5 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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One of the youngest self-made billionaires and an entrepreneur/author/ultra marathoner get married and have four kids, yet they still manage their own businesses and try new adventures daily. How do they manage it all?
In this from-the-vault episode of Seeking Wisdom, DC sits down with founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely, and author, entrepreneur and keynote speaker, Jesse Itzler, to talk prioritization, marriage and extreme sports. DC and Jesse bond over big calendars, and DC learns how Sara and Jesse’s whirlwind love story still works today.
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0:00.0 | And we're back. |
0:07.0 | One of the most exciting interviews that I've ever done. |
0:11.0 | I cannot tell you how nervous I was for this interview. |
0:15.0 | Now, this was an interview that happened in 2019 at our conference Hypergrowth. |
0:20.0 | And I've been sitting on this one because this one is pure gold and I've been waiting |
0:25.1 | for the day to finally release this. |
0:27.3 | Now, this is with two of my virtual mentors, two people that I've looked up to for a long |
0:33.3 | time and they just so happen to be married. |
0:35.7 | It's with Sarah Blakely, who is the founder and CEO of Spanx, |
0:39.3 | and who's the youngest ever female billionaire, and Jesse Itzler, who's our husband, who's an |
0:45.5 | entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, has written amazing books. If you haven't read Living with Seal, |
0:51.2 | you need to read that book, Living with Seal. It's an amazing book. |
0:56.0 | So in this episode, we talk about Jesse's insane appetite for long distance, endurance, ultras, and all the crazy stuff that he does. |
1:08.3 | This countering system that is mental and I've adopted, how Sarah |
1:12.7 | and Jesse met, and all of the amazing stuff on how they make this work as two superhuman |
1:21.2 | people. |
1:22.3 | Now don't forget to leave a six star only rating for this episode. |
1:26.3 | This is one of my favorite ever interviews. I'm so |
1:29.6 | lucky, so fortunate to have done this. Peace. All right, so we are here with Sarah Blakely |
1:39.3 | and Jesse Isler. Two people who I have, I don't know who I have a bigger crush on, actually. |
2:18.3 | I was super crushed on both of you. Yeah. That's so nice. But I think it started with Jesse. Thank you. It started with Jesse. As Jesse, you grew up in Long Island, right? I did. Yeah, we're in Long Island. Roslin? Yeah. See, the way he said that, that's true Long Island. Yeah. Coffee. Yeah, yeah, draw. And he calls me Sarah instead of Sarah. I love it. Yeah. It was, actually I heard you speak somewhere and I can't remember where it was. I heard you narrate your books later on like living with Cio, which I've given to everyone. But the first time I heard you speak, I was like, there's someone like me. It talks like me. It says. Yeah. It says, we're gonna fire it up. |
2:20.3 | Good. |
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