Joy Mangano on "Inventing Joy" and seeing the world "through product"

Joy Mangano built a multi-billion dollar empire by creating products to solve everyday problems. Nearly 30 years ago, the single mother of three invented the Miracle Mop and spent about two years traveling to stores to demonstrate how it works. Her big break came when she pitched it on television for QVC and sold a whopping 18,000 mops in 20 minutes.

Her story inspired the movie "Joy" which starred Jennifer Lawrence as Mangano and earned the actress a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.

Today, Mangano has more than 100 patents and trademarks for her inventions. She's sold almost a billion Huggable Hangers, more than 6.5 million My Little Steamers and millions of Miracle Mops.

Even at an early age, Mangano was trying to find solutions to everyday problems. In her new book, "Inventing Joy: Dare to Build a Brave and Creative Life," she recounts a story about how her dog's fall into an ice pond prompted her to come up with a way to put booties on his feet.

"I look at the world through product, and I didn't know it at the time," Magano told "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday. "I was blowing up toasters. I was creating seven-story treehouses, and I didn't know my passion was inventing until I was an adult."

She says her book has been called "high-octane optimism." In it, she shares her journey to becoming one of the most accomplished female inventors and offers advice to find success in work and life.

"So the book goes through this entire, incredible journey," she said. "I wanted this book to be something when somebody closes it, and it's certainly a page-turner, where they would walk away having a better life, having a more joyful life."

Mangano said the book also offers tools for people who are looking to make a change in their life.

"I think the most important tool is to know that you can shift your skis, I say, and that is the ability to discover yourself and go in a path that may not be the path you're on. It's never too late, and it's never too early to take that pass," she said.  

For many, having the great idea isn't the problem – it's the ability to execute it.

"You must know that you don't have to be an expert in something to get started," Mangano said. "If you don't try, you absolutely have 100 percent of getting nowhere."

She also said that hearing "no" is simply the beginning of an invention.

"I heard 'No you can't sell a self-wringing mop. No, you can't sell velvety hangers.' I hear more no's today, right, when you have something that you want to do. We all do. And it's a matter of how do I shift that into something else. How do I turn the no into a yes, right? And, therefore, that's a start of something else."

Mangano's book is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS.