1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? My children are healthy and content, I am in a zone of peace and fully present, walking a beautiful beach, early in the morning, and I am creative and/or inspiring all day long and loving through the night.
2. What is your greatest fear? Being unable to fix something terrible, not being in love, and being alone (not out of choice).
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My fear. Sometimes it can get the best of me and momentarily, I spiral downward until I take hold of the present and ultimately become my true self an then d I’m fearless so everything is okay until the next time.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Selfishness, cruelty and stinginess.
5. What living person do you most admire? My Dad.
6. What is your greatest extravagance? Everything I am able to do! Getting my hair professionally done daily.
7. What is your current state of mind? Beautifully free and loving.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Being selfless.
9. On what occasion do you lie? To not offend someone. Or if I’m terribly late for a meeting.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? I would like to be 5’11!
11. What living person do you most despise? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Generosity, vision, and risk taking.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Intelligence, wit, and kindness.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I’m so sorry and with all due respect.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? My children.
16. When and where were you happiest? When my children were born, when they were very young, now, my thirties, forties, and yesterday. Anytime! Actually excited about last year, this year, next year, and always ecstatic on the beach.
17. Which talent would you most like to have? I would love to sing and paint.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would be less critical of myself.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? My children, my relationships with my mother and my father, and my careers.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be? In the present day, as a modest and under age 54 billionaire living in a cool spread in Beverly Hills or Malibu or anywhere close to mountains and/or the sea, with unlimited amounts of money. I’d be running a foundation created with a group of caring individuals devoted to an opportunity to change education for the better, immediately! My staff would consist of thee brilliant and successful young entrepreneurs and three brilliant, successful and experienced retired entrepreneurs and 33 of their choice hires fully committed for one year each to totally changing the face of education now.
21. Where would you most like to live? Beverly Hills
22. What is your most treasured possession? A photo of my Mom and me when I was two or three.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Stealing, lying, and being a pig.
24. What is your favorite occupation? Anything dealing with fashion and jewelry and …. the passion and ability to make the world a better place.
25. What is your most marked characteristic? Generosity and insecurity.
26. What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty and respect.
27. Who are your favorite writers? Truman Capote, Nicole Shabtai, and Sylvia Plath.
28. Who is your hero of fiction? Jo March and Anna Karenina.
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? That other blonde Libra grocer’s daughter, Margaret Thatcher!
30. Who are your heroes in real life? My Dad and Mom.
31. What are your favorite names? Danielle, Nicole, and David.
32. What is it you most dislike? Greed and bullies.
33. What is your greatest regret? The things I could have, but didn’t, take the opportunity to do.
34. How would you like to die? Beautiful, loved, without pain and in my sleep.
35. What is your motto? Look like velvet, smell like vanilla, be ready to push, act like steel, but above all- dance in the rain with a gorgeous raincoat, sexy shoes and an umbrella!
