#uggmenofcharacter

My dear dad, my hero Where do I begin? My dear dad escaped from Hungary in 1956 with only the clothes on his back. He was 18 years old. He has worked in construction for 50 years to provide for our family and even today, at 75 years old he is still working. He did the best job he could to raise us and always provided for us. But the most amazing gift he gave us was loving us unconditionally, no matter what. The love he and my mother gave us, I have never seen or experienced in any other family. How lucky we are to be raised by such a loving man.

My husband Conrad, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 30 years old, in June of 2011. He underwent 2 aggressive brain surgeries and 6 weeks of radiation. Conrad was approved for Social Security Disability for the rest of his life. He would have made the same amount of money on SS as he made going to work everyday for the City of Sisters. Conrad pushed and pushed the doctors to release him to go back to work as soon as they would allow. He passed on the Social Security Disability to go back to work with the mind set that regardless of what the doctors and statistics told him about his diagnosis he was going to LIVE and by choosing to live that meant going on with life as usual. Conrad has MRI's every four months and for the past two years he has had clear MRI's (his diagnosis is an antiplastic astrocytoma stage III aggressive brain cancer). I believe that because Conrad decided that this cancer was not going to beat him, he is beating the cancer. To me that makes Conrad a game changer. It's all in your mind and what you choose to believe.

This man is the hardest worker I know. He does it all so his family can have everything they need. He works physical labor 7 days a week from before the sun rises until after the sun goes down, most says are 15 hours. He hardly stops to eat or take a break. He never asks for anything for himself, he just wants his family to have a roof over their head and be able to give them what they want and need. He had nothing and has always worked for what he needs. He never gives up until what he wants to get done is accomplished. He is my hero and should be a role model for all men especially married man supporting a family out there.  

  He is amazing, and  l LOVE, Brandon very much xoxo

This man is my grandfather, Heriberto "Laredo" Medellin. When my father left me on the day I was born, he took me in his arms and told my mother that he would raise me and be my father figure. He is a Korean Veteran, leaving school in the 9th grade to serve his country. He worked his whole life to provide for his family and my sister and I with only an eighth grade education. He has never let me down and sacrificed his wants and needs to make sure that I graduated high school and college. Giving the last $100 in his savings to help me purchase school books. I know that without his support, I would not be where I am today. My goal is to be as wise as he is and as strong as he has been for me. He has given me the model for how men should be and what to look for in my spouse. My husband respects my grandfather and sees him as a man of great character, as I do. He has never been to turn away a person in need, and he continues to help those in need, even after being robbed by a person that he tried to help out. It did not change his mind in the kindness of humanity, and he prays that those people needed the money more than he did and forgives them. I have tried my whole like to repay him for all he has done, and I was able to give him the gift that he he ensured that I received. In June of 2011, he received his high school diploma from Alice High School in Alice, Texas. Almost 50 years to the day in which he would have graduated from AHS in 1951. He does not save lives for a living, and is not the millionaire philanthropist that you may be looking for, but he gives with all he has and saved my life from being left without a father figure to look up to. 

Very excited to nominate Brian for the Men of Character award.  He's a visual artist (and new father to twin boys) working in the fine art world as well as the streets - whether his medium is cut paper or aerosol cans his work depicting both the everyday and the imaginary always strands out from everyone else. 

Stoked to nominate Michael for the UGG Men of Character campaign, whether he's cooking an elaborate dinner for 12 on the NYC subway, or planning and hosting a 100 course dinner for hedge fund managers he's always raising the culinary bar and pushing the limits of what it means to eat a meal.  

This man is recklessly determined to make an impact through art.  Tyler R. is an inspiration to us all…he has become a well known artist not by focusing on himself but rather putting all his energy into helping the world. Just about every other painting he creates, he donates the work or profit to non-profits and focuses on amplifying their voice in communities. He has helped girls in Liberia escape brothels, orphaned children in India, moms needing diapers in Los Angeles, homeless on skid row, poverty stricken families in Panama and the list goes on and on. By doing so, he has gained the attention of art collectors such as UN Ban Ki Moon, Bill Clinton, Prime Minister of Tibet, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Surlief, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, TOMS Tyler Ramsey Line, etc. He truly embodies energy and passion that is “more than himself” and only in doing so he has found success.