Jennifer Garner on What Only Time Can Teach You

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 placeHow years of rejection and several failed ideas prepared her for entrepreneurshipWhat she’s learned about holding anger without burying itHow to recognize the value you bring without conventional qualificationsWhen fame and visibility can help a business, and where they cannotWhat it actually looks like to protect a company’s missionWhy your biggest chapter doesn’t come with an age limit