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What Now? With Trevor NoahJessica Alba Is Standing in Her Power! - What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Jessica Alba on Action Roles, Honest Company, Therapy and Stillness
- Alba says sets feel like home, and she describes returning to action with Trigger Warning, where she favors grounded stories and knife fighting over guns.
- She recounts being marketed to male-magazine audiences, how that stereotype made business partners doubt her, and how it took her three years after founding Honest to embrace the idea that she was smart.
- Alba traces her self-doubt to her family's history of assimilation under segregation, and says therapy has deepened her compassion for her parents.
- She explains stepping away from Honest as letting a child go off to college, and both she and Noah admit that sitting in stillness after a big career chapter is frightening.
- Alba describes taking her kids to therapy to break family cycles, while Noah shares his 'worst case scenario-ing' technique for anxiety.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasAlba feels most at home on set, not at Hollywood events
She says crews feel like her people, while events like the Vanity Fair party or Golden Globes left her wildly uncomfortable and without a community.
Being sold to 'fanboys' made her strategic early
Alba says she balanced each men's magazine with three to four women's magazines, and that being portrayed that way forced her to think about longevity.
Stereotypes affected how she saw herself, not just how others did
She says it took three years after founding Honest to embrace being smart, and she let her co-founders take credit for finding her even though she approached them.
Disruptive ideas can't wait for data
Alba argues that business people trained to rely on studies couldn't back a new idea led by someone unfamiliar, since data is collected too late for anything truly disruptive.
Letting go of a company is like a child leaving home
She wanted to leave Honest in good hands once it needed a more streamlined approach than a visionary one, and she says doing so is sad but where it's meant to go.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesI think because they gave me a seat at the table s- when I was 17
— Jessica Alba
It took me probably three years after I founded Honest until I really started to embrace the notion that I could be smart.
— Jessica Alba
Even though I'm right in many of these circumstances, it's not about being right. It's just about them feeling like they can express themselves authentically.
— Jessica Alba
I think I do it through my kids.
— Jessica Alba
Guns almost feel like a cop-out in a way.
— Jessica Alba
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SPEAKERS
Trevor Noah
hostComedian and television host, creator/host of the podcast "What Now? with Trevor Noah."
Jessica Alba
guestActor and entrepreneur, founder of The Honest Company.
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