USarah wayengenamali ininzi yokonga kuba wayenomsebenzi ongathembisiyo wokuthengisa izinto zeofisi. Ngesinye isihlandlo, wakhupha yonke imali awayeyigcinile, i-$5,000 iyonke, ukuze enze uhlobo lwempahla yangaphantsi. “Ndikhe ndeva ‘hayi’ kangangezihlandlo ezili-1 000,” watsho. Kodwa akazange alithobele icebiso labanye. Ngaphezulu kwe-5,000 yeedola ayifakileyo, ukwagcine i-3,000 yeedola kwimirhumo yegqwetha (ewayengenayo kwaphela)—ukhuphele ngokwakhe isicelo selungelo elilodwa lomenzi wechiza kwincwadi yesifundo. Ekugqibeleni, inkampani awayisungulayo, i-Spanx, yenza udidi olutsha lweemveliso, ezibizwa ngokuba yi "Shaping Lingerie," eyaba ngumnqweno wabasetyhini kwihlabathi liphela.
Ukunxiba i-Spanx body shaper iya kungena kuyo yonke into encinci yamafutha akho, kwaye isinqe sakho siya kuba yi-intshi ezi-3 ezincinci kungekudala. Emva kokuba umsasazi odumileyo u-Oprah Winfrey enxibe iimpahla zangaphantsi ze-brand, wathi kumboniso ukuba i-Spanx yinkampani yakhe yangaphantsi ayithandayo. Ukuthengiswa kwee-lingerie ze-Spanx kwanda ngoko nangoko, kwaye inkampani yaphuma kwishishini elincinci yaya kwimvakalelo yehlabathi.
I-Spanx ngoku ixabisa ngaphezu kweebhiliyoni zeedola, kunye neemveliso ezingaphezu kwe-200 phantsi kwe-brand. Ukongeza ekuncedeni abasetyhini ukuba bajongeke ngcono, ikwaphehlelele nempahla yangaphantsi yamadoda.
Iimpahla zangaphantsi zamadoda ze-Spanx nazo zibe yimpumelelo enkulu. USarah Blakely ungumnikazi we-100 ekhulwini le-Spanx, akanalo ityala, kwaye akazange afumane utyalo-mali lwangaphandle. Kwi-2012, imagazini ye-Time yabiza uSara njengomnye "wabantu abali-100 abanempembelelo kwihlabathi".
Xa ikhayiti iphaphazela phezulu, iba nomoya ovuthuzayo, hayi umoya womsila. --Winston Churchill