'I just get inspired by something and then I feel the need to insert myself and execute and help,' Bethenny said.
Though you may be familiar with reality television star, entrepreneur, and producer, over the years, she's added philanthropist to her résumé. It's an appropriate title—most recently, she has been one of the fewThis is not the first crisis Frankel and herhave addressed: in September, she flew to the Bahamas to aid the Hurricane Dorian relief efforts, and raised money to relieve those affected by the Australian wildfires.
Frankel hopped on the phone to get real about what she needs to accomplish her charitable goals, the lack of assistance from billionaires, and why she's okay with footing the bill.Like my career, and like everything else, I don't have these big grand plans. I don't have this big chess board of all that we're going to do. I just get inspired by something and then I feel the need to insert myself and execute and help.
It's like war time; people begging for scraps. I'm getting thousands of emails a day from nurses, and doctors, and hospitals, and friends, and people, and store clerks just begging me for masks. So I got into this on a multi-tiered level, with hospitals and government—allocating funds for masks I can help them get, and help distribute.
Listen, you could be planning a party and you're worried about the flowers and the music and the guests and the food and one thing goes wrong—the whole party blows up and we don't understand why. I just don't know. And I never have known. We were in Puerto Rico on the ground before the government. We were in the Bahamas on the ground while the hurricane was still going. We have a run-and-gun mentality.
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