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🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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If you haven’t heard of Nana Agyemang yet, prepare to be blessed. Over the past four years, this powerhouse has taken on the world of beauty and fashion editorial like no other! She’s reported for publications like the NYTimes, BBC, Elle & Refinery29. Today, Nana not only works as a social media editor for NY Mag's The Cut, but also runs her own media platform called EveryStylishGirl, specifically catered to young women of color. Growing up as a first generation Ghanaian-American in Ohio, Nana often felt like an outsider. But that didn’t stop her. After joining yearbook club, Agyemang realized that media was the outlet she needed to express both the beauty and struggle of being a young black girl. From there, her editorial empire was born and continues to move the industry forward. Tune in to hear us chat about her career highlights, finding the best protective styles, and the magic of brown lip liner!
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0:00.0 | All you ladies pop that thing like this. Shake your body don't stop, don't quit. Just do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. |
0:10.0 | Do it now. Do it good. Hello, it's Brooke Devard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty |
0:14.1 | podcast. Welcome back everyone for another incredible episode of |
0:19.2 | of Naked Beauty. I interview Nana and she is just so great and full of amazing positive energy |
0:28.4 | but she also just keeps it so real. This was our first conversation by the way that you guys are hearing. I didn't |
0:35.0 | know Nana before we did this interview. I knew of her and I knew her work. She's the |
0:40.0 | social media editor at New York Mags the Cut which is may I just say one of the hardest the |
0:43.3 | may I just say one of the hardest jobs in media. |
0:46.4 | Doing social media for a brand or a publication is one of those |
0:50.7 | always on jobs that requires constant, |
0:53.4 | constant energy and focus and attention |
0:56.0 | and you have to be analytical. |
0:57.8 | I used to do social media for Ralph Lauren |
1:00.6 | for two years, and I swear it was like, I think those two years felt like four or five |
1:05.3 | years just because you're on all the time like you have to work on weekends you have to |
1:09.6 | respond to comments you also have to like do all of the analytics as well so you're doing community management but also the editorial planning. |
1:15.8 | It's a lot, but I could think of no one more up to the task than someone like Nana. |
1:20.4 | She has only been working for three years, but she is just so driven, so ambitious. |
1:26.4 | I think she is definitely, definitely one to watch. She's already made such an amazing |
1:29.9 | name for herself, but you guys are going to love how refreshing her honesty as we |
1:34.0 | talk about so much in this episode everything from baby hairs to wigs to why you |
1:39.6 | need a lip liner but also what it was like for her growing up, what it's like when you don't see other kids |
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