Ivanka Trump on Money, Marriage and Jewelry
ROMANS: She was an international model, a graduate of Wharton Business School and she was the youngest director ever of a publicly- traded company. She currently makes regular appearances on a hit TV show, has a line of luxury jewelry and is a real estate mogul in her own right. And did I mention she's just 27 years old? Now Ivanka Trump is also an author. I recently caught up and asked her why she decided to write about career advice.</s>IVANKA TRUMP, AUTHOR: There was really nobody that was writing for somebody my age about those initial career moves, about those first steps, about, you know, the interviewing process, that at least they could relate and remember the experience themselves. So I talk about things that I believe are relatable and there are issues and questions faced by my generation, you know, being young in an older workforce, being female in a predominantly male workforce. So I really wanted to write a peer to peer book, not in a condescending memoir or bible of best practices, but, you know, almost a story from the standpoint of an older sister.</s>ROMANS: You were born with a certain set of advantages, and you took those things and moved on to build a personal brand that is Ivanka Trump. What do you tell people who might say that you had a -- you had a leg up to start and that makes things easier for you?</s>TRUMP: I acknowledge it. I did. And I know a lot of people who have know a lot of people that have legs up and choose not to climb the ladder. It's about harnessing what you have available to you and making it work for you. I'm really not one to dwell on some of the challenges that I face given the fact that, you know, people will always undermine and underestimate me. I view the family I was born into as a tremendous asset for me. That doesn't bother me or chain me to admit.</s>ROMANS: You came into the business at a great time for real estate. Things turned a real 180 for the business. What has it taught you? What are you seeing in the workplace and the economy that you are still learning from?</s>TRUMP: Truthfully, I have learned more in the last 18 months than I have learned in my previous 26 years on the planet just in terms of the business and of life and of just the flow of opportunity. It is a tough economy out there by any stretch of the imagination. In that economy emerges some of the greatest opportunities. When things are piping hot three years ago that was not the time to be doing deals. Many people who transacted at the top of the market are now realizing that there wasn't a lot of value in the deals they were buying into and the companies they were inquiring. Really, today is the time to shore up your resources and to start to look for that opportunity amongst the turmoil.</s>ROMANS: The jewelry business is now 2 years old. It's a little different than the real estate business. It's a passion of yours.</s>TRUMP: It's been terrific. Despite the challenges we faced opening our store and our doors of our boutique, it's been great. I wanted to create a jewelry concept that was geared toward and empowered woman. I would look at my mother and I would look at her friends and realize the luxury jewelry was not hospitable towards the female consumer.</s>ROMANS: You are becoming a household name, either it is because of the TV show or it is because of all your businesses. They wrote a story about the spatula you registered for your wedding. When your spatula is news, I know you said you wanted a houseful of babies. That all comes later?</s>TRUMP: Yes. For now, I'm going to be focused on continuing down this road on growing as a young developer and on creating a home with my new husband.</s>ROMANS: She will be married on Sunday, some 500 guests expected to be there. She's marrying her millionaire boyfriend Jared Kushner who is a publisher in New York City. A sheriff wants Craig's List held liable for prostitution advertised on its site; a federal judge has made a decision. What does the future hold for sex on the internet? Find out next.