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Cynthia Nyathi
@Cyntree_3
Legal Practitioner. Afropolitan. Grateful.
Beigetreten Temmuz 2013
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@kateylumpkins @DTMalindi @AuthenticQueenV @AyobVania @Gomo_P @Kgomotsomeso @unpluxe Happy Bilated Birthday ♥️
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Greetings Elite Family @AuthenticQueenV @AyobVania @Cyntree_3 @Gomo_P @kateylumpkins @Kgomotsomeso
@unpluxe, I am just checking on you. ♥️📻
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When i was at varsity, there was a lady who was a security guard at res, I would normally greet her and do small talk.
I was intrigued by the fact that she was young and eloquent so I asked her about her level of education, it turned out she held a matric certificate with even better marks than me but had no means to further her studies.
I couldn't sleep that night, so the first thing the next morning, i went to admin, got her the application forms for both the Fundza Lushaka busary and NFSAS, by the told her to just apply as she had nothing to lose. And just like that, she was accepted with full funding. She is a veteran teacher today and I've just spoken to her on Facebook after 20+ years of no contact.
Never gate keep anything especially when you will lose nothing by sharing.
My heart is so full. 💙💙
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COMING-UP: B2B and Specialised Legal Associate, Cynthia Nyathi joins the Unfiltered Minds with Gwen Ncube to share some insights about B2B collections and civil litigation cases people face in South Africa. #TheStationOfChampions

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3 years old - Mommy, I love you
10 years old - Mom, Whatever
16 years old - My Mom is so annoying!
18 years old- I'm leaving this house
25 years old - Mom, you were right
30 years old - I want to go to Mom's house
50 years old - I don't want to lose my Mom
70 years old - I would give up everything to have my mom here with me
You only have one Mom
Take care of her when she's still alive.
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First borns are really experimental kids hey.
First day of Grade 1, my parents put me on scholar transport. I was the only child going to a different school in that taxi, even my uniform was different 😭
When all the kids got off at their school… I also got off. Loya malume driver wasn’t even paying attention.
I confidently walked into a classroom, sat down and minded my business.
Then one kid came to me and said, “Ask your mom to buy you the same uniform as ours.”
That’s when it hit me.
I looked around.
Wrong uniform.
Wrong school.
I was LOST 😭😭😭
A teacher eventually noticed me, recognized my uniform and asked questions. Luckily I knew my dad’s number. My mom had to come fetch me.
Fast forward to my little sister’s first day of school — they made sure to personally take her. My mom even took a day off from work and walked her all the way to her classroom.
First borns suffered so the others could be raised properly.
We were the experiment. 💀
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@Gomo_P @DTMalindi @kateylumpkins @Kgomotsomeso @AyobVania @tshepo_thato @benzitolights @Gomo_P I concur with you!
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@DTMalindi @kateylumpkins @Kgomotsomeso @AyobVania @Cyntree_3 @tshepo_thato @benzitolights Can we get those mixes Mara 🙈🙈
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Mara lena le sa gopola #elitenites Fridays #inthemixwithDj1D … you had to be there! @Kgomotsomeso @AyobVania @Cyntree_3 @tshepo_thato @Gomo_P @DTMalindi @benzitolights
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sat next to a guy on a flight who smelled like old money
rolex. tailored suit. reading a physical newspaper like it was 1987.
figured he was some finance executive or inherited wealth.
we got talking. I mentioned I sell stuff online.
he put down his newspaper.
"what kind of stuff?"
digital products. courses. ebooks. that kind of thing.
he smiled weird.
"I made $4 million last year selling a PDF about aquariums."
I thought he was messing with me.
he wasn't.
this guy is 61 years old. spent 30 years as an accountant. hated every second of it. retired at 55 with decent savings but nothing crazy.
his hobby was aquariums. had been keeping fish tanks since he was 12.
"my wife told me to start a blog so I'd stop boring her with fish facts."
so he did. wrote about aquarium stuff 3 times a week. water chemistry. tank setups. fish compatibility.
for 2 years nobody read it.
"I had maybe 50 visitors a month. all probably bots."
but he kept going because he had nothing else to do.
year 3, one article ranked on google. then another. then another.
suddenly he was getting 100K visitors a month. all people searching for aquarium help.
"I realized these people would probably pay for a complete guide. so I wrote one."
147 pages. everything about setting up and maintaining an aquarium.
priced it at $47.
first month: $6K
first year: $340K
last year: $4.2 million
from a PDF about fish tanks.
I asked about his marketing strategy.
"I don't have one. google sends people to my blog. blog mentions the guide. people buy it. I go play golf."
no email sequence?
"I have a newsletter. I send fish tips once a week. sometimes I mention the guide at the bottom. that's it."
no upsells?
"I made a second guide about saltwater tanks specifically. $67. people who bought the first one usually buy the second. that's my whole business."
no team?
"my wife helps with customer service. we get maybe 10 emails a day. most are just people showing us their tanks."
this 61 year old retiree built a bigger business than most "entrepreneurs" I know.
no ads. no funnel hacks. no growth strategies. no personal brand.
just mass expertise in one weird niche and patience to let it compound.
before we landed he gave me advice I didn't ask for:
"everyone your age wants to get rich fast. that's why most of you stay broke. I wrote about fish for 2 years before making a dollar. now I make more than I did in 30 years of accounting. speed is overrated. patience pays."
the plane landed. he grabbed his newspaper and walked off.
probably went home to feed his fish.
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