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Bobbi Brown

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
876 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

Well, that's wonderful.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

I got so much from it.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

Honestly, my experiences, everyone likes to talk about the last couple of years because they like, you know, there's not really dirt.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

It's just the truth.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

But for most of it, it was magic.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

I mean, it was magic.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

Leonard Lauder used to invite us to all of his events.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

We'd sit at his table and sit with, you know, Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant and Helen Gurley Brown.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

And I was so lucky that I got to see Leonard before he passed away.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

Oh, I'm happy about that.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

So we had a three hour lunch and, you know, it was the most incredible conversation.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

And I'm just really, really lucky that I got to do that.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

For the majority of the time I was in charge, you know, until it became definitely more corporate and there was a new leader and things just were not about supporting individual interests.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

brands and founders.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

And, you know, that's what they wanted.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

And that's fine.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

First of all, if I didn't get fired, I'd still be there miserable.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

So it's really good that it happened.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

And, you know, it wasn't easy.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over

I didn't just walk out and say, oh, I'm going to start another brand.