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LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF HILLARY CLINTON

serve children—not for money or for fame, but because it
was something that she deeply cared about.
Living a purposeful life can also be a unique source of
energy. Candy Crowley, a well-known CNN reporter who
has followed Hillary for years and was close to her
throughout the presidential campaign, said that you can’t
have the kind of energy and focus that Hillary has without
having a strong sense of purpose. In other words, Candy
said, “You keep going if you believe in something.” This
strong sense of purpose, as outlined in Hillary’s political
platform, helped her stay focused and on task during the
toughest times in the campaign. When people said that she
might not win the Democratic presidential nomination,
she worked that much harder. Candy went on to say that it
requires a lot of energy to run a national campaign. Just the
sheer travel and having to “be on all the time” is too stress-
ful for many candidates. She shared with me about a time
when she was covering the campaign and Hillary flew out
to the West Coast for a rally and then flew back to the East
Coast on the red-eye to be interviewed on one of the major
talk shows the next morning at 7 a.m. If you have ever
taken a red-eye, you know that it means that you get prac-
tically no sleep that night. Candy said, “She loves talking
about policy issues and believes that this is one area where
she can have an impact and help to change things for the
better.” Hillary is living with purpose in her life.

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