00:00coinage life well spent presented by Geico building a successful business from humble
00:07beginnings is an inspiration on its own but influencing those around you and even building
00:11a community achieves even more here are four inspiring leaders who did just that all Sarah
00:16Blakely wanted was for her booty to look great in white pants can I get a yes ladies so she cut
00:22off the feet on her pantyhose and created a worldwide phenomenon Spanx the soon-to-be
00:27well-known company was started with just $5,000 Blakely's earnings helped shape two charities
00:32which empower women she's also donated half of her wealth as part of the giving pledge talk about
00:37embodying beauty inside and out inspired by his adoptive Swedish family's ability to fish and cook
00:43Marcus Samuelson moved to New York with dreams of becoming a chef he sizzled in the kitchen and
00:47managed to take over his first high-end restaurant at just 23. Marcus's successful Harlem restaurant
00:53Red Rooster provided jobs to 200 people and created a renaissance in the NYC neighborhood
00:57currently his culinary empire has grown to 30 restaurants Carolyn Rafalian's Alex and Ani Bangles
01:03are big business her journey began in her father's struggling jewelry factory and was quickly worn by
01:08millions her revenue surged from five million dollars to over 500 million dollars in six years
01:13she's given over 46 million dollars to nonprofits through her charity by design long before John Paul
01:19DeGioia became a hair care billionaire he worked as a janitor sold encyclopedias and lived out of his
01:24car to stay afloat then he met Paul Mitchell in 1971 and his life as well as our hair has never been
01:30the same together they turned a $700 business into an enterprise with an estimated annual revenue of
01:35one billion dollars he started the peace love and foundation to fund charities around the world
01:40John joined Sarah Blakely as a member of the giving pledge so shampoo and repeat knowing
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