Business leader, author and rocket scientist Sylvia Acevedo describes her experience growing up in a low-income family in New Mexico, and explains how selling Girl Scout Cookies taught her crucial lessons about both confidence and sales strategies. She explores how the instinct to not take “no” for an answer grew stronger the more she exercised her confidence.
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