My guest today, Jamie Kurn Lima.
Well, she thought she'd spent her life in the world of broadcast tv, where after graduating school, she began working her way up as a journalist and then eventually a news anchor, where a bright career was really laid out in front of her.
Then the camera started picking up a genetic skin condition that she struggled to hide and threatened to derail what she was really working so hard to build.
That experience, that emotion at quest that would eventually lead her out of the world of broadcast journalism and into the world of entrepreneurship, where she'd eventually found it.
Cosmetics, a company she started in her living room and would sell down the road to L'Oreal for $1.2 billion, becoming the first female CEO in L'Oreal's hundred plus year history.
Her journey, though, is anything but smooth, with years of hundred plus hour weeks living hand to mouth for some of those miles of no's and countless dark nights of the soul.
And even a single moment that would either shut the company down or launch them into the stratosphere.
Which, by the way, guess which one happened.
Jamie's passionate about inspiring mentors and entrepreneurs, building businesses, making a difference in the lives of women and girls, and giving back in a big way.
Her book, believe it, shares her story and many of the big insights she's now sharing with aspiring creators and founders.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
I was born, yeah, in San Rafael and adopted the day I was born, which I would learn about in my late twenties for the first time.
But yeah, raised up in the Seattle area, went to school out there.
Lots of families still up there in that area right now.
Yeah.
Which is gorgeous there.
It sounds like as a kid also, you're coming up in a family where, hardworking family, but you end up also being the first person in the family to go to college.
Yeah.
Yeah.