Mike Cherman, Jeanne Grey and Scott Patt

Business of HYPE

HYPEBEAST

Society & Culture

4.8 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Mike Cherman is a designer and founder of Chinatown Market. Jeanne Grey is an influencer and founder of GREYLAYERS and Scott Patt is an artist and Chief Creative Officer of Cole Haan. In this intimate, live recording inside Cole Haan’s Soho location, jeffstaple discusses how each of these three entrepreneurs created their own unique paths to success. Joined together by their hustle and hard work, all three have managed to turn their passions into long-standing careers.

Mike and Jeanne are two recent collaborators with Cole Haan’s Generation ZERØGRAND shoe — a line inspired by today’s progressive innovators and designed for a new generation shifting to less traditional work environments. Both have managed to create careers unique to their relatable and business-savvy personas. With a number of years under their belts, both Mike and Jeanne stress the importance of “making really cool shit,” but making it sellable all whilst balancing confidence and humility.

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0:00.0	From Hype Beast Radio, I'm Jeff Staples, and this is the business of hype, a show about creative entrepreneurs, brand builders, innovators, and the realities behind the dreams they've built.
0:33.8	Hey, everyone, welcome to a very special episode of The Business of Hype.
0:38.8	Every so often, I like to conduct live podcast tapings in front of an actual studio audience.
0:45.1	The live audience actually changes the dynamic of the conversation that me and my guests have, and I love it.
0:51.4	It almost has like a comedy club feel, if you know what I mean.
0:55.0	And so today I gathered three amazingly talented people and one alumni of the business of hype.
1:01.0	The location, Soho, New York City in the beautiful Colhan flagship store.
1:06.0	Colhan was gracious enough to allow us to take over their store and create a really cool vibe over a beautiful summer evening. The topic, work for what you believe in. And I put work in quotes because work is not just what you do anymore. It's actually who you are. People may be more motivated than ever, but they're more burnt out too.
1:41.3	What if we stopped relying on escapism and other distractions to avoid burnout and instead made a mindset and lifestyle shift to address the problem at the core, figuring out what you wanted to do all the time?
1:45.7	Working for what you believe in is also Kohlen's unique point of view on the realities of being a young professional in the ever-evolving workplace. They celebrate
1:50.8	extraordinary people who are already working for what they believe in, something that is a
1:55.5	throughline in all the guests I try to bring on the show. And our guests this week all represent
2:00.5	this to the fullest,
2:01.7	but all in their own unique way. They have all had their own grand beginnings and have
2:06.9	hustled their way to the top within their respective industries. Mike Sherman, founder of
2:12.4	Chinatown Market, is redefining in real time what streetwear means today.
2:23.0	His renegade team and equally renegade collaborations are setting new standards in the industry.
2:29.9	Gene Gray of Grey Layers is a social media and content maven that quit nursing and defied her parents' wishes to pursue her dreams.
2:32.7	And when she was paid $10 to post something over six years
2:36.0	ago, she knew she was onto something really big. Finally, Scott Pat is an accomplished artist and the
2:43.4	chief creative officer of Colhan. He talks about a shift from the medical industry to Armani
2:49.3	to leading the design efforts at Colhan today.
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