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00:01hope sweetheart what are you trying to say that i am exhausted i've poured my heart and my soul
00:14into forester and it just feels like it doesn't matter oh that's just not true
00:21stuff he's killing hope for the future it's a temporary shift resources need to go to eric's
00:28new collection could i really walk away from forester away from my mother
00:38look hope is at a place now where she's got a decision to make and clearly
00:44logan is the right one because forester has become hostile to her like i love steffi i respect steffi
00:51she's a strong capable leader but when it comes to hope her judgment it's like it shifts it stops
00:58being business and starts being personal yeah i agree but for hope to even consider coming to
01:04i know it's like it's like it's not just her leaving forest or it's as if she's leaving
01:10her mother yeah it's um it's a big decision i i know maybe it's too big but hope's not happy
01:22right every day that she walks into that office it's like she loses a piece of her soul so i
01:28you
01:28know how much longer is she going to take this from rage and steffi carter's numbers align with the
01:33production targets we set yeah we're all in every resource every dollar this has to land
01:40well it will everyone thinks that granddad is tied to logan but we need to wipe that stain off
01:45his legacy and give him a proper return and everyone's on board yes well everyone except
01:53listen about hope no not about hope we gave her an opportunity not to be selfish and she made it
01:58about herself again we solved her line you'd be upset too it makes sense stuff happens you got to
02:04suck it up and you get back to work we need to focus on couture it's not personal it's business
02:23so carter we're looking at projections yeah they're aggressive they are but if they're fully
02:30committing every resource to eric and couture then it's achievable timeline volume distribution
02:38it all works is it just me it just doesn't sound convinced at all does it now i'm convinced as
02:45long as we're clear about the sacrifices well hopefully the future will be sidelined are you
02:51sure about this we need to focus on couture i agree from a business standpoint but as your
03:00friend tabling hope's line that can't be easy for you and brooke
03:08honey when i heard that your line was tabled my heart sank but it's only temporary right now they
03:15need to focus on eric focus on eric so what you're telling me that there was no other way for
03:22them to
03:22do that than to throw away a year's worth of hard work on my line don't make this personal how
03:30can
03:30i not they had to redirect stephy refused to answer me when i asked for a start date she laughed
03:41in my
03:41face and rich just stood there and did nothing it is personal oh mom truly i think stephy enjoys
03:50having me under her thumb and i think she likes having you there too which is frankly absurd because
03:57you have more talent experience and vision than she could ever dream of having really it should be you
04:05up there making the decisions being co-ceo with ridge not stephy
04:16about hope for the future in the past and despite those concerns i still back the launch
04:21now after everything hope is done she should be very grateful that she's here carter
04:24i'm sure she is the least she can do is support my grandfather support forrester in this decision you
04:32know what i don't want i don't want the two of you at odds again we just went through this
04:36i want to move on too dad okay so so maybe move on with a little softer touch is that
04:41a possibility
04:42what do you want me to do i'm not going to baby her that's not what i'm asking but maybe
04:45don't laugh
04:46at her when she's expressing her feelings you laugh i didn't really i didn't i didn't laugh i was
04:52well she was being over dramatic it's ridiculous all i want and i know it sounds silly but i just
04:57want a little piece around here is that something we can do is that because of hope's contributions
05:02or because she's rook's daughter a little bit of both but we we can't ignore that she has given
05:07something to this company show us some respect it's okay i agree katie left because she felt
05:14disrespected and started her own fashion policy we don't want to lose hope too we're not going to lose
05:19hope hope can whine and cry she's not going anywhere hope would thrive here at logan
05:26i don't disagree but what if bringing her on does more harm than good like i don't even see
05:33how that's possible i hope devoted years of commitment to forrester and she's still being
05:41treated like like an outcast i know i was going to say like you were
05:50the reason you weren't treated as family at forrester is because you're not family they choose
05:57their own they prioritize the forrester clan and that's that's great if you're in the inner circle
06:03but if you're not you're expendable and hope hope deserves to be with family real family
06:12what about brook well which brook right brook logan or brook forrester because right now
06:18it kind of feels like brook is way more comfortable deferring to ridge and that's fine like i'm not
06:24saying that with judgment but it's a fact and hope wants more than that you heard my sister when she
06:29came here and i i think she was trying to extend an olive branch like looking for a way to
06:35reconnect
06:35and i don't want to do anything that is going to drive us further apart she is going to see
06:41me
06:41as poaching hope from forrester from her own mother she's going to see this as a huge betrayal
06:49i don't want to live under stephi's rule anymore and neither should you honey you're hurt and it's
06:57understandable but your line is just being postponed postponed mom stephi is icing me out hope
07:04she undermines me at every turn i mean first well taking deke off my line making me fire him
07:12replacing him with thomas who is more experienced than deke he lives in paris cindy and i had to
07:19juggle the time zone we had to have conference calls at midnight and yet we still made it work
07:24and we created a beautiful relevant edgy line that i am so proud of that was ready for production
07:32and then what happens it gets sidelined and my team gets dismantled honey this is business
07:39so please don't take it personal i just really need to focus on eric's return right now i just feel
07:47like there could have been another avenue to support eric that didn't involve torpedoing my line
07:55honestly mom it feels like she's punishing me and i don't know for what if it's for all those years
08:01of back and forth with liam for my involvement with thomas the stunt that carter and i pulled which
08:09yes was wrong it was absolutely wrong the way we went about it but but at least in our tenure
08:16no lines
08:17got cut and nobody left the company because they felt so disrespected that they had to go and create
08:23another line i'm just saying hope for the future is in trouble honey your line is still there it's not
08:34going anywhere so please don't worry about stephy oh i'm gonna worry and and i think you should worry a
08:43little bit too mom ever since stephy has been co-ceo it's not like she's created a warm welcoming
08:52environment no she rules with an iron fist it's like she's trying to prove that she's stephanie
08:59forrester jr only she's not she's just watered down version with half the talent oh honey you've really
09:08got to calm down mom you know that your contributions to forester creations dwarf hers
09:16and the fact that you have to answer to her it's not right
09:31look at these reviews from prior hope for the future lives right like the traffic
09:36you don't have to sell me on hope i created most of these campaigns okay right but okay exactly but
09:42then you know how impressive this was for her to accomplish without consistent support i mean imagine
09:49what she could do here with us behind her she's just she's not wanted at forester well eric didn't
09:55feel wanted either and look how well that turned out if the founder of forester creations wants to spend
10:01the rest of his life answering to his son and granddaughter then he gets to do that but hope
10:08can't take this anymore brooke just okay well i know what you're gonna say i know what you're gonna
10:13say about brooke and can we just like as an experiment if we could put a pin in brooke if
10:20you
10:20could just imagine that she's not a factor and you allowed yourself to picture what hope could
10:25accomplish here with us she's a visionary right and she was underutilized at forester but here
10:34sky's the limit
10:39dad i understand your concerns but this is a business decision and you know that i explained that to hope
10:45i know you did but that doesn't mean that she shouldn't feel supported around here
10:49well i can't help if she's offended by the way we conduct business i went to every department i
10:55communicated that granddad is coming back and they celebrated it hope being upset is unusual
11:01well a decision has been made and we're doing it to give granddad the biggest and best launching
11:08path i don't disagree neither do i speaking as ceo reallocating resources from hope's line makes sense
11:15that has some open the long-term health of this company she's your wife's daughter rich
11:22hopes your family too i caution you from alienating her
11:32honey i'm not dismissing your feelings but it certainly isn't going to help to escalate this
11:38why do you do that do you want you just pass it keeping the peace isn't being passive
11:49well it is when it costs you sometimes keeping the peace involves advocating for yourself
12:01whether you like it or not rich and stephi are still the ceos and we have to listen to them
12:07they do run forrester creations well maybe it's time to change them right like you have built more
12:16forrester creations than they're ever going to give you credit for i mean the belief formula the men's
12:21line the bedroom line it should be you making these kinds of decisions alongside bridge not stephi
12:30i appreciate you saying that supporting me but i could never put rich in that kind of position
12:40what he's supposed to tell stephi to step down as co-ceo yeah sure it might be one of his
12:48better business decisions come on replacing a bully with someone that actually deserves it
12:59i don't know mom just i don't i don't know how much longer i can endure
13:15i know this isn't easy for you and i know it's a risk
13:21i'm just saying i believe it's a risk that could be worth it if you think about all that hope
13:26could
13:27bring to logan i mean no nobody at forester is as plugged into their fan base as hope is
13:35i know you're right i mean if hope wears a beret suddenly berets are trending it's a beret yeah exactly
13:42like we're talking you know little girls and teenagers women that are building their careers
13:48they all love and respect hope and it's not it's not hope at forester it's just hope and she would
13:56bring that fan base with her ma'am i agree with you hope makes sense on paper but but it
14:04would destroy
14:05whatever relationship i have left with brooke and i could even lose donna too i thought donna was doing
14:10a pretty good job playing switzerland yeah well she tries but now eric's back at forester and he's
14:15upset that i used his design okay well you didn't there are designs we bought and paid for them but
14:20i think yeah well there's the truth and then there's what everyone believes
14:25if hope comes here donna is going to feel like i'm coming between brooke and her daughter she's going
14:30to side with brooke trust me
14:35i need logan to succeed i i need this to happen
14:40but if it means losing both my sisters should i really do that
14:46think about what college said about not pushing hope too far
14:50well like i said we can't worry about hope's feelings we're ceos we have a company to run
14:58okay our first priority is to make sure that this company is successful now and into the future
15:09you deserve so much more mom
15:13and what if i told you that i was content i wouldn't believe you
15:21because you are brooke freaking logan you endured years of abuse from stephanie and still
15:32you managed to become an international fashion icon and i do not believe that woman
15:39is content with sitting on the sidelines
15:44you think so highly of me
15:49you inspire and i wish you could see yourself the way that i do
15:53your strength and your light it just it has no bounds
16:00but i think you've also learned to make yourself small in order to survive
16:07oh honey i don't play small
16:12only i think you do and i say that with love
16:17your contributions to forester and not only forester but the fashion world
16:24like you are a legend you deserve to be sitting on that throne with ridge giving orders not
16:31taking them from his nepo daughter
16:34well thank you for saying that for seeing the greatness in me
16:39all your strength is what inspired me to create hope for the future
16:44you told me that anything i put my mind to i could achieve and i just
16:51i don't want you to stop dreaming mom i want you to keep dreaming with me
16:56oh honey i would love that
16:59i really would
17:01and i have felt kind of lost at forester lately
17:06maybe that's because you know deep down that you should be the one at the home
17:10you are the face of forester creations and the fact that you get treated like a mascot
17:16instead of a figurehead it is insulting
17:20and i think we have allowed ourselves to be diminished there for too long and if we don't
17:26do something about it stephy will continue to have her boot on her throats
17:30forever i mean i know she's going to bleed my line dry until there's nothing left
17:35okay i'm gonna say this again your line isn't going anywhere honey
17:40it's just it's being made irrelevant
17:45people keep asking me what is happening with hope for the future and when is there going to be a
17:51new collection and
17:53i'm running out of excuses to give
17:57i just
17:59and i wish i could tell them the truth i wish i could tell them that
18:05i'm hurt and i'm angry and
18:11i don't have much time left
18:15you don't have much time
18:17what does that mean
18:21that i won't allow myself to be
18:25stephy's punching bag anymore
18:28that i won't let her strip me of my dignity
18:32and i'm hoping you'll do the same
18:35please tell me that you know
18:37deep down that you are more deserving of the co-ceo position than stuffy
18:42oh
18:44please mom
18:45admit it
18:47tell me
18:48tell me that you know your worth mom please just
18:52be honest with yourself
18:54admit it
18:58you are right
19:02you are absolutely right
19:07stephanie and eric have run forrester creations for so many years and it's time that rich and i do the
19:12same
19:15i deserve this honey
19:17i do
19:19i deserve to be co-ceo
19:23and i deserve to be co-ceo
19:29and i deserve to be co-ceo
19:31and i deserve to be co-ceo
19:31and i deserve to be co-ceo
19:32and i deserve to be co-ceo
19:32and i deserve to be co-ceo
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