Matt Carpenter is a sneaker reseller located in Newtown, Connecticut. He is a 17 year old high school student with a passion for making money. Starting out selling single items of Supreme, to becoming a known reseller in the area moving 40-70 shoes a day.

Using many methods of buying from advanced computer programs that can buy shoes for him, to driving to outlet stores and buying 50+ pairs varying in size, type, and sex. He will buy any shoe as long as he can resell it for more. Even shoes at outlet stores on the clearance wall can have some resell value.

Volume is key to his business. He can sell some shoes where he only makes $10 and others where he may make $250 so every little bit adds up. The key is getting stuff in and out fast. Not only is he limited to shoes, he has expanded t0 reselling the new game consoles, sought after sports cards, and even some clothing items. He looks for any possibility to make money. His most recent venture is buying thousands of dollars of very new popular Arie leggings that are sold out everywhere. He then sells them on ebay for double the original price and is watching people flock to buy what he has bought.

His entire business is based off of his ability so see the demand for items and use his knowledge of how to purchase bulk items to flip any item and make a profit. He loves what he does because he is his own boss, making his own hours and taking all the profit, reaping all the benefit. He has a passion for clothing and style only making him more excited when he finds a gem. The business for resellers is ever expanding as he continues to expand. He is pushing forward to increase his growth and size as he acquires more capital and continues to push forward.

Joe Herbert is a 19 year old reseller out of Eugene, Oregon who specializes in the resale of sneakers. Using an advanced desktop computer, and something called sneaker bots, Joe manages to buy up to thousands of pairs of shoes at a single time. Sneaker bots are software programs in which Joe can buy and download onto his computer that automatically add shoes to his cart and purchase them at a very fast rate off of different websites. This is extremely beneficial to him when a shoe company drops a limited product such as a new Jordan shoe, that is released in limited quantity and very sought after. Sneaker bots allow Joe to check out maybe a few hundred pairs in just a few seconds, virtually leaving normal people just trying to buy them no chance to purchase them.

As these limited shoes sell out so extremely fast, they have a higher value than the actual resale value. Some famous shoes in history such as the Nike Air Mags, have a resale value of upwards of $25,000. Doing this on a large scale allows Joe to make small amounts of money of individual shoes that can be as small as $5-$10 but moving hundreds of pairs at a time returns him a good profit.

Joe does not only have one aspect to his business though. He teaches others how to resell shoes through his group he created on discord. Teaching people about bots, warning them of upcoming releases, and showing them what websites are the best to use is another way Joe brings in money. He charges his members a monthly membership fee to stay in his group, with his memberships selling out every month as of how valuable his knowledge is.

Declan McGinley is a self taught videographer and film editor who specializes in the area of music videos. Always loving music and film, Declan very quickly fell in love with filming from a young age. He loved to always just shoot videos of himself doing funny stuff in his yard as a young boy, but then began to really become interested in what he could do with a camera when he entered high school.

Using the film editing software Final Cut Declan began to toy around and see what he could create. Starting with short videos for local high school athletes or his local high school sports teams, he began to create a portfolio while learning more and more along the way.

Perfecting his craft he was able to turn his editing skills into a business where he began to film music videos for small local rappers in the area of Connecticut and New York City. Continuing to build his skills, portfolio and connections he began to get more noticed, eventually becoming the director for Jay Critch, while also having the opportunity to film and direct for artists such as G Herbo and Pop Smoke. Born was Declan’s film brand or name in which he goes by which is DeadEnd Productions.

Now after graduating high school Declan has decided to commute to school attending Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Connecticut allowing him to continue his education, but his business as well. Declan is going to school for film and dreams to continue his success, scaling it, until he can make this into a living where he becomes a well known director, videographer,  and editor in the music community.

From a young age Austin Jose had found a passion for extreme sports such as snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing, trampolining, flipping, and cliff jumping. As he a grew a new passion formed for filming and documenting his experiences.

Austin first entered the world of videography as middle schooler when he started the Instagram account SwishDoctorz, which was an account him and his friends used to post basketball trick shots. One particular shot went viral being posted on Instagram accounts such as House Of Highlights and WorldStar. From here he started a YouTube channel posting videos like vlogs, trampoline videos, and travel videos. This was a place where he did the bulk of his posting  into his sophomore year of high school.

Austin found he could turn this into a career where he then began partnering with small companies such as Earth Bands, creating advertisement videos that they could use across different platforms. From here he moved to filming music videos for small local artists, as well as doing real estate photography landing some amazing jobs in the Hamptons, New Jersey, and even Bermuda. Finding these ways to make money while doing the thing he loves most was all he could ask for in a career. As his name and portfolio grows he decided to turn down division one football scholarships and take a gap year from school and see if he can financially make his dream come true.

With the large amount of work that Austin was doing he has not had time to make videos he wants to anymore. That all changed this summer as between work projects he created his biggest personal project yet, a video talking about his life and love for filming. It is a documentary titled “Through My Eyes” that he plans to turn into a series as he goes through the different “chapters” in his life. With an unreal drive to succeed and inspire others Austin is bound to make it in the film industry.

If anyone has taken the advice to “chase your dreams” it is Austin.