My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

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Blakely was a contestant on The Rebel Billionaire and starred as one of the judges on ABC's reality television series American Inventor. She is the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. She also guest-starred on Free Radio in January 2008.

Sara Blakely (born February 21 1971) is an American businesswoman and founder of Spanx a multi-million dollar undergarment company. In 2012 Sara Blakely was named in Time 100 an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time.