00:03For me it was always clear, sitting in an office, working on a laptop or computer, no way.
00:09The alternative was working with my hands. I've always been good with my hands.
00:14When most people imagine a shoemaker, they think of an old hunched-over man.
00:18I wanted to move away from that narrative. I always wanted to be different from other people.
00:24Hello guys, my name is Richard Every, I'm 31 years old, I live in Frankfurt, Germany, and I'm a shoemaker
00:29master.
00:40Even if I make shoes, I have to be able to repair everything myself.
00:44It's part of the job, because I can't make a living from custom-made shoes alone.
00:48My customers are really people who live conscientiously, people who specifically do not want to buy things and then throw
00:55them away.
00:56They invest a bit more in quality and end up with shoes that can be repaired.
01:01Shoes they can have repaired over and over again.
01:04Depending on the model and the level of complexity, it can take anywhere from 10 to 12 weeks, sometimes even
01:1114 weeks.
01:12That's over 200 individual work steps. I'd even say over 250 steps if it's the first pair.
01:19My prices start at 2000 for the first pair, because we have to take measurements.
01:23And once I've made the last, once I have the foundation, each additional pair is less expensive,
01:29because the patterns already exist and the measurements have already been taken.
01:33It's an incredibly exciting moment when I hand over the shoes after working on them for weeks,
01:39and the customer steps into them for the first time.
01:45Quite often, customers even hug me, because they're so happy with the result.
01:50They're genuinely excited to finally have shoes that truly, truly fit exactly the way they imagined.
01:57They can basically last a lifetime if you take good care of them.
02:09I love Frankfurt as hell, bro, because it just has a different energy than the rest of Germany, I would
02:18say.
02:18But now I speak way more German than English, so even though to express myself, it's way easier, it comes
02:25way more natural for me.
02:27I don't know, I feel at home here, I would say. So, yeah.
02:31Definitely want to leave Germany at some point, because first of all, taxes.
02:36And as a bureaucracy or bureaucracy, so like, there's so much paperwork.
02:42There's a saying, there's a cliché that a lot of German people are still uptight.
02:49Definitely still a white society, like, for sure, for sure.
02:53So, it's just nothing I can overcome.
02:56I never felt different in Nigeria.
02:59You can never, like, really, really be completely, fully accepted.
03:05That's just how it is, you know, so you just have to live with it and then make the best
03:08out of it, you know.
03:11The long-term girl, for me, is to, like, build my brand, build my shop, and then to be able
03:19to sustain it for a longer period of time.
03:22And then, someday, maybe go back to Nigeria and build, like, a school or something there.
03:27A school about building shoes and be able, like, also a craft mansion.
03:33I see myself very German, so I would call, like, German is my home now.
03:37Even though it's still my home, I still don't plan on living here for the rest of my life, you
03:42know.
03:42Because the world is so big, and it's always about change, and the world's my life.
03:47Life is always about movement, and I don't see myself staying in one place, like, forever.
03:52Life is always about movement.
03:53Life is only about movement.
03:55I love strengthen for me.
03:55In person living here to be.
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