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Interview (Question and Answers)
q:Your entrepreneur spirit started at what age and is that what
you always wanted to
do as a career?
I must say that i grew up in an upper middle class family, in
rural Jamaica, my motherwas a fashion designer and was good at what
she did, taking orders and always constantly
shipping cloths off to, at that time at an early age of 7, I
knew that business would be
something that I would be good at, in my community I saw that
there was no sort ofbusiness, where people sold stuff such as
sweets, and children that went to school had to
go to the nearest town to bye books and pencils, so I started
selling, not that I wanted
money or that I was in need of it, but a part of me wanted to do
it, it was simply, the
business mind, my parents begged me not to do it, because of
their own reasons, but Icontinued for a while. eventually stopped,
soon after I started my Manchester Youth
Foundation, then realizing my public relations skills I started
my PR firm, while I still
own both establishments, I am a fashion designer and fashion
agent and this is where my
true love is, it is always something I wanted to do, and there
is no way I am giving this upsoon.
q: Are any of the ventures from your younger years still around
today?
Selling biscuits, sweet books and that sort of thing no., i
would prefer to own anestablishment of that nature and have walk in
customers, but i would not do walk and
sell, not now., apart from that there is still Manchester Youth
Foundation that is still
around after 6years.
q: How did you get into the fashion business?
As I said in my last interview that, I was inspired by my
mother, I co-produced withKerry Ann Gill, Miss Jamaica Universe
(middlesex) un behalf of Kingsley Cooper of
Pulse, then I was only 16., soon at that time I learnt the
business of FASHION
MODELING, and simply research using Internet and telephone
q: What is the reaction of most people when they meet you and
realize you are 19 year
old?
The reaction is "19!!!!?, you must be kidding, so how do you do
it...." or "Wow, Im
proud of you, cause I always love to see young Jamaicans like
you excel" if there reaction
is not the latter, my reaction would be "well see you when i am
going up the ladder ofsuccess and you coming down!"
q: What other ventures are you involved in?
I am into, Signing, Fashion Designing, Dancing, Acting, Social
Work, and Styling and
show Production.
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q:How do you feel being called a role model for Youth in
Jamaica?
I feel so fulfilled, because my ultimate goal is to help people,
whether it may be throughmy Social Work or Turning them in Super
Models, just to help people in the realization
of a dream, I am striving to build a better Jamaica, I feel good
because I cannot change
this country overnight or by myself, so when people look at me
as I role model, I say"there goes another difference maker!"
q:Being that you manage quite a few beautiful models who would
be the dream
woman for many young men your age. How do you balance the
personal with
business?
I am a professional, and I would much rather see them, stunt my
cloths or walk the way Itell them, than think of any thing else,
besides i am involved with someone who is not
Jamaican and is not a Model, so I balance quit well. Work is
work, and i treat it just as
that.
q:It is rumored that the owners of many modeling agencies are
very impersonal and
harsh people to work with. What is your management style?
I am a peoples person, without people i cannot possibly survive,
personality plays a big
part in this industry, while this is so, a can be very
impersonal, but that should not bemade to mean unfriendly, it
simply means that I distant myself a little, as if you work
with people you are too close with, you might just settle for
mediocrity and that is not
something that i love, your friends are the hardest persons to
shout on when you want to
get something done, my models are my models, and I much manage
my business betterthat way.
q: If we ask any of the models you managed to describe you in
one word what do you
think they would say?
You would probably hear silence, then a string of adjectives
after 5mins: the number oneword, then i think would be
"Focused"
q: What is your advice to any young person who would like to
become entrepreneur
like yourself?
Never think you will go into business and have a road with a
silver lining and no pot
holes, you will however, find no lining with ditches, also, if
they have a good sense ofpatience and a strong head, I would say go
for it, because you will get so many
opportunities along the way.
