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EntreLeadership

How to Use Rejection to Fuel Success with Jamie Kern Lima

EntreLeadership

Ramsey Network

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Join us as our host, George Kamel, talks to Jamie Kern Lima. Jamie is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, keynote speaker and co-founder of IT Cosmetics—a company she started in her living room and sold to L’Oréal for $1.2 billion. In this episode, we talk to her about the rejection she faced as she started IT Cosmetics and how she used that rejection as motivation to succeed. Later in the episode, George chats with Ken Coleman, a Ramsey Personality, bestselling author and the host of The Ken Coleman Show. Ken shares strategies you can use to keep moving forward despite the setbacks that will inevitably come your way.   You’ll learn: How Jamie went from a Denny’s waitress to the CEO of a billion-dollar company The most defining 10 minutes of Jamie Kern Lima’s life Why you should work for free How to turn rejection into redirection   Sign up for The EntreLeadership Podcast Takeaways—a weekly email where you’ll get three tangible takeaways and a tactical action step related to each episode: https://bit.ly/podcast-takeaways   Support our sponsors: BELAY: https://bit.ly/351P9AE Hite Digital: https://bit.ly/HiteDigital Kyro Digital: https://bit.ly/KyroDigital Trainual: https://bit.ly/TrainualEntre   Links mentioned in the episode: The EntreLeadership Podcast: https://bit.ly/TheEntreLeadershipPodcast Jamie Kern Lima’s website: https://bit.ly/3FGCmlw Believe IT by Jamie Kern Lima: https://amzn.to/3sxZdKC Ken Coleman’s website: https://bit.ly/3wsS9QG Get your Summit livestream ticket today: https://bit.ly/3szvzET   Learn more about EntreLeadership Events: EntreLeadership Summit: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipSummit EntreLeadership Master Series: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipMasterSeries   Learn more about EntreLeadership Coaching: Elite: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipElite Advisory Groups: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipAdvisoryGroups Executive Coaching: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipExecutiveCoaching Workshops: https://bit.ly/EntreLeadershipWorkshops   Listen to all the Ramsey Network podcasts anytime, anywhere in our app. Download the Ramsey Network app: https://apple.co/3eN8jNq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

On today's episode, how to use rejection to fuel your journey to success, and then how

0:11.0

to keep going and gain traction despite setbacks.

0:17.4

From the Ramsey Network, I'm George Kamel and this is the Entree Leadership Podcast,

0:21.7

where we help business leaders like you grow themselves, their teams, and their profits.

0:26.0

Today, I'm talking with Jamie Kernleema, an entrepreneur, philanthropist,

0:29.9

keynote speaker, and co-founder of It Cosmetics, a company that she started in her living room

0:35.2

and sold to Lori All for $1.2 billion.

0:38.8

I'm going to talk to her about the rejection that she faced as she started It Cosmetics

0:42.6

and how she used that rejection to propel her toward success.

0:46.3

So let's get to it.

0:47.3

Here's my conversation with Jamie.

0:49.8

Well Jamie, it is so great to have you on the podcast.

0:52.1

How you been?

0:53.1

George, I'm so honored and also fired up to be here.

0:58.0

So thank you.

0:59.0

Thank you for having me.

0:59.9

Well, this is a precursor to having you at our Entree Leadership Summit event.

1:03.3

I'm so excited for our leaders to get to hear from you.

1:06.4

Here's some of your story, which we're going to get into today.

1:09.1

We're going to scratch the surface of Jamie Kernleema.

1:11.4

Is that okay?

1:12.4

Sounds good.

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