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Trust your gut.
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let’s bring joy back to the experience.
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.
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.
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.’
The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
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.