Ivanka Trump

It was not an easy situation for a child, but that experience, I always look for what is the positive in any situation.

And the positive for me and my siblings were we really bonded in a different type of way because we were going through it together.

You know, I think one of the things I've learned under moments in my life of tremendous sort of pressure and scrutiny is to like find the signal in the noise.

And that's probably the thing that has been most helpful to me.

It can become quite turbulent.

I find myself sometimes literally like dancing in the eye of the hurricane.

It's been many years of my life.

But there's a lot of like peace within me.

So I just don't get distracted by the outside noise.

And I think if you know what you stand for, then it really is just noise.

It was the biggest show in the world at one point.

It was this massive phenomenon.

You know, he had been very famous in sort of New York and in real estate and in business circles.

But this kind of like expanded awareness of him beyond those New York circles onto Hollywood.

a global stage.

So there was a lot of attention and a lot of excitement.

You know, he was very similar to how he is now.

He said exactly what he was thinking, which could be polarizing at times, but it's part of what people loved about him.

I think the thing about my father and my mother is they're, like, deeply authentic.

So you can disagree, but there's a certain amount of, like, respect for the candor of it and the lack of fear to say what you're thinking because so many people are sort of afraid.