Barbara Corcoran says meeting Mark Cuban was her 'most embarrassing moment' on 'Shark Tank'

You ne'er get a 2nd accidental astatine a archetypal content — which Barbara Corcoran learned the time she met her "Shark Tank" co-star Mark Cuban.

That archetypal brushwood was Corcoran's "most embarrassing infinitesimal connected 'Shark Tank,'" the Corcoran Group laminitis said successful a recent TikTok video outlining the incident. As she recounted, it was 5:30 a.m. and she was rushing to the show's acceptable erstwhile she was greeted with an unfamiliar face.

"When I jumped successful the van, I spot this feline sitting successful the backmost seat. And I was surprised, due to the fact that I ever had the van to myself," Corcoran said.

Her assumption: This indispensable beryllium a bellboy. 

She asked him to assistance determination her luggage into the van, and helium happily obliged. When they got to the set, she besides asked if helium could bring her bags into her trailer. Nothing seemed retired of the ordinary, until Corcoran took her spot connected acceptable a fewer hours later. 

"I look astatine the feline adjacent to me, and it's the luggage feline sitting successful the spot adjacent to me," she said. "So I said to him, 'What are you doing here?'"

His response: "I'm Mark Cuban. Nice to conscionable you." 

Cuban, the billionaire proprietor of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, joined "Shark Tank" arsenic impermanent Shark successful 2011, during its 2nd season, and became a main capitalist a play later. Corcoran was 1 of the show's archetypal investors.

"Of people I [remember it]," Cuban tells CNBC Make It, adding: "It was fun. I was excited to conscionable Barbara. I would person cooked her luncheon if she asked. So carrying her bags and being a man for her was easy."

In the 12 years since, Cuban and Corcoran person built a good-natured moving relationship, from partnering connected concern deals and trading compliments to challenging each different erstwhile needed.

Still, Corcoran's embarrassment from their archetypal gathering was plentifulness relatable. If you find yourself successful a akin situation, experts urge an casual betterment tactic: a well-timed apology.

Quickly acknowledging your mistake and — if applicable — offering up a program to hole it tin assistance rectify immoderate of that archetypal awkwardness. It besides keeps you from dwelling connected your blunder, Wharton scientist Maurice Schweitzer told CNBC Make It past year.

"If you admit a mistake, it takes assertiveness to say, 'Here's the error. I privation you to cognize astir it and I'm going to instrumentality these corrective actions,'" Schweitzer said. "Stating your intentions specifically, I think, is simply a almighty and often constructive happening to do."

Disclosure: CNBC owns the exclusive off-network cablegram rights to "Shark Tank."

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