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"And the founder of OURSOLES, a social media platform for masc-presenting women, tomboys, and everyone in between, in the sneaker community."

"Please, please welcome, Mo Terry. I'm Mo. I'm from Baytown, Texas, a small town outside of Houston. Been living in the city of Houston since I graduated from college. I'm just super excited to be here today."

"If you could go back in time and give college Mo some advice, what would it be? If I could go back in time, I would tell college Mo, invest in your passions. Put some work and some effort into those things that make you happy, because you never know how they're going to pan out later in life."

"What prompted you to start being a Digital Creator and Influencer? A lot of my friends really encouraged me to start posting fit pics, posting my style, on Instagram and..."

"Through that authenticity, it kind of just grew. It's just something I kind of fell into. And I really appreciate the people who rock with me."

"How does Houston impact your style? Houston is so homegrown and solid. We have staple stores that you got to go to if you go to Houston. I feel like joining in that community has just helped to evolve my style that's ever changing."

"You started the OURSOLES platform. Can you tell us a bit about it and how did it come to be? I was on a random Instagram rant one day, just talking about how the masculine presented folks still need representation."

"We deserve more. We contribute to this culture. We contribute to this community so much, we deserve to be seen and displayed authentically and beautifully."

"What's your goal with the platform, and what are you hoping to achieve? The biggest goal with the platform is just wanting to see people who fit within this community, in this space, just get some props."

"You've spoken on how expressing yourself through fashion made it possible for you to come out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Can you speak more on that and what the relationship is between your style and your sexuality?"

"Once I finally accepted myself, my personal style, I feel like that showed up before, I didn't even have to keep coming out everywhere that I go."

"The style just kind of showed up for it and spoke for itself with my family or with friends, or starting a new job, and different things like that. It was just like, this is how I choose to present myself because this is who I am."

"We got a quick little poll for you guys. So we have some of her fits up and I thought we can share them with the audience and have y'all vote on y'all favorite. So we got fit one here and fit two."

"It's looking like our audience definitely put their votes in and fit one was the winner, but that does not mean that fit two is still not fire."

"Now we've reached the point of our show where we're going to have a game called Sneaker Check. So in this game you're going to have 23 seconds on the clock and you're going to have to answer as many questions about J's as possible."

"Alright. Go! Favorite pair? Bred 11s. Oldest pair? A 2001 pair of Bred 11s. Newest pair? Citrus 7s. Favorite retro pair? Bred 11s. Pair you have on ice? Neutral Grey 1s."

"Pair you associate with fall? Olive 9s. Your grail? Black Toe 14s. Your next pair? Chicago 2s. Your most versatile pair? Maniére 3s. That was so great. You had really great answers."

"Mo, what's next for you and where can people find you? What's next for me is continuing to grow OURSOLES, continuing to get the people who have poured so much into me, pouring into them and giving them their flowers and growing this community."

SNKRS Live Highlights: In Forum Live — 9.8.22