Connect, Elevate & Celebrate W/ Cyndie Spiegel

Shine Brighter Together With Monique Melton Episode 2.20: Connect, Elevate & Celebrate w/ Cyndie Spiegel [THEME MUSIC] Monique Melton: [00:00:00] You're listening to the Shine Brighter Together podcast and I'm your host, Monique Melton. Here, we will explore the challenges, complexities, and sheer joy of building healthy relationships and doing the heart work to pursue black liberation so we all can live freely and fully in our humanity. You can expect to hear so episodes and heartfelt conversations with guests, from various backgrounds and various beliefs that are all committed to living a life aligned with humanity. Also, before we get started with today's episode, I must remind you that today's information is shared for informational purposes only and does not substitute professional or medical advice. And we do not edit out adult language or code for cuss words or swear words. So please consider this. We also discussed topics that may not be suitable for young children, or you may hear things that are triggering, so consider this as well. Thank you so much for listening to today's episode and I hope you enjoy! [THEME MUSIC FADE] Hey, what's up. Y'all welcome to another episode of the Shine Brighter Together podcast. I'm your host, Monique Melton, a published author, international speaker, your anti-racism educator and your host of the Shine Brighter Together podcast. Today, we have a very special guest with us. I cannot wait to get right to it. We have with us Cyndie Spiegel and I'm going to tell you a little bit about who Cyndie is. Cyndie is a igniter of powerful conversation and an aspirational voice within women's leadership and culture. She is a commanding keynote speaker who sometimes drops the F bomb casually and also uses words like manifesting and belonging. She is an innate connector community builder and an all around truth teller on a mission to empower folks to live more. Boldly and refine their mindsets for good uninspired by the current representation of hopeless older gen X women, Cyndie found it. Dear grown ass woman, a modern community and self development platform that is unapologetically for multifaceted women over the age of 35 and partnership with Goldman Sachs 10 K small business program. Dear grown ass woman launched in fall 2019. Cyndie also found it two previous digital communities, the community of us, an online hub for conversation and change making community. And the collective of us, a curated small business accelerator for women prior to building a successful business and speaking practice. She spent 15 years in the New York fashion industry working in senior roles for brands like coach and Narcy Scola Rodriguez. Cyndie is also a TEDx speaker, a form adjunct professor at Parsons, the new school for design and fashion Institute of technology, as well as being NY certified and applied positive psychology and a 500 hours train yoga and meditation teacher. She is a sought after facilitator and transformational speaker for creative conferences, brands, and organizations and she has been featured in entrepreneur Forbes, glamour magazine, teen Vogue, and the Huffington post, her first book a year of positive thinking, daily inspiration, wisdom, and courage was published in late 2018. Y'all I cannot wait to get into this conversation, so let's get to it. [THEME MUSIC] Cyndie, I am super excited to get into this conversation with you. We just talk probably like what a good hour. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:04:28] Wow. Monique Melton: [00:04:29] An our offline about all things and I just can't wait to get this conversation going because I just adore you so much. Welcome to the show and I've already read your formal bio. So can you tell us something about yourself that you wish other people knew about you? Cyndie Spiegel: [00:04:52] Now, you know what? You didn't, we just spent an hour talking and you never thought to ask me that, then you wait until now Monique Melton: [00:04:57] that's the fun of it. That's the excitement of it. Yeah. Okay. Focus. I'm going to do, I need you to focus. Okay. So the question was, tell us something about you that you wish more people knew about you. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:05:19] That one of my ears is smaller than the other. Monique Melton: [00:05:22] Okay. That's every 90% of the population. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:05:26] No, it's severely smaller than the other, really much smaller. Now that I'm telling you, when you look at me, you're going to notice that it's much. Monique Melton: [00:05:34] Now I'll look for it for people to Cyndie Spiegel: [00:05:38] know. Monique Melton: [00:05:39] Why is that Cyndie Spiegel: [00:05:39] It's important because I think there's a perception of professionalism online and I think we need to know that folks are just normal and some of us have figures years and followers, not one is bigger than the other it that one is big and one is small, Monique Melton: [00:05:53] well, I appreciate that. You want people to realize that no one is perfect, including our ears, you know... Cyndie Spiegel: [00:06:03] The important things. Okay. Monique Melton: [00:06:05] That was very deep. we started off in the deep end and I feel like we're going to only. Deeper I was gonna even be able to do this. It's just going to be laughing. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:06:20] I'm ready. I'm back. Now. Monique Melton: [00:06:23] This is what happens when you interview friends. Okay. I'm going to have a strict policy of only interviewing people that I know. Yeah. strangers. Strangers on the street, the stranger. Yeah. Cause no one's going outside at least I'm not going outside. No. See, this is about me. Okay. So you won't stop and I won't stop. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:06:52] Okay. Let's take a deep breath. [breathe], Monique Melton: [00:06:58] let's get some focus. Okay. So we made it through one question in three minutes, so it's good. Okay. So let's tell people, cause people are probably like, Oh my goodness, how do these two know each other? I don't. I know that I knew of you from Tosh and how much she loves and adores you. Well, I love and adore Tosh. So anybody she loves and adores, I'm going to love too. And so I remember just like, following you on Instagram and getting a little tiny little taste of your amazingness. But it wasn't until I got an opportunity to meet you the art summit. So I've mentioned that also some in a couple of times, that's where I met some really amazing people. It's where I met you there that it's like, Oh my goodness. Like. She is she's absolutely. She's everything I ever dreamed of and more! Oh my goodness. So you know, people who don't know you and all that, all the amazingness that you are like in person, it's a whole nother level. It's a whole nother level of your energy. You're just real like your connection. Your hugs are awesome. Really. You give good hugs. You give a really good deep hug. So... Cyndie Spiegel: [00:08:18] I'm here for the real hugs. If you're going hug people do it right. Monique Melton: [00:08:21] You gotta be prepared though people, because if she hugs you can't be like, Oh, I'm shy. Like it's going to be a good, I'll be a good like swoop in there, Like get you. But do you remember? I know you remember this. So when we met and you know what, what story I'm bringing up. Yeah. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:08:39] I remember Monique Melton: [00:08:40] your portion of it. I'm going to say, I'm going to clear the record before you even try it. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:08:45] You can't do that. You can't clear the record before we've actually accept something to set the record straight on. You can't even do it. Monique Melton: [00:08:51] I'm gonna just say it. I'm gonna say it out the gate. Yeah. and then if you mess it up, I'll just edit it out. Cyndie Spiegel: [00:08:59] You're the worst and you've got to leave that in so people know. This terrible; tell your side of the story. Monique Melton: [00:09:07] so here we are, you were doing, you were doing a book signing. And there's this whole long line of people wanting to come and meet you. I think you had just spoke. I think you had just did just your keynote and then you were there doing it. So people were just like pumped up and like, Oh my God. Like, Oh my gosh. And Cyndies' amazing. And I'm like, Oh yeah, like, Oh, this is great. And so I was standing behind you cause I was finishing up my book signing and I have a long line of people and no one was saying.

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