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with skating for me, it is very angular and you always want to get the best angles. so for me i have my portraits. again, that's what i like. you mentioned you dropped out of university. what happened 7 lastjuly, i asked my mum, for me it was the first sense of being alone and being still employed anyway, you are very alone because it is just you but i am using the energy that she gave over when she got me to go forward and achieve more and get billboards since she can see them. and just keep pushing and keep striving. i'll be the best. i want to do make sure that what i do is the best of my capabilities. sometimes it does get overwhelming and you actually forget about your troubles and your personal life. itjust hits you at once. knowing you are professional,
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what are some things you want to get better at. organisation. organise myself and my time a little bit more. i am working for a company where i'm and popping might use my hours will be really controlled and push myself. my next stop is birmingham, where i've come to me fashion fashion designer meme gold. she does not make any profit from her business. everything she has goes back into buying more materials. she pays the rent through other part—timejobs. her brand has got a growing following instagram. it's where she sells most of our streetwear clothes. she started out on her own a few years ago but earlier this year, business partnerjoss came on board. how did it start then? it was completely by accident, i got fired so i started sewing things because i dropped out of uni and i was studying fashion design.
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i started making things and my friends are saying you should sell pieces. and i did and people wanted them and then a website and and it kind of took me, it was not my idea to go along with the fashion business. it carried me along with that. what's the plan then? to be on all of that stuff is now i live the thing about that, i have gotjobs. all right, let's go. so the master plan is to continue with what we're doing at the moment. getting as many clothes to as many people as we can, to get more people recognise the brand and to get more people to buy because when you buy from us, it means that we can then reinvest and reinvest. and i can eat. and she can eat. i don't ever want this grant to be this amazing, shiny, perfect thing. i always want me to be able to turn around and got up next week to put this out as the collection.
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i always want to keep it up, but real. how do you keep it real whilst also making money? next i'm heading north to huddersfield to meet adam. at 21, he is my youngest entrepreneur. he is facing some very different challenges. hey, adam, are you all right? inspired by his dad, he started a digital signage company earlier this year. so i grew up helping my father who did traditional signage, so vinyl, acrylic, all that, stuff. he has always said don't do business even though he had his own business and he sort of motivated me to actually prove everybody wrong. i prove myself wrong sometimes as well. what is the significance of the shop? one day i was walking in looking for pizza
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and he was refitting his store. and i thought to myself, it's a perfect chance and he did so happen to become my first digital signage order. adam has the added pressure on providing for a young family. he has to support his partner and a rather sleepy son. being a young father has made me really be determined as well what if i look at him and think you will will do good for your son and you'll run your business and maybe as it down to him or whatever. so it's making life better for us all. so earlier this year he was named in national entrepreneur of the year after pitching his business to dragon's den. i cried, i literally cried. i do not realise it meant so much to me as well. so it was really sweet. i thought wow, your husband is a finalist. it was nice that he gets recognition. i don't think many people believed that he would actually turn into something. because he can be. we've had many people doubt us. most of his £5,000 prize
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money went to his van. so the pressure really is on the secure some sales. from the city streets of huddersfield to the country lanes of the stratford—upon—avon, i am meeting the founders of the street truck trailer trash. one is full—time butjess also has anotherjob. we thought it would be a really good idea to get into festivals with this trailer. because you get free tickets? yes. they got the caravan from an elderly woman for £750 and converted themselves to save money. it was a big job, but we quite recklessly did as well. there are some things we pulled out. at one point, we ripped out this huge system and then we were like let's get a new one. google what it is like. £2000. right, ok, go through the skip.
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we cried but we had terrible gigs that have been completely wash outs and then stood in the rain for seven hours and served three portions. i want to have a look inside. show me. i wanted to know what aspects of the business to girls need to improve on. obviously, we get a lot of work on social media. that becomes quite a full—time job to really nail that down. so they will be good to get a bit more organisation in handling that. so it seems to me the girls are lacking a bit of direction. or have some help with social media would help make their brand clearer. all these guys are doing great but it seems they can all do with a bit of help. so i had arranged to meet some of the top people in their industries. rankin is one of britain's best photographers. he's shot pretty much every famous person imaginable, including the queen, arnie and robert downeer. he is also a huge inspiration to keaton. hey, you all right.
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cheers, keaton. so tell me all about it. yeah, 23 man. i want to see your work. keaton has been examining with 3—d images which is key for the future. this is pretty good, what are you trying to do that and moving your camera? that is really good. that's good, as well. i like that. this is great, so such a cool photo for you. people say do not do freebies but i disagree with that. i also disagree. i think you should do as many freebies as you can because i always a day where you are not shooting you could be shooting. and all those things are plan the company. try and see you as a comfort zone, try and do music. not necessarily your kind of like favourite, favourite but stuff that you know might have a bit more in it.
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you know that if you do a top ten, you know, pop act, if you have a little bit more money than a grime artist. so that means if you can get a couple of those a month... you can do what you want. good luck. thank you so much. you are going to do well. thank you. i'm very impressed. thank you so much. it is crazy. a camera did this. a man with a camera building his own little empire. i need to push forward with certain things like moving images and just kind of its a green tick of approval that i should just actually do it and keep going. fashion designers omi is one of britain's leading sustainable fashion brands. he has dressed lady gaga, beyonce and even michelle obama. meme and joss are heading to meet omi at the ready
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for london fashion week. hi. cheers. how are you? nice to meet you. hi. joss. we are partners. nice to meet you. how are you doing? cool, so let's see some of your stuff. this is from what we did. just then that's what came in rainbow colours. in very simple shapes, like tiny little pods and then the really popular this summer actually was the cycle shorts. you are pitching yourself where? closer to a high street price point. now that i wanted to be a businesswoman, it is a business i can live off and she lives off and we have got off and we have got to profit off it. so the high street is a very saturated market. yeah. it's beyond saturated. you may not fall in the high street price point and the reason why the high street price point works is because it is on a massive, massive scale. so your setting yourself in that price bracket when it you don't have the capability of doing.
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one exercise maybe you should do is when you go back is draw a cross. just a big piece of paper, put it up and put the luxury market, so you get luxury and then you got high street. then put designer and then you put high street. and what you do is start tracking every brand that you think his competition and where they sit. once you plot all those brands, i want you to find the spot that is empty that you can safely comfortably adapt to. when you need to sit down and have it there. do you have a business plan? so maybe next week, when you plot, do a business plan. definitely the planning thing and i am really bad at planning. i know it is crucial. but i am just like she is going do it. no, we definitely need to do that. we need a plan. yeah. zoe and jess meet one of their big heroes, zoe and jess meet one
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of their big heroes, chef and award—winning writer gizzy aspen. she runs her own restaurant and has written loads of cookbooks. hello. hi, so excited. nice to meet you. hi. so, the food, first and foremost any new business that should be your key intro. so what is... we think the food, drink and the good times. so we are really aware of the food being massive part of also the environment and the setting in the ambience. dishes. ok, so our street food menu, we normally do a classic big bad burger but would really top quality ingredients. junk food with good quality products. not feel too bad about eating it. it's the way forward, as we all want. can i ask you something rude? are you making money? we are making money, yeah. we spend money also. we are always like working hard we should get some
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we are always like working hard we should get some flights to ibiza. hen dos, stag dos, weddings, after you have it already but visualising these things is really important. booze makes about four fifths of every restaurant business is booze. so that is where they make money. the food is will they go for and the booze is why you stay. we love booze. yeah, that's it, it is so part of your brain. so i would get very acquainted with local businesses. like local pubs and also tap into that sort of stuff. at 21 adam is amazing pretty young to be starting a business but his mentor is even younger. he runs one of the fastest growing on shops in the uk.
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doorstep is worth 16 million pounds. so i reckon he can give adam a bit of advice on that business. what's your plan for the next six months, 12 months, three years and five yearswhat were easier in each of those because it is really important to start planning. at the moment it is just digital signage, so it'sjust doing simple screens and controlling content. how many orders done so far for signs for restaurants? at the moment, i have only done a couple and the orders i've gotten, i value each one may be, to a thousand pounds. some of you are making now in terms of supporting your family, is there any left to reinvest in the business? not much. in other so, digital signage has not taken off yet so the customers would deal with, but are not really want to spend a lot of money. do you have a website set up yet? it's no, so building a website is wanted
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to definitely work on that. it's a digital world, people said that as your shop front. your shop front is your website. so any people who love credibility and look for your van, than to see a website. the first thing i would do is get website, get a basic website and you can do think it's horrible but just start off with something. start, you can develop from there with customer feedback and family, friends and so on. the next thing i would say is get some graphics on your van. everywhere you drive, there are hundreds of not thousands who will see that. that is eyes on your brand instantly. it was really good, it is dry, he will be a teacher. the beginning of twister. for these businesses, summer
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is a key time to make some money. so the have girls taken the advice they had been given and put into practise? despite a bad weather for most of it, the trailer trash girls in the time the middle of the storm as they try prepare food for a wedding in oxfordshire. my god! and is a bit of a runoff at a car show, too. we are coming to you from rainy... and a very rainy classic car show. it's like a total wipe—out. let me show you here. meme and joss benefited very for notting carnival. this weekend, i am actually tired. just giving up. and on hold.
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i guess i can have a life... i am hoping that i will see some outfits that are on carnival day if nothing else that would make my day. adam is really pushing the sales and has secured a meeting with local businessman. i would say this is a 43 inch screen and now this is how they will look. slightly wider so i've got a 41 screen and that is going to cost you £4000. oh my god. it's an investment. i have to think about and get back to you. ok, great. i think it's a no. it's better news for meme, loads of them is to grammy her clothes at carnival, including my one extra girljasmine evans. but keaton‘s organisation is not improving. he missed the flight to belfast on the day i supported reckon moment in belfast city missed that flight the other day. he made in the end, though. taking on what rankin said, he is doing his next up are free and in a world he is not familiar with, fashion. he is having with the creative direction as photographing it. so i'm doing the visual direction.
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so look, everything playing here, even helped design some of the close. hello. two seconds. it does not take too long before things start to get a bit heated. they keep their cool and they're all smiles at the end. next is bigger, better. the trailer trash girls, the last event of the summer. i think they are all cheesed up at the moment. yes. no. thank you. music. after we met gizzy, we were thinking over the next couple of months,
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so we are going to keep a diary and have stuff put in already, like weddings and stuff like that. so we are going to look at our diary and see where we have gaps and then like she said, that is where fashion week and then with brands we want want to work with. thigns we want to do. that's really satisfying, selling out. it's been a few months now since i met all the entrepreneurs and i want to catch up with them one last time. in birmingham, meme andess tried to get rid of the last of their summer stock. the have also taken the advice pretty seriously. the best piece of advice that he kept saying was plan.
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you need to plan and we really truly have. taken that day, we took a step back and said that is right. i'm glad that we met him. it was probably not a monumental but really important day for us. for us, yeah. we are cooking on the ideas that he kind of started into motion, i suppose. and the only way for us to grow and for it to be achievable and sustainable as a brand so we can both live without working ourselves to the bone is to take that step back and it's a big conversation. a business plan is a big conversation. she's business and i'm creative and we are like... clash. my thin at the moment is working smarter and not harder. in terms of gifting, we are going to do it in a smarter way.
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i think it's about also building relationships with the people. anyone can dm a celebrity or a blogger and send something, but there is not anything worthwhile or long—lasting in is part of the working smarter thing. so we will be doing it but we are thinking a lot more carefully about it in the future. meme and joss step back from the brand, keaton is definitely pushing on. it's a big job so the shoot, he is getting two assistants on it. ijust pop by to say keaton in action and he is working on a big shoot. a lot of fun at what is has been up to since he met rankin. this is an artwork concept for this cool thing he has coming out. he's using a green screen and then he'll create the image on photoshop.
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so we hung out at the skate park andone of your goals was to shoot a cover or a billboard. this is not quite a cover oi’ a magazine. nearly there yet. at assuming like this get you closer to that goal is met is of the cover and bring over to being able to critically direct something like this visually and it does mean a better position when i make this. the end of this crazy and say wow, there is in the city of back drop, we getting there. cover art one day. billboard. magazines all the stuff. going to get there, 100%. looks like keaton to be on his way to a billboard soon. what are the things gizzy picked up
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for the trailer trash to have a clear idea of what their brand is. so how has it changed? we are events. we do advance so she will be disappointed in us being like... i had it in my head but i cannot communicate it. you have a flash card. yeah, i bet we have got all of the ideas that they would need to streamline and integrate them into different things. very extendable. our plans next year, we want to incorporate because that is good partner so we will be diversified and we are going to have trailer trash food and then it... start up the contact cocktails. and just have that all under our umbrella. i have my whole logo here and the whole thing. i am into geometric patterns and it looks really fresh and here is my business card as well. look at those. and what about
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his website? do you want to see a?|j do, yeah. it's basic for now but we can build upon it. i was sitting in a sofa downstairs and having taken how many sales a been made from then to now? the summer was tough for me, no sales. in the last three or four weeks things have looked up. running around the street, i have been sitting down, researching, tagging people who really care about science and technology and he has worked out for me. in the past three or four weeks and i have gained another client. that is good to hear. well done, adam. all the governors have had their ups and downs over the past few months. but what is clear to see is they're passionate about what they do. get that money. figures show that almost half of
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sta rtu ps fail figures show that almost half of startups fail in the first three yea rs. startups fail in the first three years. for these businesses, they need to keep pushing on and keep doing it by themselves.” need to keep pushing on and keep doing it by themselves. i am in charge here. good evening. it's that time of day when we take a look at the weather a little further ahead, and after what was a tale of two halves on thursday, glorious sunshine in the east, we have a lot of rain in the western parts of wales. and for the coming day, the heavy rain will be more widespread, and the winds will be stronger. why? well, we've got this huge area of low pressure saturday east in the atlantic, dominating our weather for the coming few days. and the weather fronts will give widespread rain. so between dawn on friday,
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we've still got the remnants of today's weather front, it almost gets swamped by the next one swinging in, giving a few showers in eastern areas, so a little cloudier than it was on thursday. but all this rain on what has been a wet week already for some, some oversatu rated ground, river levels were high, and with that added risk of some severe gales up to the irish sea, it will be quite unpleasant taking to the roads by the evening. further east, it is windy or in cloudier, largely dry still, but look at this rain moving slowly through ireland, arriving into the afternoon. even in the eastern areas, there will be costs of around a0 mph, up to 60 in exposed areas further west. a very unsettled period of whether to end the week, and that turbulent weather descends across the eastern side of england and scotland through friday night into saturday. with all that cloud and temperatures hold up, there will be lots of showers because that area of low pressure stays with us throughout the weekend. you can see just how vast it is, driving weather across much
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of western europe, right the way down into spain and portugal. for ourselves, as that weather system finally drags its heals from the south and east, we open up to the south—westerly winds. throwing in showers from the southern and western areas, given the strength of the wind, not as strong as friday, but as we push those showers eastwards, i don't think many will escape. and it is a similar story for armistice day on sunday, because you still have that low pressure driving those showers in. some areas will escape, but other areas will get shower after shower, and although it is not a particularly cold wind direction, 10—14 degrees is a little bit above average for this time of year, clearly not very pleasant standing outside in the showers. still with us in the west as we go into monday. by monday, there is the potential for more persistent rain to pass close by to the south and east, so there is uncertainty on the detailfor monday, but when it does look like is it stay unsettled. we will stay in this unsettled weather picture, south—westerly winds coming off
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the atlantic driven by the area of low pressure. that is because the jet stream is strong across the mid—latitudes at the moment, so driving those low pressures our way towards the way of the british isles. but then, as time goes by towards the middle of the week, the jet stream starts to meander a bit further southwards. that low starts to fill, becoming less deep and angry, throwing fewer weather systems our way. the jet stream then starts to move northwards, allowing high—pressure to start pulling in across the uk. that is the changing face of autumn, we have the rain and the gales at the moment which are likely to be replaced with foggy weather potentially into the middle of next week and beyond. we often call it anti—cyclonic gloom, because you have the high—pressure above trapping all the moisture at lower levels, and those foggy mornings turn into rather gloomy afternoons. there are warnings out because of the turbulent weather ahead, the details are on the website. the prime minister under pressure over her brexit deal, as another minister resigns.
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jojohnson quits his transport job, saying the deal on offer is a travesty — and there should be a second referendum. it's a very difficult decision, but we're clearly barrelling towards an incoherent brexit that's going to see us cede control. the referendum was meant to be about taking back control. we'll be asking what his resignation means for any brexit deal. also tonight... last post theresa may joins european leaders in france and belgium to mark the centenary of the end of the first world war. and, crafting their own tributes — communities across the country remember the men who never came home.
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