#262: Lew Frankfort, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of Coach – Combine magic and logic

There's no product that's more intimate to a consumer, to a woman, than a handbag. She opens it 60, 70 times a day. Her essentials are in there. She touches it, feels it. If someone had told 20-year-old Lou that handbags would define his career, what would you have said back then?

I would have said, that's absurd. There's no way. I would be flabbergasted if someone said it. And I would think that it would be an out-of-body experience like me going to the moon. Well, we're gonna we're gonna learn how you how you got there.

Uh, and I want to start by taking you back uh and taking you way back. And you know, you you grew up in the Bronx as as I understand it. You your father was a policeman. What what's a story from your childhood that shaped the kind of leader you are today, Lou? I think it had to do with uh going way back, with my mother's and father's belief that I could be anything if I worked hard and I was relentless.

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