We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Devyn Giovengo. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Devyn below.
Devyn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Parents play a huge role in our development as youngsters and sometimes that impact follows us into adulthood and into our lives and careers. Looking back, what’s something you think you parents did right?
Growing up my parents were separated but I learned a ton of different life skills and lessons through both of them.
One thing I learned through both of them was working hard. I witnessed them leaving for work at early morning hours and not getting back for long hours. This definitely at a young age made me understand how to work hard but also made me from a young age know I didn’t want the regular 9-5 like most people.
One thing that they were both very big on with me also was common sense. Many peoples downfall are themselves at the end of the day.
Devyn, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
I’m a dual business owner with Visions Attire LLC and Gio Made It LLC. For Visions Attire I do a ton of fashion design wether that’s digitally or physically with any hand crafted products. I also do a lot of the operational stuff, marketing, planning, etc.
For Gio Made It I do all of the videography, graphics, photography, editing, etc. I have a few guys who help me out here and there and I do the same for their businesses as well. These people who have helped me with videography in the past are; Shot By Chipz, Shooter Gav, Shot By Hash, AJ Francis. Shoutout to all those guys, really excited to see where their careers take them, they’re all great creators and have a ton of potential… They’ll take their businesses as far as they want to take them.
Any advice for managing a team?
So for me I look at the manager and the leader in completely different categories. Anybody can manage, essentially I was taught all managing really is is getting things done through other people (Shoutout to Professor Giannini). I believe a real leader is someone who helps everyone around them reach their absolute maximum potential and makes everyone around them better as the project/projects they’re working on or building gets done as smoothly as possible. Obviously you will run into problems along the way but another thing about being a leader is how you overcome the problems and work your way through them.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I was taught working in the restaurant business at a young age that the customer is always right because they’re spending their money with you. This is awful and as an entrepreneur I couldn’t disagree more. I don’t have an exact specific time where I had to forget this but if this is how you run your business I think in the long run you’ll end up with a ton of more stress and ultimately you just have to make sure you and the consumer are on the same page before you guys work together. If you’re performing a service just make sure you guys both know exactly what is provided and not provided.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.visionsattire.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giomadeitllc/
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063529835348
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/devyngiovengo
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/VoeGio
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/GioMadeIt
Image Credits
Visions Attire