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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#RJANSWERS: How to reverse engineer success

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

26 year-old Vanesa says she doesn't know if she is on the right path. She is pursuing her dream by running her own fabric agency, but isn't able to support herself and the business without also moonlighting as an Uber driver. She's trying to figure out how to scale her business, score some bigger orders and reach her financial goals. On this episode of #RJAnswers, Rebecca shares some advice on how to reverse engineer and get on track to reach her goals. Want a chance to be on a segment of 'RJ Answers?' Send your questions to [email protected] Don’t forget to subscribe and leave us a review! ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS:  Rebecca Jarvis is ABC News’ Emmy Award - winning the Chief Biz, Tech and Econ correspondent. You can follow her on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and LinkedIn @RebeccaJarvis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, No Limits listeners.

0:03.1

Welcome to another RJ Answers.

0:05.3

We're about to hear from 26-year-old Vanessa.

0:07.6

She's the owner of her own fabric agency here in New York.

0:10.6

She also drives an Uber because she needs that money to help her right now.

0:15.5

She launched her company about two years ago, and she knows she wants to grow.

0:19.8

She knows she wants to be bigger. She knows

0:21.6

that she needs to be bigger in order to stop driving that Uber. How is she going to get there?

0:27.1

Here's our conversation.

0:30.6

Hi, it's Rebecca Jarvis. You're joining us live on No Limits. RJ Answers. How are you?

0:35.8

Hi, Rebecca. I'm good. How are you? I'm great. So tell me a little bit

0:40.6

about yourself. My name is Vanessa. I'm calling from New York, and I'm 26 years old. I run a fabric agency

0:50.3

here in Midtown, New York. We represent Mills from Italy, India, and Spain,

1:00.0

and we showcase the fabric collections to contemporary brands here in New York. I work with

1:07.1

Calvin Klein, with Tori Birch, with Alice and Olivia. I feel like I'm on the right path.

1:14.4

I, you know, I have a small office, and the doors seem to be opening, and I do get orders. However,

1:22.4

it's not enough to sustain myself, and I do have to Uber drive to support the operation and also my life. So

1:31.5

although it looks glamorous, I wonder, am I on the right path? And Vanessa, first of all,

1:36.7

congratulations. You've already taken that first step. And those names you mentioned, Calvin

1:40.9

Klein, Tori Birch. I don't know if you happen to hear our episode with Tori,

1:44.7

but obviously those are some really big names to have in your world.

1:50.2

Thank you. Step number one is looking good. So tell me, how long ago did you start this venture?

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