![]() ![]() And if you want to dress and look beautiful and sit and listen and show your power in a very positive way, in a way that's humble but powerful. It doesn't matter, because now we've taken a lot of that out of the workplace. And that is good advice to any woman that's good-looking that's being underestimated at a table full of people in the men's world, women and men. Do not strive to be the smartest person in the room. To be a lot smarter than everyone thinks you are, that's completely fine. In fact, the most important thing to remember in a man's world is that you're underestimated all the time as a woman.Īnd so for me, and I encourage other people to think the same way, never underestimate the value of being underestimated. In construction and in design, it's just a door opener. If that's the only reason they're letting you in the door, you've got a whole other set of problems. It'll open doors for you, but it's as superficial as the person that opened the door, right? It's not going to get you all the way there. The most important thing was to teach her confidence and to be smart. And this is how I think I'm going to get there." I'm on this trajectory and this is my goal. "This is what I'm thinking I'm going to do, I think. So you have to stop and go, "Okay, so this is my strategy," which is hard. They're like, "What are you doing?" And I'm like, "I've got it all figured out." You're not teaching anybody anything. We give you a sensei interview and we say to you, "This is my strategy." And that's been developed because when you're on the ground and you're going really fast, and you're someone like me, right? You're not explaining yourself. And you can literally watch the show and graduate from those three classes. Okay? And a lot of homework and a lot of testing. Those three classes would cost you an absolute bundle at a college. And they would be Business 101, entrepreneurial-ism, right? And some sort of statistics or organization skills that have to do with what the outcome is going to be. You could take three classes at a university, at a top notch university. This is entertainment, television as a class. So they find like, "Where can we put Elaine that's going to be so helpful to the place and so helpful to the message, to create the story." And then all of a sudden I'm just there and I'm like, "Why did you pick here? What?" Because they had to pick where we were going. And I'm so lucky to have had to have been with the team that I was with, my production company that found this jewel of a show and then created these scenarios that would work for each one of us individually. I was like, they're following me, I'm doing what I'm doing. actually about, I would say, a third of the way in, the network wanted me to watch it because they're like, "Elaine, seriously, you don't know how to make television." Because I was having none of it. And I didn't want to pirate anything that Glenn had done. ![]() And the reason I didn't watch it is because I wanted to be authentic and have my own journey. Many things had gone on in history there that weren't there. And they would play music all the time in the great room. Because the house was inspired by Kathryn Grayson, who was very good friends with people like Frank Sinatra and William Randolph Hearst. It was an art project, an installation of music, which brought a home to the house. So my House of Rock was not about the house. My dad used to say, "What's the greatest room, the biggest room in the world?" And I would say, "I don't know." He said, "The room for improvement." So in that empty space, as I've become an adult, I see everything full, abundant, with things other than furniture. And I always could see empty space full in my head. And in technical terms, everybody has their magic superpower. And it used to drive them crazy, but I was always about my environment and my space. I used to move the furniture around in my parents' house, and sometimes even in the middle of the night. ![]() Well, I had an inkling that I would do design work when I was very young. ![]()
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