October 16, 2025 • 48 mins
Kenny Hercules, founder of FashionTastic Model Agency and King K Eyewear, discloses the qualities and experiences contributing to his success breaking barriers as an entrepreneur, Top Model, and Founder.
Par for the course, successful founding (breaking barriers), requires a particular kind of stick-to-itiveness, smart attractive leadership, grit, agility, resilience, adaptability, confidence, and strong interpersonal skills.
Making an impact requires something that lies on the inside, that portion that makes you who you truly are; one essential is to know what that is and to give it the freedom mentor you.
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Par for the course, successful founding (breaking barriers), requires a particular kind of stick-to-itiveness, smart attractive leadership, grit, agility, resilience, adaptability, confidence, and strong interpersonal skills.
Making an impact requires something that lies on the inside, that portion that makes you who you truly are; one essential is to know what that is and to give it the freedom mentor you.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-journey-with-neville--6405120/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am who God says.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am, Hello and welcome to the Journey, your radio
show hosted by Nevill d Angelou, author of a sound
bite life and Flight of the Views Monkeys, a PRG
Emerging Technologies Forum, keynote speaker and founder of RIO Sports.
I am Joseph Ellison Enjoy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I am Neville. My guest is Kenny mcidi's founder of
both Fashioned Testing and The King k I wear proud
father of three, coach and mentor to many emerging as
well as experienced models. Now, to be a successful founder,
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one has to have the on set sharp clarity of vision.
The founding requires a particular kind of stamina stick to
itiveness if you will, and smart, attractive leadership, grit, agility, resilience, adaptability, confidence,
strong into pre ex because these are just par for
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the course. So I was eager to discover what of life,
experience and learning, Imbuda, I guess with such rare qualities.
The first thing that struck me is his name, Hercules.
How apropos I am who God sees I am. Growing
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up in my neck of the woods, when I was
a boy, there wasn't a lad who didn't want to
be Hercules. That legendary Greco Roman hero, son of Zeus
and Alamina, who in his crib as a child, squashed
bare handed the head of two serpents the witch had
dispatched to kill him, And despite all kinds of treachery
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and trickery against him, he slayed the Nimian lion and
the nine headed Hydra, on and on and on, capturing
the mad bull that terrorized the island, greet and so much.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Sure he was such a hero.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So, mister Kenny Hercules, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Kenny Hercules is a humble youth, grew up in the
heart of Georgetown, then move over to the west side
of the Murorro where I, you know, went to school.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Came back to George Dung, finished.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
School, and then started my career in the optical industry.
From there I would have moved on to started modeling,
a career in modeling in twenty sixteen, where I then
become the Model Image Winner in twenty sixteen. And from there,
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I you know, decided to you know, be an entrepreneur,
not only taking my profession to the runway, which is
my optical business, also having a career in model training,
model coach, So I'm also a coach. I trained models,
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I train pageant delegates, and I even work with kids
and training them, pearing them for pageantry or even the runway.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Besides that, I'm a part of three.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I'm a part of three tribautiful kids to two girls
and one boy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All Hercules. So tell me about that your name Hercules.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
You know, it's funny. In high school, I was kind
of shame of the last name. Really I was, because
you know, I was this skinny guy in high school.
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I remember my dad he bought me this.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
High top boots. You know, they used to call me
the GPR boots. You know, the GPR kind of boots.
You tell me what high top steel to a kind
of boot? GPL again, right, you know engineers in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh yeah, God.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
So you know I was asking guy, you know, in
sharp pans, and you know, and I remember one day
we were standing assembly, and you know, the teacher was
calling out the names on the ready stuff, you know,
and then we walk up and go and I remember
she made to my name. She's like Kenny Hercules. I
was there standing, I looked around this and I was
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there looking around everybody because you know, and then it
was like Kenny Hercules, I decided that welcome going, but like.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well most of them.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But as you know, but then, you know, when I
started working and you know, started getting to know myself
and starting to really believe in myself.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You know, I stand. You know, I really loved my
name because you know, Kenny Hercules is very very unique,
very unique. Nobody got mister Hercules.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And you know, when I started creating my gen which
is my kids, you know what I'm saying, you know,
given the name Hercules, you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's just creating my own family with the Hercules.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Could you tell me about your family background the Hercules.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
My family, my dad and my mom. They separated when
I was very young, about.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Four years I think, and you know, I grew up
the stepdad, who you know I really hold as a fad.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
As well, so I was lucky enough to have too
fat in my life. My grandmother she left, started with
my dad.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
This is where everything separate, split up when my grandmom
left and went to the United States. And then my dad,
you know, he started working in the interior.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And my mom had problems, so he you know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Went away for a while and came back after but
she would have had already moved on with my stepdad.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But I grew up in a home you know, we
didn't have much, but we were contented, so I was.
I was, you know, taught to be content with.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
What we have. I'm grateful for what we have, and
you know, I'm grateful for what my mom and my
stepdad would have provided for me and my sister and
my siblings, you know, a comfortable home. You know, they
taught us certain traits, you know, not to you know,
envy nobody, or you know, not to take up of
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wanting anything from anybody, anybody.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Taks and you know, they brought a lot of good
qualities in us.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And you know, I can see today my sisters and myself,
we're doing very well for ourselves. And I can tell
my parents are proud. I believe though that, you know,
even though my family, you know, we didn't have much
growing up or whatever it is, you know, they did
the best they could have done for us.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And you know, I believe because of that, their blessing.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Is we the kids now we're doing well so that
we could elevate the family.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's also.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Along the journey, we stop at intriguing places and meet
fascinating people with novel solutions to some of life's tricky questions.
And we play a few games and track the remarkable
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Speaker 3 (07:24):
I'm back with Kenny Hercules, the man with the muscles
on the inside. So what is it about your family
that influences you all to be such successful people?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
For my stepdad, what he did? You know?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I usually watch him, you know, come home, You come
home with even like a p history, one single pa history,
because you get it from you know, some function or
something you come from some function, you get a history.
And I would watch him share this pistory with each
and every one of us in the house. Make sure
everybody get a bite, even if it's that one single pastry.
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You understand me, And I always admired, even like, yeah,
why can't you have of it?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You know, you just say, you know, everybody got a little.
He always says this thing at all.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Share your slice and share your bread and tin slices,
very ten slices to make sure everybody gets understand.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So I know I admire that. And you know, I was.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
One time I was going through, you know, really rough
time with the one of my children.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And I remember, you know, I was about to give
up at that time.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And he was like, you know, he reminded me of
the struggles that he my mom went through.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And when I sit down and reflect, I was like, yo,
for real, and I was like, you know, it takes
a lot to be a man.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You know sometimes a lot of people don't know it,
but it takes it really takes a lot to be
a man.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You got to be strong.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And you know, I admire the qualities that he had
and he's just showing me to do the same.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You know, I really had to step up and be like,
you know what, I'm going to try my best. I'm
going to do my best always at all time. And
you know they the other thing I admire with him
is the ability to always help people, always help.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
He's always willing to help people.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And maybe I wouldn't have seen the benefit of it then,
but now, even though he's passed down, he's dead, he
passed away in turn twenty one. Even now, people I
meet when they said my class yourself was.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Like, yeah, I'd like yo. That man was a good man.
That man was the people speak highly of him up
to the day. Understand. People remember the things.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
That he did for them, and you know, it's really like,
you know, it's not you know, you don't levant, but
is your memory and the good things.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That you do for people, you know. And I can see.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
His blessings not only went to him, but also his
family because his blessings fall upon his children right now,
even myself and his wife because of the things that
he did.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And that's like, yo, for real.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I mean I gotta do the same thing because I
want blessings to follow my kids, understand. So you know,
the ability to always help I was, you know, always
have a willing hand to help somebody, you know, in need,
no matter how small.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
He had, whatever literally have, he would help.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I remember he gave away it will be fridge because
I bought the fridge.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You know, after started working and start, I bought the
fridge and.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I was like, okay, so I'm going to use this
fridge in my room because you know, I want of
my own things in my privacy because my sister's in
the house to you know, they eatn my stuff. So
I want to have my own privacy and stuff. And
I remember when I brought that Fred, before I could
take it in my room, he already give me the
fridge on the side, so I had chance to leave out.
So I was like this money, answer the question. He
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just give away, and he's the extrace you want to
you just want to give. You want the old one.
So you know, but I admired Ad, you know, and
people always remember him for that, and you know that's
a quality, you know, admire and I will take on.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
What took you into optics.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
All right, to be honest. When I finished high school.
The funny thing is I finished high school on Friday.
I started working on Saturday. It's a no joke.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So my cousin he Kelvin Kelvin Cash. He's married now.
He was a supervisor at the Sunnayshine.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Snats that provide a lot of these serials, serials serials
as well to conflicts and these snacks.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, so just a.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well known company. I think the train that in company.
But I have a franchise here and getting he was
supervised here, and I remember going there and work. You
know that just because of the school, not you know,
if i'd anything idle to do whil he have the time,
you know, just for the time until I get results.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was working for you know, a few more me.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I would there a few more because it was literally
one months, because I realized could be so heavy. So
I was working there, you know, you know, we do
getting up bills and stuff. And then one time they
put me on the container to remove Cadbury chocolate. It's
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not on the continuing I thought it was just chocolate,
why not help, you know, take off this about the chop.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I picked up one box. I was like, wow, chocolate
our tiles. It was heavy. I was like nah.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I was like whoa. When I go home that day,
I was sore. So I was like, I'm going back?
Are you going back? And I then sent in an
application to the Silver House of Optics okay, and I
got hired pending results because they had my six result
as yet, I.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Was pending results. They took me on, they trained me.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I was on probation period and you know, we went
to head after the prevision period and stuff, they hired me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And after hiring me training, they.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Sent me to the study and so I did my
auptation course and was working.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
There for a while.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Then they had a fire in twenty thirteen I think,
I don't know, Yeah, they had a fire in twenty thirteen,
you know where they burnt down. And after then they
had you know, got to lose some staff for the company.
But I was still working with her, and after the time,
I decided.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To move on.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And then I went to Miracle Opticle and then spent
a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was a distance.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I went to an accident WHI was working there, so
with the traveling and stuff I used to ride, moved
the back at that time. So because of that, I
came back down to George n start working like Modern
Optical Service. I worked there for about nine years and
then I move on to the company i'm working with
right now, which is an express Obticle. There's a contract
staff moving over to be apartment staff recently because they
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have not of the office opening soon, so we're going
to be working with that. And so besides all of that,
I also have my own company which is kink I
Wear that I focus around. So kink I Wear basically
provide everything in optics.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
They accept surgery right we.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Do prescription filling, eye testing, repairs of broken glasses, basically
everything when it comes to replacing and repairing your glasses and.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Correcting your vision. But I started in this, in this,
in this career since in.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Twenty eleven, twenty elevens when I walked into the civils
of optics to now, and I'm still being optical.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And you love it, and you love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I love the fact that I get to provide a
clearer vision for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I enjoy, enjoy what I do.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I enjoy, you know, people that come in, you know
and depend on me to you know, make sure that
they see well and believe that I could do that job,
and I deliver all right, will be right.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Back, Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Simon Sinek often reminds us that leadership requires a vision
of the world that doesn't exist and the ability to
communicate it. Oh. Yes, you are the light, or at
the minimum, you're walking with the light. And quite often
you'll discover that the realization of your vision, or the
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path to worthy achievement is not a straight line. The
going requires specificity of purpose and courage and discipline and determination.
Everything that has gone by and the getting there sources
you're going. It's often only reflection that you may recognize
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such things, so be encouraged. It's an adventurous journey to
be a founder. We are back with mister Kenny Hercules,
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the man with muscles within, founder of Fashiontastic and King
k I wear Kenny. You became a model?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
How did that come to be? Really surely? I had
no idea it was going to be a model until
one day.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I was at the workplace of the mother of my
children before we had kids, and there's where I met
Melissa Paine, who's a future formist universe, and there was
a guy in a fashion recar around that time, and
she was like, you know what, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You two, could you know, big models, you know, coming
on to this what's happening?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
And we decided to go to the day audition and
we went and you know, decided, you know, they're gonna
sell like us, and we got you, you know, through
the forest part of the process, and then from there
we started training and I was like, you know, I
like this, you know I could do this, and I
was willing to do it, but now willing to.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
To you know, go all out, because I mean when
I was studying. I was like, you know what I mean,
I just wanted to do it for the fun.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
But then while I was doing the rehearsals and all
these things, and I hear a lot of chatter from
a lot of people, you know, about male models on
the runway.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I was like, you know, well I can I can
do this for a reason now.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And I was like, you know, I can do this
because of this taking my attach to male models on
the run I'm going to break that barrier.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I began, I began to take it more serious.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
And then there's a kind of fashion with model search
competition coming round, and I decided to go and do that.
And you know, I mean, if I'm being honest, I
had no intentions of winning, but I intentions of making
an impact.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And I was usual to make an impact. And I
can remember that day though.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
It was the sixth of November when they announced the
male winner for the Model Image Winner.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
When they said Kenny Hercules, I was like, yo, yo, So.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know I got there. You know, I appreciated it,
and from there's like, okay, I accomplished this. What do
I do from here? So I joined a model agency
which was Jada's Model Agency owned by Melissa Payne m HM.
I was there working minsicsipating for a few years, you know,
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in the agency.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Sorry, I'm part of the agency.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Then she put me on to start working with her
as one of our assistant coach and you know, I
started working with our assistant coach and then you know,
she moved up to being the managing director of the agency.
Through that period, we got a lot of things that
we would have took some models to Fashion Week, to
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New York and New York to do some shows in
New York, something to New York Fashion Week as well.
We've got to get a lot of people out of opportunities,
you know, through our collaboration. And she would have moved
on after I went to the States, and she's living
in the States right now doing her things still with
our shows and stuff. But I'm here and I've decided
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to launch and do my own thing, which was Fashiontastic
Model Agency.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So I started my agency. I started my agency with
a show. So the show basically was to scoop out
all of the.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
People who are interested in modeling and designers and designing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So what my show is based on is.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
My show introduced new faces to the industry, new models,
new designers. So in the first year we did the show,
just twenty twenty two, we showcased about sixty new designers
and thirty new models into the industry. And they are
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today doing your thing and making me so proud.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, So.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The show basically promotes a lot of new and aspiring
models and designers and it's a platform because how it
started is when during a pandemic, everybody was home. Everything
was a stand. Me and a friend, we sit down.
He was like, you know, there's no guy in a
fashion week. There's no Curta and fashion week, there's no
big fashion show going on, you know, to you know,
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bring out models and stuff. You know what's going on.
And we decided to do something. You know, even though
we both decided to do something, she came along, and
you know, then she pulled off and I decided to
go ahead and still do it, and I did it.
She was a part of it this first year. Still
she came as she hosts. We pulled it off, and
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the next year we did it again. The third year,
the third year was not second year was a good year.
The second year we took it to Herman's Lodge where
we also include the jam Zone delegates into the fashion show.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Jam Zone delegate, Yes, tell me Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
So twenty three, the team for fashion Tastic was.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What was the team again?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Something with Barbie something bar because around the time was
the Barbie season and we had over fifty models who
auditioned and we also had the ninth semi finalists in
the Miss jams Zone pageant and part of the show
because we got to collaborate with ag and a jam
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Zone committee to have the girls a part of the
runway show to help them, you know with the.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Performance and stuff. So we had them a part of
the event and they did really well.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, that was a really good year and I'm
thinking that next year I'm going to take it back
there to her Mission Lage. Right now, Fashion Classic is
just focusing right now, so we're going to focus on
doing workshops to help We're going to we kind of
do a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
From the way we approached it before when it comes.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
To brain out and was we did it that way
the models, MK. We produce a lot of models, But
whatever realizes is that because of the work life, we
cannot say, let's have a school for models because they
have other things that you got to focus on. But
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we can do we could work on a period of
time and work and train you and have you on
contact so that when we're looking for models, we know
who to contact instead of just having models training every
single weekend or every other weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And is what I saw part of what I saw
when I met Andrew the silver Is that part of
that or that those.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Were some models, some of the models, there were some
season models and well some of them were some new
ones that we brought in and give them the opportunities
over the first time, but some of them were just
there to encourage the new ones and show them what
is you know what to do?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So you have you planned one to come off you
select year? Yes, we skipped this year.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
This year I escaped it because you know it was
a little bit hast last year because you know, I
was coming out of I was coming out to recovery
with my leg being broken and stuff. But this year,
next year, sorry, We're going full steam ahead and bring
it bigger and better. Because what I'm looking to do
next year not only have a fashion show, but also
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have a kind of models competition within the show.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Why do you want to do this the model's competition, No,
the whole thing, the fashion show?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, fashion yes, yes, yes, I know you said at
the beginning, and I don't want to give you any
for me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
When I started modeling, I started.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
As a normal young man who you know, just figuring out,
you know, yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But you know, when I got into modeling and I started.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Doing not only modeling, but workshops within the modeling industry,
you know, with Sony no Well and these different people
and having different mentors and stuff. You know, they taught
me how to be hungry for success and how to
be disciplined and how to really be persistent with whatever
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you want and go after it because it is possible.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So because of that, I find that it's a safe.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Zone and a kind of environmental help groom young people
to not just you know, focus on basically nine to
fight it, but you know it's possible to you have
your own brand or you know, use your brand.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
And that's why I see as a.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Model, as a model, you are your brand and you
can choose whatever you want to do with your brand,
use your boss. So you know, I try to encourage
a lot of young people to start young because if
I had the advice that they would have got given me,
you know, at that age, if had it younger, maybe
I would have been, you know, way ahead. But I'm
still grateful for where I'm at today, understand, and I'm
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grateful all the people that came along with my journey.
You know, I don't believe in nothing happening before the
time or whatever is so I find that is it
teaches you a lot of discipline. Modeling teach you a
lot of discipline because as a model, you got to.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Learn and you don't know, to take yourself.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You got to do, you know, the regular workout, you know,
just to keep yourself looking how you're supposed to look
at the model.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
If you really want to.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Get far in the game, you understand, and you know,
to build contents and these things take a lot, a
lot of discipline, and you know, so teach you a
lot to take. And with the discipline and stuff that
they're instelling you, true modeling it takes you not only
on the runaway, but beyond the runway. And that is
what I want to pass on to the young ones.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I love it. I love it. I love it. Will
be right back.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
You are on the journey with Neville yours truly, I
guess there is Kenny Hercules, founder of Fashion Tastic Model
Agency and King Kiwar sharing what it takes to be
a successful founder and top model in Georgetown, Guyana, the
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Caribbean and worldwide. Get more on ryocenter dot com and
ryosports dot com. Perhaps you are attracted to the model
or lifestyle of a model for its perceived glamour, the
opportunity to be under the bright lights, being the center
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of attraction. I gather that's not really what's at the
heart of being a true model. Let's find out.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Now. Can you just did mention how good.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
You're training for models and their ability to get shows.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I'm going to run away it would be for folks,
young folks.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
But then you mentioned it's even good for them after
they stop doing runway shows.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
What can you tell us a little bit about that?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
All right? So for models, we have the opportunities to
be in a lot of rooms and a lot of people,
and to network with a lot of people. So right
away there it creates a lot of opportunity for you,
not only on the runway, because there's a lot of
people you go and there's need for services, you understand.
And what I try to instill in a lot of
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people is that you know, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Of problems in the world. You know, what I'm all
you got to do is solve one of them. Solve
one of them. You understand and you can make it.
You understand me.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
And then from there you just keep trying to improve
yourself every single day.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Try to keep improve yourself every single day, try to
get better at something. And is that what lends you
to kink where or not?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well kink iwear kink.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, but having said that, spoiler you'll come back to
kink kre aware.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I can't care where. Maybe maybe I just give you
a hit.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
But ahead, the Kinky I Wear started after, you know,
I take my stuff to the runway. And then I decided,
you know, why not just provide a full service, and
you know, created a company where it could you know,
not only benefit from now, but you know, for generations
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to come, you know, and I got into you know,
providing the full service for myself, also providing services for
out of companies true king k Iwear like we do
work for out of companies, true kin k Iwear, you know,
and I just think it's because because of the quality
of service that I provide and timely, minor you know,
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that's what I do what I do, and I get
to do what I do.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Sorry, go ahead, you got a question?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No, no, And what's the response like from the community
to your product?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
It's good, it's good. I mean my services.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I try my best with my service to try to
give people exactly what they want to be satisfying, affordable,
on quality service. And the response is good. The response
has been good, you know, but still looking for ways
to improve.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And how long is that part of your business? Kinky?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I restarted since twenty sixteen, seventeen. Oh okay, it started
since then, but you know in the smallest kid and
actually it's yeah, and you're loving that.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yes, I am all right.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
What would be your advice to a young person coming
out of school? They don't know they want to be
a model or anything else. What would you tell those folks?
They don't have no idea of what you do, They
don't know what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
But these are good kids. I'm saying, these are good kids.
What would be your best advice?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I advice would tell them is to find something that
you really won't mind waking up every day and do that.
You really won't mind even on Sundays it don't mind.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Getting them to do it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
That's the only way you really you know, do you
give your best in something when you know you don't
really mind waking up and do it. You know you
love it, You're passionate about it. You know, find that
or you know, find a brand or a product for yourself,
create a brander product for yourself.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And you know, push it. You know there are supporters
out there willing to support you.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
But if you don't make that for a step and
you know, show it's called skill in the business, you know,
you won't get no support.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So don't be afraid.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
So, you know, whatever it is instilling you, I believe
that whatever instill in us, our dreams or vision, whatever
it is instilled in us, is for a reason and
we just gotta work. Don't worry about the resources, whatever
it is, just make the fourth step and work towards
manifesting it. You understand the resources come from God. You
just got to make that step to show that that
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you want it and He gave it to you.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Okay, I am back with mister Kles, what your favorite movie?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
All right, favorite movie? Favorite movie would be Bad Boys,
I'm not saying or bad Boy, Bad Boy with Will
Smith and Marvin Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I admire their friendship they had throughout the entire movie
part one, two and three.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's funny, right truth.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
You know, they go to the ends of the earth
to protect the own because of loyalty, and that is
something I really look forward to any friend.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
That I have.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Loyalty. Loyalty, key, you understand. So I admire I enjoyed
a movie I watch it about if I lie about
fifteen fifty times Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Bad Boys.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
If you were to go back to when you were
ten years old, ten years old, Yeah, you're ten years old,
and now your life is in front of you with.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
What you know now, what you would you want to
be different? If you would want anything to be different
at ten years old? The knowledge I have, now, Wow,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Somebody gave you a chance to pick and see where
you would be right now, and you saw it. But
now you're back to ten years old, there's a lot
of different.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Great lad You know, I was thinking to my career,
but in most instant I would have said no when
I said yes, so some people, not everybody, some people,
you know, because I saw what I did at the
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end of it, you know all, so I would have
said an oath of them. I would have showed my stepdad,
you know, I appreciate them more because you know, knowing
something and showing something is different or saying something as different,
because I did appreciate him, but I don't think I
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showed him enough.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
And I know he's pasted on you ever know it.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
You know, I would just make better choices, you know, like
make you know in my decisions that I make before
that you know that costs me.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I would say, I would have prevented that.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I don't know what the first I want to do.
I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. I
mean at if, at all, I have no regrets.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
You know, life is a learning process, you know, long
of the journey.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You know, things happen to not you know, break you,
but to make you. I believe that. You know, in
the situation, we have to grow through it, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
You know, we put the situation to see how we
respond and come out of that situation, and how we
come out of a respond I believe that you know,
the discerning I will come, you know, So, I mean
everything that happened.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I have no regrets.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
You know, it is life, and I'm just happy that
I have the strength within to deal.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
With what I'm dealing with and the challenges. You know.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I believe that whatever I face, you know, God is
hous with me to help me bring into it. So
I have no fear what's to come or whatever it is,
because I know it's already.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
My guy, I love it. I love it. I love it,
I love it. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Well, okay, Kenny, you have you have a good business running,
you have a good passion, you're looking for growth into.
But you're also a dad, a dad with three kids,
and I don't know the agents of the kids. That's
not another hero of that. How do you map those
in together? How do you make it all work together?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't find time for everything, you know.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I wake up in the mornings, I do my at
least our workouts.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
I'll go to the gym.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I have a few stuff at home. I would work
out from there. I start paring to my with my
work at home, start working at home. So from about
say nine about ten eleven. I work at home and
then I travel, come to Georgetown, go to my son's school,
he's a nursery, pick him up, take him home, visit
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my daughter's school, check out at lunchtime, go into the office,
handle the office at Ford started, to pick up my
daughter from lesson, then drop a room back to work.
Sometimes I work from my work, have no time. Really,
I work at any time, but I manage. You know,
it's all about your work, work life, work on personal
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life balance.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
I just I'm happy that I get the opportunity to
do what I'm doing, you know, especially you know, the
opportunity to pick up my kids from school, to spend
those times with them, the moments with them.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
You know, I just I'm just happy to get to
do what I do. And I don't complain about it.
That's good. Well completing with help.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
You gotta enjoy it, you don't mind doing it. I
love that you keep saying that part. You know, if
we could all find ways to enjoy what we do,
and we can, you know, I mean, that's my opinion
that whatever you do, even if it's not really the
best thing that you like doing, there are ways to
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enjoy for those folks who follow our blogs or magazines
online would see that train of thought on how to
be happy going over and over again. And as I said,
you have small kids and doing the dead stuff. What
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might have been different if you didn't have kids? Or
do they add more to what you're doing?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I don't know what may be different, because I mean
when I found out that I was getting the first kid,
I my hustle mentality change, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I started to hustle more hard.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
I remember at one point I was doing three jobs.
At one point I was working at a modern optical
service at the full time job, I was doing a
part time contract with a value ierer optical and at
that time I was working Dispature at night, Despature at night.
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So literally I had about two hours sleeps per day,
two to three hours sleep per.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Day, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But you know I understood that, you know, I had
a great responsibility coming and I had to pire myself
for it.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
And that's what I did. And since then the drive
never left me, you know, for hustle.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
I was.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I was hungry for success.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
And you know, another kid added to it, you know,
I decided to add another hustle to that. And that's
how I keep adding hustles, you know, So whatever it is,
because I want to make sure that my kids are comfortable,
you know, a good education, you know, a good and
healthy life and you know, provided things.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Not hitting on my parents, you know, because I don't
know the situation that we're in and.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I trust that they did the best, you know, but
you know, I feel like, you know, it's my responsibility
to do more for my kids and give them the
life that I wish I had not.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
But yeah, but let's let's touch some realities.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
We're actually in Guyana and Guyana is going through a
lot of changes. I don't know where you stand on that,
and so it seems to me from a person who's
just returned, that there's a great deal of opportunity.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
That's that as a parent, talk to me about that.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
How does what you do fit into where we are
in Guyana at this particular moment and where you anticipate
it's going forward?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Well with what I do when.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
It comes to the fashion industry, I help showcase the
new and aspiring models and designers in the fashion industry
and the fashion part of it. You know, I would
you know, I know there are young individuals who may
would have looked at a few of the shows or
you know, see a few runway shows and hope one
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day that they'll become a model or designer. You know,
I heard people talk about becoming a designer and stuff.
I don't know they talking about it because I'm there,
or they talking about because they're really passionate about it.
But I've heard a lot of chatters about you know,
people you know aspiring to be designers and you know,
with what I do there would help them, you know,
give them that platform to do what they do for
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the the Iwear business. The Iwear business, I remember in
twenty sixteen, you know, it was a part of the
agency and you know, we would stand up and say,
you know, because we go around as you know, what
where do you see seven five years from now?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
You see fires from now?
Speaker 4 (42:09):
And you know, one of my answers was, you know,
I want to be one of the first opticle in
Guyana to sell its own brand of iewear frames. It's
a work in progress, but it's coming soon. So I
want to make an impact in the in the ie
industry whereby you know, kin K, Iwear King, the eyewear
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you wear must be kink Iwear. It must be a
household name. You know when it comes to you know,
the time for my kids, then you know people must
know kink Iwear.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I mean there's a lot of support.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
Now, there's a lot of competitional and you know, there's
a lot of people fighting you down when you as
you go along, but you know you still got to
get up and do what you got.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
To do at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Because it's what I'm passionate about, and I see it's
not going to only benefit me but generations to come.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Would you like to share how how are you going
to make sure that that dream comes to past? I
know it's a hussle. I know it's hard work, right.
I know that you're going to keep focused on it.
But as you said, the competition is is at your
at your door. I'm guessing and getting on that show.
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In this show, the competition is going to be aware.
If there isn't if the ones that are not aware,
what are you going to be doing to keep ahead?
Or have you gone there yet?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Work? All right? You don't I don't mean for the spot.
I'm just.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
But uh, you know, we do business when it comes
to providing for customers and making sure customers are comfortable,
you know, I think that will take us far away,
you know, and make sure we have that bond with
the patients you know who seek our services. So you know,
it's all about building that relationship along term relationship with them.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
That's good you know in fact future to go because
how do you go back to it that?
Speaker 3 (44:18):
I think that's so so incredibly important to have that
bond with them.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
How do you come back to you?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
I believe, you know, people buy into you before they
buy into your product. So I actually, you know, give
myself to let people understand me who I am and
you know, and.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
They buy into my product from there. So I would
always have that bond with them.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
And there are a lot of things that they come
to me and you know, may say you could say,
get to waving that they won't do with other people.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
So they benefit from it as well too. It's lovely.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
So in ten years I anticipate from what you said,
there's a lot of folks who are aware of you,
or at least in Guyana would be wearing your brand.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
All right, Oh it's ten years too far away or
is it close to a little bit it's closer though,
but it's coming very soon. Very sharky good good.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
Yeah, well, Kenny, mister Hercules then with the muscles of
the size, the muscles coming out, saying, it's good Jim.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Recovering out of everything that's been dealing with last year.
So now I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Back, you know to I know you mentioned that a
couple of times, so last year you had some.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I almost lost my life last year.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
I'm grateful to be here today, still doing what I'm doing,
and I know that it is a purpose for me
and guys not ex finishing me yet. And I'm grateful
for for everything that's happened, and I'm grateful for the
lesson I learned through whatever that happened.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
In the past.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
And I'm here now and I am grateful and is
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, So you don't want to say what it was
not really okay, that's okay, it's not going to happen
moving forward, all right. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
You're always welcome on the show, and I'll look forward
to having you on again.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
I appreciate your time and I appreciate the fun we had.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
All right, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
That was Kenny Hercules. Entrepreneur, founder of Fashiontastic, model agency
and kink I Wear, father of three, sharing with us
his journey on becoming of founder and these few moments
have become quite enumbered with having muscles on the inside.
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I'm latching onto that muscles on the inside, strength and
support for grit, for persistence, for resilience, fragility. I think
I like it muscles on the inside. What about you,
how is your journey becoming a founder or are you
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contemplating going on that adventure?
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Now?
Speaker 3 (47:35):
You can find us, along with many collaborators and encourage
us across the spectrum around the globe on ryocenter dot com.
That's r y O C E N T e r
dot com, as well as on ryosports dot com. R
y O S P O R t s dot com
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our home base for the journey with nevill is the journey,
as in one word, the journey dot ryal sports dot com.
Have a gorgeous day now, see you next week.
I am who God says.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I am, Hello and welcome to the Journey, your radio
show hosted by Nevill d Angelou, author of a sound
bite life and Flight of the Views Monkeys, a PRG
Emerging Technologies Forum, keynote speaker and founder of RIO Sports.
I am Joseph Ellison Enjoy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I am Neville. My guest is Kenny mcidi's founder of
both Fashioned Testing and The King k I wear proud
father of three, coach and mentor to many emerging as
well as experienced models. Now, to be a successful founder,
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one has to have the on set sharp clarity of vision.
The founding requires a particular kind of stamina stick to
itiveness if you will, and smart, attractive leadership, grit, agility, resilience, adaptability, confidence,
strong into pre ex because these are just par for
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the course. So I was eager to discover what of life,
experience and learning, Imbuda, I guess with such rare qualities.
The first thing that struck me is his name, Hercules.
How apropos I am who God sees I am. Growing
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up in my neck of the woods, when I was
a boy, there wasn't a lad who didn't want to
be Hercules. That legendary Greco Roman hero, son of Zeus
and Alamina, who in his crib as a child, squashed
bare handed the head of two serpents the witch had
dispatched to kill him, And despite all kinds of treachery
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and trickery against him, he slayed the Nimian lion and
the nine headed Hydra, on and on and on, capturing
the mad bull that terrorized the island, greet and so much.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Sure he was such a hero.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So, mister Kenny Hercules, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Kenny Hercules is a humble youth, grew up in the
heart of Georgetown, then move over to the west side
of the Murorro where I, you know, went to school.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Came back to George Dung, finished.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
School, and then started my career in the optical industry.
From there I would have moved on to started modeling,
a career in modeling in twenty sixteen, where I then
become the Model Image Winner in twenty sixteen. And from there,
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I you know, decided to you know, be an entrepreneur,
not only taking my profession to the runway, which is
my optical business, also having a career in model training,
model coach, So I'm also a coach. I trained models,
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I train pageant delegates, and I even work with kids
and training them, pearing them for pageantry or even the runway.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Besides that, I'm a part of three.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I'm a part of three tribautiful kids to two girls
and one boy.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
All Hercules. So tell me about that your name Hercules.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
You know, it's funny. In high school, I was kind
of shame of the last name. Really I was, because
you know, I was this skinny guy in high school.
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I remember my dad he bought me this.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
High top boots. You know, they used to call me
the GPR boots. You know, the GPR kind of boots.
You tell me what high top steel to a kind
of boot? GPL again, right, you know engineers in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh yeah, God.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
So you know I was asking guy, you know, in
sharp pans, and you know, and I remember one day
we were standing assembly, and you know, the teacher was
calling out the names on the ready stuff, you know,
and then we walk up and go and I remember
she made to my name. She's like Kenny Hercules. I
was there standing, I looked around this and I was
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there looking around everybody because you know, and then it
was like Kenny Hercules, I decided that welcome going, but like.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well most of them.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But as you know, but then, you know, when I
started working and you know, started getting to know myself
and starting to really believe in myself.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You know, I stand. You know, I really loved my
name because you know, Kenny Hercules is very very unique,
very unique. Nobody got mister Hercules.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
And you know, when I started creating my gen which
is my kids, you know what I'm saying, you know,
given the name Hercules, you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's just creating my own family with the Hercules.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Could you tell me about your family background the Hercules.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
My family, my dad and my mom. They separated when
I was very young, about.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Four years I think, and you know, I grew up
the stepdad, who you know I really hold as a fad.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
As well, so I was lucky enough to have too
fat in my life. My grandmother she left, started with
my dad.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
This is where everything separate, split up when my grandmom
left and went to the United States. And then my dad,
you know, he started working in the interior.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And my mom had problems, so he you know.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Went away for a while and came back after but
she would have had already moved on with my stepdad.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
But I grew up in a home you know, we
didn't have much, but we were contented, so I was.
I was, you know, taught to be content with.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
What we have. I'm grateful for what we have, and
you know, I'm grateful for what my mom and my
stepdad would have provided for me and my sister and
my siblings, you know, a comfortable home. You know, they
taught us certain traits, you know, not to you know,
envy nobody, or you know, not to take up of
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wanting anything from anybody, anybody.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Taks and you know, they brought a lot of good
qualities in us.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
And you know, I can see today my sisters and myself,
we're doing very well for ourselves. And I can tell
my parents are proud. I believe though that, you know,
even though my family, you know, we didn't have much
growing up or whatever it is, you know, they did
the best they could have done for us.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
And you know, I believe because of that, their blessing.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Is we the kids now we're doing well so that
we could elevate the family.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's also.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Along the journey, we stop at intriguing places and meet
fascinating people with novel solutions to some of life's tricky questions.
And we play a few games and track the remarkable
characters of three classic books A sound Bite Life, Flight
of the Fused Monkeys and Illa Sat A Time to
Begin Again, all of which can be found on Amazon
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and Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I'm back with Kenny Hercules, the man with the muscles
on the inside. So what is it about your family
that influences you all to be such successful people?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
For my stepdad, what he did? You know?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I usually watch him, you know, come home, You come
home with even like a p history, one single pa history,
because you get it from you know, some function or
something you come from some function, you get a history.
And I would watch him share this pistory with each
and every one of us in the house. Make sure
everybody get a bite, even if it's that one single pastry.
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You understand me, And I always admired, even like, yeah,
why can't you have of it?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You know, you just say, you know, everybody got a little.
He always says this thing at all.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Share your slice and share your bread and tin slices,
very ten slices to make sure everybody gets understand.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So I know I admire that. And you know, I was.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
One time I was going through, you know, really rough
time with the one of my children.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
And I remember, you know, I was about to give
up at that time.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
And he was like, you know, he reminded me of
the struggles that he my mom went through.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And when I sit down and reflect, I was like, yo,
for real, and I was like, you know, it takes
a lot to be a man.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You know sometimes a lot of people don't know it,
but it takes it really takes a lot to be
a man.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
You got to be strong.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And you know, I admire the qualities that he had
and he's just showing me to do the same.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Man.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
You know, I really had to step up and be like,
you know what, I'm going to try my best. I'm
going to do my best always at all time. And
you know they the other thing I admire with him
is the ability to always help people, always help.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
He's always willing to help people.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And maybe I wouldn't have seen the benefit of it then,
but now, even though he's passed down, he's dead, he
passed away in turn twenty one. Even now, people I
meet when they said my class yourself was.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Like, yeah, I'd like yo. That man was a good man.
That man was the people speak highly of him up
to the day. Understand. People remember the things.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
That he did for them, and you know, it's really like,
you know, it's not you know, you don't levant, but
is your memory and the good things.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That you do for people, you know. And I can see.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
His blessings not only went to him, but also his
family because his blessings fall upon his children right now,
even myself and his wife because of the things that
he did.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
And that's like, yo, for real.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
I mean I gotta do the same thing because I
want blessings to follow my kids, understand. So you know,
the ability to always help I was, you know, always
have a willing hand to help somebody, you know, in need,
no matter how small.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
He had, whatever literally have, he would help.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I remember he gave away it will be fridge because
I bought the fridge.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You know, after started working and start, I bought the
fridge and.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I was like, okay, so I'm going to use this
fridge in my room because you know, I want of
my own things in my privacy because my sister's in
the house to you know, they eatn my stuff. So
I want to have my own privacy and stuff. And
I remember when I brought that Fred, before I could
take it in my room, he already give me the
fridge on the side, so I had chance to leave out.
So I was like this money, answer the question. He
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just give away, and he's the extrace you want to
you just want to give. You want the old one.
So you know, but I admired Ad, you know, and
people always remember him for that, and you know that's
a quality, you know, admire and I will take on.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
What took you into optics.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
All right, to be honest. When I finished high school.
The funny thing is I finished high school on Friday.
I started working on Saturday. It's a no joke.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So my cousin he Kelvin Kelvin Cash. He's married now.
He was a supervisor at the Sunnayshine.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Snats that provide a lot of these serials, serials serials
as well to conflicts and these snacks.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Okay, so just a.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Well known company. I think the train that in company.
But I have a franchise here and getting he was
supervised here, and I remember going there and work. You
know that just because of the school, not you know,
if i'd anything idle to do whil he have the time,
you know, just for the time until I get results.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was working for you know, a few more me.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
I would there a few more because it was literally
one months, because I realized could be so heavy. So
I was working there, you know, you know, we do
getting up bills and stuff. And then one time they
put me on the container to remove Cadbury chocolate. It's
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not on the continuing I thought it was just chocolate,
why not help, you know, take off this about the chop.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I picked up one box. I was like, wow, chocolate
our tiles. It was heavy. I was like nah.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I was like whoa. When I go home that day,
I was sore. So I was like, I'm going back?
Are you going back? And I then sent in an
application to the Silver House of Optics okay, and I
got hired pending results because they had my six result
as yet, I.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Was pending results. They took me on, they trained me.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I was on probation period and you know, we went
to head after the prevision period and stuff, they hired me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And after hiring me training, they.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Sent me to the study and so I did my
auptation course and was working.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
There for a while.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Then they had a fire in twenty thirteen I think,
I don't know, Yeah, they had a fire in twenty thirteen,
you know where they burnt down. And after then they
had you know, got to lose some staff for the company.
But I was still working with her, and after the time,
I decided.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To move on.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And then I went to Miracle Opticle and then spent
a year and a half.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was a distance.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I went to an accident WHI was working there, so
with the traveling and stuff I used to ride, moved
the back at that time. So because of that, I
came back down to George n start working like Modern
Optical Service. I worked there for about nine years and
then I move on to the company i'm working with
right now, which is an express Obticle. There's a contract
staff moving over to be apartment staff recently because they
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have not of the office opening soon, so we're going
to be working with that. And so besides all of that,
I also have my own company which is kink I
Wear that I focus around. So kink I Wear basically
provide everything in optics.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
They accept surgery right we.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Do prescription filling, eye testing, repairs of broken glasses, basically
everything when it comes to replacing and repairing your glasses and.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Correcting your vision. But I started in this, in this,
in this career since in.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Twenty eleven, twenty elevens when I walked into the civils
of optics to now, and I'm still being optical.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And you love it, and you love it. I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
I love the fact that I get to provide a
clearer vision for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I enjoy, enjoy what I do.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I enjoy, you know, people that come in, you know
and depend on me to you know, make sure that
they see well and believe that I could do that job,
and I deliver all right, will be right.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Back, Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Simon Sinek often reminds us that leadership requires a vision
of the world that doesn't exist and the ability to
communicate it. Oh. Yes, you are the light, or at
the minimum, you're walking with the light. And quite often
you'll discover that the realization of your vision, or the
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path to worthy achievement is not a straight line. The
going requires specificity of purpose and courage and discipline and determination.
Everything that has gone by and the getting there sources
you're going. It's often only reflection that you may recognize
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such things, so be encouraged. It's an adventurous journey to
be a founder. We are back with mister Kenny Hercules,
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the man with muscles within, founder of Fashiontastic and King
k I wear Kenny. You became a model?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
How did that come to be? Really surely? I had
no idea it was going to be a model until
one day.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I was at the workplace of the mother of my
children before we had kids, and there's where I met
Melissa Paine, who's a future formist universe, and there was
a guy in a fashion recar around that time, and
she was like, you know what, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You two, could you know, big models, you know, coming
on to this what's happening?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
And we decided to go to the day audition and
we went and you know, decided, you know, they're gonna
sell like us, and we got you, you know, through
the forest part of the process, and then from there
we started training and I was like, you know, I
like this, you know I could do this, and I
was willing to do it, but now willing to.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
To you know, go all out, because I mean when
I was studying. I was like, you know what I mean,
I just wanted to do it for the fun.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
But then while I was doing the rehearsals and all
these things, and I hear a lot of chatter from
a lot of people, you know, about male models on
the runway.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I was like, you know, well I can I can
do this for a reason now.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And I was like, you know, I can do this
because of this taking my attach to male models on
the run I'm going to break that barrier.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
So I began, I began to take it more serious.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
And then there's a kind of fashion with model search
competition coming round, and I decided to go and do that.
And you know, I mean, if I'm being honest, I
had no intentions of winning, but I intentions of making
an impact.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
And I was usual to make an impact. And I
can remember that day though.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
It was the sixth of November when they announced the
male winner for the Model Image Winner.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
When they said Kenny Hercules, I was like, yo, yo, So.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
You know I got there. You know, I appreciated it,
and from there's like, okay, I accomplished this. What do
I do from here? So I joined a model agency
which was Jada's Model Agency owned by Melissa Payne m HM.
I was there working minsicsipating for a few years, you know,
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in the agency.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Sorry, I'm part of the agency.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Then she put me on to start working with her
as one of our assistant coach and you know, I
started working with our assistant coach and then you know,
she moved up to being the managing director of the agency.
Through that period, we got a lot of things that
we would have took some models to Fashion Week, to
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New York and New York to do some shows in
New York, something to New York Fashion Week as well.
We've got to get a lot of people out of opportunities,
you know, through our collaboration. And she would have moved
on after I went to the States, and she's living
in the States right now doing her things still with
our shows and stuff. But I'm here and I've decided
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to launch and do my own thing, which was Fashiontastic
Model Agency.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So I started my agency. I started my agency with
a show. So the show basically was to scoop out
all of the.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
People who are interested in modeling and designers and designing.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
So what my show is based on is.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
My show introduced new faces to the industry, new models,
new designers. So in the first year we did the show,
just twenty twenty two, we showcased about sixty new designers
and thirty new models into the industry. And they are
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today doing your thing and making me so proud.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, So.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The show basically promotes a lot of new and aspiring
models and designers and it's a platform because how it
started is when during a pandemic, everybody was home. Everything
was a stand. Me and a friend, we sit down.
He was like, you know, there's no guy in a
fashion week. There's no Curta and fashion week, there's no
big fashion show going on, you know, to you know,
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bring out models and stuff. You know what's going on.
And we decided to do something. You know, even though
we both decided to do something, she came along, and
you know, then she pulled off and I decided to
go ahead and still do it, and I did it.
She was a part of it this first year. Still
she came as she hosts. We pulled it off, and
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the next year we did it again. The third year,
the third year was not second year was a good year.
The second year we took it to Herman's Lodge where
we also include the jam Zone delegates into the fashion show.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Jam Zone delegate, Yes, tell me Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
So twenty three, the team for fashion Tastic was.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
What was the team again?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Something with Barbie something bar because around the time was
the Barbie season and we had over fifty models who
auditioned and we also had the ninth semi finalists in
the Miss jams Zone pageant and part of the show
because we got to collaborate with ag and a jam
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Zone committee to have the girls a part of the
runway show to help them, you know with the.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Performance and stuff. So we had them a part of
the event and they did really well.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, that was a really good year and I'm
thinking that next year I'm going to take it back
there to her Mission Lage. Right now, Fashion Classic is
just focusing right now, so we're going to focus on
doing workshops to help We're going to we kind of
do a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
From the way we approached it before when it comes.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
To brain out and was we did it that way
the models, MK. We produce a lot of models, But
whatever realizes is that because of the work life, we
cannot say, let's have a school for models because they
have other things that you got to focus on. But
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we can do we could work on a period of
time and work and train you and have you on
contact so that when we're looking for models, we know
who to contact instead of just having models training every
single weekend or every other weekend.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
And is what I saw part of what I saw
when I met Andrew the silver Is that part of
that or that those.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Were some models, some of the models, there were some
season models and well some of them were some new
ones that we brought in and give them the opportunities
over the first time, but some of them were just
there to encourage the new ones and show them what
is you know what to do?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
So you have you planned one to come off you
select year? Yes, we skipped this year.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
This year I escaped it because you know it was
a little bit hast last year because you know, I
was coming out of I was coming out to recovery
with my leg being broken and stuff. But this year,
next year, sorry, We're going full steam ahead and bring
it bigger and better. Because what I'm looking to do
next year not only have a fashion show, but also
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have a kind of models competition within the show.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Why do you want to do this the model's competition, No,
the whole thing, the fashion show?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, fashion yes, yes, yes, I know you said at
the beginning, and I don't want to give you any
for me.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
When I started modeling, I started.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
As a normal young man who you know, just figuring out,
you know, yourself.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But you know, when I got into modeling and I started.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Doing not only modeling, but workshops within the modeling industry,
you know, with Sony no Well and these different people
and having different mentors and stuff. You know, they taught
me how to be hungry for success and how to
be disciplined and how to really be persistent with whatever
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you want and go after it because it is possible.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
So because of that, I find that it's a safe.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Zone and a kind of environmental help groom young people
to not just you know, focus on basically nine to
fight it, but you know it's possible to you have
your own brand or you know, use your brand.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
And that's why I see as a.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Model, as a model, you are your brand and you
can choose whatever you want to do with your brand,
use your boss. So you know, I try to encourage
a lot of young people to start young because if
I had the advice that they would have got given me,
you know, at that age, if had it younger, maybe
I would have been, you know, way ahead. But I'm
still grateful for where I'm at today, understand, and I'm
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grateful all the people that came along with my journey.
You know, I don't believe in nothing happening before the
time or whatever is so I find that is it
teaches you a lot of discipline. Modeling teach you a
lot of discipline because as a model, you got to.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Learn and you don't know, to take yourself.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
You got to do, you know, the regular workout, you know,
just to keep yourself looking how you're supposed to look
at the model.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
If you really want to.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Get far in the game, you understand, and you know,
to build contents and these things take a lot, a
lot of discipline, and you know, so teach you a
lot to take. And with the discipline and stuff that
they're instelling you, true modeling it takes you not only
on the runaway, but beyond the runway. And that is
what I want to pass on to the young ones.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I love it. I love it. I love it. Will
be right back.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
You are on the journey with Neville yours truly, I
guess there is Kenny Hercules, founder of Fashion Tastic Model
Agency and King Kiwar sharing what it takes to be
a successful founder and top model in Georgetown, Guyana, the
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Caribbean and worldwide. Get more on ryocenter dot com and
ryosports dot com. Perhaps you are attracted to the model
or lifestyle of a model for its perceived glamour, the
opportunity to be under the bright lights, being the center
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of attraction. I gather that's not really what's at the
heart of being a true model. Let's find out.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Now. Can you just did mention how good.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
You're training for models and their ability to get shows.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I'm going to run away it would be for folks,
young folks.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
But then you mentioned it's even good for them after
they stop doing runway shows.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
What can you tell us a little bit about that?
Speaker 4 (28:12):
All right? So for models, we have the opportunities to
be in a lot of rooms and a lot of people,
and to network with a lot of people. So right
away there it creates a lot of opportunity for you,
not only on the runway, because there's a lot of
people you go and there's need for services, you understand.
And what I try to instill in a lot of
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people is that you know, there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Of problems in the world. You know, what I'm all
you got to do is solve one of them. Solve
one of them. You understand and you can make it.
You understand me.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
And then from there you just keep trying to improve
yourself every single day.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Try to keep improve yourself every single day, try to
get better at something. And is that what lends you
to kink where or not?
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well kink iwear kink.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yeah, but having said that, spoiler you'll come back to
kink kre aware.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I can't care where. Maybe maybe I just give you
a hit.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
But ahead, the Kinky I Wear started after, you know,
I take my stuff to the runway. And then I decided,
you know, why not just provide a full service, and
you know, created a company where it could you know,
not only benefit from now, but you know, for generations
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to come, you know, and I got into you know,
providing the full service for myself, also providing services for
out of companies true king k Iwear like we do
work for out of companies, true kin k Iwear, you know,
and I just think it's because because of the quality
of service that I provide and timely, minor you know,
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that's what I do what I do, and I get
to do what I do.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Sorry, go ahead, you got a question?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
No, no, And what's the response like from the community
to your product?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
It's good, it's good. I mean my services.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I try my best with my service to try to
give people exactly what they want to be satisfying, affordable,
on quality service. And the response is good. The response
has been good, you know, but still looking for ways
to improve.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
And how long is that part of your business? Kinky?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I restarted since twenty sixteen, seventeen. Oh okay, it started
since then, but you know in the smallest kid and
actually it's yeah, and you're loving that.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Yes, I am all right.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
What would be your advice to a young person coming
out of school? They don't know they want to be
a model or anything else. What would you tell those folks?
They don't have no idea of what you do, They
don't know what they want to do.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
But these are good kids. I'm saying, these are good kids.
What would be your best advice?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I advice would tell them is to find something that
you really won't mind waking up every day and do that.
You really won't mind even on Sundays it don't mind.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Getting them to do it, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
That's the only way you really you know, do you
give your best in something when you know you don't
really mind waking up and do it. You know you
love it, You're passionate about it. You know, find that
or you know, find a brand or a product for yourself,
create a brander product for yourself.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
And you know, push it. You know there are supporters
out there willing to support you.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
But if you don't make that for a step and
you know, show it's called skill in the business, you know,
you won't get no support.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
So don't be afraid.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
So, you know, whatever it is instilling you, I believe
that whatever instill in us, our dreams or vision, whatever
it is instilled in us, is for a reason and
we just gotta work. Don't worry about the resources, whatever
it is, just make the fourth step and work towards
manifesting it. You understand the resources come from God. You
just got to make that step to show that that
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you want it and He gave it to you.
Speaker 7 (32:10):
Okay, I am back with mister Kles, what your favorite movie?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
All right, favorite movie? Favorite movie would be Bad Boys,
I'm not saying or bad Boy, Bad Boy with Will
Smith and Marvin Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
I admire their friendship they had throughout the entire movie
part one, two and three.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's funny, right truth.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
You know, they go to the ends of the earth
to protect the own because of loyalty, and that is
something I really look forward to any friend.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
That I have.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Loyalty. Loyalty, key, you understand. So I admire I enjoyed
a movie I watch it about if I lie about
fifteen fifty times Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Bad Boys.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
If you were to go back to when you were
ten years old, ten years old, Yeah, you're ten years old,
and now your life is in front of you with.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
What you know now, what you would you want to
be different? If you would want anything to be different
at ten years old? The knowledge I have, now, Wow,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Somebody gave you a chance to pick and see where
you would be right now, and you saw it. But
now you're back to ten years old, there's a lot
of different.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Great lad You know, I was thinking to my career,
but in most instant I would have said no when
I said yes, so some people, not everybody, some people,
you know, because I saw what I did at the
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end of it, you know all, so I would have
said an oath of them. I would have showed my stepdad,
you know, I appreciate them more because you know, knowing
something and showing something is different or saying something as different,
because I did appreciate him, but I don't think I
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showed him enough.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
And I know he's pasted on you ever know it.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
You know, I would just make better choices, you know, like
make you know in my decisions that I make before
that you know that costs me.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I would say, I would have prevented that.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I don't know what the first I want to do.
I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. I
mean at if, at all, I have no regrets.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
You know, life is a learning process, you know, long
of the journey.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
You know, things happen to not you know, break you,
but to make you. I believe that. You know, in
the situation, we have to grow through it, you know.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
You know, we put the situation to see how we
respond and come out of that situation, and how we
come out of a respond I believe that you know,
the discerning I will come, you know, So, I mean
everything that happened.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I have no regrets.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
You know, it is life, and I'm just happy that
I have the strength within to deal.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
With what I'm dealing with and the challenges. You know.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
I believe that whatever I face, you know, God is
hous with me to help me bring into it. So
I have no fear what's to come or whatever it is,
because I know it's already.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
My guy, I love it. I love it. I love it,
I love it. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Well, okay, Kenny, you have you have a good business running,
you have a good passion, you're looking for growth into.
But you're also a dad, a dad with three kids,
and I don't know the agents of the kids. That's
not another hero of that. How do you map those
in together? How do you make it all work together?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't find time for everything, you know.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I wake up in the mornings, I do my at
least our workouts.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
I'll go to the gym.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I have a few stuff at home. I would work
out from there. I start paring to my with my
work at home, start working at home. So from about
say nine about ten eleven. I work at home and
then I travel, come to Georgetown, go to my son's school,
he's a nursery, pick him up, take him home, visit
(37:08):
my daughter's school, check out at lunchtime, go into the office,
handle the office at Ford started, to pick up my
daughter from lesson, then drop a room back to work.
Sometimes I work from my work, have no time. Really,
I work at any time, but I manage. You know,
it's all about your work, work life, work on personal
(37:28):
life balance.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
I just I'm happy that I get the opportunity to
do what I'm doing, you know, especially you know, the
opportunity to pick up my kids from school, to spend
those times with them, the moments with them.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
You know, I just I'm just happy to get to
do what I do. And I don't complain about it.
That's good. Well completing with help.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
You gotta enjoy it, you don't mind doing it. I
love that you keep saying that part. You know, if
we could all find ways to enjoy what we do,
and we can, you know, I mean, that's my opinion
that whatever you do, even if it's not really the
best thing that you like doing, there are ways to
(38:15):
enjoy for those folks who follow our blogs or magazines
online would see that train of thought on how to
be happy going over and over again. And as I said,
you have small kids and doing the dead stuff. What
(38:35):
might have been different if you didn't have kids? Or
do they add more to what you're doing?
Speaker 4 (38:46):
I don't know what may be different, because I mean
when I found out that I was getting the first kid,
I my hustle mentality change, you know.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
I started to hustle more hard.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
I remember at one point I was doing three jobs.
At one point I was working at a modern optical
service at the full time job, I was doing a
part time contract with a value ierer optical and at
that time I was working Dispature at night, Despature at night.
(39:22):
So literally I had about two hours sleeps per day,
two to three hours sleep per.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Day, you know.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
But you know I understood that, you know, I had
a great responsibility coming and I had to pire myself
for it.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
And that's what I did. And since then the drive
never left me, you know, for hustle.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
I was.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I was hungry for success.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
And you know, another kid added to it, you know,
I decided to add another hustle to that. And that's
how I keep adding hustles, you know, So whatever it is,
because I want to make sure that my kids are comfortable,
you know, a good education, you know, a good and
healthy life and you know, provided things.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Not hitting on my parents, you know, because I don't
know the situation that we're in and.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I trust that they did the best, you know, but
you know, I feel like, you know, it's my responsibility
to do more for my kids and give them the
life that I wish I had not.
Speaker 7 (40:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
But yeah, but let's let's touch some realities.
Speaker 8 (40:29):
We're actually in Guyana and Guyana is going through a
lot of changes. I don't know where you stand on that,
and so it seems to me from a person who's
just returned, that there's a great deal of opportunity.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
That's that as a parent, talk to me about that.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
How does what you do fit into where we are
in Guyana at this particular moment and where you anticipate
it's going forward?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Well with what I do when.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
It comes to the fashion industry, I help showcase the
new and aspiring models and designers in the fashion industry
and the fashion part of it. You know, I would
you know, I know there are young individuals who may
would have looked at a few of the shows or
you know, see a few runway shows and hope one
(41:25):
day that they'll become a model or designer. You know,
I heard people talk about becoming a designer and stuff.
I don't know they talking about it because I'm there,
or they talking about because they're really passionate about it.
But I've heard a lot of chatters about you know,
people you know aspiring to be designers and you know,
with what I do there would help them, you know,
give them that platform to do what they do for
(41:48):
the the Iwear business. The Iwear business, I remember in
twenty sixteen, you know, it was a part of the
agency and you know, we would stand up and say,
you know, because we go around as you know, what
where do you see seven five years from now?
Speaker 1 (42:07):
You see fires from now?
Speaker 4 (42:09):
And you know, one of my answers was, you know,
I want to be one of the first opticle in
Guyana to sell its own brand of iewear frames. It's
a work in progress, but it's coming soon. So I
want to make an impact in the in the ie
industry whereby you know, kin K, Iwear King, the eyewear
(42:33):
you wear must be kink Iwear. It must be a
household name. You know when it comes to you know,
the time for my kids, then you know people must
know kink Iwear.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I mean there's a lot of support.
Speaker 4 (42:46):
Now, there's a lot of competitional and you know, there's
a lot of people fighting you down when you as
you go along, but you know you still got to
get up and do what you got.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
To do at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Because it's what I'm passionate about, and I see it's
not going to only benefit me but generations to come.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Would you like to share how how are you going
to make sure that that dream comes to past? I
know it's a hussle. I know it's hard work, right.
I know that you're going to keep focused on it.
But as you said, the competition is is at your
at your door. I'm guessing and getting on that show.
(43:27):
In this show, the competition is going to be aware.
If there isn't if the ones that are not aware,
what are you going to be doing to keep ahead?
Or have you gone there yet?
Speaker 1 (43:42):
Work? All right? You don't I don't mean for the spot.
I'm just.
Speaker 4 (43:50):
But uh, you know, we do business when it comes
to providing for customers and making sure customers are comfortable,
you know, I think that will take us far away,
you know, and make sure we have that bond with
the patients you know who seek our services. So you know,
it's all about building that relationship along term relationship with them.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
That's good you know in fact future to go because
how do you go back to it that?
Speaker 3 (44:18):
I think that's so so incredibly important to have that
bond with them.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
How do you come back to you?
Speaker 4 (44:25):
I believe, you know, people buy into you before they
buy into your product. So I actually, you know, give
myself to let people understand me who I am and
you know, and.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
They buy into my product from there. So I would
always have that bond with them.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
And there are a lot of things that they come
to me and you know, may say you could say,
get to waving that they won't do with other people.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
So they benefit from it as well too. It's lovely.
Speaker 3 (44:54):
So in ten years I anticipate from what you said,
there's a lot of folks who are aware of you,
or at least in Guyana would be wearing your brand.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
All right, Oh it's ten years too far away or
is it close to a little bit it's closer though,
but it's coming very soon. Very sharky good good.
Speaker 8 (45:22):
Yeah, well, Kenny, mister Hercules then with the muscles of
the size, the muscles coming out, saying, it's good Jim.
Speaker 4 (45:37):
Recovering out of everything that's been dealing with last year.
So now I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
Back, you know to I know you mentioned that a
couple of times, so last year you had some.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
I almost lost my life last year.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
I'm grateful to be here today, still doing what I'm doing,
and I know that it is a purpose for me
and guys not ex finishing me yet. And I'm grateful
for for everything that's happened, and I'm grateful for the
lesson I learned through whatever that happened.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
In the past.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
And I'm here now and I am grateful and is
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Okay, So you don't want to say what it was
not really okay, that's okay, it's not going to happen
moving forward, all right. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
You're always welcome on the show, and I'll look forward
to having you on again.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
I appreciate your time and I appreciate the fun we had.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
All right, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
That was Kenny Hercules. Entrepreneur, founder of Fashiontastic, model agency
and kink I Wear, father of three, sharing with us
his journey on becoming of founder and these few moments
have become quite enumbered with having muscles on the inside.
(47:08):
I'm latching onto that muscles on the inside, strength and
support for grit, for persistence, for resilience, fragility. I think
I like it muscles on the inside. What about you,
how is your journey becoming a founder or are you
(47:31):
contemplating going on that adventure?
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Now?
Speaker 3 (47:35):
You can find us, along with many collaborators and encourage
us across the spectrum around the globe on ryocenter dot com.
That's r y O C E N T e r
dot com, as well as on ryosports dot com. R
y O S P O R t s dot com
(47:57):
our home base for the journey with nevill is the journey,
as in one word, the journey dot ryal sports dot com.
Have a gorgeous day now, see you next week.
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