Ensure That You Do Things

Most Of The Reason We Don’t Do Things Is Because We’re Afraid To Fail. I Just Made A Decision One Day That I Was Not Not Going To Do Things In My Life Because Of Fear.

I Would Say Where I Feel Like I'm Struggling The Most In Learning And Giving Myself Permission To Fail Is In Finding The Balance In Life. There Are Different Aspects To Women: There's The Mother, There's The Working Woman, There's The Wife, The Friend, The Sister, The Daughter And So Just Figuring That All Out. I Continue To Want To Try New Things And Give Myself Permission To Not Be Great At It.

My First Account Was Neiman Marcus. I Cold-called Them Just Like I Had Cold-called Businesses When I Was Selling Fax Machines For Seven Years.

I Got A Call From The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Had Chosen Spanx As One Of Her Favorite Products In 2000. I Had Boxes Of Product In My Apartment And I Had Two Weeks Notice That She Was Going To Say She Loved It On Tv And I Had No Shipping Department.

My Revenue Was $4 Million My First Year In Business, Off Of One $20 Item.