Jennifer Lopez interview for LinkedIn

there's this this thing with artists where we feel so much gratitude to be able to do what we love to do that we don't give ourselves a value and worth that we deserve I think women do have this problem as well and and I think now and in this moment in time in this day and age it's shifting for women and I feel like it also has to shift for artists Jennifer thank you so much for joining us here today thank you your new movie second act takes on some pretty meaty workplace topics the idea of your career being feeling stuck or barriers either real or internal they're stopping people from getting to where they want to get you have a million projects going on there's so many different things you can do why is this a story that you wanted to tell I just feel like it's every person and somebody's like oh that's see every girl or the everyone but it's every person there's a time in all of our lives where we want to get ahead where we have an ambition what we want to do more where we want to succeed further and and sometimes we hit a wall and we don't know how to get past it and we realized at the end of it you know hopefully you get to the point where you realize the only thing that's stopping you is you and you can break through any barrier but sometimes that's a long road that's a hard journey have you had that experience I mean for me there's been so many times because you know this business is pretty unforgiving when it comes to being rejected you get rejected a lot I say for the you know the 40 something movies I've done you know I've gotten a hundred nose in between and and that's that's just the nature of what we do maybe 400 you know who knows at this point but it's a it's definitely a feeling that I'm familiar with yeah one of the interesting parts about the character is that she doesn't have a college degree she feels left out because she doesn't have a college degree I'm curious when you hire people do you look for degrees do you think it's important it's a yes and no question right it's great if somebody has an amazing education but I know from my own experience in my own life and and other people that I I work with that you don't have to have to have value or to you know be of tremendous worth to different businesses that street smarts that experience that just kind of internal kind of creative know-how is just as valuable as a degree and I think that's what this movie deals with a lot which is which is a great thing because most people don't have the privilege of getting that type of education I know I didn't nobody I knew growing up did and and I and and still a lot of us have been successful so do you make it a point when you you have so many people working for you or working with you you can make choices about who's on the set with you are you looking for degrees do you actively go out and look for people who don't have degrees I never did I have to tell you I never did I always want more with vibe and energy and to tell you the truth it's really about I'm looking for a hard worker a hard worker who's not afraid to work like 24 hours a day if that sounds crazy it's cuz we are I am and everybody who works for ya as well and then recently as I've gotten more into kind of owning businesses and going from a licensing model to an ownership model I realize I need people who have more business experience and so yeah I've been looking more at that lately could you talk a little bit about that moving from licensing to ownership what made you make that change and what are you looking at you know I've been of the mind a long long time that the way it's done in Hollywood and the way artists are you know kind of handled and taken care of that there was something wrong with the fact that we bring we are the scarce asset and we bring so much to the table and we usually get the smallest piece of the pie and without us nothing can really happen because they need the ideas they need to perform they need this or you need them they need all of this stuff they need the creative and all that you know kind of everybody's adding is the money and kind of money you can get anywhere in a sense right that's that's in in private equity world and in the business world it's like ah it's just money right and you're like really it's just money so I'm actually the thing that's you're the product yeah right you're the product and and I knew there was something where I just didn't know what it was it wasn't until really Alex came into my life and had such a nice grasp of the business world in so much experience in his own life of in real estate and in business and dealing with private equity firms and things like that where he was like oh yeah you're right it is wrong and this licensing model that we had been doing and quite successfully you know we've maxed out I don't think between Mia might seem there was anybody who's doing it in a more successful way as far as I'm concerned we were just we were hitting on all cylinders but deep down I knew that when I made a company almost two billion dollars I said I only came home with a literally I don't even know what the percent it had to be like five percent of that it may be less much less yeah much less than that that there was something wrong but at the time it must have felt if you were you're you're known for your negotiating skills you are you know your draw you drive hard hard deals that benefits you now when you look back other things you said I should have done there it yeah we really weren't driving hard deals I think we were the ones who like they were like they were driving the hard deals you know we were kind of like oh thank you you know there's this thing with artists where we feel so much gratitude to be able to do what we love to do and that we don't give ourselves the value and worth that we deserve I think women do have this problem as well and and I think now and in this moment in time in this day and age it's shifting for women and I feel like it also has to shift for artists and and they need to understand their Worth and value as well and what they bring to the table and need to own the things that they do as well how does an everyday person yes go from take advantage of this yourself absolutely how do you take that ownership idea and apply it to your life are there things that you are doing differently now that you think about yourself not as licensing your name but is only these projects yeah because if I come up with the idea for a perfume let's say and I come up with how I want it to smell what the packing doesn't look like I'm putting my name on it and I'm gonna be in all the ads yeah I can do that myself you know I just have to partner up with a lab who can create the fragrance in the way that I want it I have to get a marketing you know there's I can do it myself and then own part of it instead of licensing you up to some one of the big cosmetic companies or something like this where they make the lion's share of it so it's it's those type of things or what learning curves for me and by the way I was very successful with those products and I'm very happy because I learned a lot and I'm and I think we got the best deal we could have been those those people were very in a sense fair to me but I also now know that I can do it on my own and that I can own it so whatever businesses or any things that I want to share with my fans of consumers that I think I have enough know-how experience and creative kind of spark to create something a product that I think is going to be useful or helpful and put it under my brand which I think at this point I've built up kind of an equity with people of like I promise you if I say something this is what it is and if I tell you it's this and it's actually a good thing and I don't I've been very careful what I put my name on and making sure that it's quality and so yeah I feel really good about the fact that we we've moved from doing that to to realizing that I can do it in a different way and being able to actually execute that at this time in my life I saw a great quote from your significant other Elle Alex Rodriguez where he talked about you going direct to consumer with your personal branding so we've talked about the ownership model but one of the other things you've been able to do is cut out the middleman Forbes wish you is the 53rd highest paid celebrity of the year if you look at the list one of the things that really sets you apart is that you're not on the list because of a sport that you play or acting or producing it is as the trades call you a multi - it you have so many projects going on as once they all add up and there are so many things you could be doing how are you picking what projects that you want to take on what what you want to launch what are you saying no - how do you make that decision you know it's hard for me to say no and it always has been so I've always been this person who takes on a lot and and because I love so many things and I love acting I love making movies I also love me in television I love you know performing live I love doing concerts I love making music I love being in the studio so there's so many when opportunities come it's hard for me to say no but what I think I've learned and what I'm trying to do now at this point in my life is to say no a little bit more and and hone it down to like working smarter instead of working all the time which was you know it gets tiring please stop asking me a question because I don't know and at some point it's gonna catch up with me so how are you saying no I just it's really about the quality the quality of the projects like I said and and knowing which ones are gonna have the best ROI right and so first I have to love it I respond to it and and creatively just the artist in me has to be singing but also you know not taking on something that's gonna take up seven months and yield this much and then my whole year is gone and then I have to like scramble or like make up you know everything you know the deficit in other ways and with a lot of other projects that I don't give me as much passion and it's been a transitional time a learning curve over the years and now I'm at a place where I just I'm really much more particular and and and forced myself as much as I love doing so much to say no to the smarter things most that changed to when I have my kids your career path as I think if you look back and incredibly successful done a lot of amazing things would you've had ups and downs in your career when you think back to those downs how does it is this the kind of thing that has a is a hangover effect on you where you're like oh I don't ever want to go through that again how do you use those those points in your career which weren't great you know I just I look at them now and I think you really just plowed through those you know and that's the thing it's like you can't stop you have to kind of keep on going failure is not falling down and making a mistake or choosing the wrong movie or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time it's stopping stopping is the failure not continuing forward is the failure not keeping going and so we don't listen to our gut enough telling us this is not the right thing for you right now you're doing this out of fear instead out of love that's usually when it went winds up in misery that's the thing I think that is the best thing to think about in those moments it's like am I am I doing this because I'm afraid of something or am I doing this because of love and usually that'll set you on the right path you must have people asking you all the time how to be the next Jennifer Lopez what kind of career advice do you give people you know it's hard because there is no one set path for any one successful person like I feel like everybody takes a different path like there's no actors that I talked to that go oh we all started at acting school and then from there we did plays and then from plays we went to tell there's like no one way to do it you know I started as a dancer and then I thought I was gonna do Broadway and I didn't and I did some tours abroad and then I came back here and I got a job as Fly Girl on in living color and then I started studying acting and then from there I got my first television show my first development deal and then from there you know and then from there I got my first movie and it just there was a process to with that I couldn't have predicted or planned or have said I'm going to do this this this and this it just all happened the way it happened and I think all you can do is know where you want to go and take steps every single day in that direction whatever that is getting better at what you do and I think that gets you there where that will take you I cannot tell you but I do know that if you just wake up every day and go this is what I'm gonna do this is what I'm gonna be and today this is the thing that I'm doing to kind of keep going in that direction eventually you will get there do you think that your character in the movie does that I think that she's given up a little bit I think she's gotten to the point in her life where she's been at this you know value Club shop for 15 years and for six years she's been the assistant manager and she know she deserves a promotion and she's made the store better and she adds all this value and at the end of the day she's looked over by somebody who has a you know an Ivy League degree and that really is her last blow and I know I've had that in my career and that was after I was successful so that is it's a really true honest thing that everybody can relate to where you get stuck you know and almost give up so is there one particular takeaway you want people to have when they leave the theaters I think my favorite thing that people have said is that they leave the theater inspired they leave this theater inspired and and that's my favorite thing about being an artist in general is that you can inspire people to dream their own biggest dreams that's great well Jennifer thank you very much for joining us terrific so much

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Length: 14min 1sec (841 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 03 2018