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Work with Erika Ayers Badan

Kelly Bensimon on Real Housewives, Real Estate & Reinvention

Work with Erika Ayers Badan

Lemonada Media

Business, Management

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of WORK, Erika is joined by Kelly Bensimon - former model, Real Housewife of New York, author, and now one of New York’s top luxury real estate brokers - to discuss how reinvention, resilience, and fearlessness have defined her career. Erika also reflects on Gen Z dipping into retirement savings, Jamie Dimon’s advice to step outside your lane, and David Ogilvy’s timeless lessons on owning your shortcomings.

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0:00.0

We have a quick message from our partner, Armour. Armour is a clothing rental membership,

0:04.9

and they help you build the perfect wardrobe for work. So it's obvious every day you get into

0:10.1

your closet, you're like, nothing to wear, or nothing I like, or nothing that fits. And what's

0:15.3

awesome about a membership with Armour is that they help you create the perfect wardrobe with

0:20.3

brands that are

0:20.8

high quality, unique, and recommended just for you. All you have to do is take a five-minute style

0:26.3

quiz, super easy, super intuitive. You select items from your dynamic and personalized closet. The

0:32.5

style show up at your door and as little as two days. And then when you're ready for new clothes,

0:39.9

you just mail them back and swap them out for you styles.

0:40.4

It's awesome.

0:41.2

So you always feel confident.

0:43.0

You always feel like you have something great to wear.

0:45.3

And you have a bunch of personal styles and unique clothing that are tailored just for you.

0:50.7

What's awesome about belonging to our noir and just in general is one of the things

0:55.8

happening for women at work is just overload and fatigue and being overwhelmed by too many

1:02.4

choices. And what's awesome about armoire is that even though your closet is packed with

1:07.9

things you don't want to wear, it curates a select number of items. You know

1:12.6

their high quality. You know they look good. You know they're tailored just-free. You know you like

1:17.9

them right now versus all the other stuff in your closet that you don't like or doesn't fit or you

1:22.9

wouldn't ever wear to work. And you can rent high high quality clothing for any occasion, all tailored to

1:28.9

your person's style. And then after you wear it and hopefully you've been photographed in it,

1:33.5

or you felt fabulous in it, or people remember doing it, you can send all of that great clothing back

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