WEBVTT - Special Episode: Rebecca Minkoff: Becoming a Real Housewife 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.960 Welcome back to She Pivots. I'm Rebecca Mincoff. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.040 Welcome to She Pivots, the podcast where we talk with 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:20.360 women who dared to pivot out of one career and 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.799 into something new and explore how their personal lives impacted 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:33.360 these decisions. I'm your host Emily Tish Sussman, and this 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:38.040 week we have on a guest again, Rebecca Minkoff. Were 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.560 re releasing her episode because when we recorded it last year, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.640 we had no idea that she was about to become 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.199 a real housewife of New York. So we caught up 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.640 with Rebecca this week, found out all about what that 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.680 filming was like, what she's looking forward to, maybe not 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:57.080 looking forward to, and then we have the original conversation 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.920 with her. Afterwards we hear all about her pivot into fashion, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.240 pivot out to the Female Founder's Collective, and hosting her 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:14.600 own podcast, and now into reality star Enjoy. My name 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:15.640 is Rebecca Mincoff. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:21.120 I'm a designer, podcaster, author, mother four, co founder of 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.080 the Female Founder Collective, and real housewife of New York City. Okay, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.880 so how is this new title feeling for you? You know, 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.480 Heavyweights the Crown, Emily, Well, it's funny because I feel 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.200 like we have so much explaining to do. We're none 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.400 of us are housewives, so it's very weird to call 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.240 myself one because I do not identify as a rich 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.640 woman who has nothing to do all day. I'm definitely 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.360 working my ass off, and so are all the other ladies. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.200 So yeah, I would definitely know that would be like 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.200 about the last thing I would ever call you is 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:52.880 a housewife. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.040 Actually, you know, I am dreams of being a housewife, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.160 but not yet. So then what made you want to 0:01:59.200 --> 0:01:59.520 do it? 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.160 And this is how I felt. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.720 I thought that there was an opportunity to be part 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.800 of their revival or the reboot, I should say, of 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:17.320 showcasing eight very successful female entrepreneurs that are all diverse backgrounds, places, ethnicities, 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.880 And could that be a narrative that, yes, there's drama, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.240 there's got to be drama or no one's watching. We 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.120 all know that, But could that also be something that's 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.000 just seen and celebrated because there's not enough of us, right. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.160 It's also I said it in an earlier interview, like 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.960 it's great for like there's a whole host of women 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.640 that are either fans of the brand and grew up 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.200 with the brand or new ones that I could reach, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:42.919 and if they get to know me better and they 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.079 like what they see, like, it's a great business opportunity 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.560 as well. So those were some of the reasons why 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.560 I decided to do it. We're also celebrating our twentieth anniversary, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.520 and I thought, let's just get out there, and what 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.760 a better platform to be doing that with? So why 0:02:58.880 --> 0:02:59.200 is this? 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:00.000 Why? 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.520 Why is this? What a better platform? 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.240 Like, you know, we're going to attach this to the 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.440 interview that you and I did earlier this year together, 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.600 and so I'm interested into where I like, when we 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:11.200 did this interview, I didn't know that you were engaged 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:12.680 with the housewives. I don't know if you were already 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.720 filming them, had ended filming the beginning, or if you 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.680 were in even discussions with them. So I definitely didn't 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.720 ask any questions about it. But you know, we talked 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.480 through your evolution, like your own pivots, your own moments, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.799 and how you built your fashion brand. And then when 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.400 you were a little bit removed, it gave you the 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.640 space to think about, Okay, what else can I do 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.880 for female founders? And then you started the podcast, you 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.880 started the Female Founders and you started supporting other businesses 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:40.320 through that. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.600 Like, how does this This isn't the most. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.240 Obvious move to follow your trajectory, so like, why this 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.440 platform to follow that same thinking that. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.720 You had had. Well, yes, it is definitely veering left. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.160 But what I will say is I've always taken risks. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.720 We've always done the things that did not seem like 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.640 following the straight path. And at the time it doesn't 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.040 seem like it makes any sense, and then later on 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.880 people are like, oh, wow, you were the first to 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.920 do talk to influencers, store the future, wearables, you know, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.560 talk to your customer, all these things that seemed crazy. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.840 So in my book, while it does seem cuckoo, there 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.200 is a rhyme and reason for why I decided to 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.479 do it. And I think when you start unpacking who 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.200 watches this show? For the most part, it's women in 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.880 my exact demographic is also very smart, accomplished, talented women 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.560 as well. Who for them this show is like a 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.719 respite from like their crazy lives. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:42.640 It was funny. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.279 A good friend of my husband's is an accomplished, award 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.120 winning director and when she found out this was more 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.960 exciting for her than like being at the Sundance Film Festival, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.400 and so, you know, the opportunity to show another dimension 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.040 of myself was something I've thought long and hard about 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.200 because you only get a certain slice on my podcast. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.760 And I'm mostly interviewing. You only get a certain slice on. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.440 Social which were we are showcasing a brand and product, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.920 and so how do you then just add more dimensionality 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.760 to who I am? And hopefully that means you know, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.080 you want to connect more in whatever way. I mean, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:20.200 I feel like the side they probably want to focus 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.080 on in the show is mostly personal like you personally, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.880 your kids or family like stuff that you've kind of 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.720 kept to yourself. Yes, but I'm a friend of and 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.280 what that means, and most people don't know that is 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.360 most of my private life still stays pretty private. And 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:38.760 we did that for a number of reasons. I have 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.320 very young children and I was not ready to expose 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:47.400 them to that, and my husband at the moment has. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.279 No interest on being on the show. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.520 So between him having no interests in my young children, like, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.320 you know, you'll see slices of it, but it's not, 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.440 you know, heavily featured, which is what a friend of 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.080 kind of means. Yeah, Ok, that makes sense. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.200 It's funny you were saying that you know, people would 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.560 necessarily expect it of you. Do you remember how you 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.480 told me that you were because we are friends, how 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.920 you told me that you were doing this? Remind me, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.240 remind everyone. Yeah, it's that I I invited you to 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.200 attend a Gotham game because I invited all of nice friends. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.080 I said, guys, everybody come see got the FC. We 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.840 just bought the women soccer team, Like I want all 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.800 of my friends to come. And you wrote back and 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.560 you were like, do you want the Real Housewives there? 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.480 And I was like, yeah, totally, Like who doesn't, but. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.840 Like, do you know that? Oh my surprise that one? 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.719 And I truly could not have been more surprised. Yes, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.800 a lot of people were surprised, and I've gotten a 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.480 lot of like, so, so why did you do this? 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.320 Why did you open yourself up to this hatred that 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.000 you're about to get? Yeah, I mean it's sort of 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.160 inevitable that Like that's the point, right, I mean, not 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.720 like the point, but like that's how the drama stays, 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.839 is that like people bring things and they have feelings 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.120 about it, and like the hatred, like how what are 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.040 you preparing for? And how have you prepared yourself for it? 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.359 So so the girls on the cast have all prepared me. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.440 They said, do no longer will you read comments or 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.039 engage with them. Someone else should do that for you, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.040 because that's where the fans can get brutal. They also said, 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.640 take off and remove all Google alerts on yourself. I 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.560 have not done that yet because I feel the need 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.920 to know what is being said about me in the press, 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.600 and I think you know. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.200 I interviewed a guest, Kristen from Nomadical Wines on my 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:30.440 podcast and I love my last question for passing along advice, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.720 and she was like, only take advice from women whose 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:37.280 lives you want, And I just am reinforcing that, like, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.640 if this is not a woman whose life I want, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:44.440 do not listen, do not engage, And that helps, I think, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.559 weed out a lot of the nasty stuff that's about 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.920 to be unleashed. And with the nasty is also great, right, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:55.440 there's incredible opportunities ahead and I'm excited for that to happen. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.360 It has put you in this sort of like sisterhood 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.120 and camaraderie of a very small group of people whose 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.440 lives have been opened up and exposed in this way 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:05.880 to your point that you know, like the New York 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:10.320 reboot is women that have businesses that are definitely not housewives. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:11.600 It's actually kind of not. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.320 True like the majority of the housewives of the women 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.560 who have been on Housewives, do you feel a camaraderie 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.600 with women who have been on other franchises? Like, do 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.960 you feel connected to them? I mean, you guys do 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.400 have this kind of like crazy unique thing. It's called 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:27.240 a trauma bond. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.280 That's the word for it. That's the word for it. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.360 It's it's almost like you know what they've been through 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.560 and someone can try and explain to you what it's like. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.000 And Jenna Lyons tried to explain to me what it 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.000 was like before we started filming. It's like telling a 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.240 woman who's never been pregnant what it's like to like 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.920 give birth, and it can be intense. You know. By nature, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.320 I am a girl's girl and I want women to succeed, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.440 and so when women are fighting and coming for each other, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.760 it's in my nature to want to de escalate, diffuse 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.400 and I know that inherent in this show what makes 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.400 it interesting and drama. So it's this tension for me 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.280 of I want to solve this situation, but I can't. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:09.640 What could I do? 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.480 And I found that I was like the Jewish mother 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.920 being like, let me feed you, let me cook for you. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.280 Who knows if they'll cut it out, but I swear 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.400 to God you could put together a montage of any 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.800 time they're fighting, I immediately get up and I'm like, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.120 trying to serve people food. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.920 Okay, that's actually going to be an incredible cut, like 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.360 all the TCD Stone cut, like Becky cooking trying. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.320 To serve people food. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.120 Well, I mean on that point, I feel like the 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.920 format of the show like doesn't really align with the 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.440 way I would like emotionally live my life. In that 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.120 I don't know, I either like wouldn't be that confrontational. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.080 I would like be confrontational and try to just sort 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:52.439 of like do it in the least is explosive way possible. 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.880 And then I might also hold a really long grutch, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.559 which doesn't really work well if you're trying to move 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.640 a storyline across. Like, how did you find your personality 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:02.800 vibing with the format? 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.280 I think with the format, I was very much like 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.560 the only way that I winted this is by being 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:12.520 myself an authentic. So when you know, one of the 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.080 women had something that she said about me went viral, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.680 I think people expect you to hold the grudge, bring 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.320 it up, have a big fight about it. And I 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.920 was like, I brought it up. She apologized, I accepted 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.720 her apology. We're still friends, and that is wild to 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.439 watch people be like but she said it, and I'm like, yes, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:38.200 and we are mature women, and so I have to 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.560 go against that belief and grain of like we're going 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.760 to have beef forever. We even joke about it right 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.920 now and we joke about you know, you'll see some 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.480 things we joke about later. So it's just like just 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.600 taking the air out of it a little bit because 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.959 I wanted to also just be me and that's who 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.880 I am. I'm not someone that like holds a grudge forever. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.280 And you know, unless it's irreparable and you're a crazy person, 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:05.800 we can have a conversation and normalize just being mature. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:08.800 Well, one of the things that's always struck me as 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.080 probably I don't know, I guess maybe like difficult to 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.720 maintain over a number of seasons is that you might 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.640 be sort of forced into people that you find to 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.640 be crazy or I find you know that anybody would 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.959 find to be crazy because you actually can't choose everybody involved. 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.800 So do you see that as being like was that 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.120 a limiting factor for you when filming it? 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.680 And do you see it as being a limiting factor 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:30.240 moving forward? 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.280 So I think it depends if someone is higher. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.560 Is if someone is there to just be crazy and 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.760 be entertaining, that's just an energy that you learn to 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:41.800 sort of deal with. Is someone is there to be 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:48.079 mean spirited, evil, spiteful, really causing true drama and pain. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.240 That's another level of things that get hard to deal with. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.480 And I think I come at it from two places. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.120 I'm not engaging with it. I will not give that life, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:05.080 But also where did that person come from and what 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.920 trauma did they experience that made them that way? And 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.240 so I have to have a little empathy when they 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.520 are that way, not sympathy, but empathy of like, wow, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.120 you just had to endure a lot, and good job 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.679 on surviving. But I'm not engaging with it and I'm 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.080 not going to validate it. I definitely feel that. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.920 Okay, on a totally different topic, I'm very excited for 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.600 the purse you have coming out, which one, The Wicked One, Oh, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.520 the Wicked One. Yes, it's almost here. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.199 Are we allowed to talk about it? 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:37.120 Yes? We can? 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:38.600 Okay, I'm so excited. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.720 How I'm the biggest musical theater fan love Wicked obviously 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.120 forever and ever. To be associated with this film is unbelievable. 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:47.520 So how did. 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.880 This come about that you got to have a piece 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.040 in it? This came about ten days after giving birth 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.439 to my son. I was asked to fly to London. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.920 All expenses paid, first class. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.840 Wine and dined all weekend with like Mattel and Lego 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.280 and whatever. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.040 And I was in my hormone high and I was like, 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.680 how could I do that? Can I smuggle my non 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.800 passport baby across? You know? 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.640 And after a while I was like, you know what, 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.000 I'm choosing my baby, Like I'm going to give this 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.600 opportunity up. And I just wrote a letter like I 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.400 just gave birth, I cannot possibly travel ten days after 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.240 having him. Thank you so much for this opportunity. If 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.080 there's a way to engage with you at a later date, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.559 let us know. And they're like, send your second best person. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.920 So I sent Mary. And Mary was my head of 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:30.720 pr and. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:36.000 Partnerships, and she went, and it was this long process. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.360 Of not only understanding what they wanted, who they were 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.319 looking for, but how do we as a brand bring 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.960 what people love and is iconic about Rebecca Makeoff and 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.480 the film. And we got to see footage and props 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.319 and the makings of which was so incredibly special. When 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.600 I tell you that no detail was spared, Like nine 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.520 million two of us were planted for one of the scenes. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:02.000 You know, they rebuilt from scratch. I'm now blanking on 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.000 the name of the university. You're gonna fill in the blank, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.880 shiz shiz, dear old shiz. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.760 Yes, thank you. I'm like, gosh, what was the name 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:09.000 of it? 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:14.000 So, and they made it handicap accessible as they built it, 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.560 you know, like just the thought of, Okay, we don't 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.760 want to use CGI, we want this to be really 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.600 real for people. So and then you go into like 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.840 the grimmery and like, just it's fucking epic what they did. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.160 So I was really inspired. We came out with two bags. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.800 I wanted to do more, but you know, I am 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.240 surrounded by business people and they're like two is enough. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.800 One for Galinda, one for alphah Bah. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.240 One is a hot pink patent like box bag with 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.400 this swarros eat crystal strap not real Swasky, I guess 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.880 I can't say the name, but crystal strap. And then 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.120 one is based on one of our best selling bags 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.160 called the Easy and it's stud pattern is from excerpted 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.160 from the Grimmery and there's a great tag in both 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.400 bags said don't hide your magic. And it comes out 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:01.920 in November. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:03.640 It'll be in the windows at Bloomingdale's. 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.720 I'm part of their big activation and it'll be available 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.760 on our site and it's limited. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.280 Addition, so it's going to sell out. Okay, that is 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:12.920 so cool. Are we going to see any of that 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.880 in the Housewives? Was that happening at the same time. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.680 Yeah, So we got to film a really cool scene 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.600 where London sized daughter who's a huge musical theater fan, 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.720 gets to come into the office. She gets to touch 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.440 and hold the props like we got the props delivered 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.640 as a surprise for her. She leaves with a bag 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.320 and I take her through the makings of you know 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:35.960 and why we chose that bag, so you'll get a 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:36.760 little sneak peek. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.080 Oh, that's so cool. That's going to be so special. Okay, 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:41.800 this was just at our quick update. Do you have 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.680 anything else that we should talk about? 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.520 Well, I'm a prankster and you're going to see that 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.560 in the episodes. You know, you might see some things 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.520 that I'm trying to make some points about rumors that 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.400 are spreading and how we can expose the rumor spreader. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:02.560 Ooh okay, that is spicy. I love it. Rebecca, thanks 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.200 so much for coming on, and now for all our listeners, 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.280 onto the original episode. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.960 Into your Face as always. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.400 My name is Rebecca min Coff. I'm a fashion designer 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:18.960 and the co founder of Female Founder Collective. I have 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.000 a podcast, Superwomen with Rebecca Mincoff, and I'm a best 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:25.800 selling author Fearless. And you have four kids, and I 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.880 have a mother with four children, which blows my. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.760 Mind, like three sent me into chaos. Four I cannot imagine. 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.760 I'm going home after this to take a nap. I'm 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.480 well deserved. Now where did you grow up? So the 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.920 first nine years of my life was San Diego. The 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.800 second nine years of my life was Tampa, Florida. That 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.320 was not my parents' intention, but they saw that there 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.960 was nothing happening in Tampa and that was great for 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.400 raising children and not having them get into trouble. So 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:59.080 my dad was a doctor and he had got an 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.880 opening in Florida and he was like, well, I want 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.919 to change of scenery. And that was it. You know, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.119 you really launched your career, made a name for yourself 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.800 first as a fashion designer. And you said that the 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.439 first thing you designed was your butt mitzvah outfit. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.680 It was. It was the first thing that I designed 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:21.000 in war successfully. I'll say that I had the opportunity 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.040 to work with this New York City designer who had 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.879 moved to Podunkville where I lived, and she taught me 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.840 how to sew and make patterns, and I was so excited. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.480 And as a young girl at twelve turning thirteen, when 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.840 you're entering womanhood but you don't look like a woman, 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.439 I was like, I got a design address that like 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:42.200 maybe can show off my burgeoning bosom. That was It's 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.359 weird that that was like for my bot mitzvah. That's 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.119 what I wanted, was like show off my chest. But 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:50.000 I had like double a boobs aka nothing, and so 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.000 I was like a square neck like medieval times. And 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:54.840 then I'll get like a little push up raw to 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:59.400 help me. Soon after her show stopping butt Mitzvah outfit. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.680 Becca continued her creative endeavors and enrolls at a performing 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.800 arts school as a dancer, and then in high school, 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.199 I hit a really tough time where my teachers I 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:10.680 don't want to pivot us too hard. But I was 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.320 a dancer and a performing arts high school, but kept 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.000 getting told like, you're too tall, you ruin the symmetry, 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.359 your boobs are too big, like just everything terrible you 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.640 could tell a young woman. And I was a painfully thin, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.119 very awkward young girl, and I couldn't fit into regular 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.680 clothes and I was bullied for it. And being able 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.199 to sew and make things fit me gave me a 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.280 lot of confidence and it made me feel incredibly empowered. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.680 And so I just became addicted to the idea like, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.600 oh it doesn't fit, no big deal, I can you know, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:42.359 take it in or add this to it. And so 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.800 that was just something I just I wanted to sew 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.600 all the time. And then I would make things for 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.679 my friends and it just became a great way to 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.960 like hang out and you end up making something. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.880 So you grew up jewish. Was that a big part 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.080 of your identity you had about mizphone. It was a 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.879 huge part of my identity. It was every Friday with 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.359 Shabbat I had about Mitzvah. My dad was very serious 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.160 about observing the holidays up until the point, I would 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:07.879 say about fifteen, and then all of a sudden it 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.919 was like, uh, we did that, which was weird because 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.119 he was so strict about it, and so I was 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.600 already by that time. I went to jew camp starting 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:20.719 at thirteen, and by sixteen I was going to Israel 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.840 for six weeks for a workshop program with all the 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.560 other kids who were part of the camps. And at eighteen, 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.520 I had the opportunity to go live on a kibootz 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.639 for a year, and all my friends were going. But 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.200 I was so desperate to get here and to start 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.000 working and designing, and I felt like if I took 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.120 a year off getting drunk and living on a kibotz, 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.919 that I might be, you know, behind, And so it was. 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:42.720 It was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.560 to make. With Sanatka on that trip and here being 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.720 New York. Yeah, so after high school, you are like, 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:50.520 get me to New York. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:55.040 Yes, So I thought I wanted to be a geneticist, 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.359 and so I went to Johns Hopkins like to like 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.000 see the school, and I thought, I will die in 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.679 a laboratory. I will just not make it. And if 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.600