Uber’s Bozoma St John Slays in #MadeinGhana Brand Studio One Eighty Nine For Her Cosmopolitan Magazine Shoot

There’s no one quite like the high flying Queen of Silicon Valley and Chief Brand Officer at Uber Bozoma Saint John. The Ghanaian star sat down with Cosmopolitan magazine to discuss her journey to landing the most exciting job on earth. Since home is the closest thing to her heart, the mom to an 8-year-old daughter chose to wear a made in Ghana design by Studio One Eighty Nine for her shoot. Traditional batik textile technique was used in crafting her outfit.

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Here are excerpts from the interview

The key of it all, for life in general, is that you can’t depend on other people’s opinions of you or your work to validate what you do. That’s a straight shot to nightmare. I just follow my gut. My gut told me that this job was for me. Other people’s opinions don’t matter, I’m going to do the good work. You shouldn’t try to explain your rationale for doing something to someone else because you’ll probably talk yourself out of it. Go with the feeling, go with the emotion, go with the passion. Everything else will follow.

I haven’t gotten any professional criticism for taking this job. I think most people think it’s a great product so people understand why I would come to Uber. The questions are a matter of if I can do it. It’s really exciting, though, because the potential is so big. I know the pieces are there and they’re good, they’re solid. So how do you put that together in a new way? Perhaps it was put together in a different way, and now I can take that apart and put it together differently, and get a different outcome.

I was once told, by someone who probably thought they were giving me good advice, that I shouldn’t wear red lipstick or red nail polish to the office. Those are too bold of colors, I’ll send the wrong message. And now I get designs on my nails, and I wear green eye shadow because I like it, and I bring even the fullness of my Ghanian heritage to the office because that’s important. Representation matters and my global experience matters. When I’m wearing my African print skirt, I don’t see that as not corporate wear. I’m fully here and 100 percent of everything that I am. And that’s a positive thing.

Head over to Cosmo for the full interview here.