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Ivanka Trump

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

the 70- or 80-year-old version of myself looking back and having been okay with having said no and going back to my life as I knew it before. I mean, in retrospect, I realize there is no life as you know it before, you know. But just the idea of not saying yes, wherever that would lead me. And so I dove in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

During the course of the campaign, I was just much more sensitive to the problems and experiences of Americans. I gave you an example before of the father in New Hampshire. But even just in my consumption of information, I had a business that was predominantly young women, many of which were thinking about having a kid, had just had a child. were planning on that life event.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

During the course of the campaign, I was just much more sensitive to the problems and experiences of Americans. I gave you an example before of the father in New Hampshire. But even just in my consumption of information, I had a business that was predominantly young women, many of which were thinking about having a kid, had just had a child. were planning on that life event.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

During the course of the campaign, I was just much more sensitive to the problems and experiences of Americans. I gave you an example before of the father in New Hampshire. But even just in my consumption of information, I had a business that was predominantly young women, many of which were thinking about having a kid, had just had a child. were planning on that life event.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And I knew what they needed to be able to show up every day and realize this dream for themselves and the support structures they would need to have in place. And I remember reading this article at the time in one of the major newspapers of of a woman. She had had a very solid job working at one of the blue chip accounting firms. And the recession came.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And I knew what they needed to be able to show up every day and realize this dream for themselves and the support structures they would need to have in place. And I remember reading this article at the time in one of the major newspapers of of a woman. She had had a very solid job working at one of the blue chip accounting firms. And the recession came.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And I knew what they needed to be able to show up every day and realize this dream for themselves and the support structures they would need to have in place. And I remember reading this article at the time in one of the major newspapers of of a woman. She had had a very solid job working at one of the blue chip accounting firms. And the recession came.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

She lost her job around the same time as her partner left her. And over a matter of months, she lost her home. So she wound up with her two young kids after bouncing around between neighbors living in their car. She gets a call back from one of the many interviews she had done for a second interview where she was all but guaranteed the job, should that go well.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

She lost her job around the same time as her partner left her. And over a matter of months, she lost her home. So she wound up with her two young kids after bouncing around between neighbors living in their car. She gets a call back from one of the many interviews she had done for a second interview where she was all but guaranteed the job, should that go well.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

She lost her job around the same time as her partner left her. And over a matter of months, she lost her home. So she wound up with her two young kids after bouncing around between neighbors living in their car. She gets a call back from one of the many interviews she had done for a second interview where she was all but guaranteed the job, should that go well.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And she had arranged childcare for her two young children with a neighbor in her old apartment block. And the morning of the interview, she shows up and the neighbor doesn't answer the doorbell. and stands there five, 10 minutes, doesn't answer. So she has a choice. Does she go to the interview with her children or does she try to cancel?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And she had arranged childcare for her two young children with a neighbor in her old apartment block. And the morning of the interview, she shows up and the neighbor doesn't answer the doorbell. and stands there five, 10 minutes, doesn't answer. So she has a choice. Does she go to the interview with her children or does she try to cancel?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And she had arranged childcare for her two young children with a neighbor in her old apartment block. And the morning of the interview, she shows up and the neighbor doesn't answer the doorbell. and stands there five, 10 minutes, doesn't answer. So she has a choice. Does she go to the interview with her children or does she try to cancel?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

She gets in her car, drives to the interview, leaves her two children in the backseat of the car with the window cracked, goes into the interview and gets pulled out of the interview by police because somebody had called the cops after seeing her children in the backseat of the car. She gets thrown in jail. Her kids get taken from her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

She gets in her car, drives to the interview, leaves her two children in the backseat of the car with the window cracked, goes into the interview and gets pulled out of the interview by police because somebody had called the cops after seeing her children in the backseat of the car. She gets thrown in jail. Her kids get taken from her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

She gets in her car, drives to the interview, leaves her two children in the backseat of the car with the window cracked, goes into the interview and gets pulled out of the interview by police because somebody had called the cops after seeing her children in the backseat of the car. She gets thrown in jail. Her kids get taken from her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

and she spends years fighting to regain custody and I think about that's an extreme example but I think about something like that and I say if I was the mother and we were homeless like would I have gone to that interview and I I probably would have And that is not an acceptable situation. So you hear stories like that, and then you get asked, will you come with me?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

and she spends years fighting to regain custody and I think about that's an extreme example but I think about something like that and I say if I was the mother and we were homeless like would I have gone to that interview and I I probably would have And that is not an acceptable situation. So you hear stories like that, and then you get asked, will you come with me?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

and she spends years fighting to regain custody and I think about that's an extreme example but I think about something like that and I say if I was the mother and we were homeless like would I have gone to that interview and I I probably would have And that is not an acceptable situation. So you hear stories like that, and then you get asked, will you come with me?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life

And it's really hard to say no. I spent four years in Washington. I feel like I left it all in the field. I feel really good about it, and I feel really privileged to have been able to do what I did.