We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kickdough a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
KickDough, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?
My resilience came from a number of things in my life, the first and hardest trial I’ve fought was the loss of my mother at the age of 13. To me she was my everything, so getting that taken away early on really had an effect on my mental. Losing her was a lesson that tomorrow ain’t promised and the people you love can leave at anytime. That subconsciously makes me want to make things happen right now in the moment. Time is extremely valuable. I also spent some time in juvi and jail and ended up in the streets at a young age. Betrayal by friends and family, and having close encounters with death makes you evaluate everyone’s intentions. I knew I didn’t want to keep falling back into that hole or end up back in jail, but overcoming all this has gave me an edge to utilize my intuition to make decisive calculated risks. In life and in business.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
What’s up I go by KickDough or Kick, I am a clothing brand owner/entrepreneur and I would be lying if I said I started GetMoreDinero (GMD) by myself. It started off around December of 2022 with me and some friends of mine, I had just moved from Nashville, TN to Flint, MI for family reasons. My best-friend/business-partner had brought the idea up to me because we had worked on other business schemes before we got into branding and it was a good way for us all to put into something as a collective. We came up with our name GetMoreDinero with the objective to appeal to go-getters, hustlers, and anybody with a motivated mindset. The “dinero” is a reference to our founding making up of mostly Mexican-Americans. Me, and the rest of our team set to make a name, and we had accrued over 5 million views on instagram in less than 3 weeks of us starting! We knew we had a route to something bigger. Sometime later I decided to move back home to Nashville to focus more on GMD But unfortunately due to mutual differences, what was once a co-ownership the mantle got passed down to me alone. So now I’m trying to take GMD to where I’ve always envisioned it.
GMD is inspired by a number of artists and musicians in the hip-hop industry as well as the communities that make up those cultures. To have people in your hometown and other cities showing love to the brand is real and to have had the honor to be co-signed by legends and other up and coming designers is a great privilege. I can only hope to continue growing and perfect the message that I want to convey in my clothing. And channel all my energy from the past, into something positive for other people who come from that struggle.
I think if anybody should take anything away from what I do and my clothing is the dream to take nothing and turn it into something valuable. I make designs based on what I feel in the moment, and channel that into the clothes. I got a brand new piece I’m working on right now that I’m excited about and also getting more into female pieces that I think would hit.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Dedication: being dedicated to your craft or trade is what’s going to push you to keep putting the work in. It doesn’t always show in the moment but over time you’ll see the tower you built. You just gotta be patient and trust the process even when no one else does. You need to believe it yourself to get others believe.
Networking: Networking is huge because a lot of opportunities are out there it’s just a matter of jumping on them and make good connections with people in your niche. In your city, outside your city it doesn’t matter when it calls to you jump.
Sacrifice: This is probably the hardest one, but letting go of people who don’t see your vision or people who don’t believe. This unfortunately carries over to friends and family and 9/10 it’s gonna be them. This can be especially discouraging when you’d think they wouldn’t be the ones to do you like that. But you have to sacrifice some relationships and focus on your journey, find your people.
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I’m looking for brand ambassadors, artists, musicians, and other designers to model for the vision. They can reach me on @getmoredinero and @kickdough on instagram
Contact Info:
- Website: https://getmoredinero.com
- Instagram: @getmoredinero and @kickdough
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