 That just sounded like something I should do Katie. Yeah. Oh my god Katie Can you send me tips because that just made me feel things Hey, I'm Shannon the VP of social here at Go Daddy and this is School of Hustle the show where we find advice and inspiration From people who are making their own way We're filming in the WeWork Times Square in New York City with a guest who really inspires me and I am very excited She is a lifestyle blogger She is a social media influencer a world traveler and a full-time attorney Everybody please. Let's give a very warm welcome to the beautiful and amazing Cynthia Andrew Thank you, thank you so much. That's really appreciated to be here Well, I I'm so happy that you're here and I have to say you look fantastic As I was coming up the elevator I was wondering um, you know what you'll be wearing and I love I love the color Always color. That's like my thing. Color just makes me happy. So I tend to just If I see something colorful, I'm probably gonna buy it I'm probably gonna take that from you before we leave here because it's so pretty. Well, I love that about you I love I love your Instagram feed and your blog. Thank you. Have you featured this yet? And social of the blog not this combination, but I have worn the pieces separately So it's always about playing with color and pieces. Well in addition to color inspiring you What other sort of things inspire you when you think about putting your ensembles together and getting it out there on Instagram? Oh my god, this city is inspiring So just walking around and like seeing the style like other people style travel every time I travel I picked something new that I want to add pretty much everything around me It's it's the people I see it's the stuff on Instagram. I mean, it's it's the world I love that and and I'm I'm actually very proud that GoDaddy has been helpful for you and your blog post that you wrote now. It's maybe a month or so ago It's it's it's just so genuine and so meaningful to look back and think about how The company who I work for and love very much is helping you and I love what you're doing so much What what has it been like for you to work with GoDaddy along the way? I think really for me coming from being an attorney There was a lot about the technical space of having a website that was a little bit scary for me So really knowing that like really understand the concept of having a platform in a place where they can help me with SEO And all these things that really were my cup of tea and making it simple and accessible. That's really been the best part You you are taking on this fashion space and you are an influencer and you look impeccable every day But you've also gotten a master's degree in practice law. Yeah, how do you do all of this? I don't think about it I think what I learned is when you think about things too much You could psych yourself out because then it just seems like it's too much But if you just do it I get up in the morning I do what I need to do and I don't dwell and it's I've just one step at a time went to law school I started practicing. I said, oh, I'm interested in media and communications. I'm gonna go do a master's in that So I did that I said I'm interested in starting a blog. So I started doing that and Again, I just I just want to encourage people to realize that they are capable of so much more than they think When I think of law, I think very serious I mean scary like you put your hand on that book and you speak the truth and all that I think it's so serious and I think of the lifestyle and the colorful fashion piece that you bring to your personal life Do you ever find that they're just so different from one another and do people question like what they seem just so opposite? Yeah, they do they do question it. I don't think to my face. I think they question it to other people But I really don't care anymore about people's opinions of me I know that I know my work when I was I would say maybe six years back starting out as a younger attorney. I was Sensitive to people's opinions and then I realized that you know if I'm walking into a courtroom with confidence And I know what I'm talking about, you know, it You know, you can't really take that away from you You know, you really we would all love to create this perfect narrative But the thing is people still have opinions regardless of all the efforts you may put into making them like you So be yourself. I still believe you have to you know, be a good person. You have to be humble kindness is a may is necessary, but You have to be yourself and then you know The right folks that need to be in your space will be in your space And then when you when you shine and you have that confidence as yourself you you attract people And now you're a social media influencer and you have a lot of people looking every day to see where will you go? Next what will you wear next? That's kind of crazy. Yeah, because this was really just a hobby It was an outlet. It was an opportunity to do something a little different I never intended or planned for it to be where it's gotten, but it all was a lot of work Nothing comes easy. It is all about the hustle is about working hard And the rewards feature themselves if I hadn't put in the work I don't think I would be where I am now well I definitely want to get into some very serious entrepreneurial questions But first I want to just take a little break and to play a game that we call hustle time This is going to give everybody a chance to get to know you and a little bit more of a personal level And it's fine. We'll keep it up. You will keep it fast. All right Okay Feel channel and feel the cards. All right. What's feeling good here? I'll stop right there Okay, and so we're gonna do is set a timer for 60 seconds and see how many you can get through. Okay? Okay, so Jonathan, can you set a timer for 60 seconds and help me count? Okay? Thank you. Tell me when all right? Yeah Early bird or night owl early. I'm last person you texted my husband. Do you floss every day? No, large dogs or lap dogs large Favorite workout. Oh my god, none One word you wish you could take away from the English language Shit Never one guilty pleasure Ice cream How was your mother to describe you? A lot Would you rather never be able to teach or never be able to learn? Never be able to teach. What's the first app you open in the morning Instagram favorite New York City tourist attraction? Columbus Circle best place you've traveled T-Shelf I'm dream dinner dinner guest God, um That would be Oprah which Hogwarts house would you be sorted into? Oh my god, uh, I am not a Harry Potter fan Chocolate. I'm milk or dark dark snapchat has a long life or lost cause. I don't use that first celebrity crush. Oh But I want to know River Phoenix You got 17. Whoa, I know I could do it You know everybody of course is so excited to gain some advice and inspiration But I'd like you to first tell us about what a typical day looks like for you. Oh, whoa So typical day probably my first alarm goes off about 530 or 6 a.m. And this is usually I give myself about an hour of me time and this is just to read or Sometimes it is email. Sometimes it is social media, but I check on my calendar and make sure I'm set for the day I usually on a good week. I have my outfits planned out on a bad week I don't but then I'll shower get out there I spent a lot of my commute on the train doing social because usually once I get to the office I switch I like switch off social and get into Office Cynthia, which is different and and so I I'm a meetings person. I have meetings all day I will then check in with social midway through the day checking with my husband and then Work work work and as soon as I get off work my social media since you get kicks back in and I engage I write a plan I write blog posts. I reach out to collaborate if there's a collaboration and there's an event I attend events. I do most of that till latest 10 p.m. I do stay up late because the 10 I sit on the computer and I write anything that I've been thinking about that I want to put down I write and I probably lights out its midnight. I'm you know, it's a long day. It's a busy day What's your favorite part that what's that moment in your day? It just makes you so happy breakfast That first meal in the day, oh my god, because you never know when it's gonna come It might be 9 a.m. It might be one. It's like you get to eat. I'm so happy. I love to eat Especially bread. I'm with Oprah on that one. Yes, right all day. I love What is the best piece of advice that you have been given along the way, oh my goodness, I would say the best piece of advice has been to trust myself like My instincts a little bit and that's that's hard for a lot of us because I don't I think I hear that often with women You're you're pulled by so many things and you want to be so many things to so many people And I've just been working really hard on trusting my instincts. They've guided me here so far on the flip side What has been the worst piece of advice trust my instincts? No They haven't failed me like that one of the worst pieces it probably that you can only be one thing or do one thing being West African there's this Growing up yours kind of supposed to go through a very traditional career path you're like a doctor a lawyer engineer and that's it and anything else is considered a distraction and So I went to school to be one thing and I remember when I started telling my mom that oh I'm kind of you know playing around with this other thing. She's like, what's that? And I did get a lot of from family members who wanted nothing, but the best for me It was so well-intentioned. They're like, oh, that's not it's gonna make you look unfocused You're not gonna look like a serious person you you can only you know pick something and do that and you know We're so we're so multi. We're like multi-dimensional people. We have varied interests, you know, so I don't think we we ever have to be just one thing Be be all the things you need to be or want to be and it's okay To be fluid and know yourself and go with the right flow for you and change your mind the options are endless Yeah, don't ever feel like this is the world the world is it's massive So once you limit yourself, you will never know your true potential How are you using your career to inspire other people? You know, it's it's crazy because when all I did was traditional law and litigation I felt less moved to talk to younger other women or others along my path I don't know why I just wasn't inspired to do that as I started doing more social media and meeting folks and traveling All of a sudden I felt like I had so much to to give and so much to share I've been doing a lot more speaking and going out and especially I feel very strongly younger women because I see myself in them so much I love your your upbeat energy and whatnot. Are you always this way or have you ever Fabby felt like walking away? Everything is who doesn't have those quit moments, but you can't it's the moment You know, it's like you you have a feeling because you feel like I'm not doing this. Well, I'm messing up This this is not I'm not doing great You know and I've had those moments But I've learned that it is a moment and you just have to make it through that and you'll be okay on the other side It's a conscious choice. Yes, you have to choose. I choose that I will get through this moment and keep going keep going I am so inspired by you and you know a lot But is there any one thing that you still need to learn? Oh I'm sure there's so much I still need to learn It's funny, but I've always wanted to be better at languages. I think because I love to travel so much Yeah, I just feel like language opens you up to more people So and Portuguese for some reason just sounds so amazing to me I've never been to Brazil that's on my like 2019 list. Okay, so um, I don't maybe I'll get Get an app or something and start learning a language or two I love that. And what is the one thing that you want people to learn from you? I guess That honestly you could do it all because you know Most of us just don't know how much we have in us. So if they did they like wow Cynthia She's you know some Saturdays. She's just rolling around and and yet she's able to accomplish all these things I could do that. I want people to see me and say I could do that What's next for you aside from learning Portuguese and going to Brazil and what's what's next? This year I'm actually I can't speak to most of it But this is a year I really plan on challenging and pushing myself really out of my comfort zone Okay, this was simply sin. I'm moving outside that bubble To do some new things under at simply sin still under at simply sin But I'm I'm gonna be making some some real changes and really pushing myself Well, we let people know that you were coming. We got some questions in so I have two questions that I want to Share with you from social and Katie asked do you do any visualizations or meditation to stay grounded? Oh I Don't but that just sounded like something I should do Katie Yeah, oh my god, Katie Can you send me tips because that just made me feel things. No, I don't um I dream a lot Do you remember your dream when you wake up? Yes? I actually do I remember my dreams when I wake up And do you dream in color? No, I I don't remember the I I don't know what colors They are but I remember my dreams when I wake up because I tell my husband right away And then do you go ahead and extrapolate what that might mean? I think about it for a little bit It's usually me running towards something. I'm always running in my dreams Running away running to you know, yeah, I know I like that I'm so then John asked I'm what are three skin care items you can't live without Well, I always need a cleanser. Yes, cuz I put all this stuff on So something to take it off so a cleanser moisturizer and Skin care I'm I'm big and like into just like old school. Nothing complicated I'll need something for my skin a moisturizer for my face and a cleanser if I only had to have three items That would be it. That's fantastic. And you know what? We have one more question It is from another social media influencer I must say and this influencer is our beloved pug noodle So noodle No, no, you know doesn't travel too well, you know, he he doesn't do so well in cars He can pop on the occasional airplane But he likes to be on the move. Yeah And so what he wants to know is on what advice do you have for someone who wants to get away? But really can't take a lot of time to travel and go really far Yeah, you know what you have to do you have to pretend you're a tourist in your own city The truth is like that you never go anywhere. That's nearby you make assumptions. It's right there to be honest I only went to the Empire State Building like two years ago Yeah, because I had a cousin who insisted that they had to go up there So noose you can just have you been next door around the corner you might discover a little coffee shop or a little Bakery you've never been to I promise you if you think of it that way It's so much more exciting you go to a restaurant You wouldn't have considered right around the corner. Yeah, take a walk for three hours and discover something You guys can make Basically that Jonathan you got to take him on a walk. Yeah, not during office hours though Well, I have really enjoyed this this has been great And I know that everybody has gotten just so many different tips and inspirations from you today Thank you for having me. This is this is really and go daddy has been a Super partner has been super amazing just in terms of someone like me who's on social who needs like the tools and the ability To do the work I do it requires that the machine behind it Just works seamlessly so that I don't have to think about it or worry about it And so every tool or anything that I have in my disposal that does that is priceless to me And so to be able to do that and then now like have this conversation and do school of hustle That's just really amazing. So thank you for that. Yeah, thank you We you know what your family for life. You are you are you are an icon of our tribe. Let me tell you I'm in closing. I like to leave everybody with a final piece of inspiration that comes from somebody else So there I have a few cards here with some sayings and I want you to kind of pick the card that calls to you And and let's talk about if you love it hate it live it or whatnot. All right It says If you wait for somebody to bring you an ice cream bar, it's gonna be melted by the time you get it So get it yourself. Yeah, so his point was you can't wait around in life, right? No, so what do you think about mr. Bill Carter's advice here if you live it love it. I love it I live it that is so true because I think it's easy some of us keep saying if someone just hands me the right Opportunity if someone just does something for me. You have to go out there and get it or it's melted and useless Exactly. Exactly. It's not gonna come to you. You got a hustle. You got a husband Everybody thank you so much for tuning in and thank you again for being here. Thank you for having me So it's a lot of fun. I'm we're bringing School of Hustle to you every Wednesday and full on YouTube on Facebook premiere We have teasers on LinkedIn and Twitter Follow us across social and just get more on fabulous advice just like this every week Thank you so much everybody. See you again soon