Ivanka Trump
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1,538 appearances
13 recordings
8 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 10 Jun
Ivanka Trump’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just go into your bathroom, turn on the sink, watch the water. Oh, for sure.
There's a prayer in Judaism you're supposed to say every morning, which is basically thanking God for your body working. It's something, you know, so basic, but it's when it doesn't that we're grateful. So just reminding ourselves every day the basic things of a functional body, of our health, of access to water, which...
so many millions of people around the world do not have reliably is very clarifying and super important.
Yeah.
I have these vignettes in my mind, you know, seeing her in action in different capacities. A lot of times, um, in the context of things that I would later go on to do myself. So, you know, I would go every day, almost every day after school, and I'd go to the Plaza Hotel, and I'd follow her around as she'd walk the hallways and just observe her. And she was so impossibly glamorous.
She was doing everything in, you know, four-and-a-half-inch heels with this bouffant. And so it was almost like an inaccessible visual experience. But I think for me, when I saw her experience, the most joy tended to be by the sea. Almost always. Not a pool. And I think I get this from her. Pools, eh, they're fine. I love the ocean. I love saltwater. I love the way it makes me feel.
And I think I got that from her. So we would just swim together all the time. And... It's a lot of what I love about Miami, actually, being so close to the ocean. I find it to be super cathartic. But a lot of my memories of my mom, seeing her really just in her bliss, is floating around in a body of saltwater.
Yeah, I think she really was a trailblazer. It's not uncommon in real estate for there to be multiple generations of people. And so on job sites, it was not unusual for me to run into somebody whose grandfather had worked with my grandfather in Brooklyn or Queens or whose father had worked with my mother. And they'd always tell me these stories about her rolling in and they'd hear the heels first.
And a lot of times the story would be like, oh, gosh, like, you know, really? It's two days after Christmas. Like, we thought we'd get a reprieve. But she was very exacting. You know, so I had this visual in my mind of her, you know, walking on rebar, you know, on the balls of her feet in these four-inch heels. I'm assuming she actually carried flats with her. But I don't know.
That's not the visual I have. Yeah. But I loved the fact that she so embodied femininity and glamour and was so comfortable being tough and ambitious and determined and this unbelievable businesswoman and entrepreneur at a time when she was very much alone, even for me in the development world and
So many of the different businesses that I've been in, there really aren't women outside of sales and of marketing. You don't see as many women in the development space, in the construction space, even in the architecture and design space. Maybe outside of interior design. And she was decades ahead of me. I love hearing these stories.
I love hearing somebody who's my peer tell me about their grandfather and their father and their experience with one of my parents. It's amazing.
And she did it. She used to say, there's nothing that I can't do better in heels.
That would be her exact thing. And when I'd complain about wearing something, you know, it was like the early 90s. Everything was also like uncomfortable, these fabrics and materials. And I was like... go back and forth between being super girly and a total tomboy. But she'd, you know, dress me up in these things and I'd be complaining about it.
And she'd say, Ivanka, pain for beauty, which I happen to totally disagree with because I think there's nothing worse than being uncomfortable. So I haven't accepted or internalized all of this wisdom, so to speak, but it was just funny. You know, she had a very specific point of view.
It's funny because, I mean, just even in fashion, if something's uncomfortable, to me, there's nothing that looks worse than when you see somebody like tottering around and like their heels hurt them. So they're kind of walking oddly. And, you know, it doesn't, they're not embodying their confidence in that regard. So I'm like kind of the opposite. I start with, well, I want to be comfortable.
And that helps me be confident and in command.
And it's not comfort like dowdy. You know, there's that level of comfort, but- Functional comfort. But I think you have to, for me, I want to feel confident. And you don't feel confident when you're like pulling at a garment or, you know, hobbling on heels that don't fit you properly. And she was never doing those things either. So I don't know how she was wearing stuff like that.
That's like a 40 pound feet of dress. And I know this- Because I have it and I wore it recently. And I mean, I got a workout walking to the elevator. Like this is a heavy dress and you know what? It was worth it. It was great. Yeah.
But she, uh, she makes it look very, very easy. So.
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