Huda Kattan on the Power of Being Yourself | BoF VOICES
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The founder of Huda Beauty says she wasn't able to build her cosmetics empire until she accepted her 'weirdness.'
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the BOF podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | This week we have a very inspirational speaker from Voices 2018, Huda Katan. |
| 0:14.6 | Huda is the founder and chief executive of Huda Beauty, one of the fastest growing beauty brands in the world with a valuation of over |
| 0:21.5 | $1 billion. Huda was born in Oklahoma City to Iraqi immigrants, but grew up in suburban Tennessee and |
| 0:28.4 | Massachusetts, where apparently she wore a lot of makeup. She launched her blog HudaBeauty.com in 2010, |
| 0:35.0 | which eventually led to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram accounts of the same name. |
| 0:39.7 | Today, her Instagram account is the 60th most followed in the world with nearly 30 million |
| 0:45.2 | followers. |
| 0:46.3 | So here's Huda Katan on the power of being yourself at Voices 2018. |
| 0:53.4 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:55.3 | Thank you so much to Imran and to business of fashion for inviting me here to speak today. |
| 1:01.0 | And truly is such an honor to be in such incredible company. |
| 1:06.1 | All of us here have many things in common, but probably the most outstanding is that we are |
| 1:10.9 | unafraid of being different. And I want to get a little more specific about something a lot of |
| 1:16.6 | people don't talk about, probably because they feel a little uncomfortable about it, |
| 1:20.7 | but everyone has a degree of it, whether they like to admit it or not. And that is being weird. |
| 1:33.1 | Has anyone ever been told that they were strange, awkward, |
| 1:40.8 | different, or weird? How did that feel? I think for most people, it feels horrible. I remember the first time someone called me weird. It was the second grade. The girl's name was Laura. |
| 1:46.8 | Not going to say her last name. |
| 1:48.8 | And she looked at me with a face of disgust. |
| 1:52.1 | Not for any real reason. |
| 1:53.7 | We were all playing in the playground. |
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