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

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When I returned to my office in Atlanta, I shared the nerve-wracking experience with my manager, one of the few Black directors in the company. Furthermore, they run the risk of having to explain to future hiring managers why they may have left a job suddenly or spent such short stints of time at a previous employer.

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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. How does she manage it all? “I

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Are You Hoarding Ideas?

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Maybe not clothing or gadgets, but you hoard ideas. 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. Just in case. Because one day you might need them. That’s hoarding. Knick knacks. Stuff they have no real need for.

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