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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#103: Karolina Kurkova: Finding confidence

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Karolina Kurkova came from a small town in Czech Republic outside of Prague. But before she knew it, she was gracing the runways in London, Paris and New York as a model and landed her first American Vogue cover when she was just 16 years old. On this episode, Karolina takes us inside her first meeting with Anna Wintour, her journey in the fashion industry, and venturing into the world of entrepreneurship as a Co-Founder of Gryph & IvyRose. Congratulations to our No Limits Entrepreneur of the Week: Heidi Zak, co-founder and co-CEO of ThirdLove Find out more: https://www.thirdlove.com/ Want to be a featured NLEOTW? Know someone who should? Send your nominations to [email protected] Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! It’s easy! Click here: http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS: Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent for ABC News. Follow Rebecca Jarvis: www.Instagram.com/RebeccaJarvis www.Twitter.com/RebeccaJarvis www.Facebook.com/RebeccaJarvis https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-jarvis-217ba052/ Snapchat: RebeccaJarvis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

I'm thinking, well, me and as a model, I mean, they must be crazy.

0:05.9

There's no way I could be a model.

0:07.2

I mean, I'm no beautiful.

0:08.4

Nobody thinks I'm, you know, that girl.

0:10.7

Then I went to meet Anna Winter.

0:13.2

That was a big thing.

0:14.8

Oh.

0:16.4

From ABC, it's no limits.

0:19.4

I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game,

0:26.8

trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there and all of the tradeoffs.

0:32.9

Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.

0:39.7

On today's episode, we caught up with supermodeled Carolina Kerkhova when she was in town

0:44.9

for New York Fashion Week. Carolina Kerkowva grew up in a small village in the Czech Republic,

0:50.6

and she found her way into modeling on a total lark. You have to hear this story. On this

0:57.1

episode, she talks about being an outsider, finding confidence, being the youngest person in history

1:03.6

to be on the cover of American Vogue. She was just 16 years old when that happened. And she also

1:09.7

talks about becoming an entrepreneur. And at the end,

1:13.3

she even sings a little opera. Believe me, this blew us all away. Here is Carolina Kerkova.

1:20.9

Are you ready? I'm, I'm ready. Carolina Kerkova, welcome to No Limits. Hi, Rebecca. Thank you so much for having me.

1:28.1

I'm thrilled to have you here and you're in town.

1:31.2

So New York Fashion Week is happening right now.

1:33.4

So I would imagine you're here and in that world kind of heavily.

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