 I do not just step on a hair. I love how grossed out he is too. He's like a hair. What's going on everybody? Welcome to a special episode of Life of a Sneakerhead. I brought you guys on today because I know you guys are working in the sneaker industry in New York, which is like the epicenter of sneakers. This is where sneaker culture comes from. So I just want to talk with you guys about your experiences being a female sneakerhead in the industry. Real quick just to let you guys know that we are selling stuff on the low for charity. All donations going to Seattle Music Partners because shout out to Raph. He was voiced so much in the music and encouraging and inspiring guy. Thank you. All right, so you gotta download the Bump app right now and follow the Bump account because they are having a special drop of 20 of the rarest Supreme items today at 11 a.m. Pacific. It's gonna be crazy. Here are just some pics of what they're selling. Crazy rare stuff. You don't want to miss this. Check out the Bump account. The items that we are selling opening ceremony varsity leather jacket. Ooh. The one that Super Duper Kyle was wearing. What size is that? It's a male large. So if you want to wear the oversized one. Take it. I'll take it. Black cement threes, they are worn but in very good condition for 120 bucks. Yo. Classic. That's a pretty poppin' price, right? Okay, so I got these Adidas James Harden pencil academy shoes. The ones that we helped judge in the Pencil Academy series. Oh, snap. So it was cool. But I did wear them. I did wear them. I'm gonna sell them for 40 bucks on the Bump account. Yo, that's a steal. Crazy. That is a steal, my guy. Pippin' twos, white varsity red. One of my favorite shoes of all time but I gotta let him go. 50 bucks. Yo. Queen. Full grade leather. Penny twos in the white, 35 bucks. Kyrie fours in size 10. I won them though. I hooped at them. 25 bucks. Light club shorts. And I wore them clean though. Yeah, I'm like, did you watch them? 15 bucks. And then a brand that we all like, Amé. Amé shirt, long sleeve, 15 bucks. All the proceeds from those sales are going to charity, Seattle Music Partners, in memory of Rafael Batista. Shout out to Rap. So I currently do marketing strategy for Foot Locker previously, worked in finance. Then I used to head up marketing over at everyone's favorite consignment shop, Flight Club. I help with all the storytelling for Sarac, his newest product, VS. And I have my own women's sneaker fashion blog called For the Kick of It. All about that women empowerment in the sneaker world. I can tell you from knowing guys that are in the sneakers, a lot of them judge girls like, oh, they don't know as much. Right. How can you not be really into it? Or for some reason they're salty. I've been fortunate enough where I haven't had anyone necessarily be salty to me. I think at all. In person. Right, in person. I don't know what everyone's talking about when they're not in my face. But a lot of the times is if someone is salty, it's either hate or because they've approached someone who maybe was just wearing sneakers just to wear it and wasn't authentic about it or could speak to actually what they like. Being a female sneaker head, so the negative part is definitely having my knowledge and my expertise questioned by males, especially being Asian. I feel like the stereotypical Asian sneaker head comes from a lot of money and just buys sneakers because it's the cool thing to do. So I feel like that's the stereotypical positive thing. I feel like it's helped me cut lines every once in a while. I really utilize female prowess, I guess. Now more than ever, the sneaker game is catering more towards females. They're trying to. Like, what even gets you guys into sneaker? Well, for me, I've been a huge sports player my entire life, so naturally and organically, I was exposed into sneakers. I feel like females nowadays, like Alaylee May or Rihanna, it's really paving the way for females to just be unapologetic. There wasn't one thing that necessarily brought me into it, you know, being born and raised in a place like Queens, New York. It was natural to be a sneaker. It was natural to have this, what they're now calling like, I believe here and stuff. And I don't have the typical story where someone's like, my first pair of sneakers were Jordan's, mine were LA gear. Going back real quick to your point where you're like being an Asian girl, sometimes you get judged harder even or you get questioned more because your Asian face, and I go through the same thing of having an Asian face and it not representing the culture. Right, for sure. Where you're from New York, you're Chinese. Yeah, but even that catches people off by surprise because I mean, when people first see me, they really know Guyanese but they're also gonna think like Indian, right? Which is not also known to be a sneaker head. Right, so if anything for the most part, my reaction ends up being a little bit different because people are like, huh, you're into sneakers? What would you say outside of work, you know, you work at Full Locker corporate, right? Are you still involved in all the sneaker stuff that's going on in the city? Are you involved, obviously you vlog? A misconception of corporate world is that they don't understand culture, they don't understand the kids and the audience and I think it's important for me to stay connected to my friends and the culture and street wear to really be the liaison between corporate and out here in these streets. Some of these brands are so out of touch because they're not submerged in the culture and I think that also really ties in with women. You know, there's that motto of they shrink it and pink it and I've said this before which the one time to shrink a pink shoe was that rust pink one and they did not really get available for when it makes no sense. I'm flabbergasted. Women, I feel like for the most part they're not a sneakerhead, really care about comfort. We're also looking stylish. So I feel like the Rihanna collection did help like bring both of them together. Some of them are like me who love sneakers but at times I want to be feminine. Someone the other day actually commented on my IG and said, oh, you don't just wear a baggy pants and starter jackets, only negative comment I've received is similar to your story. People in my IG DMs are like, oh, you wear your own address when I post a picture of myself and I'm like, I can't, I can't wear it just because I wear sneakers. Are you wearing sneakers with the dress and you're like, I'm wearing a dress and you keep it like. Sometimes I want to wear a pair of heels in a dress. I also feel like sometimes people really appreciate the fact that you can switch it up. Does it really matter what sneakers a guy has on? You know what is, I've seen a lot of, I can't stand. Really dirty stands. Also, especially if you're a dude from New York and uptown, if you come with white air forces and they are dirty. Yeah, I agree. Do you think in general, girls care about the sneakers you wear or the streetwear that you have on? Not at all, not at all. I don't care sneakers wise, but like it just has to match their outfit. Do you think that women care about the sneakers and the streetwear that you have on, specifically like the brands and stuff? I don't think they care so much about what it is as long as it just like looks good together. Like, you know, you can't just piece a bunch of shit together. Like I don't think they know as much as like we do. Like, you know, like they think those shoes are sick but like they don't know what they are. No, not really. Just as long as you present yourself all right, you should be good. You have like super dirty sneakers, but you should be. I don't think they care as much about the brand as more about how you wear it. Yeah, I guess it just depends on the person. Like some people obviously, you know, they are hippies that they will notice this stuff. I've only been into like Air Max for the past like five, six years and that's because a dude put me on it. Is this your love story? This is not my love story shoe. So this is what puts you on Air Max. Yeah, yeah. And I think it's a pretty good shoe to be put on for Air Max. Real quick, Victoria, did you bring a pair of shoes that you wanted to talk about? I did. Why is this your favorite sneaker of your collection that you have right now? Favorite shoes are the Nike Akron Imprestos because I love Errolson Hu and what he has done for, I guess Asians in streetwear and really paved the way. He's a great designer and I love the whole utilitarian tech trend. Super practical and a friend hooked me up so it's super meaningful to me. I think being Chinese-American, lucky for me, my parents kind of understood it because sneakers and streetwear are so prominent in Asia. I don't think they understand it from a career perspective. I'm pretty sure they think of that. I just sell shoes at Foot Locker, like the referee uniform. When you say I work at Foot Locker, you're like, no, no, no, mom. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they definitely think I'm in a sock room like schlepping boxes. My parents thought that at Fly Club. They were just like, they thought I was depressed and they were like, we just gonna let her go and do it. They didn't understand. Even my previous jobs before that, when I was working for the Marley family, they honestly don't really understand the concept of marketing public relations. So I have to kind of dumb it down. I'm just like, I work for a big sneaker store. I work for Diddy. All right, everybody, that wraps up our video on female sneaker heads. Thank you so much to Victoria and Alisa for being here. Thank you guys. It was a really good conversation. Hopefully it was informative for a lot of people inspiring. I gotta give a big shout out to our sponsor, the Bump app. Again, follow us at the Fung Bros. As this video goes up, we are putting up a lot of pieces of our collection up on the low, great pieces. It's all going to charity. And we have another video, part two of this series coming up next, where we got more of our collection coming up. So definitely check out the Bump app, download it. It's free. I'll leave the link down below. The Bump app, it's the easiest way to buy and sell your views here. It's super quick. Have you addressed the haters? Don't worry about it. The haters, the haters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Always haters. Always haters. When you do something, you'll have haters. That's when you know you're doing something right.