Kris Jenner Says She Negotiated Her First Win When She Was a Flight Attendant

A long time earlier than Kris Jenner turned the “momager” of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, she taught herself an early lesson in enterprise negotiation whereas working as a flight attendant.

Throughout an look on the April 9 episode of “The Burnouts” podcast — hosted by Invoice Gates’s daughter, Phoebe Gates, and her enterprise companion, Sophia Kianni — Jenner mirrored on her transient stint working for American Airways within the 70s.

“Each single lesson that I realized that I actually respect, I feel I realized from that 12 months and a half or two years of being a flight attendant,” Jenner instructed Gates and Kianni.

It began when Jenner, then a contemporary flight attendant, was not assigned the flight route she wished.

“I used to be actually hoping for Los Angeles,” Jenner stated. “And so they type of checked out me like, ‘You are by no means going to Los Angeles. That will take you years to have the ability to construct up that type of seniority the place you possibly can go to Los Angeles.'”

However as an alternative of accepting rejection, Jenner took issues into her personal palms.

“I believed, ‘OK, there’s one other method to get round this,'” Jenner stated.

She began speaking to totally different individuals within the firm to learn the way she may land a spot on the flight routes she wished.

“So I simply randomly walked into the scheduling workplace — that no person most likely dares to do again within the 70s — and I stated, ‘Pay attention, I’ve obtained an issue. That is what I want, and that is what I do know you might have the facility to do. How can we meet within the center? What can I do to perform this?'” Jenner stated, recalling the incident.

Exhibiting up on the workplace labored: Administration provided her a spot on the substitute record as an alternative. If anybody known as in sick, she could be the one to interchange them on these flights, Jenner stated.

“And I discovered find out how to make the system work for me in the very best of how as a result of then I had, perhaps a few times, walked into the scheduling room with brownies,” she stated.

Jenner stated the expertise taught her to pivot and never settle for the primary reply any person gave her.

“It was one of many first issues that I truly negotiated for myself,” she stated.

Since then, Jenner has turn out to be a businesswoman and a actuality TV star.

She catapulted her household into superstardom by launching her household’s actuality collection, “Preserving Up With The Kardashians” in 2007. The present concluded in 2021 after 20 seasons.

A 12 months later, the household introduced their return to actuality TV for the Hulu collection “The Kardashians.” The present is now in its sixth season.

Actuality TV apart, Jenner additionally manages the careers of her well-known daughters — Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Kylie Jenner.

In 2022, Jenner instructed Forbes she takes a ten% reduce from all the pieces her youngsters earn via tv and different enterprise ventures.

Representatives for Jenner and American Airways didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider.