- Welcome back! I'm here with Scarlett Johansson!
Give it up! (audience cheering)
Earlier this year,
Scarlet was named global ambassador for Dress For Success.
It's an amazing organization
that provides professional attire and mentorship
to disadvantaged women.
Their goal is to help women everywhere
achieve financial independence.
So Scarlet, what drew you to wanting to help?
- Well, at The Outset,
we're all about new beginnings.
And Dress For Success perfectly aligns with that.
I've worked with their organization for many years,
whether it was drawing attention to their cause
or donating for auctions and all of that stuff.
And honestly, it's a very clear cause and effect.
You can really see it working,
they have a low administrative cost,
and the through line, again, is just so clear.
You see like the effect positive change immediately.
And so just being able to partner with them for The Outset,
having part of our proceeds go to their cause
and then also being a global ambassador
and being able to talk about their organization with you
is really exciting.
- It's always wonderful too in our careers
or anybody's career, when you get to do something you love
and then pair it with something important to you.
- Yeah! - You know what I'm saying?
And then everything gets lifted up together.
- Definitely. - It's cool and it's organic.
I like that.
We have someone in our audience
who participated in Dress For Success.
Everybody say hi to Star.
(audience applauding) Hi, Star!
First of all, you look amazing.
- [Star] Thank you.
- And how did you get involved?
- I am a single mother of three children.
Being the sole provider 10 years ago,
I opened my own home based daycare
and that lasted until hurricane Sandy ended it all.
At that point,
I was devastated because my children and I,
I lost my income and my children and I were displaced.
And we ended up in a homeless shelter
and I needed to find work and had no work clothing.
So the case worker there introduced me to Dress For Success.
And when I walked through the doors of Dress For Success,
I was met with kindness and nurturing
and all types of of just encouragement
as they walked me through the booth
and showed me how to interchange outfits
in order to make it stretch
for about a week's worth of clothing.
And then they continued to invite me
for personal, financial, and professional development.
And to this day, I just am grateful for all of the help
that Dress For Success has done for me
and helping me to become financially stable.
- Oh, I love that.
So you've loved the organization so much,
you've continued, right?
Working with them?
- Yes. I continue to work with Dress For Success.
My heart is to give back,
and I am in the process of opening my own business
in where I want to open a full scale salon
that does hair and nails and makeup and all in one,
so that when women come there, they can get a full service
with all of the same hospitality that was offered to me
while I was at Dress For Success as a client.
And I endeavor to give 5% of my proceeds
to Dress For Success, as well as make sure that women
that are going to interviews, that they can come there
and get their hair and their nails and their makeup done
before they go to their interview,
so that they can not just have the outfit,
but they can have the complete look.
- [Kelly] It gives you confidence.
- Yes, yes. - Yeah, it definitely does.
Well, you have something you want to say to Star, right?
- I do.
So Star, today, later tonight here in California,
we're doing an event for The Outset
and we would love for you to come tonight.
There's be a car that will come and pick you up
and take you to our event,
where you'll meet beauty influencers
and all the magazine editors for beauty.
We would love to have you as our guest.
And we would also love to invite you to New York
to come and visit our offices there.
So you can kind of get a sense
of how we're working in the skincare world.
I think it would just be so meaningful
for us to have you come and visit us.
- That'd be great.
I would love to. - That's awesome!
- Thank you.