The fashion entrepreneur blends personal memoir with ground-breaking research about harnessing unshakable self-confidence in her new book, “GRAVITAS.”
Gravitas founder and CEO Lisa Sun launched her fashion line 2013, after working for more than a decade with McKinsey & Company.“Lisa comes across as young and overly enthusiastic at times. She should seek to have more gravitas.”Gravitas founder and CEO, Lisa Sun, didn’t know it then, but those two lines written by her former boss in her first annual review as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company in 2001 would change the course of her life forever.
Her boss then suggested that she get a new outfit - and a new perspective. “Every morning when you wake up, you are the first person you see,” her boss told her at the time. “You should look in the mirror and like yourself.” It would take Sun another 11 years to truly decode that feedback, but eventually she realized she had to make the choice toward self-confidence. When she did figure it out, she pivoted to a different industry in women’s fashion and named her clothing line after it – Gravitas – which aims to promote body positivity and self-confidence.Hay House, Inc.Sun recently joined Know Your Value founder and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski to share some of the lessons from her book.
“Feedback is a gift and that's why I think women remember it,” Sun told Brzezinski, regarding the experience with her formerboss. “I was a size 18-20, making $43,000 a year 20 years ago, and she said, ‘Dumbo did not need a feather to fly but it reminded him that he could … I can teach you to be good at [this job], but I can’t teach you to believe in yourself.
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