#436 – Ivanka Trump: Politics, Family, Real Estate, Fashion, Music, and Life
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The following is a conversation with Ivanka Trump, businesswoman, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to the President of the United States. I've gotten to know Ivanka well over the past two years. We've become good friends, hitting it off right away over our mutual love of reading, especially philosophical writings from Marcus Aurelius, Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Viktor Frankl, and so on. She is a truly kind, compassionate, and thoughtful human being. In the past, people have attacked her, in my view, to get indirectly at her dad, Donald Trump, as part of a dirty game of politics and clickbait journalism. These attacks obscured many projects and efforts, often bipartisan, that she helped get done. And they obscured the truth of who she is as a human being.
Through all that, she never returned the attacks with anything but kindness and always walked through the fire of it all with grace. For this and much more, she is an inspiration and I'm honored to be able to call her a friend. Oh, and for those living in the United States, happy upcoming 4th of July. It's both an anniversary of this country's declaration of independence and an anniversary of my immigrating here to the U.S. I am forever grateful for this amazing country, for this amazing life, for all of you who have given a chance to a silly kid like me. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you. I love you all. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description. It's the best way to support this podcast. We've got Cloaked for protecting your personal information, Shopify for e-commerce, NetSuite for business management, Hatesleep for naps, and ExpressVPN for privacy and security on the interwebs. Choose wisely, my friends. Also, if you want to work with our amazing team or just want to get in touch with me personally,
go to lexfreedman.com slash hiring. And now onto the full ad reads. As always, no ads in the middle. I try to make these interesting, but if you skip them, friends, I will not hold it against you. I will forgive you. In fact, I will continue to celebrate you. Because I don't like ads either. I try to put personal stuff in these ads so it's at least interesting to you, worth listening, maybe if you're bored. But if you must skip them, you can. Just check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. This episode is brought to you by Cloaked. a platform that lets you generate a new email address and phone number every time you sign up for a new website, allowing your actual email and phone number to remain secret from said website. It's kind of amazing that we just give away that info to like every single website.
I try all kinds of services all the time and you never know which of those websites will sell you information and then you get a waterfall, a barrage, a chaotic storm of spam in your mailbox that will torture you endlessly. And it's just good to not allow your information, your contact information to spread throughout the web. And so Cloaked solved this problem in a way that I always thought that somebody needs to, and they do it just really well. It's basically just a nice password manager, but it has that extra privacy superpower where it can generate the emails and the phone numbers. Anyway, go to cloaked.com slash Lex to get 14 days free or for a limited time, use code LexPod when you are signing up to get 25% off an annual Cloaked plan. This episode is also brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store.
Every time I do a Shopify read, I always want to talk about Toby, the CEO, who is an amazing person and brilliant in many ways, but also just an engineer at heart, still writes code, all that kind of stuff, and a philosopher. It's really nice. I got a chance to meet with him and talk to him. I've been a fan of his for a long time. I don't even know if he knows that Shopify sponsors this podcast, which is... I guess an indication of a large, successful company where all of the stuff is delegated. I think we just connect as human beings. Anyway, he's a great leader, great person. And actually, that's a really good sign for a company when the leader is a good leader and the team is a good team.
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