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>> Hello, and welcome to the season finale of "Behind the Woman: Pass the Torch."

Over the last few weeks, you have had the opportunity to meet some of Syracuse's most amazing students, learn about their journeys, hear about their dreams, but then also sit down with them and watch them grow through various experiences with former guests whom we have called their mentors.

In each of the episodes, they challenge themselves to meet their expectations, demonstrate what they've learned about media, fashion, and culinary arts.

So tonight we are going to sit down with each of these teams, learn what they've learned and see where it is they hope to go some their future now that the torch has been passed.

♪ ♪ >> I think our experience with Dr.-- not doctor-- with Joann has been really eye opening for me about how broken down into steps of like media professions are.

So you see on our boards, there is different sticky notes.

There are larger sticky notes, different color sticky notes depicting what we do or music or even transition shots.

And I feel like that sort of experience is what I'm going to take when I continue my media field at Syracuse Newhouse.

Shameless plug but I will continue this experience toward my career as explore many other media fields such as media and journalism.

And this intentional planning will give me a new mindset about what do I want to do with what I'm creating?

I think, in a general sense, I plan to be more intentional with how I create.

>> Yeah, part of what I have had to even learn in shooting this show is, you think it's one idea, just to do one thing.

But how many actual steps it takes to get that one thing to come across, you know, in the story or on stage or on film.

So that's a good thought.

>> It really showed me like how many different types of things go into one shot.

Like there is music, there's camera placement.

On one side there is camera placement on the other side.

There are different people behind the cameras saying we need to do this.

We need to do this.

There is a person who is saying, like all these different things need to happen and then there is another person working the cameras and working sound And figuring out how to do the things that we actually said we wanted to do.

Like putting the music in and deciding how they're going to make the shots look and putting in the work to make it look really nice.

>> Yeah, so it takes kind of a team approach.

Like there are more people to the idea than just you and one other person.

Like how many people behind the camera are actually working to make what is happening on camera actually look good and so forth.

That's a good point, too.

I know, I was surprised.

Amelia, what is something you have learned from the experience.

>> Probably the story boarding.

I kind of knew how to do it before, but I learned how to properly do it during this experience, yeah.

>> Yeah, what about doing it for this experience was maybe different from what you had known coming into it?

>> I think it was just like I had more freedom, I guess, like to do what I want, like how I would want to make a story.

>> Joann did you learn anything from working with these amazing young women?

>> Just incredible imagination.

I think that's the best part of working with a team is, it's not just about what the director has in their head, but also what are some of the ideas that all of us-- I remember like people would come up with different ideas and I'm like, it was also cool when we both came up with the same idea.

But also very cool when we came up with a different perspective for the same shot.

I really loved those moments because now I have options, we have options to say, hey, do we want to shoot it this way or do we want to shoot it that way.

Let's shoot it both ways and see which one comes out best.

I thought it was really great.

♪ >> You all are here representing-- tell me about your experience.

We got a chance to have some of your culinary artistic interpretive charcuterie board.

We have that as our first course, so thank you for providing those.

Tell me about the experience.

What was it like?

Would you enjoy most-- what did you enjoy least?

>> Do you want to go first?

>> I like that we got to learn different things.

She taught us how to cut different things, like the kiwi.

We learned how to different techniques on how to cut things.

And she taught us how to pair different things like sweet and salty and things like that so we learned different textures, too.

>> You just didn't put the stuff on the plate and arrange it?

>> We kind of like freestyle.

She taught us like don't put it in a rainbow order.

you Have to mix it around where it goes together well.

And we learned how to make roses from like salami and stuff like that, which was really fun, too.

>> I'm kind of surprised, because I was like, wait, how do I cut a kiwi.

I'm thinking there is just one way to do things.

But it sounds like you got more intricate knowledge on not just arranging them in groups, but what complements each other, all that.

That's really cool.

So it sounds like-- and I guess the school setting, you are learning the basics of what it means to be in the culinary or hospitality industry, how to serve, rules of basic ideas.

And with Ashley here, you actually got to create something that was-- that people could enjoy.

>> Yeah.

>> How do you feel about hearing that, Ashley?

>> You know, I really love working with these ladies.

I am so happy.

My goal was to make sure they came out learning something, and to be inspired to try something new.

But they also inspired me to be confident in my journey and my story and I'm just so happy to have this opportunity.

And it's like there are such light personalities.

To see their personalities on the board, it was nice.

They had a good time, I think.

I hope so.

You had a good time?

>> Yeah.

[Laughter] ♪ ♪ >> I told-- the first person I told was my mom.

And she was very excited for me.

She's like one of my biggest supporters in like culinary.

She is also the one who made me really like it besides my grandma.

And she is the one that has taught me additionally to what I already like know.

already like know.

So me telling her and her like being proud of me, like being happy for me, it was like something that really made me happy.

She was very excited.

>> Because it sounds like this was an opportunity for you to show her something.

>> Yeah, I feel like this was an opportunity to show her that I'm like serious about culinary.

And like in the future, I'll take it more serious.

And to show her that I can do this.

>> They did amazing.

>> They did.

>> They really did.

They took as their own style but they still had you in mind as far as the overall vision and taking all of the pieces and really just curating what they felt fit the narrative for you.

And they both were different looks even though they came from the same collection.

It was two totally different looks.

And so if I had to put it in words, like one was a day look.

One was a night look.

And like they said, they really just envisioned you in these pieces.

I think they did an amazing job.

I was blown away.

The models were excited.

You could see the confidence when they came out in both their looks.

It was just a great experience for them.

It was rewarding for me to see you guys light up while you saw the models walk out.

It was good.

♪ ♪ >> What's something you think you are going to walk away with?

>> I think the experience, the people I've met, like you are all very amazing people.

And I think also I learned so much from you, like improvising and everything.

I feel like that's very important and something that I can use on my day to day.

And also like Mariella was saying, like connections.

Making connections, knowing people.

And that's very important, something I will take with me throughout my life and my future and everything.

>> That's an important one.

>> For me, I think the biggest takeaway would be like working with what you have or working with the unexpected because I cannot like... when I walked in there, I did not expect to be working with the pieces that I worked with.

And I think that the end product that we both had was really great, especially with like the unknown that we-- we didn't really know what was going on or how any of it was going to look, what the colors were going to be or who we would be dressing up.

So we had to pick the clothes or pick the models we thought would best fit the clothes that we chose.

So I think, yeah, working with the unexpected would be a major like takeaway from this.

♪ On top of that, you had a dress-- because the dress was short sleeve and it showed so you had that something under and then you had the dress.

The dress was like a short dress, it would stop at like your knees, and then it flowed out a little bit.

And on top of the dress and everything else was a, like shoulder patted type of jacket.

It was like a crop jacket.

It wasn't an entire jacket.

It was leather.

I remember I had you with a purse, but I can't explain the purse.

It was more than straw.

It had a great silhouette.

It was a nice purse.

And then you had sunglasses and jewelry.

It was like black, goal and silver jewelry.

It's one jewelry but it looks like a lot.

And everything just complemented each other and then I envisioned you going out to a dinner.

So it would have been perfect.

♪ ♪ >> So what I want you to remember most is a couple of things.

First of all, because I know you have great imaginations.

Imagination is spilling off the table over here, okay?

Use your imagination.

Think of an hour glass.

Do you know what an hour glass is?

And when you have an hour glass, there is sand spinning out of the hour glass, right?

In order to start the sand spilling out of the hour glass, have you to turn it over, right?

That's your life.

Time.

Okay, time plus work.

Got that vision, visual?

Someone sweating and toiling and moving things around.

Time plus work equals money.

To do two things.

Either live a good life, tell me the story.

Or to buy things.

The two most critical things inthat are the essence of money is time plus work.

So any time you are thinking about money, realize that you are trading your time.

Tell me how much time you have on this earth.

How much time?

The hour glass is running.

How much time do you have on this earth?

Every grain of sand is a moment in time.

Every grain of sand that you are trading for work in order to create money, is a loss of time.

Can you replace anything on that table?

You can replace work.

You can work harder, right?

Can you replace the time?

>> No.

>> No, okay.

The essence of what you are doing as far as money that you earn is a value against what time you have in that hourglass.

So every decision you make, everything you buy, every time you purchase something, every time you decide to make a decision to do something, you are trading time.

And how it's valued is going to be up to you.

Forecasting and holding yourself-- what is the word I want to use?

It's a big a word.

>> Accountable.

>> Accountable.

>> Holding yourself accountable to the process you set up.

So when you get ready to-- I'm a real good cook.

Listen to this ladies.

When you get ready to make biscuits, okay?

If you don't put any what, baking powder, what kind of biscuit are you going to get?

>> Not a biscuit.

>> What's it going to be?

If you don't put the time into the process of running your business, you are not going to create the type of revenue that you need to sustain the business.

So I encourage you, first of all, understand time value.

Step back from the camera and determine exactly what am I trying to accomplish.

And then deploy the tools necessary to accomplish that goal.

There is something about putting your hands in, yeah, that makes a difference.

>> The special touch.

>> The special touch.

The same thing concerning budgets.

Although we have electronic tools and eventually you may use them, I really encourage everyone in the beginning to do it the old fashioned way, where you are actually going through the steps to wake up your brain as to what we have been doing and how we've traded our time, the value of that time, for the things and purchases and things that we've made.

So I want you to go back and do backwards math.

Follow, okay?

Which will tell you every week I need x amount of flour, sugar, bananas, yada, yada, yada.

See I can cook.

Yada is an ingredient.

In order to make that cookie.

And now you know how much you need to have set aside per week in order to satisfy the customers that you have.

Once you've determined that, you can start forecasting.

Every week I need to have x amount of money to do this and I'm going to make z amount of profit.

♪ ♪ >> We talk a lot about and you hear on TV about generational wealth.

And I look at that and I go most people don't understand what generational wealth really is.

What we really should be looking at, instead of just generational wealth is what I call intergenerational wealth, because if you look at yourself.

You have yourself, your parents, brothers, sisters, maybe a cousin, grandmothers all on this earth at the same time.

And in many cases, four to five generations that are together at the same time.

So if we are taking every opportunity and maximizing the value of the time that we have together, we are creating wealth intergenerationally versus what is across the board, which is lateral, so that the whole family is moving at the same time, versus waiting to pass the torch forward one at a time.

I have a saying that I use on the radio show that I do.

And it's called zero no more.

And I'm hoping to hear from everyone that I meet that no longer are we waiting to create something in the future; that we are doing it together so that we are not starting each generation at zero.

Zero no more.

Okay?

You are in a great position-- I don't know how I can say this anymore, because of the fact that you have no longer should anyone who is in this room ever think that they are poor.

You know why?

Because poor means you have no resource and no opportunity.

And you just grabbed the opportunity and blew it up.

♪ ♪ >> Every time I get an opportunity like this, like I want to be able to show people where I come from and my beliefs and like make the people where I come from proud because a lot of us don't get this opportunity.

So this is a goal and an accomplishment.

I've accomplished something like this and the goal for the future, for us to be known, you know.

>> Where is it that you are from?

>> What is your story?

>> Honestly, it would be the same.

Because I know like not being from here it gives you a lot of challenges so taking the opportunities you can get can make a lot of change in your life that's good for you and like if you miss out on those opportunities, if you don't take those opportunities or you would have regret and regret is like something you can't change.

You live with that forever.

>> Agree.

>> So both of you told me that you wanted to take the opportunity to be sure that you were maximizing the time that is associated with the opportunity so that you could help others.

Did I hear that right?

>> Yeah.

>> That is called passing the torch.

That what is that really means.

Passing the torch from one person to the next person, fueled by the experience that you have and enhanced and moved forward.

Tiffany's is one example but Tiffany did something very important.

They copyrighted blue.

The box.

>> Signature.

>> The Tiffany blue.

>> Let me tell you a little story.

For many years, when a client would refer someone to us, we would send them a glass, a very nice little box.

And it was a Tiffany wine glass.

And I went by-- and it was in the days when we went to visit people at home and I would see blue boxes in places.

And I said did you ever use the glass?

Yeah, we used the glass but we like the box better.

I should stop sending glasses and just send boxes.

It's the branding.

And I'm sure in your process you talked about branding because it's a representation.

Here's what is important.

The value associated and subscribed to that reputation was created from service and from the people around Tiffany who now said that if something comes with this brand on it, it must have more value than something else.

And the wine glass was just a plain old wine glass.

It was nice, but the marketing structure around that created value.

♪ >> So, Vicki, thank you for passing the torch, igniting the flame, giving us all a spark.

All the things.

But thank you Mariella.

>> Thank you, guys.

>> Thank you.

>> Thank you for making this season particularly special because at 6'3" I have been tying for some period outfits.

>> I can't wait to see.

>> I can't wait to put on some of this work so thank you.

>> They're fashion icons.

I already told them.

>> Yes.

And that is season six of "Behind the Woman," a special season titled "Pass the torch."

Thank you.

♪ ♪ >> The students who participated in pass the torch learned from some of the best and delivered on their challenges.

Thanks to our funders, each of these students will receive a stipend to continue their career pursuits.

I'm Dr.

Juhanna Rogers and thank you for watching this season of "Behind the Woman: Pass the torch."

♪ This educational programming was made possible in part by the following organizations: The John Ben snow foundation and memorial trust, investing in people, investing in community, investing in the future.

The Gifford foundation, fostering growth, encouraging change, supporting our community since 1954.

Excellus BlueCross/BlueShield, working every day to create better places to live, work,