What happens when a black belt genius with a deep knowlege and experience of culture
​envisions a way to empower us to crush and conquer our adversaries?

BoldSoles® Empowerment Footwear is a patented brand of promotional wearable products helping its clients raise funds, awareness and advocates while wearers acquire a sense of victory by treading on a representation of social issues, illnesses, and obstacles.
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​S T E P . C H A N G E.

​Our MISSION

To be a tangible fundraising and advocacy support to causes and nonprofits by leveraging our unique family of patented footwear, awareness products, and peer to peer fundraising services. To inspire psychological and emotional fortitude to overcome adversaries. To motivate us, individually and collectively, to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones. ​To raise an army of BoldSoles. ​
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​Our APPROACH                                       OUR STORY

We energize. Feel the sensation of overcoming your strongest adversary! Our patented feature allows you to tread on any text or imagine representation of your adversary on the sole of any item of BoldSoles footwear. Individually and collectively, symbolically treading on, stomping, and crushing the representation invokes and energizes you with the sensation of overcoming your strongest adversary!

We mobilize. We partner with causes and engage those who advocate for causes, are active activists, and/or those who strive for personal growth. 
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We fundraise. BoldSoles provides a streamlined process for fundraising with BoldSoles Empowerment Footwear. We support our cause partners in executing fundraising events such as walks and runs using our event registration, donation and peer to peer fundraising software. including BoldSoles® signature 5K All Cause Walk.

Causes also receive partial proceeds from our retail sales of socks, posters, journals, and other promotional items. 

Conceptualized in 2008 by Mark Hampton while sipping on a brew in an iconic Irish pub in New York City from the thought, "What if I created a product that gave the sensation of overcoming your strongest adversary?" 

See, Mark had been reading a book about Feng Shui when he discovered a reference to standing on or walking over enemies as symbolizing conquest and victory. As a culture enthusiast, he then discovered this strategy of having enemies underfoot and neutralized prevailed in many cultures! For instance,

• In the US and UK we say, “walk all over them…” • “stomp them”
• In China, there’s a folktale of putting one’s adversary’s name and birthday in your shoe
• Christianity – In the Bible there are over 18 references to putting one’s enemy underfoot. “…the God of peace will soon crush satan under his feet.”
• In nature the rhinoceros when provoked or attacked charges with great impetuosity and tramples his adversary underfoot
• Other cultures – showing the sole of one’s foot is a sign of disrespect • people slapping Saddam Hussein’s statue with their slippers…

What happened next? Mark pondered, "What if I created a product that makes us feel the sensation of overcoming your strongest adversary?" Pen was put to paper and a request for a patent was submitted in 2008. In 2010 we began as Always Walk for Your Cause. Working to find our way in our infancy we stumbled a few times. But, those obstacles built perseverance and taught great lessons. What we’ve learned on this journey:

• BoldSoles® is more than promotiional items. BoldSoles® is advocacy, activism, and personal growth.
• Advocacy and Activism take individual and group effort and they are not just for a moment, but continual and consistent. Always Walk for Your Cause™.
• To be the best advocates and activists, we need to advocate for ourselves. At times self-care requires we become BoldSoles® over anything in our lives that keeps us negatively bound and back.
• BoldSoles®’s strategic patented placement of text and images activates energy and impacts a sole on many levels, emotionally (we feel it), mentally (through our internal voice and messaging, we hear it, we envision it), anything we envision we can manifest.

In October 2018 the USPTO approved our patent (no. 10111487). 

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​Meet the Team

​A small but mighty team of seasoned professionals leads the evolution of BoldSoles®. We’re committed to cultivating strategic collaboration and providing value beyond the purchase. 

Mark Hampton
Founder & CEO
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Beyond being a Black Belt martial artist and cultural enthusiast, Mark is a sought-after technology and business analyst as President of Hampton Technology Resources, Inc. Mark oversees product development for the BoldSoles® brand.

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Jacqueline Taylor-Adams
​As a business and marketing strategist since 1996 Jacqueline has been consulting nationwide with small to mid size businesses as well as arts and community organizations. Jacqueline handles marketing and business development for the BoldSoles® brand.

GenM Marketing Interns
Our interns have been integral to our growth giving fresh perspectives with great work ethic. The interns offer an opportunity for more insight as well as an opportunity for BoldSoles™ to give back through training. Shout out to Kenneth Chan and Billie Lorraine!