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I'll tell you candidly, and I'm not proud of it.

There were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch

so that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as an African American or as a female.

Because you thought they wouldn't want to.

In some instances I thought it in other instances I knew it.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

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The temporary gig is a secretary inspired Janice Bryant-Harroy to build an employment agency that turned into an empire and made Janice the first African American woman in history to own a billion-dollar business.

So hiring employees is one of the hardest things about running a business.

If you listen to this show long enough, you've heard founders talk about how when their company started to scale, hiring enough good people consumed so much of their time.

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