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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jessica Alba

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Movies, Technology, Tv, Interview, Broadway, Music, Politics, Tv & Film

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If it feels like you haven't seen as much of Jessica Alba on screen in the last decade or so, that's because she's been busy growing a business. For 10 years now, "The Honest Company" she founded has been a pioneer for clean products for babies, beauty and the home. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist gets together with the actor and entrepreneur to discuss how she found her confidence in Hollywood and the business world.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:06.3

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.7

Got another great one for you this week if I do say so myself.

0:13.0

With actor turned entrepreneur Jessica Alba, man, does she have a fascinating story?

0:18.5

Of course she knows she had a big, famous career in movie and TV.

0:23.0

She was one of the best known actors in all the world and then a decade ago decided to

0:27.0

do something pretty bold, which is to create, start her own company called Honest.

0:34.0

They make home care products.

0:35.9

They make baby products and diapers and all kinds of things that take care of your family.

0:42.1

And the idea behind it was that they would be chemical free, that they'd be all natural,

0:46.0

that they'd be clean.

0:47.5

She, you'll hear in the interview Jessica as a child, had severe asthma and allergies

0:54.0

and responded badly to a lot of the things that were put on her body and put on her clothes

0:59.4

and everything else and she wanted better for her three children.

1:02.1

So when she had a child, she thought I need to do something about this and launched Honest.

1:06.8

Still acts on and off, but really her day to day focus is on Honest, which grew exponentially

1:12.5

in its early years.

1:13.8

Has had its ups and downs as all startups do.

1:17.3

But when public a year ago may of 2021 with a valuation of $1.4 billion.

1:24.0

Now that was inflated according to many analysts and indeed the stock has dipped since then.

1:29.0

But she's been at it a decade now, digging in her heels, helping the company grow, playing

1:33.8

a giant sandbox that includes behemoths like Johnson and Johnson and Proctor and Gamble.

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