Lauren Bush Lauren: Social Entrepreneur
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Boss Files, for me and starting feed, it wasn't just about starting a brand. |
| 0:05.6 | It was about starting a movement and creating a way for customers to become advocates to become donors, to be a part of something bigger. |
| 0:15.0 | When Lauren Bush-Lorin founded Feed more than a decade ago, the term social entrepreneur was practically unheard of. |
| 0:22.3 | She saw childhood hunger firsthand traveling with the World Food Program. |
| 0:26.8 | That changed her forever. |
| 0:29.2 | The granddaughter of the late president George H.W. Bush was compelled to do something. |
| 0:35.1 | So she designed the feedback to raise money to help feed children |
| 0:39.3 | in the most need all around the world. Feed has provided more than 107 million meals, |
| 0:46.3 | and that number grows by the day. And when she became a mother, her entire perspective changed. |
| 0:52.3 | So I took my first giving trip, 2017, went to, since being a mom. |
| 0:58.0 | And really to see moms, yeah, just like loving on their kids and just, you know, doing, |
| 1:03.0 | again, everything a mom can do to take care of them and just seeing their little bellies protruded |
| 1:09.0 | and not physically not being, yeah, healthy. |
| 1:12.6 | It just, it's heart- it's heartbreaking in a new way. |
| 1:16.6 | Brings tears to your eyes. |
| 1:18.6 | Because you feel so lucky? |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, I mean, it's just, I think it's the empathy and, yeah, just, you know, recognizing abroad here, that's just not the case for everyone. |
| 1:31.4 | Now a mother of two, she calls work-life balance, quote, elusive, as she reinvents her company, taking the e-commerce brand into brick and mortar. |
| 1:41.5 | And as a CEO, does she feel that she has the responsibility to speak out |
| 1:46.0 | on social issues? I ask her. Plus, the huge impact her late grandparents, President George H.W. Bush |
| 1:53.6 | and First Lady Barbara Bush had on her. She tells me public service is in her genes. Here's my |
| 2:00.7 | conversation with Lauren Bush Lauren. |
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