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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. Over the course of the next few months, I waited to find out if I needed surgery. “And You’ll outgrow it like your baby clothes, and then you have a choice to either try to contort yourself back into it or to leave.”

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5 Tips for Out-of-Work Freelancers

Loosely Speaking

Going to work : I mean this figuratively, of course, because if you’re a freelancer, you’re probably working from home. But make it a point to get out of bed, take a shower, change out of your night clothes, eat breakfast, and get to your workstation as you would do on the days you do have work. Loose Ends.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

In 2004 Blakely tackled another hurdle when she appeared on a reality show with Richard Branson called The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best , a sort-of cross between The Apprentice and The Amazing Race. And I went, ‘Uh-huh, of course.’ And I’m like, ‘Uh-huh, of course I can,’” she says.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Dany Garcia is the chairwoman of The Garcia Companies, a global holding company, the owner of the XFL, the founder of GSTQ, a new clothing line and community and the co-founder of Seven Bucks Productions. Matt Callanan. Founder, coach, podcast host. Dany Garcia. Entrepreneur. Yvette Gavin. Philanthropist, founder, coach. Cyndi Merritt.

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