 and welcome back to why in the morning and this is entrepreneurship Tuesday and my name is Barry Moses or it's very morning with social media platform so special thanks to Color Me Val for that amazing interview and with that amazing content creator and we did one better we brought another content creator so this is a beautiful day for content creators this is the show to watch because you're bound to learn a lot my next guest goes by the name Miss Jackson I like to call her Miss Jackson but she's Liz Jackson she's a student a commercial model a content creator a model of the year 2019 lengths clothing and a vlogger as well Karibusana. Thank you. All right your camera is number four if I missed anything this is your chance to say any of your a.k.a. is in any of the roles that you play that I can't mention just look them straight into their eyes. Okay so I'm Liz Jackson I'm a content creator at Viscuit official I'm a model I'm a commercial model to be precise I'm also model of the year 2019 Lincosi clothing and I also do have a YouTube channel that I recently started it's at least Jaxx on Kenya. All right I was headed to Alepolos. Alepolos? Yes. Oh Alepolos it was actually a road trip to Alepolos that I thought people do not know about places to go in Kenya so I actually thought of doing a road trip to all the polos and it was fun and when we got there it was amazing the view the swimming pool the food it was just amazing. All right so this is called local tourism that's what they call it. All right is this the direction your content is going to be tailored to it? Yeah it's lifestyle fashion and travel. Lifestyle fashion and travel. You recently started vlogging but you have been doing this modeling thing for a while. Yes. You appeared in a number of music videos some controversial and some just normal music videos but I'd like to know when did your journey start? My journey started on September that was the first time that I actually did a song so I was doing I was modeling so there's these specific outfits that I had and I posted it on Instagram then the manager Riko Gang called me and asked me I was actually looking for these kind of outfits for people to wear on sets. This is courtesy of the clothing line? Yes the link was the clothing. So he asked that what you're wearing is what I wanted people to wear on set so he asked can you bring the outfits so that my Vixens can wear and then I told him it was not going to be possible so he said instead of bringing the clothes why don't you come yourself to their sets so I asked what am I going to be doing on set he said the song it's a story line so it's like okay cool if I'm acting on the song and I'm not doing I'm not dancing but let me just come so I went. Do you prefer acting than dancing? Yeah I prefer acting than dancing. Role-playing, at least play some role in the video. Yeah yeah yeah but dancing no no no. All right. Yeah so we went we shot it and people okay at first when we put see you in a song when you say you're on Vixens people think you're ratchet so when I was doing it's the perception yeah it's the perception so when I was on set I was like what are people people going to say am I doing the right thing but I was just like okay let me just do this so I did the first song after doing the first song now I started getting more calls to do other songs yeah but I'm very choosy. With the songs that you do? I like songs that have a storyline so I'm basically acting in the song but not dancing. Not dancing. So Rafa is trying to call Liz to appear in a video you better know she likes acting in the song rather than just dancing. There's more queens can do in a music video than just dance. That is what you're trying to say. I'm already getting calls on your social media people want to know your social media so just share that with them so they can stalk you while you guys. So my Instagram handle is Liz Jackson it's Liz underscore J dot A dot son but if you just search Liz Jackson you'll be able to get me then on Facebook I'm Liz Jackson Kenya YouTube Liz Jackson Kenya. Alright so you're a student at the University JQuest. Yes, yes, yes. Lex and what are you studying them? I'm doing a degree in project planning and management and I'm a 30-year student. A 30-year student. Alright was this your subject of choice? No, I always wanted to be a pilot but like every other kid. Yeah like every other kid but mine was I was actually the chair in the aviation club in my high school I was in Pangani Girls High School so I actually thought I was going to do an aviation related course but it wasn't possible. It wasn't possible. The fee is not one-shilling. Of course it's very tough to be a candidate. Which reminds me we have a new tax that is going to be set on small scale traders and it goes it's the aka is the mama bogatask the tax and we asked a question about it on Facebook I'm sorry for that right there. Head straight to our Facebook and tell us what you think about this particular tax that small scale traders are going to be pay in this country as from January 2020. You use your feedback any comments I really appreciate it so the fee is not cheap yeah right there that's why you opted to do something else but do you think it's working for you considering you're a jack-of-all-trades these projects need management. Yeah I didn't want a course that was going to limit me on one field like I wanted to do a course that will enable me to work anywhere as I'm modeling it's also a project and I'm doing project management so when I'm doing yeah it's also a project so I'm able to use what I learn in school I put it into practice. You're actually applying once you study in school. I like most of us. All right I like too much. So on your Instagram you go by the name Liz Liz Ms. Jackson. All right so what type of content are people set to see on your Instagram? Oh my Instagram currently I'm just doing photos and quotes. Yeah I love photos and quotes. I like to focus on motivational things. You are also a motivational speaker but you speak in silence. You speak through the graphics and the pictures. Yeah true. All right what is it about motivating people that motivates you? I actually like motivating people based on my story when we have come from. What is the story? I'm curious. My dad passed on when I was really young and I was actually studying in Chicago and when I was there I couldn't speak English I couldn't speak Swahili so when I came to Nairobi kids were making fun at me they gave me Zuri fights. How old were you when this happened? When you did the transition from the village to Nairobi? I came to Nairobi when I was in class 2. Class 2? Yeah. That's you were still young. Yeah I was really young but it really affects you. It really affects you as a child. For example when you're playing breaky show. You don't understand what you have to put up with with the mean kids. Yeah yeah. So growing up in this environment. Can you know where's your story? So after going to that specific school after like one term I was always leading position one until the day I left that school. That's how you got yourself to Panganigals? No I went to a boarding school in Nanyuki afterwards but people were very surprised that I came I was fluent in English not even fluent I didn't know a single word in English because we were studying in Kikuyu so when I came it was just a huge and then funny thing in Kikuyu there were seven alphabets. So when I came here there were five alphabets. I mean bowels. Five bowels. Yeah so I was just confused. I was just confused but it worked well. It worked for you. So the only subject you used to fail in was English. Maths you used to beat all of them. We were doing maths in Kikuyu. So even knowing numbers in English was a task. It was a process. But you ended up being the top of your class by the time you were graduating in primary school. Yes yes Wonderful that's some drive right there and that's some brains. All right. So most the times I hear motivational speakers the one that you speak of the ones that you speak of the ones that motivate you and some of them you post them. They say if you want to achieve something put all your energy focus all your energy into one thing but you don't seem to be doing this and why is this currently I'm in school so I don't have like a specific niche of what I want to do after school and I have my course allows me I have so much time so when I'm not I'm not modeling I can't model Monday to Friday the days I have sets on Mondays sets on Wednesdays what am I doing on Tuesday I can't I can't be idle and I actually I was actually selling shoes at some point before I joined the unit so this is just a tip of ice for us you've done a lot a lot I used to sell 50 pairs of shoes in a day all right just give them some sales advice the guys who are trying to get it to sell 50 pairs of shoes in a day is not a joke for me some sales advice for the why the morning viewers please can you see why the morning entrepreneurship Tuesday for me social media always works it does always work you just need to have a strategy for the shoes I used to use Facebook so what you do is you get on groups that are specific for shoes that's when now you'll get customers but if you're selling shoes and in a group for cooking and politics it doesn't make sense yeah so you have to be very specific very specific very strategic yeah Facebook works yeah what's up what's up works okay Facebook I give you my number if you want a pair of shoe you tell me the color in size I what's up you and then I don't have a physical location in town so I'm the one who used to do the deliveries yeah what made you stop retailing shoes from selling 50 shoes in a day I'm guessing that is very good money yeah made you transition from that to focusing on creation and creativity actually selling shoes is what opened my mind I realized that I can be a very good business woman but when I joined the uni I didn't have the time to come to town the time to reply comments because I used to post a pair of shoe it gets over a hundred comments and I need these actually a post that got a thousand comments not even one more than one month so many posts used to get more than a thousand comments and I have to reply back I have to give you my number I have to get back on you on what's up it was a lot of work yeah so you had to choose you had to pick between school yeah and carrying on with your retail business yeah but school one yeah got the the high side if we can just get to see an Instagram please I see women that as we as we as we focus on Instagram we remember we're on social media at white for channel on Twitter white for for underscore channel on Instagram and white for on Facebook and Facebook and Twitter we have a question what do you think about the the mama on bogey tax that is the aka the tax is going by this is a tax that is going to be levied on the small-scale traders as from January 2020 so tell us what you think about that if what belongs to Caesar should be given to Caesar or they should pardon the guys who run small businesses so Lee's Jackson yeah right your profile is picturesque miss Jackson student commercial model content creator model of the year 2019 link link course because he clothing and that is your YouTube channel right there if you can scroll down a bit thank you for welcoming us to 2020 right there then the first quote is never let one failure from the past hold you back in future does this tell you story did you relate to this yeah I did there's actually times let me use my shoe business for example you will call a customer you plan on meeting at this time at this place and then you switch off their phone they don't show up yeah spend your fair and everything so you never let this failures with the vision we give you thanks are you a Christian yes you're strong believer of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and you say your prayers yeah I can see you're a lover of food yeah I can see tell me what is obsession with food and whining and dining I actually did home science I cook all right I'm a good cook you're a good cook yeah so I love food that looks good all right yeah who can vouch for you sorry who can vouch for you to be a good cook as a good cook who can I ask to confirm that's a good one I'm gonna find them my mom your mom can vouch for you all right so we've come to to we've come to an agreement that food whining and dining is a passion fashion is a passion and motivation is a passion yeah chin up girl you're not who you were a year ago celebrate that yes I started doing all this in September I had three thousand followers it's barely been four five months and I'm here it means a lot you now 15.3 K 15.3 yeah all this is organic yeah yeah no sponsored yeah post no buying yeah no following so many people and then you unfollow them later all this is organic all these are your fans yeah I like this all right so apart from this link or link or see clothing at the other clothes the clothes lines you've worked with no currently no currently no you're loyal to one yeah I'm loyal all right is that a trait that you carry in other aspects of life yeah I'm always loyal because the moment you give divided attention the quality is always low yeah all right yeah the moment you divide your attention to something you don't give full concentration full concentration yeah all right well said right sir have faith in yourself is the last quote we are going to end this with and what does this mean to you always believe in yourself never doubt yourself do not speak anything negative to yourself even though it's a joke just take take life seriously take what you say to yourself seriously and have faith in yourself never say anything negative to yourself even though it's a joke like no don't never accept those times yeah yeah yeah why wow that is that is sort of deep where it was this way is all this wisdom coming from God right all right so I'd like to get to the to the downsides of the business that you're in and one of them is that the influence the queens were influences models and content creators tend to to use sex to sell yeah what do you have to say about this I'd like to know your opinion is it right or wrong and what do you have to say about this in my own opinion I don't think the right thing to do it's not the right it's not the right thing to do yeah it's not the right thing to do just be genuine yeah because I actually that they're pull who post things but they don't post what they're doing you wonder where is this person getting their money you know and I always tell myself just do the right thing if you keep on using shortcuts to success it will catch up with you shortcuts are going to catch up with you in the long run yeah all right so it's not something you would advise that's why you are specific not to dance yeah and act when it's necessary yeah all right I feel that I feel that I feel that so we have one of your videos from YouTube you are recently started creating content for YouTube and you have told people about yourself on YouTube yeah this is a song that you appeared on so I think we are going to be talking about this song but I really wanted to finish up with this song I really wanted to wrap this interview up with this song but we can talk it up we can talk about it a little bit how does this work do you get calls from boondocks gang or from the manager and you told me like to see you on this day and this day we're shooting a video this is these are your roles this is the check for this specific video I do have a photographer my personal photographer so his friends with them so when they were shooting this he asked what are you doing I in the house yeah we are actually shooting today he does behind the scenes for this so he asked could you come and I said fine so when I got there I was actually I didn't even know I was going to feature in the song so X-ray X-ray he's the one in the middle he asked me to get a new one he asked can you come to my set and I was like okay and no one is touching me I'm just standing on my own five let's do very particular don't touch me let's do this let's just do the business yeah that is how you work and if any directors looking to work with you they should know for sure all right what do you think about what are some of the meanest things you've heard meanest about yourself or people telling you someone called me ratchet because they saw me on a song and so people really get too quick to judge when they see you to judge and music videos what would you tell such people since this is a career and this is a line of work and people make money from this what would you tell that person who thinks alright ladies who appear in music videos not applicable do not judge someone you don't know why the person isn't there you don't know what they've gone through maybe at our Kwanakazi but also you also don't think that this person is going to be doing this forever they may be using it as a strategy or they just step in life yeah I feel you I feel you I feel so this is a job like any other job yeah it is alright considering you have your own terms and conditions you had at the ladies on set yeah how was the energy kind of like they actually some who don't talk to me I don't know why because you see you get there and treat act like the style of the show yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah all right what would you tell such people who hate on people were aware and confident and know what they want you shouldn't hate on someone because they're being themselves like for me I can't I can't dance in a so don't judge me because I can't mind your own business it's very weird to judge somebody because they can't yeah now you think all right I feel yeah all right thank you very much for this video if we can get one of the vlogs from a YouTube channel that is that Liz Liz Jackson key Liz Jackson key lifestyle fashion and travel this is one of the logs on your YouTube channel and this was about the trip to all the polls yeah all right we're going to be seeing more of these kind of videos yeah yeah I had to cannot break but since we are in 2020 I'll be posting a video every week all right what is the motive with this kind of videos what do you what are you planning to achieve because I know with modeling you're planning to the plan is to move the clothes out of the shelf yeah to sell more and more clothes with the being a student it's to to know how to manage your project so you can get a job that can finance your business but what is the motive with this is these kind of logs that you're doing about troubling okay for me actually I'm I'm not an 8 to 5 person like I don't envision of myself being in an office from 8 to 5 getting commands from someone managing people's projects yeah yeah yeah and I'm making them reach in the process yeah and the ones who decide how much to pay me all right so I I don't think okay maybe I'll be employed at some point but I really want to do just my own thing so to me this is actually a job that I'm starting but for every job for every company there's a vision there's a mission so that is the kind of thing I'd like to know what is the vision what is the mission how do you how do you how do you how do you plan to impact with this okay for me my there's actually the first video that I did it's it's about my life story where I came from so actually in my YouTube it's like I'm speaking to people showing them my journey from where I started that's why I shot my life story as the first video I want them to see me grow I want them to yanny I want them to see that no matter where you came from you're going somewhere and you to be just like me telling my story my travel story and just random videos of things that happened in my life and I'm actually inspiring people but earning from it right yeah so traveling is also a passion we have established which is a most beautiful place in Kenya you've been to from your perspective you take that place you love you love bush flights you know bush flights yeah just flying in the bush in the blue just having a hotel in the bush in the middle of the bush but when you get inside it's amazing all right yeah should try that yeah in Kenya so another question and this one is has nothing to do with entrepreneurship who gives you those sneakers I love the sneakers they sneak a key I buy them are you by you share with me you try to we can't share that all right so what is the future of Liz as a brand because I consider you a brand now you're into so many things I can't say you were one yeah I actually want to start my own business yeah yeah so I don't want by the time I'm done with school I said Tamaki like no that's what I figured out let me just all this when I'm in school such that when I graduate I'll be somewhere all right yeah wonderful sneakers are back again thank you very much for coming through why in the morning but before you leave two big questions what you've heard about this patriotism tax yeah all right yeah it's going to be leave it on a small scale traders mama boggams who are duke there are 3% and perspective for every hundred they pay three shillings what do you think about this do you think um I don't think it's fair it's not fair I don't think this is just trying to make ends meet yeah and by introducing these taxes you're just making it hard for them it's making it harder for them yeah my mama is actually been a whole car so when I see such things happening on this day you feel the pain you know the struggle yeah the struggle all right it's like also you look at the profit margin that they make they could be making five shelling let's let me give an example of Naniya they're selling it at 10 and then they're making a profit of five and then now you're taking three shillings for tax from tax from the total yeah all right so I get your point so it's it's a very small amount to be taxed yeah yeah all right that is a take on that tell us what you think about it on our Facebook then we'll be sampling your views your comments in a few the next question or the next this is just a proposal don't be scared okay what did you tell the ladies who are watching you right now and would like to be like you just some words of inspiration this is your first gig as a motivational speaker yeah thank you ladies only you just talk to the ladies I want to give you so much work yeah okay first be yourself and also try and do the right thing also stay away from negative energy and anything that influences you to do just things that are not right yeah and also take care take care people out here people are not nice yeah even getting a modeling gig there's so many let me be specific some men they're just evil so before they actually give me a job they want to be biased all right yeah all right so this is something ladies go through on a day-to-day in this industry so be very careful and favors people will ask for favors for sure be careful yeah do the right thing do the right thing and be careful yeah it's a doggie doggie thank you very much share with them your social media handles one last time so they can check you out okay so on Facebook I'm a Liz Jackson Kenya on Instagram Liz Jackson on YouTube Liz Jackson one word space then ke all right yeah thank you very much Liz Jackson if we have some comments on Facebook we'd like to sample them and my director please but as we line those up a white fair for channel Twitter white for four underscore channel on Instagram and white for four on Facebook white for four channel on YouTube because that is where you catch us when you miss these hot programs right here my name is by Moses or it's by morning we social media platform and yes it seems like we are going to be having them in the next link so until then bye bye