314 - Sara Blakely [Anniversary Episode]: How to Get a Billion Dollar Idea

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James Altucher

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4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Sara Blakely is a self-made billionaire. She’s the founder and creator of Spanx. I interviewed her exactly a year ago. But all of her advice (learned directly from DOING) is still impacting me today. I had to re-listen. And I hope you do, too....

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.6	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:12.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.3	I call called Neiman Marcus so I called them on the phone and I said I'm Sarah, I invented
0:20.6	a product, give me 10 minutes of your time and I'll fly to Dallas and you know she just
0:26.4	kind of said well if you're willing to fly here I'll give you 10 minutes but in those
0:29.7	30 seconds that I had with her the first thing I said was I'm Sarah I invented a product
0:34.6	that is going to change the way all of your customers wear clothes and they won't be
0:39.2	able to live without this.
0:41.2	You know and she's like what?
0:42.7	What is this?
0:43.7	And then what happened is I show up and she's like first of all impeccably dressed.
0:47.8	This woman is like Neiman Marcus headquarters in Dallas.
0:50.3	Please go pen, match her belt, match her shoes.
0:53.2	I'm sort of disheveled five minutes into it.
0:55.5	I'm totally losing her.
0:56.8	I mean and that's when I just stopped in Leendon and said you know what you need to come
1:00.8	to the bathroom with me.
1:02.5	And she was like what?
1:03.5	Excuse me.
1:04.5	I'm like please I know it's a weird request but when you come to the bathroom with me I'm
1:08.1	going to show you what my product can do.
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