filipino american t v talk show in the new york metro area get to know us as we talk to the community leaders innovators advocates and emerging artists who respect life how do you create and maintain a successful business this show idea have to be something special unique how do you know if the timing is right with amazon dominating the market and people and founder of juliet an invitation only premier to one news service after graduating from fordham university be honest and philosophy which show worked as a junior controller for three years as a publicly traded business development company idea to start white a collection and juliet well i started my company because i was solving my own problem of caring for my own clothes and dry cleaning i looked at other cleaners in the neighborhood just grow new york city and i noticed that they had no concept of for women's clothes hand wash him dry you know the removal folded a certain way presentation and so it's really stemmed groom specifically for their potential be started to expand within the other man or even just attending the wedding in the of course the groom some of the bridal party itself became from business no matter what it is it's always it's always a challenge to find out what is the right time to do something as in all things in life but i think what makes a successful entrepreneur is the grit of it and opportunity to and when the moment comes it kind of just presents itself and you have to grab it when it's there it doesn't matter how prepared you are if the finances are there because things are never completely aligned as a business owner surfer inspired by how they would package one tree in france during the old days so they would wrap it in brown brown paper brown wax paper and wrap it with string and so today my clients delicates are so torn because i'm the nd so my dad's so that's the number two not my have two children twelve there's another designer in my family which is my older brother and we're both men so we're both y of the future a day it can't be just suits because you have to wear a shirt a sweater a tie something else you know some other accessories so collection obviously comes from just the expansion of it so yes obviously it started as two so now currently as we speak i have shirts which is this i have the time i see the actual shoes shoes and suits i have out where i'm coming out with have his suit made by obviously it doesn't have a lot of pressure so you know i considered why to collection it is a lifestyle right it's not for everyone just like i tell people luxury is not forever  's a lifestyle that's you know you either live it or you're a fan of it point blank so to your question my clients nowadays if there are so called the modern couple you know who has a pretty decent back to the store from when they st put in when you st like officially in your store and your st customer walked in what was that feeling like well i i  purchased an old store front that i then repurposed and from a business perspective that was very strategic because i was purchasing an existing customer base with an existing cash flow so the  did yeah and so versus starting from from nothing you have to work for your st customer i really did that when i launched the album and launching my my st customer and i can tell you when those st customers requested through somebody or believe that you know that your dreams is really you know something that they yell but also you know like there's that saying like success isn't happen overnight so it took me two years to even get to you know there's because of social media it's so popular and so we live in the digital world which is great for us it's free marketing right of course so we take advantage of that but there's also the viewers the lookers and the consumers that's m pretty picture and don't really know what did it take to get that oh my guy's so good oh my gosh he's so baba blind this and that you must be doing blah blah blah and just enjoying life and you know just because and i t before your talent for me at least right because you could be the most talented person and the wealthiest person you can put up all these small type businesses and fail because you are passionate you know so for me passion is f but what about what about capital where does that go and so luckily for me i was able to borrow from my existing wedding business to find the so called nd dream of  of major learning or wish to do that if there's any but i think about it that's like a that's a tough question because i like i don't see it as regret i see it as experience and wisdom and there's so much that you learn along the way like you just get knocked down at every turn and as an entrepreneur you just rise you just get up you don't feel like giving up i mean if you have a regular nine to five job you don't have to worry about your salary because it's  that's like you don't stop you have people working for you yet how many about four full time but one of them abandon your mind is that especially when i when i started my st company and when i left my very safe job it was a little bit of a disagreement with my mother because i was leaving that route i was leaving the nine to five  a one k like this street corporate ladder and i told my mom if there was ever a time in my life i'm going to fail it's going to be now i'm like i would rather do all the mistakes now and fail and there were in my in my fellow mean some people were kind of has attention or they weren't sure because you're right we're not traditionally used in that way but as as an entrepreneur you have to just prove them wrong i said you know forget the past if you do feel but you have to remember the lesson so for me i it always motivates me and i have to wake up with a purpose otherwise i can accomplish it you know and you mentioned learning not really considered a mistake it's all about hey how can i be a better me than a minute ago or yesterday or whether that suit fit him because we made it and we did all the alterations but how can i be better so what is the next step of the so called better and sometimes people can say hey what's better for you might not be better for me right because it's an opinion so for me as i'm always challenging myself i compete with myself only because i've always learned from my previous managers and exports is you have to brand yourself st before you brand anything you want to put out whether it's a product or a service because if you're a brand you're somewhat trusted so potentially you can grab you know you know the service or the customers or the consumers once you're branded as lifestyle that's what i'm for you i feel like that both of your businesses really cater to the high and clients what are have been your like fun experiences like oh my gosh i just got a client that is worth one million dollars i could never get flattered you're wearing my suit whether you're somebody or just my next door neighbor you know where the client room you know because it's like you're proud of yourself over a shell can do that in social media right now that that's true so i  and i said i was so excited that this guy didn't even ask for this gun and i did twenty percent off on this guy get back to you and say what's my twenty percent off now now he comes back and said hey i remember when i just bought those shoes you know the other day work it what i love about both of your business is that we're i feel like that we're seeing you grow from where you st started to where you're going to be and that's the beauty so exciting when you just said i posted that i sold my  tots that's oh my god i mean if so it's an amazing feeling yeah you know because it's your brand it's something that you created so it's like takes so much heart to them and when someone actually appreciates it's not even the dollar value so you're both your clientele are not really filipino american that is well you know it's very interesting i have memorized everyone's names but i don't know what they look like oh that's true enough to have the luxury of just through word of mouth a lot of my clients just tell their friends and friends of friends that i've never had to go out and in advertising and market and a lot of it plays into the brand of being your intuition is inside of you and i think the biggest challenge is having the courage to listen to your intuition and you'll know one to stop when to move forward when to step back when to poke at another hole everyone has their day so i guess they have to seemed like she said you know you can't give up you have to find ways you have to stay so sure specially in the world that we live in because you need to assume it's right and you need your passion so and you can't give up no matter what