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How I Built This with Guy Raz

Real Estate Mogul: Barbara Corcoran

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.831.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Corcoran grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Jersey – with nine brothers and sisters. But she used her charisma to conquer the streets of Manhattan and build the real estate company, The Corcoran Group. She then reinvented herself as a shark – on Shark Tank.

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0:00.0

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New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

0:13.0

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

0:17.0

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

0:24.0

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

0:27.0

Hey everyone, it's Guy here, just a quick note to tell you that there is a little bit of bad language in this episode.

0:33.0

So if you've got small kids around, you just may want to be mindful of that.

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Thanks.

0:40.0

She came to me and she knew I had a fire a lot of people because you could just see that everybody knew something was going to shake out.

0:46.0

And she said, why don't you publicly fire me? If you fire me, she said no one else could be angry with you and you fire them.

0:53.0

And she was right.

0:54.0

So at that Monday morning meeting, we always had at 9.30, I said, so I'm surprised how bad things are.

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We're going to have to make a lot of changes.

1:02.0

And it's going to be very hard for me to do, but the hardest change in wool is refiring my mother.

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From NPR, it's how I built this.

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A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

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I'm Guy Raaz and I'm a show today how a Jersey girl conquered the streets of Manhattan, built a real estate company worth millions, and then reinvented herself as a shark.

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Unshark tank.

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One of the most surprising things about the entrepreneurs we've interviewed so far, at least surprising to me, is that most of them aren't necessarily book smart.

1:50.0

Street smart, yes, all of them.

1:52.0

But only a handful of the people we've had on went to elite universities or academic geniuses.

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