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Business of HYPE

The Shoe Surgeon

Business of HYPE

HYPEBEAST

Society & Culture

4.8789 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Dominic Chambrone, better known as the Shoe Surgeon opens about how he went from a counterfeiter to the customizer of choice for celebrities like Justin Bieber. 

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0:00.0

What's up, listeners? This is Jeff Staples. I just want to take a moment here and thank you all for listening to the business of hype.

0:07.2

It started as a small, simple idea and took off immediately, and it honestly wouldn't have happened without you.

0:13.5

Whether it's subscribing to the show, tuning in every week, tweeting us your favorite quotes, Instagramming us,

0:20.0

or just telling your friends about us, every little bit helps. So tell your favorite quotes, Instagramming us, or just telling your friends about us,

0:21.5

every little bit helps.

0:23.7

So tell your coworker, tell your boss, tell your intern, tell your deli guy, share the knowledge.

0:30.3

If there's one thing I learned from this, it's that what you give out comes back tenfold.

0:35.1

So our first season was amazing, and I want to personally thank all the incredible

0:38.9

guests who've shared their time and stories with us. Hiroshi, Sarah, Aaron, upscale, Mike

0:45.6

Sherman, Melody, Youen, James, Levi, thank you. If you missed any of these, I highly recommend

0:52.1

you go check them out and if you've listened to all of them, listen to them again.

0:56.8

I guarantee you'll find something new the second time around.

1:00.0

So this episode marks the final one of the season.

1:03.1

We're going to take a little break from here and be back in a few weeks with brand new episodes.

1:07.3

And with that, let's get into this week's show.

1:17.7

I guess I was always a bad influence.

1:22.2

Entrepreneur, not necessarily in the best way.

1:24.1

Did you counterfeit other things?

1:25.5

Like, were you making fake IDs and stuff?

1:28.0

No, I know, no, I got a fake ID at at young age but I wasn't making them what else was like counterfeiting that was it

1:34.0

that was like a my creative way and just into being creative yeah because you also learn like

1:39.1

graphic design and stuff and all of that right you're like yeah you scanning you learn about

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