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“I OFTEN WOULD WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH THAT HEART-BEATING-FAST, DRENCHED-IN-SWEAT, THREE-IN-THE-MORNING PANIC. THAT WAS SOMETHING I JUST ACCEPTED”
Jessica Alba leads the 190 employees of the Honest Company – the nontoxic beauty and home goods brand she founded – from a desk in the middle of Honest’s light-filled, open-concept Los Angeles headquarters. That is, when she isn’t on the road, expanding into new markets (Europe) or speaking at a female-entrepreneurship conference on the other side of the world (China). Oh, but that was all pre-pandemic.
These days, she clocks in from a closet at home. “This is where I take my meetings,” she says during a video chat on a recent Monday. “Total privacy. I don’t need to hear my kids,
