We recently had the chance to connect with Trip Ghetaway and have shared our conversation below.
Trip, we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
I wake up around 4:45am almost like clock work. Go to the kitchen and have 2 tablespoons or so of honey and a little bit of soy milk.
I begin my morning stretches while thinking about everything I want to get accomplished for the day.
Put my socks on, lace up and put on my workout gloves. Find some music thats motivating for the day like Not a stain on me, followed by I get Money.
Now im in the mindset. Hit about 200-400 jumping reps on the 5.5 pound jump rope. Cool down, then 3-4 eggs with 1 pack of Japanese natto beans mixed in.
Pick out some Levi’s premium jeans and a matching blazer. Decide undershirt and matching shoes, lay this on the couch. Check if NBC producer has text anything new.
Check my stocks…
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I go by artist name Trip Ghetaway. When people doubted themselves, I took my time to put them in magazines 100% free in a lot of cases. I spend a lot of my time thinking how I can help others with the talent that I have.
People would see things and describe what they saw. I could visualize what they were saying making me want to show people how I see things. I picked up the camera.
Still motion first as you see so many feels and emotions in the world, and to capture that feeling and that emotion in that moment to me is everything!
Photography 📸. Then I was curious about live action picture, picked up the camera, and just started recording…
The honest reality is I owe it all to my grandma.
Kids wanted toys, I kept asking for a camera. In the 80’s I would hide and read fashion magazines. I was obsessed with image and fashion since a kid but I kept it to myself. My grandma gave me my first film camera.
At 13 I was signed to Japanese modeling agency ISOP but even after modeling a few years I found I preferred taking the pictures more than being in them. Still at this time while everyone wore cross colour’s and Karl Kani I was into Donna Karen, Calvin klein and went even further when I got into Versace as a teenager!
Obsessed with fashion and image all my life i started running into other people like me…
Somewhere between all this started recording music under the name Trip Ghetaway. Literally turned down offers to perform live city after city because I don’t want to get shot doing what I love by some jealous person thats too lazy to work as hard as me.
Again the staying in the background thing.. Currently on the horizon I have a secret project im working to be the first to break a new model into the world and also working on new music, plus a health book.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What was your earliest memory of feeling powerful?
In Japan in the 90’s friend a mine had a Skyline GTR and asked if I wanted to drive it? Got to take it around a flight line and I can tell you I was doing a hard curve at 70mph was like nothing in that car. Cant reveal the speed I got it to, but that felt more powerful that a mountain of snow. (Those that know, know)
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
That you need to appreciate everything you get when you get it. Appreciate waking up and having the freedom to go to the fridge on your own. To be able to cook youre own food. To be able to stand up and walk on youre own. To be able to feed yourself. To appreciate a decent place to live. To appreciate being able to eat 3 times a day. To appreciate the life I was given and not take it for granted.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes, however if you asked 25 different about me, they might describe 25 different people. Lol its a person to person thing. Im real as air.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
Working. Full time job is a waste of time if youre working without a purpose. Only say working as we work to pay for the place we live that we barely get to spend any time in. Fantasize about vacations we cant afford nor get the time off from work to go on. So working for sure. Lol.
Contact Info:
- Other: Trip Ghetaway on iTunes and Spotify
Image Credits
Shot by Blondie
