612 Sara Blakely Shares How To Be Kind To Yourself

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

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🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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"THERE’S A HIDDEN BLESSING IN EVERYTHING WE GO THROUGH IN LIFE.” Running your own business can be one of the hardest things on you mentally. It’s a very masculine dominated world, and there’s often times not enough love. I often notice I’m being hard on myself, especially when things go wrong. All of this got me thinking about the important words I received in the past from Sara Blakely. If you don’t know Sara, she is the CEO of Spanx. She is the YOUNGEST female self made billionaire in America. She didn’t do that by going to war with her competitors; she did it through love and encouragement. Along her route she also suffered from severe grief, having lost 11 people that were close to her in a very short period of time. Listen to how you can be kind to yourself, and be successful in business, on Episode 612. In This Episode You Will Learn: The one thing that will help you the most in your life (00:52) What people said to her when she started her business (1:50) How she was able to build a business differently (2:32) The grief she has had to encounter (2:50) Sara’s views on our mortality (3:21) Plus much, much more

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0:00.0	This is 5 Minute Friday!
0:05.6	Welcome everyone to a special edition of the School of Greeners podcast.
0:14.4	We are so pumped to have Sarah Blakely in the house.
0:18.8	Now for those who don't know who she is, she is the founder and CEO of the Intimate Apparel
0:24.2	Company Spanx.
0:26.2	In 2012, she was named in Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Infoencial People in the World List.
0:34.5	And as of 2014, she is listed as the 93rd Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes.
0:42.8	She was also named the youngest self-made female billionaire in America.
0:54.4	One thing that I feel like has helped me the most is to be kind to myself.
0:59.7	So I realized that when I became a mom, I spent a lot of mental energy beating myself up,
1:05.6	feeling so guilty, and when I was working, I was beating myself up that I wasn't with the kids
1:10.0	and mentally and when I was with the kids, I was beating myself up with that.
1:13.8	So I think a lot of mothers were our own worst enemy, and when I really stopped and said,
1:19.2	I don't know how to juggle all this.
1:20.7	Some days I feel like I'm doing it right and some days I feel like I just want to cry.
1:25.2	At least I made that change and it was a huge change for me.
1:29.6	I just catch myself when I start doing that to myself and I just, I change it to kindness and
1:34.8	forgiveness. I'm supposed to be beating yourself up.
1:36.5	Yeah, I'm just like, okay, it's all right.
1:38.9	I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to achieve this in a really kind way
1:44.8	that I can look at myself in the mirror and just I am where I am and I feel really good about it.
1:49.8	Really good about myself. I didn't feel like I had to compromise.
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