Ivanka Trump

And I work really hard to make sure my kids see themselves, each of them individually, that they know how much I love them as like perfect, complete human beings, not

I love you because of this accomplishment or because of this sort of external validation that you've received because you're sort of perfect as you are and like in your essence.

So my parents taught me a lot, a lot.

I love them so much.

I like them in some ways.

I'm very dissimilar to them in other ways.

But even though I was like the peacemaker in our house, I was also like very like true to myself.

And they created, and I give them credit for this, they created an environment where like dissent was okay.

And so I could agree or disagree and share it with each of them and do so respectfully and privately.

And that was our home.

Well, I think I was underestimated twice.

First, being the child of accomplished parents, there was an expectation that I... On one hand, some people thought I was like a savant because I was their child.

But most people...

thought they would be, that I would phone it in, that I would lack sort of the thought process, the ambition, the preparedness.

So I always worked like twice as hard as everyone else to sort of prove my worth and prove my ability to be in these rooms where truthfully, oftentimes I was in them before I was prepared to be in them.

So that was, you know, on my mind.

But

I think being underestimated is not a bad thing.

I think it's like a very powerful thing, actually.

And it almost always worked to the detriment of the person who underestimated me.