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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

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

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

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In the middle of my meeting with her, I could tell I was losing her and I just knew I was my one shot, so I said,

you know what, Diane, will you come with me to the bathroom?

She goes, excuse me, I go, I know, I know it's a little weird.

Will you just please come with me to the bathroom?

I want to show you my own product before and after.

And she said, okay.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, the story of how Sarah Blakely designed a new kind of underwear called it Spanx,

and eventually became the youngest female billionaire in America.

So when Sarah Blakely was growing up in Florida, she didn't exactly dream of designing ladies undergarments.

She actually wanted to be a lawyer, but when she took her LSATs, she failed twice.

So after college, she got a job at Disney World as a ride-greeder, and then in the early 90s, she got another job.

She was selling fax machines door to door.

By the way, did you ever feel like demoralized with all the rejection and this people,

because they're saying, no soliciting please get out of here, where it was like water off the ducks back?

Oh my gosh, no, I would feel very defeated, and many times I would get in my car and drive around the block multiple times,

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