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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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I was traveling on business and planning to open a new franchise in the area, I said. As a Black professional, he had been through his own set of uncomfortable interactions traveling on business and was all too familiar with the array of characters you meet and the variety of tactics used to wiggle out of uncomfortable environments.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” In the show, a group of budding entrepreneurs traveled the world tackling a series of challenges. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!”

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Glenn Sanford Built a Billion-Dollar Business on a Foundation of Simply Never Giving Up

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And so in business, creating a regular cadence—quarterly, weekly—that people can trust helps set up for the next sprint. . They spent a year traveling the U.S. I’ve really taken to listening to books, reading, trying to be around other successful people as something I’m actively engaged in, and it worked.

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How To Play The Game Of Blogging

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Hydrate Yourself: It’s A Marathon, Not A Sprint I can’t emphasize enough on this one. With that pace in mind, I’ve taken the long view and given my self room to experiment and test the waters … and run a marathon of sprints over a sprint and burn. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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