“You really have to stand up for yourself.”

That’s the message Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran sent loud and clear in a recent interview she gave LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky. The interview is full of powerful lessons from Corcoran’s life, but one story stood head and shoulders above the rest:

The time Shark Tank fired her, before she taped a single episode.

Corcoran said she received a call from a woman asking her to be on a new show called Shark Tank. Ecstatic, Corcoran agreed. She immediately went on a shopping spree, buying new outfits and autograph-signing materials. “I’m going to Hollywood!” she excitedly told her friends.

Then, Corcoran got a dreadful phone call telling her “they changed their mind” and had decided to give her seat to another woman.

“I just couldn’t believe it,

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