I give this example of living of without doubts from my personal life, it is not a story a trumpet because I do not care much about my past, but at least this story will make the point clear that when you are single-minded with a clear goal in mind, doubts can do little to stop you. When I was 17, I read a book called “Think and grow rich” by Napoleon Hill. I was impressed with the content and I decided to immediately apply the knowledge from the book to birth my new project an “art , society and music” magazine.

I talked to the idea to a friend who was very good at creating concept but not good to actually execute them. My friend created the name for the magazine called Alfhat (victory), he created other concepts that will be included in the magazine, however, I think he didn’t believe in my ability to create a magazine so his collaboration ended with that. I quickly assembled a team to work on the magazine, I decided to create a first issue to test the market and to see how people respond, that was Alfhat zero, this one was short and FREE, and distributed at a particular music event, it was easy to assemble this issue , the public responded well. This first issue cost very little to print, because it had a little number of pages and was limited to few hundred copies just for the people at the event.

It was soon time to work on issue 1, we needed an interview of the hot pop-hip hop group of the moment, so I managed to find the phone number of the manager band to arrange an interview, he was a bit suspicious, he asked me how big my magazine was. I told him the magazine was pretty big, he agreed for an interview at the recording studio of the band.
The singers were amused to see such young people they asked us, if we do that for a school journal, heheheh, we told them, no, we are a regular paper. It was very easy to make interview of Belgian singers and artists, even if most of them were amused by our young ages, in Belgium, you are not supposed to do something of your life if your are young, people are supposed to go to school or work and shut up. I remember we went to interview a singer and his assistant called him by saying “There is a group children waiting for you!”.

Issue 1 was launched sold at the price of €2,5 EUR (100 Belgian Franc), it was an immediate success, which attracted the attention of many, among them some guy called Morgan, he asked us to join the team, he was appointed “art” guy, he had great connection in the artistic circuit in the entire country. Read More→