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The Daily Motivation

Make Your Billion Dollar Idea A Reality | Sara Blakely EP 35

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is all about how to turn your dream into a billion dollar empire and how you can bet on yourself with CEO of Spanx, Sara Blakely. Check out the full episode: https://link.chtbl.com/397-pod

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0:00.0

Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:11.0

I wanted to be a lawyer but I failed the L-SAT not once but twice. So then instead of going to

0:17.2

law school I drove to Disney World and tried out to be goofy but you have to be

0:21.1

five-eight and I'm five-6 and so I was the height of a chipmunk So you got the chipmunk? I got the chipmunk part but I didn't end up doing it I put people on rides in a brown polyester spacesuit at the World of Motion and Horizons at

0:35.4

Epcot Center.

0:37.4

And I would see people that I hadn't seen in a while and come through.

0:40.8

Yeah, I'm walking on the moving sidewalk putting people people on rides, and they'd go, hey, Blakely,

0:44.8

is that you?

0:45.8

Didn't you graduate from college?

0:47.2

And my big Mickey Mouse here said Sarah Blakely, and I'd be like,

0:50.0

yes, get on the ride.

0:51.2

Oh my gosh.

0:51.9

But that's what I did, and then I sold faxed machine store to door for seven years.

0:55.6

Seven years.

0:56.6

Did you wake up every morning and say, this is my dream to sell fax machine to door to

1:00.6

door?

1:01.6

Were you thinking, no. What am I doing in my life exactly so what

1:04.8

happened was a lot of people think that Spanks started when I cut the feet out of my

1:08.5

panny host but actually it started long before that it started when I was

1:12.0

selling fax machines door to door and

1:14.2

getting my car business card ripped up in my face being escorted out of

1:18.0

buildings all day every day that I woke up one day and just thought, I'm in the wrong movie.

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