Rebecca Minkoff Is One and Done With Housewives

Let's Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari

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Society & Culture, Relationships

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Launching a business in the early 2000s compared to today, how she became a household name before social media, the biggest challenges she faced when launching a business, what she's doing to look incredible in her 40s, how she almost lost her business during Covid, advice for launching a business, styling tips, plus what her experience on the housewives of NY was really like.

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0:00.8	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.4	This is Let's Be Honest with Kristen Cavalry, a podcast all about getting real and open on everything from sex, relationships, reality TV, wellness, family, and so much more.
0:15.8	And just a fair warning, there will probably be some oversharing.
0:22.9	Welcome in to Let's Be Honest. I hope everyone is doing amazing on this fine Tuesday.
0:28.7	I am so excited for today's episode. I am with Powerhouse Fashion Designers. She's an author.
0:35.0	She's a new book out called Fearless. And now she can add reality star to her
0:39.9	resume because she is the latest member of the Real Housewives of New York City. Rebecca Minkoff,
0:45.4	welcome. Thank you. So excited to see you after all of these years. And I appreciate you being in
0:50.4	Nashville. I came for you, baby. I love that. Have you had any fun or is this strictly
0:55.7	business trip? No, we had fun last night. We went out to dinner. Did you? Where did you go?
0:59.0	Yeah, Fifth and Taylor. Oh, love. That's one of my favorites. Yeah, it was delicious. Did you
1:02.4	hit up Broadway? No, we thought about it. And then we're like, wait, we have to be a Broadway. We will come back on a on work trip and there you go. I'll take you out.'s been a little over 20 years. And so I want to go back to the very beginning.
1:28.5	And I want to know what it was like launching a business in the early 2000s because
1:33.1	it's very different launching a business back then as it is today.
1:37.9	It was wildly different.
1:39.8	So I would say that things really hit with the bag.
1:43.3	It was called the morning after bag. The zeitgeist
1:45.9	was sex in the city. All of us wanted to have like our morning after walk of shame and be proud,
1:52.3	right? I'm like, yeah, last night was awesome. I was 26 years old looking for love in New York City.
1:57.9	And I think it hit a nerve with women in a way that they identify an experience
2:02.8	with bags. You know, I got my first bag when either it was a walk of shame or a career promotion
2:08.6	or divorce or a new guy, like whatever it is, women have that like, this was the bag that was here.
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