Wendy Nguyen: Instagram Star Opens Up About Trauma & Success

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this encore episode, Wendy Nguyen, Instagram star and founder of Wendy's Lookbook, tells WSJ's Veronica Dagher how trauma helped fuel her success as a social-media influencer and CBD entrepreneur.

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0:15.0	Hey, I'm Veronica Dagger, and this is the Wall Street Journal Secrets of Wealthy Women
0:24.8	where women share how they tackle career, money, and the world. So Secrets is
0:29.5	working from home because of the coronavirus. I know many of you are going through the same thing and are worried
0:35.1	about how all of this is going to impact your life. It's a tough time for everyone. We know you
0:41.8	have a lot of concerns from how to work alone or manage your
0:45.2	career and your kids from your living room or how to prepare financially for a
0:49.6	layoff. So we've set up a hotline for your questions and we'll try to answer them.
0:55.0	You can call and leave us a voicemail at 314, 200, 5947.
1:02.0	In light of all that's going on, we thought you 5.947.
1:03.0	In light of all that's going on, we thought you might need some real inspiration.
1:07.5	And so we wanted to revisit one of the episodes from last year that really inspired us. Our conversation with Wendy Newen.
1:15.0	Wendy is a lifelong entrepreneur.
1:18.0	About a decade ago, she became one of the first fashion style bloggers and influencers. Her YouTube channel Wendy's
1:24.6	Lookbook has over 600,000 subscribers and she has more than 1 million
1:29.4	Instagram followers. Last year she took her business savvy in a new direction and opened a store selling
1:35.8	CBD products in New York City.
1:38.7	Wendy is a great entrepreneur, but she's also a survivor of abuse.
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