November 17, 2023 • 32 mins
In this captivating episode, Cynthia Bailey offers an intimate look into the life she's always dreamed of living. She delves into the significance of crafting a comfortable and authentic lifestyle that truly represents her, countering the assumptions of a trendy existence. Cynthia candidly shares the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, providing valuable insights into how she selects her business ventures and explores new opportunities. Additionally, she emphasizes the importance of mental health by advocating for the occasional necessity of a mental health day.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Again. I always go back to the word audacity. The
audacity of me to think ed fifty five years old,
I can just start a complete new career is crazy,
but it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
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stay locked in to new episod, So, honey movers, let's
give a warm welcome to the incredible Cynthia Bailey, Cynthia, welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh, thank you so much, Thank you, Danie, It's so
good to see you. I want to talk a little
bit about like your.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Initial so early days you're making money, Now, how did
you really look at when you think back to like
act one, what did you really think about money and
success and how were you going to make it? Like
were you very frugal and how you were saving? Like
where did you really start learning this like money acumen
or do you think there's like more to be learned
as well?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, well my I grew up you know, poor basically,
so I've always known and understood how to stretch a dollar,
and I've always known how to live a very simple life,
like I don't need or require a lot of stuff.
I just need the basics. So you know, coming from
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very humble beginnings like that. You know, no matter how
much success I've been able to have in my life,
I can still bring all the way down if I
need to. I can fly private or I can fly coach.
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, but I love this because I feel the same
and people when when they hear that, they and like
they look at a beautiful face or something they don't
actually believe it. But I also like want people to understand,
you know, people have like money comes and money goes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yes, you know your your core values, the things that
you need.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So you know, oftentimes like we're confused by social media
and stuff, and like, you know, I've interviewed such successful
people on here, you know, yourself included, and like that
is a resounding truth.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Like it's nice to have.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You need it for security and stuff, but like when
push comes to shove, it's still like all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yes, yes, it's not what drives people. Absolutely absolutely. So
I've always like been big on saving my money, you know,
investing my money. I don't I'm not a big risk taker.
I don't really do a lot of risky investments. But
that's just me not understanding a lot of investments how
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it all works. You know. I do have people that
handle my money for me, but I try to be
hands on. But for the most part, I'm a big
believer and just not spending all my money on nonsense.
I love my life. I love to live well. I
have a nice house. I'm here like Bailey right now,
which I love, and you know, I drive a nice car.
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But I'm not like over here balling out every day.
I don't drive rolls Roycees like I don't have. I mean,
I can afford all of those things, but for me personally,
I just don't need those things. I just want like
nice things. I don't need this over the top of
life because at the end of the day, I feel
like I feel like, for me, I'd rather spend my
money on things that make me actually feel good and
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kind of you know, really caters towards like, you know,
my purpose and the things that I like to do,
like traveling.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Like allariance alignments all these things absolutely absolutely so I
don't want to say I'm cheek, but I'm definitely not
someone out here balling out.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And I definitely know how to stretch a dollar. And
I think something so simple and so basic it's important,
and you like, I like use that in my life.
But when I was in New York modeling, when I
started making money, I still lived the same for the
most part. And I feel like when I came to Atlanta,
I still lived within a very reasonable I still lived
a very reasonable lifestyle. Like I always like used to
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laugh and say, I think I probably have had the
smallest house on the housewise forever. I think I drove
like my car until like I had like a twenty
fifteen land Rover that I drove forever, and then I
was like, I mean, at this point the fans were like,
can we get a new car? Cynthia, Like, seriously, can we? Gin?
You know what?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This is what I love because it's like, you know,
this is Housewives is the epitome of keeping up with
the Joneses. Right well, yeah, because you're people who don't
know you being like, well, Cynthia, Cynthia, are you poor?
Shouldn't you have a car?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Everybody? Yeah, rolls Roy says, And I'm still in my
little twenty fifteen land Rover because there was nothing wrong
with it. So finally I did upgrade. But I mean
I just bought another land Rover, which is right now.
I have a Defender. But I do the things that
I want to do. I don't follow what everyone else
is doing. I buy the things that I like. I
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do not live above my means. I live well. Don't
let me confuse.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You, because you work hard and you.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's hard for you. I mean, I work my butt
off to live well, but I'm not interested in just flashy,
over the top, a flashy, over the top lifestyle, Like
it's just not who I am, and you know, kudos
to the people that like it, It's just not what
I need to bring me happiness.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, because it's sometimes easier said than done. And I'll
just ask this quick and we can move on. How
what is it that sort of aligns you to being
able to find that certainty, that sense of self to
know because you know entertainment industry modeling, it's a lot
of flash and glits, Like how, what are the tools
that you use or is it part in part your
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upbringing that lets you have that sense of security to
make those choices and know that you can this is
the life I want.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, I'm a dreamer. I've always been a dreamer. I
will say the thing that I got in trouble the
most about when I was younger was just, I mean,
basically creating this fantasy in my mind of who I
was and what my life was. Now we call it manifestation.
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I didn't know what it was, but I literally, at
a very young age, would like, I mean, I would
literally look at my family and be like, Okay, this
is not my family. These people must have kidnapped me
because I know I should have been born in New
York City to some rich family whatever. Yeah, I should
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have like had like I just always thought bigger and
I always had something me like I don't even know
how it got inside me, Tanu, but my mom. I
would get in trouble all the time. It's like, why
are you at still telling people that, like you know,
you're not really your parents, like we kidnapped you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Basically, Oh this is real, like you really were like, I.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Am not supposed to be here right now. No. I
was like I knew there was something else. I knew
there was something else that I didn't see, and I
was like, wait, what is this? And I would say,
I'm I'm rich, I'm successful. I travel all the time,
like things that I didn't do. But I was at
a young age actually manifesting because those are the things
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I say. Now, I don't say I want to travel.
I say I'm going to travel, I'm going to go
to dibade, not I want to go. So all those
things I was saying when I was a young kid,
I was already manifesting the things that I wanted in
my life. You know, at the time I moveled, like, like,
why are you making all this stuff up about your life?
But I had the vision, I had the ambition, and
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I had the curiosity to and the audacity to the
audacity to see something else and to know that there
was something else, and to know that I didn't know
what God had in store from my life, but I
knew where I was was not it. I knew that
I was meant to come from from my amazing family,
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but I knew that it was an elevation.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
There was something bigger and brighter out there.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I knew something was bigger out there. I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I truly believe I am a very powerful manifestor. And
I never put it back to the connections I had
as a kid to it being dreaming obviously. I just
love the way you put that you know where you were,
like there was something bigger that was always pulling me.
And I also think like similar energies, Like I always
knew I do think I'm a powerful manifestor, but I
always like life just brought me things, like a lot
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of stuff was easy. It would come to me, and
you know, I was a dreamer, but I think you know,
being able to tell being able to look back and
say like, oh, there was so much intention to it,
because you were speaking these powerful words into its existence.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I didn't even know I was doing it. I
love that I was just being me and I think that,
you know, it's funny when I do look back, I
realized I was like, wow, I was manifesting the life
that I saw for myself. And yeah, and I actually
grew up to go on to live exactly the life
that I saw for myself.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know, sometimes when people hear this, they'll be like okay,
but then you know, you have ups and downs, and
I do think like when we talk about manifestation or
creating your life, like listen, life is not linear. Life
be lifing. Yeah, you know you you have big ups
and big downs. And you've been in business for a
very long time. Yes, can you start and we're going
to go through, you know, some of your entrepreneurial ventures.
(09:44):
You know, you've done the Bailey Wine Center, You've done
TV bar, so many different things go back to like
those early days. Can you think back and look at
you know, one of your downs, one of the lows,
one of the valleys that was really instrumental in you know,
you feeling like I have to pull myself up. This
was a tough time. I like to go into the
lows and the highs.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yes, well, as an entrepreneur, that's always going to be
lows and highs. Like it's never just bliss. It just
never is. I mean, you are the person that's responsible
for the business. You're responsible for the employees, You're responsible
for somebody trying to sue you. You're responsible for anything
if the place burns down. You're just responsible for the insurance.
You're responsible for everything, for every aspect of that business.
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And one of the things that I have learned is
to just stay the course. Like if I I only
like to start businesses that I feel like aligned with
where I am. Like I started the Bailly Wine Cellar
because I was like, you know what I wanted, Like
number one, I want to learn more about wine and
that the wine culture. But number two, I wanted something.
Wanted to start a business that I felt like was grown.
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Like I'm a grown as woman, so I'd like doing
grown ass things. You know what I'm saying. This is
about alignment, you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, this is what I love because you know, oftentimes
you'll keep like the best part of life is when
you're actually working on things that you're passionate about the
best part of work is when.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It doesn't feel like work. It doesn't stuff that you
love a wine who doesn't want to drink wine all
day with their girlfriend exactly exactly. So I thought this
would be something that would be that would would align
with not only like what I love, but also with
my brand, because everything I do, I still am very
intentional with building my brand and elevating my brand. So
(11:29):
I thought that that was good. I've had, you know,
I've had a you know, Cynthia Baillia where which A're
relaunching the Bailey Agency School of Fashion, which was my
first business venture, which you know, I'm you know, in
the process of bringing back you know, we you know,
COVID happened, pandemic, whatever we could, people can be around
each other. Then I start doing some things digitally, you know,
that's something that I will get back into as well.
(11:52):
C b By or I have a partnership with my
Niela bagline. What else do I have? I have my
foundation to be better found Oh my god, yeah, Sigm's
Escapes partnership. I feel like I'm forgetting something but I
said all that to say is I list these amazing
businesses that I've had in my life. I think one
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of the things that I would love for you guys
to understand as is an entrepreneur you have to know
when hold them and then you know and.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And I'm Onny Rogers, Okay, don't let this woman told
you she knows she could go from like the meek
out Kenny Rogers lyrics.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Come on, don't don't play with me, Dania. Okay, don't
get me started. Don't gass me up. So I'm this
is great. You know, every business that I start, it's
like a new baby, and you have to take care
of that baby. And this is one of the This
is some advice that I will give to you guys.
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I don't want to have triplets at one time.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I want to start one business at a time so
I can take care and nurture that one baby. I
don't want to do like because that's very overwhelming for me.
So no, because it's insanity. With that said, I would say,
in the spirit of entrepreneurship, because I think there's nothing
like having your own business and working for yourself, I
will say, don't do two or three businesses at the
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same time, like start one because you've got to like
feed that baby, you gotta burp it, you got to
change the diapers. You got to make sure that everything
is good. Because what happens sometimes when you do too
much and you overwhelm warm yourself with too much at
the same time, then somebody's gonna get neglected. Some of
those babies are not gonna you know, so I'm gonna
get sick. Some may not even make it. So I
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forget one in the car exactly exactly exactly, so one
business at a time. I usually try to do like
it and at least give it like a year to
like you know, to you know, to grow, and then
maybe I would think about another one. With that said, also,
you have to know when you got to look at
the business, is this working, Is this making me money?
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Is it costing me money too much money? Does it
make sense anymore? And I think one of the things
that I've learned from being around other successful people, other entrepreneurs,
is you know, there's wins and then sometimes you just
gotta take a l Sometimes, no matter how diligent you are,
some things it could be the locations not right. There's
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so many different factors that matter to having a successful business,
especially like a brick and mortar location. If it's not working,
it's okay, Like you can it's okay, set it down.
You can refigure it out later or or move on
to something else. Don't ever get discouraged because something didn't
have the success that you wanted it to have. Because everything,
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you know, I think the thing about being an entrepreneur,
you can you got to throw a lot of different
things up against the wall and see what actually want
to see what's decks, and see what's decks, and you know,
there's so many factors. There's timing, there's markets, there's you know,
cost of goods, and so I think that you know,
oftentimes people are so afraid to fail that it makes
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them not start. And I think even for women that
are out there listening, you know, I think my biggest
achilles heel is I want everything to do, like it
to be perfect before I actually launch it to the
world or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And women this like holds us back, Like men don't
do that. Men are like who cares? People will buy it?
I'll iterate, you know. So I've really realized that for me,
like done is better than perfect. And to the other
side of that, yeah, like get it out there, test
the waters, you know. Yeah, And if you're with your
sunglasses brand all these different things that you're doing, you
don't have to have like a five hundred thousand minimum
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order product order. Start with some small project lines, product line,
see what people like, and sort of go from there.
But to the same point you're saying when you were
talking about no when to fold them, it is okay
to be like this isn't working out for me.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yes it is. It is totally okay. And I'm around
some of the most successful people in the world and
they've all taken elves. We just all talk about the elves.
We only talk about the victories.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, that's not there because everyone's like it's easy, you know,
oh it was so you made it look like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Girls, we make things look easy. But behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You're over there with a little bonnet on and a
little factory, well a big factory in North Rochester that
you probably had to take a plane and a car
to drive through, taking like all these good bad formulas,
Like that's a lot of hard work behind there.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yes, And also you know, sometimes you know, once you
actually start doing something too, Tanya, you may feel like
as you get into it, like maybe you don't like
it as much as you thought you would. And that's
okay because you can't you know, you don't know if
you like someone until you date them, you know what
I mean. Yeah, when you start a business, you.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Don't know if you enjoy it until you actually create it.
And once you create, and like what, I'm not as
passionate about this as I thought I would be. And
you know, to your point, you you know, you already said,
like the best way to make money is to actually
do something that you love doing.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So it's okay to rethink things. It's okay to let
things go. Like there's like, you don't have to be
a hostage to a business if it's just not working
or no longer serves your purpose, you're just no longer
passionate about it, Let it go, Let it go. When
you can let it go and focus on something.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That makes you have it, there's something really freeing about
that because back, you know, dispelling all these myths of
different generations. You know, you can think about business and
relationships where we thought you have to have one business
or relationship that you're going to do for fifty years,
like you're the Walmart family. Like sometimes there's just every
seat there. What's the expression? Every season has a reason
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and you have to be able to iterate and let
things go because I think when you're able to do that,
it allows you to move on to the next level.
And you know, it's always about just moving higher and
higher in life. But I think that is a little
bit hard for people.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I will say, if you were the type of entrepreneur
person who is constantly that person who like every six
months is on a different pony, you got to look
at yourself. And that is not what we were talking
about here. We're talking about being able to evolve, build
something you know, and say, okay, I'm going to move
my energy to focus on something out right right, and
be clear, I'm sharing with you guys what works for me.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like if you are able to handle twenty businesses at
one time, God bless you. I just am not able
to do that because me, I want everything to be
successful and you know, like you were saying Tan, You're like,
I'm a perfectionist. I want everything to be right and
I need, you know, everything to line up the way
it's supposed to line up. So I don't work with
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being overly stressed or overwhelmed. So I would encourage anyone
to just put them on themselves because it's just not healthy,
it's not good for you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And I will also say, again, Cynthia's told us how
old she is. I do feel like this is how
we make that black no crack. Like I cannot live
my life in full constant preennic stress. I cannot and
be beautiful and happy and all these things.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So balance is essential.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And as I talk about balance, this is always the
quintessential woman entrepreneur, you're a mom, you're all these things.
How do you find balance? What is fun for Cynthia?
How do you sort of manage like running these businesses
but also relaxing and finding that me time.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Balance is something that I'm always working on. Like very
it's easy to say you're going to create balance, and
you're going to you know, spend time, you know, rebooting
yourself and revibing and rejuvenating yourself, but it's it's it's
not that easy to do that. But I will say,
at this point in my life, I have made it
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a priority to take a day. You know, sometimes I'll
take a day to you know, a spot day. And
I'm not saying I have to go to like, you know,
something somewhere fancy. I literally can go down the street.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
My place down the street from me is my favorite,
get my nails done, you know, get you know, throwing
the extra for the little neck misades, you know, just
whatever it is, you know, go have.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Some sash by myself, just like you know, a day
so I can just recenter and and reboot.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
That is why where the expression canyon time came from.
Like it's canyon time exactly all of y'all. It's canyon
time and everybody just has to find their little Yeah, what's.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Like you know, I'd love, you know, if I have
time to go to the same Regis and book a massage. Great.
If I can't do that, I'm completely fine to like
just work it out at massage envy, you know what
I mean. It doesn't really matter to me at the
end of the day. Keep impression is the impression. Rebooting
is rebooting, you know that's important. And also my daughter,
actually my twenty three year old Noel, I'll explained to me,
which I didn't know, that we could take a mental
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boness day. Some days you know, so as you wake
up and you're like, nothing's right. You just don't feel like,
you know, doing backhand spring, you know what I mean.
I actually woke up eighty ninety percent of a time
on one hundred like okay, I'm ready to go overmote,
let's do it. But sometimes every now and they every
now and then, I'm like, I can't do it today.
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I just can't be Cynthia Bailey. Today. I just need
a minute. And those days for me know all, and
for me are my mental wellness days. We just shut
it down. I'm making the calls and say, hey, you
know what, is there any way we can reschedule the zoom?
Is there any way we can do this? If I
can shut it down and just take a day, I
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do it because you know what happens. I get an
opportunity to reboot and reset, and then I'm stronger the
next day because I took an absolutely and the world
doesn't stop because Cynthia Bailey needs a day. It's like, actually,
everything is okay to take a day, So don't feel
like you can't do that. And that's something that I
don't even question anymore. I just go and I follow
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my instinct, my intuition, and my feelings a lot more
than I used to. I trust the process. I trust
myself to feel the fields. Days absolutely yes, and I'm
like not today, I'm not doing anything today, and I
will literally go to my couch, get my favorite little blanket,
order my favorite foods, turn on that Netflix, and just
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completely decompress. And you know, I'm not on the gram.
I just let everything go for a day. And it's
the best one of the best things I can encourage
you guys to do when you can do it. I
know everybody can't always do it, but if you can,
please do it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That is one of those things where you know through
therapy you hear all these things. Wherever you guys get
your therapy. I encourage you guys to get your therapy.
Whether you have a therapist or if Instagram is your therapy,
I don't know, but like you'll see all these memes
that are like feel the fields, feel the fields, Like
take those days where you can just be at home
to now the gate like you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I get that. I'm the same way. I wake up
on one hundred, I'm like, good morning.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then there's days where you're like and it's weird.
It's taken me a long time to get to this
point where I understand those days when they come where
I'm just like, I can't do it today.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I can't, Tanya, and you just want to be at home,
shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And I think COVID taught a lot about Yeah, the
world is going to keep going on without you. So
when you call in and you take those days or
you're like, we're gonna have to move, he guess what.
They move the zoom and you do it two days
later and nothing, nothing, nothing happens. It's fine, like the
world continues and everybody like you know, life doesn't stop
because you need a day.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Life doesn't stop. Life doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Okay, So as we wrap out, I know you got
a busy day because today is probably not one of
those days where you're taking.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You are on the go.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Early in the moment, No, I actually have to jump
on this light to La exactly because listen, the life
of a supermodel turned entrepreneur turned actress.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is busy, and it is always booked and busy. But
as we move forward, I want to talk about what's
coming up for you in Act three? What are you
working on coming up for me?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
An act Three is Cynthia the actress we all know.
I'm excited. I'm excited. I am. I jumped into acting
about a year and a half ago. I have an
amazing coach, I take classes. I've been able to in
a year and a half actually work. You know, I
haven't planned in any big lead roles yet, but I've
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had some very very substantial roles, and you know, going
back to God, you know, I've been able to elevate
as an actress at a pace that actually works for
me because I'm still growing and I'm still learning, and
I'm working with so many amazing actors and writers and
directors and producers. So I'm very happy and pleased and
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proud at the pace are happening for me. Now, do
I need to book a series soon? I'm thinking yeah, Now,
I finally think I'm ready. But had I been offered
a lead role on a series six months ago, probably
wouldn't have been very And I think that's important for
you know, for anyone who's listening, who's you know, thinking about,
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you know, becoming an actress. You have to trust the process.
You have to do the work, and you have to
give yourself time like it's not right for me to
God forbid be given a role. And I'm working with
these talented actors who've been you know, have done the work,
who've been busting their butts, and need not go up
in a way where I can get the respect from
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them because I haven't done the work. So I am
busy doing the work. I have some projects coming out.
Actually have a show that's on that just started screaming
on TV. It's called Rock the Boat, and I play
on people too, very very very very talented Parker McKenna
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and it's great. And I have tons of other stuff
as well. If you guys follow me on Instagram Cynthia
Bailey on Instagram, we go to my link tree. I
have my demo reels with all of the projects that
I've been working on. And I've been super busy, and
so you know, you know, any new thing is scary, Tanya.
But going back to you know I was when I
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first started modeling. It was scary. When I first threw
in the real House Atlanta, it was scary, So why
wouldn't this be scary as well? But that fear empowers
me as opposed to paralyzing, paralyzing me like I walk
toward it, and I feel like it should be a
little life, should be a little exciting and scary at
the same time. But I'm making strides, and I you know,
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I thank everyone for all of the love and support
because I think one of the things for me is
I have to keep reminding myself. Age does not determine
my future. It does not determine my peace, It does
not determine my goals, my dream now and again, I
always go back to the word audacity. The audacity of
me to think, at fifty five years old, I can
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just start a complete new career is crazy, but it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But I love that it is the audacity in the
boldness that like pushes us forward to like achieving our dreams,
goals and just a beautiful life.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That you've created a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Life with multiple acts. It's so exciting, Like you want.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
To have the audacity to just want the life that
I want. You're Cynthia Bailey, that's right. So that's right.
You're that little Cynthia Bailey girl from Alabama who was like, no,
I got way dreams in this.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I'm going to think about that all day and your
mom being like, girl, why are you telling me you
are not?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Your fad is soccause. And now now as I look
back on my life, as I look back on my journey,
I realize that it's so important to stay the course,
to believe in yourself. Always dream, no matter how like
dream It is not for kids, Freeman is for wrong folks.
(28:03):
You know, find out piece, you know, aligning yourself with
people that can help you, that love you, that support you,
all of those things. Like it's always a work in progress,
but it's always what you should walk towards because that's
what's going to help you get to work. As you know,
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as an entrepreneur, you would want to surround yourself with
people that are entrepreneurs because that's how you grow and
learn how to be out better entrepreneur. And I'm just
excited that I've you know, God has blessed me to
be able to even be to get an Act three.
Like most people just kind of stop and Act one
and they settle and again to each his own. Everyone
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doesn't want to you know, that don't need that much
in life. But I feel like, you know, God has
blessed me with with something people be with driving determination,
and he blessed me with vision and he made me
a dreamer. So I don't want to feel myself and
I don't want to feel God. I really want to
continue to walk toward my purpose and I don't want
(29:08):
to miss my mark, Like I don't know what I'm
actually here on this earth, word forards it and I
don't want to miss what it is by staying stuck
somewhere that I don't feel like fulfills.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Me because it was comfortable or you know, sometimes we
have to take a chance on heart.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I have to stay the course and I have to
follow my gut and follow my heart and see where
life takes me. You only get one and I am
living my life to the fullest.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh my gosh, Cynthia, I'm inspired. I feel like this
is one of my favorite girlfriend money Moved chats because
you know, you do continue to inspire so many of
us to chase our dreams, chase love, chase life, chase family,
all of those things. So you guys, keep walking, keep
creating new acts. And before we leave, I want you
to tell everybody where they can find your seagrum strength
(29:55):
and where they can find you on social media, because
we need to make sure that we catch all of
your acts, all of your next shows, and all of
the beauty and joy and money moves that you're bringing
to this world.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yes, you guys can find me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter,
Cynthia Bailey. And for Siagrams, you can find seagrams on
Instagram seagrums Escapes. You can also find them at seagrumsyscapes
dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, if you guys need a delicious, busy cocktail or
a dose of Cynthia, make sure you tune in and
follow all of those social media handles money movers. That
is all the time we have for today. Thank you
Cynthia for grating us with your beauty and intellect on
money moves. I adored chatting with you today.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
It was incredible. Oh this was I had the best time.
It was so much fun, you know, reconnecting with you,
and I can't wait to reconnect outside of money moves.
Like we actually need to have a cocktail together and
you got to come to Lake Bailey, so I can,
you know, make you a nice little peace Ballini cocktail.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I'm here for the peach Bollini cocktail sash at Lake Bailey.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I love it. It is like a beautiful oasis.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I understand why that is your place of respite and home.
So Cynthia, thank you so much for dropping so many gems.
Thank you for being so candid.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
About your story and entrepreneurial.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Journey, and I can't wait to chop it up with
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Again. I always go back to the word audacity. The
audacity of me to think ed fifty five years old,
I can just start a complete new career is crazy,
but it's amazing.
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stay locked in to new episod, So, honey movers, let's
give a warm welcome to the incredible Cynthia Bailey, Cynthia, welcome.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh, thank you so much, Thank you, Danie, It's so
good to see you. I want to talk a little
bit about like your.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Initial so early days you're making money, Now, how did
you really look at when you think back to like
act one, what did you really think about money and
success and how were you going to make it? Like
were you very frugal and how you were saving? Like
where did you really start learning this like money acumen
or do you think there's like more to be learned
as well?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, well my I grew up you know, poor basically,
so I've always known and understood how to stretch a dollar,
and I've always known how to live a very simple life,
like I don't need or require a lot of stuff.
I just need the basics. So you know, coming from
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very humble beginnings like that. You know, no matter how
much success I've been able to have in my life,
I can still bring all the way down if I
need to. I can fly private or I can fly coach.
It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, but I love this because I feel the same
and people when when they hear that, they and like
they look at a beautiful face or something they don't
actually believe it. But I also like want people to understand,
you know, people have like money comes and money goes.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yes, you know your your core values, the things that
you need.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
So you know, oftentimes like we're confused by social media
and stuff, and like, you know, I've interviewed such successful
people on here, you know, yourself included, and like that
is a resounding truth.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Like it's nice to have.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You need it for security and stuff, but like when
push comes to shove, it's still like all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yes, yes, it's not what drives people. Absolutely absolutely. So
I've always like been big on saving my money, you know,
investing my money. I don't I'm not a big risk taker.
I don't really do a lot of risky investments. But
that's just me not understanding a lot of investments how
(03:04):
it all works. You know. I do have people that
handle my money for me, but I try to be
hands on. But for the most part, I'm a big
believer and just not spending all my money on nonsense.
I love my life. I love to live well. I
have a nice house. I'm here like Bailey right now,
which I love, and you know, I drive a nice car.
(03:25):
But I'm not like over here balling out every day.
I don't drive rolls Roycees like I don't have. I mean,
I can afford all of those things, but for me personally,
I just don't need those things. I just want like
nice things. I don't need this over the top of
life because at the end of the day, I feel
like I feel like, for me, I'd rather spend my
money on things that make me actually feel good and
(03:50):
kind of you know, really caters towards like, you know,
my purpose and the things that I like to do,
like traveling.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Like allariance alignments all these things absolutely absolutely so I
don't want to say I'm cheek, but I'm definitely not
someone out here balling out.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And I definitely know how to stretch a dollar. And
I think something so simple and so basic it's important,
and you like, I like use that in my life.
But when I was in New York modeling, when I
started making money, I still lived the same for the
most part. And I feel like when I came to Atlanta,
I still lived within a very reasonable I still lived
a very reasonable lifestyle. Like I always like used to
(04:27):
laugh and say, I think I probably have had the
smallest house on the housewise forever. I think I drove
like my car until like I had like a twenty
fifteen land Rover that I drove forever, and then I
was like, I mean, at this point the fans were like,
can we get a new car? Cynthia, Like, seriously, can we? Gin?
You know what?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
This is what I love because it's like, you know,
this is Housewives is the epitome of keeping up with
the Joneses. Right well, yeah, because you're people who don't
know you being like, well, Cynthia, Cynthia, are you poor?
Shouldn't you have a car?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Everybody? Yeah, rolls Roy says, And I'm still in my
little twenty fifteen land Rover because there was nothing wrong
with it. So finally I did upgrade. But I mean
I just bought another land Rover, which is right now.
I have a Defender. But I do the things that
I want to do. I don't follow what everyone else
is doing. I buy the things that I like. I
(05:19):
do not live above my means. I live well. Don't
let me confuse.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
You, because you work hard and you.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's hard for you. I mean, I work my butt
off to live well, but I'm not interested in just flashy,
over the top, a flashy, over the top lifestyle, Like
it's just not who I am, and you know, kudos
to the people that like it, It's just not what
I need to bring me happiness.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Okay, because it's sometimes easier said than done. And I'll
just ask this quick and we can move on. How
what is it that sort of aligns you to being
able to find that certainty, that sense of self to
know because you know entertainment industry modeling, it's a lot
of flash and glits, Like how, what are the tools
that you use or is it part in part your
(06:03):
upbringing that lets you have that sense of security to
make those choices and know that you can this is
the life I want.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Well, I'm a dreamer. I've always been a dreamer. I
will say the thing that I got in trouble the
most about when I was younger was just, I mean,
basically creating this fantasy in my mind of who I
was and what my life was. Now we call it manifestation.
(06:34):
I didn't know what it was, but I literally, at
a very young age, would like, I mean, I would
literally look at my family and be like, Okay, this
is not my family. These people must have kidnapped me
because I know I should have been born in New
York City to some rich family whatever. Yeah, I should
(06:55):
have like had like I just always thought bigger and
I always had something me like I don't even know
how it got inside me, Tanu, but my mom. I
would get in trouble all the time. It's like, why
are you at still telling people that, like you know,
you're not really your parents, like we kidnapped you.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Basically, Oh this is real, like you really were like, I.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Am not supposed to be here right now. No. I
was like I knew there was something else. I knew
there was something else that I didn't see, and I
was like, wait, what is this? And I would say,
I'm I'm rich, I'm successful. I travel all the time,
like things that I didn't do. But I was at
a young age actually manifesting because those are the things
(07:36):
I say. Now, I don't say I want to travel.
I say I'm going to travel, I'm going to go
to dibade, not I want to go. So all those
things I was saying when I was a young kid,
I was already manifesting the things that I wanted in
my life. You know, at the time I moveled, like, like,
why are you making all this stuff up about your life?
But I had the vision, I had the ambition, and
(07:58):
I had the curiosity to and the audacity to the
audacity to see something else and to know that there
was something else, and to know that I didn't know
what God had in store from my life, but I
knew where I was was not it. I knew that
I was meant to come from from my amazing family,
(08:21):
but I knew that it was an elevation.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
There was something bigger and brighter out there.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I knew something was bigger out there. I love that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I truly believe I am a very powerful manifestor. And
I never put it back to the connections I had
as a kid to it being dreaming obviously. I just
love the way you put that you know where you were,
like there was something bigger that was always pulling me.
And I also think like similar energies, Like I always
knew I do think I'm a powerful manifestor, but I
always like life just brought me things, like a lot
(08:50):
of stuff was easy. It would come to me, and
you know, I was a dreamer, but I think you know,
being able to tell being able to look back and
say like, oh, there was so much intention to it,
because you were speaking these powerful words into its existence.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I didn't even know I was doing it. I
love that I was just being me and I think that,
you know, it's funny when I do look back, I
realized I was like, wow, I was manifesting the life
that I saw for myself. And yeah, and I actually
grew up to go on to live exactly the life
that I saw for myself.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You know, sometimes when people hear this, they'll be like okay,
but then you know, you have ups and downs, and
I do think like when we talk about manifestation or
creating your life, like listen, life is not linear. Life
be lifing. Yeah, you know you you have big ups
and big downs. And you've been in business for a
very long time. Yes, can you start and we're going
to go through, you know, some of your entrepreneurial ventures.
(09:44):
You know, you've done the Bailey Wine Center, You've done
TV bar, so many different things go back to like
those early days. Can you think back and look at
you know, one of your downs, one of the lows,
one of the valleys that was really instrumental in you know,
you feeling like I have to pull myself up. This
was a tough time. I like to go into the
lows and the highs.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yes, well, as an entrepreneur, that's always going to be
lows and highs. Like it's never just bliss. It just
never is. I mean, you are the person that's responsible
for the business. You're responsible for the employees, You're responsible
for somebody trying to sue you. You're responsible for anything
if the place burns down. You're just responsible for the insurance.
You're responsible for everything, for every aspect of that business.
(10:28):
And one of the things that I have learned is
to just stay the course. Like if I I only
like to start businesses that I feel like aligned with
where I am. Like I started the Bailly Wine Cellar
because I was like, you know what I wanted, Like
number one, I want to learn more about wine and
that the wine culture. But number two, I wanted something.
Wanted to start a business that I felt like was grown.
(10:51):
Like I'm a grown as woman, so I'd like doing
grown ass things. You know what I'm saying. This is
about alignment, you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yes, this is what I love because you know, oftentimes
you'll keep like the best part of life is when
you're actually working on things that you're passionate about the
best part of work is when.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
It doesn't feel like work. It doesn't stuff that you
love a wine who doesn't want to drink wine all
day with their girlfriend exactly exactly. So I thought this
would be something that would be that would would align
with not only like what I love, but also with
my brand, because everything I do, I still am very
intentional with building my brand and elevating my brand. So
(11:29):
I thought that that was good. I've had, you know,
I've had a you know, Cynthia Baillia where which A're
relaunching the Bailey Agency School of Fashion, which was my
first business venture, which you know, I'm you know, in
the process of bringing back you know, we you know,
COVID happened, pandemic, whatever we could, people can be around
each other. Then I start doing some things digitally, you know,
that's something that I will get back into as well.
(11:52):
C b By or I have a partnership with my
Niela bagline. What else do I have? I have my
foundation to be better found Oh my god, yeah, Sigm's
Escapes partnership. I feel like I'm forgetting something but I
said all that to say is I list these amazing
businesses that I've had in my life. I think one
(12:13):
of the things that I would love for you guys
to understand as is an entrepreneur you have to know
when hold them and then you know and.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And I'm Onny Rogers, Okay, don't let this woman told
you she knows she could go from like the meek
out Kenny Rogers lyrics.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Come on, don't don't play with me, Dania. Okay, don't
get me started. Don't gass me up. So I'm this
is great. You know, every business that I start, it's
like a new baby, and you have to take care
of that baby. And this is one of the This
is some advice that I will give to you guys.
(12:57):
I don't want to have triplets at one time.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I want to start one business at a time so
I can take care and nurture that one baby. I
don't want to do like because that's very overwhelming for me.
So no, because it's insanity. With that said, I would say,
in the spirit of entrepreneurship, because I think there's nothing
like having your own business and working for yourself, I
will say, don't do two or three businesses at the
(13:22):
same time, like start one because you've got to like
feed that baby, you gotta burp it, you got to
change the diapers. You got to make sure that everything
is good. Because what happens sometimes when you do too
much and you overwhelm warm yourself with too much at
the same time, then somebody's gonna get neglected. Some of
those babies are not gonna you know, so I'm gonna
get sick. Some may not even make it. So I
(13:43):
forget one in the car exactly exactly exactly, so one
business at a time. I usually try to do like
it and at least give it like a year to
like you know, to you know, to grow, and then
maybe I would think about another one. With that said, also,
you have to know when you got to look at
the business, is this working, Is this making me money?
(14:05):
Is it costing me money too much money? Does it
make sense anymore? And I think one of the things
that I've learned from being around other successful people, other entrepreneurs,
is you know, there's wins and then sometimes you just
gotta take a l Sometimes, no matter how diligent you are,
some things it could be the locations not right. There's
(14:26):
so many different factors that matter to having a successful business,
especially like a brick and mortar location. If it's not working,
it's okay, Like you can it's okay, set it down.
You can refigure it out later or or move on
to something else. Don't ever get discouraged because something didn't
have the success that you wanted it to have. Because everything,
(14:50):
you know, I think the thing about being an entrepreneur,
you can you got to throw a lot of different
things up against the wall and see what actually want
to see what's decks, and see what's decks, and you know,
there's so many factors. There's timing, there's markets, there's you know,
cost of goods, and so I think that you know,
oftentimes people are so afraid to fail that it makes
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them not start. And I think even for women that
are out there listening, you know, I think my biggest
achilles heel is I want everything to do, like it
to be perfect before I actually launch it to the
world or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And women this like holds us back, Like men don't
do that. Men are like who cares? People will buy it?
I'll iterate, you know. So I've really realized that for me,
like done is better than perfect. And to the other
side of that, yeah, like get it out there, test
the waters, you know. Yeah, And if you're with your
sunglasses brand all these different things that you're doing, you
don't have to have like a five hundred thousand minimum
(15:43):
order product order. Start with some small project lines, product line,
see what people like, and sort of go from there.
But to the same point you're saying when you were
talking about no when to fold them, it is okay
to be like this isn't working out for me.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yes it is. It is totally okay. And I'm around
some of the most successful people in the world and
they've all taken elves. We just all talk about the elves.
We only talk about the victories.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, that's not there because everyone's like it's easy, you know,
oh it was so you made it look like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Girls, we make things look easy. But behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
You're over there with a little bonnet on and a
little factory, well a big factory in North Rochester that
you probably had to take a plane and a car
to drive through, taking like all these good bad formulas,
Like that's a lot of hard work behind there.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yes, And also you know, sometimes you know, once you
actually start doing something too, Tanya, you may feel like
as you get into it, like maybe you don't like
it as much as you thought you would. And that's
okay because you can't you know, you don't know if
you like someone until you date them, you know what
I mean. Yeah, when you start a business, you.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Don't know if you enjoy it until you actually create it.
And once you create, and like what, I'm not as
passionate about this as I thought I would be. And
you know, to your point, you you know, you already said,
like the best way to make money is to actually
do something that you love doing.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
So it's okay to rethink things. It's okay to let
things go. Like there's like, you don't have to be
a hostage to a business if it's just not working
or no longer serves your purpose, you're just no longer
passionate about it, Let it go, Let it go. When
you can let it go and focus on something.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
That makes you have it, there's something really freeing about
that because back, you know, dispelling all these myths of
different generations. You know, you can think about business and
relationships where we thought you have to have one business
or relationship that you're going to do for fifty years,
like you're the Walmart family. Like sometimes there's just every
seat there. What's the expression? Every season has a reason
(17:53):
and you have to be able to iterate and let
things go because I think when you're able to do that,
it allows you to move on to the next level.
And you know, it's always about just moving higher and
higher in life. But I think that is a little
bit hard for people.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I will say, if you were the type of entrepreneur
person who is constantly that person who like every six
months is on a different pony, you got to look
at yourself. And that is not what we were talking
about here. We're talking about being able to evolve, build
something you know, and say, okay, I'm going to move
my energy to focus on something out right right, and
be clear, I'm sharing with you guys what works for me.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Like if you are able to handle twenty businesses at
one time, God bless you. I just am not able
to do that because me, I want everything to be
successful and you know, like you were saying Tan, You're like,
I'm a perfectionist. I want everything to be right and
I need, you know, everything to line up the way
it's supposed to line up. So I don't work with
(18:51):
being overly stressed or overwhelmed. So I would encourage anyone
to just put them on themselves because it's just not healthy,
it's not good for you.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And I will also say, again, Cynthia's told us how
old she is. I do feel like this is how
we make that black no crack. Like I cannot live
my life in full constant preennic stress. I cannot and
be beautiful and happy and all these things.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So balance is essential.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And as I talk about balance, this is always the
quintessential woman entrepreneur, you're a mom, you're all these things.
How do you find balance? What is fun for Cynthia?
How do you sort of manage like running these businesses
but also relaxing and finding that me time.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Balance is something that I'm always working on. Like very
it's easy to say you're going to create balance, and
you're going to you know, spend time, you know, rebooting
yourself and revibing and rejuvenating yourself, but it's it's it's
not that easy to do that. But I will say,
at this point in my life, I have made it
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a priority to take a day. You know, sometimes I'll
take a day to you know, a spot day. And
I'm not saying I have to go to like, you know,
something somewhere fancy. I literally can go down the street.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
My place down the street from me is my favorite,
get my nails done, you know, get you know, throwing
the extra for the little neck misades, you know, just
whatever it is, you know, go have.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Some sash by myself, just like you know, a day
so I can just recenter and and reboot.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
That is why where the expression canyon time came from.
Like it's canyon time exactly all of y'all. It's canyon
time and everybody just has to find their little Yeah, what's.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Like you know, I'd love, you know, if I have
time to go to the same Regis and book a massage. Great.
If I can't do that, I'm completely fine to like
just work it out at massage envy, you know what
I mean. It doesn't really matter to me at the
end of the day. Keep impression is the impression. Rebooting
is rebooting, you know that's important. And also my daughter,
actually my twenty three year old Noel, I'll explained to me,
which I didn't know, that we could take a mental
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boness day. Some days you know, so as you wake
up and you're like, nothing's right. You just don't feel like,
you know, doing backhand spring, you know what I mean.
I actually woke up eighty ninety percent of a time
on one hundred like okay, I'm ready to go overmote,
let's do it. But sometimes every now and they every
now and then, I'm like, I can't do it today.
(21:21):
I just can't be Cynthia Bailey. Today. I just need
a minute. And those days for me know all, and
for me are my mental wellness days. We just shut
it down. I'm making the calls and say, hey, you
know what, is there any way we can reschedule the zoom?
Is there any way we can do this? If I
can shut it down and just take a day, I
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do it because you know what happens. I get an
opportunity to reboot and reset, and then I'm stronger the
next day because I took an absolutely and the world
doesn't stop because Cynthia Bailey needs a day. It's like, actually,
everything is okay to take a day, So don't feel
like you can't do that. And that's something that I
don't even question anymore. I just go and I follow
(22:04):
my instinct, my intuition, and my feelings a lot more
than I used to. I trust the process. I trust
myself to feel the fields. Days absolutely yes, and I'm
like not today, I'm not doing anything today, and I
will literally go to my couch, get my favorite little blanket,
order my favorite foods, turn on that Netflix, and just
(22:27):
completely decompress. And you know, I'm not on the gram.
I just let everything go for a day. And it's
the best one of the best things I can encourage
you guys to do when you can do it. I
know everybody can't always do it, but if you can,
please do it.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That is one of those things where you know through
therapy you hear all these things. Wherever you guys get
your therapy. I encourage you guys to get your therapy.
Whether you have a therapist or if Instagram is your therapy,
I don't know, but like you'll see all these memes
that are like feel the fields, feel the fields, Like
take those days where you can just be at home
to now the gate like you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I get that. I'm the same way. I wake up
on one hundred, I'm like, good morning.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
And then there's days where you're like and it's weird.
It's taken me a long time to get to this
point where I understand those days when they come where
I'm just like, I can't do it today.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I can't, Tanya, and you just want to be at home,
shut down.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And I think COVID taught a lot about Yeah, the
world is going to keep going on without you. So
when you call in and you take those days or
you're like, we're gonna have to move, he guess what.
They move the zoom and you do it two days
later and nothing, nothing, nothing happens. It's fine, like the
world continues and everybody like you know, life doesn't stop
because you need a day.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Life doesn't stop. Life doesn't stop.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Okay, So as we wrap out, I know you got
a busy day because today is probably not one of
those days where you're taking.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You are on the go.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Early in the moment, No, I actually have to jump
on this light to La exactly because listen, the life
of a supermodel turned entrepreneur turned actress.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is busy, and it is always booked and busy. But
as we move forward, I want to talk about what's
coming up for you in Act three? What are you
working on coming up for me?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
An act Three is Cynthia the actress we all know.
I'm excited. I'm excited. I am. I jumped into acting
about a year and a half ago. I have an
amazing coach, I take classes. I've been able to in
a year and a half actually work. You know, I
haven't planned in any big lead roles yet, but I've
(24:27):
had some very very substantial roles, and you know, going
back to God, you know, I've been able to elevate
as an actress at a pace that actually works for
me because I'm still growing and I'm still learning, and
I'm working with so many amazing actors and writers and
directors and producers. So I'm very happy and pleased and
(24:53):
proud at the pace are happening for me. Now, do
I need to book a series soon? I'm thinking yeah, Now,
I finally think I'm ready. But had I been offered
a lead role on a series six months ago, probably
wouldn't have been very And I think that's important for
you know, for anyone who's listening, who's you know, thinking about,
(25:14):
you know, becoming an actress. You have to trust the process.
You have to do the work, and you have to
give yourself time like it's not right for me to
God forbid be given a role. And I'm working with
these talented actors who've been you know, have done the work,
who've been busting their butts, and need not go up
in a way where I can get the respect from
(25:35):
them because I haven't done the work. So I am
busy doing the work. I have some projects coming out.
Actually have a show that's on that just started screaming
on TV. It's called Rock the Boat, and I play
on people too, very very very very talented Parker McKenna
(25:57):
and it's great. And I have tons of other stuff
as well. If you guys follow me on Instagram Cynthia
Bailey on Instagram, we go to my link tree. I
have my demo reels with all of the projects that
I've been working on. And I've been super busy, and
so you know, you know, any new thing is scary, Tanya.
But going back to you know I was when I
(26:19):
first started modeling. It was scary. When I first threw
in the real House Atlanta, it was scary, So why
wouldn't this be scary as well? But that fear empowers
me as opposed to paralyzing, paralyzing me like I walk
toward it, and I feel like it should be a
little life, should be a little exciting and scary at
the same time. But I'm making strides, and I you know,
(26:40):
I thank everyone for all of the love and support
because I think one of the things for me is
I have to keep reminding myself. Age does not determine
my future. It does not determine my peace, It does
not determine my goals, my dream now and again, I
always go back to the word audacity. The audacity of
me to think, at fifty five years old, I can
(27:01):
just start a complete new career is crazy, but it's amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
But I love that it is the audacity in the
boldness that like pushes us forward to like achieving our dreams,
goals and just a beautiful life.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That you've created a beautiful.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Life with multiple acts. It's so exciting, Like you want.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
To have the audacity to just want the life that
I want. You're Cynthia Bailey, that's right. So that's right.
You're that little Cynthia Bailey girl from Alabama who was like, no,
I got way dreams in this.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I'm going to think about that all day and your
mom being like, girl, why are you telling me you
are not?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Your fad is soccause. And now now as I look
back on my life, as I look back on my journey,
I realize that it's so important to stay the course,
to believe in yourself. Always dream, no matter how like
dream It is not for kids, Freeman is for wrong folks.
(28:03):
You know, find out piece, you know, aligning yourself with
people that can help you, that love you, that support you,
all of those things. Like it's always a work in progress,
but it's always what you should walk towards because that's
what's going to help you get to work. As you know,
(28:23):
as an entrepreneur, you would want to surround yourself with
people that are entrepreneurs because that's how you grow and
learn how to be out better entrepreneur. And I'm just
excited that I've you know, God has blessed me to
be able to even be to get an Act three.
Like most people just kind of stop and Act one
and they settle and again to each his own. Everyone
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doesn't want to you know, that don't need that much
in life. But I feel like, you know, God has
blessed me with with something people be with driving determination,
and he blessed me with vision and he made me
a dreamer. So I don't want to feel myself and
I don't want to feel God. I really want to
continue to walk toward my purpose and I don't want
(29:08):
to miss my mark, Like I don't know what I'm
actually here on this earth, word forards it and I
don't want to miss what it is by staying stuck
somewhere that I don't feel like fulfills.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Me because it was comfortable or you know, sometimes we
have to take a chance on heart.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I have to stay the course and I have to
follow my gut and follow my heart and see where
life takes me. You only get one and I am
living my life to the fullest.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Oh my gosh, Cynthia, I'm inspired. I feel like this
is one of my favorite girlfriend money Moved chats because
you know, you do continue to inspire so many of
us to chase our dreams, chase love, chase life, chase family,
all of those things. So you guys, keep walking, keep
creating new acts. And before we leave, I want you
to tell everybody where they can find your seagrum strength
(29:55):
and where they can find you on social media, because
we need to make sure that we catch all of
your acts, all of your next shows, and all of
the beauty and joy and money moves that you're bringing
to this world.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yes, you guys can find me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter,
Cynthia Bailey. And for Siagrams, you can find seagrams on
Instagram seagrums Escapes. You can also find them at seagrumsyscapes
dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Well, if you guys need a delicious, busy cocktail or
a dose of Cynthia, make sure you tune in and
follow all of those social media handles money movers. That
is all the time we have for today. Thank you
Cynthia for grating us with your beauty and intellect on
money moves. I adored chatting with you today.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
It was incredible. Oh this was I had the best time.
It was so much fun, you know, reconnecting with you,
and I can't wait to reconnect outside of money moves.
Like we actually need to have a cocktail together and
you got to come to Lake Bailey, so I can,
you know, make you a nice little peace Ballini cocktail.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
I'm here for the peach Bollini cocktail sash at Lake Bailey.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I love it. It is like a beautiful oasis.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I understand why that is your place of respite and home.
So Cynthia, thank you so much for dropping so many gems.
Thank you for being so candid.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
About your story and entrepreneurial.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Journey, and I can't wait to chop it up with
you a generally, friends, the door is always open. Thanks
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(31:32):
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