Speaker 1: So we have some dumb event housekeeping to do. I
Speaker 1: went to I've gone to a few events, as I
Speaker 1: guess a Kardashian now, I've gone to a few events recently.
Speaker 1: It was funny because in the last six months, like
Speaker 1: maybe like six months ago, someone who works with me,
Speaker 1: it was like, I want you to go somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I think it was the Blake Lively premiere because the
Speaker 1: same we haven't seen a picture of you on a
Speaker 1: red carpet since like years ago. Because I was the
Speaker 1: person that I found out actually at one of these
Speaker 1: events is an introvert, which I already knew, but the
Speaker 1: person who really thrived during the pandemic, like who extended it,
Speaker 1: who it gave license to be exactly who they really
Speaker 1: are and extended it and like milked it as if
Speaker 1: the pandemic was going on two years later. So I
Speaker 1: am now reacting to that and I'm in my adventure
Speaker 1: era and being social. But by being social, I'm really
Speaker 1: still not extroverted. I'm only extroverted with the person or
Speaker 1: the very few people that I'm with. I'm not one
Speaker 1: who wants to go out and start making conversation. I'm
Speaker 1: not the person it happened to me yesterday where someone
Speaker 1: puts me on speaker with someone else or face hime, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm over here. That is not me, Like, that's I
Speaker 1: shut down, you know, and someone's like, oh, hi, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Jane's on here too, You're on speaker, Jane.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I.
Speaker 1: Instantly feel like someone has dug to the bottom of
Speaker 1: my purse has found a vial of cocaine and a syringe,
Speaker 1: and I've.
Speaker 2: Been completely violated.
Speaker 1: I just don't like it. I like to know who
Speaker 1: I'm on the phone with. I don't like surprise parties.
Speaker 1: I just this is what it is, Okay. So I
Speaker 1: think I'm a combination introvert extrovert. What I've heard is
Speaker 1: that extroverts are better at, like managing a bunch of
Speaker 1: people at a company.
Speaker 2: Introverts are better at being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: Obviously, there are many fifty shades in between, but food
Speaker 1: for thought, because I never heard that before and it
Speaker 1: really resonates. I am good at being a CEO. I
Speaker 1: despise managing people. I despise managing people. I despise having
Speaker 1: a big staff. I despise like a fucking bagel budget
Speaker 1: and like a closet with post its that an office
Speaker 1: supplies that staff members could take, Like I just don't.
Speaker 2: It's not for me, okay.
Speaker 1: And by the way, business is like that, like A'm
Speaker 1: Martha Stewart living on new media or in Rachel rayhead
Speaker 1: hers or people have a whole big thing like everything's
Speaker 1: in house. You can make more money. I don't give
Speaker 1: a shit. Money's not my most important thing. My sanity
Speaker 1: is in Managing people is not my thing. So I've
Speaker 1: been in my adventure era. I am a Kardashian now,
Speaker 1: so I've been in my social era. So I got
Speaker 1: invited to the Yellowstone premiere. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: know I'm a big fan of the show. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've posted about it. Probably maybe don't know,
Speaker 1: but I am a big fan of the show. So
Speaker 1: I got invited to the premiere, and I brought a
Speaker 1: date with me. We'll get into that soon because that's
Speaker 1: a whole thing. My dating era, which in the beginning
Speaker 1: I was open about because I was going on dates
Speaker 1: and crazy things were happening, and I kind of tightened
Speaker 1: it up a little bit, and then I was photographed
Speaker 1: with someone in La and until I really post something
Speaker 1: I'm not looking, you know, for the worldwide international global
Speaker 1: media machine to talk about it, because I'll talk about
Speaker 1: it when I'm engaged or when it's you know, when
Speaker 1: I'm really really serious, or when this is it we're
Speaker 1: going the distance, you know, I'm getting married. So I
Speaker 1: brought a date to the Yellowstone premiere because I wanted
Speaker 1: to bring a date. I don't always want to go
Speaker 1: with a high school friend. I have good friends that
Speaker 1: I'll invite, but like sometimes I don't get it, like
Speaker 1: they don't get it with the red carpet or like
Speaker 1: your networking. And it's funny because I've tried to find
Speaker 1: people that I get along with well, that are independent,
Speaker 1: that can support you and be a good wing person,
Speaker 1: but also can like roll on their own, like Tim
Speaker 1: Dillon the podcaster. He's come to a couple of events
Speaker 1: with me, and he's a great plus one because he
Speaker 1: can chill, he can be independent, but he's also like
Speaker 1: there for you and you can talk to him, and
Speaker 1: I like him. And so it's an interesting thing, like
Speaker 1: trying to find people that I really enjoy going to
Speaker 1: things with. So and also sometimes it can be lonely,
Speaker 1: like something can feel like work if you're alone, and
Speaker 1: something can feel great if you bring someone. So the
Speaker 1: Cohen Wedding, when I talked about the Coen wedding, that
Speaker 1: was great to bring someone that you really want to bring.
Speaker 1: Bringing the wrong date to a wedding is nothing short
Speaker 1: of torture, and going alone is also nothing short of torture.
Speaker 1: So it's hard to find that right Goldilocks temperature. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to bring someone to the Yellowstone premiere. It's
Speaker 1: fun to get dressed up with someone. It's fun to
Speaker 1: go with someone, and especially if you like someone. And
Speaker 1: so I brought someone to that premiere, and it was
Speaker 1: a small premiere. It was really just the cast. It
Speaker 1: was the whole cast. Kevin Costner is no longer on
Speaker 1: the show. They did a good job of addressing that
Speaker 1: he's not on the show anymore. Let's just say that
Speaker 1: they did a good job of that. And it's a
Speaker 1: hard show to do without the protagonist, like without the
Speaker 1: tony soprano character. You know, Kevin Costner not being there
Speaker 1: made me want like his long lust evil brother, the
Speaker 1: way that in Succession they have the brother that is
Speaker 1: also the partner, like that is coming to take over
Speaker 1: the ranch and something but anyway, you'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: That's a different story. By the way, incidentally, I wore
Speaker 1: a three hundred dollars Norma Kamali dress and long hair extensions,
Speaker 1: and I looked like people said Demean Moore, Angelina, Jolie Elvira.
Speaker 1: Maybe I got more titsha. I think there was maybe
Speaker 1: one Kyle. But anyway, people loved this look.
Speaker 2: It was interesting.
Speaker 1: It was a very dramatic look, and it was very
Speaker 1: I don't know, people loved it. We're leaving the theater
Speaker 1: after the show and I guess I was still on
Speaker 1: my phone And we get to the after party and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and my date is hungry.
Speaker 2: He gets foo, we get a drink.
Speaker 1: It's like fine, you know that cast is lovely, but
Speaker 1: like I don't need to go meet any of them
Speaker 1: per se, Like they're sometimes shows you want the cast
Speaker 1: to like only be in that show, do you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like whether it was Kramer and George
Speaker 1: and Elaine, like they stick in that show like that's
Speaker 1: who they are. So this cast, it wasn't like I
Speaker 1: needed to see Beth outside of her character. And she's
Speaker 1: a British woman, you know, the redhead that has all
Speaker 1: the good lines on the show. So we just were
Speaker 1: sort of being alone doing that much. And then and
Speaker 1: then the photographer came and said, can I get a
Speaker 1: picture of you guys? And I haven't taken a picture
Speaker 1: with this date yet. That was like intended, right, and
Speaker 1: so they took a picture, and of course it had
Speaker 1: to be a big thing, which like, not everything is everything.
Speaker 1: I brought a date to the Yellowstone premiere, but it
Speaker 1: becomes international news and it's a whole big thing and
Speaker 1: all that. And I'm such a different person than when
Speaker 1: I was on reality TV and trained to share. I
Speaker 1: remember I used to be told you have to blog
Speaker 1: about the episode on Housewives, which meant that after the
Speaker 1: episode and after the thing was airing, you have to
Speaker 1: blog about it so you can have more reasons for
Speaker 1: them to trash you on the reunion and on watch
Speaker 1: What Happens Live, which will then feed out to the
Speaker 1: whole media. You would say more things, and that's what
Speaker 1: they'd be, like met Well, in your bog you said
Speaker 1: this person is useless, Like it was more access points
Speaker 1: to get yourself into fucking hot water trouble, none of
Speaker 1: what you're being paid for, Like it's fine what you're
Speaker 1: doing on camera. So back then, on camera, you were
Speaker 1: sharing your life. But for some reason I was trained
Speaker 1: that off camera I had to share my life. I
Speaker 1: never found out until like six months ago when Joe,
Speaker 1: my publicist, was like, yeah, you don't ever have to
Speaker 1: say you had a breakup? Like what because I had
Speaker 1: a pubisi this years ago. You know, people really want
Speaker 1: to hear what you think. Well, that's a touching fucking story.
Speaker 1: Like I used to respond to things because I was
Speaker 1: told I had to. So Joe Fritze was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: and she said, A list celebrities never comment. I never go,
Speaker 1: excuse me, did you just say A I mean who
Speaker 1: you talking? I mean I'm not a list, Joe, but oka,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you think I am. So anyway, So that
Speaker 1: was when I started like no witness protection, like whitsec,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to say anything.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know when you need to know.
Speaker 1: You'll see another fucking honkin diamond on my finger. If
Speaker 1: I'm interested in, you know, wife being up, you'll be
Speaker 1: the first to know. But like you know, live and direct,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you when you need to know something. So
Speaker 1: I went to this event for Fortune, like the Fortune
Speaker 1: you know media company, the magazine Global Forum like Global
Speaker 1: Leaders Forum, and Boris Johnson was there, and Josh Kushner,
Speaker 1: you know of the Kushner family, and he has a
Speaker 1: big private equity fund.
Speaker 2: He was there. And at my table was a woman
Speaker 2: very high up at GM.
Speaker 1: She works under Mary Barrow, who's like top ten most
Speaker 1: powerful women in business, and that's one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: billion dollar company GM. And I was talking to her
Speaker 1: about some of their new technology and cars. And it
Speaker 1: was a Colin Cowie event, and you know Colin Cowey's
Speaker 1: at the famous event planner. And we walked in and
Speaker 1: I brought a date who I said, I don't know
Speaker 1: what this is going to be, and I don't usually
Speaker 1: go to corporate events. We got invited, which was flattering
Speaker 1: and actually really smart of them. And my publicists, who
Speaker 1: doesn't specialize in like business in this way, specializes more
Speaker 1: in celebrity.
Speaker 2: She was like, I don't know much about this, but
Speaker 2: like this sounds good.
Speaker 1: And also it's always that we're trying to rinse you
Speaker 1: from like your former housewives life, and also like not
Speaker 1: just that, but I am a business person. I'm an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: I have a philanthropic effort. I'm really much more of
Speaker 1: that than just like frosting red carpets just to show
Speaker 1: my you know, new French manicure. You know.
Speaker 2: I like I like business.
Speaker 1: I like talking to CEOs, I like hearing about different businesses,
Speaker 1: and I never go to kind of corporate events. So
Speaker 1: Colin Cowie was producing this event and we get there
Speaker 1: and they have women who have caviar like holsters on
Speaker 1: their you know, like it's not what it is on
Speaker 1: your belt, like when you have the belt thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's a wholester.
Speaker 1: So they've got caviar and they've got bleanies and they've
Speaker 1: got they're serving it like that and they're doing the
Speaker 1: same thing oysters.
Speaker 2: If that was really chic.
Speaker 1: As Colin said, he has a great husband who I met,
Speaker 1: which was interesting. And then we go into the dining
Speaker 1: room and they're doing like a retrospective since Fortune magazine started,
Speaker 1: and it was really so well done. I'm saying this
Speaker 1: to any of you who work at big corporations or
Speaker 1: have big corporations, because it's about spending money in business
Speaker 1: on something that makes sense. So this is their weekend,
Speaker 1: whether all these global leaders speaking, and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of learning going on. And the number one Fortune Leader
Speaker 1: of the Year is Elon Musk, and you know, the
Speaker 1: people on their list are gigantic, gargantuan. It's like they're
Speaker 1: a massive force. And for them to have hired Colin
Speaker 1: Cowie was extremely smart because he made this thing hip.
Speaker 1: And even though Glamor Magazine, where I went to their
Speaker 1: Women of the Year awards a couple of months ago,
Speaker 1: is more hip than like a Fortune because it's a
Speaker 1: fashiony female magazine. All of these things that usually go
Speaker 1: to still give corporate. If it's not like male corporate,
Speaker 1: it's still female corporate, which is also like touchy feely,
Speaker 1: and it's not it like girl power, girl boss, like
Speaker 1: touchy feely empowerment shit that people are forcing down your throats.
Speaker 1: And like the Glamour event that I went to recently,
Speaker 1: I'd love to know who planned that because that was
Speaker 1: just fucking modern and hip and cool and music and
Speaker 1: just good food and a good environment. And you know,
Speaker 1: they spent a lot less money than last year when
Speaker 1: it was at interestingly enough, Lincoln Center, the location for
Speaker 1: this Fortune event. I'm just saying I've been seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of elevation and the way people are doing corporate events,
Speaker 1: and it's not necessarily more money spent, it's more creativity
Speaker 1: spent and more thinking about just not checking the box
Speaker 1: with a rubber chicken dinner. So this was a retrospective
Speaker 1: but with amazing entertainment. Like back in the day when
Speaker 1: I used to produce events, I used to do the
Speaker 1: Rock on Alcatraz, the Grammys, the Emmys, the Howard Stern
Speaker 1: Private Parts premiere, the Gucci fashion shows, all the shit.
Speaker 1: This other by Jason was more on the fashion shows
Speaker 1: because he was this gay fashion guy, and I was
Speaker 1: more on the entertainment stuff, like I would do the
Speaker 1: Rock movie premiere, the kan Air movie premiere, the Howard
Speaker 1: Stern premiere. I was more on the entertainment stuff, which
Speaker 1: is perfect for my life now, and he was more
Speaker 1: on like the Gucci fashion show and all that shit.
Speaker 1: So but you know, we got to go to each
Speaker 1: other's events and be part of it and help each other.
Speaker 2: But really that's how it went. He'd deal better with
Speaker 2: the fashion people. I'd deal better with the you know,
Speaker 2: power bitch business entertainment people.
Speaker 1: So I know events and really the lighting and the
Speaker 1: sound are critical, like having good lighting, good moody lighting,
Speaker 1: and the food, yes, is important. But the entertainment like
Speaker 1: this retrospective going from nineteen twenties up to now was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: They had flappers and like the Roaring twenties dancers, but
Speaker 1: it was really quick entertaining. There were no speeches, no
Speaker 1: waterboarding us with bullshit that we don't need to know.
Speaker 1: Like frankly, even charity events are such bullshit to begin
Speaker 1: with anyway, because the definition of a charity event, this
Speaker 1: is not a charity event, by the way. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: the definition of a charity event is to raise money,
Speaker 1: and I know they want to raise awareness for the charity,
Speaker 1: but they sort of feel like they have to tell
Speaker 1: you everything at the event when it's disingenuous to begin with.
Speaker 2: Doing charity should mean you don't need entertainment.
Speaker 1: Food, tablecloths, florals, linens, and fancy bougie people and locations
Speaker 1: to do good. So by sheer nature of the fact
Speaker 1: that you are having all that bullshit, you're already in
Speaker 1: a superficial environment, so you should for charity events, go
Speaker 1: the whole superficial way. Don't bother anyone with anything, give
Speaker 1: them a piece of paper to go home with, or
Speaker 1: tell them there's a link if they want to find
Speaker 1: out online and let them give you their money, because
Speaker 1: if they're entertained, they're going to give you their money.
Speaker 1: And this event was not a charity event, but it
Speaker 1: was for a global forum, and I bet people paid,
Speaker 1: whether they did or didn't like it was such good
Speaker 1: brand awareness for Fortune because every year people are going
Speaker 1: to want to go, and everyone was obsessed. So it
Speaker 1: went through the twenties to the like forties, fifties, sixties.
Speaker 1: You had the dream Girls, which were like the dream Girls.
Speaker 1: You had an amazing Michael Jackson rendition with a talent
Speaker 1: kids singing. You had Empire state of Mind that sounded
Speaker 1: like it was jay Z and at least it was
Speaker 1: just an excellent night. Food was not that great. Just
Speaker 1: I'm mentioning that because it's Colin Cowie and I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna give her a dishonest review. The food is fine.
Speaker 1: The steak was like American Airlines stake. The Karapiris suit
Speaker 1: was like too sweet and piecy.
Speaker 2: It just wasn't it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like silky and velvety. And there was like
Speaker 1: this sort of like little skill that had a like
Speaker 1: sort of pop over in it, and it was soft,
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't it wasn't it. It wasn't really
Speaker 1: a popover. It was more like a soft piece of monkey.
Speaker 2: But it was fine.
Speaker 1: The food was absolutely fine. So but the people were amazing.
Speaker 1: And I sat next to a woman named Diane Brady,
Speaker 1: who can't believe her life because I've literally talked about
Speaker 1: her twelve times in the last week. It's unbelievable. But
Speaker 1: she's the one who said the introvert extrovert theory about
Speaker 1: CEOs and about extroverts being good people to manage teams
Speaker 1: and know a lot about a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: and introverts being good at being CEOs more of like
Speaker 1: the visionaries, more granular. And there was a man who
Speaker 1: was the CEO of holt Renfre, the the Canadian department store,
Speaker 1: and he used to be a netaporte. And if a
Speaker 1: corporate event is done well and really like with good
Speaker 1: choice of seating, seating the right people together, interesting conversations
Speaker 1: will be had. Let's just say that I sat at
Speaker 1: a table with a man who has a consulting firm
Speaker 1: and I talked to him about Loreal because he said
Speaker 1: that he does consulting for major companies, like multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar companies and their culture, and that he can change
Speaker 1: a company's culture in three and a half years. And
Speaker 1: I said, I want to know about Lorel's culture, because
Speaker 1: the way that they handled that Paris Fashion Week and
Speaker 1: the way that they operate is is if they're a
Speaker 1: small business. And he was like, they have an amazing culture,
Speaker 1: and he said, and it's because of this woman, Delphine,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh my god, that's the Hbiice Delphine
Speaker 1: that I know from France who's like anyway, so that
Speaker 1: my instincts were right about that culture. And then he
Speaker 1: told me a company that he said he would desperately
Speaker 1: like to work with that the culture is bad. And
Speaker 1: then he also said that Amazon has an incredible culture.
Speaker 1: And it's not just something that like you've had for
Speaker 1: years in your business that you're just gonna like say,
Speaker 1: this is what it is and it was forty years ago.
Speaker 1: You may have to change your culture. You may have
Speaker 1: to adjust, and not just do it because it's performative
Speaker 1: or because it's what you're supposed to do, but because
Speaker 1: it's the essence of the company and really creating a
Speaker 1: culture is critical, So I thought that was an interesting conversation.
Speaker 1: And then my data ended up showing him my video
Speaker 1: from Paris Fashion Week, and a bunch of people from
Speaker 1: the event came up to get a picture with me,
Speaker 1: and the woman at our table who worked for GM
Speaker 1: got really intrigued by me overall. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if she knew of me before. I think she did.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I may be doing something with GM.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say anything, but there may be
Speaker 1: a car coming to my house for me to see
Speaker 1: what I think, So I may be doing car reviews soon.
Speaker 1: Oh Handa had an electric automobile that I think is
Speaker 1: probably six figures.
Speaker 2: I think it's one hundred thousand dollars. It looked insane.
Speaker 1: It had like a pearl gray interior and that was
Speaker 1: in like the cocktail hour of this Fortune event, and
Speaker 1: my name was on the front like it was the
Speaker 1: future is insane. It said high Bethany in big capital
Speaker 1: like blue neon letters, like almost like a ticker tape
Speaker 1: on the front of this Honda four door, gorgeous, stunning
Speaker 1: electric sedan that I got into, and it was beautiful,
Speaker 1: and the way that the steering whel is you're holding
Speaker 1: it almost like you're holding an airplane, like you know
Speaker 1: that little like it looks like the end zone, like
Speaker 1: a goal post.
Speaker 2: You're holding those two. It was just a wild event.
Speaker 2: It was a great event. They did a great job
Speaker 2: and like that's how it should be. And it moved fast.
Speaker 1: We're out of there probably like nine o'clock, like peace
Speaker 1: out to corporate event.
Speaker 2: People are tired.
Speaker 1: Good food, good drinks, good company, good conversation, incredible entertainment,
Speaker 1: and keep it moving to to after, walk to the
Speaker 1: after