EYL#198 Former Inmate Turned Luxury Brand CEO
Earn Your Leisure
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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For episode 198, we spoke to Darrell Alston, the CEO, and founder of Bungee Brand. Bungee Brand is a high-end sneaker and apparel line. Darrell will make history this fall by being the first 100% black-owned sneaker brand to be in Neiman Marcus. In EYL 198, Darrell tells us his inspiring story of beating the odds and incarceration, to becoming an entrepreneur and starting a clothing brand. He spoke about why he focused on the high-end market and provided insight into the challenges of getting up and running. #luxury #sneakers SAVE $50 on your next purchase. Use coupon code EYL https://bungeebrand.com EYL University: https://www.eyluniversity.com Link for Invest Fest Europe: https://investfest.com/euro/
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future. |
| 0:04.4 | But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show. |
| 0:10.1 | And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it. |
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| 1:10.2 | I had to sacrifice a season to be able to get on point with the season. |
| 1:14.0 | No, so my only advice for people that's trying to get into the business no matter what it is. |
| 1:18.0 | Do your research because a lot of my fails happen because I didn't have the proper research. |
| 1:23.2 | You know, when you're incarcerated, you can only get us so much information and when I came home, I thought I knew everything and I didn't know anything. |
| 1:29.9 | My graduates from my school being forced. |
| 1:35.2 | Bad drop. |
| 1:36.2 | Bad drop. |
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