YouSaid · the spoken record

Chrissy Teigen

lines on the record: 26
first: 2024-07-22
most recent: 2024-07-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“For me, it's actually a good thing. It keeps you really creative online and keeps the memes and everything flowing. And it's really funny. But for the music industry, I imagine it's very problematic and insane or acting, anything like that. For me, no, it's more of like a fun thing on my end. So I get kind of excited about it. But I will say, we've been to so many talks about it, and it is really disheartening to hear about. It's scary. It's scary for your kids growing up in a world of AI, not knowing what's real. Obviously being so on social, seeing that people really fall for anything nowadays too is really scary. But when it comes to my work life, I don't feel like cooking can really be replicated or that love that goes into a recipe. So I'm lucky with that.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We never want to trick people. That's what I always say. I'm not trying to trick anyone into getting one thing and then, oh, we got them. No, I want them to love it.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've just learned so much, honestly, because coming from the world of being so perpetually online, I always was really big on hard launches, really big, amazing launches that got so much attention. That'd be so great. Then you realize, oh, we're making maybe like 80,000 that day, and then there's nothing left for like the next two, three months of this rollout. So now learning to space that out. And a big launch is great, yes, but to keep it up and to keep up that momentum is really so much more important. So I'm not so big on the big hard, incredible, amazing viral launches as I was. And now it's about thinking about like the entirety of the year.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, with cravings wise, I would like to be able to be in different aisles. I think right now we're in the baking aisle, which is really fun. But I do, I hate adding more stuff to the world unless it really is different and unique and better in a way. I feel like we did that with our baking mixes. You know, we're obviously competing with brands that are selling for $2.99 and they're going to be the go-to ones for a lot of people. But it's really fun to be able to get people to try something that is really actually so much tastier, better for them, something you would be excited to show off to your friends. I love doing that. I would love to get into the sauce world, of course, but I do feel like carbone and Ryos are doing it amazingly, and I don't feel the need really to do another basic pasta sauce when somebody else is doing it so well. So if we ever to get into that world, it would have to be something different and delicious and amazing. I would love to get into biscuits. See, now you're going.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But most, it's also kind of scary because you're like, oh, he's aware of me, and what could really happen because of that awareness, right? Right. Because we obviously know he's unhinged. Could he actually come after you in other ways? It's a weird feeling.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I'm much more okay with, yeah, of course they're going to hate you either way, so you might as well be okay sleeping at night. You know, I drive myself crazy. Social media is my entire life pretty much. I'm consumed via it aside from the kids and family. And so I am left with a feeling of emptiness. If I don't, if I don't say something or if I don't speak out for what's right, it really affects me deeply. Whereas with some people, they're able to turn it off and turn it on. It's so ingrained in me that it's really hard to separate it. So now I'm slowly learning that getting to speak up and getting to be in that position where I feel comfortable speaking up and knowing that people are going to be so upset about it one way or another, I feel better as long as I let that out personally.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My therapist says that that online time was almost a euphoric feeling for me. It was so fun, and I felt so connected to it. And it was just the Wild West. It was really fun and joyful. It was funny as time went on, it became much more serious. And then my therapist actually says I'm kind of still chasing that high of that euphoria that I felt where I felt such connection to everybody and I always want it. I do feel like I found a little bit of that on Instagram, TikTok. I don't feel quite upon all the trends enough all the time. It feels exhausted. I feel too old. That's the way good way to put it. I feel too old for TikTok. Instagram feels good. And honestly, I can't manage all of those at once. What I just actually, for the very first time, hired a social media team for the first time in my whole career. So that's only been like a month old or so. And they help a lot.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm lucky though with my company, honestly, they appreciate an outspoken person. That's why they started following me from the beginning. They know what they got into by having any kind of relationship with me. And honestly, it's the times that I've been quiet that I... Feel the most separated from them.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Trump went back. I did not. No, I didn't back away from it because I felt like I was right and I always have appreciated people that stood up for something more than the people that kept it very neutral. You know, there's people now, Olivia Rodrigo, we use as an example who was not selling, she was giving out Plan B or Plan B, was it? Plan B? At her concerts, you know, Taylor Swift doing Miss Americana talking about what she wanted to be able to say in politics. And her whole team was like, no, no, no, no, don't say anything. I gained so much respect for people like that. There's beauty influencers that are speaking out about the conflict in the Middle East right now. at risk of losing everything, but they do it. I've always felt like that was more important to me.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, exactly. I know. Well, we could say who does the salad dressings. They're like, Paul Newman's not going to get into any trouble anymore. But if they've been saturated with phone calls before political reasons, because I spoke up about something, whether it was abortion or reproductive healthcare or standing up for women's rights, it could be anything. And then these grocery stores that are not used to getting any kind of negativity, really, they feel the tiniest bit, which I get all day. I get like anyone in the public eye gets so much all day. So we're so used to it. But all of a sudden, you know, this not small, this grocery store is getting maybe 10 or 15 comments on a post where they typically get one or two that are all negative about the person they're carrying and it puts a lot of fear in them.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's difficult for you. Well, of course, when you have a celebrity, when you're a name and you're attached to your own thing, anything you say or do can completely tank the company or take it down for who knows, God knows how long. But I mean, obviously there are so many different issues that can happen when you are entirely responsible and your name is on the company. This isn't just something that I could ever sell and I would imagine it like standing on its own. For me, this is a company that's always going to have me behind and always have my name attached to it. And of course, being so outspoken politically is really difficult. There have been times when the grocery stores, who are these, you know, these grocery stores, we think of them every day. We're at them all the time, but they're not used to the world of celebrity partnerships so much. I mean, you know,”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm still obviously very connected to it, but it's really important for me to see those hardships so I know that I'm not the only one going through them and I often want to share them online and the only reason I don't is because I don't want my team to be like, are we in trouble or something?”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jen Atkin from Way is one of my dearest friends and gives me so much mentorship. I mean, she has been through pretty much everything that I've gone through, but so much more as well. She is such an idol to me because she has built something from the ground up watching her build something and create a team and create a brand that I really looked up to, whether it was the PR boxes she was sending out or who she was working with to manufacture those products, the way she has created her brand and had this complete clear point of view since the very beginning is a really beautiful thing for me to see. And I also get to see and hear about all the hardships of business because I think obviously on social media it looks like everyone starts something and then they sell it for a billion dollars and everything just seems really easy peasy and great and you know you get down on yourself. I still think of our business as a small business. We have under 20 employees still.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Relationships is really nice, but for the most part, my teams are kept much more separate, I would say. My cravings team is my cravings team. I have great people, of course, at WME and three arts that are my absolute world in coordinating everything together and balancing those things and balancing those brand because there's so many different endorsement deals and brand partnerships that come your way that can be very conflicting often. And for example, like if I have a KFC deal, I shouldn't I can't be glamorizing like you know a Big Mac that same week by just casually doing it. So actually it's my social teams that have to work really closely with Debbie and me and three arts in those partnerships because those overlaps can be very detrimental to these brand partners.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, our teams work heavily together, but I will say he has much more well-oiled machine because he has so many different things going on. And I think his brands lend themselves more to integration. Mine are kept a little bit separate, but we try to do a ton of things with his wine brand. I won't say I love cooking with your wine, but to be able to pair.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To look at and be embarrassed by, of course, because they're not, our oldest ones are old enough to speak up and say something, but for the most part they're loving being on there. They love getting to be a part of our brands, like with loved one, John Skin Caroline, they love getting to be a part of those campaigns and seeing themselves in CVS or whatever. And they love seeing themselves in the things that I do at Cravings. That's exciting and fun to them. But if there's any point where they are done with it, that is completely fun.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, again, we do have friends that don't even understand why we would be so open with it. I almost think of it as, you know, they were kind of born into the spotlight. Don't post their tangents”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I seem like a combative person, but we often agree, honestly. In the direction of things, and also we put our trust behind the team that we have a lot to. Like, we have things to say, certainly. But for me, at cravings, I put my full trust in everyone I hire, whether it's graphic design, marketing, CEO, anything. I hire them because I think that they're the best and they can teach me so much. And I do feel like the team that we have at Kismet is people that are smarter than me in every different way. I might have good creative ideas and things like that. And we can collaborate on fun creative things to do social media wise. And I think that's where I flourish.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For better or for worse than something new. Yeah, it's for worse But I do think we have a very wise consumer now that really sees right through people that are doing things just for the money grab of it. And if it comes out of nowhere, that's never really a good look. And I don't really feel like any of our things have come out of nowhere”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we have always been pet people. We've always been pet parents. So this felt fun and easy and perfectly fitted into our life. I've never wanted to do anything that felt like I was having to sell something. To be honest, I'm really good at selling things that are not my own. Like cravings for me, like I want people to know that I love everything and we really love everything that we're putting out. We make everything ourselves. We are testing those products ourselves. And I'm so heavily involved in the company. And I almost say it's kind of the hardest thing for me to push because it is my own, because I need people to know that I didn't just do this as another celebrity brand, right? Of course, we're inundated with so many different celebrity tequilas and celebrity alcohols and celebrity probiotic drinks. And that world is so flooded that I started become really insecure in my own self and really thinking like, are people going to believe that this is really my whole heart, my everything? So I actually”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Longevity. I mean, doing it for long enough in the public eye and doing it in front of people. I mean, I've been on social media for so, so long now people have seen that we have a natural love for animals, for dogs. Now we have cats. I'll actually tell you, we have two cats now. John doesn't even know this.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Farms, Ralph, Gelson's, Albertson, Safeway, and learning about that world has been really interesting and really dynamic and fun for me because it's such a different world than what my friends are in, which is a lot of my friends are in the beauty scape. Selling to Sephora, they're selling to Ulta, you, a friend As well Spoken about being an entrepreneur because people don't think of that, they think just singer, whatever. But you obviously done a million things.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Make fun of where you're telling such a story and then you get down to the recipe. But I really loved what it created because I was a child of the internet. AOL chat rooms and message boards were how I got through learning so much about my body, learning about other people because I moved a lot growing up as well. So for me, that was like my family and it was always the same people no matter where I moved. They always stayed the same. So I always loved that connection to other people. I wanted to have a really good background in cooking before I ever did a cookbook. So Frances Lamb, my editor from Clarkson Potter, had reached out probably five years before I accepted a book proposal just because I didn't want to, I don't want to do it before I was ready. And then from then we spiraled into three cookbooks and then now business cravings where we get to sell CPG goods and we're in so many different retailers that I grew up going to. I still go to”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, Chris, why don't you start talking about how you look at what you do as a business? I think that, well, cravings is a natural extension from what we were already doing in the first place. I get to work from home, basically. We do have an office with the kitchen and John's studios upstairs. But for the most part, I was always in our home kitchen cooking a lot and I wanted to share those experiences. And it started off as a small little blog. Back when I had first met John, I was maybe 20 years old. And then I probably started a blog around 22 or so when we were finding ourselves at home more and really enjoying being at home. I loved cooking for date nights for us, but I was still new to the cooking world and I never went to culinary school or anything, but I really enjoyed the companionship and the camaraderie and the community that cooking created. It was one of those blogs where people actually”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like right now. You're in skincare, wine, culinary, and now pets, correct? So dog food. Covering it all. Covering it all. So talk about the idea of, you know, a lot of celebrities are into lots of products and there's more.”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, hi everybody. So we have a lot to talk about. I'm so thrilled to be here. I have interviewed John before, but I've never met you. I know. I know. So this is very exciting. So there's a lot we're going to talk about. We're going to talk a lot about your business. I'm a business reporter and a little bit about brand. I may question you about AI a little bit if you have any thoughts. And then politics, because you guys are both activists indeed and really engaged, especially reproductive rights and voting and So we have a lot to go through. So, you guys earn a lot of businesses. People think of you as maybe celebrities or anything else, but you're An entrepreneur. So let's talk a little bit about”
2024-07-22 · On with Kara Swisher · ON LIVE: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend on Entrepreneurship, Politics and Dogs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT