I believe that everything in
life happens for a reason
and I never really regret
what I do as I believe it
was all meant to be. It was the
experience I needed not only in business
but also in life to go out there, out of my
comfort zone and make it happen no
matter what. I taught myself to never
look back and to do what is necessary to
move forward. And not only that, but also
With a deep aspiration for making
the fact that this experience made me who
the best designed men’s shoes,
I am as a shoe designer having gained an
you made a pivotal life and
eye for detail by spending time with some
business move by moving
of the greatest shoemakers in modern day.
from the U.S. to Europe to
Without that international leap, I would
learn more about the craft of shoe-
not be where I am today and am unsure if
making. Now years later and looking
I would have ever even had the ability to
back, how do you feel about having
get off the ground, to be honest, had I
made that international leap?
stayed Stateside.
ustin, as learned in your video,
I find the statement of how in the
time of your adolescence the shoes that
you wore were significant to your status
placement among your peers for being
cool or not cool, and how that had
some bearing on leading you as an
adult into becoming The Shoe Snob…
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