Shane Parrish
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She became the queen of sales.
The victory was sweet.
Walking up to that stage, she was so excited.
She heard the applause, knowing she'd beaten every other dealer in the company.
She'd proven it to Beaveridge, and more importantly, to herself.
And the prize she got that year?
A trophy.
Not an alligator handbag, not the status symbol of success she'd been dreaming about for 12 months, a lousy trophy.
Of course, she accepted it graciously, but something inside of her shifted.
A seed planted itself that would grow for decades.
When she eventually built her own company, recognition would be different.
It would be thoughtful.
It would be meaningful.
And women wouldn't get trophies that collected dust.
They'd get diamond rings and pink Cadillacs.
Prizes that announced to the world this woman was successful.
Prizes that mattered.
But that was years away.
For now, she'd proven something crucial.
The system that she had designed worked.