It's easy in a crisis like this to become immobilized.” Spanx CEO
I reached Sara Blakely “somewhere in Florida” for this week’s This is Working. Blakely, the founder and CEO of Spanx, along with her husband, Jesse Itzler, and their four kids, had packed up some things, rented an RV and took off from their Atlanta home as a way to quarantine on the move.
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