If you're going to build something from nothing, you've got to know what really works.

I took a thousand dollar loan and built a five billion dollar business, and now I make smart investments in new businesses on Shark Tank. This is Barbara

Corcoran and you're listening to Business Unusual. Today I'm Business Unusual

I'll answer your questions about business, motivation, life, or anything

else on your mind.

But first, how to overcome self-down.

You might think you need a fancy psychiatrist to teach your self-down. You might think you need a fancy psychiatrist to teach your self-esteem and

overcome everything wrong that happened in your childhood. Well you're wrong.

Listen to me instead. When I was a kid, I was a dumb kid in school.

I couldn't learn to read it right until I was in seventh grade.

That's a bummer.

When I was asked to read out loud, I couldn't pronounce the, the dog, and all the kids laughed

and made fun of me.

And in high school, by the time I hit Spanish one, every time that teacher asked KSSo I still can't remember what it is.

All the kids in the class would shout out the wrong Spanish word and then laugh at me when I

I mimicked because I was so desperate for an answer.

So as a result of being such a loser in school, I came into my adulthood with a lot of old

nasty tapes that ran in my head. and every time I went out on a limb and tried

something new I had tremendous self-doubt. When things didn't go my way

immediately I would think oh my god I shouldn't be here I shouldn't have

fast for this I don't belong here I should be back blah blah blah blah and on and on I'd go

down the hole just like Alice in Wonderland going nowhere fast. And then a few years

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