Ivanka Trump: My Dad Told Me Two Weeks Before He Ran For President!
In a Nutshell
Ivanka Trump shares her journey of overcoming underestimation, drawing from her mother's lessons on intention and her grandmother's nurturing love, while navigating a privileged yet scrutinized childhood marked by her parents' high-profile divorce and Michael Jackson attending her Nutcracker performance. She recounts her father's abrupt 2015 presidential run—announced just two weeks after telling her—leading to her White House role where she doubled the child tax credit, passed anti-trafficking laws, and launched initiatives like farmers-to-families food boxes, before prioritizing family and stepping away from politics' "dark world." Key takeaways include finding signal in noise via stoicism (e.g., Marcus Aurelius), embracing trust despite betrayal risks for deeper connections, being overprepared in male-dominated fields like real estate, and her new venture Planet Harvest to cut food waste and support farmers.
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She was extraordinary. My mother taught me a lot about bringing intention to what you do. Being the child of accomplished parents, most people thought that I would lack the ambition, the preparedness, but my mother taught me that being underestimated is not a bad thing. It's a very powerful thing actually and it almost always worked to the detriment of the person who underestimated me.
From real estate to her own multi-million dollar fashion line, Ivanka Trump continues to carve her own path into the business world, succeeding at every turn.
And then you learn 2 weeks before he announces your father decides he wants to be president of the United States. Did you have any sense that this was at all on the horizon?
Not really. And then when he pulled the trigger, it was full steam. Most people wouldn't give up an $800 million annual business to go into government. Why did you?
He asked us for help. He's like, "But I have to warn you. They're going to come at you hard. They're probably going to hate you." But one of the things I've learned in moments of tremendous pressure and scrutiny where any slip up is completely weaponized against you is to find the signal in the noise. I just don't get distracted by the outside noise. That's probably the thing that has been most helpful to me in terms of performance and success because you have a choice only in how you respond.
You've said politics is a pretty dark world.
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