Kathy Ireland: Knowing Your Worth and Protecting Your Boundaries

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Former supermodel turned business mogul Kathy Ireland speaks with WSJ's Veronica Dagher about her new book, "Fashion Jungle," a novel about sexual harassment in the fashion industry, how she's maintained her brand identity despite an expansive empire and how to turn rejection and negative feedback into a career boost.

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0:00.0	If only life had a remote control, you could pause or rewind.
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0:12.2	Brought to you by the Ad Council on its pre-diabees awareness partners. Hi, I'm Veronica Dagger, and this is the Wall Street Journal's Secrets of Wealthy Women,
0:26.0	the podcast where women share how they tackle career, money, and the world.
0:30.4	Today we're speaking with former supermodel and businesswoman Kathy Ireland.
0:34.3	Kathy started her career when she was just a teenager and was one of the super
0:39.5	models of the 1980s and 90s. But in 1993, she began transitioning out of the fashion industry and
0:46.8	reinvented herself as a successful entrepreneur. Today, her company, Kathy Ireland
0:52.3	worldwide, is estimated to have annual sales of more than $2 billion.
0:58.0	But Kathy hasn't just written the book on branding, she's also written a number of actual books and now she's out with her first novel
1:05.6	Fashion Jungle. It's based in part on some of her own experiences in the fashion
1:10.3	industry including sexual harassment,
1:13.1	and she's here to talk to us about all of it.
1:18.1	Thank you for joining us, Kathy.
1:19.5	Thanks for coming to the podcast.
1:20.8	Oh, thank you so much, Veronica.
1:22.4	It's wonderful to be with you.
1:23.8	So most people think that the fashion industry is glamorous, right?
1:28.0	But your new book, The Fashion Jungle,
1:30.6	is about the darker side of the business.
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