Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Wednesday. That means we have one more day to look at the market and look ahead into Thursday flipping. And this might be one of the last Thursday flipping videos, preparation videos that we make on the channel because after this, there's not a whole lot of incentive to be playing Weekend League. That's for sure. Unless they started throwing some different cards into Weekend League rewards. There might just mean not a lot of stuff that people are playing for on this game. So Weekend League rewards won't have as big of an effect on the market as they currently do now. But this week, I think there's gonna be a big effect on the market, especially in terms of some of the higher level cards because a lot of people are gonna get a lot of coins again this week. Just looking at the team of the season ultimate. Some of those guys with ultimate packs, I mean, look how many cards in here are over a million coins. You got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So seven cards over a million coins. And a lot of those guys, you have 700K, 800K, 700K, 800K. A lot of guys that are up there as well. So you can think about somebody getting an ultimate pack. Yeah, they're probably gonna get Surabia, Allison, Keelene, Kimmich, Oblak. That's five players that are, that's still 100K, 200K. You're still getting some decent value out of those players. But then you have six more players. You might get a Sterling. You might get a Quagliarella, Robertson. And then there's gonna be a lot of people that hit up Bernardo Silva, Kula Bali. There's gonna be a lot of coins that come out of the game this weekend again. It's gonna be a great, fun weekend, or fun week period to watch these rewards. It's gonna be like Premier League tots all over again with basically the amount of rewards that are gonna come out of the game. The amount of coins, I mean, that's gonna come out of the game. So I wanna look at these cards, and we're gonna look at a lot of special cards as well because that's gonna be the main draw this weekend. People are gonna be building those final teams this week. You know, you might, you might watch this Neymar card because he didn't get into team this season. He's 6.4 million coins, his second week out of packs. If you see this card Wednesday night before Weekend League gets Panic Soldier, like 6.1, that might be a buy. He could easily be 6.7, 6.8 million coins after Weekend League Awards because he's a very rare card on the market and a lot of people are gonna want that for their teams. Now, somebody who I think would absolutely definitely go up would have to be this Lala card. 500K for this card, I think is very feasible. He's the right back of the links to Mbappe that people have been using for this entire game. They've been using this guy for the entire the year. Today actually, I got one for 470 for my team and he was very low today.  That's the main thing. And obviously people that link to the ultimate Tots because people are gonna get these cards red, more people are gonna get red Rinaldo's, more red Messi's, more red Royces, more red Havertz. So one person that I really like, we're gonna have to search this one up, I really like Timo Werner. Basically, all of his, both of his top two variants. Actually, you can go see right now on my transfer list. I have traded with this card a little bit the past couple of days. I bought both of these cards at 999K and this one for a million. It's only for like 30, 35K profit, which was really nice. This card fluctuates a ton and it fluctuates because he's a rare team in the season card that links to both of these guys, Havertz and Royce. And if you need a striker in the Bundesliga, it's Werner or it's Lewandowski. And if you like Pace, which most people do, this is the card that you're gonna go with right here. So watch this guy's price, especially the 90 rated, this lower rated Werner. I bought a couple today for 240, 250.  I could easily see this card hitting up here like maybe upper 300Ks. He might go up 100K this weekend as a lot of people might make teams with this card because they might pack a Havertz, they might pack a Royce and they need a striker to go with them. So I really like this card and look for other stuff like that. We talked about the Lala for the Mbappe card. I know this one's a striker, but everybody has an Mbappe in their teams these days. And even if you need a link for Lala to Pepe, you have a link opportunity there. One other person I like, you have Van Dijk in here and you have Robertson. Robertson's probably gonna be somebody who gets pulled a lot this week. That's why I like Mr. Wijnaldum's Tots card. For under 300K coins, I think this card's a great buy. He's a very good card in the game, he's pretty cheap, a lot of people can afford him and he's a team this season card. Everybody likes Tots cards right now. And you can see this card actually took a dip today as well. 295, I think I actually have one in the club. Let's check this out. I think I have one in the club for like two something. Did I not buy one today?  Of course, I forgot about that one. So I do have a tradable version, I bought one today. What was the price that I got in this Wijnaldum? 280 flat, so he's up to like 310 right now so we rebounded nicely. Just watch for some more panic. Like every single day there's panic around 1PM because people don't know what's coming out that day. And you see he's 310 right there right now. So under 300 I think is a good price for that card on Xbox, probably about the same for PS, maybe 310 for PS. But I think people are gonna use him this week because they need to link their Van Dyke. Everybody uses Van Dyke, some way, shape, or form. A lot of people do. And this Robertson card's 300K, so it's really cheap, it's gone down in price a lot. I like that link. Other than that, you know, some of these other cards in here, if you're gonna pack a top tier card, it's hard to really say how you would link those. You know, maybe some other Bundesliga cards you could look out for, maybe some other center mids, maybe some like, even the Kimmich card for the Gretzgril link with a Royce or with a Havertz even, like a 433 or something like that because Kimmich is pretty cheap, 153K. That's really cheap for a right back. Even as a CDM Super Sub, I know people like to use that card. I use that card currently in my team. But some of these cards are definitely gonna rise out of packs but definitely take a look at some of these other team of the week. It's basically the same thing that we always do. We look through old team of the week's cards that are out of packs, special cards that people are gonna wanna use. Even this Brandt card, 420K. This card could be a riser this week with this price been looking like, I'll use 409. If you see this card like around 400 or under, that could be a good look because there's a healthy chunk of Bundesliga dudes in this team of the season. So, Whistle this week, 320K. People love this card, maybe easy. Looks like he's maintained his price pretty well since being out of packs, which bows well for him this weekend in my opinion because that means people could use him to go build teams with. Nabri for 280, wow. 280 for Nabri, that is pretty cheap. You can see that card rise up as well out of packs. The best right winger, other than the SBC, Robin. The best right winger from the Bundesliga. So, again, looking through some other team of the week's as well, I always like to shout out these foot birthday cards, man, because they drop in price all the time. Bail at a million coins right now, that's pretty low. That's pretty low over here in Xbox. That is pretty low. And some of these other cards, Salah, 185. That's decently low. Moutinho 190, that's pretty low. Somebody's, ooh, whoa, what's going on here? Kyle Walker 190? Wow, it's 175 on PS. So you can really catch these drops. These are cards that people still use in this game and that people are still gonna pay, oh my gosh. 215 for this? Wow, look at the drop off on this card's price. 400K to 215K. Some of this stuff just has to rebound because people are gonna build their teams this weekend like their end game final teams.  But there's still gonna be, I think, a nice rise in the market this week. And especially with the foot birthday cards, I really like these for their position changes. A lot of these cards are very rare. What is this price? 80, dude, the market is dying, man. I think this is your last shot to do Thursday. Look at this, dude, every single day at 6pm UK, look at this panic, 79K. If you get on the market the midday when the content drops, this is another thing. Just get on and look around the market and look at prices. You could buy them for 79K and list them two hours later. Wow, you can make like 15, 20K on that card.  That is crazy, craziness, man. I saw it today with Kool Bali as well. It was 70K at one point. Now he's back to 115. Crazy stuff. Again, roll through the team of the weeks. Popular card, some of these headliners. Even a Pogba, I mean, he's maintained his price pretty well. This Lala is dumped down in price, 139. He's down a ton. And that's a pretty decent size gap between this one and the team of the season. So that's one to keep your eye on. You know, 139K for that card. Could be a nice rebounder. You know, rebound a little bit in price. And some of these other ones, Rashford 300K, Dan Bailey, Screening Arporth. Whoa, we just dropped the controller, boys. Hopefully it's good. Yeah, it looks to be good. Yeah, we're doing all right. Resume video. Rashford 300K, that doesn't look to be too terrible. I'd like to see it lower though. Yeah, 240 on PS. So you can really tell that the panic has hit a lot more on PS. I also think that's just more opportunity for it to rise.  It hasn't happened as much over here on Xbox. But again, this week with specials, I mean, it's even some of the top tier cards. Like let's look at Team of the Years. Team of the Years could really boom this week. This is a chance for people to buy Team of the Years to get some big time coins and to an icon moments as well. Last chance for them to buy some of these cards that they really might want for their team. Aramos, a Varan, a Deheyes. Some people say this Killkeeper is still the best in the game. Team of the Year Deheyes, 770K. He's maintained his price pretty well. What about Ramos? 1.49. Wow, that's pretty low. Yeah, he has dropped down a pretty good bit. You might see a rebound with some of the stuff this weekend. Maybe not on Marcelo because of the whole Sondra situation. Maybe not too much with him, but De Bruyne, yeah.  You know, you have the Silva card. He's in Team of the Season, ultimate. So, Varan as well. What do we have here? 1 million coins flat, basically, for his card. Wow, he had a nice rebound during La Liga and Tots for the French Lynx. That's a GG. That means that people like this card. So, down to a million coins. You know, I might try to snag one of these this weekend. That's a pretty good price right there. Let's look at his hourly graph. Yeah, 10.75. That's a pretty dang good price for this card. 1.01, you know. So, again, stuff like this, you might be able to find some good deals on this weekend.  What about some of these moments cards? Cruyff 2.9, 9.65. Ooh, Eusebio dipped under. Some of these cards are pretty cheap. Wow, okay, this one, I'm curious about. People love this card. 1.5 mil is what he has been on the graph. 1.45, 1.389, wow. This is a card that could really boom, because if you look at his daily graph, he's been like 1.617, and now he's down 1.4. So, that's some of these icon moments are probably gonna move a decent bit in price as well, just because people are gonna want them for their end game teams.  You're gonna see people going out and spending the big bucks on primer icons, finishing icon SBCs, and doing stuff like that. Hold it for under nine million coins, which is crazy. And maybe even if you're lucky, you'll find a primer R9 on the market as well. So, that's one thing to watch this week is that top tier level of cards as well. Just as people get all these coins from Weekend League Awards and build teams and buy players, and all kinds of good stuff like that. So, I think it's gonna be a great weekend for Weekend League Awards. If you have the coins to flip, stay with the higher rated stuff. Stay with the stuff that's gonna be more expensive, team of the years, icons, you can buy one of them. But especially like we looked at some of these foot birthday cards, like the Xiumin Sun. I'm gonna look at that Xiumin Sun foot birthday card right now.  It's a crazy price for that card on Xbox. Where's that one at, 215? Is it out here, 215? It's not, 315. But no 215, there's a bid for 220. I'll watch that one. I'll take it if I can get it. Some of that stuff that is rare positionally, and some of these Tots cards as well, are gonna definitely go up after awards just because of so many coins coming onto the market. But then after that, for this next week, you're probably gonna start to see it trickle down again as people lose interest in the game, kind of starts to head downhill. But that's what we wanna look at this week for Thursday Awards. I think it's gonna be a good week. Focus on team and season cards, cards that link to team and season cards, especially from Ultimate Tots. And definitely focus on your usual meta, OP, informs, and special cards as well. I keep smashing these upgrade packs, boys. It's our last chance to pack some team and seasons from these upgrades. I need to get Lothar done at some point this week as well. I have some more squads to get done. This is the last kind of opportunity to craft. Some 88, 86, 85 SBCs I have left. It's kind of the last opportunity to craft. We'll probably get another player SBC today. We've got Mares, we got Iniesta as well, which is kind of a cool card. Not very good, but it's a cool card you can craft through those SBCs as well. So make sure you tweet me those cool polls that you get. And we will be doing some rewards on Thursday as well. So be on the lookout for those. It should be a good time. But if you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel. If you're new, it's been Nate, photo countin', catch you guys later. Peace out.


What's going on, it's your man, Kobe. Welcome to another episode of Visual Dash, why big of you guys tips on how to market your song, look at those numbers, boom. And now today I have a very special guest with me, my girl Portia Marie. How are you doing? Hi guys. I'm doing great. And as y'all can see, this is a little bit more of a podcast style interview. I only had one live live mic and I didn't feel like buying another one before this interview. So I was like, I got these two podcast mics. We'll make it work. So no. Yeah, man. But Portia is a friend of mine, a colleague, someone that I work out here, work with out here in Atlanta a lot. She's very invested in the scene out here and probably one of the, if not the hardest working woman I know. Say it. So I guess just before we really start to just dive into exactly what you do, I guess get them a backstory on, you know, how did you exactly get into the industry? How did you get to the space that you are now?  Okay, guys, I'm going to try to give you a long story short. I am Portia Marie. I came to Atlanta September 17, 2014. And upon my arrival, I just knew like I didn't have no job. I had nowhere to live. Luckily, on the way, my homeboy was like, I got a couch or really a food time you could sleep on in the couch, put your clothes in. I said bed. So then I got here and I just figured it out. And so it really started with me interning. Well, before the internship, I started my own brain called the PM Effect. The PM Effect was a sports and entertainment outlet where I did like celebrity interviews. I did online, like blogging and things of that nature. And then it turned into me starting to intern at radio one, which is now urban one. I started interning and I started to come into the back scene of radio and I realized that I actually kind of like being behind the scenes, making the plays, understanding the logistics and things of that nature. And from there, still at the same time, I was still building my brand. I was still doing my red carpet interviews, my celebrity one-on-ones and things of that nature. And just so happened the following summer. I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with ears. He's signed to ear drummers. But ears, this was birthday bash. If you're familiar with birthday bash, it's one of the hottest concerts hosted here in Atlanta every summer by radio one or urban one now. And it was at the block party. Ears got up on them speakers. He just went, wow, the dude went crazy. What year was this? This was 2016. It was the summer of 2016. And ears just went bananas. And I was like, y'all, who is this kid? I was like, I got to interview him on the PM Effect. And so I just happened to be on the internet the following day. So that was like on a Saturday. The following day was a Sunday. I came across his photographer's page. I DMed him and I was like, yo, I'm trying to interview ears. Can you like connect me? He was like, here's the contact. So I reached out to management. They're like, we got set up a meeting. I'm like a meeting. I ain't never had to set up a meeting for no interview. And mind you, by this time I have interview DC on fly, B Simone, Ray Schrummer. I'm interviewing people at this point. So it's kind of like, well, an interview. So I ended up meeting with them. I ended up meeting with them. And we did a follow-up meeting the following day. The following day, it included another business partner there. So that was like, yo, you remind me of a female version of us. Why don't you join our media team for ear drummers? I was like, babe. So mind you, this is like days before BET. Mind you, I just met these guys. But I'm just like, listen, I'm trying to get my foot in the door. Ear drummers trying to give me a chance.  I didn't even get the interview at this point. I didn't even get the interview. But I knew that was leaving for LA on that Thursday. And I was like, yo, I'm like, dang, I want to ask them. Can I go to LA with them? But how do I ask? I just met them. And something was just like, just ask. I was like, yo, can I go to LA? They'll say, what you trying to go for? I was like, I'm trying to network. I'm trying to just meet new people just getting endorsed that I've never been able to get in. And they was like, OK, cool. That Thursday morning was like 4 o'clock in the morning. And they moved me in flight for 8 o'clock that morning. So out of nowhere, I was in LA with ear drummers for the whole weekend kicking it.  And but nobody tried me the entire weekend. So I always commend them on that because it's very hard, first of all, trying to get your feet in the industry. But also, not only that, getting people to respect you, especially men, because this is a male-dominated industry. And so literally from that moment, with me being able to go to LA and lying as I am, they told me I was ear drummers PR. So whenever I introduced myself, I'm Poetry Marie. I'm ear drummers PR. I didn't know nothing about PR at that time. And from that moment, when we was in radio room, so for those that don't know what radio room is, it's like a room like this. And it's like a desk, literally side by side, just different radio stations sitting next to each other. And from the hottest artists to the low artists, you know, the up-and-coming artists, I can say low artists, but the up-and-coming artists were in the room. And I was walking around. And at this time, Day Day, it was just getting hot. He was just buzzing in Atlanta.  I said, I'm ear drummers PR. They was like, I like to work with you when we get back to Atlanta. Can we set up a meeting? I was like, bet. So about two or three or four weeks went by, finally set up the meeting. Meeting went well. I still didn't get no work. I'm like, okay, what's up? And so finally I got my first task to go pick up tickets from DJ Holiday for a concert for Day Day. And then from that moment, that's when I actually started in the industry. And that's a long story, but it was just crazy how God worked and just to go back a few steps, before that moment happened, I actually wasn't even supposed to been working block party. Technically I wouldn't even been at block party, but I'm gonna tell you what got me there. My internship coordinator at the time, she was a hater, just gonna say it like that. She was a hater. She was hating on me and the other interns, two of us, two beautiful ladies, just knowing how to work out move through the radio station and just knowing how to get our yeses outside of those notes that most people get. And I was supposed to work actually, birthday bash, the big concert that night with like Future and Drake and all these other people, Gucci, whoever else that was performing that night. I was supposed to been working that night, but she hit me up days before I was like, oh, we're gonna switch you to the block party instead. Okay, big. You know, me sometimes I tell people, a lot of people say, man, you should have told her no, blah, blah, blah. I said, no, it's okay.  If I wasn't at the block party, I would never been trying to interview ears, I would never make ear drummers and I never would probably even have to experience that I have been able to witness as far as working with Day Day and even making my mark into the entertainment industry. So thank you, girl. So I guess it was, cause I was gonna bring it up, but so you were with Day Day right as he was coming up? Right, so when, this was right before Spindy came out. So it was like, it was like right there. So literally what you mean was hot. Like it was hot at that time. And so people knew of him. Well, this was the trick cause you never really knew who he was. It was almost like, you knew the song. So at this point the song was big, but Spindy was just now coming out and you didn't know that it was him. Cause I didn't know it was him. I didn't know Spindy was his record until I started working with him. And so it was like right when he started buzzing, like he was hot when I came onto the team, but he had like just got hot, hot. Okay. Yeah. Okay, so I guess what was, what was that whole process like of just, cause like you said, you came in early. So you were able to watch him go from minor buzz. Cause I remember at the time, what was the song you had up before Spindy? He had another single out before, right? Oh yeah, what you mean? Yeah, what you mean? So I remember what you mean was like more of a local head at the time and Spindy was the one that really took it all away. So what did that look like being on the inside of an operation, watching the artist go from buzzing to like the hit having the hits on. Well, like I said, he was, the song was hot at that time. So it was just dope to see him in his element and not only that, it was just dope to see his transition from what you mean to Spindy. Because like I said, I didn't know Spindy was his record until one day me, his manager was having a conversation and I said, he's like, yeah, we working this other record. I said, what record he got?  I was like, what? That's his record? And he was like, yeah. I was like, that's crazy. How you in with the team to know this is him? Well, because you know, the thing was it didn't sound like him. It sounded very, very distinctive from what you mean.  It goes back kind of gangsta. So I didn't, I wasn't expecting that.  I know that was him, you know, and it literally had just started buzzing on the radio. So. Okay, okay. So let's get into more modern day. So what is your, most of your day-to-day consists of doing that? What exactly are you doing within the industry now? So what I do now, I call myself a brand strategist, entertainment strategist, even curator. So I basically work with different brands. Whatever I wanna create, I created with them. So from A3C, from Google, to Spindrilla, to Kcamp, to Rare Sounds, which is his label, to now Red Bull, which is coming up. But basically, I created my head what I would like to see and then I try to attach myself to a brand that I think is replicable for my brand and which would make the most sense. And I just create from there. So I do that, which most of the time it comes out to being an event, from being a brand strategist to now being an event curator, from one thought going to the next thought. And then also day-to-day management for independent artists by the name of Asoa Cartier. And then also DJ Chemp, who's also touring DJ with Lil Baby. You may all know him from his past when I'm working with Gucci Mane and he's now a producer. So that's like my day-to-day operations for my company. Okay, so sticking with the brand strategy side, so you just said something that's interesting. You said you create the vision first and then you find a brand that it fits with the most? Yeah, for the most part. So my creative process is a little different. I just create and I don't create with instruction or like, oh, you gotta be like this, you gotta be like that. No, I just create. And when I create, I'm like, okay, what makes the most sense? Or sometimes it might piggyback from me first thinking about a brand. I'm like, yo, I wanna work with Red Bull. What can I do with Red Bull that will be dope that I haven't seen them do or something they might have done but I can add a twist to it. So that's kinda how my creative process go. It might start with me thinking about the brand first and I'm like, what can I do that they haven't already done? Or I'll create something and I'm like, well, shoot, I can reach out to Google and see if they will be interested in this. So I don't have any stipulations to how I create. I just create. So, what's that about to ask?  Like, this is my vision for it. This is the kinds of things that we see, wanting to see executed. I guess speaking for people who want to get into a similar position for you, how important would you say flexibility around ideas like that? You have to be flexible to be honest. Luckily, any brand that you have seen me work with over the past two years or so, I've been able to do what I wanna do. There hasn't been a brand that told me, no, that don't make sense. No, we can't do that. No, don't do that. The only thing that might change is the budget. And you might have to, with that being said, then you have to compromise like, okay, instead of doing a step in repeat, maybe do a back drop on the projector or something like that, you know, a different way to save money. But it's never been an issue with me creating and the brand feeling like it doesn't make sense or fits their brand. Okay. Let's take it to more so, because a lot of people watching this, I'm sure there are some people that are watching this that are very interested in getting the same space that you are in. So let's say for the aspiring brand strategist or, you know, the person who's doing events in the community that wants to be able to do events for the Red Bulls and the K-Camps and those big brands, what advice would you give them to just start moving in that space? You know, it's so weird to be honest, to be in the space that I am in and to have the connections and relationships that I have with people. Because sometimes I don't think about what I'm doing. I don't even realize the relationships I have. And to be honest, as I see here now and think about it is mind blowing to know that I have a contact with Red Bull. I have a contact at Google. I have a contact at Spent Realah, SoundCloud, YouTube. Like it's crazy to know that I have these relationships. But everything started with me first, attending events and making myself be known. Anytime I introduce myself, hello, I'm Portia Marie. I never say Portia. Anybody in the world named can be Portia. Anybody can be Portia, but I'm Portia Marie and I make sure people remember that. And then if you forget my name, because you know, everybody ain't the greatest with names. But what I do is, and I feel like you forgot my name, I'll come and say, what's my name? What's my name? And you're Portia Marie.  What's your name again? What's my name? Like you gotta keep making people, you gotta make people remember you. That's another thing.  But you have to make people remember you and you gotta stick to what it is. Don't feel like, oh, I don't want to say my first and middle name because people don't think I'm bougie or I'm too much. No, that's your name. I ain't made Portia Marie up, that's my name. So it's just like, it's something I feel indifferent about this old way, but that's my name. So I'm respectable, persistent. Yeah, it is. And that's all it is.  You don't have to hold a whole conversation. Just be like, hey, how you doing? I'm Portia, nice to meet you. What you do? Oh, babe, I do this. And then you just figure out ways to connect with each other. That's how a lot of my relationships build. I mean, one person, I tell them what I do. They tell me what they do. I may be able to connect them to somebody. They may be able to connect me to somebody else. And then that's how the circle just keep like building. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger. So. Okay, so I'm glad you said that because what I was gonna bring up was, what? Me and just some of the other people we mutually know always talk about you is that it seems like a lot of the people you do business with, you're actually like friends with them on a daily basis. That's important.  A lot of people are funny acting. Some people will just socialize with you just for business, but a lot of people would rather have their relationship with you to the point where they can trust you. Cause a lot of people don't like to give out their contacts to YouTube or their contacts to Google or whoever, because there's like, listen, my name is now on the line. And if you go mess up my relationship, then it falls back on me. So it's very important to build relationships with people. You know, every time you hit them up, you don't have to always be about business.  We're like, what book are you reading? Or you wanna go grab something to eat? Or, oh, that hair color look nice. Like, who did your color girl? Like whatever. Like just try to figure out ways to build relationships outside of just business because it becomes very overwhelming because you gotta understand people are still human. And people are still human. They get tired of just doing business all the time. So you guys sometimes treat relationships, like relationships, even though you just met them, like they're your friends or family versus business partner. Yeah, like you said, everyone isn't trying to talk about business. Especially, I feel like especially here in Atlanta where it feels like 80% of the people here are doing business stuff or industry stuff. It's like, dang bro, I just got done with eight calls a day. Let's go get lunch and, yeah. Let's go get ice cream. Leave me alone. Okay, okay. So let's move it into a little bit of a different space because like you were saying earlier, a lot of your day-to-day is more a brand strategy for some of these major corporations, but then you also step back and you do a lot of the day-to-day brand strategy for your artists, Oscar Cartier and your DJ, right? So do you notice, is it similar trying to build the brand up of a corporation versus the building the brand up of an artist? Like are there things that you take away from brand building for companies that you apply to brand building for your artists? That's a good question. Actually, I don't think, so when it comes to the creative side of things, I just create period. So when it comes to my artists and when it comes to a corporation, I just create. And like I said, I don't do anything with stipulations. You know, if it's corporate America or if it's like urban, I still just create.   So in retrospect, I guess it's kind of like one and the same. I treat them both equally the same from my artists to if I was going to take the same idea to a brand, to be honest, yeah. So it goes back to that kind of like current idea and then just putting it where it fits. Yeah, the thing is, this is the trick. Don't be scared to create as big as you want because it's Coca-Cola. And like, oh my gosh, I don't want to say this to Coca-Cola. Like no, say it to Coca-Cola and see what Coca-Cola say.  You know, so I just say always be as big as you want to be, be as creative as you want to be.  Or you know, treat Coca-Cola like it's cartoon network or whatever or adult swim, like treat it all the same. You know, so I just always say create big. So with them, with the artists who, I'm not trying to count their pockets, but I'm going to assume that on a majority of the time, in some places they don't have the same budgets that like YouTube or ATC would have. So how are you able to, or how are you in him? Because I'm assuming it's a partnership. Able to kind of like do those big ideas or think big within a rising artist budget. Okay, so independent artists, they don't have enough money like that. I'm just being real that I don't. They be penny pinching for real. But I will say, and at the wrong with that, you got to learn how to use your creative ability and your budget to make it make sense for you. So with that being said, for example, my artist, Astro Cartier, last year around November, December, I did a whole parade on Edgewood. It's a gorilla-style parade on Edgewood with less than, I pulled that off with less than $150 or $200 I think. Okay. Yeah, let me think, because U-Haul, they tried to play me. So at first it was supposed to be like $100 U-Haul buying the beginning for like $25 or something. And then the little shingles or whatever was like $15 or something on Amazon. And the generator was like $20 or something. The DJ was free. She had her own speaker. The dancers was free. They were my friends, cousins, randoms. They came out of nowhere, did it for free. They had their own outfit. The band, they ended up, I just treated everybody with a pizza. I spent like $150, $200. And we did a whole parade on Edgewood. And it's nothing you can take away from that moment because I didn't have no permit. Everybody flaked on me that Friday. We did this parade on a Monday. Everybody flaked on me that Friday. So I had to research on Instagram, find me a band. Just happened to come across this drummer and he just happened to have like six other pieces to the band that I needed. And then I just said to my cousin, she's like, I'll take off from work. I hit up my little sister. She said, I'll come. And then my homegirl just had two other dancers that I never even knew. They never rehearsed a day in their life together besides an hour before I came up with the routine. Like it was crazy. The U-Haul, literally that day, we didn't get the U-Hauls at five o'clock and the parade started at seven o'clock and we were supposed to have it by nine o'clock that morning. They sent us to four different U-Hauls. So it'd be like crazy stuff like that.  I'm like, oh my gosh, just forget this. We ain't gonna do this. But it worked out and got in our favor, you know, because I was persistent. I went tripping because money went to issue because it wasn't a 150, $200. And you know, people think you gotta have a thousand plus dollars to put on the parade.  And the idea is to treat everybody to pizza.  Like that always works. So like working with that type of budget, like we didn't have no budget, but we made the whole parade go on with just $150 to $200. Now, granted, if I would have had like a Red Bull plug or something, I could have did a lot more. But I did what I could with what I had. And so don't let the budget scare you either because you can be as creative as you wanna be. You just gotta have to write people around you. Yeah, somebody told me once that budget is always an excuse for lack of credit to them. It is, it is. That's a fact. That is a fact, because I do whatever I wanna do with zero budget. Zero dollars, we doing it. Okay, okay. So staying on the, staying on the artist side, or actually, no, I kinda wanna get off of that because when you first brought out to us as you were starting to manage a DJ, the first thing I thought was, hmm, what is that like? Like what, is it different between managing an artist that day and managing a DJ that day? Or is it all, is it all just like, they're personalizing it in there, so it's kinda the same. See, both of my clients are really chill, thank the Lord. They're real chill, but it is a lot easy. Well, I won't even necessarily say it's easier to manage a DJ. It can, it can be. See with him, my DJ, he's always booked because he's always in a row with a little baby, but I'm trying to work on things like in 2020 to get him like a residency in like Miami or something like that. Something they can bring in more money on the side just because, but sometimes it's hard to book him for things because like I say, he is on the road and it's just like, oh, I'm going, it's not stopped. The trick to it now is that he's a producer, so now I need to make an initiative to remind people that, okay, I also manage a producer outside of just him being a DJ. So it's like, now you need to work overtime so you can help it bring in more money so it can get the big placements like everybody else and have the celebration plaques and stuff like everybody else gets to do on Instagram. So it's technically easier to manage a DJ but then again, it's not as easy if they don't have a successful artist with their DJing for it. Then you have to go out and really try to find bookings for them so they can have money to survive every month, you know? Well, that's why I asked because I was looking at like managing a DJ where it's more service-based and you can get them booked for a gig a lot faster than you can get a small artist a paid show. Right, now that is true. Now it's way much easier to get a DJ before an artist, up-and-coming artist because like I said, it's easier. Like you say, it's a service so, but then you might have a bougie DJ to where, you know, they might not want to be booked like, cause my DJ like, I have to be very strategic about it too cause he don't want to be anywhere consistent.  He don't want nothing like that. So it's like, you gotta do strategic type of bookings. How you gonna get him a residence in if he doesn't know? Well, I guess if it's not, well I guess more so, say if it's not in Atlanta. Oh God, oh God. It's a little different. Yeah, so that's why I was like, let me try, you know, go out the market to like Miami, LA or something like that. Then it'll be different cause it's like, I hang out with about people in Atlanta pulling up on him, you know, type of thing. Does that help? Like, does the fact that he's Lil Baby's DJ, like have you seen that translate over to making it easier to move him in producer spaces? Well, I think for himself, like he has had relationships with people with these artists for years, even before now. So it's easier for him to be able to send over a BPAT to an artist versus me having to like figure out like who is their A&R because he already had a relationship. So it makes it, so that's why I say it depends on who you're working with. That makes it easier too, because when you're working with somebody like him, they already have relationships with these artists before they even blew up and stuff like that. It's just kind of like, oh, that's my homeboy. I'm just about to send him a BPAT and he gonna send it back to me. Back to the relationship. Yeah, back to the relationships. Okay, okay. So moving back to the brand strategy stuff, because like I said, I'm sure there are people who are watching this. I know there's a couple of people that reach out to me that do events and stuff. And the big thing that always comes up is everyone wants the sponsor for their event. Like everyone wants to be able to put an event together and say like, oh, cool, I had Red Bull there. I had X and Y there. So are there any actionable steps that someone with a solid event reputation could start doing today to start reaching out to sponsors? Like what advice would you give this one who wants to get people like that on that stuff? Well, I would say this. What you see these sponsors at, like if you see other events going on and you see that they're a sponsor or power by these brands, go to the events and try to meet the person. That's the first step, like how I built the relationship with my Google Connect, Ashley, my homeboy, close friend of mine, Ashley, he had his event with Google first. And then I'm actually, I didn't get to make it to his event because we had an event that same day.  So then someone else ended up having an event with Google and I just went to the event, found who I need to speak with. Ashley, I recognized who he was on Instagram first. So when I saw him in person, I know exactly who I need to speak with. And so when I saw him in person, I just knew what exactly to say. Like you need to have a plan too. A lot of people y'all go to people and you don't even have a plan. And then that automatically kind of makes the conversation go left because you don't even know what you're talking about. You don't even know what you want. And a lot of times what I do, I already have a deck created for what I want. So therefore you can't even tell me no. So my very first event, I already had the deck created. And I just... What's a deck for people that don't know? So a sponsorship deck is basically, and I'm gonna try to simplify it. It's like a slide show that details step by step what the event is, when, why, where. And it's just basically telling the person why you want to do the event, why they should be a part of the event, when will the event be, who will they cater to, what can you bring to the table, what would they get out of the sponsorship, and things of that nature. So that's to dumb it down for those that may not know what it is. But it is literally like creating a slide show or a presentation to tell somebody why they should come to this event and why is it important to you and how it can benefit them in the long run. So like a blueprint pretty much telling them like this is why it'd be beneficial. Yeah, this is why it's beneficial for you to be a part of this. Yeah, so yeah, and that's what I do. I just create decks and I present them to people, but I will go to those events with people who I want to connect with or bring that I want to connect with or whatever. And really before even that, you should start writing stuff down. Like in the top of the year, I was right now on different brands or people or creatives or whoever I want to work with and I manifest those things because like my red bullplunk, it came out of nowhere, literally out of nowhere, but I manifested early last year and I was able to build a relationship late last year and to now early this year, I'm able to create an event with them. So I say first, the first step is like, you just need to get out there and go to the events where you see the sponsors and figure out who to talk to, ask questions, ask anybody, ask the doorman, ask the secretary at the front desk, you know who Sonso is, like more likely they have to introduce themselves when they first enter that building. So those are the type of people you need to be paying attention to. The people you overlook, people you need to be paying attention to. Have you ever made a sponsorship connection just through code reaching out through social media or anything? Or just through any code reach out process? Like has it always been you had a? It was, I feel like for some reason I always just been in a relationship. And just so happened, like a lot of times my friends ended up in positions. Like a lot of the times these people didn't have these positions when I first met them. They probably was somewhere else doing something totally different. And then when the opportunity presented itself for them to be in a higher position, it even opened doors for me to have a connection inside their company at that time for me to expand and grow. So sometimes I think a lot of it just came from my relationships.  So it's cool that you say that cause I remember, like I feel like everyone when they first started getting into industry we always try to reach out to people who are bigger than us, right? And they always say the same thing. They always like deal with your peers and it should have worked out. And then at first you're like, what are we talking about? My friend works at like FedEx. Like what are you talking about? But then in two years, you're a friend that wanted to be a DJ has been grounded in two years. None of that DJ for a bigger artist than they can if you put it into those positions. So would you, for someone that wants to get into this same space, would you advise them to put more of their energy into relationship building and maintenance? Or more into the like creative, like refined that creative approach to the way they put things together. That kind of can do both. You definitely wanna build the relationships. But also when you're doing a good job at something, people gonna start to recognize you. So we like, though people meet, when I created though people meet, so many people underestimated me, then opened up their doors for me when do nothing. When my mentor Jason ready to open up his doors to me at the ASCAP office, that's all I needed. Just give me a chance to see, just give me a chance to either succeed or fail on my own. But I don't need you to tell me that I'm a fail. Let me figure it out. You get what I'm saying. So the thing is for me, I just feel like it's better when you can just create and allow yourself to fail if you're gonna fail. But by the grace of God, I've just been able to go up and up from though people meet. A lot of people that I have relationships with now and people that are trying to do stuff for me on the back end and things of that nature came from them seeing the work. It didn't come from a relationship or anything. It was just like, yo, I saw what you did. That was dope. Like, oh my gosh, this was the best panel we came to at A3C. Like, oh my gosh, this and that, your workspace for itself. So outside of just building relationships, you also need to have a unique platform or brand, whatever it is that you're building that people can respect and grow with you as you're still building it. Because like right now, I don't know the answer to everything. Like people, I tell my team that all the time, like just because on the outside looking in, y'all think, oh my gosh, it's so great. Everything is this and everything is that. Y'all don't know what's going on. Y'all don't really know. Y'all let y'all see what y'all wanna see. Y'all know what y'all wanna know from. It worked, man. Still good to see. Yeah, we just make you believe what you wanna believe. But it'd be so much more to it than you could see. You know? And so I think it's just a good thing to do both. Like I said, just build through, build the relationship, but also be dope at what you do too. Because just because you had a relationship, don't mean you gon' have the opportunity to create and build with that person either. Like then just because it's your friend, don't mean she just follow through all the time either. That's not a rule. Yeah, I'm trying to take the approach that, because I have friends that are, for lack of better terms, are like bigger positions than I'm in the industry. I have friends that are like, for lack of better terms, like in lower positions I'm in the industry. And I've always looked at like, just wait, like if it's meant to happen, we'll work together. It's gon' happen regardless. And I still support you over there doing your thing. You know what I'm saying? And hopefully it works out. So let's pivot into dope people meet. So what exactly is a dope people meet for those who don't know? Dope people meet is where creatives meet. But now, seriously, dope people meet is where creatives meet. Dope people meet is an event curation platform where we create dope events on a monthly basis, is working with the different brands and different entities within the community around us and beyond. We are working on a national scale right now where we're doing these mini pop-up tours. That's what I call it. So it's like a mini pop-up tour going on. We started in New York in November and in February we are going to Charlotte and then we might be going to LA and then we might be going to Toronto then we might be going to, you never know. But it's definitely a space where creatives meet. And this, seriously, you come to a dope people meet event, you're guaranteed to meet another creative, another dope creative from an exec that you wish you could meet or somebody who's like, I would never get to meet them. I'd never get to touch them. Or artists you, I love him, I adore his music. You actually get to touch them, talk to them. Like I literally create these environments for you to meet people that you feel like you can physically touch or speak to. And but I put them right in the palm of your hands for free. Nine times out of 10, we have free events all the time. You're getting to meet these people for free, for free. Which is always important, right? It goes back to like the whole concept of like in order for you to really move, you gotta be around people who are at least mildly trying to take it seriously. No, for real. Yeah, I feel like that's a big part of it. So sticking with Dope People Meet. Cause I was there, like I watched Dope People Meet go from the room in the Aska office to some of the things that you're doing now. So what have been the bigger lessons that you've learned from building, building, it's like, it's been more like two years in the making now? Going on two years in the making? Going on two years in Jones and Jonah will be two years. What's the question? What are some things that you've learned from starting it then to getting to where it is now? The biggest lesson, wow. I have one that might be cause I remember the argument she was having with Jason that night, but I don't know if that's what you're saying. Tell me.  I was like, man, that's a pretty, I don't know if you don't want to hear it, but that's a pretty solid lesson I feel like. Yeah. So the biggest lesson is understanding, you do have to learn how to be patient, especially when you're working with a team of people that you're not paying. Not because you don't want to pay them, it's just because it's a brand new baby and you just don't have the funds to do so. Like the only funds that you may have is just to execute the event and that's it. And you have to remember to respect people's time and be patient with people when they're still trying to learn you because everybody don't know how to operate and maneuver around certain people. And me, I'm not the easiest person to work with, but I'm not the hardest person to work with either. I'm just very direct, but at the same time, I'm trying to get into space where I also try to like, everybody know I'm very blunt, but I try to also be careful with my words because I don't want to offend anybody that is giving their time to me, especially when I'm not paying them. But by the grace of God, I can say anybody that has worked with me over the past year, those that I wasn't able to pay in the very beginning months or a year or whatever however long it was, I have been able to pay every single person on my team at some point in time. So I feel very proud about that because they don't understand, like people think that people always want to just get free work, free work. Yes, free work is great. However, a lot of me want to pay my team. Like that's why I always say, somebody that's gonna walk inside of one of my events one day and place a million dollar check on the table and say here and walk away. And I don't say nothing to me.  Like it can become draining. So I've always had a goal since I started was to take away, take my team away from the nine to fives. And so for me, I think over the course of the year is trying to learn patience. But also one thing my grandmother taught me, one thing my grandmother always used to say, don't ever beg nobody for anything.  I'm going to let you leave.  I will not beg you to stay around my team, my company because I'm very protective of energies. I'm very particular about what energies we let in and around the space that I create in. So patience, patience is a key. Always. So how do you convince people and by people, I mean sometimes me to work for you for free? Cause these events take a lot of work. Like I said, being at some of these events also work in them for free.  So what are you doing to convince them and us to continue doing this stuff for you for free? Cause that's one thing a lot of people reach out like we tell them like team building is so important. You can't execute these ideas yourself then. Like I don't have any money to pay somebody. This videographer wants $200, this marketer wants two racks. Like how are you convincing people or making it worth it for people to work for you for free? It's energy. For some God-given reason, people gravitate to me on one way or another out of nowhere. Like before this team I have now, I had a dope team before them. And there was some young students in college, they were, they was very, there's some go-getters. I love them. I love them so much, but got to a point where some of them became seniors in college and they were trying to graduate. And it's like Porsche, everything you asked me to do, I can't really do and focus on my work at the same time. So I ended up losing some people. But I still, like I said, you let people go, let them do what they gotta do. And then out of nowhere, see one thing about it, I never reach out to people. Nine times a day I'm not gonna reach out to you. I'll let you reach out to me because when you reach out to me you're more invested than when I reach out to you because it's like I'm trying to make you do something that you may or may not want to do at that time. But if you come to me, it's more likely something you're more interested in and something you're more willing to give your efforts and energy to. So honestly, it just so happened randomly how my teams even formed. And my team now, I made Sam, which is my business partner, or I called the COO of the company, the Chief Operating Officer for those that may not know who that is. But Sam, I actually, before I started out, people meet, I was trying to figure out me as a brand, Porsche Marie. And I was like, yo, you should manage me because he was able to tell me about myself and I was receptive to it. So I'm not very receptive to everybody. But one thing about Sam, I was able to be receptive to the things he was saying. So I started out with him, so supposedly managing me. And then he come and have a friend named Ducore that do. I'm gonna get my government out, bro. I'm gonna get my government out. Oh my God. What do people know you buy? I'm gonna get my government out, bro. It's color, bro. You out here throwing the government out. What you want me to say on here? Nah, it's cool. You're not excited. Keep going. Goodness gracious. So then I meet Mr. I don't know how you get last night. So then I meet Jacory, who I do play listing and things of that nature. I'm like, okay, that's dope. That's somebody cool to know because, shoot, I got an independent artist. I hate that. Then comes Glenn, who emails me, who's an accountant, but wants to work with us. And I'm just like, okay, we're gonna need an accountant right now because I can send the money. I'm flowing like this. It'll be, need somebody to count our dollars. Like I can count them two or three dollars. But we have an accountant and Sam thinking, he's over qualified. I'm like, no, he's not. Because the people meet is a multi-million dollar company. We may not have the millions in the bank right now, but we're gonna have it and we're gonna need somebody to count that at some point. So I bring Glenn on board. And but he also mentions that he's into artist management. Okay, I have an artist. I can always be everywhere, all the time because I would be the schedule too. Come help me manage my artists, you know, bet. Then I come and I had Morgan, who ended up becoming like an assistant, like a day-to-day person to me. They have Queen who love to do events. So she's helping with the logistics of the event. Then we have Reagan, who just wants to intern. She's really into modeling and things of that nature. But then she comes on and almost like an assistant too and learning how to do social media marketing and learning how to do influencer marketing and things of that nature. So just slowly but surely like the team formed itself and I didn't have to force it. It was just kind of like one of those things. I put everybody in the room one day. I was like, well, hey y'all, just the group chat. Hey y'all, let's meet. Hey y'all, let's talk about the next event. And then just from nothing came everything to me. Everything came. Like some of those people may not be with us now but the team's still solid. Like I still don't lack. I don't feel like I'm without or anything. I feel like still with some people that are not a part anymore, I still feel like we're solid. I still feel like we're solid. My cousin, whenever I need her to step in, she'll step in. So at the end of the day, I always have a team around me.  And then they'll respect you a little bit more. And when you say, hey, I got no money to pay you, buy, feed you, people will respect that. Cause like, okay, she didn't just say, forget us. She at least like put some gas in my car or maybe she fed us some pizza. You know, it's not probably gonna, you know, last year for 10 hours to have you fooled for 10 hours. But it's like, okay, she cares enough to do something for me. And there's enough outside value. Cause we talk about it as like, if you want people to work for you for free or really little, you have to be bringing them value to something that they wanna do. Right. It has to make sense. It has to click in their mind and make sense for them to go like, okay, yeah, she can't pay me. I am doing 20 hours a week but she's put me in positions to talk to ex people or she's put me in a room a room that I may not normally have went to if I wasn't working these things. So I think a lot of it is important cause I even look at some of our operations, like a lot of people that are working with me, I was asking them first, like, what do you want out of the situation? Like, what do you feel like you're gonna get from doing this with us? And if it's something that I know I feel like realistically can come from it, then it's like, cool, I can make that happen for you. Then it's like, it's not. Then just give me a number, man. I'll figure out if I can pay you or not. Yeah. No, yeah. But that is real.  That is another point to our operations that I am connecting them and putting them in rooms to meet people that they wish for themselves that they could meet someday and may actually build a relationship with and be real cool with them.   I'm like, okay, and I've been around so many people like it is what it is, but to somebody else that's working with me or you know, they be like, yo, this is amazing. Like, oh my gosh, thank you so much. So, you know, people be very grateful for the, you know, the environments I'm able to even put them in to for real. So. Yeah, thanks. You're welcome. Thanks. So I guess what's next? What do you have coming up? Is that anything particular that you want to plug or push people? No, we have a very cool audience, man. Yeah. We'll check it out. So I will be hosting my very first webinar, the PM webinar, how to build sponsorship dates. So many people try to figure out, what's the step to get a sponsor on board? How do I talk to them? What do you put in there? What is this? What is that? What is that blueprint you're talking about? This is the chance to get to learn how to create a sponsorship date that is significant enough to attract a potential sponsor. And let me say this too. Don't always think just because every time I pitch, I get sponsors. Sponsors are not that easy to get. It don't just come as easy as people think they do. So it's not like, oh, create the sponsorship date and tomorrow, yes, I got red bulls. Yes, I got Sprite. I got Coca-Cola. It don't work like that. But this is a great starting point to learn how to even get the attention of a potential sponsor. And then the following month, I will be teaching you how to pitch to the sponsor after you have the sponsorship date created. And also, on February 8th, we are doing Doe People Meet the Carolinas, a conversation with Arnold Taylor and Keen Carter, which is home of the Baby South Coast Music Group in Charlotte, North Carolina. So you guys, please stay tuned for that. Follow me at Portion Marie, P-O-R-C-H-I-A-M-A-R-I-E for ticket sales, you know. The chorus there, I'm too early, but get your tickets now because seats are for another. It was like my lead-out question was like, you know, tell them what to find you in there. Please. So yeah, you got it. So all the socials, Doe People Meet at Doe People Meet at Portion Marie. Yes, Doe People Meet at the PM firm at Portion Marie. Follow all of our brands and companies and help keep making us great. Okay, okay. Did you have any final thoughts on any last pieces of wisdom you wanna give? I will say in all that you do in whatever you want to do it. Don't let anything or anyone, no amount of money or anything discourage you from doing you. Do whatever you wanna do. I don't care the amount of any circumstance. Like, I've had zero dollars in my account on so many occasions that it never discouraged me. I always felt like I had a million dollars when I had zero dollars in my account.  Do what you wanna do, dream as big as you want to and just be prosperous and manifest everything you ever want to do in life. I bet those are some dope words. But thank you again, Portia. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. It's been a long time into making. Other than that, if you feel like you learned anything, please like and share this video. Hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn't want you guys to miss anything. Once again, I am Kory. This has been my guest Portion Marie and I will see y'all next time. Thank you guys.


All right, you guys as promised we are gonna go through some of these works in progress But I've been keeping in that closet In order to see what can stay what? Actually gonna get sewn and what I Just have to get rid of it. I'm looking at some of them that I know they're like almost more sentimental than anything because there's memories attached to them, but I They're probably gonna have to go. Okay, so first things first You would have had to have been with me for a long time to remember This this is a fabric that I got in New York City. I was absolutely obsessed with the fact that you could get The blue on white and the white on blue in the same print. That was so unique to me I had never seen that before in Fabric that I could buy by the yard and so I was like, oh my god. I have to make something And then started to make this little set. I cannot remember Why we stopped This is so hard There's little pockets here. I can almost guarantee for sure that this is not going to fit anymore But I don't know would somebody buy it off of Etsy. It is like pretty much done We have a little collared thing. I mean that is the crossmanship any good. I mean No better or worse than what you see on Like H&M and all that So there's that and then the skirt is a mess Yeah, I think the skirt wasn't fitting so I took it in I can see how I did that here But I could just let that out again But the waistband would be an issue Oh, it's like so close to being done. Okay, I can't I can't not yet not yet I can't we'll do better. We'll do better as we keep going but this one this one's Too close and too cute. So she's a keep Okay, this will be easy.  Um, this is a skirt With shirring. Oh, it's Maeve That's actually kind of nice It's a it's a this it's a top like it's a dress like this. I think the the um tag is way down here I think that just needs to be a skirt and needs to just go in my closet What the heck? I don't know why I hung it up and put it in there What was I going to make something else out of it? Yeah, I think I was going to cut all this away And do something else that's foolish. Let's just wear the skirt Okay in the closet. So this one is going to go in my actual closet So we'll put that over there. Okay Um, we're the hangers going let's put the hangers here. All right. This is All right, so this is an example of when a pattern and a fabric Don't align But lord help me if this isn't almost done too now I get why all these were sitting in there So and it's also a color that just isn't Right, we can all agree. This is not my coloring right so I think I'm just going to take this to goodwill as is it has raw hems, but I mean there's plenty of clothes that do that so To goodwill. Enjoy. Um, if that were a better color for me, I probably would have kept it Okay, this is a swing dress Originally from old navy um that I wore a couple of times. The problem is is that it's very bouncy And so when I walk in it like I'm standing still it's fine when I start walking it bounces and it's a little short um So I just was kind of uncomfortable wearing it But that's not to say it couldn't be a really great sleep shirt Do I need more sleep shirts? I do love a sleep shirt But then if I keep it as a sleep shirt, am I going to be tempted to wear it as real clothes? Yes, it's only old navy. It's only a jersey. Do I want to make it into a T? Or do I want to make it into like just shorten it? That's probably what I was thinking I was going to do But I already have a sweater top of this guy. I don't need this. Okay See I see I'm I'm making hard decisions for sure. I'm feeling better about myself Okay, this guy. Do you remember this? I think I even yeah, I definitely filmed this and put it on the channel What happened was see what happened was I didn't sew the zipper properly so the zipper Tape has come apart from the lining. So I just need to pick that apart And re-sew it in Yeah, that's literally all that needs to happen and then I'll have this cute little top again Which was so cute with like white jeans and stuff So Okay, this is going to be In this pile Okay, ha move him right along. All right. So now we have Okay, so we have this this is a Cape coat it is This is how far I've gotten this is the popover poncho Can't tell you who the designer was Popover poncho. No idea. Um, ow. There's a pin Wow, there is a pin. Okay. So this is the state of it. I did welt pockets Dang, that's really cute. Look at the print mix ain't matching What is what are these pins for? Why is there a pin here and here? Oh, because that's the hem Is that where I was gonna hem it to what do I have left over here? I have A cowl neck. Is that what I was gonna do? Um And then some scraps I think Yeah scraps scraps Scraps I do think I tried to make a little mini skirt out of that, but I was trying to make it elastic to make it super fast and elastic and this thick wool or whatever is just not a vibe Um, so I never ended up wearing it ended up being kind of weird actually if I'm being honest, um Okay, so this is just missing the collar. Is that correct collar and a hem? I should finish this it would be so cute with jeans Right, I should finish this Okay It's just so close It's just so close. I'm gonna keep this in this right and then all of these scraps are gonna go in the Clothes that would make me scraps that would make Like I have enough to make dog clothes from okay, so that's gonna let's just put that here Okay, this oh this is the classic example of Fabrication and pattern not a mix. Okay, so I got this really lovely Gosh, I don't even know what type of knit this is some kind of I think I got this from mood also one of my trips to New York it feels amazing. So I'm thinking some kind of like rayon french terry.  Let's put a ruffle on it ruffles are cute on everything Well, guess what happens when you wear it the ruffle Flaps back and then that's what it looks like all the way around same thing on this whole front so the solution is To take The ruffle off Problem is I've got one sleeve on and then no sleeve So if I take the ruffle off I could make it a french terry tank top Is that weird or cute? I could make it If the problem is the fabric is so nice. I don't want to say goodbye to this fabric.  Like if I made it short sleeved And I definitely don't have this in my stash remnants. No Oh This one's hard too The problem is this isn't just something I can just give to goodwill in this state either It's kind of long. I wonder if I could take the half of this sleeve off and then Make a sleeve out of what's left down here and then make it like a cropped short sleeve V-neck It's getting weirder. All right, this is uh The problem the other problem now I'm running into is all the ideas that I'm coming up with I don't like them and so I know if I don't like the idea. I'm not going to Do it. I'm not going to make something that I don't like going in So in my fireplace take it to h&m and have them burn it Um, yeah, this is this is not oh bummer. All right. Well I guess I'll leave this to the side if any of you guys can think of something cute to do with it Let me know otherwise Oof otherwise Yeah, I'm just gonna trash it Because you can't it can't be worn like that, you know, it just it's it can't be So if you have an idea for a one sleeved relatively long like I would say full hip length top with If I take the ruffle off will have somewhat of like a V In the front like a deep V Short sleeve cardigan That's weird Sleeveless cardigan. That's also weird Okay, let me know what ideas you guys have.  If not, then it's gonna get trashed It's so sad Okay, next we have Oh boy. Okay. I remember this one um I think what happened is I got to this point and then it didn't fit But so it's a it's a top that has this little T back So it is cute, but No But now I'm thinking it is very trendy to have like a little silkish like mini skirt underneath Like a big sweater So I have a gray sweater and this would peek out the bottom as a little mini skirt. That could be cute See now that gets that gets me excited. That's like, oh, yeah, that's gonna be cute So let me take all these pins out now Why do I this is why I ran out of pins and I have to keep buying them? I'll put them here Because it just the neckline wasn't fitting correctly. Um, that little the band Like this part this T part was too long. So I was trying to make that sure But you couldn't try it on I guess until you got to this faced point and so it almost felt like This is already so pretty and now I'm having to like Nip and tuck and do all these things So screw that. All right. So we're just going to chop this off right at where the T strap starts in the back And that's going to be a cute little skirt and I'll just either do a elastic I'll probably definitely do elastic if I'm only ever going to wear this Um with sweaters over the waist anyways Elastic it is. Okay, great Now This okay, so this is A Really cute mock neck ray sweater It doesn't have the sleeves or the hem hemmed Why would this end up there? Was I not wearing it? Is that what was happening? I wasn't wearing it Or maybe the sleeve length felt weird I can see that happening Huh, it's this really soft sweater knit. I think I got it from like Hancock or Joanne. Oh, it might even be french cherry Um, I think it's fine Should I hem it though? I have red thread on my serger currently so that won't work. Oh wouldn't be serger. Anyways, the cover stitch and that's over there Um, yeah, I could just quickly do a little quick hem Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna fix this. This is gonna be fine. Okay, so that's staying Um Okay now Oh gosh, all right, so this Is a both suede wrap over mini skirt Which I had the waistband on rip the waistband off and so now I have A waistband and the bottom half of this skirt zippers installed I need to just try this on again. I did it looks like I also removed the Darts the back darts. So maybe I made it and it was too small But like hello That feels like oh my goods are gonna be out. That is all my goods How is that supposed to work? Where they're supposed, yeah, how is this supposed to work? Oh, that's a separate layer. Okay, okay, okay Okay, I was like What okay, so all of that is the front. I got it now. Yeah, this is definitely worth fixing. That's cute cute cute Okay, so then this Was something I had made Early on in my sewing career. I was so proud of the print mixing. Look at me being all bold But the back was never finished. It's supposed to have like a little keyhole And I never did that because I shortly realized after this that I didn't like keyholes And so I wasn't finishing it.  That's the other thing. So If I send it to goodwill and someone saw it like this on the hanger and realized that they couldn't snap it closed either Would they keep it moving would it end up in the trash? Should I sew the thing on? I should do that. It would actually even be easier probably for me to do a zipper Okay, this is gonna be a fix To donate Fix to donate Okay Now we have Jean shorts that are Two sizes too big now These need to just go to goodwill Okay, I think I um I did my elastic trick um, there's a video on it on my channel from several years ago about where I take elastic and I Insert it through the back waistband So that's what I had done here and Just need to remove that Or at the very least flatten it out. They hold on here it is Did I sew it in already? Wow, I did Look at me. Okay, so I'm gonna seam rip that and then rip this sucker out There we go. See just elastic. So that'll be reused. That's that's good. And then these will go to goodwill Great next the oh boy. Okay So I was trying to make a jean skirt. You know how you do the thing where you fold the thing over and then you have a skirt out of shorts or pants These were originally code blue um the code bleh B l e u the french way They are One size too big for me now I should finish this This is like cool again And then I would have that little Okay, I'm gonna finish Wow, I thought I was going to be getting rid of a lot more This has ended up being like half and half like give one keep one give one keep one This is the oh no. What is it is the pattern? I have a dress made from it. Um, I put in a little cammy. Why is it hanging? Because I don't like it. Why is it in works? Oh because it doesn't have a hem At the very least this needs to just be pajamas So let's put it in the pajama category and see if I wear it This is a fully realized complete pair of coolots with a fully sewn top except for Arms I and hem and then I was gonna have a set um, yeah This one already has the bias done Or the the arms I done. I don't know if it's bias or not. There's no more extra fabric. So is this hem done? Yes Okay, so this is going in the closet and this is gonna go here Okay, this is embroidered cotton or embroidered chambray from joanne. That's a giant scrap This is Okay, so this looks like it's a dress that the back Oh, this is so cute that the back is um Trying to be like a Backless or at least like a little let me see if I can show you like a little crossover back opening with like elastic here. Can y'all see this coming together? Hold on See the bottom elastic that's supposed to be at your waist and then this is supposed to be Troop-troop Um a little bit hard to see but yeah, that's gonna get finished and then I also have This must be for the arms. I Why did I stop? Why did I stop? I'm guessing I was having trouble fitting the back because my back is actually pretty narrow compared to my Like the circumference of my waist measurement is mostly in the front not in the back There now you can see a lot better. Okay. Um Yeah, that should be Attempted to be finished at the very least chop off the top and keep the skirt part, right? The skirt is so cute Wow, okay. So that's gonna go here. I put those in the the thingamajigs in the pocket and then I have all this scrap That can be made into something cute Next we're getting very close to the end Um, what is this? This is in many many pieces Many many pieces What is this? What is this? I don't know where the top is. I don't know what's happening. Is it a cape? Is it You guys this is strange I don't know what it is. There's these eyelets here And here and there's clearly like strings that we're going to go through the eyelets But like How does the shirt work? Very confusing Very confusing. What is it biscuit? What is this? If these things are supposed to come together here I don't know what this is and this Wait, is it shorts? No Uh-oh, is it this? I don't know what this is guys. I genuinely have no idea But it was supposed to be a refashion of some kind. I can't figure out how it goes I cannot figure out how it goes Dang that's gonna eat me up. Maybe um Those are turned back I I don't know I have no idea. I have no idea and I'm frustrated just looking at it So this is gonna be garbage because I can't even give it to Goodwill if I can't figure it out Nobody else can So that goes there.  So I think the sleeves weren't gonna fit Why didn't I finish this? No, the sleeves totally fit. What's the problem? What's the problem? That's a really cute sleeve neckband done Other sleeve done scrap fabric Can go here. I just need to sew on these sleeves. Is that what you're telling me? Okay. Okay. This is a this is a past Lindsey thing. Okay new Lindsey doesn't do this Maybe maybe maybe what happened is the arm size is too low. Hold on Yes, and so what was I gonna do to fix that? Okay, I bet there's a fitting issue, but listen, we're so close like just make it sleeveless worst-case scenario Just make it sleeveless Yeah, these sleeves were sewn on at one point Um Yeah, for sure. Okay. So I think that it was like when I raised my arm the whole side lifted and so that wasn't that cute So we're just gonna make this sleeveless And it'll be a deep arm side on the side, but sleeveless is fine. It's still super cute, right? Okay, so that goes in the trash. Yay. All right. Finally. Finally. I remember buying this at the thrift store. It's vintage gmonchi See Super cool, right? Um, and I think I was debating on whether or not I could sell this for the true vintage girlies who were like obsessed with with Like Hope Couture fast fashion type of stuff Or if I could make it work for me That is the back it is really beautiful It says it's a 22 w which I don't know if that translates to what it was back in the day to now Yeah, I think I just need to try it on Because I mean that would be stunning with just like a black simple bodysuit long sleeve and then like high black boots Okay, so let me try this one. This one is gonna go into like a try on and probably be fixed I can't I think it's too pretty for me to give it away to anybody else. Okay So that is it folks That is all the works in progress that I had hanging in the closet Notice I did not say that's all the works in progress that I own. That's not true It's not true at all. Um, okay. I'm excited about this. Some of that stuff's really cute. I can't wait right now, but Someone that I can and then I'll have new stuff for the spring and summer Okay, all right. Well, thanks for coming along with me and just listening to you ramble on and my thought process about things I keep or not keep and um I'll see you guys tomorrow Bye. Say bye misket. Say bye to the people Say bye. Say bye to the camera Bye you guys


Hi, how's it going? So I am making this video as sort of just a way for me to talk and invent about something that just happened this morning. So I want to say first and foremost, this is sort of my immediate response. More information may come out later. I just got this email literally like 30 minutes ago. More information may come out later, or I may not have gotten all of the correct information. So I want to say right out of the gate, I might not know what I'm talking about. And maybe later after recording this video, I might regret even posting this video at all because it'll just look like I'm complaining or whatever. But I am making this video anyway, so just out of the gate, I'm sorry. But this morning myself and thousands, I'm sure, of creators on YouTube, I saw a ton of my friends tweeting about it. Got an email from YouTube this morning saying, Hi there, we're writing to let you know that we're updating the eligibility criteria for channel verification on YouTube. Unfortunately, with these changes, your channel no longer meets the criteria to be verified. We realize this might be disappointing, but we believe these updates will make the channel verification more consistent for users and creators across YouTube. Please keep reading to learn more about the changes and what you can do. So that was cool to wake up to just past doing YouTube for seven years and got that little email. So that's great. Thanks so much, YouTube. Really appreciate it. As you read more, it says YouTube will be proactively verifying channels instead of accepting requests for verification badges. So before you could add, I think it was 100,000 subscribers, you unlock the ability to request verification. And a lot of channels are sort of like automatically verified after 100K. Like if you hit 100K and you request to be verified, it's pretty much just gonna happen. They're trying to be more strict about the process. I understand that. But what they say down here just kind of pisses me off to be honest. It says YouTube will be now proactively verifying channels instead of accepting requests for verification badges. We aim to verify channels that represent a well-known or highly searched creator, artist, public figure or company with a clear need to differentiate themselves from other channels with a similar name. Channels are typically verified if they have built a large audience and community on YouTube. Which, yeah, I guess I haven't done that. Or widely recognized outside of YouTube and have a strong presence online. Again, guess I haven't done that. Or have a channel name that could be confused with other channels on YouTube. I don't know what that part means.  I don't know. The goal is to help channels avoid impersonation and help viewers understand if the channel is the official presence of the creator, celebrity or brand it represents. The verification bag does not represent endorsements or awards from YouTube. So I think they're basically doing the same thing that Twitter does.   And so Twitter was like, Oh, well, we don't endorse them. That's not what the verification symbol means. It just means that they are like they are a popular person or a well-known person or whatever. And so with what Twitter did to my knowledge, I want to say to my knowledge, this may not be correct. A lot of people who did similar stuff to like there was a specific account. I can't remember what it was, but people were going and saying like, Hey, this dude's a white supremacist. Why is he verified? So he and a lot of other people with similar beliefs were unverified, which I think is a great choice to make the way that YouTube is going about it. I don't think is the right way to just unverify a ton, like a majority of people, a majority of people. It doesn't really say what the criteria is, at least in this email. It's just saying that you have to have a large audience on YouTube. I guess close to a million is not a large audience anymore. I don't know. I mean in the grand scheme of things, yeah PewDiePie has a hundred mil. My channel is not even one percent of his, but a million, almost a million people is still a very substantial amount of people. And I want to say again, this video is going to come across as me as complaining. I'm like, Oh, I got a verification symbol taken away from me. I don't really care about the verification symbol all that much. I care that myself and thousands of people have been working their asses off for years and years and years and years. And like we've obtained this thing where it's like, Oh, cool. Like I am like a larger person on YouTube. So I have like this cool like checkmark or whatever. Again, the checkmark doesn't matter. What matters is that YouTube is coming back again. Like they've just been doing this for years now where they're just pushing their creators away.  That's what it feels like. I know that it's not that big of a deal. I know that it's just a checkmark. It does not matter at the end of the day. It's not going to change the way that I make videos. It's not going to change the kind of videos that I can make. It's not going to affect monetization. It's not going to affect the way that at least from what they say is that it's not going to change monetization or the way. Well, actually, it just says this will not impact monetization of your channel. But that doesn't mean that they're not going to push videos in the same way because these changes are being rolled out in October. I don't know. Maybe because my channel is no longer verified, they're going to be like, Oh, we don't want to push non verified channels. Maybe that'll happen. Cool. Can't wait to see how that impacts my channel. It's true. Like, since being verified on Twitter, my tweets get way more interaction than they used to. So is the way that my videos are going to be pushed out going to change now that I'm not going to be verified anymore? I don't know.  Like, you just keep pushing your creators away. You're not making a platform that I want to stay on. And you're making it really hard for me to, I don't know. Like, at the end of the day, it's just making videos. You know, I do love making videos. I don't love YouTube anymore. And I haven't loved YouTube for a really long time. I like being entertaining and I like, you know, creating stuff. And if I didn't have to do that on YouTube, I wouldn't honestly anymore. I used to be really proud of what YouTube stood for. YouTube was a place where anyone could come and make something of themselves. It was about the individual creativity. It wasn't about these big brands. It wasn't TV. You could be anybody on YouTube and make something of yourself. You could make content that the entire world could see. And YouTube promoted that. They promoted the person in their bedroom creating stuff. And that's what it was all about. It was all about creativity.  Like, it's just all about different brands now. And like, YouTube TV and YouTube Red and all that stuff. And it's like, it's not about the homemade feel anymore. It's not about the individual person. It's about, okay, who can make us the most money?  So bad. Like, I sometimes like, I just don't feel like I belong on YouTube anymore.  And I'm not bashing mainstream stuff at all. I love TV and I love movies and I would love to someday be a part of that world. But that's not why I'm on YouTube. I'm not on YouTube to try and make some big show or make some big movie or anything.  I'm here to make the random vlogs that I like to make. Like, I'm not trying to be some big huge brand on YouTube. And I don't think most people are.  You've been making all this stuff forever and you used to be a part of what we stood for. But you're not anymore because you're not a big brand that's raking in millions and millions of dollars a year. So we're gonna take that title from you now because you are no longer a part of what we stand for. That's basically what YouTube is saying. At least the way that I'm seeing it. Again, other people may have different opinions and I may be making too much, uh, too big of a deal out of this whole thing.  I don't know. YouTube's changing. And I don't like the way that it's going. I don't like the way that the algorithm is going, honestly, with, like, I feel like I have to clickbait every single thing that I make and make it super mamey. And, like, that's not necessarily YouTube's fault because they're not entirely in control of the algorithm. But every time YouTube makes a change, like, like taking away verification symbols for channels that don't meet the criteria and changing the live sub count recently for some reason because they said that people have been asking for abbreviated sub counts. Who? Who has been asking for that? Why did they change that? It's so weird. I'm just pissed because, like, the channel is coming close to a million subs. I won't be able to see when my channel hits a million subs anymore. And so many channels won't be able to see any, any milestones that they hit.  And why? Nobody asked for it. I don't understand what the purpose is. How does it benefit anybody? You can just abbreviate the sub count on your YouTube page instead of showing the full thing. And then maybe in the about page, it says what the full thing is. And on social blade, it still says what your live sub count is. Why are they abbreviating sub counts overall? I don't know. It's so weird. They're making so many weird decisions that nobody's asking for. And it's so odd. And I don't understand. And I just like, I just hate the state of YouTube right now. I just don't, I don't like it. Ah, it's so annoying. I don't know. I just feel like I've been slapped in the face is all. I don't understand why they're doing that. I understand that they don't want to endorse certain kinds of channels on YouTube. Then take away their verification symbols. Why are you, why are you hurting everybody for mistakes that few people are making? I don't understand. YouTube, you're pushing away your community. Like not only your creators, but the people that watch the videos as well.   YouTube, you're not only pushing away the creators. You're pushing away their entire audience as well.   Start caring again. Start caring about your creators.  All you care about is huge brands and huge amounts of money.  You're no longer this homegrown website that I feel like I can be a part of. I feel like I'm not even a part of YouTube anymore. I just feel so distant from it and it's because of YouTube. Honestly, I just don't like the YouTube community right now. I've been streaming a bit more recently on Twitch and it's been so much fun and everything. Twitch has its own set of problems obviously. Every website has their own set of problems. But YouTube, you're pushing away your community.  Back in the very beginning, again, you were this place where anybody could come and make a name for themselves. Anybody could be creative and make their own stuff and YouTube would endorse that and be like, yes, this is what we want to see. Now it's not what YouTube wants to see anymore.  Like I said at the beginning of the video, this is all fresh information in my mind. I don't have all of the information. This is all my own opinion from what I have seen. More information may come out soon or there may have been information that I missed. So I'm sorry if I misinformed anybody in any way. But this is the information that I have, the email that I just read to you, and those are my thoughts on it. So that is that. YouTube, I hope you get your act together.  Bye.