article thumbnail

How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

Success

Instead, in an effort to avoid conflict altogether, they are far more likely to quit, which could have a negative impact on their earning potential, retirement account contributions, health care coverage and other financial employee benefits. Years later, at the peak of my corporate career, I developed a slight eye twitch.

Medical 278
article thumbnail

Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” Blakely readily admits that she wasn’t the first woman to cut the feet off her pantyhose and wear them under her form-fitting clothes. Practicality is kind of her thing.

Fax 278