Sports Media & JuCo Hoops w/ DeShields Fajardo | Ep 9

On today’s episode of Talkin’ Bout Practice we sit down with SoCal based photographer DeShields Fajardo and discuss her journey into sports media, how being a JuCo product shaped her life, and the benefits of manufacturing a small clothing brand out of China.

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Chapters
0:00 Announcements
1:06 Introduction to DeShields Fajardo
2:03 The Weekend Warriors
3:13 Fit Check
4:37 Just Met You a Few Days Ago
5:54 Diving Into Sports Photography
7:09 Rappers Pointing a Gun At Me
10:04 After College Hoops, I Started Shooting Media
14:49 Properly Creating Business Relationships
16:54 Sole Focus On Capturing JuCo Basketball
18:32 The Process of Booking a Client
23:55 Shouts to Cassy Athena
24:32 I Wanna Help JuCo Basketball Get More Visibility
30:03 Sports Business Has A Lot of Lanes
36:00 Endure Clothing, The Sports Lifestyle Brand
40:22 The Benefits of Manufacturing in China
46:20 Finding Way to Stay Creative
48:46 Choose One or Shoot One
49:07 AI Over SC30
51:31 There Will Never Be Another Shaq
53:37 I Was a Kobe Hater
55:16 Lebron James or Magic Johnson
57:24 Kyrie Is a Puppetmaster
58:47 Derrick Rose Can’t Be Duplicated
1:00:51 Diana Taurasi
1:01:29 The New Point Guards of the WNBA
1:05:27 Aja Wilson or Candace Parker
1:06:45 Drake Over Hov?
1:09:51 The Nipsey Hussle Influence
1:13:46 J Cole or Kendrick Lamar
1:15:40 Kanye West Man!
1:17:04 What If Hardwork Wasn’t Talented
1:17:50 Loyalty or Respect
1:18:52 Cypress College Alum
1:24:27 Coaching Youth Basketball
1:33:52 Got My Scholarship at an AAU Game
1:37:49 One Day You Would Relive
1:41:42 My 3 Person Dinner Roulette
1:45:08 White Chicks is My Jam
1:46:32 Giving DeShields Her Flowers
1:49:09 Getting Cypress College Head Coach Brittany Imaku On the Show

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