HANDSOME Anthony Lewis

ANTHONY LEWIS

After working almost 20 years in the security industry and spending 10 years of that time as the Director of Security for Midtown Plaza and the Midtown Risen Project until March of 2012, I was laid off. I decided to create D.B.I. Management Group in April of 2012, and in 2015 restructured it to D.B.I. Management Group, LLC, where managing ideas and visions and turning possibilities into opportunities are achieved through coaching and consultation.

I started out as a freelancer using Twitter as my main source to find clients and since I’ve had years of experience working with music artists, I had an insight of what they needed to promote and market their projects, events, etc. I followed them making humorous comments on their posts, sparking conversations among fans and other artists, creating introductions among artists, spear heading collaborations, giving management advice and then eventually they started inboxing me asking to listen to a new song, beats, watch a video.

Before I knew it I had up and coming artists from Hip Hop to R&B from around the world asking for advice, and seeking management for their careers. I was excited about the offers and the opportunities, but from my experience, every opportunity isn’t always a good one. Each one needed to go through an onboarding

process. I had chosen an amazing artist to work with and we were making progress with his career, then I was involved in a car accident in 2013 that disabled me. This prevented me from traveling to work with him as his manager so in 2016 while laying in the hospital bed after having back surgery, I called to tell him that he should find other management group. We mutually decided to part ways as I didn’t want to hinder his career. A year prior to that we had been working hard and he was mentioned in the 2015 XXL Magazine as an up and coming artist to look out for.

Currently I’m still suffering from the accident. The disabilities, and chronic pain among other issues have forced me to to make some changes within my business and to find a niche that not only allowed me to use my experience, but also met a demand, which was providing operations management and strategic support services to entrepreneurs and small businesses.

My mission is to help people become successful business owners and entrepreneurs, but to also empower them by providing a learning environment for themselves and their business. I inform potential clients that I should not know more about their business than they do, and as a requirement for us to work together they will have

“As HANDSOME, we highlight having an abundance of character,honesty, integrity, morals, and trustworthiness which embarked on the journey of finding products that have the same qualities.”

“homework assignments” to learn the processes and systems they need to meet their targeted goals, to stay in line with the mission and vision of their business. As time went on I realized that 99% of my clients and those that I mentor or coach are women business owners and entrepreneurs. I don’t know how that happened, but I’m happy and glad it did.

Working with women isn’t new to me, and I’m very comfortable, it could be from being raised by my mom growing up and seeing her go off to work and make minor repairs around the house by herself. I wanted to help her do things around the home, make things easier for her and take some of the burden off her shoulders. With that I never had an issue working with or for a woman. I might get some slack from this, but I’ve noticed that women are very determined when they want something, more so than the few men I’ve worked with and nothing is going to stop them. That makes me work just as hard, if not harder for them toassist them with reaching their business and sometimes their personal goals . Often both one and the same.

I have assisted my clients with creating

clothing lines, revamping an existing business and starting a new business in unfamiliar territory. I feel that as a business owner that we must also explore other business ventures that inspire us to be more creative and open doors for more opportunities. purchase a ticket for an event from an employee, as I approached her desk, she said, “You’re a very HANDSOME man”. I’ve been told that before, but I never took it as a compliment, I took it as she was being nice and to be honest.

I really didn’t know the complete or correct definition. As I Googled HANDSOME, I realized that the definition is about me, however I had chosen to focus on the character and quality of a person rather than the looks. Looks fade, disappear and can only take you so far. A few days later, I filed and formed HANDSOME.

As HANDSOME, we highlight having an abundance of character,honesty, integrity, morals, and trustworthiness which embarked on the journey of finding products that have the same qualities. We started selling handmade all natural, no animal by products soaps and beard oil to men and women.

I’m very happy that I took the leap of faith in becoming a business owner and helping others do the same