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00:00 It's absolutely breathtaking to be in the company
00:03 of this remarkable, accomplished group of honorees.
00:06 So thank you very much.
00:08 My mother is here with me tonight.
00:13 (audience applauding)
00:16 She's a NASA hidden figure.
00:18 She'll be so mad that I made this about her
00:21 and an icon in her own right.
00:23 So hi, mom.
00:24 (audience applauding)
00:26 All right.
00:27 So let's kick this off with a little hip hop
00:30 'cause my mama said knock you out.
00:32 (audience cheering)
00:34 Allow me to reintroduce myself.
00:37 It was 1984, I was 14.
00:42 My look was giving Lisa Bonet in her Cosby Show era.
00:47 And I was out with my two besties,
00:51 Jennifer and Marisa at the Fresh Fest,
00:55 the greatest hip hop concert tour of all time
00:59 as far as 1984 was concerned.
01:02 You may know that hip hop is celebrating
01:05 its 50th birthday this year.
01:08 (audience cheering)
01:09 So back then, hip hop was just a baby and so was I.
01:14 There we were, three 14-year-old girls
01:18 in our graffiti-covered jeans
01:20 and our carefully cut up sweatshirts
01:23 looking like three street tough extras
01:26 from the 1983 gritty fashion blockbuster Flashdance.
01:31 (audience cheering)
01:34 We were literally coming of age
01:37 at the same time that hip hop was transforming
01:41 music and language and culture.
01:44 At The Honest Company,
01:47 we are transforming what it looks like
01:51 in corporate America and we're rewriting the rules.
01:55 We're rewriting what it looks like
01:57 and sounds like to be a CEO or a leader of any kind.
02:01 Because growing up in the era of hip hop
02:05 gave us permission to throw off the old rules
02:09 and the old confines of tradition.
02:12 So for the next generation of game changers,
02:18 I think we can all get a little wisdom
02:21 and swagger from hip hop.
02:23 So in the words of hip hop's next generation of prophets,
02:28 can I kick it?
02:30 (audience cheering)
02:33 Thank you.
02:34 So in the immortal words of Public Enemy,
02:40 the rebels of hip hop's golden era,
02:43 don't believe the hype.
02:45 People will come in your path.
02:47 They try to get you to believe a version of the truth,
02:52 regardless of what reality really is.
02:56 And they will especially try to get you
02:58 to believe a version of yourself,
03:01 despite what you actually know.
03:03 Don't believe the hype.
03:06 Always remind yourself, you are wonderful.
03:11 You are magnificent.
03:12 And more than that, surround yourselves
03:15 with people who will make you know that.
03:18 And then lastly, we need you to make sure
03:24 you sprinkle a little bit of your own
03:27 unique magic on things, okay?
03:31 It's important that you sometimes do something
03:34 where no one knows what it means, but it's provocative.
03:39 (audience laughing)
03:43 Hip hop told us that disruption is key.
03:48 And we need you to put your own unique spark on things
03:54 to drive transformation and to drive innovation.
03:58 So from the gospel according to Missy,
04:02 (audience laughing)
04:03 for my next generation of game changers,
04:06 I want you to work it, put your thing down,
04:10 thing down, flip it, and reverse it.