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From Olympic Bobsledder to Financial Adviser—Carlo Valdes Knows a Thing or Two About Second Careers

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First, he landed a football scholarship to UCLA before later joining the track and field team and reaching NCAA regionals three times. Bobsled team? Less than two years after graduating, Valdes not only made the squad, but his two-man team placed fifth at the World Championships in 2015. Ever think about trying out for the U.S.

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The Power of Hope: How I Qualified for the Paralympic Games

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To say that I’m proud to make the team—and to be representing Team USA in long jump—would be an understatement. Making this team is a goal for years in the making. I was on the junior varsity soccer team and was training for varsity. Outside of soccer season, I was racing motor-cross and joined the volleyball team.

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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!’” Embracing and learning from failure Her father would even have Blakely and her brother do exercises in failure. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!”

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