Sarah Blakely
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93 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Sarah Blakely’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not much sleep. Not a lot of sleep.
Yes, I win last wife standing. I didn't sleep for 35 hours, so I was supporting him. And it's really challenging. I said at one point I had a breakdown, I think at like 4 in the morning, where I just started crying because I said marriage is hard when you have to really support each other's dreams, and especially if you have to watch the person you love suffer.
And Jesse had a pep talk with me before, and he said no matter what, Tell me I look good. Tell me I look strong. Don't pull me out of the race. Don't tell me that you're worried about me.
That's true. But it was really a wild experience of just human spirit. You know, what we all have inside of us, that grit and determination. And there were 112 of really intensely impressive ultra runners there. And, wow, I was just blown away by mindset, really. Because I asked Jesse after this. I mean, Jesse's 51.
So I said, honey, even though you didn't get the last man standing, you definitely won the oldest man standing. Because he was 10 to 20 years older than every other racer in this race. And so I said to him, I was so curious because I knew mindset. I'm a huge believer in mindset. And I said, what was your mindset and what were you thinking during the race?
And he looked at me with laser focus after it. And he said, I was saying repeatedly to myself, I push my body and my body responds. And boy, did it ever. I mean, because his knees, his ankles, I mean, the rest of his body really, I mean, was shutting down. But his mindset was there. And that pushed him. I would say, I mean, at mile 47, I thought you were done. I love you, but I really did.
I was, like, so worried. And then, like, you know, you just can't ever doubt the mindset. If the mindset of the person's in the right place, then they just go way beyond what you expect.
And if any of you guys want to be super entertained and inspired, it's on my Instagram page at Sarah Blakely. And it's in one of those, you know, I put it in a permanent circle in the bar below the descriptor of my name. And it's called The Last Man Standing. And it's really, it is very...
Yeah, definitely mindset. I mean, I sold fax machines door to door for seven years after graduating from college. And I... you know, for 20 years, Spanx is going to be 20. I started it in the year 2000. And the soundbite in the media has been, Sarah cut the feet out of pantyhose and solved an undergarment issue. And, you know, now Spanx is here.
And while that is true, there was so much more about the behind the scenes of why this happened. And People have asked me, can I have 10 minutes, 15 minutes of your time? I want to pick your brain on how Spank started. But the real answer is it started way before I cut the feet out of my pantyhose. And it started when I was much younger.
And I had a series of kind of tragic events happen to me when I was in high school. And it led me to Wayne Dyer, who is a motivational, inspirational speaker. He passed away about two years ago.
But I got exposed to him and I listened to his cassette tapes over and over and over again to the point that I had his one series called How to Be a No Limit Person memorized all 10 cassette tapes front and back.
Well, that's funny because in high school, no one wanted to get stuck in my car. Like after a party, they're like, she's going to make you listen to this shit. But then, you know, I said, I think I would take simple things like I'm just going to do the laundry tomorrow.
So but then fast forward, you know, I think it was 10 to 15 years after high school that I ended up on the cover of Forbes. And the texts I got in my phone were so funny. I mean, literally all my friends were like, damn, should have listened to that shit. So I'm a big believer in it.
I learned early on about manifesting law of attraction, not caring what other people think about you, which is a really big one for an entrepreneur or, you know, in life, really. And I'm a work in progress on that. There are times where I do care and I check myself and say, you know, let's let's work on this. But it's very freeing to not care what other people think.
You'll take more risks to not really focus on the outcome and be so afraid to fail. my journey and Spanx for sure. So I think mindset is, I work on it daily.
That really came from a gut feeling. I really honor my gut and intuition a lot and still do through the journey that I'm on. But when I cut the feet out of my pantyhose and started Spanx, I had actually asked for the idea two years prior. So I was selling fax machines. I had one really bad day. I'd been kicked out of an office again.
I mean, I got usually business cards ripped up in my face about once or twice a week. I got escorted out of buildings all the time. And this day was just hard. I mean, I'm seven years into 100% cold calling. to sell people a fax machine. And I pulled over and I said, I'm in the wrong movie. How did this happen? Call the director, call the producer. This is not my life.
Like I'm redirecting my life. And I went home and I wrote down a list of what I'm good at in the positive column and strengths. And I saw sales and I thought, okay, well, what is it about sales that I'm good at? And it led me to the fact that I like to offer people things that they may not know they need and then really makes a difference for them.
And I wrote down in my journal that night, I'm going to invent a product that I can sell to millions of people that will make them feel good. And then I looked up in the air in my apartment and I said, I'm ready for the idea. If you give it to me, I won't squander it.
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