This episode features an inspiring conversation with business mogul Barbara Corcoran, who shares her remarkable journey from humble beginnings to selling her real estate company for $66 million. She offers powerful insights on how to overcome self-doubt, reinvent your life, and build lasting success by embracing failure, outworking others, and cultivating genuine confidence.
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stems from knowing you can outwork and out-try anyone, and the ability to pick yourself back up after setbacks, rather than from past achievements.
Barbara's biggest failures often preceded her greatest successes, such as her 'homes on tape' disaster leading to pioneering real estate on the internet.
Start your business or new venture even with a half-baked plan, as you'll discover the true path and solutions by being in the field.
Inspire loyalty and fierce dedication by genuinely putting your employees' needs first, fostering a strong team culture.
Barbara attributes much of her success to never seeing herself as 'just a woman' in business, but as a competitor, turning being underestimated into a powerful advantage.
"You're much more capable than you think you are."
"My confidence was in Dill, but what did build my confidence and made it rock solid is I knew I could outwork and out try anyone and I knew I'd be back."
"I never thought of myself as a woman. Not a single day, did I think of myself as a woman. I thought of myself as a competitor, just like a man."