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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

You have to learn a whole new way of doing things, from how to log onto the computer to filling out a purchase order form. He cautioned that I was running a marathon, not a sprint and I should give myself time to learn and not be too hard on myself if I didn't know everything right away. That has been good advice.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

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. The story of her success is remarkable.

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