In this episode of Boss Files, the billion-dollar woman, Spanx founder Sarah Blakely,

how she went from selling fact machines door to door to cutting the feet off her panty hose

to creating a blockbuster product that has fended off countless imitators.

All this while becoming the mother of four kids under seven.

And why she signed on with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to give away the majority of her wealth. I sat down with Sarah Blakely

in front of an audience of remarkable female entrepreneurs right here in New York. Here's our conversation.

This is neat for me because I profiled Sarah for a CNN series called Leading Women a few years ago, and now I get to be with her again. I was at such a different point in my life. I didn't have a baby. Now you're a mom. I had no idea what actual work-life balance was. Yeah, you asked me all about it. I did. And I literally go, I'm a work in progress. That's how I answered that.

So she has four.

Sarah has four kids.

I have four children under the age of seven.

Wow.

So let me tell you how happy I am to be here in New York.

I woke up at the Greenwich Hotel and I was like, oh my god, this is amazing.

Like, I didn't hear Mommy 400 times by the time.

The only trouble is though I'm on the mommy schedule, so I got up at five anyway.

I was like, ugh.

So let's get started.

On a much more serious note, this is an issue that means a lot to me, right?

Why is there still such an

equity when it comes to funding female run businesses how can that be in

2017 and what lessons can we learn from Sarah I was just looking at some of the

numbers and when you look through what pitch books data says I mean

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