Diane von Furstenberg
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67 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Relax also is a weird word. What should I say instead? Empty the noise, you know. It's empty the corridor. Silence, solitude. That is what is the most restorative thing. So I need to be alone. Mm-hmm. I need to be in nature. Yes. Solitude, silence, all of that is very restorative. Yeah, I find the same.
I swim a lot. I swim a lot in the ocean, very far. And therefore, I'm alone between the sea and the sky. And I'm just this tiny little dot. And I go into deep meditation. And that is probably the most restorative thing.
I got one of those, too, that blocks the sun.
No, otherwise I would burn because I swam two hours at the time. So I could not do that unless I wore something.
No, no. It's maybe one mile. Yeah, maybe one mile. I mean, we're very lucky we have a boat. And so I go far in the ocean, in the sea, and there's a tiny little boat that follows me, but very far. And I go through all the meditation. I have these sutras that Deepak Chopra taught. So I have this routine that I go. And by the time I'm finished with the whole routine, and then they...
They become prayers. And then I think about each one of my children, my grandchildren. So the whole ceremony of my meditation takes about an hour and a half because then I turn and I say, how long have I been in? And usually they say between an hour 10 and another 30 and an hour. And then I stay a little longer.
I should meditate more consciously, but I do empty my mind. Yes, I do that. Otherwise, I couldn't be. I hate the noise. I don't like small talk. I don't like any of that. And I love nature. I mean, nature for me is everything. As long as I have nature on one side and my phone and the Internet, I don't need anything.
No, I struggled. Yeah, I did struggle. In the beginning?
No, no, no. I mean, I—you know, after my big success, you know— Yes. Yeah, I had a lot of very stressful moments, yes. But you know, you forget. You forget the bad things. Like you forget the physical pain. You forget it. Once it's done, you forget it. And every single thing, every negative experience in your life ends up being an experience and turns into something.
That's another trick that I always tell my friends. You know, sometimes, you know, my friend, I mean, I don't know, they do a movie or they do a book and it's not, or their company is going bankruptcy. They get bad press and they just feel so bad. And I always say the same thing. I said, this moment that is so hard will be the best anecdote when you write your book or you tell your TED Talk.
That's right.
Exactly. Yeah. And your experience, especially when, you know, you are a person, a public person, right? Your job is a purpose. So when something, what is inspiring to other people is not your success, your Emmy or your ESCO or whatever. What is inspiring is when you talk about your vulnerability. That is inspiring. Yeah, right. Exactly. Exactly.
You know, you change. I mean, now I'm, you know, I'm born on New Year's Eve. That's a great birthday. Well, it's very neat. Yeah. You know, when the year is over, it's over. Yeah. So as a result of that, I always do New Year's resolution, blah, blah, blah. So now... you know, now I'm entering the winter of my life, which could be a short winter, a long winter.
I don't know that, but it's the winter of my life. And therefore, at this time of my life, it is more important than ever to really focus on using my voice, my knowledge, my experience, my wisdom, my connection, my resources in order to help others and to kind of, you know, improve the world and society to the best we can. And right now it's so discouraging.
The world seems so corrupt and so awful that I think we have to look for the light, even if it's just a tiny little bit of light and build around the light, cherish the light, share the light, because at the end, it is the light that pushes the darkness away.
Okay, so Andre was, first of all, my friend. He was my friend for over 45 years. He happened to be also a formidable person. But if you're talking about ending, and it was very sad that he died. He died January 18 last year. But strangely enough... His life has become even bigger. Really? Since he died. How? Well, the recognition that he has received. Yes.
And the recognition of his book and his work. And, you know, he was almost evicted from his house. a few months before he died but didn't, and now the street names his name. So there is no such thing as ending. It's evolution. We are all part of nature, and we evolve into something else.
Yes, yes. But death, you know, life is a journey. Death is a destination. We all die. So, I mean, there's not a day in my life that I don't think about death. And that is my way of dealing with it. So, you know. I mean, that happens to everyone.
The only thing you regret in life is the things you don't do. Right. And I did pretty much all I could do.
Or both? Oh, I don't know. My big fault in business is that I enable people. Because I feel like I can make things happen. I think that everyone can make things happen. But, you know, I don't think I'm a great businesswoman. I think I am a very good manifester. I can manifest things. I can make things happen. I am somewhat a little bit of a visionary, but I'm definitely not an executive.
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