#I KNOW EVERYBODY POSTS THIS BUT MAN IF ITS NOT A MASTER CLASS OF STORYTELLING

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AFO’s Weaknesses

All for One is an incredibly powerful quirk (maybe THE most powerful quirk next to OFA). The ability to steal quirks, be able to use those quirks, and the ability to give those quirks away is OP AF.

It’s not surprising that AFO became the most powerful villain with a quirk like that. The possibilities are endless.

But it doesn’t mean that there aren’t any weaknesses.

(In depth look at the possible weaknesses of the quirk AFO and some comparison to OFA. This meta was originally part of another meta that was getting too long and off topic, needless to say there will be manga spoilers below the cut!)

As I already said, AFO can basically do three things: steal, use, and give away quirks. Each one has potential limitations that have been addressed in the manga or have been carefully not discussed at all. I’ll go through as many as I can think of.

Part One: To Steal a Quirk

So we know for sure AFO steals quirks. It doesn’t borrow the power or allow the user to copy it (like Monoma’s quirk). It steals the abilities forever, leaving the original quirk-holder without their quirk.

We know from Ragdoll, that when a quirk is stolen the experience may be traumatic, but ultimately the person can go back to their same personality after a period of time and rest (ch 184).

We also know that AFO can steal quirks relating to mental abilities (Ragdoll’s search), enhancing physical sensations (super hearing and vibration sensing), enhancing physical abilities (super strength and speed), and possibly a variety of other abilities (warp quirk, cybernetic fingernail quirk, etc).

AFO also has a quirk that relates to prolonged life in some way whether that be related to an advanced healing factor, immortality, advanced durability, or any number of other possible quirks is unclear.

We can also assume it can steal quirks relating to external manipulation (Best Jeanist). Even though he didn’t steal Best Jeanist’s quirk he suggested that it was within his ability, it just wouldn’t be useful because it required too much training.

We can also assume that many of the Nomu’s skills were gifted by AFO, meaning that they’re quirks that AFO would have been able to steal. But it’s unclear which quirks the Nomu’s started with and which ones were given.

While there hasn’t been any definitive evidence that there are quirks that AFO can’t steal, I would imagine it’s impossible for AFO to steal quirks that require a physical mutation. Similar to how Aizawa is unable to turn mutation quirks off and uses his scarf and fighting skills to counteract them.

Originally posted by yoshis

The reason this makes sense is because of Aizawa’s limitations. But also because AFO hasn’t stolen a quirk of a person with extra eyes in order to be able to see again and looks entirely like a normal man in a suit. Either he can’t steal mutation quirks or he always gives mutation quirks away (which, again, doesn’t make sense for a guy with no eyes).

The hole in that theory is the Nomu’s have mutation quirks. Either this is from AFO having the ability to transfer mutation quirks, or this is due to the doctor’s quirk, or they’re starting with a person with a mutation quirk and adding other types of quirks to it, or some combination therein.

The pterodactyl Nomu having (at least in part) the mind of Izuku’s childhood friend (ch 56) would suggest that the friend was the starting place that quirks were added to. But the way both the pterodactyl Nomu and the USJ Nomu look different from their original bodies would mean that someone’s quirk is responsible for that physical change whether that be AFO or the doctor’s quirk.

Even so I still think it’s most likely that AFO is unable to steal mutation quirks, and that the mutations in the Nomu are a result of the doctor’s work.

One would assume for One For All to have survived as long as it has, that AFO is unable to for whatever reason steal OFA. Although this has not been confirmed by anything other than its continued existence.

Another possible weakness of how AFO steals quirks is the distance at which a quirk can be stolen. So far in the manga the only character we’ve seen AFO steal a quirk from was Ragdoll and we didn’t get to see the process.

But we have gotten to see one important scene where AFO gifts a quirk:

In this case AFO is putting his hands directly onto the victim’s head and then giving a quirk from there. It would make sense that AFO would have to touch a person to give them a quirk and would have to also touch them to take away a quirk.

It’s also a weakness that AFO cannot sense quirks. He doesn’t realize his brother already had a quirk before gifting a second one (as far as we know). He also takes a minute fighting Best Jeanist before determining that his quirk isn’t useful to steal.

It also may take time to steal a quirk, but I haven’t been able to find any evidence one way or another how long it might take for AFO to steal a quirk, except that we know it takes less than 24 hours (due to how long Ragdoll was kidnapped).

So we know that stealing a quirk:

is permanent (but not permanently debilitating)

that most types of quirks can be stolen (although possibly not mutations)

that they can be stolen from touching a victim (although distance is unclear)

and that they take less than 24 hours to steal (but may possibly take significantly less than that).

Part 2: To Use a Quirk

It’s quite possible there’s a limit to the number of quirks AFO could hold at one time, although it hasn’t been addressed or suggested in any way. However, having a limit could make sense of the reason AFO doesn’t just steal everyone’s power around him, and be another reason for him to have given up a quirk to his brother.

It’s also never been addressed how many quirks AFO can use at a single time, not just hold, but actually use. We have seen him use several quirks at once to make his arm an incredible amount stronger, but there may be a limit.

As we’ve seen from AFO’s fight with Best Jeanist (ch. 89), he’s pretty picky about the quirks he decides to take. He doesn’t want quirks that require a lot of training or experience, because when he takes a quirk he doesn’t automatically get training or experience when he steals it, and neither does anyone he gives a quirk to.

This means that while AFO can steal a wide variety of quirks, he’s looking for quirks that are powerful regardless of training. This is the most clear and obvious weakness of AFO. He takes time (just like everybody else) to master certain quirks, and he doesn’t want to take that time.

(I also really like this impatience quality in AFO from a storytelling perspective, because it puts him as a foil to characters like Mirio who directly stated that his quirk is only strong because he made it strong. It gives a very good life lesson on being a hero/good/talented really requires putting in the work.)

And (mostly just for fun) we can also look at something like Class A and see who’s most at risk of getting their quirk stolen:

Tsuyu Asui, Tenya Iida, Mashirao Ojiro, Mezo Shoji, Kyoka Jiro, Hanta Sero, Toru Hagakure, Minoru Mineta (very unlikely) - powers seem to rely on physical mutations

Momo Yaoyorozu (very unlikely) - powerful quirk but requires the most training of anyone in the class to be able to work, she can only make things that she knows the entirety of the chemical structures (dayum this gurl has to be smart)

Yugo Aoyama (unlikely) - needs mechanical support for quirk to work well, and physical drawback of puking after only a little output

Rikido Sato (maybe) - good strong power even without training, has mental drawbacks, and a requirement to function (eating lots of sugar)

Fumikage Tokoyami (maybe) - it’s unclear how much dark shadow is its own person, it may not listen to a different master, or it may work really well with a villain

Mina Ashido, Koji Koda (likely) - good strong powers, doesn’t require too much control, powers don’t appear to rely on their physical mutations

Ochako Ururuaka, Denki Kaminari, Eijiro Kirishima, Shoto Todoroki, Katsuki Bakugou (most likely) - good strong powers even without training, not too harsh of drawbacks when used within reason

We also know (thank you Bakugou) that all quirks have drawbacks to use them. Sometimes the drawbacks take a physical toll like with Bakugou or Todoroki. Sometimes they take a mental toll like Sato or Kaminari. Sometimes the drawback is about having control over the power like Tokoyami. But it means that AFO must also be getting these drawbacks when he uses other people’s quirks. He should be able to be worn down, but he also probably picks powers that have fewer drawbacks to them. This is also reasoning for why AFO wouldn’t just steal everyone’s quirk around himself.

Using quirks is really where I see OFA at having the advantage over AFO.

AFO may not have had too much trouble defeating OFA users during the first few generations. But with each new iteration of OFA, as it gets passed down user to user, it gets more powerful. They don’t just get the quirks of the previous users, they also get the physical capability of each quirk user added to their own. OFA users get their own quirks amplified, their physical abilities amplified, AND the ability to use previous owner’s quirks.

OFA is limited in the number of quirks based only on how many previous generations there were. Same for how much power it has stockpiled. I went into slightly more depth in how OFA now works with the newest manga info in this meta. From what we can understand the stockpiled power is what can amplify a user’s own quirk and or physical abilities.

Izuku will have to train his own body and skills very hard to be able to use the stockpiled power without breaking himself, as well as to be able to use the previous owners quirks. (As I mentioned this will very neatly make Izuku a foil of AFO, and makes my literary brain quite happy)

Really this means that AFO’s power comes from having access to a larger number of weaker quirks (especially as OFA becomes more powerful generation after generation). Of course AFO could counteract that just by, ya know, training, but what kind of big bad would he be if someone saw him sweating at the gym?

So it’s cool to think that a lot of what the final battle is gonna hinge on isn’t what a person’s quirk is, but how much they’ve trained their quirk to become strong. What makes you a hero isn’t how strong or skilled you are, it’s how much you work towards doing good for both yourself and others. (*sheds a single tear for Mirio)

But I digress.

AFO

May or may not have a limit to number of quirks he can hold and use at any given time (and it may be so many that it won’t become relevant)

Has to train to use quirks that require lots of training (and specifically won’t steal a strong quirk if it requires a lot of training)

Most likely feels aftereffects of the quirks he uses (although he may have other quirks that counteract those effects)

Part 3: The Gift of a Quirk

The only character we’ve seen AFO give a quirk was his brother, where he placed a hand on his head. It’s quite possible that there’s a distance or amount time involved in giving a quirk to someone. We’ve also seen quirks where the more info a user knows about a person the more effective their quirk will work (Toga Himiko). These could all be factors in AFO’s use, although there is little evidence to suggest these factors with the exception of distance required likely being physical touch, and possibly requiring a forehead touch.

Otherwise the important thing to think about in relation to giving a quirk is the effect on the person you’ve given it to.

All Might suggested that giving the quirk may have been to force his younger brother to submit (ch. 59). There’s a possibility with that statement and with the brain-dead Nomu’s and Shigaraki’s demeanor that this means that AFO giving a quirk to someone may mess with their brain in some way.

However that argument is hard to make when you consider that passing on One For All doesn’t seem to mess with people’s brains, and that the most similar comparison would be Ragdoll’s stolen quirk, which didn’t seem to permanently mess up her brain either.

(Although I will say that my theory with the stockpiling quirk gift is that AFO realized that the stockpiling quirk would break his bones and thought that a painful quirk like that would subdue his brother, not realizing or not caring that you could counteract the breaking with a significant amount of training, and as we have established AFO is lazy af)

The existence of the Nomu may suggest a few other possibilities for gifting quirks. They may be made brain dead because AFO fears his underlings becoming too powerful, so he only gifts many numerous quirks to those who are under his complete control (i.e. brain dead Nomus, and a successor he trained and abused from a child age).

AFO gifting quirks may also steadily decrease brain function, or adding quirks may be traumatic enough that each additional quirk added makes a person less functional. In that case the creation of the Nomus would be necessary for AFO to be able to gift numerous quirks to someone else. There’s not really evidence to suggest or deny this, but worth mentioning.

Also worth mentioning that Shigaraki may or may not have ever been gifted a quirk from AFO, but I included him just in case he has.

So the conclusion of gifting quirks is that AFO:

May have to touch a person to gift a quirk, may have to touch them for an undetermined period of time

May cause brain problems when gifting a quirk or multiple quirks, or that most individuals have limitations on how many quirks they can possess

Or none of this could be true

Conclusions:

Basically AFO is super powerful, but is still a quirk that can have limitations or drawbacks just like every quirk we’ve seen. There’s not enough evidence to suggest any limitations conclusively, but there’s enough to question several different facets of AFO.

Woo that got way longer than intended for something so incredibly inconclusive! So have a smiling Izuku to thank you for getting all the way here!

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My Program Reflection

My Entertainment Business Master’s Program Reflection

           I’m about to cross the finish line of my Entertainment Business Master of Science and it has been a long and rewarding journey. I think that I have grown immensely as a person and as a leader as well. I have tried to use all of what I have learn in my courses in my current job as a Service Supervisor at Mango’s Tropical Café and it has helped me dealing with my employees, bosses and customers.

           It all started with our first course called Mastery. That course helped me believe in myself again and realize that to be a great leader I had to start by working as hard as I could and setting a great example for others. If you dream big and work hard to achieve your goals, everything is possible in life, but it all starts with you believing in yourself because no one else will put in the work for you.

           This Mastery course taught to find mentors who could guide me and teach me the way to being a successful person and business man. I have been in contact at all times with one of my mentors, Joey Colon, who works with the Orlando Magic and he has always inspired to want to be great and I also admire and have learned a lot from my boss and owner of Mango’s Tropical Café, Mr. Joshua Wallack. I look to emulate my mentors, that at a young age have become very successful in what they do, and the common denominator is that they dream big and have worked harder than anyone to achieve their goals.

           The second course I took in my EBMS program was Executive leadership and I really enjoyed learning the different types of leaders and the importance of being the best leader possible for your team and how it correlates to the company’s success. In this class we looked at the Maxwell and Greene types of leaderships and after studying them I found out I was more of a Maxwell leader.

           I would consider myself to be a 90% Maxwell leader and 10% Greene. In the Executive leadership course I learned that being a Maxwell leader is someone who has influence, integrity, vision and a person whose employees can follow because they are lead by example. I try to be the hardest working person in any job I have and think that having the right attitude can make you go far. Having the correct attitude is one of the most important assets that one can have as a leader and it all starts with believing in yourself and wanting to be the best possible.

           I’ve always been a leader that influences people by setting an example. I believe that everyone must work as a team so that a company can reach its best results. The manager or supervisor is key in reaching this levels of greatness because if he can be the hardest worker and influence other employees, everybody will know what is expected of them and it will create a team first environment which is really important in a successful business.

           The third course in my program was Project and Team Management and I learned the importance of working as a team for the common good of the business. The goals I traced for myself in the Mastery class were achieved. I wanted to learn how to create a project management plan, and I did successfully with a timeline showing the chronological order of how things have to get done so I can make my summer camp happen. Another goal of mine for this course was to explore the various factors of team management and how to create a productive team. I learned that you have to get to know everybody in your team and that you must have a family atmosphere so that your team connects and works together for a common objective. I also learned that everyone has got a different personality, and that its key to get to know each person individually so that you can get the most out of everyone. If you get to know all your employees, you can differentiate their strengths from their weaknesses, and use them in the areas were they can help the most. Like in a family, there are going to be conflicts and problems between team members but their must be a conflict resolution policy in place so that everybody knows how to handle those situations.

           While taking this class, I was promoted in my job to a supervisor position, and I put into practice everything I learned in this course. In my first week as a supervisor, I tried to make everyone understand that we are a team. That we have to support, and help each other out at all times. I’ll try my hardest every day, and always lead by example so that my guys know that I’ve got their back. I’m part of the team too, and I want them to have the confidence in me to tell me anything they need, and that I’m all ears for suggestions on how we can improve our work.

           The fourth class was Business Storytelling and the goals I outlined for myself in the Mastery class were accomplished. I wanted to learn how to implement brand development strategies to help my business thrive, and be as successful as possible. I created goals of tactics I’m going to use to help develop the brand of my summer camp project. Another goal of mine for this course was to learn how to develop my own personal brand. I did a personal website which talks about me, and helps other people get to know me better. In this class, I saw the importance of selling yourself. Every day your working or connecting with other people, you are showing who you are, and the attributes that you posses. I aspire to be great, and to be as successful as one can be. I know that I have to give the best of me every day and show why I’m the best at what I do.

           After this class, I had been a supervisor at my workplace for a month already and I learned the importance of working as a team and I tried to instill this attitude to all my employees. I want them to be as successful as imaginable, and I would love to produce as many leaders as I can. I want them to support, and help each other at all times, so that they learn that working together pays offs, and brings better results. I’ll always try my hardest, and lead by example so that my guys know that I’ve got their back.

           The fifth class was Entertainment Business Finance and it really helped me to get organized, and start putting numbers into my Sports Discovery Summer Camp project.

           I started the class by researching and learning about annual reports, and the importance they have for company stockholders. I also learned how to analyze financial statements in an entertainment business company, which I chose the WWE Inc. I analyzed different types of ratios that provide information regarding a company’s financial situation, and learned diverse approaches to calculate the liquidity, efficiency, leverage, and profitability of a business.

           I also learned more than I originally knew, about interests, and investments. I had to do problems which required me to find the interests one could obtain out of certain investments. I studied how to get the break even point of a specific project. It is important to know how much profit you need to produce so that you can cover all your operational costs and expenses.

           My sixth class was Negotiation and Deal making and in this course I learned the techniques needed to become a strong negotiator and deal maker. I analyzed my weaknesses as a negotiator and I’m working hard to get better as a deal maker.

                     In this course, I learned the importance of game theory and being well prepared before any negotiation. It will help you analyze all the possible outcomes and also, show the other party that you know what you are talking about. In this class, I did a communication style assessment test and it showed that I’m a promoter and a socializer. I have always known that I’m a socializer because I love talking to people, getting to know them, and doing networking. I have always been a leader and try to push people to grow and be the best that they can be. As a service supervisor at Mango’s Tropical Café, I care for all my co workers, and the employees that work under my supervision. I’m always trying to be helpful to everyone and let them know that we have to work as a team to be successful a to give the best service possible to every customer.

                     In business, it’s all about building relationships and gaining the trust of other people, and I think my personality is of great help when I do deals with other people because I get to know them and their needs. In my current job as a Supervisor, I’m always trying to build relationships with the customers and make them enjoy their experience so that they come back and share with their friends the great time they had at Mango’s.

           My seventh course in the program was Digital Marketing and my original goal for this class was to develop my skills to manage my digital presence online. I knew how to use facebook and twitter but I didn’t use it to promote my ideas and who I am. In this course I’m learning how to make myself more accesable for my potential employers and I can get noticed by more people if I know how to manage my social media networks.                        

           I chose the Lynda course on Facebook Advertising Fundamentals, because I wanted to explore more about facebook ads. I learned how facebook ads work, how to set up an advertising account and to choose an ad campaign.This tutorial was very informative and got me thinking of diferent ways and campaigns that I can create to promote my summer camp.

           It is important to identify your primary audience and who clicks on your facebook page so that you can know which places to target. Also, you have to choose a budget for your ads because you have to allocate the right amount of money to your different marketing methods. Finally, this facebook advertising course taught me how to get my Fun Sports Discovery Summer Camp page more likes and to boost my page posts, and how to manage existing ads and campaigns.

           My eight course was Sports Management and Operations and it was really helpful having the insight from Ken Lehner who has worked with professional, as well as minor league organizations, and having him explain that sports management is basically the same not matter what level you are working with. I learned the importance of teams looking for their fans and trying to engage with them in anyways possible, to make them into loyal team fans that consume their merchandise and attend the games. Fan Loyalty is what makes everything happen, without fans, teams wouldn’t generate the necessary revenue to pay all the players and employees and to run the massive operations that is the sporting event itself.

           In this class, I explored into a sports agent life and what they mean to an athlete. The agent has to earn the trust of the athlete he represents and has to be their for them at all times. They have to look out for the best interests of their client and they usually treat each single athlete like they were their only client. I learned from watching the “60 minutes” interview with Drew Rosenhaus that he is passionate for was he does and he really cares for his clients, they are his reason for living and that is why he is the biggest sports agent in the NFL.

           I also learned the importance of media rights and that is because of the television contracts that leagues subsist. There is a lot of money in the television and radio contracts, companies pay a lot of money to have their ads run during games because they know lots of people are watching. Nowadays, social media has become a big thing and is the future of marketing. All teams should have their social media pages of twitter, Facebook, etc. and they should use them to interact with their fans and get to connect more with them.

           The future of broadcasting games is going to be through live streaming because each day more people get out of their cable contracts because they can now watch all their favorite shows through the internet. The NBA and NFL realized this, and they have sold the rights to live stream their games to twitter and yahoo, for some games and it is just going to get bigger.

           My ninth course in the EBMS program was Legal Issues in Sports and I got to learn about the different types of business entities a company may form. The sole proprietor sells something, a product or service for money, and is the only owner of the company. There is no legal distinction distinction between the owner and the business. In a partnership (Common Law Partnership) is when you are working with more than 1 person or partners. Is an arrangement where parties, known as partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests. The limited liability company (LLC) is the most common type of corporate entity. It is a business structure that combines the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a corporation. An LLC is not a corporation; it is a legal form of a company that provides limited liability to its owners in many jurisdictions. Corporations, (S corp and C corp) have a board of director which governs the business entity and have shareholders. A corporation is a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity.

        I also studied and discussed with classmates, the potential legal liabilities that a sports business may encounter and how they have to protect themselves and take the proper safety measures so that they don’t get sued. In another discussion board I talked about the contract between Twitter and the NFL for live streaming games during Thursday nights in the 2016 season. I analyzed the contract and looked at the negotiation tactics used by Twitter and what it did to win the bid over other bigger tech companies like Yahoo, Verizon and Facebook. The world of media coverage is shifting towards live streaming and everyone has access to twitter from their smart phones or tablets, and they could watch a game or follow teams breaking news or play by plays of a game anywhere they are at.

           My tenth class was Sports Marketing and sponsorship sales and in this course I learned that It is no longer good enough to have signage in stadiums or simply having a brands logo next to a professional team. Due to increased competition, finding ways to stand apart from the competition is a necessity. It is also very important that the sports organization and the sponsor have a connection and both obtain mutual benefits from their deal. The relationship must include advantages for all parties, and this win-win situation can provide market value and higher profits for corporations, and increase operating revenues for sports organizations and events (Stotlar, 2013).

           Sport sponsorship is a primary advertising vehicle for many companies because sporting events provide corporate sponsors with avenues of marketing communications and dynamics for brand image enhancement. Sponsorship are both an investment into your brand for exposure and a quality positioning tool and sporting events are a great place to expose your brand because people are in a happy place, enjoying themselves and they’ll associate the things they see at the game, with unforgettable moments.

           The future of sports sponsorship is changing because fans are looking to be entertained in their ads and sponsors have to look for a way to make their brand be notice in a different way. Teams have many corporate sponsors and each brand that is going to be promoted at a sporting event should find a way to stand out. People nowadays are connected to their cell phone at all times and the best way to catch their attention is using social media platforms to reach them. Teams and sponsors have to do sweepstakes that give out free tickets, contest for meeting their favorite players, autograph sessions, and they have to use Facebook, twitter, snap chat, and other social media platforms to reach the most fans possible and grow their brand exposure.

           The eleventh class in my EBMS program was the Business Plan Development and after finishing this course I was half way into finishing my formal business plan project and during this month I worked on my company description and mission statement, the target market, as well as my pro forma financial statements and projections, among other parts.

           The business I want to start is going to be called Fun Sports Discovery, LLC and it is going to be a sports academy in Florida which targets children who want to learn different sports and become passionate for any particular one. I’m going to look to target the Hispanic market, which is a growing one in Orlando, Florida with many people moving from Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, etc. I enjoyed that in this class we got to see interviews with Jason Whitmore and Sara Blakely, young successful professionals who know what it takes to create your own business from scratch and they talked about the importance of believing in yourself and being passionate about what you do. Its very important to do the proper research about the business industry you’re looking to get into, and having a formal business plan, but the most important thing is having a great idea and working hard to achieve your dreams.

           I also got to see a video in which the CEO of Zappos, Tony Hseih talks about the importance of creating a great culture in your company, and having the employees understand the company’s core values and have them represent them. He says that the key for a successful business is keeping your employees happy and having them transmit that happiness to the customers. Its important to have the employees buy into the vision of the company, and if they represent the company the right way and give a great customer service, people will become loyal clients and will keep coming back for more.

           Finally, my last course came in March 2017, Final Project: Business Plan and I submitted my final written business plan, as well as a narrated keynote presentation with my business plan pitch to any potential investors. I really enjoyed this final class because I learned that a leader can be flexible and has to be able to show different types of leadership depending the situation. A leader can have an authoritarian, a participative or a delegative style, and one has to know when to be use any different type of leadership. This class was a great ending to my journey at Full Sail University, and it was a great growing experience and the whole program was more than I could ever imagine.

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The end

Hello World,

As I come to the end of my mastery journey I would like to take this time to reflect on what this masters program has meant to me and taught me. Starting with personal development and leadership, this was the course that I feel got me ready for what artery was all about. The thing I enjoyed the most about this course was getting my blog started. I always wanted to be a blogger just never found time. It also got me back in the mode of learning because I took a few months off after my bachelors.

This class was a perfect setup for what I would later encounter in this course. Class taught us a lot about self evaluation and being realistic with yourself. This class helped me in the development of my parents church. Many lessons I learned here helped me become a better leader when they needed me.

Executive Leadership was the next course up and it taught me a lot about different types of leaderships. I learned about my leadership style and learned how to better work with it. With this class at time I found myself looking at management at my job and breaking down what I would do the same and differently if I were in charge.

This class focused a lot on decision making and in my business that will be very important. Since I am going into business for myself my decision making has to be top notch because there is nobody to blame for any short comings that may happen besides myself. If I don't make the right calls things will not go right.

The next course was project and team management. This course was important because it taught me how to be a team member without being the boss. Most of our courses show us how to successfully be the boss this course showed me how to successfully be an employee. Running my own business is not promised so learning to work under someone is very important.

One of the exercises I really enjoyed in this class was choosing the right character for the right position in a company. I found the assignment fun and helpful because it taught that not everything was simple knowledge but knowing the behavior of people can also help you become successful.

Business storytelling and brand development is needed because that course showed me how to present my company properly. It helped me to give my company a life of its own when I spoke about it. Developing who your brand is will be just as important as the business you will do. A goos business has an identity.

The discussion post we did in this class was always very interesting and got to show exactly what the class thought and exactly what made them interested in certain things. The research assignment was very useful because we got to look at a company and see what they have done and would you measure up.

Moving along my next class was entertainment business finance. This truly may have been one of the most important classes I had to take. When just starting out with your own business you must wear many hats and accounting will be one of those. Keeping good financial books may be the difference between you doing well and making mistakes that could cause serious problems.

One of the major assignments we had that I found interesting was about crowdfunding. It was crazy to see all the crowdfunding sites out there and how many people use them for very different reasons. It was interesting to see those that used it for things that were so positive and those that took advantage of it.

Digital marketing was a class I enjoyed because it helped me center my social media promotion instead of just posting all over the place. This class showed me the right way to promote. Many people make the mistake on social media by thinking the more they post the better but its actually how you post.

I enjoyed the way we learned to use keywords in things like blog post and wix websites to bring more traffic to your post. Proper digital promotion is more about how you post not about how much you post. Constant post can make your fans get tired of you thats why it is better to post the right way.

Negotiation and deal making was such a great class. I enjoyed the exercise where we had to negotiate the sale of some paintings to pay bills. This class showed me that its important to listen more then talk. BY having conversations instead of just trying to push the product you were able to make more then enough money.

Negotiation is important because in business everybody wants the upper hand. Everyone wants the best available deal and wants to feel like they came out the winner that why how you negotiate is so important. Making someone feel like they got a deal is better then not accomplishing your goal.

Sports management and operations was the beginning of a different kind of journey for me. I hadn't had much experience with sports and it was very exciting for me. What I learned with this class is that although it wasn't music so many things involved was so much like music. Many things in both businesses were very much the same.

Some of the things that stood out the most in this class was seeing what each class mate believed was the biggest story in sports that year. Just about everyone had a different answer and to me that just showed how diverse the industry is and how much room there is for everyone to be great.

The next class I took was legal issues in sports. This class was great because it showed me how to survive through and try to avoid legal problems of your clients. With so many athletes now having legal problems and leaving agents and management without clients it was great seeing some solutions for those problems.

Some of the same legal issues in music you will also find in sports and that is protecting your brand. Protecting the trademark of your name or image is one of the biggest legal issues in sports as well as music. Just like music there is steps you can take to protect yourself and those steps are needed.

Sports management and sponsorship sales was an interesting class. Many of the things I learned about looking for sponsors for my clients I can use for music artist as well as events. I learned to correctly match clients with companies as well as events with companies that could help both parties.

Not all sponsorships are good sponsorships even if good money is involved. Some sponsorships legally bind clients to unrealistic task and lifestyles. Some sponsorships are not age appropriate for clients and you must be very careful. When it comes to sponsors not all money is good money.

The business plan development class was the beginning of learning how to make a business plan. Although I always knew how I wanted my company run it was amazing seeing it written down. It seemed like some things were repeating themselves but once it all came together it was great.

I enjoyed doing the spreadsheet because it showed me a realistic account of what type of money I would really need. I tried not to make my money to big so that I could get a real feel for life as a business man and it was fun and interesting.

In our final class final project business plan I got to take a good look at what my desire was and see if it was truly a good idea. Most of my plan is great but I have many things that I need to change right away. This class was amazing because we got to complete an entire business plan and it felt great. Altogether I am glad I took this journey as it is just a footstep into bigger and better things.

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