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

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In an effort to soothe these discomforts at the office, I would decompress at happy hours, hire personal trainers and purchase loose-fitting clothes—all of which impacted my ability to save and invest. And rather than wait, employing an individual solution to find your own financial freedom is the best course of action.

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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!’” Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes. And I went, ‘Uh-huh, of course.’

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Are You Hoarding Ideas?

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Maybe not clothing or gadgets, but you hoard ideas. The courses you won’t put together. Minimalizing your clutter can be done in an exhausting weekend marathon, absolutely – but it’s far less stressful and manageable when done in small sprints. It’s much, much easier to lie to ourselves and say of course we are!

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