah something you get. You don’t want to talk about yeah, but so the idea that we’re moving to an economy with less enough people where you don’t actually need people to do to the logical appropriation, ization yeah right. So the edges, you create a tax regime that would that would take all of the benefits of this in credit increase in the cumulus economy and then share that benefit with the people, so that people can still get some still get some value from that later.
With drug and gosh I, this is my fault for lingering, but we’re not going to have as much time to dig into that fascinating Barry, as I had hoped I would, but is how can people find summat magazine so summit, is on learn about 400 stores across United cason at most barnes nobles, you can find a copy of summit. You can also find a bit before seasons or or the lotus honolulu to find us at whole foods all throughout the states and department, with your own wan na, have the copy and maybe at a doctor’s office or a lawyer’s office to you know we’re all over The place or you go to summon team comm service, alright, well, fantastic.
Thank you so very much for sharing about this magazine and some of your fascinating perspective. Thank you so much for that baby and that wraps up another issue or another edition of power of Hawaii. I’r why assaulter energy attorney and clean energy advocates community outreach specialist. Thank you so much Mahalo and aloha. You
I am your host Ryan Salter, I’m an energy attorney, clean energy advocate and community outreach specialist, i’m also the principal attorney of imagined power. Llc got some exciting stuff. Today, we always say here on the show that it’s important to engage all stakeholders in the energy conversation, including those who may not be traditionally engaged in energy policy.
I think this prominently includes our communicators reporters and storytellers as it they you keep the public informed, engaged and educated about arts, culture, news and current events. So it’s not often these days that you come across a print magazine that just blows you away with its beauty, style and content, but that is what happens to me when I came across this month. Edition of summit magazine summit is Hawaii’s global magazine with in-depth coverage.
Art design style, business, civics and literature in the Hawaiian who’s beer summit connects Islanders and global travelers to the very best perspective, purveyors and products of the archipelago. I has between here today, akaike Hussey, the publisher and editor of summit magazine with us here in the studio today, so it kind of resides in co-ed and as a longtime leader in the community in a wide variety of areas he’s on the board of the domestic Violence, Action Center and the Hawaii Alliance for progressive action, just innings, you akaike, is a teacher author and thought leader with in his word.
The common goal of strengthening our Island home akaike earned a master’s degree in political science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is currently studying economics via the university of london and the London School of Economics. So, with all of that said, welcome ipega. Thank you. Riah so summit magazine, I think, is just it’s just gorgeous. I just you know I hadn’t come across it before and I was just so blown away by the 50 intriguing content, the the beautiful pictures, fashion style and yet still this really deeply intellectually engaging approach.
Global approach, so I’m just so excited to have you here to talk a bit about the magazine. Thank you, but first before we do, maybe you could tell me a little bit about yourself and your background and how you came to become a magazine, publisher sure. Well, I came to media from pro very unconventional path. I I came to it as as a person who had to offer up and talk to the media about things that are happening in the grassroots community, and so I come out of sort of an organizer community activism background fantastic.
What kind of wood that McGee renew a lot of our engaging with the news with what type of stuff for you? After a lot of things in the native blind community self-determination, sovereignty, demilitarization, land rights convention right things? And it was often by my job within our various hui tou to be the person who would go and talk to the press. I would read the press releases. I prayed the flyers and do that kind of thing, and what I realized was our press.
Our our media have an incredibly important responsibility and a lot of power and and it could be used, it could be used for incredibly wonderful things. My concern is, you know when I first started comin in the Hawaii independent was: was that oftentimes Native Hawaiians retreated sort of the problem? You know the wireless guys by those Hawaiian protesting, and the fact that we were protesting was was the problem, as opposed to the issue that we were protesting about being the problem.
So I wanted to flip the lens a little bit and to speak from speak about the world from a Hawaiian perspective instead of having media that just covers Hawaiian. So I want to tell a big different kind of story and then what was available in the in the media of the time wow that is so interesting sort of whatever you say. So the problem was speaking out. You know if only they would be quiet and not talk about these things, and so you were like let’s go ahead and and talk about these things.
Authentically is what I’m hearing right: ships, who’s speaking and shift a speaking and so a couple years ago. I was thinking about a lot about how do we how to create something? That’s really powerful and wonderful. Coming on Hawaii, I wanted to speak to a more global audience from a whole trigger a distinctly hawaii and hawaiian point of view, and it’s always been rattling around. In my my mind, this is quote from queen kapiolani, who was the spouse of David Clarke.
All of the last king of Hawaii – and it was during a time when Hawaii was very much a global place. It was much more cosmopolitan and had a very kind of modernist perspective and orientation, much more so than it than it did in the 20th century and her model. Kapila news model was coolio canoe, which means drive for the summit and try to achieve the very best that we can as an island community. And I think that the neat idea, and so what my goal with this particular publication, is to to try to elevate expectations.
For what Hawaii can be in this 21st century, to showcase the amazing people who are doing great things and media, like my pink tech or in fashion or in culinary arts, and a show that we really have a lot to offer the world? And so that’s about. Sixty seventy percent of the magazine and the other thirty forty percent is kind of straight up: international politics and business. So we cover big ideas that are driving the world right now, like the idea of universal basic basic income, which there comes from about later so, which is which is so interesting yeah.
I hope you know I well. I think it’s interesting, I think folks, reading low as well. So how does I’m curious? So how did you go from? You know the you know, writing the press releases. The sort of you know having this. You know international. You know magazine. Well, you know. Thankfully, we live in a time when a lot of the effort that it you should take to create on publication has been. It was blocked, easier, wordpress and Amazon Web Services and all of the a kind of readily available technology that the Internet has offered to us.
I started doing websites when I was like 17 or 18 years old in high school, and it was very much for him tinkering around and creating a pretty really simple website, so I launched an online news website called the whole independent in 09. Okay, I can remember just because my daughter was born right as I launched it, and I have this crazy habit of starting differences when carried I so you know it was relatively easy to get that off the ground just because with technology you know you must have Good enough to print and hire a truck to deliver yeah physical newspapers that make sense that yet at the same time, I think it must have also been you know your works at the knowledge and roots in the community.
You must have known a lot of artists because you can have all the trucks to drive and fancy print things in the world and not have sort of photographs of of the beauty that you have, and you know the richness of content so well. Some of the degrees, an art and a science summit really is a team effort. I play a. I would be a pretty minimal role in the actual creation of this. This thing that you have in your hands on the table.
We have an excellent art director and excellent in a managing editor, who really make them anything happen and copy editors and writers. Who, who put you, know wonderful thought into their words. I just help with, like. I literally drive amazing around people and try to set up the revenue so that it can keep going well, I’m always in a very important function, the audience for something who’s the audience.
So we have our core demo it’s sort of 35 to 45 year old. So, like you know me it dollars users when you create something for someone that you you know well, I happen to be right in the middle of that that demo ravi speaking mr. Department of mass affluent. So not quite though one percent – but you know, people who are professionals their business owners, they’re, deeply engaged in the life and our civic life.
They they made themselves have significant assets. We and we certainly have a lot of readers with with poor, very affluent, like I want to be in this integr attic me too, and so that that’s probably the age and income distribution and then geographically, we’re writing for an audience. That’s here, but also an international audience, so we have readers in Japan, their readers. We have read adult route: north america – I have a subscriber in slovenia that I need to send a get into, and you know so that’s where it it’s ironic now that i’m printing of physical magazine to get them with the deal the logistics of moving this.
You know 200 pages mmm paper around the globe while trying to trying, as best we can to mitigate the carbon impact, which we should talk about. Of course. But and that’s you know, that’s sort of a always an issue in hawaii shipping and you know absolutely and wanting to you know whole pages and local things and try to somehow still meeting to I’d like to say in carbon impact. Nava standing. But you know come things coming from this direction to the mainland, I mean that we want to increase that.
I think, especially cultural and intellectual part of our our orientation is that that this is our main lab like this is this is the center of our world, and so from this this particular locus. Oh, we can then speak about what’s happening in Asia and North America. South America, from Vermont prospectus you’re in my way, and it’s a very different way of thinking about the world. On the other hand, I can, from a lot of media, that’s produced, for instance in New York City, and I’m always struck by how writers in New York City assume that everyone knows York City.
They talk about the geography New York City edge of is that the daily commute of everyone in a spot. Of course. No, of course it’s not, so I don’t feel bad about interesting that our point of view should be from Hawaii but and at the least, it’s a very interesting way of a female world, it’s different, which is what you’re creating a product. Nowadays, it’s all about being different but creates, have been differentiated from everything else is out there.
Well, I I would agree that sounds like good advice in chronic Creator, so why don’t we go ahead and talk a little bit about how the magazines structured and when why? So you know I know they’re. There may be some variation, but I know this: we have lifestyle, arts, industry, common teaching for tomorrow, so you know how you sort of put this together. I’r sure you know that illuminates those perspectives.
So why did you decide to sort of place the magazine up in this way? Well, so the the first section is called annoy doing and honor a new england’s rainbow in Hawaiian, and so our magazine does not have a Hawaiian name right its summit. So I thought we have one section in the magazine has a Hawaiian in that would be okay and I figure on balance. People around the world probably have seen the word on Lulu at some point.
If it comes to Hawaii, they probably seen other people or sports fans know that that’s supposed to be our our sports team at university. So that’s our life attention and we think of it as the place where you go for information about where to eat. Where to what to make with your alcohol collection at home? Oh you know we’re about take break okay and then, when we come back, we’ll talk more about the structure of the magazine start digging into some of the content, so we’ll be right back with each Idaho’s.
Be talking about some at 90 day and in just a bit Aloha. This is kayley giacchino with the weekly a hanukkah co. Let’s work together program on the state, a kawaii broadcast network mondays at two o’clock p.M. Movers and shakers and great ideas join us. We’ll see you then Aloha Aloha, I’m Callie, Lucas coast of Hawaii – is my mainland here on think too kawaii every friday at 3pm. We address issues and importance for those of us who live here on the most isolated landmass on the planet.
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We’re here with I. I caca who see of some publisher of summit magazine, and we were just talking about the different sections with a magazine and actually they can reach the magazine at wwe.Com correct. So let’s go ahead and continue our discussion about magazines, okay, so real briefly, the protection of Unknowing you language is the lifestyle. The second section is originals, which is art, artists, primarily musicians, and it’s bouquet features on folks will create culture.
Industry is the third section. I hope I’m get in order right. That’s like business features. Commons is the fourth section, and that is essentially international politics, politics and social issues and in letters it’s the final section and that’s. I think it is a sort of our new yorker moment where we get to do poetry and prose, and then we also have a summit shop where we work with producers here makers who are creating wonderful products and we help it sell their product Ellis.
Well, that’s that’s fantastic! I just again, I think it’s really important to talk to folks who are purveyors of perspectives and cultures, because if energy policy folks don’t sort of engage with the you know the thought, leaders and let us, but you guys know that what you do is important to Us then you know: how can we expect you to come to us and talk about how what you do is you know about? We do can be important to you, of course you know and why everyone knows.
You’ve got a hundred percent renewable energy goal and I know there’s a great piece this month that folks might be interested in about on solar, hot water heaters and the need to sort of think of them as being cooler and sexier. Then we may usually think about them, because they are a real solution and something that can be an answer and in a way also for low to moderate income folks to participate in energy.
So thank you for covering measure, and I should mention that it’s a piece that we did on shipping energy, that in partnership with yes with energy failure, which it’s on a great work. Yet in really pushing the you know pushing innovation Ford, which we desperately need. Yes, absolutely um, so I’d also like to talk about a couple of the other articles that I found to be just so fascinating, so one of them is called mana for the people and it sort of it’s a historical book back at the Polynesian Panther movement.
Could you talk a little bit about that? First of all, sort of how did you come across this topic and why did you decide the you know to go ahead and bring that forth and some it sure? So it’s a story that was processed by one of our contributing writers based on Australia, and you know I’m as a student myself of a social lumen. Lava has been fascinated with how social moods are adapted and kind of spread all throughout the world.
So one of those obviously people Black Panther movement and so what we. What we found in healing is is a very local, New Zealand, Mallory and tan Polynesian. An effort to take some of the energy and language and sort of intellectualism of the Black Panther movement and turn it into a Polynesian movement in in on table of New Zealand, and I should mention too that there’s you know they’re also similar things happening here in Hawaii, during the same time, period where you know folks were following what was going on all around the world and and building social movements that that copied either the effects of things like the Black Panther movement and also a lot of the substance.
A lot of the honor, the thinking behind you know what what was going on in, like Oakland, for instance. Why do you think that that particular is black, American and Caribbean cultural message resonated amongst folks in the it’s a good question? I think you can make an argument and I’ll just say I’ll, make the argument that the black culture in North America and the Caribbean has has really been a the most creative Wellspring of culture.
For for, like our modern age. And if you look at all of the cool stuff, that’s come out of come out of the United States, rated if jazz the blue, it’s hip-hop, it’s rap. You know all the things that have come out of out of black culture and that’s me I find it very inspiring because it’s really about a group of people who you know history should have could have written him off. You know and that group of people taking things that were forced on them and then turning it into the the tools of their own liberation.
It’s really a beautiful I’m sort of getting emotional. It’s a very beautiful. You know his historical trend. That happened. That’s very beautiful thing and is the siege of that sort of wealth, framing it it’s as culture and also the social movements and the social activism and the stories of oppression. I guess helped create this diaspora of of resistance right. I don’t know what to call it, but there’s something that was it music.
Was it the afros something resonated you know and for heiping perhaps still resonates today, something you know if you know when you look at the pictures and I’m sorry I don’t have them to share you know it’s sort of a it seemed like such a natural overlay. You know you hear about this person, you know in New Zealand, picking up, you know, Huey Newton’s work and you know you know, wearing a beret and putting on a jacket, and it just sort of you know that the overlay is almost kind of seamless and what They decided to do in terms of helping young people with homework, and you know having at you working with after school, like was also very similar to seeing kind of scene.
We are trying to get it. What kind of I think part of? What’s going on in that particular in a particular episode they were describing is: is that we all you know everyone in for the english-speaking modern world. We also to live in one culture right and it’s a culture that is broadcast out through Hollywood and and and so everyone sort of share in what’s happening to this math English language, culture and as a result of that, the cultural minorities, even you know, in Hawaii Native Hawaiians are our minority of sorts in all table of New Zealand, even though there are some large percentage of the population under the exact number, but Maori are still treated as a minority in that community in that in that country.
What you have, then, is this situation where you have this kind of monolithic, English, language, culture and within that model of the culture black culture is it’s sort of the other, but it’s a very powerful other. It’s just an incredibly vibrant and and powerful and creative space. Where r alliteration can take place, and so I think when that culture touches places like New Zealand or Hawaii, it becomes a place for all the folks who don’t get to be.
You know the white man at the table we all get to play with in the black culture, because it’s so accepting and we can all find a void. There, take a look at in Hawaii. You have like the the movement – I think of God, like John John Prante, know, who’s leading the 808. The 808 girls furminator way. Excuse me, the Irving, a delayed group and they’re working with kids, who are using sort of the visual language of hip-hop, the visual language of street art of aerosol art to to tell their own story, because that is an available medium.
You know they can’t find a space in the light dominating culture, for the black culture is actually a an accepting place. I still interesting in the and the article talks about how did you know in this Polynesian, Panther movie movement in the seventies it began to become a app and polynesian pan-pacific. You know sort of diaspora sort of a movement to unify the Diaspora and reached out to you know, movements in South Africa, and so yes, I mean and that we are all applicant and one regarder another.
Originally, that’s that and I was going to ask – and you know I know so you this is in the current issue. So what isn’t? How do you think you know this topic is important today? Well, just pop my head, we live in incredibly interesting time. Right yeah. We do I’ll be there. It’s sort of amazing unbelievable that it’s been a month barely a month since the newly Trump aaron has taken place. But it’s a time where so many social limits are in communication, with each other able to find more and love and solidarity with each other code access pipeline 17.
Well back when we got ya, you know look at things like the the women’s for women’s bar yeah yeah on Inauguration Day. What was amazing about that for me was just how incredibly rich and multi multi everything those margins were so much more than like. The official inaugural events and the sort of kind of monoculture that you see in those in the Trump phenomenon you know what’s happening with the people is the people are getting together, and we need to celebrate that all these moon, all these people, that that coalescing is An incredibly powerful historical trend that I don’t think we’ll ever stop.
You know it’s in some ways: it’s an unraveling of of the way in which people have been divided last 500 years. Okay, it’s so interesting, I feel like we could have a whole show about that. In terms of what’s coming together and what some of the some of the challenges and the fissures some for very reason – and you talk about energy wave yeah well, I like that. What I wanted to get to I could talk about that.
We don’t have a lot of time, that’s what I really wanted to get to. Is this interesting article or you interviewed and economist who has an idea? This is the name of the actual name of the owner, described as universal basic, universal, debut accountant. So, basically, this concept that there can be a situation where everyone gets a taste income-based income and what that? What that means, in terms of you know in terms of fighting economic development and particularly for the poor, so tell us a little bit about why about this and why you chose protocol it your local bakery in communist.
Oh, thank you, be. I felt like yeah something you get. You don’t want to talk about yeah, but so the idea that we’re moving to an economy with less enough people where you don’t actually need people to do to the logical appropriation, ization yeah right. So the edges, you create a tax regime that would that would take all of the benefits of this in credit increase in the cumulus economy and then share that benefit with the people, so that people can still get some still get some value from that later.
With drug and gosh I, this is my fault for lingering, but we’re not going to have as much time to dig into that fascinating Barry, as I had hoped I would, but is how can people find summat magazine so summit, is on learn about 400 stores across United cason at most barnes nobles, you can find a copy of summit. You can also find a bit before seasons or or the lotus honolulu to find us at whole foods all throughout the states and department, with your own wan na, have the copy and maybe at a doctor’s office or a lawyer’s office to you know we’re all over The place or you go to summon team comm service, alright, well, fantastic.
Thank you so very much for sharing about this magazine and some of your fascinating perspective. Thank you so much for that baby and that wraps up another issue or another edition of power of Hawaii. I’r why assaulter energy attorney and clean energy advocates community outreach specialist. Thank you so much Mahalo and aloha. You
Thank you for being here and thank you all for showing up what a beautiful room tonight. This is going to be a lot of fun. We have a lot of fun ahead. I think that it’s probably most appropriate to start by asking you about what you’re wearing you look, you look beautiful when you walked in I you know you you’re so stunning and so elegant.
I love your shoes. Could you tell us a little bit about what you’re wearing tonight and what it means to you? I want it to be comfortable, so I could enjoy myself and I I am a little obsessed with pajama looks, but this is amping that up and it’s from ste Nagoya and I’m wearing flowy shoes and bag, and let me remember, vintage earrings. It looks great. Thank you. Now. You have been into fashion from the start and from what I know about you.
You were in Catholic school and you got very creative about how you would express your individuality. In spite of the fact, I’d wear a uniform yeah. How did you do that? Well, I think that’s a that’s a big part of my story, which is starting with sort of a small box and being creative in a box, and so we were not allowed to have any accessories. No jewelry. We were all supposed to look the same, no makeup, but we were allowed to religious metals and rosaries, and things like that, so I used them as accessories, and so I would make these different combinations on my uniform.
I would put rosary beads around my arm like a bracelet, so you worked within that box. I did you, you pushed the envelope right up to that line. Exactly in my life, did anyone ever tell you not to do that or did they say no cuz? They couldn’t you know, you see, that’s the the place. Do you have to find? Is you know in every situation where you think you don’t have power? If you look very very carefully there’s some tiny place that you can, and so they had said you could wear a medal, we didn’t say how you can wear them, and so what could they say? I was wearing that old academics are very important to you and you have your PhD in Social Welfare and you are a professor at Fordham and how did you grow into such a substantial role at the school? Well, I have been in Social Work a very long time and in in my Social Work career.
I’ve also done a lot of reinventing, and so I have about a five year time frame where I decide to try something new and then I’ll get very good at it, and then I’m ready to move on, and so I did that in my career as a Social worker, which is why I love that degree, because it lets you do many many things so before I went to Fordham, I was working with lawyers. I was representing with lawyers kids, who were in the child welfare system and really making sure that their voice and their story and what they wanted was in the room, because, most of the time, it was everyone else making decisions.
And at that time I was starting a PhD program and Fordham was starting a big collaboration with their school of law and they wanted to have social workers in all of their clinics and they wanted to have courses with social workers and law students and they recruited Me to teach, because I had been doing that for a long time and academics played a very important role in you, launching your blog as well.
Why was that important to you and how did you use academics to lunch your book today? Well, I think, I think, a lot of times. People underestimate the intelligence, some people who love fashion – and I knew that there were a lot of people in the world who understood that fashion is not just about trends. Fashion has been part of social movements. I think right now, it’s a really super exciting time for me, as someone committed to social justice to be in fashion, because fashion has decided they’re taking on a lot of these issues.
So there’s a lot of inclusion, diversity, work, there’s a lot of looking at sustainability and and fair wages and human rights, and so it’s a it’s. A really people are beginning to see that fashion has a lot more power than we ever thought it did, and so I knew there were people who knew that. So I just started to write in that way and I certainly found out that my guess was true. How did you name your bug, accidental icon, so that story always gets conflated in the press and what happened was I work at Fordham Lincoln Center, which is about a block away from Lincoln Center when they had? The fashion shows there, and so I was it – was the first week of school.
I was really dressed up because I like to wear something out: readjusts for the first class and I went to meet a friend for lunch and I was standing on the plaza and a couple of photographers came over and started taking my picture and then a bunch Of other photographers came and there were some journalists from Japan, they came to interview me and then the tourists thought I was someone famous and they started taking pictures of me and they were wanting to take selfies.
And so when my friend came, she said ah accident and you’re an accidental icon and I had been my blog – was ready to go, but I have been struggling with the. So that’s how I got the name. The press seems to think that that’s how I’d out famous and so for the purpose of school of hospital. I want to say that that was how I named my blog and it took really hard work every day, really working on social media, producing good content.
Just working like 10 hours a day to be to get at the point where I became well-known, so it was not a you know, magic moment, because people took my picture, it involved a lot a lot more than that. It usually does yes, not one quick moment to reach success, but a lot of hard work along the way. Absolutely, how do you hope to liberate and inspire people through fashion? Well, I guess I really. When I first started, I had no agenda except, I was really kind of bored and I wanted to express myself in a different way that was more creative than academia.
I wanted to write in a more creative way, and so because I wasn’t in fashion I had no idea about how fashion worked. I just knew I loved clothes, and a lot of people had told me well throughout my life, but even more recently, that I should start a blog. You have great style, and so I just started taking pictures writing about an article of clothing or a designer, and pretty soon I got noticed and that’s how it happened.
So I think what has ended up happening, which wasn’t intended is that I have perhaps given people a different way to think about what it means to get older and on Instagram. Interestingly, the majority of my followers are 25 to 45 and when I speak with 25 year-olds, it’s interesting. They say that they’re, not thinking. Oh I’m going to be 26. That’s great they’re thinking! Oh my god, I’m going to be 30! I’r getting old! I haven’t done this.
I haven’t done that. I haven’t done this, and so what people in that age group have told me is that letting them see that it’s never too late. I was 61 when I started this and it’s just become like I couldn’t have dreamt it and I wear things that any aged woman would wear, because it just feels good for me in my style. So I think in that way I’ve changed culture a bit. I’ve made being older, look like kind of cool and exciting and fun.
So it’s not something that you have to fear and start trying to change yourself and be worried about. I love a particular quote from you. Here’s the quote the more I research fashion, the more I realized it’s a powerful force. We talk a lot about how it’s oppressive or how it promotes ideal body types, but we don’t talk about how it can be productive. How does fashion lend itself to productivity in society? Well, I think for me you know it’s a it’s.
A really great example of how I, through clothing, through fashion, through how I style myself became, was able to break into a world, and I think social media has a lot to do with it. That was pretty much controls right so 15 years ago. I doubt that I, someone like me would be considered to be a person of fashion. I don’t fit the stereotypical mold who was supposed to be so I think that’s the wonderful thing about technology and social media is it’s a great equalizer and it’s given us power and I think that’s how fashion can be productive.
Also, since I’m a researcher there’s a lot of research now that shows that what you wear actually impacts your brain and your performance, and so there’s been studies that have been done repeatedly with the same outcome where they take two different groups of subjects, and they all Have our tested so they’re, equivalent in their performance levels and they’ll, give them a blazer and they’ll. Tell one group that it’s from Prada and the other group that it’s from H & M and the one who thinks it’s from Prada will always perform higher and they’ve done similar experiences with white coats.
They tell one group that they’re a painter and one group that they’re doctors and the ones that think the code is a doctor’s coat perform higher. So if it really, if it’s a little complicated because it’s how you think about what you’re wearing and what you have in your head about it, but it’s a very powerful for us and so for me. I think about how I can use what I wear to express myself or even to get an outcome and so I’ll think about okay.
What do I have to do today? What do I want to happen? Who do I have to meet? What do I want them? Think when they look at me and then I very purposely get dressed, and so when you when you’re styling and your fashion comes from inside of you instead of outside, you begin to have more power and right now, it’s okay to be different. It’s getting more and more okay to be different, and I think we should all be controlling how we want to be represented, and so for me, I’m controlling how I want to be represented as an older women, because the way that society thinks of older women is Not okay with me, and so I’m not having it.
There is some scrutiny around fashions impact on the environment. Specifically, what do you consider when you buy clothing, given some of the environmental impacts that the industry has well for me? Actually, my personal wardrobe is pretty much from consignment and thrift stores, so I really have always had a habit of using recycled clothes. I’r in a very enviable position right now, because designers give me a lot of clothes, which is really nice, but I will also recycle them so, for example, Housing Works always does a big fashion for AIDS.
This year I gave them my closet, so I gave a lot of clothes that I had gotten from designers. For that kind of thing, I think a lot of brands are starting to realize that they have to do something. I think there are some brands that have been doing it really well, and so I think, being thoughtful about what you buy being creative with how you style yourself and reusing things like I do. If people look at my Instagram, I don’t care I’ll wear the same thing that I wore in other posts because I love it, and so I might wear it a different way, but you’ll see a lot of repeating of my personal clothes, and so that’s how I Think about it, what is the difference between thinking and talking about fashion versus consuming fashion? Hmm? Well, I think it’s just that right that you’re not just buying it, but that you are I I that you know who you are, and so, when you’re going to get something that it is advancing, who you are so a lot of people say: oh I’m going To this event, what should I wear, etc? I cannot tell anyone else what to wear.
I don’t give style advice, because my belief is that style is intensely personal and that it should convey, who you are, and so I’ll say, to women instead and sometimes men and I understand later a dog to think of maybe three words that describe them their essence And then to take a look at the clothes that they have pick up an article of clothing and say: does that convey that and if it doesn’t, then you can recycle it.
But if you have that in your mind, you’re being a much more thoughtful consumer and you’ll find that you may buy a lot of less things but they’re going to be more special. We talked about a social media earlier, but I’d like to ask you about how we can think about when, when we’re posting in social media, righty, we’d love to post our clothes and things across Instagram in that space right, how can we use social to raise people Up and not bring people down well, I think I have been very fortunate because I pretty much just show people in my everyday life, I’m not in Bali pretty much Calvin and I are on New York City streets.
That’s where we’re shooting and and actually I got a wonderful comment on Instagram yesterday and I made a screenshot because it meant a lot to me. The woman said thank you for what you’re doing and thank you for doing it in a way that you’re not making other women feel bad about themselves. Yeah, and so I do think about that and what I I mean: look people get what they see. I have gray hair, I have wrinkles, that’s who I am I’m fine with it.
Calvin is a film photographer and he’s graciously agreed to get a digital camera to help me, but the consequence of that is, he does not know Photoshop no Photoshop on his computer. So, at all of the pictures on my Instagram that aren’t taken by professionals that are taken by Calvin has no, we touched nothing, and so I think people see that they they see me and they say. Oh, I could kind of be like that.
It’s not I’m not so out of the orbit of the real world that I can’t maybe inspire people to think about their own kind of ordinary life than in a more special way. With regard to negative feedback that you might pick up, I know that you get a ton of positive feedback, but there’s always those trolls out there who say what they’re going to say. You know: how do you address that negative feedback? Do you do that yourself? Dealing into your community, how do you handle that? Well, you know again one of the things that has helped me a lot is I’ve had a career as a social worker.
I’ve had a career as a professor, and so I know how to set limits, and I know how to deal with unpleasantness and again, I’m very blessed because overwhelmingly my comments are positive, particularly on Instagram. I don’t like Facebook, because people for some reason seem to be freer on Facebook, and so I really didn’t pay attention to my Facebook for a while and then one day I looked at, it was after some BuzzFeed article and I had like a hundred thousand followers On it or new followers, so I said, let me look at it and the thing that was sad to me was: you know that it was these judgmental negative comments from other women, and so I was about to just shut the page down, because I do most Of my stuff, on my blog and on my Instagram, but I said, let me see if I could turn this around and I’ve done.
A lot of group work before in my career and I’ve had to deal with bullies a lot of people in different scapegoats and all different roles in the group. So I basically set a manifesto about how people were going to behave on the page. I said I’m going to be transparent with you. If your comments are judgmental, I’m deleting them. I shared research about the positive and negative impact of social media on women and, if you look at it it’s 50/50, it could be bad or it could be good, and so for me I basically said this is my page, I’m responsible for it and I’m not Going to have it be a place where any woman is going to feel that, and so I want women to take risks.
I want to encourage them, because Facebook is generally my older group of followers, a lot of women who lost themselves during career and raising families and now they’re like what happened to me, and I need to get back or they’re hearing things like from their children. Oh, don’t wear that you’re! It’s! You know you’re too old for that and they’re they don’t want to. They want to wear what they weren’t aware.
So it took a long time not that long, but it took a lot of hard work because they had to be in there monitoring all the time and then finally, the culture changed and all of the people on the page start addressing the cut any negative, confident And now I always ask them questions like I’ll, say things like I’m, the boss of my style and I’m the boss of my life. How are you the boss of your life and they put up these pictures and they’re doing all these wonderful things? So I think I think it’s if you take control over it, but a lot of people just put it out and they don’t write, but I found that you can’t change the culture of it.
If you want to, I I’m learning so much, I feel so inspired. Listening to you, you know, on the flip side of negative feedback comes a lot of positive feedback, and it can be hard to handle a lot of positive feedback too. I mean it can be overwhelming right. You can potentially even lose humility or become a different person and let it get to your head. So how do you think about handling all the positive feedback that you’re getting? Well, I’m going to be a hundred percent honest that I still find what has happened to me completely unbelievable, that when I wrote that first blog post, so if anyone told me what would happen, I would say you’re insane.
So I think, because it still remains so unbelievable that it is easier to to you know, have humility, but I I also don’t take myself so seriously, and I also know that this could go away tomorrow. And so I just AM in the moment and I enjoy it, and I try to remember when I first started how many people were amazingly kind to me and I that’s my mantra is be kind, so I do try. I try to respond to emails and stay engaged with my followers because I do know a hundred percent that if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be sitting in this chair.
So I I think by looking at them – and you know knowing what’s important in life – you, my family people close to me – trying in some way to make the world better. I think that keeps you grounded and what is one issue in today’s world that is top of mind for you and why? Hmm that’s a good question. Hmm there’s! So many! Unfortunately, I think I’d be been becoming more concerned about the earth and climate change and what we’re doing to the quality of life, because at the same time, I’m aware of that technology and medical advances are having us all live longer.
It’s almost like. We have a whole new period of life yeah, so you know my mother just turned 92, and so it makes me think. Well, if I’m like her, I could be doing this for 25, more years or 30, and then I think of my granddaughter and I think, if we keep on doing what we’re doing, what is the environment going to be like for her, and so I’ve been becoming More concerned about that issue and looking at how fashion is contributing and what they can do differently, and probably I’m going to be spending more time around that if you moving forward that’s an important issue to me too, we have been very serious and we have really Talked about some very important issues and gotten so much inspiration and advice, and now this is the part where we spice things up a little bit and play one of my favorite games called hustle time.
So the spirit of the game is that we set a timer for 60 seconds and I have to former school of hustle guests here in the front row tonight. Thank you for coming. These ladies know how it goes we Center for 60 seconds, and the idea is that you say the first answer that comes to mind. Jonathan. We have 60 seconds on the clock: okay, beer or wine. Neither favorite part of a s’more chocolate top quality.
You look for in an employee, creativity, camping or glamping camping, finish this sentence. When I dance I look like when I dance, I look like a disco Queen New York City tourists, help with directions or keep on your own life help with director. If you could have a superpower, what would it be fly? The best chocolate in the world comes from blank Belgian King size are fun size, king size. Would you rather flyer talk to animals fly favorite holiday, Christmas, Instagram or Twitter Instagram? They tried to read weekly, binge read or read: weekly, Oh binge yeah.
Okay, just for good measure. Ask this next one, your go-to outfit right! I want to know jeans, okay, sneakers, cashmere, sweater, particular color of sweater, no okay, just soft comfortable. Let’s see how many we got through that was fun. Was it bad right? No 11. 12. 13 school peso. We have a lot of entrepreneurs coming on the show every week and, like I said, two of them are here today and um. We asked the same questions to everybody, and the idea is that, no matter what line of business here and in your expertise of your age or your gender, any of that doesn’t matter.
Everyone has a thought about this same set of questions and we like to see how that changes from guest to guest favorite part of your day early early in the morning. How do you use your career to inspire others? Well, I have two careers. That is one, and I try to inspire my students through the way that I teach and I try to inspire my followers by what I write and how I get dressed ever felt like walking away.
No one thing: you still need to learn how to take selfies. I’r really bad at it. What do you want people to learn from you? That being yourself, as you are, is absolutely enough? What’s next, for you good question, I guess I can’t say the answer to that because I just don’t know what can possibly happen. So I’m just going to be open who inspires you, my mother, my daughter and my granddaughter who challenges you my granddaughter? Well, we also let everyone know in social that you were coming tonight and you did thank you so much for putting that out in your network.
You know I wanted everybody out there to have a chance to ask you something and read, of course, we’re going to have the final article out later this summer and people were very excited to send questions, and I pulled a few of my favorites. Okay and again you can you can keep these short if you’d like to move on through. I have six okay. So the first question is um. Every look you share. It looks fabulous on you.
What is your favorite personal look? Well, I don’t have a favorite. That’s the whole point right so that I am always experimenting and changing so weird is a place to shop for good quality clothing while on a budget beacons closet, huge Simon Soros. Who is your favorite writer? Oh that’s hard because I have so many favorite Mary gates, girl. You are a fashion icon. Do you like clothes or shoes more well, based on the fact that I have a mountain of shoeboxes that was like a big avalanche the other day.
I have to say shoes what things deep down. Are you moved by very simple things actually like the way that the light falls on someone’s face? Just small things inspired me and what is your favorite phrase no effing way? The last question, in terms of advice, goes, is actually for our favorite bug: noodles hi sweetie. How are you look at? You looks fabulous so noodle just recently got this adorable bow tie.
If I see you know that people have told him that it doesn’t fit. His look, I know you imagined what it rings. Do you have four noodle to follow his fashion instincts with confidence and what other pieces should he consider to complete his look well noodle when the rare occasion happens. If someone tells me that I shouldn’t wear something, I will respond. Well, it’s a good thing, I’m the boss of my style.
So I think you should say that to your friend and I think you should do some polka dots. No, can he mix the stripes? Now? Oh, please, okay, I think that’s you completely! Well, yes, so remember: noodle um, the boss of my slide. That’s right! The last the last piece I always like to close school of house with a final thought, like I get a good fortune cookie at the end of a great meal, and so I’m going to read three quotes and see.
I might look for you to tell me, which quote resonates the most with you and why? Okay, number one fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable, style is more about being yourself number two people will stare, make it worth their while number three fashion is like eating. You shouldn’t stick to the same menu fashion is like eating. You should not stick to the same menu and that one spike ends.
Oh yes, thank you. You knew who all these were right. Thank you so much for opening up tonight. Oh thank you. This was so much fun doing this. I know that the audience has so many questions as well: hi, I’m Haley, so I do work for GoDaddy actually but kind of coming from the brand influence or partnership side when you get approached by a brand to work with them. What’s like the number one thing that you look for when partnering with a brand, it’s the authenticity or is it necessarily like, maybe the product that they have? What really, what’s that number one thing so for me, I have a basic bottom line, which is: if this is not a product that I would use or wear in my own everyday life.
I don’t do it and so for me, what was really wonderful about the GoDaddy campaign is that it was my story that I started a website which I taught nice how to do, and I it changed my entire world. So it was a very authentic thing. For me to do, I believe that authenticity is your big currency, so for me my followers would know in a heartbeat when I was promoting something that isn’t there, and so that really is my bottom line.
I’ve also been taking a stand and not doing trying to avoid products that are not inclusive, that are targeting a specific group like over 60, because I think that real inclusion means all ages, all ethnicities, all types of bodies and that’s where I’m aiming for. So I think I do research brands. I see what, where they’re at in terms of their own values, and so I do make choices based on what feels like it’s a good match for me.
Awesome. Thank you hi. My name is Kristen Voss. It’s nice to meet! You nice question is, I was the granddaughter and the granddaughter daughter, mother grandmother for a part of my life when I was younger and to be able to part of that all four of us being alive at the same time was just an amazing thing, and we Had a lot of conversations as women in the different stages of our life, even as I was a little girl which gave me a really strong, solid, you know understanding of of women and relating to them, and I’m just wondering what roles have your granddaughter.
Your daughter and your mother played and what you do with your life. Well, I’m the oldest of six children, and I have four brothers after me and finally got a sister who’s, also important to me laughs, my mother kind of had this notion that women were strong. She had the opposite: gender orientation. Women were strong in her view stronger than men and then needed to be taken. Care of that was my mother’s view, but women should be on their own, and so I think that orientation really influenced how I thought about myself.
As a woman and plus, I grew up in the 70s, where there was women’s liberation and gender roles were really changing, and I was very, very determined that I would really raise my daughter to be a independent free thinker, which she most certainly is. There was downsides of having a daughter like that which she is now finding out, since she is a mother raising a very strong-willed girl. So I think also I was always around nuns who, in their own ways, were really strong women, and so I think all of that I went to all-girls Catholic High School all-girls Catholic College, but there was something about that environment that encouraged you to to really just Soar and interestingly, my daughter went to an all-girls College, not a Catholic one, but she had the most rigorous amazing experience in that kind of setting.
So I think, all of all of that you know and my mother and my daughter and my sister and now my nieces – they they inspire me all the time Thanks all right. We’ve got time for two more questions. When we throw is up here, hello, hello, hello, I’m Callie, hi Callie, I loved listening to you and something pinged. When you said the word authenticity because being in front of you, it’s so clear that you really are an authentic person, but I feel like authenticity is now this catchphrase.
It’s been a thrown around everywhere and I’m a little bit curious about when you are on the other side, when you’re consuming absorbing getting inspiration from other people like. What’s the? How do you know any something’s real and when something’s just that brand, because I have this like allergic reaction to the word now, even though I know you are authentic, because it’s such a thing right so sort of, I feel the same way about the word.
Influencer yeah right, it’s such an annoying word and I think you know you can influence people to buy things or you can influence them and influence culture, and so I, I think of the word influence in its dictionary definition, yeah and now authenticity is becoming a buzzword. So for me again, because I’ve been a social worker, I’ve been working with people for many many years. I have a good ability to assess when someone is being real.
I mean that’s much more like the word I think, and so I can pick up on it. Pretty quickly but, like you said, you’re having a gut reaction now to that word and that is it a true authentic moment, your gut reaction, and so I trust mine also, and so, when I’m around someone, I know: okay, not not matching the words, the behavior, not Matching and that’s how you can always tell hi my name is Jules. I was when I kind of a two parter: do you personally like to follow trends and are there any for this frame that you’ve seen that you really? No, I don’t I’m very clear.
I don’t do drugs. I thought I was a simple one. Well, as a second part, are there any trends that you’ve seen that you think that you really enjoy like for this frame? Well, I think I like the colors, so it’s giving me a lot of choices and I will do a color story based on what I think is a good look for me. So I think again, it goes back to what I said earlier about my orientation to style. It really comes from inside of me and and what I hope is that designers will give me a whole ton of choices, and then I will be the one who decides what the trend is for me blends.
Thank you so much for being here today, my pleasure. I really enjoyed our conversation, and I know that everybody out here did too I’m sure we are bringing school of hustle out every week with fabulous entrepreneurs and inspirational stories every week on godaddy social, so follow GoDaddy and we’ll see you soon.
So when that came out, obviously we did not know is how they came up with this rating, but we are here, for one final Throwdown to you know give our rebuttal on the worst charity in America, but in reality we all five of us have fashion blogs And a little bit later on in the talk, we’re going to talk about blogging within an Asian nation, down your blog, but as an overarching theme, we all have fashion blogs, so we’re just going to discuss what it’s been like blogging in Pittsburgh and fashion.
We’ve all had blogs for different lengths of time, so we’ve experienced really different environments with that and we’re going to also finish up by giving you some tips on where we take our favorite outfit of the day pictures. So that’s sort of like a fun little thing to end the talk on so Ashley and I are sort of the hosts of this panel because we are two of the founders of a group called style, social Pittsburgh or stylish.
Pittsburgh is our hashtag and we’re. We started an event series for fashion bloggers in Pittsburgh and that’s how we got to know all of these. Ladies really well over the last year. So Ashley is going to tell us a little bit about style, social Pittsburgh, I’m Ashley Fletcher um. We are all here, like Tori, said on behalf of our blogs, but also in addition to our style, social Pittsburgh, so style social Pittsburgh.
So there were four of us on two of the girls actually aren’t here today, but there were four of us and we all have blogs and we kind of knew each other in different ways. Um and I think one of the girls Kim she was a connector to all four of us, and so we were talking and we just really wanted to get together with like-minded individuals. Because we didn’t know many bloggers in the area. And when you have people that are doing something similar, you can really be creative and bounce ideas off each other and be very innovative, and so we were like well, let’s get together.
We weren’t really expecting much because we didn’t know of many bloggers in Pittsburgh or fashion blog excuse me fashion bloggers, so we got together. We we started, you know, searching out the bloggers here locally and we found way more than we were ever expecting. So now this little networking group has created. It was the first one here in Pittsburgh, and so now we work locally with the local boutiques and we’ve got some great plans coming up in the next year and you know we like to emphasize being creative and innovative and working with each other and collaborating together.
So we can all continue to build our brands and show people that Pittsburgh is not the worst-dressed city in America. So tell us Ashley a little bit about your blog, so my blog is afternoon espresso and it’s it’s a life and style blog that I focus on my personal style for the everyday girl. I you know I try to be relatable. I try to put outfits on there that are wearable to work to going out for weekend, wear and also affordable, but don’t get me wrong.
I certainly have some high-end taste that I you know like the occasional expensive bag, but um, but I try to make everything wearable, relatable and affordable. They also do a cupcake of the month recipe and afternoon espresso. I am clearly obsessed with coffee, so you will probably find something coffee related on it as well and travel so well. My name is Tori mystic and my blog is called where wagger Pete, I just celebrated my third blog of ursery earlier this year.
On that blog, I had another blog before that, so I’ve been blogging a lot longer than three years, but where wacker Pete came about because I love fashion and I love dogs. So that is how I came up with the name and it was sort of an idea to post outfits and do outfit photos and things like that. That included my dogs and, as I was researching the concept, I found that there was a lot of people in the fashion industry, fashion, bloggers and fashionistas, who had dogs and didn’t always include them in their social media.
And, as you know, dogs are one of the most popular things on the internet, so I thought it was a really good idea to integrate them into my fashion blog and I found a lot of people who email me and say: oh, my god, fashion and dogs, Or my favorite things I am so happy to find your blog, so I do a lot of that stuff and then recently this year, starting in January, got a lot more interested in doing article.
So I also periscope about five times a week doing my daily dog walk with my dog and just talk about whatever I feel like talking about, and then I also have a new YouTube blog, where I do stylish DIYs that you can do with your dog. So I recently did one where you made, or I made pom pom gladiator sandals and a pom pom collar for my dog. So I tried to do everything work, my dog’s into everything that I do on my blog.
Does this work? Yep? Okay, it’s working hi! I’m Zoe, I have a lifestyle, blog called Zoe with love and the main takeaway from my blog is it’s fresh and feminine, very ladylike style, and I like to feature a lot of home decor as well as fashion. I think they go hand in hand with each other, so my blog is really tailored toward young. Ladies, like us, in this age range as well as young millennial moms, I feel like.
As you know, time is progressing more and more young people are having kids and either staying home or not having that outlet, maybe to feel like they’re fashionable anymore, and my goal is to show moms that you you stand, can still be fashionable and a lot of My clothing, that I feature is very relatable, easy to wear, think lots of dresses, rompers Easy Pieces, some things that don’t wrinkle as much when you’re you know you have a baby.
You have to think of clothes that you can nurse with. So there’s a lot of different things that come into it with mom related clothing, but still being fashionable. So that’s where I feature you know, that’s how I feature the clothes that I do and as far as home decor, I typically feature my house because I am a stay-at-home mom and people have this fascination with seeing inside of other people’s homes, and that seems to Be one of my more popular things that people like to get that inside look of everything.
So I do like to feature that, and hopefully one day it segues into something more, and I also like to feature flowers and gardening and things of that nature and showing DIYs how to make flowers without having necessarily to go to a florist. How you can do it yourself and you know, save some money while you’re doing that? What’s up guys, my name is Jessica Vinny. I am a transplant, don’t hate me from Philadelphia.
I’ve just celebrated my two-year anniversary in Pittsburgh. I currently live here with my husband Ben and we recently got a little puppy, opal she’s, the best ever my blog is called we, the alabaster, I’m kind of the rookie of the group. I definitely look towards these women as far as inspiration for growing my blog and kind of growing my content, my blog, is, I like to describe it as an open journal with style.
I’ve always loved the written word and handwritten words, and letters and notes always have done that all of my life, my fave, my inspiration behind my blog, is literally my mother, my freshman year of college. The day that I went off to it. She gave me a journal in which she kept every day of my senior year of high school, literally just documented every single day. It was two separate journals, and it was most amazing gift that I have to this day and so documenting with the written word is really huge for me and you’ll find a lot of stuff, I’m very written heavy, but I’m also, I know images are very powerful And I like to connect style to a lot of kind of daily inspiration.
For example, my last post was, I recently got this awesome vintage white kimono and I related it to my husband so right. That sounds weird like how are my husband and this vintage white feminine floral kimono have something in common, but I kind of tried to connect the two. I have a very different path into blogging in Philadelphia. I was all wrapped up in sports. I was in the sports industry for a very long time about seven years, probably the peak of my industry, and my time with that was.
I worked with the Philadelphia Eagles for a good amount of time, but coming to Pittsburgh kind of opened up this whole new world of change and there’s always been this side of me that loves not just fashion but individual style. I think individual style is so cool and it really opens up the door into people’s life and their journey, and I love making that connection so yeah, I’m going to pass it off to Tara, hey everyone, I’m Tara, McBride, my current blog is love.
Nothing more. I’ve been blogging, though, for a very long time. I took a bit of a hiatus for a number of years, but I actually did start blogging years ago because of the worst-dressed city ranking. I thought it was ridiculous and it infuriated me, because I had several friends who were boutique owners, friends who were stylish and interesting and really had their own kind of point of view with their personal style.
And I thought it was important for somebody to stand up and say that Pittsburgh is a stylish City and to you know, if you’re going to come to Pittsburgh there. Not only are there places to shop and buy things locally, which is really fantastic, but Pittsburgh is beautiful. It’s a beautiful city. I wanted to show off the fact that you can, you know, hang out on the riverfront. You can go walk from downtown over to the stadiums I wanted to show off, not just the fact that you can shop locally, but that Pittsburgh is a great place to be.
So that’s how I started years and years ago, the most recent iteration of my blogging experience was really you know. I was reading what was going on with fashion blogging in Pittsburgh, and I just missed it. I missed it desperately. I loved the connections that I was making with people through blogging and social media, and I wanted to be a part of what was happening. There was this great movement that that I was seeing happen and I just thought I need to be part of this again.
So I the reason that I stopped blogging was because I had gone to a new job and it’s the the industry that I work in is highly regulated. So when I first started working there, they were a little hesitant to have somebody. You know out there talking about things, even though it was just fashion, it wasn’t about the industry. So after some time with the company, I went up to my superiors, and I said you know I really miss this.
It means a lot to me. Is it something that I could get back into and they were, they were fine with it. So I started love nothing more in January and I’m so glad that I did you know I’m not creative, like all these. Ladies, are I don’t DIY, I’m terrible, I’m absolutely awful I why? But I am a working mom. I work downtown. I I have to dress conservatively for work, but you know if you, if you look at my style, there’s a lot of very conservative work clothes and then I’m like this on the weekend where you know I’ve got ripped jeans and ridiculously high heels.
So I’m kind of all over the place. I guess that’s typical Gemini right like I just cannot pick what I want to be, but really the the reason that I blog is to have memories about what’s been happening throughout my weeks or months. I can look in an outfit and say I remember that day. I remember exactly what happened that day conversations I had and I like to have that kind of a journal to keep track of those things, but I also just I love the community.
I love connecting with other people, and blogging has been you know way back when I started and to this day it has brought me together with people who, I think, are really humble, fantastic, supportive people, and so it’s been delightful to be back back into the community. All right well, thank you. So next up we are actually going to go ahead. We have a couple topics for discussion that we are going to talk about and then we’re going to open it up.
So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about blogging fashion, the industry Pittsburgh, whatever you guys, can feel free to ask. So I know Terra kind of touched on her opinion on this, but we want to ask you, ladies, what you think if you think that Pittsburgh is the worst stressed city in America and how you feel about that? Obviously I disagree. I think if I agreed it would look pretty bad so, but no, I do disagree and you know I remember when that article came out and I think I had you know I had an old blog at the time and I was you know doing a fashion Blog this was before Zoe with love, and you know, is it’s a little offensive when you’re a fashion, blogger and your city gets that that title? But I was looking you know through a lot of the cities that share this title.
Um I notice Boston is on there lining what is Boston in Pittsburgh? Have in common there’s a very strong sport culture in the city, and if you read, you know the the articles that somebody you know would write about it. It’s targeting the you know the person in the Jersey in the high socks with the converse, and you know they just you know the appearance isn’t what’s important to them in that moment, going to a sporting event is what’s important to this person, so um.
I think it’s really easy to typecast Pittsburgh as being a worst-dressed City because of the extremely strong sports culture in you know the city of Pittsburgh, but I think you know looking at it. We live here. We, you know, know what it’s like it’s to our benefit, because that’s just part of what makes Pittsburgh really great. There’s a really strong cultural thing in the city. Where there’s different segments, you have the people that are really into sports.
You have people that are really into fashion. You have people that are really into culture in the art scene. It’s there’s all these different. You know segments of the city that aren’t taken into account when somebody like GQ, you know, wants to sell a magazine. So I think you know it definitely does a disservice to the city saying that, because it’s you know neglecting to take into account a lot of other people in the city that you know they do shine and you see them – and I think now with social media And even just the Renaissance at Pittsburgh’s, you know been experiencing with all the young people staying in the city and young people coming back to the city you’re starting to see you know all these different people with individual style.
I think you know it’s like Jessa said it’s not just fashion, it’s individual styles, people that take pride and express themselves with what they’re wearing and I see it when you walk through Lawrenceville, it’s going to be different than when you go through Shadyside. You know it’s always you see the different individual style and it’s you know it is a disservice to the city to say that, because it’s inaccurate um, I think now, though you are going to start to see a lot more stronger.
You know style through Pittsburgh and you know our. I say you know a lot and I just noticed that, but I think with social media, it’s going to be to our advantage to be able to put Pittsburgh on a platform that completely debunks that title. But I all think that it’s going to be easy to get that title, because their sports are always going to be relevant here and you’re always going to have. You know those people that do just like that, and that is fine, but not everybody dresses like that, and that’s what I think about it.
I think that I’ve never really thought about it in that sense is like sports. Being I mean sports is obviously a huge part of our community, and the great thing about sports is that it does bring people together. I mean that’s the best thing about it in my opinion, and I think that a lot of people think of the fashion industry as being like a really exclusive but fashion blogging. I haven’t really felt that way and I think especially with our style social group like we’ve made just.
I know if speaking for the two of us we’ve made so many friends in the last year by doing the style, social events. So I think that that getting the title of where snow city in America or third worst dress a tea or whatever it was. It really was a reflection on how much community we have around sports, but there’s also people who, just like form, great community. I think people are so friendly here and I think that’s makes the fashion industry and fashion blogging really approachable, because we get people coming to our events, who want to start a fashion blog or want to want to post more fashion on Instagram, whatever level that you’re At I think everyone who’s in our community is really supportive of that.
It’s just like a mirror of the sports community kind of I have. I have something else to say: I love that people underestimate Pittsburgh. They do it with everything they do it with fashion, but they do it with everything. I’ve had friends who are from Chicago Philly Florida wherever and when they’ve never been to Pittsburgh and when they come they’re like oh wow. This is a really great city, so you know what it’s to our advantage: that people think that Pittsburgh’s not fashionable that Pittsburgh is not beautiful, because we we get to set the tone we get to.
We get to tell people no. This is what it’s like, and I think that we’re in a really interesting time right now, because we were changing the the conversation, we’re changing the narrative about Pittsburgh and yeah, it’s it’s just fashion, but fashion and art and music and photography. And you know the creatives are the ones that sort of drive the way that people start to look at the city. So I’m I’m happy that people think that were the worst-dressed City, that’s great fine! We’re going to prove you wrong! It’s great, I think, being a transparent into Pittsburgh.
It was interesting I had. I remember one day specifically, a good friend of mine said: why would you move to Pittsburgh and then start a fashion blog right, you’re in Philly? I was in downtown Philly like why? Wouldn’t you do it then, and I love stereotypes. It’s not so much that they’re, not true, sometimes, but it’s that they’re incomplete right and saying that we’re the worst stress city in America I think, is super incomplete.
There is. This is a small town city right. I can’t even begin to tell you people that I’ve met and then I go to a different neighborhood and I see them walking down the street. It’s incredible to me. I think it’s awesome, but just because folks, wear jerseys or just because I wear very red boots that are probably blinding you and I match the seats and the curtains it doesn’t. I mean everyone’s individual style.
It’s one person’s opinion, saying what they think style is right and Pittsburgh. I think Tara’s right. We are changing that narrative and showing that style encompasses a whole lot of things, regardless of what people say. Sports and fashion have so much in common on what drives it, and it’s kind of like a sports metaphor right. I love what you said like go ahead. Put us down at the bottom will prove you wrong right.
The best narratives and sports are the comeback stories, and I love being a part of that I feel like. I just fell into this perfect time in Pittsburgh and fashion when I first moved here finding other Pittsburgh bloggers. For me, it was really difficult, like I couldn’t find people I found bloggers, but I’m like where are you from like? Where are you from and the style credits of style, socialist credit to Kim Tory Ashley and Nicki for bringing us all together and since then I feel like really since then – and I mean I’ve had a limited time here, but people have been talking about Pittsburgh more.
It’s in their profiles, you know we’re from Pittsburgh and I think that is it’s awesome. I wasn’t born and raised here, but I’m happy to say that this has already become my home and I don’t know that I’m going to leave and that’s really I mean that’s crazy to say I never thought I would end up here. But there is a lot of things happening and to say to say to pinpoint us into this worst-dressed category I mean go ahead, it’s it’s cool, come and meet us and we’ll change your mind, but yeah it’s it’s.
It was something that I actually didn’t know until I became a part of this panel. I was like who’s this person telling us where the worst stress like city. I had no idea, and then I did a lot of research and terror actually was quoted in 2011. Coming back at and she’s still fighting the good fight, and I love that about her but yeah, I think it’s it’s an incomplete and I love being a part of this group of people.
These are, ladies, that I don’t know that I would have met if it weren’t for blogging and that community is it’s. It’s strong and we’re only getting stronger for sure awesome um. Can I ask you guys a follow-up question around the whole concept of big fish in a little pond? How do you feel about fashion blogging in Pittsburgh versus doing it in like New York or London or Paris, or something like that? I love this question so and I think sometimes it’s easy to pinpoint us is not maybe having that mecca for fashion bloggers, because a sheer volume right, we’re a smaller city and in Philadelphia in New York and LA you.
Just have this plethora, and it’s just so vast that yeah eventually someone’s going to break out to the top a lot quicker, maybe then in cities. But I think it’s I think I mean you’re looking at some girls that have some amazing amazing following and have an amazing brand for themselves, and I think all we have to do is keep on keeping on and eventually we will get. There might be slow and steady, but eventually we will get there and we will put Pittsburgh on the map as having some, like amazing content creators, and it’s not just us fashion bloggers as Tara was saying.
There’s amazing photographers here. There are amazing creatives here. One of my favorite keep Pittsburgh dope if you’ve seen that I’m sure you have how inspiring I love that he’s kind of bringing that street style to Pittsburgh movements like that as long as we’re supporting each other, I mean we’re going to be unstoppable and Pittsburgh will Be on the mat bed – some I mean it already is, but for a fashion blogging we’ll be yeah.
I have no problem chiming in what do I think about being a blogger in Pittsburgh versus in New York or Paris or London. The community here is so supportive of each other. I have always felt like if you have an idea in Pittsburgh. People are going to rally around you, they are just like and you don’t get that same sense of community in a city like New York or London or Paris, because they’re so big because they’re these mecca’s, and so it’s really.
What is your goal? What do you want to accomplish and who are you, and I think that I am Pittsburgh – I I don’t want to be in New York. I don’t want to be London. I like what Pittsburgh stands for. I like that, we’re a Midwestern, Rust, Belt kind of a city that people wrote off and – and I think that there’s something about the way that we rally around each other. You know Pitt girl, always talked about how how important the community in Pittsburgh was for itself.
Right, like we just supported each other, and she was always so right on with that stuff. You know the same sentiment that we have about our sports teams. We have that for everything, that’s Pittsburgh based and I think that’s what’s really beautiful about our city versus somebody else. I’ll add some to that um. I definitely love blogging in Pittsburgh versus if I were in a bigger city – and it’s like these girls said when I have an idea or something crazy, I’m thinking of it’s realistic.
I can approach a boutique and pitch them an idea and I’ve had it where it happens, and nobody necessarily maybe knows who I am from that realm, but they’re open to it, because people are very down-to-earth and friendly here and people do want to collaborate with you Here and work together and do cross collaborations to promote each other, especially women in business. I’ve noticed, especially in the fashion industry in Pittsburgh.
Same thing goes with bloggers. I don’t know if I could say that I would have met the people I’ve met if I was in a really big city – and you know, nationwide fashion blogging is very competitive. It’s saturated and I feel like within our community. It feels like we have something special and you see other people, for example, in Austin they’re like is there any Austin bloggers? Can I meet somebody, you know and you realize, and you notice, like not everybody has what we have going on and I do think it’s something really special that it’s native to Pittsburgh and there’s a reason for that all righty great answers, ladies okay.
So next topic of discussion, so what social media platforms do you find most effective for a fashion blog, okay, I’ll go again, I’m a highly visual person fashion blogging is highly visual, so my main focus is on social media or Instagram and Pinterest Instagram. I I treat it as a mini blog. I have you know gotten more followers from there who are interested in you and interested in your brand, and you can keep them engaged.
Even if you necessarily don’t have a blog post going up every day. It’s you have to stay on top of it. You have to be doing it all the time and always thinking about it and serving it as a part of your blog. It’s an extension of that so instrument play is a very big part, the other you know. I said Pinterest and it’s because pins Pinterest is very visual. You know content related you. If you use Pinterest correctly, you can get a ton of traffic more than Google.
Even you know you can get one thing to go viral and you’re set with traffic. Coming to your block, and then it’s your you know it’s your chance to get them to stay there, so Pinterest and Instagram. As far as, if you’re doing something that’s content that has a high visual, I would definitely focus on theirs and that’s not to say anything. You know negative about Twitter, Facebook. I have those as well, but I’ve focused a lot on my visual content and going through those two strategies and then, as far as with the social media, it’s the whole other aspect of it is keeping up with it, because it’s constantly changing Instagram and Pinterest.
Just change their algorithms, so it’s honestly teaching yourself how to use these to your advantage and educating yourself strategies how to get yourself out there. But those are my two favorites and then with Instagram hash tagging is really important. You can use, I think, 29 or 30 hashtags so use them. Do not waste a hashtag use as many as you can and geotag. When you’re in Pittsburgh. People find you like that people are always looking for other Pittsburgh people other Pittsburgh bloggers.
I used the stylish Pittsburgh hashtag Pittsburgh, bloggers, hashtag and I’ve actually met and made relationships with people from that. So it’s crazy, but it just we’re in a different time like that’s the norm now so I’ve gotten used to it. So I am a relative newbie. I wouldn’t say a newbie on Instagram, but in January, when I started my blog, my second vlog I decided to put a higher emphasis on Instagram, and so you know I found some editing.
Apps Snapseed is a really great editing app for your photos. It helps you control levels, it can help you crop or rotate, or it’s a pretty powerful app and it’s it’s nice to be able to take a photo with my iPhone. It’s a pretty good photo, but then to kind of refine it a bit. Give it the tone and the field that I want, and so I have really tried to emphasize Instagram a bit more. I do use Pinterest quite a bit, but I don’t use it as much to promote my own blog.
I repin a lot and I’ve gotten a pretty strong following on Pinterest, because I just I mean I’ll literally take 10 or 15 minutes, while I’m waiting for dinner to cook and I’ll pin like mad anything that I like, and it’s been very helpful to to get A following, and then I still use Twitter, I still use Facebook, I just got onto snapchat and it’s I really got on snapchat because of this one who keeps trying to talk to me while I’m up here, because my friend said that kids really love snapchat, because I just thought: forget: snapchat, it’s right, I’m never going to get it and now I’m obsessed.
So, oh and that’s that’s kind of what happens, and I I agree with Zoe hashtags on Instagram, especially are your friend the one thing that I will say about Instagram that I have found since I’ve really put more of a focus on it. That really frustrates me is the follow to get a follow and immediate unfollow. It drives me bonkers if you want to grow your following on any social media platform. I believe very very strongly in a highly engaged follower who is interested in what you have to say versus quantity, and I never noticed it until I again started focusing on Instagram and I would I would start following somebody who would follow me as like.
Oh, I, like your feed and then two days later they unfollowed me and it it just really rubbed me the wrong way. I have to say I’m a little bit of an OG but uh. I still believe very very strongly in engagement in creating content that people want to consume versus gathering a whole bunch of people. I just think it’s really important to yes pic paying for exposure having a boost post that, I think, that’s all, that’s all great, but I still feel very strongly about the content.
It needs to be there in order to have an engaged. You know good solid following who’s, going to stick with you and really rally for you when, when you’re, when you’re posting so yeah, the big four I mean we all know they’ve done a great job of explaining Instagram Pinterest Twitter. Facebook. I think Instagram for us is like the mecca for me, where my blog has a little bit more writing to it. I’m really loved and I’ve found a lot of great interaction on an app called stellar stellar stories.
You can hashtag it on Instagram. They feature a ton. I’ve actually been featured myself. It is, if kind of Zooey said it’s very much a mini blog. So it’s a very career. Creative community you’ll find a lot of photographers on there and it’s creating a story through various pictures. Various different, like word, options they have like six or so different ways that you can present your story and you literally click on a story and you kind of swipe through like a book and they don’t let you have more than 15 slides or so.
But it’s a great way to introduce folks into my initial blog posts, because sometimes you might read the first paragraph or you might see a word or two and then you’ll see my pictures and you’re like that, doesn’t relate at all. So it’s a great way for me to kind of pull in and I found a great amount of engagement from that and obviously everything is connected and the one thing that I have found with social media and I worked in marketing in Philly for sports.
So the one thing engagement is huge right and you have to realize that every platform is different in the way that you present. Information on each platform needs to be different and I fall victim to this all the time, because time is of the essence, and I just share everything from one platform right, so my Instagram, I share it to everywhere, but I find I have way more engagement. If I’m organically posting to Facebook – and I prime it to my facebook following or I organically post an Instagram – and I prime it to that – I’m definitely I fall victim to it all the time where I just kind of post the same exact wording, the same exact Picture whatever it may be to all blogs, but engaging with folks at different platforms have different views.
Different content translates to people differently on those platforms and so figuring out. It’s more time, but I mean again anything worth doing – is going to be hard but kind of individualizing toward those platforms, I think, for me, has been really a big focus moving forward. Well, I am very visual as well. I am very big on Pinterest and Instagram again, you got you, ladies explained it very well.
The big thing that I can maybe give advice to anybody would be to create a brand for yourself and it’s like they were saying. You know it’s an extension of your blog, so your blog has a brand and you want that to flow through your Instagram. You want people to you want to find people that enjoy what you’re putting on there, because it’s all about your audience and you you want to make your audience happy, and so you know I’m going to stick with my brand and a particular palette, or maybe you Know particular style, like my style, is different than some of your styles.
So if maybe I went on there and I posted something – maybe that Torrey would post my readers might be like whoa. What is she doing because it’s not necessarily part of my brand, so it’s very important to figure out what your brand is and stick with that and carry that through all of your social media blogs. So I do a lot of article which you guys didn’t touch on at all, but I am on periscope all of the time and have found that it’s a really engaged community over there and I’ve found followers or viewers on my periscope who have have told me That they tune in every day, you know on periscope, you can read a rebroadcast, you don’t have to read everything live, so I’ve had viewers, say that they’re in Australia and they when they wake up my broadcasts from the previous day it’s available and, and they always Read my broadcast and they’ll come over and follow me on Instagram and one of my periscope followers followed me on Instagram that you follow me on snapchat and then he’s like.
Please follow back, follow back and I didn’t follow him back originally, because his Instagram account was marked as private, and I don’t really like to follow private accounts, because that’s not why I’m really on moron they’re, like for my blog and for traffic and branding and things Like that, but I followed him and now he sends me like all these, like private messages like asking how my dogs are and stuff, so I found that the periscope people really get to know you at a different level through article than they do through photos and The written word so I have found it to be really really great for engagement, but I’m really focused on article.
So this kind of leads into my next follow-up question for you guys and you all sort of touched on it a little bit. But what do you find to be the most engaging type of content? Obviously Zooey. You talked about photos, everyone, if you’re a fashion, blogger everybody posts, photos but doesn’t make a difference for engagement when you have more thoughtful text, or do you just prefer to post 25 photos what works for you? Well, what works! For me, the text is very important with the photo copy is next to you know.
Photography copy is very important a lot of times when I’m thinking of the photos I’m going to post or you know what I’m taking a picture I’ll have a caption. In my mind already – and it’s all one – you know it’s like a circle, so I do think that makes a huge difference when you’re, for instance, putting something on Instagram and you’re trying to sell something, people can sniff it out when you’re not being authentic.
You have to take the time to think about what you’re writing you have to keep. It simple, keep it straight to the point, but it has to be in your voice and that’s another thing that goes with your brand. You find your brand, you find your voice and you stay consistent with that when you say something like oh look at this shirt you can buy it from here is just on sale. If you have a little bit more flavor to it, people are more likely going to look at it.
If it sounds, organic people are more likely to engage asked about it. They’re not just going to what you swipe through there’s so much clutter that people are just going through going through and just trying to you know, eat as much content as possible. So you have to try to make yourself stick out and writing copy is very important. You can have a great picture, and you know if you don’t have as great as a line under it.
It might not read as well, whereas you can have a really simple picture of a flower and if you write something meaningful it’ll get people’s attention and the same thing goes with the blog post. You know you can post 25 pictures but then not say anything. So there’s no personality behind it and people do want more. I think for myself I like to keep it short and sweet to tell maybe a little story in there talk about.
You know the reason I’m doing what I’m doing through my eyes. Through my perspective and people relate to that a lot more, so it’s about making things relatable, organic, organic and authentic and taking the time to not only think about the photography but the words that go with that yeah. It’s like a team right so text and visuals they’re, they’re, interconnected right. They work together. For me, quality quality over quantity is really huge.
I try to do a variety of different pictures when I write, but I also try to sprinkle them throughout the writing right. We are oversensitive like we are just have so much media going on and we constantly need our attention to be being kept so breaking up. For me, I have a lot more text, but breaking it up with very impactful pictures, whether it’s the scenery, whether it’s the position, whether it’s the outfit for me, is really important.
It’s it’s definitely one. I can’t have one without the other for sure, even though I would love to just write, I would love to just write sometimes, but there are other people where your audience is going to react different. Well, it’s going to what I want to say accept things differently. So there’s some people that they cat – I catch them. First, with the photo and then they’ll read, there’s other people that will read and then kind of play into the photos.
So, like I said, you can’t have one without the other for sure that my content gets different people liking different things. So if I take, you know a shot of guys way up on a skyscraper cleaning, the windows with the blue sky and the background I’ll get a lot of in tag it with all my Pittsburg tags versus outfit of the day and fashion bloggers. All that sort of stuff I get a very different kind of reaction and a different set of followers who engage with that photo versus something from my blog or you know that features me in some way.
So you know it’s really. I I just kind of post what I feel like posting. I you know this, isn’t this isn’t how I make a living? It’s something I do as a creative outlet. So for me it’s all about expressing how I’m feeling in a given moment – and if I don’t have anything to say, then I don’t say anything I used to have a blog that was a daily. It was every single day, an outfit post and I felt confined to hosting every day, and I found myself getting really burnt out on writing and taking the photos and spending time in the evening.
Trying to you know, get everything edited and written and posted and then promoted, and I just it I felt like I was on a gerbil wheel, so the the second iteration with the blog I said to myself a you’re going to have somebody else. Take your photos. No more for me, it was no more tripod remote. You know trying to find a wall that was this high. That could take my photo for me, and that means that there’s coordination involved and it takes more time and it takes more effort, and it takes.
You know making sure my calendar jives with my photographers calendar, and that means I don’t post every day anymore and I don’t write as much anymore because I just don’t necessarily have as much to say and I’m ok with that for the most part. Sometimes I look around and I see what other people are doing and I get I can. I can feel myself getting. You know questioning whether I’m doing the right thing and and shouldn’t I be doing in a different way, and then I have to remind myself no.
This is this is how I want to express myself and stay true to that. For me and – and I think that’s what’s important – you’re going back to something Zoe said about having an authentic voice. That’s your own! You need to figure that out and it can evolve right. It can be something one month and something completely different another month, but you know find out what you want to say and how you want to say it and the people who want to follow you will they’ll, find you and and they’ll be your advocate.
So just kind of stick to who you are alrighty well, we are actually cutting it close to time. So we have two other topics of discussion, but we want to see if you guys have any questions first, since we are so close on time, we want to make sure we answer them for you. So yeah welcome one of the things that you know. We have emphasized the hashtagging when you’re on your social media and you’re talking about maybe, if you’re on Twitter, giving tech tips even as bloggers.
We definitely need some tech tips, so you know that’s one way you can do it. Another way is, if you know somebody that might be in the industry, or that has a podcast in another location, don’t be afraid to reach out to them, even if they have a million followers, or you know, million views or whatever just just reach out to them, Because, honestly, you never know when someone’s just going to respond and at the end of the day they may have a lot of views and followers, but they’re just people too, and they were they had a starting point.
Also – and so you know, I’ve reached out to some really large bloggers and you’d be surprised that and who responds and you know, sometimes they don’t that’s, okay, but there’s plenty of people to reach out to I agree I would get get deep down in the hashtags, Because that’s how we found most of the fashion bloggers that we wanted to tell about style, social Pittsburgh and our events. You know we would just look at the geo tags for Pittsburgh and see if people were posting outfit photos and then look at their account and see if it did have a lot of fashion on it and maybe send them a DM saying.
Hey, do you know about style, social Pittsburgh or the stylish Pittsburgh hashtag? So it is a little bit tedious in that sense, but personally, reaching out with an email or a DM or something like that will get you really far mm-hmm. I’m really quick. I think Facebook groups could be really helpful too. I know for fashion blogging, there’s something I’m not familiar with. You know podcasting, but you can find some really good.
Facebook groups and people are really active and talking about what they’re doing on there any other questions whoo. I’m going to add something: oh yeah um always be ready to have a have a business card ready like good, old-fashioned networking that has led me so far and made relationships when you’re traveling. Sometimes I know it’s vacation or whatever it may be. You’re visiting a friend have they have those business cards ready and if you hear a part of a conversation or if you meet people, let them know about it.
Tara said something that really hit me hard when we were prepping for this, and it was don’t be afraid to promote yourself like don’t be afraid, it’s it’s sometimes it’s. It is difficult, it’s difficult to put yourself out there, but that face-to-face connection. It’s going to be remembered so always always be on the lookout, sometimes the most random interactions when you’re traveling or when you’re just walking down the street or conferences like this they’re, going to lead to something special you’re welcome any other.
That is a great question. So for me you know your terms of success are different. For me, in terms of success, for me is my pageviews and like people, like repeat people, that come back to my blog and people. That comment on my blog one of my favorite posts that I ever did got the most comments on my blog and fell so flat on social media. It was insane, but to me that was the most successful post that I ever had a good thing in.
That is when she, when you have someone that comments, when your blogger gets a thoughtful comment, wherever it may be, make sure to interact with that person and tell them whether it’s don’t just give them a thank you and like a little winky face kissy face like Tell them why you know. Thank you so much for reading this part of my blog. When you’re writing. You know people are going to take a little bit more time with your blog, and so you should give them that respect back and give them a little bit more time, or even I mean if someone writes a really nice comment on my blog and they leave It their blog.
I make sure I take the time and read theirs back. You know what I mean, and in that comment back to them I might say something about theirs or I make sure to go and interact with them. Interaction is huge when it comes to writers like hashtag. I’m writing is a huge community across multiple multiple platforms and that hashtag leads to a lot of like worrier interactions and things of that nature. So it definitely takes a little bit more time, but that’s how you kind of you people get invested then, and that’s to me is more than anything yeah.
I also try to think about my posts, as I’m planning out my content schedule for the month about what is going to be like a long tail post and what is going to be like a briefer engagement. So, for example, something that’s about, like top shoe trends. For fall 2016: it’s only going to be relevant to people for a few months, but if I post about like, if I just want to change the headline slightly to just say my favorite fall shoes or something that could be something that people might come back to.
Every year, and that’s a really specific example, but it’s I do use like headline analyzer that you can find on Co schedules website. It’s a free headline, analyzer that sort of tells you how good your headline is for SEO, and I also use the Yoast SEO plugin and I not every post is going to be a long tail post, but you do want to make sure you have enough of Them in there and that you’re just being thoughtful about how you phrase things so that they are more evergreen content and that gets more organic traffic anyone else they look up to you in general and the last one.
What would you say give you a quick answer? Some of my favorite fashion bloggers would be Atlantic Pacific. She doesn’t write a thing. It’s all photos sincerely Jules Carla’s closet. You know there are tons of Pittsburgh local fashion bloggers who do really incredible things. Obviously you can look at the stylish Pittsburgh hashtag the covert. Oh yeah tour yeah, and what was the last part of your question? What do we see fashion going? Well, I have to say style.
4. 1. 2 is a really fantastic movement right now. We’re there we’re having the community is having a discussion once a month around a particular topic in Pittsburgh fashion and it’s Minh 3. Now right and I participated in one that was the good, the bad and the ugly. So we’re like literally talking about everything in a small forums 10 to 12, maybe 15 women or men talking about what’s happening in Pittsburgh, and I think that at the end of this you’re going, we are going to have a really robust document that outlines what’s going On in Pittsburgh fashion, what are we missing? What do we need to do to fill gaps, to keep those creative minds that want to do fashion in Pittsburgh here and support them in some way, and so I’m really excited about what’s happening with style.
I went to because I think that we’re going to have a really great SWOT analysis at the end of it that we can actually use as an actionable document. So if you’re at all curious, just Google sigh will for one too and you’ll you’ll see, what’s been going to talk to Alicia yeah she’s here and there are within those discussions, we there’s local designers, there’s vloggers. Obviously, people who work for corporate fashion companies that are based in Pittsburgh, like American Eagle or ModCloth or route 21 things like that, and I think something that a lot of you are talking about as a desire to have fashion manufacturing in Pittsburgh.
So there’s there. It’s really all over the place in every different corner of the fashion market. People are interested in growing every direction, I would say, vintage is really taking off. We’ve had some awesome vintage stores. Opening juju is one. There is another one in the gentleman’s store is escaping. My name right now, but Lawrenceville is kind of like a mecca for some upcoming vintage stores and that like kind of repurposing – and I think, vintage also lends itself to like some really daring outfits and it’s just kind of how people merge decades.
So I think that’s kind of cool I’ve really seen an emergence in that in Pittsburgh. Just in the little time that I’ve been here, I think it is 159, so Mike’s going to kill us if we don’t get off the stage here. There’s another session coming in. It’s two o’clock, but thank you guys so much. Thank you to our panel. If you’re interested in this topic, please check out stylish Pittsburgh hallways anymore questions.
Working at clothes really exciting. You know for me being in sales, but I don’t really feel like we’re in sales, like we’re doctors, they’re just trying to heal companies who have pressure points and every single day. You don’t really know what’s going to happen and I try to really plan out my day on the train in but and everything always changes based on what emo or a new project or a new idea, someone of the design team might have.
I would describe our team as very cohesive kind of like a family. I feel like I know so much about them, because we travel a lot together. We go to meetings together and I really value that we had a really good connectivity and relationship, and not just here locally in our New York office, but also globally, and how you know. We use things like slack to communicate with any single person in the office and not just you know, we kind of don’t really operate on hierarchy so being able to email or contact our CTO or CEO or even Jaden, who is the founder of the companies? Just really really valuable and it’s nothing I’ve experienced before to come.
They mean the world to me. They are just an extended part of our family and being able to constantly that with them with problems, because you know 3d is an emerging technology but being able to actually listen to their issues, and I just think relationships are the most important part of this job. We take you know everything very seriously from a relationship standpoint, we’re not just you know, an invoice to them, we’re a family with them.
So I actually believe that these user summits, that we do in these public workshops the chance for these companies who are usually competing brands, or even people who are small companies who have never met each other. To find someone who specializes in graphics or something like that and I’ve seen them start collaborating because of one meeting. That’s where I really get my joy from it’s. Connecting people from different industries and within the industry is but the unique thing about working at Clos is that every day is a new adventure.
We don’t really actually know on a daily basis. What’s going to happen, also the ability to work with almost every single major retailer in the world and brands being able to see their process and get a tour of their facilities and listening to what their vision is, and I think that’s really unique from any other Experience because all my past jobs, I was confined to I’ve one vision and one job, but I wasn’t able to see how other people were being affected by that and being able to actually do that on.
You know multiple trips and traveling to places like Manhattan, Kansas or Bozeman Montana, but also you know, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle. We got to travel a lot and that doesn’t mean just being able to see companies but also new areas and new cities that I would never have the opportunity to visit, and that really gives us a unique perspective of what we do. I feel very aligned with the company’s vision and it’s really beautiful, because our main message of you know trying to virtualize every single garment on earth and basically connect people and merge.
The real and virtual are all like, always the North Star. What we’re trying to accomplish as a company, but the minor details that could become involved in the way, can always change and that’s actually really exciting, to know that we are very agile, but we do think outside the box and we don’t necessarily have to do things. One way and that can change as we explore what that process is like, and also the vision of just connecting people is something that you know it was a classic theme.
That’s what I’ve been saying, but that’s really something that we’ve worked really hard on to establish. You know for those of you who might join our team or want to join our team. I am what we look for. A lot is never-ending, curiosity and insatiable need to always explore and learn new things to bring new perspectives to our team, but that’s really what we look for. Additionally, we really thrive on empathy being able to understand what different people are going through, because that only just doesn’t work from a business development.
Standpoint of understanding your clients, but also internally, understanding that you know we’re all still learning and as much as you have so much experience as something someone else has that their experiences that you might not share and being able to actually share those experiences and have empathy For each other is really something I also really pride ourselves on. The company is that we are always listening to each other.
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When you make great decisions with your hard-earned money, all right today, guys I’m talking to you about passive income streams. There are a whole range of different passive income streams, some which are very conservative, some, which are quite aggressive. However, it’s important that you pick the right income stream for you and for your financial goals and for your risk appetite now the people who are really nervous when it comes to investing and don’t have much experience.
They may want to start off investing in a fairly conservative styles of passive income sources, and these are typically cash savings accounts term deposits, maybe even some government bonds or even corporate bonds and typically because they’re more conservative, their returns are a little bit like that. Typically, a passive income stream, that is the yield of these conservative types of investments, ranges between 2 up to 3.
7 percent per annum. But these types of conservative assets generally have no capital growth, they’re, predominantly income based, which means if, for example, you bought a bond for $ 100,000 and the yield will say 3 percent, you would be getting only $ 3,000 a year in passive income from that bond. There is no capital growth element to it whatsoever, but if that’s right for your risk profile, you don’t like taking risk and you’re uncomfortable with it.
That may be the right type of investment for you now, the more aggressive or assertive you could say of investments for building long-term wealth are things like residential property, commercial property, domestic shares or international shares, and these returns are typically, as history shows a lot higher, because The more risk you take, the more of a reward you should get so residential property on average yields between 3 point to up to three point: nine percent.
But when you take out all the expenses of running a property, it typically comes down to a yield of around about two to two-and-a-half per year with commercial property. The yield tends to be a little bit higher around five point, five percent and when it comes to investing in shares, depending on whether it shares a base, for example, Australian shares the yield tends to range between four point: seven percent up to five point: seven percent.
When you factor in franking credits now, there seems to be a lot of misconception when it comes to investing in shares and comparing it against conservative estimates such as fixed interest bonds. However, I want to make sure you guys are aware of the difference between these two different types of asset classes and the impact over the long run. So the best way for me to show this to you is by showing to you what has happened in history.
If I were to take a hundred thousand dollars and put it into a term deposit in 1979 and just took the passive income each year and spent it, I never reinvested the money or added any new money to that term. Deposit account by 2016 that hundred thousand dollars would still only be worth a hundred thousand dollars, but it actually would have eroded away because that hundred thousand dollars could not buy me.
What it can today is what it could have done in 1979 and I would still be earning a passive income of two thousand five hundred dollars per year. That’s it, however, if I put that 100 thousand dollars into a diversified share portfolio of Australian shares, again just taking that passive income through the dividend, yields and spending it, adding nothing to it and not reinvesting any of my dividends that share portfolio would now be worth One point one: two million dollars and the passive income that I’d be receiving from that one point: one two million dollar share portfolio would be worth over fifty one thousand dollars every year.
Now, I’m pretty sure you would rather be receiving a passive income stream at 51 thousand dollars a year versus two thousand five hundred dollars a year. So you’re probably wondering how is this possible? How is the same amount of money invested in two different asset classes with SIPP, not too dissimilar yields over the long run so incredibly different? Well, it comes down to the fact that shares are two-dimensional assets.
They not only do they produce income, they also produce growth and that income grows with the capital value with shares. When a company raises profits, they reinvest some of those profits back into the business for future, compounding growth and to expand them, prove the value of the business, and then they pay a dividend on that and that dividend grows every year as long as the company grows. Now a lot of people say well, fine can investing in shares is incredibly volatile and comes a lot of risk.
And, yes, you are correct, you do when you invest in shares. There is a lot of high to medium term volatility over the short term medium term. I want to show you this other chart. This will really change your perception of really how safe term deposits are. If we look at the yield on term deposits and compare them against shares and even commercial property, in fact, it’s actually the toh deposits, which are a lot more volatile over that 17 year period, so that perception of term deposits being safe.
And you can sleep well at night versus shares being risky and dangerous isn’t actually quite true. So what this boils down to you? If you’re trying to build up a passive income stream, you’ve really got to look at the underlying assets in your portfolio. You do not want to forego long-term growth for stability. You need to make sure that your passive income and your investment portfolio is sustainable.
Is going to provide you with that passive income. That’s going to grow over time and ensure that you remain financially independent. Do not fall into the trap of just going in investing purely for yield with no capital worth. This will come with a lot of regret, further down the track and if you’re going to build up an investment portfolio where you’re going to incorporate more of these growth style, investments such as international and Australian shares and even some property make sure you diversify.
You do not need to go all or nothing most. People have a diversified share portfolio where they may have some commercial property, some residential property. You know a mixture of Australian shares and maybe some international ETFs. It’s a really well diversified portfolio which smoothes out the overall volatility over the long run and, of course, make sure that you look at the yield but make sure that the yield is consistently growing over time.
This should be the foundations of what you look for in a quality investment. Now, as you’re reading all of my money Monday articles, I really hope that your site to get it be more interested and a bit more inquisitive and maybe even tempted to start building up a share portfolio. But please remember you do not need to stress about which shares to pick and where and how and what you can very easily a listed investment company that does all that work for you or even a managed funds.
It doesn’t all that work for you or even look at a diversified ETF. There are so many different investment options out there. You do not need to put the stress and pressure on your shoulders as to what stocks to pick when how and why this can be outsourced to a professional all right. Everyone, I really hope you’ve enjoyed this article – remember, invest the for the long while invest for long term, capital, growth and long term growing yields, that’s the key foundation to building healthy, strong, passive income streams ciao for now, if you haven’t already subscribed, please make sure you Do
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So this is one of the questions that I get all the time from guys who are interested in getting into style blogging, but don’t really know where to start or how to do it or what the best practices are. Now I’ve been doing it for five years now and over that time I’ve learned a lot.
I’ve gained a lot of knowledge and experience and we’ve had a good amount of success throughout that time. You know there. There really was no blueprint for me of how to do it right. We were really sort of making it up as we went along and defining what this was going to look like what this was going to be and how it was going to be done. And you know things are always changing and you always have to adapt to a certain degree, but there are some fundamental things that I think are extremely important to think about to consider and to really know before you get into it.
If you want to be successful now, the first thing you need to ask yourself is: what do you want to achieve? Are you just extremely passionate about something and want to share it? Do you want to make money? Do you want to get free stuff? Do you want to be famous? There are no wrong answers here, and no one of those intentions is more or less noble than the other, but you really need to look inside and be honest with yourself about what it is exactly that you want to get out of this adventure, because having a Clear answer to those questions will define how you approach this and will guide everything that you do.
Next is possibly the biggest question you need to ask yourself, and that is what do you offer more and more. This is becoming an increasingly crowded space, and you really need to have something that differentiates you not only so that you stand out, but just something that gives people a reason to want to listen to you and to follow you. What makes you unique? What is your point of view? What do you have to contribute to the conversation so on our whiteboard in the studio? We have three questions written down, and these are questions that you should consider before you even start and that I think you should continue to revisit over and over again as you progress and start to have some success and continue to evolve.
And those questions are what is truly unique about you, what is truly ownable for you and what right do you have to play and win in this content space? It’s good to answer those questions again to help define what it is, exactly that you’re doing and hope to achieve, and that flows into what I think is one of the hardest questions to answer, and that is why are you doing what you’re doing now, if you Haven’t already, I really recommend reading Simon Synnex book start with why I’ll put a link to it below in the description, because this book and the concepts in the book will really get you thinking about some higher level stuff.
I find that even if people think they know the, why of what they’re doing it’s often hard to put into words now I always knew what I’d hope to achieve with. He spoke style, but it wasn’t until I read this book that I was truly able to articulate it and, and once I was able to once I had written it down, everything became so much clearer and there was so much more purpose behind everything that we were Doing you know if you’re really committed to being in it? You really need to have that kind of focus and to use your time wisely.
In addition, if you don’t have a clear vision that will come through and be confusing to people, they won’t know what you stand for or who you are or what you’re all about. If you haven’t answered that question for yourself and just saying that you want to inspire people is not enough, that’s what you’re doing or that’s what you want to do. It’s not why you’re doing it, so you can see that it’s really not that easy to define your why, but it is extremely important, in my opinion, if you really want to have a deep and meaningful impact on people now, once you’ve figured out the higher level Stuff, you need to sit down and make a plan.
Before I published a single post on he spoke style. I had made a year-long content calendar, it’s good to see the big picture, it’s good to see where you’re going and it’s good to have a schedule. You never want to get into a situation where you’re operating day to day or not sure, what’s coming up next now it does take a little bit of time to put something like this together, but if you really want to do it right, this is something that You need to do the time you invest in making a plan like this will pay huge dividends and will make every part of the process go that much smoother and having a plan like this will help you with the next part, which is to execute and be Consistent, I cannot stress enough the importance of consistency when it comes to publishing online, whether that’s a website, your Instagram Facebook YouTube blog.
It is so important to train your audience to give them something to expect and to look forward to on specific days at specific times, and not only that, but consistency is rewarded by the bigger powers-that-be, like Google and algorithms. These engines look for things like that, and if one of your goals is to reach as many people as possible, you really need to publish consistently next. I think it is so important to publish only high quality original content and again this is one of the things that will make you unique.
Now I started he spoke style because a lot of the websites I was reading about classic men’s style did not have original images of the stuff that I was reading about. Sometimes they were archival images. Sometimes they were sourced from other websites and that to me removed a lot of the personal connection that I wanted to feel and that I thought was very important to really getting behind a certain point of view.
Like don’t just tell me about something, show me how to do it show me how something should be worn. Show me how you would wear it, not a bunch of other people that I can find online myself now when it comes to original content and especially original artwork, I will tell you that great photography is absolutely non-negotiable. Get a decent camera set it up on a tripod work with a friend who has an interest in photography, and you can also pay someone to take photos for you.
The reason for that is because the level of production and quality of content being put out there. These days is extremely high and to establish yourself in that world you really need to be at or as close to the level of what’s already out there in the market. All right blogs do you need a website, Twitter or Facebook. Instagram YouTube, snapchat pinch a podcast! Now I have a very specific opinion on this and it comes from the nature of how I’ve set up my business and and grown my business.
Personally, I think a website is very important. I think Instagram is very important and I think YouTube is very important right now, a couple of years ago I would have told you that Facebook was very important now for me and for my business I really feel that it is extremely important to have multiple blogs. I like to have a wider portfolio of services available, just to be able to offer a variety of things and to be able to tailor our packages to best meet the needs of the brands that we work with now.
Can you have success with just one strong blog? Yes, you can, and there are plenty of examples out there – of people who have had a lot of success just on Instagram or just on YouTube. The problem is the media. Landscape is always changing and there is some risk associated with devoting your entire effort towards one specific blog. For example, when I was first getting started five years ago, I met someone who had a million followers on Pinterest, and this was her business.
She made money through affiliate links on her Pinterest content. Well, one year later, Pinterest came and said we’re not supporting affiliate links on our platform anymore and just like that, her entire revenue pipeline was shut off. So that’s just one example of the risk you’re taking on. If you decide to focus specifically on one blog now, the other thing is that, because the landscape is always evolving and there’s a shifting emphasis on different blogs, there are people who will jump from lily pad to lily pad, depending on which way the winds are blowing.
At the moment, and although I feel they might have some short-term success – they’re really trapping themself in this kind of endless loop of having to redefine who they are and what they’re about and who they’re serving that. I think it dilutes their brand and kind of calls into question their authenticity, so, if you’re an aspiring men’s style blogger, those are some things to think about that. I think are key to being successful, asking yourself what you want to get out of it.
What do you offer? What’s your point of view, why are you doing what you’re doing making a plan executing that plan consistently only posting original high quality content and deciding what blogs are the best fit for you based on your goals, so the business of blogging is a topic that I Plan to cover from time to time, and if you have questions or specific topics about that, you’d like me to talk about, go ahead and leave those in the comments, I’m very passionate about mens style.
But I’m also very passionate about the business side of what we do and I am happy to share everything that I’ve learned over the 5 years that we’ve been doing. He spoke style. If you like this article, please give it a thumbs up and do not forget to subscribe to the blog. That’s all for now guys thanks for reading and stay tailor.
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