#22: Jeannie Mai, Style Expert & Co-Host of 'The Real'

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Jeannie Mai is a style expert, TV personality and executive producer best known as one of the co-hosts on Fox's Emmy-nominated show "The Real." She started her career as a makeup artist and stylist when she was only 16 and gained some major clients including Alicia Keys and Sarah Jessica Parker. Her tenacity and drive eventually led her to become the host of Style Network's "How Do I Look?" before she began co-hosting "The Real" in 2013. Mai is passionate about advancing women's interests and is currently an ambassador for the Pacific Links Foundation fighting to end sex trafficking. Mai shares how she built her career from scratch and her commitment to rescuing women and children from sex trafficking. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Jeannie's Facebook: @iheartJeannieMai Jeannie's Instagram: @thejeanniemai Jeannie's Twitter: @jeanniemai Jeannie's Website: http://www.thejeanniemai.com/ Check out our other podcasts: http://bit.ly/2eBJMNa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	They called me the next day and asked me, how many more can you do?
0:03.7	And it was also their posture that I knew that this was big.
0:07.3	Welcome to No Limits.
0:10.0	I'm Rebecca Jarvis.
0:12.0	Each week, we're talking to women playing at the top of their game.
0:17.2	So how are they doing it?
0:19.5	Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.
0:27.9	Here with us today is a woman who's made it her mission to empower others.
0:32.8	Early in her career, she did this as a makeup artist and eventually as a stylist.
0:38.8	Today, in addition to co-hosting Fox's Emmy-nominated show The Real, she's an executive
0:44.0	producer of How Do I Look Asia, and today her most serious work is as an ambassador for
0:49.0	the Pacific Links Foundation, an organization committed to rescuing women and children from
0:54.0	sex trafficking.
0:55.6	Jeannie Mai, welcome to No Limits.
0:57.9	I'm so excited to be here.
0:59.3	This is awesome.
1:00.0	Thank you for having me.
1:00.7	I'm so glad you're here.
1:02.0	So you grew up in San Jose.
1:03.6	Yes.
1:04.0	And I read four-bedroom house, 15 people.
1:09.0	Almost.
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