292: Building a Brand and a Family with Rebecca Minkoff
Conversations with Cam
Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Rebecca Minkoff, fashion designer and entrepreneur, to discuss her journey in the fashion industry, her experience on Real Housewives of New York, and how to build a business alongside building a family. Rebecca opens up about building her brand, navigating motherhood while running a business, and how Scientology has impacted her life. We dive into the challenges of balancing work and family, the misconceptions about the fashion industry, and the importance of creating a support system. Rebecca also shares insights on her decision to leave RHONY and her current projects, including the Female Founder Collective.
Key Takeaway / Points
- Rebecca's journey in building her fashion brand
- Balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship
- The impact of Scientology on Rebecca's life and parenting
- Experience on Real Housewives of New York and the decision to leave
- The importance of a support system for working mothers
- Misconceptions about the fashion industry
- The creation and growth of the Female Founder Collective
- Rebecca's approach to mental health and wellness
- Insights on hormone balance and perimenopause
- The evolution of Rebecca's personal style and fashion inspirations
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:04.1 | Hello, my friends. |
| 0:05.7 | Today we are joined by the iconic Rebecca Minkoff. |
| 0:09.8 | I say this in the beginning of the episode, but for all my millennials out there, like everyone |
| 0:13.7 | knows who Rebecca Minkoff is, I feel. |
| 0:16.0 | Like she just represents so much of our generation. |
| 0:19.6 | But if you are not familiar with Rebecca, she is the |
| 0:22.6 | industry leader in accessible luxury handbags, accessories, and apparel. And her playful and |
| 0:28.5 | subtly edgy designs integrate the elements of bohemian femininity with a little bit of rock and roll. |
| 0:34.1 | I think I can vouch for every millennial when I say that like Rebecca Minkoff |
| 0:39.7 | bags were such an icon of a certain stage of our life. And the brand is still doing |
| 0:47.5 | freaking incredible things. Rebecca herself is also doing so many awesome other projects. |
| 0:53.7 | In 2018, she established the female founder |
| 0:55.9 | collective, which is a network of business-led women that invests in women's financial power |
| 1:01.1 | across the socioeconomic spectrum by enabling and empowering female-owned businesses. |
| 1:06.3 | She also is the author of Fearless USA Today's bestseller and kind of shares this. It's almost like a |
| 1:14.0 | self-help slash memoir book that helps you face challenges head on using Rebecca's fearless |
| 1:19.8 | approach to push yourself and overcome the fear and trials female entrepreneurs often face |
| 1:25.4 | and break the rules and find success in places that they |
| 1:28.1 | previously thought to be inaccessible. Rebecca is also the host of the Superwoman podcast, |
| 1:33.6 | and she also had a small stint in the last season of Real Housewives of New York, which we do |
| 1:38.4 | dive into as a kind of quote unquote friend of cast member. So this episode dives into how she built the empire that is |
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