Kendra Scott, founder, Kendra Scott: “You have to be brave enough to get up and go for it because it's not just going to come to you.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Kendra Scott built her jewelry brand (also called Kendra Scott) with a $500 dollar investment out of a spare bedroom in her house. And now, it’s a billion dollar business. That didn’t just happen overnight. In this special live (on Zoom) episode, Kendra told us how she’s been able to turn her biggest failures into her greatest successes. And how she turns a 'no' into a 'yes.' In this episode, Kendra shares where her resilience comes from, how her relationship with money has changed, and her advice for how to pitch yourself.

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0:00.0	We're going to hit a lot of obstacles in our life.
0:10.4	Life is not easy.
0:11.4	And I always say they're kind of like moments of impact.
0:14.4	We have a choice in those moments to give up.
0:17.4	That's a choice.
0:18.9	Or to say, okay, I am going to dust my knees off.
0:23.3	I'm going to stand back up.
0:25.0	I'm going to remember who I am.
0:26.6	I'm going to find that fire is in me.
0:29.4	I'm going to find that fire to fight, and to fight hard.
0:33.2	And sometimes it's those struggles.
0:35.0	It's those things in our life that force us to have to be even tougher, stronger, right?
0:41.1	To do the next most amazing thing that is waiting for you, but you have to be brave enough
0:45.7	to get up and go for it.
0:47.8	Because it's not just going to come to you.
0:52.0	I'm Carly Zaken.
0:53.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:54.0	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:55.8	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:59.4	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team to the rough stuff, like negotiating
1:04.2	your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
1:07.6	We started the Skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it
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