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Monica Nassif

lines on the record: 110
first: 2025-02-17
most recent: 2025-02-17
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“Well, he had a job offer. He got a job offer in Minneapolis. And oh my God, I'd start doing cartwheels. I was so excited because I wanted out of Des Moines. One reason was my mom, and we still laugh at them. You were just laughing about this a couple weeks ago. She would drop off my little brothers so I could still babysit them. And I'm married.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And I tried journalism at the University of Iowa. I tried photography. I think I had four different majors, Spanish. And I kind of thought, well, I do need a job. So I majored in nursing. Took me five years. But I also kind of settled down too. I thought, you know what, I'm just going to see if I can get straight A's for once. Just try it. And I did. And so I finally kind of stopped the party and got my head on straight and thought, well, I'll just try this nursing gig, see how it works.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. Drinking. Mostly grounded guy. I spent most of my high school days grounded, but I. I had this amazing, I wish I still had it, Jimi Hendrix poster in my bedroom. He had the floral wreath on his head, no shirt, a zipper, you know, about an inch long. Yep. My dad came up and saw that he goes, You take that down. I said, I'm not taking it down. He goes, Well, you got a choice, you can take down the poster or be grounded for 30 days. I said, I'll take the grounding. I'll take it, man. I'm just going to sit back and look at Jimmy for 30 days.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, drinking beer, drinking stide, hopping down the back of motorcycles with my brother's friends, being a stone cheerleader. Yeah, was not a model. It was the 70s.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Without question, you were, you know, my parents' attitude was get a job. That was so much more important than your grades. I don't ever remember saying my dad or my mom going, hey, Monica, what's your grade? They were like, get out of the house, go get a job. You know, my mom's big saying was the confidence of a paycheck. If you can just make your own money, take care of yourself, you are going to be just fine.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Others, right? Oh, yeah. I was totally second in command. I basically raised my three little brothers. And I could, my mom said, when my nose hit the counter at age nine, I could put dinner on the table. You know, she would scribble a note. And it's just what you did. You know, she said, I monica, you were capable and I needed the help. And honestly, what's kind of interesting, she only said this to me a couple years ago. She said, you know, I don't know if you had a child. You know, and I think about that often. I don't think I did, but I don't remember thinking, oh, that's a bad thing. I was just thinking, hey, she needs help. I got to, you know, do some laundry or put some dinner on the table or run some brother to some sports practice.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you know, I don't ever remember as a child Being quote poor are not having this or that. You know, it was just our reality. And there was a lot of large Irish, Italian families in our town because it was a homestead area, you know, and that was a law that was allowed people to take on land if they agreed to farm it. And so there was a lot of large families. We weren't alone. And, you know, you don't know any different, quite honestly, when you grow up in a house like that.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mom had a purple station wagon, like she drove that thing like a bed out of hell. She got caught speeding so many times. And this was long before seatbelts. And I, since I was the oldest girl, I would be in the front seat. I always got shotgun and it was always hold a baby. So I always remember I'm holding a baby. She's driving like a bed out of hell and we're going somewhere.”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What would she say? She would act like she did it. And you know, at first, I kind of always wanted to interrupt and I thought, uh-uh, just let her rip”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like, she was really. She's like the real deal. Yeah. And we would bring her to trade shows and people just loved seeing her. And she just embraced this whole thing. And I'm like, oh. But would they?”
2025-02-17 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT