
Jennifer Garner on What Only Time Can Teach You
About this episode
Jennifer Garner is an award-winning actor, producer, longtime Save the Children ambassador, and co-founder of Once Upon a Farm, an organic children’s food brand. After rising to fame on Alias, she built a career spanning more than three decades before entering entrepreneurship at 45 and helping grow Once Upon a Farm into a $724 million publicly traded company.
Jennifer joins Emma to talk about the side of success people rarely see: losing years of her life when Alias made her famous, disappearing from friendships, and how the constant presence of paparazzi warped her confidence.
Jennifer shares:
- What Jennifer is only now realizing about approval and earning her place
- How years of rejection and several failed ideas prepared her for entrepreneurship
- What she’s learned about holding anger without burying it
- How to recognize the value you bring without conventional qualifications
- When fame and visibility can help a business, and where they cannot
- What it actually looks like to protect a company’s mission
- Why your biggest chapter doesn’t come with an age limit
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