Nutritional Foundations and Playful Exchanges | 2min snip from The Tim Ferriss Show

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#725: Barbara Corcoran — How She Turned $1,000 into a $5B+ Empire: PR Stunts, Sales Techniques, Critical Early Wins, Fighting Trump, and Becoming a Real Estate Mogul

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Nutritional Foundations and Playful Exchanges

In this chapter, the hosts promote AG1, a nutritional supplement crafted to enhance overall health through its blend of vitamins and probiotics. The segment is complemented by a playful banter between the speakers, emphasizing their camaraderie.

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Barbara Corcoran has been an investor/Shark for the past 15 seasons on ABC’s four-time Emmy-award-winning show, Shark Tank. She is also the founder of an eponymous real-estate company, which she started with a $1,000 loan after leaving her job as a waitress in New York City. Over the next 25 years, she would parlay that $1,000 into a $5 billion real-estate business. Barbara is the host of the top business channel on Patreon, Barbara in Your Pocket, which provides exclusive content created for entrepreneurs at every level.

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Timestamps for this episode are available below. Resources from this episode: https://tim.blog/2024/03/06/barbara-corcoran/

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start

[05:56] Barbara’s fake funeral.

[08:23] Where Barbara’s knack for PR originated.

[10:02] Storytelling.

[11:25] Early business wins.

[14:29] What Barbara learned about competition as one of 10 kids.

[17:27] Early jobs: Barbara’s real education.

[20:04] Dyslexia and dodging the victim mindset.

[22:50] Barbara’s first company.

[26:47] Why Barbara didn’t begrudge her first business partner’s romantic betrayal.

[28:41] The value of enthusiasm.