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Hello guys! Your new best friend.
As promised, I have a special guest. Her name is Miss Andrea Lewis.
And she, for those of you who don't know, is famous.
She's a celebrity. She's a singer and she's an actress.
And she was best known for her role as Hazel in Degrassi.
She played the love interest of Aubrey, A.K.A Drake.
Since then, the girl has it on lock.
Now Shannon is a mutual friend of ours, and these two genius ladies started a blog-slash-site.
And they started it over 3 years ago, and--I'm on my laptop right now, they have
47,604 subscribers. Now she's here in New York City.
So I did what anyone would do: I kidnapped her.
I made her tell me, and you guys, what's hot in the streets.
I'm gonna stop talking.
And Andrea is the person--the only person who inspired me to start these YouTube videos.
ANDREA: And I don't think it's bad--I never think shameless promotion is bad.
I think everybody should technically walk around and just say what you do.
That's the only way you'll learn, that's the only way you'll know.
MAYA: About yourself as well.
ANDREA: I've missed so many opportunities just from not speaking up.
Just saying to somebody what it was that I did, or revealing my personality
right away, like what am I holding back for?
In the end, the only person that's losing is you.
You just have to get over it, because you have to outweigh the options.
What's better: Everybody knowing what you do; you being successful at it,
and getting the opportunities that you know that you deserve and want,
or, you watching everybody from the sidelines?
Nobody ever knocks a hustler. Nobody ever knocks somebody who's grinding.
And a part of grinding, a part of hustling is promoting yourself.
Is telling people what you do, all of that kind of thing.
It's just kind of balls to the wall, like I don't really care.
Most people you know have to have that epiphany of like, what was I waiting for?
Why am I second-guessing myself? I just have to do it.
And then success really starts to happen. Slowly but surely.
When you start to look at it as like, I'm not... shamelessly promoting myself, I'm just--
MAYA: Celebrating.
ANDREA: Celebrating who I am, telling people what I do, showing it off.
MAYA: There's nothing wrong with that. You see a freaking peacock like,
look at my feathers! Look at the feathers on me! And then meanwhile,
I mean, individuals have all this color, and it's just like, you know, it's in the closet.
Closet colors!
ANDREA: Confidence does not hurt. It does not kill you--
MAYA: It definitely does not hurt, in fact it does the opposite.
ANDREA: It strengthens you. In more ways than you realize.
And so, I always encourage people, especially Maya, if you have something to show,
Like, do it! Don't be holding it back, doesn't make any sense.
There's no reason why I should have a website and they don't.
MAYA: And speaking of that, we should all have websites.
We should all be online at this point in time, it's 2012.
And whether you like it or not--the world is going that way, and these little babies,
babies! They were born with iPhones, iPads, Macbooks--they're gonna kick us out of the planet.
We're not gonna have any jobs if you're not online.
ANDREA: If you are a young person, there's no reason why you should not have--
social media game on point.
MAYA: My friend had a job interview, and it came down to him and another guy,
and he beat it over the other guy, because the employer asked him how many
followers do you have on Twitter, and how many friends do you have on Facebook!
And he had more than the other guy!
ANDREA: And that's important to people.
For instance, if he's gonna be working for a branding company--
MAYA: Which is what it was.
ANDREA: They want to know like, okay great, you have an audience that
I can connect with this audience.
People look at this like, oh it's weird popularity contest, but if you have something to show
if you have something that you wanna share, then the popularity contest is important.
The great thing with right now, is that people are hungry for that.
People want to connect with people that have a story.
There's a reason why everybody likes Steve Jobs.
He was a real person with a real dream, a real goal, and that's what he was promoting.
Do you have a vision? Do you have something that you really want to share--
MAYA: I'm like... heaving. I'm like... it's true.
Shameless self promotion. That's not bad.
MAYA: We should call it confident self promotion.
ANDREA: You're creating your own world. You're saying, I'm sick of the
rules of this world right now, so I'm gonna create my own.
MAYA: That's... that's very true. I like that!
ANDREA: I think shameless self promotion--if you are on this blog, if you are on this site,
if you are on this YouTube, and you are like... hesitating right now.
Join Maya!
MAYA: This is the reason. She started it all.
ANDREA: I sent this to all my friends--as soon as you started I sent it to all my friends
that were like, tippy-toeing on their careers. I'm like, 'hey! Maya's doing this, you should do it with her.'
It's a really good campaign. We should like, tweet it all the time.
Pound sign, shameless.
MAYA: That's what I've been doing!
ANDREA: Pound sign, shameless shameless.
MAYA: Speaking of shameless, you can visit Andrea and Shannon's blog.
ANDREA: You can visit me on Twitter.
Facebook--I think it's Andrea Lewis, I don't know-- Facebook changes all the time.
But just look up Andrea Lewis, New York City.
The moral of the story: promote yourself. Put it out there. Especially online,
where you have access to the world. It's no longer your neighborhood, it's no longer your block,
it's the world. So the more you get out there, the more you'll probably receive.
Bye you guys! Thank you Andrea, thank you followers, Twitterers, subscribe YouTubers!