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Fe & Fi
Johnny Sturgess
Its not every day that you break the fourth wall, but here I am doing exactly that with a reader I've never met in my life, and someone I will likely never truly know the way that you are going to know me. You see, this is a one way medium, where the story only flows in one direction, and have I got a doozie of a story for you, and given that you're on the receiving end, you're in for a real treat. A trick or treat that is.
Who am I you might ask yourself? Perhaps I'm an egomaniac, hell bent on talking about himself for an hour. The truth is, you'd be wrong about that assumption, because the fact of the matter is, that I'm very much a people person. In fact, I'm a professional people person for a company with a long history of giving women the tools they can ply as artists of their being, and for the essence of their own look. To give their face a little colour and their eyes a little more sparkle. I'm an outside sales rep for Kawaī kao Cosmetics.
That's right. Go ahead and say it. But you're a guy, you don't even wear makeup. I mouthed the words exactly as you read them. Its true. I'm a guy. I don't wear the product, though when I'm on camera, the makeup artist might use a little concealer. Maybe some foundation as is the case with all professionals who work in front of the camera. That's not my field, but inevitably as a sales professional, I'm sometimes asked to do a presentation in front of a camera. For hundreds of thousands, if not millions on late night television a few times years ago. You know. Infomercials. Not my regular gig, but one I've done two or three times for Kawaī kao Cosmetics in the past.
So, you might ask yourself then, in the interest of authenticity, a weaponized word that is often thrown around too much of late, how does a guy who doesn't even wear make-up end up as the outside sales rep for a company whose product line encompasses the entirety of cosmetics?
First of all, what do sales reps even do? Well, they sell stuff.
In my field, there are front line sales associates, most if not all of whom are women, who do their job exceedingly well. I mean, they wear the product. They demonstrate it quite well. They're artists, every single one of them, bringing art to the canvas of the human face. They're articulate as well, which in this business is important. And, they're women. They aren't challenging any societal norms by selling make-up, and most of our clients want what we sell.
Sometimes however, there are clients, often powerful women, who run their company with an iron heel if you get my drift, and our front line sales staff don't often have the necessary tools to be able to communicate effectively with these modern vixen leaders of the corporate world.
It used to be, that men were running that show, but that is certainly not the case anymore. When it was men at the helm, a sales force of women, often very charismatic and attractive women, who knew how to play men by their two leashes: the one we got from the world of fashion known as a neck tie, and the other one that comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, that we got from nature. You know, the leash that rests just above a man's family jewels if you catch my drift.
Most women of world awareness are very familiar with how to use one or the other to control a man, and that is certainly not to say that all women are manipulators, because that definitely isn't the case. Some women don't even think like that, and of those women, most of them never end up with the cozy corner office. However, some women of particular awareness are very capable of using either leash, in addition to however many other intellectual gifts they often possess. And now, the cozy corner offices of corporate headquarters everywhere are fully populated with women at the helm of these companies. Guys, you might be thinking that its the end for us, and you'd be sadly mistaken if you dared in that direction. Remember. Its a partnership. The longest standing partnership with which we're familiar as human beings. So, us guys have to get our piece of the pie. That's where I come in.
Most of what I have to offer in terms of my delivery comes from my empathy, my intellect and my confidence. Both in the product I'm selling, and in myself. If you can't sell one, you definitely will not be able to sell the other. Its as simple as that, and when you're dealing with a woman who commands an entire army of neck ties, with one hand, and the company's pocket book with the other, you can be sure that she damned well knows how to use her heels, or her comfy shoes as the case may be.
I'm not a bad looking guy, and some might even regard me as a little bit hunky. I don't really focus on that or spend a lot of time preening that aspect of my being, except for taking care to ensure that I'm clean and professionally presentable when and where I need to be, and for the most part, that is always in front of these women at the helm, and often within their corner offices at very large companies. They're the ones guiding the direction and prosperity of hundreds if not thousands of employees globally as the one in charge at their company. I'm the guy that has something that their company cannot be without.
So how does a guy like me, one that most such women can see coming from a kilometer away, fit into the sales force of a company like Kawaī kao Cosmetics?
The answer is, that I'm a charmer. Not insincere or a con man. I'm helping these women to understand why it is that what I'm selling is going to make the world of difference for their company. I might not wear it, but I have an eye for what is appealing when it comes to the art of etching grand rennaissance paintings of colour, light and shadow on one's face. I know what gets men's attention. Not just some generic cookie cutter representation of a man, but every guy I see, I can tell you exactly what makes him tick when he sees a woman.
Most of these women who are the world's corporate leaders, almost always have a nemesis. A competitor, often one of the opposite sex, who seems to be immune to her ability to take charge or to wield his "leashes" on life. So naturally, I'm the key to solving these women's problems, despite the fact that they often don't realize that they have such a problem in the first place.
My pitch is simple. I come in. First, I listen to them. Then, I speak confidently with them, giving them the respect they deserve, and at the same time, treating them as equals. Being candid. I find out a bit about them, and after a meeting or two, I have enough to know that they have a nemesis. I just give them the tools, by way of our product and an idea of what turns the crank of that nemesis, and they're back in charge again, and I've just signed a two year deal where they'll stock, and carry Kawaī kao Cosmetics in their stores throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania and eventually on Mars if I'm still alive then.
I bring home the big deals. That's what I do. Or did, until things changed, that is.
Remember when I said that I don't wear the product. Well... that part wasn't entirely true, or at the very least, always true. When I was a youth, I had dreams of being a music star, and when we'd perform gigs at the school events, my bandmates and I sometimes wore stage makeup. Very common since the invention of motion pictures and way before that since the invention of live theatrical performances. We're talking hundreds, if not thousands of years in some cultures throughout the world that stage makeup has been an important part of performance arts.
What harm is there in it, if our faces are an artist's canvas, and we enjoy embellishing the art that we already clearly are. Its good for those creative souls who enjoy that aspect of their presentation. Its good for my company and their bottom line. Therefore, by the company being the means to my prosperity, its definitely good for me. We all win, and any situation where all of us win, is where we need to aim ourselves.
Now we're getting to the tricky part, where I, the protagonist of this story so far, runs into a contradiction of values that has an impact upon my future and changes the course of my life. Forcing me to make an assessment of my stance on certain issues and to reconcile where I was with where I believe I should be standing.
Before you judge me, I implore you to remember that in this life, there are forces at work behind the scenes that ensure that we end up with by way of our earning it, that which we protect. That's what we're led to believe and that's probably the case for most of us.
For some of us however, there's a more reserved and sinister set of forces behind the scenes, that creates its own alternate version of your pursued life narrative, no matter what you protect and what you don't.
Like a force that purposely tries to keep you going in the path they've chosen for you, so much so that your efforts to steer yourself clear of such a force, are rewritten in such a way that makes it appear that you support this hidden force and the place they're trying to confine you within their plan.
A bizarre conspiracy to those who've never encountered it before.
A very real and damaging obstacle if and when you are in the midst of it.
Before I continue, I should introduce myself. I am a man of thirty six years, once divorced in a clean separation and two years later, a settlement. My ex-wife Nancy and I remained friends for years beyond that time when we finally settled. When she was thirty, and I was twenty-six (I was always fascinated by older women).
I remember that night well. We called the lawyers. Had a few drinks together. Argued a bit. Reminisced some. The lawyers called us and told us they'd come to an amicable agreement, which we signed off on. Then Nancy and I had the best sex of our lives that night, but we never from that moment spent any time together alone, ever again.
We still talk from time to time, but she recently tied the knot and for obvious reasons, we're keeping our distance from each other.
She might not be my Nancy any longer, but I am still my own Johnny Sturgess. Corporate Sales. Kawaī kao Cosmetics.
At your service, so long as you'd care to sign a minimum one year retail or distribution deal.
The Wild Side
My boss, the man I report to, he's been with the company for his entire life. He started at the very bottom, first, as a clerk in the mail room (back in the days of snail mail), and then was trained as the company's first generation of computer administrators for the new email system, despite that not really being what he'd wanted for his career path. He persevered and rather than make waves, he made money, very much moving with the current rather than against it as he'd told me a few weeks ago during a company social event in Toronto at the site of one of our customers: West Meet East International, in their fashion show/ballroom.
He'd always been fascinated with women, and not strictly as part of his sexual appetite, but rather as someone with the eyes of an artist, who'd never pursued a vocation in the arts. Instead, he saw art in the faces of women, hence why he'd joined Kawaī kao Cosmetics back in the early days in Osaka, Japan.
When an opening as an ISR (Inside Sales Rep) became available, he immediately transferred from the IT department to sales, and never looked back. He spent the next ten years working as an ISR, backing up his OSR (Outside Sales Rep) Shiori Sachiko. She was eventually promoted to the head of sales for the company (the position my boss now holds), while he was promoted to the position of OSR, essentially working the same position that I currently hold with the company.
Over the following ten years, Shiori was promoted to the board of directors, while my boss, whose name I neglected to mention is Hiroyuki Hori, was promoted to the head of the sales department, whose offices had moved from Osaka, Japan, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada during that time. It took him three months to re-establish himself in his new home in a lavish condo in downtown Toronto, and another three before he made the best decision of his career: hiring me.
That was ten years ago, back when Nancy and I had the best (post-settlement) sex of our lives, which probably had at least a little bit to do with my having landed this career position with Kawaī kao Cosmetics.
A little over a year ago, I was called into Hiroyuki's office. I had up until that point, enjoyed a sort of elite status in the company, especially given my sales track record. Our top clients, had nothing but praise for me, and for our product, which carries a bit of clout in a company like Kawaī kao. However, what Hiroyuki had in mind for me was something for which I was not prepared.
It turns out that a there was a new player in town. A technology based warehousing outfit, with a sizeable warehouse storefront dedicated to everything fashion. They had locations in Paris. London. New York. Los Angeles. Toronto. Seoul. Hong Kong, and Osaka, and had accumulated all of this within the last three years thanks to their online sales and distribution model. They were simply known as Keun (Korean for enjoyably good), and even had their own dance style which was very popular in the Gangnam district of Seoul, and the Umeda prefecture of Osaka, and the Lan Kwai Fong district of Hong Kong. Toronto and Los Angeles, had their own version of the same dance, but stylized it with a bit more of a western signature.
Keun was a company whose niche market had secured them the lucrative online distribution deals for many major fashion brands. Many, except for Kawaī kao Cosmetics.
Hiroyuki Hori wanted very much to change that. And so it was that I was tasked with meeting their purchasing manager, Kazumi Fuku Chiharu, in Osaka in three days time.
It was Tuesday afternoon when I met with Hiroyuki, and my flight would be leaving on Thursday morning, from Pearson International with a stop in Calgary, and then a stopover in Vancouver, where I'd catch a second flight direct to Osaka International Airport.
I spent the rest of my day making the rounds to two of my customers, the first being the director of marketing for a retailer we dealt with, and the second being with one of the customers whom I could never read. She was one of those women I'd mentioned, who ran the show for a company with a world presence, but she also possessed a serenity that seemed, at least to me and my experience, to be otherworldly to say the least.
I met with Helayn Ying in her office at West Meet East International, and we enjoyed a good discussion about the future of our strategic alliance and where she envisioned that alliance in three years time. A time at which point she indicated that she was in negotiations with Kawaī kao Cosmetics to eventually merge one of our product lines with one of her fashion lines. A considerably bold move, that would commit our businesses to a partnership for decades to come, making our meeting more like the planning phase of a strategic marriage in the feudal era.
The meeting went successfully and we bid each other farewell, after which I ventured into the warehouse and the receiving area to meet with my good friend Braden.
"I'm on my way out of town in two days. Want to go to the Nerf And Turf have a few? Catch up on things?" I asked him.
"Are you psychic or something? I was just thinking of calling you up and asking you if you wanted to go out for few drinks myself. Unbelievable Johnny," Braden responded.
"That's my job. I can read 'em from kilometers away, and the same goes for friends too. That's why I'm at the top of my game," I said to him, already knowing that the poor guy needed a friend.
I know from working in this business for many years, that its a tight knit crew. There aren't many places or people you can talk with in this business, without it coming back at you from a different direction, let alone a tabloid.
Braden and I had a good friendship however, and one that was built on trust. We were two adventurous cowboys taking on life when and where it confronted us, always trying to leave things just a little bit better than they were before we happened upon them. Despite what it might seem to the contrary, even guys like us needed someone who knew when to listen, and when to force feed us the advice that we didn't want to hear. That was something that we could rely upon from each other, Braden and I.
"I'm done here at six. That's in like two hours. I'll be at the Nerf And Turf at six-thirty," Braden assured me.
"We'll grab a bite to eat, and then we'll see where the night takes us from there," I responded.
After saying my goodbyes to everyone at West Meet East International, I left, carried out a few errands. Made a few phone calls, and then made my way to the Nerf And Turf.
To be continued...
Credits and attribution:
Special Thanks To Rocket Fuel Lakeshore Blvd West, perhaps the best place in history to get a coffee, circa 2001-2004. Miss you all very much.
Special Thanks To Rocket Fuel Lakeshore Blvd West, perhaps the best place in history to get a coffee, circa 2001-2004. Miss you all very much.
Artwork: Amy Wong, Wendy Pusey, Ghastly, Birdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3D, Unreal Engine...Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Deepai.org, Google AI Studio, Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)
Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
Tapp Brothers Exercise For Better Motion
Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility
Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools
Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!
Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof
Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
Tools: Daz3D, Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Lightwave 3D, Blender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantID, Sadtalker, Google Colaboratory, Microsoft Copilot (Windows 11), Hitfilm, PhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Deepai.org, Google AI Studio, Borderline Obsession...
DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.
InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.
Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.
Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.
Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)
Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)
Special thanks to Aitrepreneur, Mickmumpitz, Hugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life
Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts
Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history
Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)
Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art
Tapp Brothers Exercise For Better Motion
Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility
Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools
Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!
Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof
Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.
This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.
This content is entirely produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701 under the Shhhh! Digital Media banner.
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