Intro

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to introduce myself. To be honest I was nervous and I wanted to be able to speak about everything that may have brought people to me. Ok, so here it goes. My Jordan 1 collection, my insight, and knowledge of Jordans, or my mental health advocacy. 

However, to my core, I am a husband to my wife of 8 years, a father to 4 beautiful children, an army veteran, a former gamer, an ex-sneaker head, a pop culture nerd, and a music snob. I work a factory job building interiors, while my lovely wife is a licensed aesthetician and a business owner. Many of you have heard me speak about her business, Earthy Notes By Nature, I will link her self-care products later. We have been together for 14 wonderful but trying years, and it’s helped shape the man I am today. 

To further introduce myself to those of you just finding me, I must start with the obvious, sneakers, Air Jordan 1s in particular. It’s been a wild 6 years that has brought me to this space of notoriety. Most of it came with the 2016 release of the black and red Jordan 1s, more popularly known as Breds or Banned. For the first time, I made a trusted purchase through a friend to secure my pair early. I was a novice in buying shoes outside of retailers but I trusted a friend to lock down a pair for me. This ladies and gents was my first back door pair. 

I know, I know, now why the fuck would I talk about something so controversial, in my very first blog post? I mean, transparency and honesty is me. But it was that pair that gained me 4K followers from the 400 I had at the time. It also opened my eyes to how a lot of things had changed from when I first started buying shoes up till that point. I will share more about my thoughts on that in future blog posts. 

Now, if you made it this far, you probably know me as Mr. Unloved 1s. That name came from me posting AJ1 mids a lot and they were mostly a bunch of pairs people either didn’t like, hated, or were purely just unloved. My friend, thanks Mac, usually commented on these posts saying, “How do you post these knowing they’re unloved?” And it hit me, I am Mr. Unloved 1s, but as a former writer, I made sure it had a dual meaning. I grew up misinterpreting love and felt like I was the black sheep or an unloved one among my family and friends. This wasn’t true as I grew and gained an understanding of emotional literacy. Still learning daily. So when you see UNLVD 1s: know stands for Nobody wants to be Unloved.. I mean.. it should just be U N Loved 1s.

Welp, that’s my long-ass introduction. In this space, I will go back and forth with my journey to notoriety and my very focused thoughts as relates to sneakers and culture. This is my time to talk my shit freely and in long form. So I hope you all are ready and thank you for your time and for joining this journey. 

Remember….

The focus is love!