Fireside Chat with Rebecca Minkoff: on Unlocking Creativity & Becoming Fearless

July 15, 2021 at 7:00 pm UTC on Zoom

Fireside Chat with Rebecca Minkoff: on Unlocking Creativity & Becoming Fearless

A candid chat with Rebecca Minkoff on launching her business, learning hard lessons and forging your own path

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Rebecca Minkoff is many things: a wildly successful entrepreneur, a thoughtful investor, retail thought leader and now, a best-selling author. Rebecca Minkoff's eponymous label has what every fashion entrepreneur craves: a beloved community or DTC shoppers and a massive roster of retail and wholesale partners all around the world.

But RM wasn't always a global brand. Minkoff took a massive risk and moved to New York City at the ripe age of 18 to pursue her dream of becoming a designer. By 2001, one of her t-shirt designs went viral on The Tonight Show, and soon, her first handbag became a worldwide sensation. Within years, she expanded her collection beyond handbags to the multi-category fashion empire we know and love today.

Minkoff's book is far from a "rah-rah" self-help book or business memoir. In it, she transparently outlines her biggest mistakes and her hardest-won lessons, and the 21 "Rules" she swears by today. Her rules include: accepting that change is inevitable, and making it work *for you,* understanding the laws of pure persistence, and growing comfortable with the fact that sometimes, opportunities *don't* serve you, and you have to walk away in stride. On this Zoom fireside, we'll explore her favorite hard-and-fast rules for building fearlessness, her early days as an aspiring designer and teenage dress-maker, and get advice on how to scale our brands and companies without sacrificing our vision or values.

In September of 2018, she established the Female Founder Collective, a network of businesses led by women who invest in women’s financial power across a socio-economic spectrum by enabling and empowering female-owned businesses. This organization has grown to over 9000 members and has supported women owned business by giving them access to education, networks and mentorship. Companies in this collective have gone onto raise over 15m in seed funding and taken their companies to higher levels of success.

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