Ivanka Trump
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13 recordings
8 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 10 Jun
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So much. It's unbelievable how dislocating the loss of a, of a parent is. And, um, Her mother lives with me still, my grandmother, who helped raise us. So that's very special. And I can ask her some of the questions that I would have, sorry, I wanted to ask my own mom, but it's hard.
She's 97. And until she was around 94, she lived completely on her own. No help, no anything, no support. And now she requires really sort of 24-hour care. And I feel super grateful that I'm able to give her that because that's what she did for me.
It's amazing for me to have my children be able to grow up and know her stories, know her recipes, Czech dumplings and goulash and kizalitsa and all the other things she used to make me in my childhood. But she really, she was a major, she was a major force in my life. My grandmother, she, you know, my mom was working.
So, you know, my grandmother was the person who was always home every day when I came back from school. Yeah. I remember I used to shower and it would almost be like comical.
I feel like in my memory, and there is no washing machine I've seen on the planet that can actually do this, but in my memory, I'd go to shower, you know, and I'd drop something on the bed and I'd come back into the room after my shower and it was like folded, pressed. It was all my grandmother. She was like running after me, taking care of me. And so it's nice to be able to do that for her.
I got from her reading. My grandmother, she devoured books, like devoured books. She loved the more sensational ones. So like some of these like romance novels, I would pick them up, the covers. But she could tell you, she could look at like any royal lineage across Europe and tell you all the mistresses.
All the drama. She loved it. But her face was always buried in a book. My grandfather, Dedo, he was the athlete. He swam professionally on the national team for Czechoslovakia, and he helped train my mom, as I was saying before, in skiing. So he was a great athlete, and she was at home, and she would read and cook.
And so that's something I remember a lot from my childhood, and she would always say, like, I got reading from her. Yeah.
In retrospect, do you know why she recommended it to you? I don't know.
Maybe she was seeking to inspire you.
I think my father's sense of humor is sometimes underappreciated. He had an amazing and has an amazing sense of humor. He loved music. I think my mom loved music as well. You know, my father always used to say that in another life he would have been a Broadway musical producer, which is hilarious to think about, but he loves music.
Right? Now he DJs at Mar-a-Lago, so people get a sense of, you know, he loves Andrew Lloyd Webber and all of it, Pavarotti, Elton John. I mean, these were the same songs on repeat my whole childhood, so I know the playlist.
Loves Sinatra, loves Elvis. You know, a lot of the greats. So I think I got a little bit of my love for music from him, but my mom shared that as well. I think one of the things, you know, in looking back that I think I inherited from my father as well is this sort of... Interest or understanding of the importance of asking questions and specifically questions of the right people.
And I saw this a lot on job sites. I remember with the old post office building, there was this massive glass-topped atrium. So heating and cooling the structure was like a Herculean lift. We had the mechanical engineers provide their thoughts on how we could do it efficiently and so that the temperature never varied. And it was enormously expensive as an undertaking.
And I remember one of his first times on the site because, you know, he had really empowered me with this project. And he trusted me to execute and to also, you know, rope him in when I needed it. But the first time he visits, we're walking the hallway and we're talking about how expensive this cooling system would be. And heating system would be.
And he starts stopping and he's asking duct workers as we walk what they think of the system that the mechanical engineer has designed. First few, fine, you know, not great answers. The third guy goes, sir, if you want me to be honest with you, it's obscenely over-designed.
In the circumstance of a 1,000-year storm, you will have the exact perfect temperature if there's a massive blizzard or if it's unbearably hot. But 99.9% of the time, you'll never need it. And so I think it's just an enormous waste of money.
And so he kept asking that guy questions, and we ended up overhauling the design pretty well into the process of the whole system, saving a lot of money, creating a great system that's super functional. And so I learned a lot, and that's just one example of countless. That one really sticks out in my head because I'm like, oh my gosh, we're redesigning the whole system.
You know, we were actively under construction, so it was... But I would see him do that on a lot of different issues. He would ask people on the work level what their thoughts were, ideas, concepts, designs. And there was almost like a Socratic sort of mindset.
first principles type of way he questioned people, trying to get down to sort of trying to reduce complex things to something really fundamental and simple. So I try to do that myself to the best I can. And I think it's something I very much learned from him.
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