Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We're hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Spanx. At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she came up with Spanx — hosiery that eliminates panty lines — and set to work building her business. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," we check back with Chandra Arthur of the friend-matching app Friendish, and how it was recently featured on the show, Planet of the Apps. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change, as one behavioral scientist
0:14.0	put it.
0:15.0	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
0:22.0	changes, both big and small.
0:25.0	Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey, it's Guy here, and I hope you are enjoying your summer vacation as much as we are.
0:32.6	We are taking a little bit of vacation this summer, and we're also hitting the road for
0:35.7	a series of live shows.
0:38.0	So occasionally this summer, we're going to replay a couple of our favorite episodes of
0:41.8	how I built this.
0:43.3	Including this one, this is the first episode we ever did with Sarah Blakely of Spanx,
0:47.6	and if you've already heard it, give it a second listen.
0:49.6	I promise you you're going to pick up on things you missed the first time around.
0:53.2	So stick around for the how you built that segment at the end, because we have a very cool
0:57.3	update for you from one of our very first guests.
1:00.7	Okay, here's the show.
1:06.4	In the middle of my meeting with her, I could tell I was losing her, and I just knew
1:10.6	I was my one shot, so I said, you know what, Diane?
1:13.6	Will you come with me to the bathroom?
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