One Badass Jungle dude, climbs 131 feet into a tree and faces angry bees stinging him to get honey to feed his family. Sheez!! And we complain about going to pick up groceries.
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TOUGHER THAN LEATHER
“It’s my form of painting. My form of photography. My form of being somewhat different.” – Mitch Alfus
The Selby does a day in the life of Mitch Alfus, owner of Libra Leather, covering both the quiet intimate moments as well as a tense sales meeting where he had his sales team on the hot seat.. one moment that rolled out like this….
Mitch:” I’ll tell you one more thing. You guys have to think, when your are working with accounts not to be wasting time. I’ve heard how you sell. For one I’d like you to know more about the real leather…But you know more than the customers so thats a plus. but another thing I think you spend too much time chit-chatting…you rmbe on and on and on. and the laughter and the joy and the pleasure.”
Nervous Sales Rep (retorts): “but that’s what keeps them back. I think that my charm and my talking to them and knowing their line is helping me sale a fuck ton of leather. I have almost 2million dollars in sales.”
Mitch: “If you’re selling 2million a year with talking that much, imagine how much you’d sell if you talk less… And you knew what you were doing?
We’ll never know the back story behind this exchange, but from my days as a sales rep, I sense that she’s the type of rep that is comfortable knowing she’s earning good money for the company. However as a business owner I could tell he’s good with her progress but doesn’t want any of his reps comfortable. Push it harder, get ALL the money, don’t leave nothing on the table,and you cant do that with all that chitter chatter…I also know, a Sales rep has to have tough skin-tougher than leather.
what do you get from the exchange?
ARIANA HUFFINGTON: "SLEEP OUR WAY TO THE TOP"
http://www.ted.com In this short talk, Arianna Huffington shares a small idea that can awaken much bigger ones: the power of a good night’s sleep. Instead of bragging about our sleep deficits, she urges us to shut our eyes and see the big picture: We can sleep our way to increased productivity and happiness — and smarter decision-making.
VASHTIE: THE WOMAN KING
While Vashtie Kola’s event the other night celebrated her collaboration with Brand Jordan and her becoming the first woman to do so, it could have easily been dubbed a coronation of sorts. While she’d be too gracious to ever admit it or subscribe to it Vashtie has become New York City’s quintessential “dreamer-doer”that has brilliantly crafted her life into a brand. The beauty of that brand is that it is untarnished by corporate jargon or catchphrases of the month. Its just her doing her thing with her people–making a living by living a life.
Her life looks a lot like she wrote all of the things she wanted to do in journal, then woke one day and did all of those things–checking them off one by one. Always ahead of the curve. Never chasing. Perpetually doing her own thing, her own way. From directing videos, to “curating” dance parties, the result is always artfully done with patrons that span from the young, restless downtown set to Jay-z.
Lets just take Jay. I’ve personally had him turn down hundreds of thousands of dollars to just show up somewhere, yet just the other night he was there to support Vash as he has done on many occasions.
While she’s no rapper she is surely starting to look as if she’s heir apparent to the kingdom that is New York City, at least the parts south of Houston St—for now…)
Congratulations Player.
Check the promo directed of course by King Vash…
A few Pics from the event:
Hit www.vashtie.com for more shots from the celebration… .