Sarah Blakely
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93 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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I mean, then you have a chance of them telling five other people, which is what happened with Spanx. You know, it became a word of mouth brand.
Wait, Jesse was best known for two songs, Shake It Like a White Girl and College Girls Are Easy.
Which I had a lot of fun telling my dad. I was like, Dad, Dad, I think I met the one. He's like, that's nice, honey. What does he do? I'm like, he's a rapper. Best known for Shake It Like a White Girl and College Girls Are Easy.
You know, I read his book in college, and I really thought he seemed like such an interesting guy that I would like to know. And so that was the start of it. And when he declared that he was doing his own version of The Apprentice, his own reality show. I just thought this was a great opportunity to meet him. And he started Virgin overseas in London.
He's just a really colorful, fascinating, adventurous guy. But he... Yeah, so Spanx was four years old at the time and my lawyers literally begged me not to do it. They're like, why would you ever do a reality show? You're the face of this brand and you're putting your reputation over to Fox and you have no idea how they're going to edit you or what they're going to do.
I just I just had confidence that Richard from what I'd read about him wouldn't wouldn't be a part of something that would wouldn't edit me the way that I am but I got a 27 page contract before I did this and it was the most insane contract it literally said we can burn you we can submerge you underwater we can drop you in political unrest I mean it was like insane so my dad is a lawyer I'm
And I emailed it to my dad, and I said, Dad, I'm thinking about doing this reality show. Can you help me edit the contract? And all he wrote back was, no sane person would sign this, love, Dad. And I signed it, and I went.
Yeah, we have not let the kids see the video footage. But it was two months of the most intense stuff. What they didn't tell me, but I should have figured out and put the two and two together from the contract, was that if you lost the business challenge, each business challenge took place in a different city around the world.
So instead of every challenge being in New York City, one was in Hong Kong, one was in Africa, one was in Tokyo. It was wild. We were traveling all around the world. But if you didn't win the business challenge, instead of going to a boardroom and just being fired... You had to do a world record breaking, death defying stunt with Richard.
And two days into filming, I literally was in Atlanta in the Starbucks line like the day before. And then the next day I'm in England and they woke me up at three in the morning and handed me a helmet. And I said, I'm an entrepreneur. Why do I need a helmet? And I had to scale the side of a hot air balloon at 10,000 feet in the air and have tea on top of the hot air balloon with Richard.
and you're afraid of heights and i'm so afraid of heights like i cry on planes i cry during takeoff i don't like heights yeah so that was crazy and that was the first day of filming but jesse can't even watch it jesse's watched like half of the stunts got so ridiculous it was like sarah climb the scale the top of the building and jump in this glass of water you
No. He didn't know me then. But, yeah, so.
Are you glad that you did that? I'm so glad I did it. I mean, I think that I don't think I would have done the challenges if I was a mother at the time. But I wasn't. I was single and single.
Yeah. But yes, I'm so happy. I mean, Richard's actually a great friend. I'm actually going to Switzerland this Friday with Richard and about 35 entrepreneurs from around the world. And we're doing a physical challenge through the Swiss Alps to raise money for education. And I'm not like my husband. I'm not this physical, you know, challenge person.
But I had had too much tequila when Richard asked me if I wanted to go. And I said, yes. And so now I'm going. I hate it when that happens. I'm slightly terrified. But we're going to swim, bike, and hike through Switzerland. And it starts with a glacier lake swim in a full body wetsuit.
Oh, you have a clip? Which clip is it? Is it of the balloon?
That was so intense. There were so many things about that, but it took me 48 minutes to climb. It was a dangling rope ladder, so there was nothing anchoring it. So I spent the first 25 minutes of the climb just flailing around in the air. And then the last 20 minutes, I kept saying, just get to the balloon, get to the balloon.
But once I got to the balloon, the balloon was hot and the rope was very taut against the balloon. So I had nowhere to put my fingers anymore around the rungs of the ladder. So I'd use my fingertips. And then once I did the little T thing and was like, woo, that was great, I started bawling because I realized I had to climb down. Oh, my gosh. I was like, wait, how do we get down?
So we had to go back down the ladder. It sounds horrific. Yeah. Thank God you're here. Listen, I'm here, and what an experience.
Yeah, because we're on autopilot as human beings. I mean, think about it. Almost every single thing that we do, someone taught us how to do it or we observed how it was done. And so I like the space of closing your eyes and saying, if no one showed you how to do this, how would you do it? Like, would you be doing it differently?
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