When I was 7, I came up with the idea of ‘charm socks.’ My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

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I’m just like so many women – I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, ‘What am I really supposed to wear under this?’ So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

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I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, ‘Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,’ and he would high-five me and say, ‘Way to go.’

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The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

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We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends.

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