Cynthia Rowley's Fashion Designs Were Mocked Before She Built An Empire
Token CEO
Lemonada Media
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode Erika sits down with American Fashion Designer, Cynthia Rowley. Cynthia’s brand, Cynthia Rowely, is a leading global lifestyle brand built on the philosophy that fashion should be an adventure. Cynthia started her career at the Art Institute of Chicago with the intention of being a painter but later switched her focus to fashion. She launched her first capsule collection in 1988 and since then has grown to include women's wear, handbags, glasses, color cosmetics, fragrance, wetsuits and swimwear, home furnishings, bedding products, and office accessories. Erika and Cynthia discuss being the underdog, faking it ‘til you make it, having a sense of humor, connecting business and creativity, why Cynthia is successful and much more. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, token CEO listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:06.9 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:11.0 | That's the little thing about fashion is that I never, I didn't get into it because of fashion. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, yeah. I got into it because I liked making things. Sure. |
| 0:24.0 | Okay, it is Thursday, January 12th. I'm Erica. This is the token CEO podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | It's episode 249. My desk, I feel like, is extra, extra messy because it's the beginning of the |
| 0:34.9 | year and, you know, like the beginning of the year is just bananas. We have an awesome interview |
| 0:39.0 | today. We have a great episode. We have Cynthia Raleon. I love Cynthia Raleon. I've been wearing |
| 0:43.6 | Cynthia Raleon forever, not like way back, but as soon as I could like afford pretty dresses that |
| 0:48.8 | have like bright colors and prints on them, Cynthia Raleon was my girl. She does neon, I think, in a way |
| 0:54.4 | that nobody does. So I was pretty psyched to meet her. She has a great story. She grew up in the Midwest. |
| 1:00.6 | So she was always really into fashion, but kind of quirky and weird. She followed the beat of |
| 1:04.8 | her own drum. She was told she didn't have the right chops or she didn't do things the right way. |
| 1:09.8 | She just has great energy about her. She's an explorer. She's a surfer. She's clearly very |
| 1:15.3 | entrepreneurial and highly, highly creative and also seems super intuitive. So I'm excited for |
| 1:20.7 | you guys to meet her and to hear our conversation. We talk about everything from faking it till you |
| 1:26.5 | make it how she got her start and her career, how she thinks about seizing opportunity, |
| 1:31.8 | her work ethic, who she surrounds herself with, how she runs her business, and a whole lot more. |
| 1:37.2 | So thank you to Cynthia Ralee for joining us. And I hope you get a lot out of this interview. |
| 1:41.6 | We're going to try to go see her actually. All right. So what's going on in the Cynthia Ralee world? |
| 1:46.7 | Are we recording? Yeah, we just we just hop right into it. Okay, hold on. We're going to regroup. |
| 1:53.0 | Okay. What's going on? I mean, just it feels like the pace is getting crazier and crazier |
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