Imagine this. You have a six-figure salary, but you're miserable at work. What would you

do? Well, if you're Bevy Smith, you would risk it all. She gave it up. All of it. The

riches. All of the perks. For years, she wondered if she had made the right choice. Well,

it turned out she did. It's Bevy, Baby. You may know her as Bevy Smith, the host of Bravo's fashion

queens or her podcast bevelations. But if you don't know the media may have and allow me to introduce

you, Bevy Smith is a brand. She's a Harlem-born powerhouse who rose to the heights of the fashion

industry by her 30s. But at age 38, she decided to follow a new path. Since then, Bevy's been a

TV host and author and actress and entrepreneur, and at 55, she says, she's far from done. Bevy is a

master negotiator, a firm believer in her own worth, and living proof that it gets greater later.

I caught up with Bevy and Vancouver where she just recorded a TED talk. We talked about chasing

her passion, her love of negotiating, and how, on her search for Mr. Wright, she found herself.

I think you're really going to love this one. I know I did. I'm Hoda Kotby. Welcome to my podcast,

Making Space.

Bevy, my Hoda, you know you're my like, you're like my goals. I'm so proud of you. Oh, my God, no

wait, Mr. TED talk. You got to leave some crumbs for others, okay? You know what? Every time I sit with

you, I feel a different kind of way. But on this particular day, when I sit with you, you are 55

years old. You live your life on your terms, and you describe yourself as a late bloomer.

Why are you a late bloomer, first of all? Well, I mean, because I think really since like my

20s, people have been telling me that I should be an entertainment. But that was always an advertising

person. I was, you know, sorry, that was a receptionist and worked my way up to becoming an advertising

executive. And so, you know, entertainment was something that I couldn't really even fat them

for myself. And so to then pursue it at the age of 38, and then to really make it happen. And by

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