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Tory Burch

πŸ‘€ Speaker
840 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

But I remember during COVID, my boys were enjoying Miami a little too much.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

So I sent them to work with Navy SEALs in North Carolina.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

It is the best decision.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

If they wanted a bath, they had to build it.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

It's like we were all taking it easy during COVID.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

No, but they were going out to parties in Miami during COVID.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

If you think about 5,000 employees, you think about, well, at that point, 375 stores shut.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

We had no visibility on when they would open, if they would open, and we had to pay health care.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And so I was trying to figure out how do we do the payroll so people could get health care.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And it was very real because that March, someone very close to me that had worked with me for 15 years, I was in a meeting with her on Friday, and on Monday she was dead.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And it was from COVID.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And I just knew she hadn't come to a meeting.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And I was really worried about her.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And that it was four days after I was with her.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And she, anyway.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

So we knew it was incredibly serious.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

And it was incredibly tough.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

How does Tori cope in a crisis?

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

Well, I get better in a... I don't want to say that because I don't want to... I don't want you to be tested.

Aspire with Emma Grede
On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch)

I don't want to keep them coming, but I do get pretty... I get better and more focused in a crisis.