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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#46: Jessica Alba, Honest Company Co-Founder & Actress

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

She's a Golden Globe nominated actress turned entrepreneur who is responsible for creating the multi-billion dollar enterprise that is the Honest Company. Jessica Alba has become synonymous with her wellness brand and under her leadership, the Honest Company has become an empire...so how did she do it? On this episode, Alba gets candid about her early childhood influences, her first heartbreak, her leadership style and she shares her best (and worst) advice. Learn more about The Honest Company: www.honest.com Follow Jessica Alba on Instagram and Twitter: @jessicaaalba Follow The Honest Company on Instagram and Twitter: @Honest Want a chance to ask Rebecca your career questions? Send an email to [email protected] for a chance to ask Rebecca on an episode of No Limits! No Limits Entrepreneur of the week: Gigi Butler, Founder, Gigi’s Cupcakes Learn more about Gigi’s Cupcakes: https://gigiscupcakesusa.com/ Know someone who should be a featured ‘No Limits’ Entrepreneur? Send your nominations to [email protected] Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

I come from such a modest background and working class background and such a different background.

0:08.2

This would have been in a way beyond my wildest dreams as a kid, but I did dream it,

0:14.0

and I think you have to have the vision of what's possible in order for it to come true.

0:17.9

So there was something in me that really felt like anything could be possible.

0:22.3

From ABC, it's no limits. I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most

0:28.7

influential women playing at the top of their game, trying to demystify success and what it really

0:34.5

takes to get there and all the trade-offs. Whether you're looking for

0:37.9

answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place. On today's show, you've

0:44.8

probably heard of The Honest Company. But how well do you know the story behind it? Jessica Elba,

0:50.3

the co-founder, gets candid about everything from her childhood to her first heartbreak to

0:55.6

creating and running a multi-billion dollar company, and of course, her worst advice. I caught up with

1:01.5

her in Los Angeles. Jessica Alba, welcome to No Limits. It's great to see you. And nice to see you

1:08.3

too. I look at your career. You have already accomplished so much.

1:13.9

You're still so young.

1:15.8

You're building a family.

1:17.4

I don't feel young.

1:18.4

You don't?

1:19.2

No, I feel tired.

1:21.0

Really?

1:21.7

Very tired.

1:23.2

When did you start feeling tired?

1:25.5

I think when I turned 31.

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