Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, January 12th.

Today on Forbes, Trump's pick for the SBA struggled to run her own small business.

Two days before the 2024 election, former U.S. Senator Kelly Lafleur strode to the stage at a Trump rally in Macon, Georgia, wearing a

bright pink jacket that perfectly matched the pink MAGA hats in the stands behind her.

With her hand in the air, she yelled, quote, hello patriots. Is Georgia Trump country?

Speaking to the crowd, she took direct aim at billionaire Mark Cuban, who had recently said Trump

does not associate with strong, intelligent women.

She said, quote, I stood up to Mark Cuban, and I said, you know what, Mark?

I'm an entrepreneur.

I'm a former CEO.

I owned a basketball team.

You know, I'll take you on. Looughler likes to paint herself as a self-made

business titan. There's no question she has had a successful career, mostly at Intercontinental Exchange,

the parent company to the New York Stock Exchange, where she led investor relations, marketing,

and communications, accumulating enough equity

to sell more than $30 million of shares and still retain a $12 million stake.

But the real money in her household, a nearly 20,000 square foot spread in Atlanta, comes

from Loeffler's husband, Jeff Sprecker, the founder of Intercontinental Exchange,

who is worth an estimated $1 billion. Lofler, who married Sprecker in 2004, two years after

joining his company, chafes at the suggestion that she owes her financial success to her husband.

Lately, she has jumped at opportunities to prove herself.

In 2018, she became CEO of crypto startup backed and promptly rang up massive losses.

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