What is your 'Why'?
Interview with Two Powerhouse Beauties!
My darling Beauties,
Thank you for your love always. Today, I wanted to do a little something different and ask a few essential beauty questions to powerhouse friends who inspire me.
I hope this offers some inspiration to those who are also on the journey of loving themselves more and more everyday!
💫 Rosie Goldwasser, Consultant & Founder of More than Matcha
💫 Anonymous Investor & Entrepreneur, for her privacy I’m calling her Beauty today :)
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What is your ‘why’ ? did this change recently or after USC?
Beauty: I think it's always evolving I think my why when I was at USC was professional, to build very impactful businesses, and to make my family proud.
I think now it's more about doing it for me and not for anyone else. I think it's less about needing to build impactful businesses, which is a very narrow thing, and more about just building things that excite me and doing good for the world, sort of broadening the scope of how I spend my time. And then yeah the ‘Why’ is because I want to be a net-positive person in the world. And it makes me feel good when I have meaning, and I have purpose. But, [I now have learned] my friends and my family and my loved ones [are my purpose]. They will love me regardless.
Rosie: My why during college was always to set me up for a good future. To find my lifelong people, to try and figure out what I wanted to do after graduation, to do well in school so I could get the job I wanted, and also to have fun. I was trying to plan and prepare for what lie ahead. Now my why is much more focused on the present: What feels right in this moment in time? What makes me happiest? When do I feel most fulfilled? My why is allowing my passions and instincts to lead me in the right direction and living in the now. The second I stopped trying to control every aspect of my life, things just started to fall into place, make sense, and happen.
What excites you to wake up early and hop on your routine?
Beauty: Oh man, this is great question I think I've struggled with this in recent months, [and] I struggled a lot with this at the end of last year. I think sometimes the harder the things you take on, the harder it is to get into your routine. So with the fund and building the fund I've had days where I've been paralyzed with fear and I really have a lot of anxiety. Whatever calls I have coming up, having to pitch myself and sell myself, its stressful, and either way it's kind of scary.
So I think the things that excite me are pushing myself, and challenging myself in a way that is healthy and not too much because when it's too much, I really get paralyzed.
Other things that excite me to wake up early are going for a walk, getting some sunshine before noon, getting my favorite coffee on my walk, getting a good night sleep which helps me wake up early and feel energized, a really good catch up or a really good dinner with a friend or family member the night before.
Those are the things that fill my soul and make me more more excited to work.
Rosie: I really enjoy starting my day with a walk or workout because what excites me the most is that feeling after: when you have already gotten that out of the way and you feel so ready to take on the day. I also like to have at least 1 thing a day to look forward to that gets me out of the house and is completely unrelated to work. Could be as little as grocery shopping but that break in the day allows me to time block in a sense and earn that break.
What do you love about what you do?
Beauty: I love that I have a lot of autonomy. I get to make my own schedule and I get to meet whoever wanna meet and not meet whoever I don't wanna meet. I get to take the vision that lives in my head and bring it into the real world even if that's very hard. I love that I have the ability to be creative like that. (love this)
What else do I love? Hmm I love that I'm working towards a bigger vision that's gonna take me a decade plus to fulfill so I wake up every day knowing I've got a long horizon. I love the people that do the work that I do. Not all, but a lot of people are really awesome in venture and early stage startups, they’re very motivating and very passionate.
Rosie: More Than Matcha is not my full time job, but I love how completely different it is from my ‘9-5’. I work in strategy consulting for a large corporation, so More Than Matcha being a startup pushes me out of my comfort zone in so many ways. There is no guidance or rulebook, I get to exercise so much creativity, connect with other founders in the space, learn more about marketing, social media, and business development, and so many other things that a college education or corporate job does not teach.
Tell me more about what you’re ‘home’ looks like in the future, whatever home means to you.
Beauty: I think ‘home’ is people; Home is my family, it's my eventual partner. It's my girlfriends that have been my best friends since I was really little. I hope one day its my husband and kids and whatever city we end up in. Right now New York City feels like home but it's really the people in New York City that make it home.
Rosie: Home to me is not a physical space. It is a feeling, it can be found with other people, and it can be found within yourself. I learned this when I moved out of my childhood home of 22 years and although it was a sad moment, I still had my family and knew we would make the next place just as much our home because we had each other.
Don’t forget to check out Rosie’s Matcha, More than Matcha :)
See you all next week my loves!
xoxo - Sam G
Go Sam!