Bethenny Frankel Interview Power Of Women 2019

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00:00So we have a bowl filled with quotes from empowering, powerful, wonderful women.

00:05And so we're having everyone pick one out and read it and react to it.

00:12Oh, wow. Perfect. This is perfect for me.

00:15Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.

00:19Shonda Rhimes. Truth.

00:21So words have power because people can be so cruel these days on social media.

00:26People are crowdsourcing hate.

00:28If I don't like you or something you did, people are crowdsourcing other people to then go against someone.

00:33And I'm not into that. And particularly on television, women are doing that now.

00:37They're using the Internet and social media for evil and not for good.

00:42I don't like that at all. TV has power.

00:45I've taken camera crews to Puerto Rico, to North Carolina, you know, raised millions of dollars and helped thousands of people.

00:51So that's using. And I've also experienced grief on television.

00:55And I think that's helping people. That's connecting. That's showing.

00:59And I've raised a lot of money because of television.

01:01That's a good use of power. It's like a superhero.

01:04Exactly.

01:04Okay. And my pen has power.

01:06You know, I've written 10 books. I've written a children's book.

01:10I've written a book called The Place of Yes to help people at a crossroads.

01:13And I'm, you know, in ways at a crossroads. I'm always at a crossroads.

01:15So the pen has a lot of power, too, in writing to communicate.

01:19And also because kids don't really read as much now.

01:22Also because they're always on their phones and they're looking everything up.

01:26So I think writing is important because people need to still be reading.

01:30So I like that quote.

01:31You raised so much money to help the people of Puerto Rico.

01:34You know, the truth is, I don't like to play the blame game because when the relief effort was happening,

01:42I was there very early on before the government.

01:45And I was looking around in a mess and I just said, I'm just picking up a broom.

01:49Everybody said not to go. It's too dangerous.

01:51I said not to go.

01:52I don't know where the priorities are.

01:55I really, really don't know.

01:56It's so easy for everyone to blame and to say, I would do this.

01:59I don't know.

02:00So many people have said to me, I should be a relief advisor.

02:04I should be a disaster advisor because somebody wasn't delegated.

02:07I know that there wasn't a lot of an organized plan in Puerto Rico.

02:11But the whole country has to be prioritized.

02:13And I don't know where Puerto Rico falls in the prioritization.

02:17Between the wall and between the Midwest and the factory workers.

02:23I don't know.

02:24I would have to look at the whole board.

02:26Running for president, I couldn't do because I can't be in pajamas all day.

02:29Maybe I could.

02:30Maybe I could.

02:31You happen to have ran the Playboy match and maybe I could be in pajamas and run the government.

02:35I don't know.

02:36I just know that, thank God for people like the people I work with,

02:39to be able to help places that are in need.

02:41Because we got so much done.

02:43And I didn't even know what I was doing the first day.

02:46But you just sort of come to a place of yes and get things done.

02:50And now, how do you balance it all?

02:51TV, books, you know, your business, so successful.

02:56I balance it all because I'm a homebody and I'm most of the time home with my daughter.

03:01And my daughter gives me balance because when I'm with her, I don't have a nanny.

03:05And I'm at pick up and drop off every day.

03:07Albeit in pajamas, but I am at pick up and drop off.

03:10When we're together, we're totally together.

03:12We spend quality time together.

03:13I don't, if I work, which is very rare, I would go to HSN and spend an hour selling

03:18and then three hours with her, three days with her wakeboarding and having fun.

03:22And so that's my place of yes, that balance.

03:24I don't have a big social life.

03:26I don't really go out.

03:27So my life is with her and then the rest is work.

03:31But I have a pretty good balance with work because I'm reducing, I don't have as many buckets.

03:36It's fewer buckets full.

03:38Mark Burnett would be a bucket.

03:39HSN would be a bucket.

03:41So doing, you know, this is a, I don't come out that much.

03:43This was a reason to get out of pajamas.

03:46A good reason.

03:46Do you enjoy it, what you do?

03:49Oh, do I enjoy, yes.

03:51Now I really do because I'm really picking and choosing.

03:53And it's very hard to say no because there's so many interesting things.

03:57But there is a power in saying no, just as powerful as saying yes.

04:01And I want to enjoy my life.

04:02I want to be happy.

04:03I don't want to be, I don't, my life is not defined by how full my calendar is.

04:06That sounds dreadful.

04:08Awesome.

04:08Thank you so much, Bethany.

04:12Philanthropy gives you balance because you meet so many interesting people.

04:15So it feels like you're being social because you're connecting.

04:17And it gives you a purpose.

04:19You're doing many things at the same time.

04:20You're getting enriched personally and you're helping other people.

04:23Amazing.

04:23Thank you, Bethany.

04:24Thank you, too.

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