186 - Celebrity Designer Cortney Novogratz Reveals Her Career Secrets

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Want a successful creative career? Cortney Novogratz reveals the ups and downs of her life as a celebrity designer, plus what to expect if you work in any creative field. Cortney Novogratz and her husband, Robert Novogratz are best known for their impeccable design featured on hit home renovation shows like Bravo’s 9 By Design and HGTV’s Home by Novogratz. But as you’ll hear in this interview, Cortney's career has never followed a straight line. Learn how you can design the life you want and keep reinventing yourself at any age. You can't be a perfectionist. The world is not perfect. You can really have strong opinions and try to make it the best you can but you have to let go a little bit. @thenovogratz via @MarieForleo

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0:00.0	What's up party people? I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped
0:06.5	millions of people transform their businesses and lives. If you're ready to make
0:11.0	the difference you were born to make,
0:13.2	get ready because this is the Marie Forleo Podcast.
0:18.0	Courtney Novigrats is a designer that you may know
0:20.4	from Bravo's Nine By Design and HGTV's home by Novigrats.
0:25.0	Along with her husband Robert, she's been designing and developing spaces around the world for 25 years.
0:31.0	She's a mom of seven with impeccable taste and a love of design, art, and architecture
0:36.0	which have driven her career, rebuilding entire city blocks, renovating a Hollywood Hills
0:41.2	Castle, and even building a tree house in Brazil.
0:44.8	She's an entrepreneurial powerhouse who has a passion for bringing beautifully designed products
0:49.2	to the world.
0:50.2	Courtney, thank you so much for making the trip and being here today.
0:53.6	Thanks for having me, Marie.
0:54.8	So take me back to the early days, because you did not start off knowing what you were
0:59.8	going to do today, obviously.
1:01.1	From what I read from my research you were actually an actress
1:04.4	starting out in New York City and your career took a whole another turn so
1:08.2	tell me about that. Yeah I don't know if we found our career it found us but my husband and I bought our first
1:14.6	building it was a condemned building while we were actually planning our wedding and
1:19.3	so my job of course as an actress was ups and downs and I had a little bit of free time.
1:24.6	So I went to work on the job site, opening up every day, learning everything on the job, and
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