May 7, 2025 • 37 mins
What if creativity was the key to connection, healing, and legacy?
In this episode of Unapologetically Yours, Ashley Logan sits down with artist, curator, entrepreneur, and cultural connector G. Green to explore the deeper purpose of art—not just as something to be admired, but as a powerful force for belonging, truth-telling, and cultural change.
From growing up on the South and West Sides of Chicago to curating a historic exhibition inside the Willis Tower, G shares how he’s used creativity as a tool for survival, expression, and bridge-building. He opens up about the elitism in the art world, the lack of access for Black artists, and the need to create new spaces instead of waiting to be invited in.
G. Green is the founder of Nobodies A Nobody—a platform, brand, and movement rooted in the radical belief that everyone matters. Through storytelling, fashion, and community-centered art, he’s connecting people across difference and challenging the status quo of who gets to be seen, remembered, and celebrated.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
✨ G’s journey from the streets of Chicago to founding global creative platforms
✨ How art can create access where there’s been exclusion
✨ Why representation in public spaces matters more than ever
✨ How legacy, healing, and storytelling are all part of the creative process
✨ What it means to create representation instead of waiting for a seat at the table
✨ The origin of Nobodies A Nobody and what it means to keep people’s stories alive
✨ The deep truth behind: “Every hero starts with her”
✨ How we can disrupt industries and shape culture by telling true stories
Whether you’re an artist, changemaker, or someone searching for your place in the world — this episode will remind you that your story matters, your voice belongs, and that creativity just might be the bridge that brings us all home.
Connect with G. Green:
Instagram @ggreen.art
Instagram @svngrnart
Instagram @nobodiesanobody
SVNGRN website
Nobodies a Nobody website
Connect with Ashley Logan:
Instagram @ashleydlogan
Website https://ashleydlogan.com/
Have a topic or guest you’d love to see featured on the Unapologetically Yours podcast? Send us an email: podcast@unapologeticallyyours.com
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You know the funny part about art is that that is supposed to be the original intention.
It's supposed to be created to inspire others.
The difference between good art and bad art, bad art is art that you see and feel nothingabout.
It didn't do its job.
It didn't move you in any way.
And art that nobody sees has no power.
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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Unapologetically Yours podcast.
I'm your host Ashley Logan and I am so happy to have you here today.
Unapologetically Yours is a podcast where we go deep on everything from spirituality torelationships and connection to business and belief systems.
Because in a world when we've been told to play by the rules, everyone saw we got to bend,break them and do it unapologetically.
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So today I have
a national treasure sitting beside me and I'm pretty freaking grateful.
They have G Green of Elevation Worldwide and Nobody's Nobody.
And this man is native Chicagoan, recent New Yorker, man of the world, man of mystery, ifI'm being totally honest, and artist, we finder and connector.
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So welcome to the show.
Wow, thanks for having me.
That was a beautiful introduction.
Thank you.
Happy to be here.
So you wear a lot of hats in life and you've worn a lot of hats in your life.
Who are you today?
That's an interesting question because
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I guess I become who I need to be in the moment to be fully vested in that moment.
So who I am in this moment may not be who I may need to adapt to become something else,you know, in the next few hours to get something done.
But essentially I am.
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My brother's brother, my brother's keeper.
A way maker, a taste maker.
And one cool mother-coupler.
No, but I love that.
Your mother's son, brother's brother, your brother's keeper.
Sure.
I know you as, if we first met in the best of your, one of your art shows.
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So you had curated a collection that was so inspiring and cool at, was in the lobby of theWillis Tower.
formerly known as the Sears Tower.
Still in my heart, the Sears Tower.
And what was so cool about how I met you in that moment, it was a time for me of like justtremendous shedding and kind of returning back home.
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And I have, I was an art minor and have always been a creator of things.
And to come into your
curated collection among other artists and people in the city who were tastemakers, changemakers, and people who are just, I guess, cheerleaders for the art community.
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was like, it was like, it such a rush for me to be like, oh my gosh, these people stillexist.
This exists in Chicago, because I'd never been an artist in Chicago.
I had always been lots of other things in Chicago.
And I felt this just like broad sense of, oh shit, I'm home.
I still know art.
I still can connect with it.
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then, and here you were just work, not just working the room, but like bringing peopletogether.
And, and also I noticed a lot of humility about you in terms of like not wanting to be inthe spotlight of the show.
was more about the artists.
It was about the people and it was about those who were showing up.
so, um, it.
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I was delighted that we formed a friendship after that.
Absolutely.
You know, that show was for the city, right?
It was a moment for us.
It was something that never been done before.
First of all, know, shout out to Willis Tower, the team over there.
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I worked with some really great individuals on that team.
You know, the city, we all really from this city, right?
And you know, it's been in our background, it's been the backdrop.
It's the one building that you can see from every side of the city, west side, south side,all around the city.
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And a lot of us never felt like we had a point of contact, a reason to be in there, asense of belonging, even a sense of welcome.
And so...
After all of this time, you know, it's like we all in the city coexisting, being animportant part of it.
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Why are we telling this story together?
You know, why are we not telling the Chicago story together?
It's a part of our history.
We're a part of his history.
And so that show was actually celebrating their 50th anniversary.
And so we partnered to create that opportunity to bring a real sense of the culture of thecity from the people who are here.
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creating the culture of the city, giving them representation.
A lot of people said it was their first time coming in that building.
Wow.
That's crazy to do.
It's so interesting because Chicago, though it's an extremely diverse city, is extremelysegregated.
Very much so.
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And then you have a building like the Sears Tower where it's just sort of this like,beacon.
but the fact that not everyone in this, and a symbol of Chicago, but the fact that noteveryone in it could relate to it or have feel connected to it or feel ownership in it.
And then you kind of, this great dichotomy of being like, hey, corporations, all thethings that keep this city turning, meet the people of the city, the real people, the
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artists, the creators.
It's a really.
Really cool.
People want to come to Chicago.
They want to come there to get a sense of the city.
So why not a better way to do it?
You know, they just did like some $400 million renovation over the pandemic.
So we had a beautiful space to display the art.
And I'm about approaching the art space in a non-traditional way because my approach intothe art world was very non-traditional.
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I don't come from any schooling, uh cliques, none of the...
You know, none of the ways that people get merged into this world, man, is very,different.
But I am a real steward of the city and a real example of somebody who's been here fromday one and been through all different types of experiences and things in the city and
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being championing for the city.
So I really want to do something like that where we can come together from all around thecity and celebrate each other together, you know, and celebrate.
that not just being only time is being done, also continuing to do that for, you know,moving forward.
So it's really about building the bridge.
Wow.
You know, people are always complaining about the current state of the city.
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Like you said, you know, it has been very oh segregated, you know, everybody in their ownpocket.
And lot of us as creators, we are not being fed.
So we go to other places.
if people like us aren't willing to
You know, do something uncomfortable to create the change in the city.
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I feel like if I'm not doing something to change it, then I really can't complain aboutit.
I don't got that right.
I'm gonna just shut up and get out the way.
You know what saying?
if I do got the power to, because for a lot of years I was like, man, I gotta get out ofhere.
You know what I'm saying?
But I woke up one day and I was like, I actually got the power to affect the change of theway we experience the city.
So why not do that?
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So that became probably my mission.
breaking down these walls, creating representation, building bridges.
You have a really interesting backstory.
How did you find your way to art?
And how did art save you?
You know, my story interesting, but I don't think it's unique in a way where a lot ofpeople don't have a similar story, especially in this city.
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I mean, I'm special, but I ain't that special, you know?
And art has all...
It was in me from birth, you know, I think we are artists in our own way.
Some people pour into it and feed into it and others more than others.
But being a kid from the city, especially not having a lot growing up, you know, you gotto be creative.
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So your art start there anyway.
You know, my first love was cars and art, you know, and I spent all my time drawing carsas a baby before I could even talk.
And
As I got older, of course, like a lot of people in the city, you you in the, you in thebad situation and trying to do everything you can to change it.
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So you got to find a dollar quick.
And naturally you get into what people are doing in front of your house, which take youdown a whole another path as it did me.
But art was the thing that was the common thread of mine that I always came back aroundto.
So it became my escape.
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So.
When I was out being young and very dumb, I would come in at night and create, whether itmaking a beat or just designing something, a painting, a drawing, or doing something.
It was the thing that always kept me grounded throughout my life.
So no matter how wild it got, because it was getting real crazy, especially, you know,jumping off the porch so early, like you in the mix at like 2 or 13.
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So you coming back in to
create, that was my piece, that was the thing that I could control the most and it kept mecalmness, you know, to help ease my anxiety.
And there was just something in me that kept reaching for it.
Even at a time where, you know, the funniest idea is that I didn't know people would payyou for something that you drew.
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Like people like giving you money for that, that was so wild to me and then...
Years later, I just always kept finding my way around to it, even having the space in thisbuilding.
It was like a creative hub.
It was called the Kona in Pilsen.
And I had a studio in there, and it opened my mind and my eyes up to so much seeing allthese people.
Like, I didn't even hear the term creative until like being a creative, like so manypeople are now, but I didn't hear that term until I was in that building.
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I'm like, wait, what do you do?
And that's all you do?
Wait, what you do?
Like if they could do it, I know I could kill it.
They hadn't been through what I've been through, not even a small portion of it.
And if y'all are able to make it, I know I can dominate at this.
So I start reaching for more and then I partnered, I started working with the artists,just bring a value of how I could, you know, I know how to design things.
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can do that.
I could uh take pictures, do photography.
I could connect some people.
I could get a team to help move some stuff.
Y'all need to see, I'm just, whenever to help make it happen.
And from that, began, I just was working to try to get relationships and meet differentpeople.
You know, you ain't got to pay me out.
Matter of fact, I'm paying to do this.
And then it grew from that till, you know, I always kind of want to be in a space where Ican help control what's happening around me.
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And these are the same things that I learned running around the street.
You know, if I want to have a presence and some market share, I need to have a space.
I need to have an office.
I need to have a spot.
You know, to me.
Okay, that's a gallery.
So let me be able to create a platform where people can experience art the way I wouldlike to see it be an experience for people that don't come from this elitist world.
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We already uncomfortable interacting with it.
And then when you meet people, they want to art shame you.
And that's just weird.
Wait, what's art shame?
you don't know about such and such parties.
You haven't seen what they've done.
you know, I've done that.
It's the same thing.
It's like
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I don't know, it's a pretty obscure number you probably wouldn't have heard of.
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But yeah, I feel that too.
The elite is...
Yeah, you know, people always ask me, you know, oh how you learn more about art and I tellthem on a basic level, you need to first know, you like it or do you not like it?
You know, is it wack?
Is it ugly to you?
Like what you think about it?
You know, like stop trying to go by all these...
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requirements and standards that somebody else set, it's okay to just know what you likeand be fine with that.
Isn't it so funny that art that's like some person, someone decided that this was art.
Yeah.
And then, this was not, or that this piece was good, this was not.
And I've had to undo a lot of that because that built this inner critic.
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Or it's and really it's not even a, yes there's a critic part of it, but there's also thishierarchy that someone else has the authority to decide what's beautiful.
And that in itself is we've given away so much power just based on that.
And I feel like part of, I feel like we're gonna do a lot of things together and part ofthis, I feel like is helping artists reclaim their space.
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They're not just me and their power.
And that maybe it's for you, maybe you want to buy that piece and maybe you don't.
maybe if, and that there's so much space and such a big spectrum of greatness, but reallyit starts with the creator, just the process of being a creator is so beautiful in itself.
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is.
I think it's the greatest gift that we have.
If we all man, and was at a grand creator, we all had ability to create.
What's the, what more can you offer to the world?
Even when you have.
That's something you created.
know, and we have so much power that we don't realize when you think about it, uh What's aGod to a non-believer, right?
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You gotta give power to things.
Whether it is a real uh reality or not, you still have to acknowledge their reality.
And how could you give power to people for no reason?
They just, somebody told...
you did the world work a certain way and you took it, you didn't ask any questions and youjust went with it and you elect power to things and people that haven't even earned it.
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It don't make sense.
And then you demote yourself, which is super crazy.
Right.
Start, start allowing yourself to measure or be measured against an arbitrary standardthat was set by someone else who may or may not have had the authority to
do such things.
think about this a lot with religion.
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I think about this a lot with capitalism.
I think about this a lot with just the current hierarchy of our own society.
And when we have the courage as people, as people, to start asking questions, we were justtalking about this, is this true?
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And so that we can start telling truth stories.
from the perspective of the people, every person.
Yeah, everybody has a story to tell.
So that's a pretty beautiful transition into another big facet of who you are.
The founder, creator, creative director.
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Tell us about Nobody's and Nobody.
Well, it's funny, right, because it started in the dream.
I put the voice on, but it actually did, right?
I was having a conversation with somebody about there's this belief that you're deathwise.
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The first time was in physical form.
And the second time is when people, when your name is said for the last time, that's thesecond time.
And you know, I come from, like I said, running around the streets.
It was the wildlife running around in the city.
I dealt with death so much, such an early age, seeing so many friends of mine pass on andwe never spoke about them again.
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We don't hear anything.
They didn't get a chance to be able to leave anything to keep you talking about them.
You know, it's just these kids that just, I ain't hear no more.
And, you know, in a true sense, all heart is to self heal, right?
So this idea that
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Hey, if you got a strong legacy, people will talk about you forever.
You know, and I had this dream ah where I kept seeing this word, nobody's, right?
Nobody's.
When you see the word nobody's, I kept seeing nobody dies.
And so I woke up and I wrote it down.
Nobody dies.
And I was like, that was all to it.
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Then I went back to sleep, But something just like kept pushing me to just wake up and gowrite it down, giving you the longer version.
I usually don't give people that.
I woke up in the middle of the night, wrote it down.
I didn't even understand why it felt like something was pushing me to just get up andwrite it down.
And I never even did that.
I never woke up.
wrote a dream down.
I never woke up.
And I didn't even write in detail.
I just wrote nobody's.
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Went back to sleep and I started.
I woke up thinking about that conversation about nobody dying and how can we do somethingto extend our legacy or really encourage people to build a legacy and that way they could
live on forever.
You know, really almost as something to combat.
what people are putting their energy in in the city.
And there's so many cities just like this one around the world.
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You know, how can we do something to help bring some change and encourage people?
oh nobody's in the spirit of motivating and inspiring other people and uplifting peoplethe message of nobody's a nobody.
Everybody matters.
You are significant.
And to me, I think collaboration is the key to
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battering anything.
So if I can get two strangers to speak or have a point of contact in the street, simpleas, hey man, what does that mean?
I can ask that every time I wear it.
Left and right people tell me to turn around and take a picture of the back of the shirtjust so they can have that and keep that, you know, but it is a reason to get two people
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to interact and hopefully something grow from that.
So it is, it's it's a.
It's a brand, it's so much more about the social work that go on with it.
It's about the spirit of inspiring others and connecting others to grow a community ofpeople that share the same ideals.
So nobody's a nobody is of course uplifting, but it's also a slogan is something that welive by, you know, to keep all of us working towards something that lasts forever.
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Pretty bad ass.
So what kind of materials do you have?
I I know this shows up a lot in
clothing, they've seen hats.
you have on now is really cool.
You know, really, that's an art.
That's an art in itself.
know how we lay these designs out.
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The world is more than one faceted.
And I like to give people reasons to do something in a non-traditional way.
So we may have a suit that's distressed with
streetwear designs on the front and back of it.
Just to blend these worlds because just because I got a suit on, know, I got to be boring.
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You know, it don't make me less hip.
Oh, but just because I have on streetwear, you know, mean that it can't be flying upscaleas well.
So we really find ways to merge those two dynamics in one.
So a lot of times you will see you like we have some pieces that's a denim mix with atuxedo or
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oh collar shirts button up with graphics on the front.
So are you using like reclaimed materials?
So for some of the pieces, yeah, some of the pieces that we make like a smaller amount of,we definitely love to do that.
But because you can't get too many of those materials, we are able to scale it as much assome of the other things that people can grab it.
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It's like quick, ready to wear stuff, you know, easy denims and jackets and sweat somethings like that.
But yeah, we definitely love reclaiming something, recycling something, upcycling.
Upcycling.
Well, I'm going to definitely share the link to this for anyone who wants to check outwhat you have to offer.
Because it's really, really cool and eye-catching.
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And I love talking to you about it because that's true.
Like nobody dies.
It affects you in so many ways.
It has so many different meanings within one.
And so many people have been able to grasp that content.
grasp that concept and make it their own.
Other people that are hurting from losing people, it's also to put that energy out there.
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Nobody dying.
Let's stop the senseless violence and things like that as well.
Let's keep our loved ones living.
So it affects us in so many different ways.
Nobodies.
How can art provide hope for people?
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And the whole variety of sex examples.
You know, the fun and pride about art is that that is supposed to be the originalintention.
It's supposed to be created to inspire others.
You know, technically good, the difference between good art and bad art.
Bad art is art that you see and feel nothing about.
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It didn't do its job.
It didn't move you in any way.
And art that nobody sees has no power.
So the purpose of art is to movie, you know, it's a tool.
Everything is art, you know, stop sign is art.
Somebody does not have ask exercise for a reason.
It's all very intentional.
And we learn more from art than we do words.
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When we look at hieroglyphics and how smart those people were in that civilization duringthat time, and they used a lot of art, you know?
So, you know, good art.
Even if you think it's terrible and it make you want to throw up, that's still technicallygood art because it made you feel something.
Art should make you feel something.
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And so that is not about self healing, but it is very much about self healing.
But it's also about connecting to others who are able to identify with your story and whatyou're able to paint.
So one of the things that you and I, should we tell them about our upcoming collaboration?
For sure.
We got plenty of them.
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We do.
So one of the things that the G green and I have talked about a lot about the power ofstories and, um, and the power of capturing, not just capturing, but you just said like
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Ari is meant to be seen.
has to see be seen to move someone.
And so at this point now that I care a lot about women's voices.
And my friend here does too.
And so I pondered over and over and over again about how many women's voices and storiesand women's art was not shown, not seen, not passed on for literally millennia as women
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were not allowed to learn to read because they were considered support net and weregetting education and
You could only create art if you were educated.
And so there was like this massive hierarchy and like whose stories were allowed to betold, whose stories were allowed to be heard.
And, but the thing is, is that we know there were fucking stories, a lot of them.
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And that that is how through word of mouth, people connected with one another, that peopleshaped cultures.
And you know that women had them, but...
it wasn't really until the last 200 years, if that, when women's voices had been capturedand shared.
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And, but now in this moment, in this time, our stories are more important than ever.
And there are fewer barriers to share them than ever before.
But what we do have to do is cut that critic, that hierarchy that says you're not enough.
that your voice doesn't matter, that your voice isn't meant to be heard and get thosevoices out there.
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Yeah.
Yeah, you know, I don't think it's been 200 years, honestly.
It's been way shorter than that.
um Women, man, what do we have without women?
You know, I definitely wouldn't want to live in a world without women.
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I had to be around a bunch of guys, man.
Just get me out of here oh now.
Everything, you know, I've seen, you know, just even operating in our space, but justother industries as well.
You know, we watch so many great things happening.
We see a team of women executing and doing things in the.
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The best way possible, and when it's time for the accolades, they.
There ain't no way to be found.
know, it's like go to the back, you know.
oh It's like be felt but not seen.
And, you know, I think that's what, you know, I think, I love women.
I love my mother.
You know, I come from an environment where you protect women and children.
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And for me, even in the art space, being a young black guy, you know, I met with a lot ofopposing force.
And I look to the side, who was in this?
same struggle, same battle, you know, who has experienced these same types of things andit's the women.
I'm seeing these big art fairs and I'm looking at who are making it happen and one sort ofex-killers is winning that.
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So why wouldn't, why isn't there more happening to support that?
And it's most important that guys speak up because, you know, you get a lot of times whereit's like,
It's always the women having to speak for themselves and they come off in a way where it'slike, oh, they ranting again, oh, they nagging everyone.
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Thank you for saying that so much.
It's like, yeah, you got the nag.
It's like you're nagging, you're complaining.
It's like, shut up.
no, I can't be...
We need allies.
Yeah, they instantly devalue that.
know, I think it needs to be more men that are saying, hey, nah, we need to do more forwomen.
Let's stand beside them and really create more platforms.
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together with women to help support women are doing a great work for us all.
that's, know, for our project that we're doing together.
That I'm really excited about it, you know.
I guess you excited.
Yeah, I'm excited.
So the project that we're working on together is called Hairism and it's about sharingstories of women artists and uplifting them and also creating an environment of
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collaboration, connection, creativity.
We promise that once we have more information about what's to come in 2025 with heroism,not just to create a singular event, but to create an entire movement around this because
it's the more true stories are told, the more we can shape culture.
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And I think, I don't know if I've told you this before, oh wait, no, I definitely have,that I had this realization recently that almost everything I learned about being a woman,
I learned from a man.
And the reason for that was because of the things that I was watching on TV, the way thatwomen were portrayed and like, oh, this is how you be sexy.
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This is how you this.
But the writers of those shows were men, the producers of the shows were men and theirperception of women and their portrayal of women was, was male, but I didn't know that.
So I took that to be truth and same goes with, you know, insert how did.
have babies, how to work the education system, how to build a business, how to doeverything.
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And then finally, I started to ask myself like, wait, is this true?
Is this true for me?
Is this true for society?
Or is this something that I was taught?
And like, wait, everything I know, I need to re-examine.
Just start telling the story of that's my truth, not the truth as it was taught to me.
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by someone else's perception.
And it's not just for women, it's any objectified minority or group of people who isn'tthe one who's at the top of the ladder.
We need those disruptors.
You have to break the mold to build a bigger one.
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And the disruptors are the ones that do that.
Are you a disruptor?
Absolutely.
I came out a disruptor.
Me too.
My mom said I was an instigator in the nursery.
So, Gary.
Hold on, before we move on.
Every hero starts with her.
yeah, okay.
Wait.
That was it.
Every hero starts with her.
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That was just something important that we want to get out and champion.
It ain't just a slogan.
Look at the word.
That's really what it is.
I believe that.
know, women are amazing, you know, and a part of
everything that goes well in this world.
So now let's let's do more to make sure that we reflect those ideas.
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What I think.
That's it.
I do think I looked around and I'm like, where are the male allies?
Where are the where are the where's the big where's the Joe Rogan of the podcast?
They can sit there and be like, oh, let's talk about this.
Do we really need more masculine energy in the world?
For real, we definitely need some more women that's showing women how to be women as well.
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know, Salada, you're right.
It's too much masculinity out there.
So what are you doing to show up in the world unapologetically?
I mean, mainly just like cussing everybody out and just forcing them out.
Actually,
Everything that we do is just about being ourselves.
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Like I say, create representation.
When you think about it, All art really is to heal.
So these things that I create are products of things that were ailing me growing up, myexperiences in life.
I come from a wild environment.
From that, um I've become...
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Um, won't say comfortable, but, um, uh, a bit desensitized to just death and life, youknow?
So this brand was born out of that.
Nobody died.
So, know, like, Hey, let's, let's change that.
Let's disrupt that.
And also let me show you how you can come from this kind of environment and do somethingvery, very different on the entire, like, than the different plan on the other side of the
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world.
Let me show you how you can do it.
I'm the guy.
They're showing you how to do it step by step and being the example that takes yourexcuses away.
You can't say I'm too deep in this to come out and transform and do something.
No, we got those gifts.
We can do all of that.
It takes some, I mean, it ain't easy, but it shouldn't be.
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I say that on learning skills and calm water, you know, it gotta be a storm.
That's how you build your muscle.
You go to the gym, you don't just...
walk in there and walk out, you gotta go through something.
You know, gotta feel the pain and you gotta embrace the pain because that's where all thereal gems, that's where the vitamins are.
You know, so everything I do, it's not even about being a disruptor or so much focusing onbeing unapart of, I guess you, I do have to be myself and I gotta stand on that.
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And so I encourage other people to be themselves and stand on that because we need moreperspectives in the world.
And so if you try to be somebody else, then we missing out on a big opportunity for you tobe who you are, but also inspire a huge demographic of people that think and feel just
like you.
inspiring people to tell true stories.
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Yeah, it's a of stories being told, but I'm in there much real.
Unreal.
Yeah.
How can people find you?
wait, do you want to be found?
You know, funny.
Yes and no, man.
Yes and no, you know, this world is crazy, but it's the world we live in.
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But, um, so Instagram, ggreen.art, nobody's a nobody spell just like, you know,N-O-V-E-O-T-I-E-S, a nobody.
On Instagram, that's also our website.
Nobody's a nobody.com.
oh We got elevation worldwide.
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ah On Instagram, elevation www.
oh That's pretty much, that's everything right there.
If you are listening to this, or you are an up and coming artist, someone who wants to beseen, someone who wants to be known, or know an up and coming artist, elevation.
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Worldwide is a incredible resource for hearing, sharing, and telling true stories with GGreen at the helm.
And then also check out Nobody's Nobody, because I got to get my merch.
He keeps saying that.
He the guy that's saying, he don't make sure it happens.
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We also got some exciting projects coming up this year.
So we've got a full calendar, so people definitely need to tap in and stay in tune.
We'll be doing them all around from New York to Miami, Chicago, and I'm sure we'll maybestart down in LA as well.
So yeah, we'll be doing a lot.
We got a fuller schedule.
I'm excited about it.
Doing more to create representation and build bridges in the art space for people who maynot be as comfortable as some others.
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You know, we want to make art accessible for everybody because everybody deserves thevalue of art.
So that and yeah, that's everything.
Thank you so much for being here.
If you bring such a valuable perspective.
for having me.
What I'm most excited about is seeing the impact that you're gonna make, that you aremaking, that you did make in the world.
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Appreciate that.
Same to you.
You're doing great things and I'm proud of everything you've been doing.
And seeing the journey how you've been developing and just continuing to level up and doit in your own way that takes a...
crazy amount of courage, because you got to fight the current to just be yourself.
That's not easy, so much, much kudos to you.
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Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
All right.
We appreciate you guys tuning in so much.
Thank you for listening.
I will be sharing all of the links and ways to connect with G-Green in the show notes andon the website and
If you guys have any topics you want to hear about, you've got any questions, you canalways reach out over email at podcast at unapologeticallyyours.com or my Instagram,
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Ashley D.
Logan.
I am here for you.
So grateful.
And when you have a moment, smash that follow button wherever you take in your podcasts,leave us a review that helps so much with visibility.
We are out to make a difference in the world.
I'm Ashley, this is G Green, and we are Unapologetically Peoples.
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uh
You know the funny part about art is that that is supposed to be the original intention.
It's supposed to be created to inspire others.
The difference between good art and bad art, bad art is art that you see and feel nothingabout.
It didn't do its job.
It didn't move you in any way.
And art that nobody sees has no power.
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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Unapologetically Yours podcast.
I'm your host Ashley Logan and I am so happy to have you here today.
Unapologetically Yours is a podcast where we go deep on everything from spirituality torelationships and connection to business and belief systems.
Because in a world when we've been told to play by the rules, everyone saw we got to bend,break them and do it unapologetically.
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So today I have
a national treasure sitting beside me and I'm pretty freaking grateful.
They have G Green of Elevation Worldwide and Nobody's Nobody.
And this man is native Chicagoan, recent New Yorker, man of the world, man of mystery, ifI'm being totally honest, and artist, we finder and connector.
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So welcome to the show.
Wow, thanks for having me.
That was a beautiful introduction.
Thank you.
Happy to be here.
So you wear a lot of hats in life and you've worn a lot of hats in your life.
Who are you today?
That's an interesting question because
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I guess I become who I need to be in the moment to be fully vested in that moment.
So who I am in this moment may not be who I may need to adapt to become something else,you know, in the next few hours to get something done.
But essentially I am.
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My brother's brother, my brother's keeper.
A way maker, a taste maker.
And one cool mother-coupler.
No, but I love that.
Your mother's son, brother's brother, your brother's keeper.
Sure.
I know you as, if we first met in the best of your, one of your art shows.
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So you had curated a collection that was so inspiring and cool at, was in the lobby of theWillis Tower.
formerly known as the Sears Tower.
Still in my heart, the Sears Tower.
And what was so cool about how I met you in that moment, it was a time for me of like justtremendous shedding and kind of returning back home.
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And I have, I was an art minor and have always been a creator of things.
And to come into your
curated collection among other artists and people in the city who were tastemakers, changemakers, and people who are just, I guess, cheerleaders for the art community.
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was like, it was like, it such a rush for me to be like, oh my gosh, these people stillexist.
This exists in Chicago, because I'd never been an artist in Chicago.
I had always been lots of other things in Chicago.
And I felt this just like broad sense of, oh shit, I'm home.
I still know art.
I still can connect with it.
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then, and here you were just work, not just working the room, but like bringing peopletogether.
And, and also I noticed a lot of humility about you in terms of like not wanting to be inthe spotlight of the show.
was more about the artists.
It was about the people and it was about those who were showing up.
so, um, it.
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I was delighted that we formed a friendship after that.
Absolutely.
You know, that show was for the city, right?
It was a moment for us.
It was something that never been done before.
First of all, know, shout out to Willis Tower, the team over there.
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I worked with some really great individuals on that team.
You know, the city, we all really from this city, right?
And you know, it's been in our background, it's been the backdrop.
It's the one building that you can see from every side of the city, west side, south side,all around the city.
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And a lot of us never felt like we had a point of contact, a reason to be in there, asense of belonging, even a sense of welcome.
And so...
After all of this time, you know, it's like we all in the city coexisting, being animportant part of it.
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Why are we telling this story together?
You know, why are we not telling the Chicago story together?
It's a part of our history.
We're a part of his history.
And so that show was actually celebrating their 50th anniversary.
And so we partnered to create that opportunity to bring a real sense of the culture of thecity from the people who are here.
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creating the culture of the city, giving them representation.
A lot of people said it was their first time coming in that building.
Wow.
That's crazy to do.
It's so interesting because Chicago, though it's an extremely diverse city, is extremelysegregated.
Very much so.
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And then you have a building like the Sears Tower where it's just sort of this like,beacon.
but the fact that not everyone in this, and a symbol of Chicago, but the fact that noteveryone in it could relate to it or have feel connected to it or feel ownership in it.
And then you kind of, this great dichotomy of being like, hey, corporations, all thethings that keep this city turning, meet the people of the city, the real people, the
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artists, the creators.
It's a really.
Really cool.
People want to come to Chicago.
They want to come there to get a sense of the city.
So why not a better way to do it?
You know, they just did like some $400 million renovation over the pandemic.
So we had a beautiful space to display the art.
And I'm about approaching the art space in a non-traditional way because my approach intothe art world was very non-traditional.
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I don't come from any schooling, uh cliques, none of the...
You know, none of the ways that people get merged into this world, man, is very,different.
But I am a real steward of the city and a real example of somebody who's been here fromday one and been through all different types of experiences and things in the city and
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being championing for the city.
So I really want to do something like that where we can come together from all around thecity and celebrate each other together, you know, and celebrate.
that not just being only time is being done, also continuing to do that for, you know,moving forward.
So it's really about building the bridge.
Wow.
You know, people are always complaining about the current state of the city.
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Like you said, you know, it has been very oh segregated, you know, everybody in their ownpocket.
And lot of us as creators, we are not being fed.
So we go to other places.
if people like us aren't willing to
You know, do something uncomfortable to create the change in the city.
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I feel like if I'm not doing something to change it, then I really can't complain aboutit.
I don't got that right.
I'm gonna just shut up and get out the way.
You know what saying?
if I do got the power to, because for a lot of years I was like, man, I gotta get out ofhere.
You know what I'm saying?
But I woke up one day and I was like, I actually got the power to affect the change of theway we experience the city.
So why not do that?
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So that became probably my mission.
breaking down these walls, creating representation, building bridges.
You have a really interesting backstory.
How did you find your way to art?
And how did art save you?
You know, my story interesting, but I don't think it's unique in a way where a lot ofpeople don't have a similar story, especially in this city.
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I mean, I'm special, but I ain't that special, you know?
And art has all...
It was in me from birth, you know, I think we are artists in our own way.
Some people pour into it and feed into it and others more than others.
But being a kid from the city, especially not having a lot growing up, you know, you gotto be creative.
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So your art start there anyway.
You know, my first love was cars and art, you know, and I spent all my time drawing carsas a baby before I could even talk.
And
As I got older, of course, like a lot of people in the city, you you in the, you in thebad situation and trying to do everything you can to change it.
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So you got to find a dollar quick.
And naturally you get into what people are doing in front of your house, which take youdown a whole another path as it did me.
But art was the thing that was the common thread of mine that I always came back aroundto.
So it became my escape.
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So.
When I was out being young and very dumb, I would come in at night and create, whether itmaking a beat or just designing something, a painting, a drawing, or doing something.
It was the thing that always kept me grounded throughout my life.
So no matter how wild it got, because it was getting real crazy, especially, you know,jumping off the porch so early, like you in the mix at like 2 or 13.
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So you coming back in to
create, that was my piece, that was the thing that I could control the most and it kept mecalmness, you know, to help ease my anxiety.
And there was just something in me that kept reaching for it.
Even at a time where, you know, the funniest idea is that I didn't know people would payyou for something that you drew.
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Like people like giving you money for that, that was so wild to me and then...
Years later, I just always kept finding my way around to it, even having the space in thisbuilding.
It was like a creative hub.
It was called the Kona in Pilsen.
And I had a studio in there, and it opened my mind and my eyes up to so much seeing allthese people.
Like, I didn't even hear the term creative until like being a creative, like so manypeople are now, but I didn't hear that term until I was in that building.
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I'm like, wait, what do you do?
And that's all you do?
Wait, what you do?
Like if they could do it, I know I could kill it.
They hadn't been through what I've been through, not even a small portion of it.
And if y'all are able to make it, I know I can dominate at this.
So I start reaching for more and then I partnered, I started working with the artists,just bring a value of how I could, you know, I know how to design things.
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can do that.
I could uh take pictures, do photography.
I could connect some people.
I could get a team to help move some stuff.
Y'all need to see, I'm just, whenever to help make it happen.
And from that, began, I just was working to try to get relationships and meet differentpeople.
You know, you ain't got to pay me out.
Matter of fact, I'm paying to do this.
And then it grew from that till, you know, I always kind of want to be in a space where Ican help control what's happening around me.
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And these are the same things that I learned running around the street.
You know, if I want to have a presence and some market share, I need to have a space.
I need to have an office.
I need to have a spot.
You know, to me.
Okay, that's a gallery.
So let me be able to create a platform where people can experience art the way I wouldlike to see it be an experience for people that don't come from this elitist world.
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We already uncomfortable interacting with it.
And then when you meet people, they want to art shame you.
And that's just weird.
Wait, what's art shame?
you don't know about such and such parties.
You haven't seen what they've done.
you know, I've done that.
It's the same thing.
It's like
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
I don't know, it's a pretty obscure number you probably wouldn't have heard of.
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But yeah, I feel that too.
The elite is...
Yeah, you know, people always ask me, you know, oh how you learn more about art and I tellthem on a basic level, you need to first know, you like it or do you not like it?
You know, is it wack?
Is it ugly to you?
Like what you think about it?
You know, like stop trying to go by all these...
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requirements and standards that somebody else set, it's okay to just know what you likeand be fine with that.
Isn't it so funny that art that's like some person, someone decided that this was art.
Yeah.
And then, this was not, or that this piece was good, this was not.
And I've had to undo a lot of that because that built this inner critic.
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Or it's and really it's not even a, yes there's a critic part of it, but there's also thishierarchy that someone else has the authority to decide what's beautiful.
And that in itself is we've given away so much power just based on that.
And I feel like part of, I feel like we're gonna do a lot of things together and part ofthis, I feel like is helping artists reclaim their space.
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They're not just me and their power.
And that maybe it's for you, maybe you want to buy that piece and maybe you don't.
maybe if, and that there's so much space and such a big spectrum of greatness, but reallyit starts with the creator, just the process of being a creator is so beautiful in itself.
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is.
I think it's the greatest gift that we have.
If we all man, and was at a grand creator, we all had ability to create.
What's the, what more can you offer to the world?
Even when you have.
That's something you created.
know, and we have so much power that we don't realize when you think about it, uh What's aGod to a non-believer, right?
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You gotta give power to things.
Whether it is a real uh reality or not, you still have to acknowledge their reality.
And how could you give power to people for no reason?
They just, somebody told...
you did the world work a certain way and you took it, you didn't ask any questions and youjust went with it and you elect power to things and people that haven't even earned it.
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It don't make sense.
And then you demote yourself, which is super crazy.
Right.
Start, start allowing yourself to measure or be measured against an arbitrary standardthat was set by someone else who may or may not have had the authority to
do such things.
think about this a lot with religion.
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I think about this a lot with capitalism.
I think about this a lot with just the current hierarchy of our own society.
And when we have the courage as people, as people, to start asking questions, we were justtalking about this, is this true?
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And so that we can start telling truth stories.
from the perspective of the people, every person.
Yeah, everybody has a story to tell.
So that's a pretty beautiful transition into another big facet of who you are.
The founder, creator, creative director.
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Tell us about Nobody's and Nobody.
Well, it's funny, right, because it started in the dream.
I put the voice on, but it actually did, right?
I was having a conversation with somebody about there's this belief that you're deathwise.
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The first time was in physical form.
And the second time is when people, when your name is said for the last time, that's thesecond time.
And you know, I come from, like I said, running around the streets.
It was the wildlife running around in the city.
I dealt with death so much, such an early age, seeing so many friends of mine pass on andwe never spoke about them again.
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We don't hear anything.
They didn't get a chance to be able to leave anything to keep you talking about them.
You know, it's just these kids that just, I ain't hear no more.
And, you know, in a true sense, all heart is to self heal, right?
So this idea that
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Hey, if you got a strong legacy, people will talk about you forever.
You know, and I had this dream ah where I kept seeing this word, nobody's, right?
Nobody's.
When you see the word nobody's, I kept seeing nobody dies.
And so I woke up and I wrote it down.
Nobody dies.
And I was like, that was all to it.
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Then I went back to sleep, But something just like kept pushing me to just wake up and gowrite it down, giving you the longer version.
I usually don't give people that.
I woke up in the middle of the night, wrote it down.
I didn't even understand why it felt like something was pushing me to just get up andwrite it down.
And I never even did that.
I never woke up.
wrote a dream down.
I never woke up.
And I didn't even write in detail.
I just wrote nobody's.
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Went back to sleep and I started.
I woke up thinking about that conversation about nobody dying and how can we do somethingto extend our legacy or really encourage people to build a legacy and that way they could
live on forever.
You know, really almost as something to combat.
what people are putting their energy in in the city.
And there's so many cities just like this one around the world.
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You know, how can we do something to help bring some change and encourage people?
oh nobody's in the spirit of motivating and inspiring other people and uplifting peoplethe message of nobody's a nobody.
Everybody matters.
You are significant.
And to me, I think collaboration is the key to
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battering anything.
So if I can get two strangers to speak or have a point of contact in the street, simpleas, hey man, what does that mean?
I can ask that every time I wear it.
Left and right people tell me to turn around and take a picture of the back of the shirtjust so they can have that and keep that, you know, but it is a reason to get two people
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to interact and hopefully something grow from that.
So it is, it's it's a.
It's a brand, it's so much more about the social work that go on with it.
It's about the spirit of inspiring others and connecting others to grow a community ofpeople that share the same ideals.
So nobody's a nobody is of course uplifting, but it's also a slogan is something that welive by, you know, to keep all of us working towards something that lasts forever.
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Pretty bad ass.
So what kind of materials do you have?
I I know this shows up a lot in
clothing, they've seen hats.
you have on now is really cool.
You know, really, that's an art.
That's an art in itself.
know how we lay these designs out.
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The world is more than one faceted.
And I like to give people reasons to do something in a non-traditional way.
So we may have a suit that's distressed with
streetwear designs on the front and back of it.
Just to blend these worlds because just because I got a suit on, know, I got to be boring.
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You know, it don't make me less hip.
Oh, but just because I have on streetwear, you know, mean that it can't be flying upscaleas well.
So we really find ways to merge those two dynamics in one.
So a lot of times you will see you like we have some pieces that's a denim mix with atuxedo or
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oh collar shirts button up with graphics on the front.
So are you using like reclaimed materials?
So for some of the pieces, yeah, some of the pieces that we make like a smaller amount of,we definitely love to do that.
But because you can't get too many of those materials, we are able to scale it as much assome of the other things that people can grab it.
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It's like quick, ready to wear stuff, you know, easy denims and jackets and sweat somethings like that.
But yeah, we definitely love reclaiming something, recycling something, upcycling.
Upcycling.
Well, I'm going to definitely share the link to this for anyone who wants to check outwhat you have to offer.
Because it's really, really cool and eye-catching.
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And I love talking to you about it because that's true.
Like nobody dies.
It affects you in so many ways.
It has so many different meanings within one.
And so many people have been able to grasp that content.
grasp that concept and make it their own.
Other people that are hurting from losing people, it's also to put that energy out there.
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Nobody dying.
Let's stop the senseless violence and things like that as well.
Let's keep our loved ones living.
So it affects us in so many different ways.
Nobodies.
How can art provide hope for people?
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And the whole variety of sex examples.
You know, the fun and pride about art is that that is supposed to be the originalintention.
It's supposed to be created to inspire others.
You know, technically good, the difference between good art and bad art.
Bad art is art that you see and feel nothing about.
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It didn't do its job.
It didn't move you in any way.
And art that nobody sees has no power.
So the purpose of art is to movie, you know, it's a tool.
Everything is art, you know, stop sign is art.
Somebody does not have ask exercise for a reason.
It's all very intentional.
And we learn more from art than we do words.
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When we look at hieroglyphics and how smart those people were in that civilization duringthat time, and they used a lot of art, you know?
So, you know, good art.
Even if you think it's terrible and it make you want to throw up, that's still technicallygood art because it made you feel something.
Art should make you feel something.
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And so that is not about self healing, but it is very much about self healing.
But it's also about connecting to others who are able to identify with your story and whatyou're able to paint.
So one of the things that you and I, should we tell them about our upcoming collaboration?
For sure.
We got plenty of them.
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We do.
So one of the things that the G green and I have talked about a lot about the power ofstories and, um, and the power of capturing, not just capturing, but you just said like
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Ari is meant to be seen.
has to see be seen to move someone.
And so at this point now that I care a lot about women's voices.
And my friend here does too.
And so I pondered over and over and over again about how many women's voices and storiesand women's art was not shown, not seen, not passed on for literally millennia as women
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were not allowed to learn to read because they were considered support net and weregetting education and
You could only create art if you were educated.
And so there was like this massive hierarchy and like whose stories were allowed to betold, whose stories were allowed to be heard.
And, but the thing is, is that we know there were fucking stories, a lot of them.
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And that that is how through word of mouth, people connected with one another, that peopleshaped cultures.
And you know that women had them, but...
it wasn't really until the last 200 years, if that, when women's voices had been capturedand shared.
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And, but now in this moment, in this time, our stories are more important than ever.
And there are fewer barriers to share them than ever before.
But what we do have to do is cut that critic, that hierarchy that says you're not enough.
that your voice doesn't matter, that your voice isn't meant to be heard and get thosevoices out there.
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Yeah.
Yeah, you know, I don't think it's been 200 years, honestly.
It's been way shorter than that.
um Women, man, what do we have without women?
You know, I definitely wouldn't want to live in a world without women.
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I had to be around a bunch of guys, man.
Just get me out of here oh now.
Everything, you know, I've seen, you know, just even operating in our space, but justother industries as well.
You know, we watch so many great things happening.
We see a team of women executing and doing things in the.
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The best way possible, and when it's time for the accolades, they.
There ain't no way to be found.
know, it's like go to the back, you know.
oh It's like be felt but not seen.
And, you know, I think that's what, you know, I think, I love women.
I love my mother.
You know, I come from an environment where you protect women and children.
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And for me, even in the art space, being a young black guy, you know, I met with a lot ofopposing force.
And I look to the side, who was in this?
same struggle, same battle, you know, who has experienced these same types of things andit's the women.
I'm seeing these big art fairs and I'm looking at who are making it happen and one sort ofex-killers is winning that.
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So why wouldn't, why isn't there more happening to support that?
And it's most important that guys speak up because, you know, you get a lot of times whereit's like,
It's always the women having to speak for themselves and they come off in a way where it'slike, oh, they ranting again, oh, they nagging everyone.
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Thank you for saying that so much.
It's like, yeah, you got the nag.
It's like you're nagging, you're complaining.
It's like, shut up.
no, I can't be...
We need allies.
Yeah, they instantly devalue that.
know, I think it needs to be more men that are saying, hey, nah, we need to do more forwomen.
Let's stand beside them and really create more platforms.
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together with women to help support women are doing a great work for us all.
that's, know, for our project that we're doing together.
That I'm really excited about it, you know.
I guess you excited.
Yeah, I'm excited.
So the project that we're working on together is called Hairism and it's about sharingstories of women artists and uplifting them and also creating an environment of
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collaboration, connection, creativity.
We promise that once we have more information about what's to come in 2025 with heroism,not just to create a singular event, but to create an entire movement around this because
it's the more true stories are told, the more we can shape culture.
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And I think, I don't know if I've told you this before, oh wait, no, I definitely have,that I had this realization recently that almost everything I learned about being a woman,
I learned from a man.
And the reason for that was because of the things that I was watching on TV, the way thatwomen were portrayed and like, oh, this is how you be sexy.
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This is how you this.
But the writers of those shows were men, the producers of the shows were men and theirperception of women and their portrayal of women was, was male, but I didn't know that.
So I took that to be truth and same goes with, you know, insert how did.
have babies, how to work the education system, how to build a business, how to doeverything.
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And then finally, I started to ask myself like, wait, is this true?
Is this true for me?
Is this true for society?
Or is this something that I was taught?
And like, wait, everything I know, I need to re-examine.
Just start telling the story of that's my truth, not the truth as it was taught to me.
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by someone else's perception.
And it's not just for women, it's any objectified minority or group of people who isn'tthe one who's at the top of the ladder.
We need those disruptors.
You have to break the mold to build a bigger one.
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And the disruptors are the ones that do that.
Are you a disruptor?
Absolutely.
I came out a disruptor.
Me too.
My mom said I was an instigator in the nursery.
So, Gary.
Hold on, before we move on.
Every hero starts with her.
yeah, okay.
Wait.
That was it.
Every hero starts with her.
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That was just something important that we want to get out and champion.
It ain't just a slogan.
Look at the word.
That's really what it is.
I believe that.
know, women are amazing, you know, and a part of
everything that goes well in this world.
So now let's let's do more to make sure that we reflect those ideas.
(31:15):
What I think.
That's it.
I do think I looked around and I'm like, where are the male allies?
Where are the where are the where's the big where's the Joe Rogan of the podcast?
They can sit there and be like, oh, let's talk about this.
Do we really need more masculine energy in the world?
For real, we definitely need some more women that's showing women how to be women as well.
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know, Salada, you're right.
It's too much masculinity out there.
So what are you doing to show up in the world unapologetically?
I mean, mainly just like cussing everybody out and just forcing them out.
Actually,
Everything that we do is just about being ourselves.
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Like I say, create representation.
When you think about it, All art really is to heal.
So these things that I create are products of things that were ailing me growing up, myexperiences in life.
I come from a wild environment.
From that, um I've become...
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Um, won't say comfortable, but, um, uh, a bit desensitized to just death and life, youknow?
So this brand was born out of that.
Nobody died.
So, know, like, Hey, let's, let's change that.
Let's disrupt that.
And also let me show you how you can come from this kind of environment and do somethingvery, very different on the entire, like, than the different plan on the other side of the
(32:55):
world.
Let me show you how you can do it.
I'm the guy.
They're showing you how to do it step by step and being the example that takes yourexcuses away.
You can't say I'm too deep in this to come out and transform and do something.
No, we got those gifts.
We can do all of that.
It takes some, I mean, it ain't easy, but it shouldn't be.
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I say that on learning skills and calm water, you know, it gotta be a storm.
That's how you build your muscle.
You go to the gym, you don't just...
walk in there and walk out, you gotta go through something.
You know, gotta feel the pain and you gotta embrace the pain because that's where all thereal gems, that's where the vitamins are.
You know, so everything I do, it's not even about being a disruptor or so much focusing onbeing unapart of, I guess you, I do have to be myself and I gotta stand on that.
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And so I encourage other people to be themselves and stand on that because we need moreperspectives in the world.
And so if you try to be somebody else, then we missing out on a big opportunity for you tobe who you are, but also inspire a huge demographic of people that think and feel just
like you.
inspiring people to tell true stories.
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Yeah, it's a of stories being told, but I'm in there much real.
Unreal.
Yeah.
How can people find you?
wait, do you want to be found?
You know, funny.
Yes and no, man.
Yes and no, you know, this world is crazy, but it's the world we live in.
(34:33):
But, um, so Instagram, ggreen.art, nobody's a nobody spell just like, you know,N-O-V-E-O-T-I-E-S, a nobody.
On Instagram, that's also our website.
Nobody's a nobody.com.
oh We got elevation worldwide.
(34:53):
ah On Instagram, elevation www.
oh That's pretty much, that's everything right there.
If you are listening to this, or you are an up and coming artist, someone who wants to beseen, someone who wants to be known, or know an up and coming artist, elevation.
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Worldwide is a incredible resource for hearing, sharing, and telling true stories with GGreen at the helm.
And then also check out Nobody's Nobody, because I got to get my merch.
He keeps saying that.
He the guy that's saying, he don't make sure it happens.
(35:36):
We also got some exciting projects coming up this year.
So we've got a full calendar, so people definitely need to tap in and stay in tune.
We'll be doing them all around from New York to Miami, Chicago, and I'm sure we'll maybestart down in LA as well.
So yeah, we'll be doing a lot.
We got a fuller schedule.
I'm excited about it.
Doing more to create representation and build bridges in the art space for people who maynot be as comfortable as some others.
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You know, we want to make art accessible for everybody because everybody deserves thevalue of art.
So that and yeah, that's everything.
Thank you so much for being here.
If you bring such a valuable perspective.
for having me.
What I'm most excited about is seeing the impact that you're gonna make, that you aremaking, that you did make in the world.
(36:26):
Appreciate that.
Same to you.
You're doing great things and I'm proud of everything you've been doing.
And seeing the journey how you've been developing and just continuing to level up and doit in your own way that takes a...
crazy amount of courage, because you got to fight the current to just be yourself.
That's not easy, so much, much kudos to you.
(36:48):
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
All right.
We appreciate you guys tuning in so much.
Thank you for listening.
I will be sharing all of the links and ways to connect with G-Green in the show notes andon the website and
If you guys have any topics you want to hear about, you've got any questions, you canalways reach out over email at podcast at unapologeticallyyours.com or my Instagram,
(37:18):
Ashley D.
Logan.
I am here for you.
So grateful.
And when you have a moment, smash that follow button wherever you take in your podcasts,leave us a review that helps so much with visibility.
We are out to make a difference in the world.
I'm Ashley, this is G Green, and we are Unapologetically Peoples.
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