Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
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I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.
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When I traveled to Moscow in 1986, I brought 10 pairs of Levi’s 501s in my bag. I was a 17-year-old gymnast, the reigning national champion, and I was going to the Soviet Union to compete in the Goodwill Games, a rogue Olympics-level competition orchestrated by CNN founder Ted Turner while the Soviet Union and the United States were boycotting each othe…
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