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- Page 8 and 9: The Chronology of a#GIRLBOSSI’m b
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- Page 13 and 14: 1So You Want to Be a#GIRLBOSS?Life
- Page 15 and 16: Savvy ingénue with a rags-to-riche
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- Page 19: “With my touch, a plussizeanorak
- Page 22 and 23: If I’m being totally honest here
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- Page 26 and 27: My first model was Emily, a gorgeou
- Page 28 and 29: I also responded to every single co
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- Page 36 and 37: No More AuctionsFinally, after a ye
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- Page 42 and 43: PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Christina F
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- Page 50 and 51: Misadventures in Job PromiscuityI m
- Page 52 and 53: The fact that I quit my job at Bord
- Page 54 and 55: Fight the BoredomTo be, in a word,
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- Page 58 and 59: to have stuck with college for four
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- Page 69 and 70: At seventeen, before I even graduat
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- Page 73 and 74: he got on his radio and found us a
- Page 75 and 76: The best thieves are so obvious tha
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- Page 81 and 82: make them laugh—even if it’s at
- Page 84 and 85: 5Money Looks Better in theBank Than
- Page 86 and 87: Credit Cards BlowI wasn’t always
- Page 88 and 89: Cash Is KingMoney is a guarantee th
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loved this car. I put half down (ar
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I hate the concept of luck, especia
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Chaos MagicThose who don’t believ
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You might ruin it. If you let yours
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not sharing state secrets. A year a
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A s the French philosopher Jean-Pau
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wanted a job where I could be by my
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Failure is your invention. I believ
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On Being a FreakI like being myself
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country. Our office has consumed a
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and famous last.My mother told me w
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I t’s a huge testament to Nasty G
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person’s personality. Cover lette
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possibly get. As a visual person, I
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Be Prepared to Get RealI didn’t a
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Chewing gumBringing things with you
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God—and a Promotion—Is in the D
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succeed in the fashion industry, so
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Telling Someone “You’re Fired
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me.—Steve JobsThough I was fired
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PORTRAIT OF A #GIRLBOSS:Christene B
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9Taking Care of (Your)BusinessThing
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marketing. Rule number one? That’
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The Incremental PotentialAuthor Mal
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was completely incomprehensible. To
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On InvestorsWhen I lived in San Fra
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because he truly got us, not becaus
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Turnoffs:Overconfidence: You need t
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we are to be flexible when it comes
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At age three I was a speaker. When
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Armed to BlessA picture is a secret
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died and she wanted me to photograp
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oven. I learned the secret to the p
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so . . . doo doo doo doo doo doo do
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Fashion has always informed the way
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At age six, my one true love was a
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After that, I went through a couple
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models, it didn’t work on eBay, w
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It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool
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that is what society mandated. But
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of shows and every magazine I could
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11The ChancesDreams are today’s a
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I didn’t stick around high school
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThank you to my moth