1643: *LIVE AUDIENCE* with Sarah LaFleur, Founder of MM LaFleur
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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*Recorded live at M.M. LaFleur in New York City on February 27th**
Farnoosh interviews Sarah LaFleur, founder of the NY-based fashion brand, on how she pivoted the women's wear company during Covid, business lessons from her start-up days, the evolution of workwear, and more.
More about Sarah: She founded M.M.LaFleur in 2013 with a mission to help women take the work out of getting dressed so they can focus on what matters to them. Before founding M.M.LaFleur, she worked at Bain & Co. in New York and TechnoServe in South Africa. Sarah sits on the Advisory Council of the New York Federal Reserve and is a board member of the Downtown Alliance of New York City. Most recently, she is a Henry Crown Fellow within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. She graduated from Harvard University. M.M.LaFleur is named after her mother, whom she calls her biggest inspiration.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode 1643, a live audience episode with Sarah Lafleur, founder of |
| 0:06.9 | Women's Wear Brand M. M. Lafleur. |
| 0:09.7 | You're listening to So Money with with award-winning Money Guru Farnu |
| 0:14.3 | Farnu Shorabi. Each day get a 30 minute dose of financial |
| 0:18.2 | inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, |
| 0:22.2 | and from Farn Farnus herself. |
| 0:25.0 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:29.0 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:31.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer happier life. Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:37.0 | The negative way of saying it is you kind of start to disassociate. The positive way of saying it is you take the |
| 0:46.4 | ups and downs, you're able to take both on the chin, and I think that's been very true of my entrepreneurship journey where like the |
| 0:55.8 | this is like we were just talking about it right like the like having your own |
| 1:00.5 | businesses like the highs are so high and the lows are so low. |
| 1:03.2 | I used to feel that way. |
| 1:05.1 | I would say like I'm over the past three, four years, especially during COVID, |
| 1:08.9 | like I have found a little bit of even keelness and I've been able to disassociate a little bit which is which is hard because my name's on the door literally but |
| 1:20.1 | but I found that to be like probably the most important. |
| 1:23.8 | I'm gonna say life lesson even. |
| 1:27.0 | Welcome to So Money everybody. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm Farnoosh Terabi. |
| 1:29.8 | A couple of weeks ago I had the special opportunity to head up to the upper west side of Manhattan and sit down with Sarah Lafleur. |
| 1:39.6 | She is the founder of M. M. Lafleler and a previous guest on So Money, she was on before the pandemic. |
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