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"My first ever mentor, she told me, "Well, hey, you're either going to sink or swim. Let's see how you do."

"I'm Cassie. I live in Brooklyn, New York, and I'm a stylist and a fashion editor."

"So when it comes to styling, when I was younger, it was something that I was always sort of interested in, but never really knew that..."

"...you could make a career out of it until I fell into modeling. So then I guess I kind of stumbled into styling because of modeling and realized that that was something that I was able to pursue."

"It's those feelings and those moments of such great relief and just pride and excitement that you have when those jobs finish is kind of what keeps me going and realizing that I can do all of it."

"And it's those moments of chaos that really bring the best out of me."

"I think through my work with styling, it can kind of help people reach a new level of confidence that maybe they don't have within themselves."

"I kind of like to think of it as an elevated character of yourself."

"I really do think about that line of sinking or swimming. And maybe it's a bad thing, but I think fear kind of keeps me pushing forward, and I think that there's no other thing that I really want to be doing or can see myself doing."

"And I've worked so hard to get to this point that I just have to continue to keep going, and that's it."

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