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Webber. Mark Webber. I used to hate September, dreaded to day's counting
down the summer. August would have been the most amazing month if not for
the fact that every day he brought you one day closest to the dreaded September.
What did I know? I was a kid. I didn't hate school,
per se. I hate it going back to school. Giving up on
summer was a killer. As an aside, to this day, it drives
me crazy knowing there are places in this world where people are going to still
be wearing short sleeves throughout the winter California, Florida. In spite of that,
we have to shift. We're in New York. Don't get me wrong,
I lived in New York my entire life. It still has the energy,
but the summer ending hurts. I used to hate September, but I
have to admit shopping with my mother for school supplies was one of my happiest
child memories. I remember to this day the excitement of new fashion. When
school began, new style, knew everything. Walking to school the weather was
always great. Coming home and telling my parents about the first day. The
first week at school was okay. Life goes on. Your life reboots in
September. My career flourished in September, and most businesses, certainly luxury fashion
retail. September kicks off the full season. The time of year makes or
breaks companies. It's where the profit fee comes and goes, and not just
fashion. Apple's new launches come in September this year. September twelfth will be
the event of the year. How can you not be excited? New iPhone
the latest technology, exciting as can be. New automobiles debut in September.
You get to see the style of the innovation. I'm still excited in spite
of the auto industry driving off a cliff and its electric cars, with the
world not ready for the consequences, not enough charging available, and the concern
for courst of charging, the negative impact on the power grid, and the
studies that just might show electric cars just might be detrimental to the environment.
Can't wait to find that one out after the fact. Again, what do
I know? September great time to put off politicians on trial, reveal all
the scandals dominating the news. September we're all back from vacation, We're all
reintersecting again. That's a great time for me to renew my dislike for humans,
but all seriousness aside. I no longer hate September. I don't have
to face the classroom, but I've become mature enough to embrace change and look
forward to different experience, enjoying the best in life offers with the fall starting
in September. In my career, September begins with Men's Fashion Week, the
shows in New York City, then moving to different ports of call London,
Paris, Italy, Tokyo. I for one set front and Center at Calvin
Donna Vitone during my tenure. And if you follow the show and you know
me by now Mark Webber, you get him, you get his family.
I made it abundant and clear. I'm a packaged deal and there was always
a great joy having my family day or night at these shows with me,
Great exposure for my sons, great prestige for me. With a wife at
my side who brought the poise in the class. I brought charm until I
ran out of it. I always got in the position that I was charming
and smiling great until all of a sudden I just ran out of it.
But that's another story for another day. Then there were golf sponsorship. My
favorite amongst many favorites, was the American phil Institute in Los Angeles, California.
Calvin Klein outfitted the celebrities, and after we acquired CK, I made
it a corporate event. This was a serious undertaking. We see the glamor
of Hollywood, we see the A List as the blockbusts of movies, but
behind the scenes, there are many regular people in the industry, the Hollywood
industry, movie making TV. Not everyone makes a twenty million dollar picture.
There are many entertainment industry. People who need a helping hand, they need
support, and the FI steps in for them. So it's a great event.
And at these events we got to play golf with Hollywood's who's who,
Mark Wahlberg, Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Robert Wagner, even
Dick Van Dyke. Then September brings the US Open and Forest Halls in New
York. The tire world is watching New York City. Even Anna Winter takes
a day off from fashion and be court sighted the Open for the women's final.
It's the place to be. Since nineteen ninety seven, I've been going
the most fun times overtime. Me and my family. We're a packaged deal.
And September you get to reboot. That's one thing people don't realize or
they forget. You get to be whoever you want to be for the rest
of the year or forever for that matter. All of us can change identities
going forward. Anyone can change, anyone can improve themselves. You just have
to realize there might be an opportunity to do a better you now. In
spite of ladies switching from sandals to boots, from short skirts to pants,
I no longer hate September, And here we are in September. Mark Webber
and my lawyer, my son and co host Jesse Webber. Hey, everybody,
you know I haven't been on the show in two weeks, so it's
good to be back. I missed you. Yeah, busy for everything except
for me, Right, go ahead. Look, wasn't my fault. It
wasn't my fault. I had a lot going on. It's not that even
want to do the show. It's just how can I do the show properly
if you have rush? Jesse? Right, Am I wrong? No,
you're not wrong. Well, I love that we're talking about September because September
for me always felt like a new beginning. I know they say the start
of the year is January, never felt that way. I always felt September
was the start of the new year because it's always the start of school,
and so I've always kept that in my mind. It's the start of the
new year. September is great. It's still warm out, even though maybe
it's a little too warm out. Everyone's back in the city from the summer
they were traveling there in the Hamptons. I think it's amazing, you know,
before I go there. Yeah, you weren't unapproachable the last two weeks,
anchoring news Nation, anchoring serious radio, POTUS long crime, sidebar,
all more important than me? Huh? Not more important than you. Not
more important. It's just there's conflicts. What do you want me to do?
These are big jobs. Yeah? Well, okay, I did listen
to the shows. I've listened to the ones I missed. I thought you
were fantastic. I do think you're a little better with me. I do
think I had something. Oh I agree, I agree. That's why I'm
giving you a hard time. Now. I'll tell you when I think about
September, the US Open, it's always in September, right, it's the
great time, the tennis matches. Everybody goes. It's celebrities. My brother
Jared's been there a few times with you, his wife. But doesn't it
seem like somebody was conspicuously absent from the US Open this year? I wonder
who that is. First of all, I don't have my own seats.
I'm guests of people I used to be important. I'm not now. And
you know you didn't this two weeks of the show because you were busy.
Oh oh oh, I'm sorry. So now I'm being punished. I don't
get US Open seats. That's funny maybe, But like I said, I'm
a guest to people, I'm not a host right now. I used to
be important. You're You're still important. You're important to your family, with
or without the seats. So let's just calm down with that now. Unless
you move forward here, we're going to be doing an October show tonight.
I think we have to keep going forward. It's funny guy from a guy
who played Hookie for two weeks not playing Hookie. Somebody has to be mature
on this. Okay, let me start off. Let me start off.
We're talking about September. Something triggered you to pick this topic, right,
Okay, thank you for that. I've been thinking why with the summer ending,
am I still happy? And you're right. Something happened. I was
at the US Open and we were guests. Jard and I have the Ralph
Lauren Company. They have a title sponsorship in the ALP that all the working
people on the court, the ball boys and girls, the umpires, they
have temporary stores. It's impressive. Its great for the brand. You can't
help but notice them. And that's the background. Your brother, Jared,
I guessed in this spectacular Ralph Lauren hospitality suite, we watched Djokovic play.
But here's where the story gets interesting. We're sitting outside the suite in the
box seats and I looked down at my former front row seats, my box
ten years. I had that box, six front row seats when I used
to be important. And I said to Jared, I wonder who those people
in the Izod box are. I don't recognize them. And Jared says to
me, they gave up the box. What I almost fell off the railing,
meaning Issod van using gave up the box. That is correct. How
could you give up that box? I almost fell off the railing. It
takes a lot to shock me. That shocked me. You don't get a
box like that at the US Open. It's inherited. It's like Giants season
tickets or jet season tickets. They get passed down from family to family.
Try and get seats to the Rangers. When you own seats, you give
them to your family. You don't give up a front row box. There
By the way, before we even go there, why were you in Jared
and not me? Guests of Ralph Lauren because I was fat. But let's
expand that a little bit. That's funny. It's not that politically correct.
It's a little different. What do you mean by that? You know what.
I'll get to that, but I want to talk about the Open first,
because sitting there and watching the box and realizing that I'm no longer important,
I started to think about the time that I found out we had a
box at the US Open. Our company acquired ISOD. They were bankrupt,
part of a major company, Crystal Brands. They own a bunch of brands,
Monne, Jewelry, Gant, ISOD. We bought the EOD brand and
I was assigned by my company to run that brand. And it turned out
to be a remarkable experience for me. Now the issue with eyes. It
was an amazing golf and tennis brand. And as I said, when I
was important, I had a lot of fancy titles, and this time I
was a group president of a number of the sportswear brands in the company,
and when we acquired this it was my responsibility. I had a president running
the golf and tennis operations and one day he walks in and he system mark,
we have a box at the US Open. They want us to renew
it. It's one hundred and ten thousand dollars. I said, one hundred
and ten thousand dollars for a box of what had no idea? Says no,
we have a box at the US Open where we have seats, and
as I understand that the company has used it to entertain over the years,
and I said, no, wonder they went bankrupt. I said, let
me think about it, and I gave it some thought, and I said
to myself, you know, I have to step up. I'm a big
shot. I should be really thinking about, you know, what makes sense?
What? And there's got to be a reason that somebody's paying one hundred
and ten thousand dollars for seats at the US Open. I'd never been to
a tennis match. I was never interested. But for that matter, I
never been to golf matches. And when they took me to Shinnecock to see
the US Open, it floored me, blew my mind. I saw Curtis
Strange, who was a guy with gray hair, incredibly good looking guy who
looked great in his clothes. Right then and there, I told my people
sign him up and be a model. I was right for the way he
looked, but I was wrong for the way he played because he never won
a tourn him in again. But that's again for another story. A lesson
learned. But sports marketing is a huge part of life and it really means
something. So I went back to the president of the Golf and Tennis group
and I said, I'll tell you what you should do. I'd like to
visit Forest Hills. I'd like them to take me the Outer Edge Stadium and
show me what it's all about. So he arranged it for the following week.
We went to visit the tennis stadium in Forest Hills. When I got
there, I was wild by it. It's a huge facility. It's built
on the grounds that at one time was the World's Fair in New York.
Beautiful, beautiful, wide, and nobody uses it. It's once a year.
I didn't understand the concept that was new to it. I was greeted
by the people from the USTA US Tennis Authority and they told us how pleased
they were to have us, and I asked them, how is it that
we have a box? They explained to me that when we acquired the company,
the box came with it. It is part of the history of tennis
because at one time Lacoste were joined as a brand. Lacoste was named after
Renee lacost one of the world's most famous tennis players, who changed the world
of tennis apparel when they invented his golf shirt with the alligator on the chest.
Did you know that, Jesse? I remember you told me that story,
but I don't think a lot of people know about that. Back in
the day, in the twenties and thirties, people wore dress shirts and ties
tucked in their pants, long pants to play tennis. He didn't. He
could be his best in that way, and he invented a golf shirt,
the baquet shirt with the alligator on the chest. They used to call him
the crocodile because of that. He became one of the world's best tennis players.
He started this fashion trend. And because Lacas was such a player in
those days, they had this box dating back into the thirties at the tournament
and it was inherited over time. So when we acquired the company came there
is this So let me take you to the Tennis State and we walk in
the Tatis Stadium and he takes us in. We look around and he said,
let me take your seats, and we start walking down and walking down,
and I'm looking at myself and saying, wow, this is amazing.
I said, where are we going? And we keep walking and he takes
me to the front row and says, this is your box. And I'm
right on the court, right on the service range, right and where the
players sit. It is remarkable, and right then in there I took the
box. I couldn't help myself. Who wouldn't want this? It became one
of the major entertaining vehicles, one of the major marketing efforts of our company.
Anyone who ever came as guests. We had invited the CEOs at every
major retailer in the world, every single one. They would come. We
would be with them at the finals at the time. The chairman of Macy's
Korp and his wife would come, and I and my wife and the president
and chairman of Talvin Klein would take the box. We'd all be together and
it would be an amazing event. But we offered it to all the guests
all the retails during the course of the year who were important to us.
We would invite them and it was one of the great, great thank yous
we gave to employees with the company who stood out during the year. And
this particular marketing thing that we did was something that was appreciated by all,
heartfelt by me, and it was one of the great things in my own
career that I didn't act without thought that I gave it an opportunity. I
went to the stadium to see it, and when I saw what it was
all about, I believe I made the right decision and it could have been
lost forever. And here these mutants from my former company gave up that box
to god knows who. And that's what got me thinking about September. Why
do you think they did it? I can't answer money, embarrassment, didn't
like tennis, didn't see the potential for it, didn't understand what it represented.
Who the heck knows. All I know is it was no longer ours.
As I was sitting in Ralph Lauren's box being there because I was fat.
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Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your host. Mark Webber used to
hate September summer ending back to school. No, not so much. Actually
I still hate the summer ending, but I do love what September brings a
fresh new start to life to you. Hold that thought. The idea of
talking September began with a night at the US Open. Wait a minute,
hold on for the break. You said that you were invited to Ralph Lauren
the Box because you were fat? What does a fat Mark Webber and the
Ralph Lauren Company have in common? And please be careful because I imagine that
there are people listening who might be weight challenged. Uh huh, well,
okay, I'm glad you said that, and it does has to do with
woke. Okay. Got me thinking. The other day I listened to Joe
Rogan with Bill Maher. It interests me the two of them together. I'm
a fan of both in different reasons. And they're both smart guys. They're
both funny, but they're both intellectually interesting. And they were talking about lots
of things, and they were talking about health in particular, and they were
talking about how they believe woke is so far extreme left that they have the
woke people have absconded with the Democratic Party. They ruined it for what were
liberals who were more reasonable in their thoughts and their view smart. And they
started to talk about it's gotten so bad that people are using expressions to justify
being overweight, and they said, you know, that's the problem with woke.
They're arguing with a science, there is no good things that happen from
being overweight. It is unhealthy. The science proves it, and putting that
hidden behind a woke agenda, not criticizing people for the weight when something can
actually be done about it, teaching people how to lose weight, getting them
to lose weight, understanding that they might be even hurting their longevity. And
they got into this whole thing, and it got me to thinking about,
Wait, now, the next thing that happens. I'm the other day at
the club, so I think I want you want me to, Jesse,
you want me to lose more friends. I'm nervous what you're gonna say,
but let's hear it. And by the way, you were at the country
club that you belong to, right, yeah, So I am not going
to mention the guy's name because I like him and I've noticed over the summit
his stomach has grown fairly dramatically. Well, this is where it gets tricky,
because he said to me out of the blue. I guess he was
being self conscious, and he looked at me said I never forgot what you
told me about Kate morse Mark. Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,
and frankly, that's how I live my life now. Nothing tastes as good
as skinny feels. So as in mind to where I am I right now,
Jesse asked me why I said I was in the ralph Lauren Booth because
I was fat and I'm getting there, but you're gonna have to come with
me for the journey. So the Kate Morse line got me thinking, and
there was a story right before COVID. I was eating whatever I wanted to
eat. I didn't care, and I gained a lot of weight. I
gained a ton of weight. You know. For me, fat was one
hundred and eighty eight pounds. One ninety was pressing it. So one day
I get a sinus infection and I go to the doctor and I'm there with
the PA and she's gonna weigh me. First thing she does is gonna weigh
me. I take off my shoes, I take off my coat. I
know I'm overweight, and I say to her, no matter what you do,
do not tell me how much I weigh. She's as sure, So
I get on the scale, I go through the whole thing. I have
a sinus infection. They prescribe flown as. A few days later, I'm
great. I told my wife when I got back from the doctor's office that
I'm going on a diet. Don't tell me what I weigh. She says,
okay. It's a couple of days later, I said, they gotta
tell me what did I weigh. I'm starting a diet. I'm on it
for two days already. She said, you weigh two hundred and eight pounds,
and I was devastated. I never weighed two hundred pounds. I never
weighed one ninety. I mean, it was terrible. Two hundred and eight
pounds. So I'm on a diet. Three weeks later, I was brilliant.
I said to my wife, I feel like I lost weight. Why
don't you come here with me. I'll weigh myself and I'm expecting at two
o eight. I figure I lost at least six eight pounds, whatever the
case may be. So I get on the scale and I weighed two hundred
and twelve pounds, and I'm crazed. How in the world can I be
in a diet from three weeks and go from two hundred eight pounds up to
two hundred and twelve And my wife starts the giggle, and she makes this
cute face and says, I think I can explain Mark. I have to
share something with you. You remember when I looked at the report and I
told you you weighed two hundred and eight pounds. I said, yeah,
says, I didn't read it right. You weighed two hundred and eighteen pounds.
Two hundred and eighteen pounds. I thought I would die right then in
there. So the good news was as I had lost six pounds from two
eighteen to two twelve, But I was two hundred and eighteen pounds. How
did that happen to me? How would I ever lose this weight? But
I made up my mind that I would be incredibly diligent about this diet,
and I called someone who explained to me the way diets work, that it
all comes down to calorie counting. When you come and go. You could
work out, you could run. I walk four miles a day. Four
miles a day is two cookies. I mean, you don't lose weight from
walking. It's healthy. You should walk, you should run, you should
do exercise, but you don't lose weight from it. You lose weight from
only one exercise, doing push ups away from the table and counting calories and
basically speaking for those of you out there, if you're a guy, thirty
five hundred calories is one pound. A guy my age, in my size
is allowed to eat twenty two hundred calories per day to hold the weight.
But if you want to lose weight, you have to lose the calories.
If I would lose five hundred calories a day times seven days, it's thirty
five hundred calories, So they are for going from twenty two hundred to seventeen
hundred calories a day, you'd lose the weight. I did it. Now,
I know this is confusing, but losing calories you lose weight. You
sound like a moneyball. You've turned this into a science. Well that's what
it was. And I approached it though like an athlete, like a Navy
seal. If you told a Navy seal they train in Dorado Beach that they
wore all these exercise they do these impossible tasks, they put them through selves
through hell to lose weight. I did it. Nobody could be more diligent
in a diet. Over the period in time that I did it, I
lost from two hundred and eighteen pounds to one hundred and sixty two pounds fifty
six pounds. And I can tell you everyone this day in September, when
I'm talking about September, I vary between one hundred and sixty two to one
hundred and sixty four pounds. I stay below one sixty five, which the
measurement I give, and if I come anywhere near it, back to it.
I stay diligent. I don't give it up. I'm glad we're able
to go full circle because you lost me at the science of losing weight.
So how does this go back to Ralph Lauren and why you're at the US
Open for Ralph Lauren Because nothing I owned, None of my clothes fit me
any more. Nothing, absolutely nothing fits. I lost fifty six pounds.
I went from a forty six jacket to a forty two, from a forty
two inch waiste to a thirty five inch waiste. Nothing fit me. And
at this stage of my life I was able to wear Ralph Lauren because I
was no longer working for any of the companies that competed with him. And
I fell in love with Ralph Lauren, in particular Purple Label. I love
the clothes. I love the way they fit me. They are brilliant.
Your brother has all of us addicted you two. Everything is Ralph Lauren.
Everything is Purple Label. And I went on a tear. I needed suits,
I needed sport coats, I needed pants, I needed shirts, I
needed sweaters, and I have to tell you. Then you throw in the
fact that we had your wedding and they are at the three of us.
You would dinner jack O, white dinner jacket, Lada tuxedo and I needed
a tuxedo. Mine was made in Italy. Throw in that and all these
other things. I bought shoes there. I completely outfitted myself anew so i'd
have clothes to her. I became one of Ralph laurence best customers this year.
I'll say that. And just so everybody knows, when you talk about
buying Purple Label, Purple Label is their upper echelon. It's of attire.
Correct, So you spent a good amount, you basically now own the box.
Yeah. Sometimes when I walk in and I see the salesman exact you
know who's assigned to us, I said, you know, I think I've
bought the store. Now, I hope you're gonna like working for me.
So there I am at Ralph Lauren's Box. I earned it the hard way.
I paid for it. But it's a joy for me to be associated
with the brand. Everything they do is brilliant. Seeing that the US Open
is amazing. I was thrilled to be their guests. I'm grateful to be
their guests. More importantly, I'm grateful for the clothes they make for me,
because they really make me feel great. Anybody way, you know,
I don't talk about We have Instagram. Anybody want to see us or comment,
you can find us on Instagram, and I'm sure somebody from myself or
someone will answer you back. I could also be found on LinkedIn. But
there are a few pictures me wearing a tux sedo. If you look at
the way the tuck sedo fits me, the jacket to the pants, I've
never seen a suit fit anyone better than that suit fits me. Now.
Part of it's the fact that I'm the right Wait, but they're tailoring is
impeccable. Yeah, we looked at the wedding video. You looked phenomenal in
the toxedo. But if anybody goes on your Instagram, they're going to see
a great picture of you and my brother at the US Open. I will
not be in that picture because I was not invited. You played hockey,
You weren't here for two weeks. You missed it. You're busy. I
was not invited. My new wife was not invited. We feel like second
class citizens. All right, well, what can I say? All I
can say is I used to hate September and now I'm loving it back in
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is embracing the whole idea of dressing up. Let's not forget Venuesen made its
name with dress shirts. It's only proper that the suit business follows strongly in
its way. You can find Venus in cool Flex men's stress suits at jac
Penney are online at jac penny dot com. Guys, they're great. You
should go look at them. Welcome back to Always in Fashion. Here's your
host, Mark Webber. I used to hate September. How could you not?
Summertime is obviously the greatest time of the year, or so many people
are on vacation. The weather is great. You know, I walk every
day, and I noticed that during the summer, in spite of the weather,
my walk average goes down versus the winter because there's so many other things
to do. I hate, hate, hate that the summer is ending.
I used to hate September, but I know there's so many things to enjoy.
The great thing about life is change. Nobody likes change. Everyone says
they do. Everyone says they embrace change, They're ready to rethink things until
you ask them to change, and then forget it. It's impossible. Only
the great can convince people to change. With that, Let me try.
It's long been my perspective. The packaging yourself this as important as the products
your package. The way you look. In this instance, I'm going to
say, specifically, you're grooming neat, clear, fresh, clean effort made
you have bright eyes. It's important what you have to say. More importantly,
how you say it is important in packaging yourself. Maybe nothing is more
important than your attitude. Attitude is a huge component of packaging yourself. Are
you always pleasant? Are you seen as a person that takes charge it gets
things done, no complaining, just does what needs to be done. Attitude
matters. I could go on and on and on, and I want to
talk about careers because careers and business a big part of the show. These
things separate the successful from the unsuccessful, from success to failures, from the
halves to the have nots, from the people in control for the peace bull
being told what to do. But here's the thing. Whoever you are,
this spring, this summer, this year, this lifetime, this time in
your life, you can change right now. You can be whoever you want
to be. You could take on a new persona. You could repackage yourself.
And whoever you choose to be tomorrow is the new you. And trust
me, in a relatively short time, whatever your work could be forgotten,
you could be whoever you want to be. You can come out differently.
Now. You'll not only be noticed for now, you'll be remembered for now.
So I have asked you a question. Do you look professional at work?
Do you look the best you can? Are you dressed like a power
broker in your company? If the answers no, then change change Why not?
If you're going to get the most out of work, why not get
the most out of it. I've a suggestion, ladies, gentlemen, look
at the leaders in your company. How are they dressed? If the female
president, CITYO, GMM, vice presidents, whatever they are, If they're
wearing Chanel's suits, the tone, handbags, the boot and shoes, crazy
prices, probably they are the ones that can only afford it no one else.
Probably you can't, but that's okay. It's the overall look that matters.
You can't afford a Channell's suit, trust me, Calvin Klein, Donna
Karan. You know these brands are like Vince Michael, Core's. They all
have tailored suits for women to where to the office. If they're trying to
go for their professional look. If you can't afford a detoned Dr Hermez handbag,
you don't have to get yourself a coach Decy Michael. Course they'll look
the part. You'll look professional ladies. Shoes. You can find fashionable shoes
from flats to high heels, to boots to half boots, whatever the case
may be, at any price, anywhere you can have the look. Nobody
really logos their shoes. There are fuse exceptions, the boot in, the
red soles, etc. Some Gucci, I'm sure, but By and Lodge
they're unnamed, They're unnoticed. It's just the style accounts. Find the styles
that are right for you. And I just created a power broker And where
did it come from? Came from first of all, recognizing that maybe being
a power broker's the right way to behave at work. And then if it
is, even costs are prohibitive, you could do it at prices that you
can afford. You can play that game and win. Now, guys,
I just came off a summer where I've talked a number of times on the
radio where I am demoralized by what you look like. It's incredibly gifted,
how talented you could be to look like crap. My son and I were
sitting there at the US Open the other night and there was a guy wearing
these beautiful suede shoes, except they had the white bottoms. I wanted to
smack them side of the head. You mean it was two tone? Yeah?
I hate that. I hate that, And I hate the two tone
sneakers with the white bottoms. I hate it. It's ridiculous. Style comes
and everybody follows like sheep. But guys, I could write a book maybe
I will someday, And if it wasn't for bad taste, you'd have no
taste at all. That's the title, Jesse, Maybe we should register.
But the bottom line is you have to ask yourself a question, you too,
Do you like working? Do you want to be the one making the
decisions or following the decisions someone else makes? How your package yourself is going
to be the difference. I'm talking right now. I already explain do you
comb your hair in the morning, do you slick it back? Whatever you
do, do you make yourself look neat? Are your shoes are the heels
walled down? Are your pants pressed? Are they dragging on the floor?
Just spoot jacket fit? Are you clean looking? Ask yourself where you're working,
whether you want to be a player. My suggestion, guys, nothing
looks better than a navy suit, white shirt, black shoes. You want
to check it up a bit gray suit. That's it. That's all I'm
going to grant you. You don't want to wear a suit, I advise
you bring a sport coat. Leaving in the office, phone customers come in,
the boys shows up. You're gonna always have something to wear. Dress
down, do it polished. Make sure your chinos are clean. Make sure
if they're dress eat chinos, they're pressed. I was at the US Open
whole week and this weekend it was devastatingly hot. People would dressed as schlubs
trying to beat the heat. But you can find refinement from elegant people,
people that were also sweating, people that were also uncomfortable, but they wore
linen, they wore cotton dress shirts, and they wore beautiful dresses. Somehow
or another, they managed to look like they belonged that the us open.
By the way, can't they just close the top of the stadium and put
air conditioning on? Yes, And one only has to wonder why they don't
do that. Maybe they think playing in the rear, you know, the
rarefied air is what tennis is all about, not in a covered stadium.
So the only exception is rain. Having said that, I think speaking is
critical to success. Yes, an example, the two guys are in a
meeting. The leader, the boss, makes a decision and then he asked
these two guys for their opinion, Jesse, what should they do? Well,
if I was in that position, probably wouldn't disagree with the boss.
I would try to give my opinion though, and have a point of view.
But that's what I would do. You're the expert. What should we
be thinking? What should we do? I'm glad you asked. There was
a gentleman. He was a president of one of our regions at the van
Ussen company back in the day. I don't want to mention his name because
he's passed on bothers me. He was a great guy, someone that I
looked as a mentor, I was younger than him by twenty five years,
but I was the president of the company. He reported to me. And
there was a time that the world was changing, as it always does,
and retail in America was very regionalized at that time. What happened in years
later, of course, every retail group consolidated. So Macy's had a Macy's
East and a Macy's West, and they let Bloomingdale sit off to the side,
and Florida's stores because they were different from the northern so I sat off
to the side. In time, they all became consolidated onto one Macy's.
But at this time you might have found in Texas one chain of stores owned
by a guy, and in California another, and everything was separate. I
had seen the consolidation coming, and I decided to consolidate our sales division,
get rid of many salesmen, put it in the hands of regional managers,
and watched them consolidate their territories. And it was the right decision. It
was before its time. In the end, I was applauded for it.
I never thought about this one in my book where I talk once in my
life I was brilliant, maybe two times in my life was brilliant for seeing
this and acting on it early. Ultimately, everyone did it. I was
just a little ahead of the curve, but I remember doing it, and
I looked at the president of the Texas Region. I said to him,
Hey, what do you think of my decision? I was in front of
a bunch of people, the other regional presidents. Mark, I'll tell you
what I would like to talk to you offline, not in front of everyone.
In the meeting's over, I said, sure, okay. So the
meeting ended and he came over to talk to me, And so I'm gonna
teach a lesson Mark, it's important for you. No, I'm really not
angry at you, but I'm going to talk as if I was. How
dare you ask me to criticize your decisions to giving you an opinion on a
decision you already made. That's not the way you treat your president. But
I will tell you, if you wanted my opinion, you should have asked
me before it became a decision. Then I would have discussed it with you.
Then I would have said anything that I thought you needed to hear before
you made your decision. But once you make your decision. Don't ask me
my opinion. How about that for logic? Wow, that's pretty incredible.
Maybe it's once in your life you were brilliant. Maybe it's that guy was
brilliant. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, it was a great lesson. So
if the first guy says it doesn't make sense, it won't work this time,
what will you say? You would say, I think your point has
merit. I think maybe perhaps we should make a slight tweak to your idea
that I think would ensure our success. And the question is, what do
you think the boss would appreciate very clearly what a lesson? The point is
September is a great time to reflect on yourself. Look in the mirror,
do you like what you see? Be honest with yourself, and if you
don't like what you see or what you have to say, Ladies and gentlemen,
the world, your world is filled with role models. Aaron Boone at
the New York Yankees, the manager and winning. When you ask him at
the end, there as a manager show and they talk to him. He's
great at winning, but he's even great at explaining their disappointments. He's never
negative. He always puts the right spin. On it. If you listen
to movies, TV books everywhere, there are people to learn from to emulate.
It's September. You can change for the better. First you have to
want it. But like Nike said, just do it. I'll be back
in a minute. Always in fashion, I've been shopping for fun lately,
and while I'm out, I always look at men's and I look at women's.
What's going on? And I was particularly interested in Decay because of their
sponsorship of the show. I went downstairs at Macy's thirty fourth Street to look
around and I saw Dekmy Active where And I promise you, ladies, it
is sensational from the sports bras to the crop tops, to the leggings and
the sweats. It really is a great look. And dek Andy had begun
as an all American brand dressing casual clothes engines and the stuff looks incredible and
right now, the colors, the styles is so exciting that I feel great
about the company. I always do. I wear the men's wear all the
time. I've had situations where I've gone to big events and been interviewed and
TV or the radio and someone comes up to me the microphone and like they
always do who you're wearing. And here I am, this big shot with
a big company and they say, well, I'm wearing a DKY and they
laugh and say, no, you're not. Actually have one on the internet
where you could see me. They asked me what suit I'm wearing, and
I say dec and Y and opened it up and there's the DKNY label.
Great fashion, it fits well, it looks right. It's designed to make
you comfortable in the city, goes from day in to night. You can
wear it in the morning, wear in the afternoon, and you look cool
at night as well. It's great for the office. It's great Felisia.
But I was talking about the DKNY active where the first time I really became
aware of it, Jesse and I were up at Sirious Radio. He was
doing a job for Serious He does Dan Abrams show, he fills in on
the Potus Network and we're in the lobby and this hip hop group came up,
this really great looking Latino singer girl Young Beautiful. She's wearing a dk
ANDY sports bar and I said to myself, this is amazing. Actually went
to Macy's to see it, and I'm excited about the brand and I'll tell
you what, ladies, DK y always has great fashion for work, always
wonderful dresses and things that you'd wear. Their accessories are great, the shoes
are always very cool. But activewear in particular right now looks sensational and being
that everyone's athleisure in activewear, it's a great time dkmy go take a look.
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Mark Webber. So here we are at September. The month I hated
is now just a month. I love. That's presuming I can forgive the
idea that summer came and went so fast. I talk about so many great
things happening right now. I didn't even get to the Runway season. I
still miss magazine season in September. I missed the September edition of Vogue.
I used to put it on the table and it made so much noise.
It was so thick. Got to peruse all of advertisments of great brand statements.
I love it now it's pop up the ads on Instagram. Sometimes I
guess new things just aren't better. You can't fight change, but you can
fight to be great if you change. I appreciate the excitement of September,
but I do miss a lot. I miss the innocence before September eleventh,
the world the way it was one nation undivided with liberty and justice for all.
September is a new chance for everyone in the world to reboot, redefine,
themselves and get a new stought. Well, I think about those things
I miss in September. I miss Bezuoka, bubble gum with that good night.
Talk to you next week.