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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!’” I quit my day job selling fax machines on Oct. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!” The story of her success is remarkable. I was on her show in November.

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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

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. I also included instructions on how to use some of the equipment that I needed to use such as the telephone, photocopier and fax. That has been good advice.

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