Shadowing Practice: Asking Wealthy American Women How They Got Rich! - Learn English Speaking with Video

I've interviewed dozens of millionaires and asked them the same question everybody wants to know.

How did you get rich?

But behind every successful person, there's someone behind them who has given them some advice, opportunities, or helped them avoid mistakes that could have cost them everything.

So today, I'm here in one of the wealthiest areas in America to figure out

if success is something you can actually do alone, or if the fastest way to get rich is to learn from someone who's already done it.

Let's get started.

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See you, go ahead and share this day in my life.

Seriously I was never like to like to call anyone

So I'm a part of a channel called the School of Hard Knocks.

We started a women's channel, talking to successful women like yourself to give tips and advice to the younger generation.

I'd love to know what line of business you're in.

Oh, well, I'm retired.

You're retired.

What did you used to do?

I used to produce news, things like that, but Entertainment Tonight and things like that.

But you guys, you work hard, you're direct, you're ambitious, you're going to be great.

It's all about working hard.

I would love to know a little bit more.

Just 60 seconds.

60 seconds.

You know what?

I've done what you've done, and I'm really proud of you, but I have to go.

Thank you.

You guys are awesome.

You're going to do really well you

so much thank you have a nice day excuse me ma'am

question for you are you a business owner hold it real

fast hey meta pause music sorry i had music in my

ear what's up it's okay what line of business are you

in i'm in the business of doing whatever the i want tell me about

that what do you do for work well i've done all kinds of different things for work

but entrepreneurship is the way to go just know your passion that's my biggest piece of advice

and then capitalize off of that.

Who you are, what you love, do exactly that and you will never work a day in your life.

Are you doing what you love?

Absolutely.

What do you do?

Whatever the I want.

You own a business then, right?

How long have you been owning a business for?

So I've owned my own company.

I actually don't have it anymore.

Okay.

Oh, so you exited.

Yes.

I would love to know what business you did own.

No, I had my own production companies.

Tell me about that.

I just think that it was something that I love to do

and when you realize that nobody is waiting around for you, you can create whatever you want.

And I believe that when you're doing what your purpose is, it aligns very naturally.

You don't have to hustle.

You don't have to stress yourself out.

It's not about that.

It's about just knowing who you are, knowing your purpose, and then letting it align from there.

What's your biggest accomplishment so far in your career?

I have two Emmy awards.

Were you ever fearful?

I come from the school of hard knocks, which I love that that's exactly what you said.

So was I ever afraid?

No, I wasn't.

It's because it's just what I wanted to do.

So just go align yourself with amazing people.

That's most important.

Just let everything come together as it's meant to be.

Don't stress.

Just have fun with life.

The more you have fun, the more things just fall into place.

I'm telling you.

Take it from an old bird like me.

It's true.

Did anyone ever tell you no?

And what did you do when they did tell you no?

Everybody told me no. You kidding me?

I'm like, how can you say no to this?

Let's go.

And then people just eventually gave in.

I don't know.

But you know, you hear no all the time.

And I just think I always take it as a stepping stone.

You know, saying no just means it's just not where you're meant to be at the time.

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And that's a good thing, because you're like, good, say no, so that I can find exactly what it is that I'm meant to do and who I'm meant to do it with.

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Excuse me, ma'am, quick question for you.

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How old were you when you became a millionaire?

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So I'm gonna say 30s.

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So what do you do for a living?

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I'm a fashion designer and I do real estate.

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So I'm actually part of the School of Hard Knocks team.

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We started a Hard Knocks on this channel.

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I love to chat for you in 60 seconds about your business, is that okay?

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That's fine.

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Yeah, cool.

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So you said you're a fashion designer?

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I am.

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How long have you been doing this for?

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I've been in fashion my whole life.

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My grandma is a fashion designer.

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I go, fashion is in my blood.

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Is she your inspiration?

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She is my inspiration.

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What's the best advice she's given you, then, about fashion design?

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There's no rules.

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Break fashion.

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Make something out of nothing.

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That's so beautiful.

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What's the most amount of money you've made in a single year?

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Enough money to buy my million dollar house.

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A lot of people do fashion designing, right?

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But not a lot of people make millions off of it.

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What did you do differently than a lot of other people have?

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I feel like, you know, not just fashion in general, like, just different sources.

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You've got to put your eggs in different baskets.

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You need a really good team.

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Do you ever deal with creative burnout?

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Yeah, of course.

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We were burnt out all the time, you know?

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But we gotta keep going.

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Were you ever fearful of failing?

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I think so, but I love it so much that I'll get right back up.

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Just last year, I was in a bad depression for nine months

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and then made it the most beautiful collection being depressed that it's now called heartbreaker.

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So, from heartbreak to high grace.

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That's actually beautiful, and I'm so sorry you went through that.

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It's okay.

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A lot of women deal with mental barriers all the time when it comes to entrepreneurship.

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What is the best advice you would give someone right now who's also going through that?

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Get up, you're unique, there's only one of you and that's all that matters.

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Excuse me, ma'am, quick question for you.

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How old were you when you became a millionaire?

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I was 29 years old.

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So I'm a part of Hard Knocks Women's channel.

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I'd love to chat with you for 60 seconds.

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Is that okay?

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Absolutely.

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So we own a global hair extension company.

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We also partner with salon owners and help them become wealthy through their infrastructure, scaling, and exiting.

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So I have to know, what do you think are the biggest mistakes a lot of women are making in the beauty industry when scaling their businesses?

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They're making fear-led decisions.

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It exposes the things that we may not be mastering or quite yet good at.

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And so we just have to break through that

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and just become good at those things and not be scared to do it.

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Were you ever fearful?

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Absolutely.

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I'm scared every day.

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You keep pushing through, right?

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Absolutely.

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It's the only choice because now, you know, I have 50 plus employees and I have to make sure

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that they get to live their dream lives and it's not just about me.

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I have to know, what's your best advice on managing people?

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Because you said you have well over 50 employees.

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So what do you tell people in order to scale their business to have good employees?

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I think, you know, good humans become great employees.

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When I hire someone, I don't really look for a specific skill set, right?

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I'm really looking for just great humans because the skill set can be trained, especially with AI.

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I love that.

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And have you ever dealt with imposter syndrome at all?

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Every single day.

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Imposter syndrome is also a mindset because when you look at someone that is more successful than you, You should be asking, what is the gap between me and them?

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Not having imposter syndrome and being in fear that you might not ever get there.

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How do you show up as your best self?

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I think just showing up as my best self includes me just remembering why I do what I do.

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That puts me in the right mindset every day.

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Did you ever have a mentor?

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Absolutely.

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I have so many mentors.

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My best mentor is Brandon and Natalie Dawson.

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They've helped me so much.

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What's the best piece of advice they have given you that you take to this day?

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Several years ago, I had a conversation with my mentor and he mentioned how I wasn't really a real CEO.

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I was making more emotional decisions.

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Instead of licking my wounds, I decided to do something about it.

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That conversation has made me millions of dollars.

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I love that.

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And do you think the beauty industry is super saturated right now?

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Oh my gosh, no. The beauty industry is a $64 billion industry.

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It is massive.

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There is so much room for all of us to win.

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The one thing that I see people in the beauty industry

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or any industry do wrong is they don't know what they're going after.

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You have to decide what's the target that I'm going after and then go after it.

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Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur.

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Only like 1% of them actually make it like you.

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So what was the key factor you think to make yourself that 1%?

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You have to fall in love with the challenges.

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You have to fall in love with being wrong.

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You have to fall in love with failing.

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And I think people just give up because it is hard.

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And if it was easy, everyone was doing it.

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But you have to go through those just uncomfortable phases and just kind of fall in love with being uncomfortable.

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Really quickly, how old were you when you made your first name?

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Have a great day.

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Okay, thank you.

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Yeah.

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Excuse me, ma'am.

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No, no. Okay, have a great day.

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Excuse me.

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Hi.

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Do you guys own a business?

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No. No. We'll do a good thing.

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We don't want to.

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We're on a channel just talking to the younger generation just about how to become successful.

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You guys don't want to interview?

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Yeah.

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We're sure.

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All right.

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Have a nice day.

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Excuse me, miss.

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Is this your G-Wagon?

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Yeah, it is.

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How are you able to afford a G-Wagon?

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I'm an entrepreneur.

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I own a real estate finance company.

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No way.

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That's awesome.

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What type of real estate do you do?

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Commercial real estate.

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Yeah, we finance commercial properties nationwide.

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What's the most amount of money you've made this year?

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Oh, I think, well, we have about $500 million in the pipeline, but all of that hasn't closed yet because we're waiting for the end of the year.

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But yeah, we should do over a million dollars this year.

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How are you able to scale your business to so much money?

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Well, people, processes, and systems.

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So it's all about, I think your network is your net worth.

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And so if you have the right people to surround yourself with

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and the right education to put systems and processes in place and core values that you're very aligned with, then you can continue to grow and attract the right talent and the right clients to scale.

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And why did you choose to do commercial instead of residential?

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Well, there's more money in commercial.

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So commercial is just a big market and residential is much more emotional.

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Commercial is more numbers driven.

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So commercial real estate assets are bought for profits and residential is more bought for luxury, right?

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You want to have a house to buy, to live in for your family.

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But commercial real estate, you can buy an asset.

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You can go add appreciation to it by increasing the rents, by renovating the property, rising your rents, making it a better property and then therefore you can pull out the money,

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refinance once you appreciated the asset, and then you can rinse and repeat and continue to do the same process.

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You did it all by yourself too, right?

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Invested in your own self?

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Yeah, I did.

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I got my real estate license when I was 18 years old.

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That summer before I started engineering school and college, I sold a piece of commercial real estate.

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I took that profit, used it to buy my first investment property, which was a residential house.

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It was a condo, actually a one bedroom condo here in Phoenix.

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And then I added value to that house by renovating it.

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And then from there, rented it out on Airbnb

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and then continue to make commissions and reinvest the commissions into buying more assets

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that I could add value to and rent out to increase my cashflow.

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That's a super smart way to start it.

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What would be advice that you'd give your 20 year old self if you could go back?

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Love myself, not be so hard on myself, treat myself as kindly as I treat others.

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I didn't learn, you know, I always thought money would be the answer to all my pain and to happiness.

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And then when I became a millionaire at 25, I realized that I was just a miserable millionaire still.

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So I had to do a lot of the inner work, a lot of the personal development and really peel back the layers of the resistance

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and the self-sabotaging stories that I was telling myself and living by

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and clear all of that out to get back to ground zero

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so I could be able to start to create the things I wanted in my life.

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Instead of trying to force them and be miserable as I tried to force things to happen.

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Money can't buy happiness, right?

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No, it can't.

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It definitely can't.

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I mean, it helps.

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I've been, you know, had money and not had money and I'll choose money every single time.

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And it can create a lot of happy experiences and a lot of service and impact and amazing things in life.

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But I think money just accentuates more of who you are.

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If you're already an unhappy person, money's just going to make you a wealthy, unhappy person.

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How important is social media marketing for real estate in general?

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Well, for me, it's been extremely important.

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I was able to launch a new commercial real estate finance company called HB Capital and we're a new company.

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I just launched that company last June and we're already doing a lot of loans, have a lot of you know multiple hundreds of millions of dollars of loans in the pipeline to close

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and I have generated most of my business and relationships through social media by educating others, helping others grow, interviewing our clients, bringing them on the show,

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helping promote them and their products so people can get to know them.

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So it's been integral.

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However, most people I know that are in commercial real estate, they're an older generation and and they did not build with social media.

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So I think it's part of the edge

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that I have being from a younger generation

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and being able to get more exposure and to create more impact and value for others.

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If there's any financial literacy advice you can give someone, especially at 25, what would it be?

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Buy assets and let your assets pay for your liabilities.

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Robert Kiyosaki, one of my mentors and dear friends teaches this.

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The rich buy assets that put money in your pocket.

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The poor and the middle class buy liabilities like credit card debt, car payments, your primary residence

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that doesn't really put money your pocket that's a monthly expense every single month all of these things

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that are liabilities and so what i did is i started buying assets with all the money

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that i made appreciated the value of those assets held them over time rented them out

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and i used that cash flow which would continue to pay me in my sleep

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and that cash flow is what i started to use to buy liabilities

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and some of the luxuries in life so i postponed buying the purses

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or the clothes or the shoes or anything until i had enough assets

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that provided enough cash flow to be able to buy those things

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and then i didn't have to worry about it so much

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because the money would replenish in my sleep so you're thinking long-term instead of short-term, right?

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Yeah, everything I think of is a 10-year vision, right?

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And so if I'm going to commit to something, anything that I do, is this something that I want to be doing in 10 years from now?

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And every single successful person that I've ever met, and I surround myself by a lot of leaders that are all much more successful than me in multiple areas of life,

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they all have long-term visions and they're very committed to a vision that is far beyond themselves.

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And so most people that live mediocre lives, they just want instant gratification.

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They can't see beyond what makes me feel good right now.

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What do I want right now? what impulse do I have right now that I want to feed.

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The truly wealthy and the truly successful people in all areas of their life, they don't care so much about the instant gratification.

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They enjoy the journey.

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They love what they're doing.

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They're very passionate and excited what they're doing.

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And so they can withstand the type of pain and suffering

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and challenges that they're going to have to withstand to build something that will actually last.

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What is your 10-year vision then?

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Oh, well, I have a 50-page True North manuscript.

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So where do I begin?

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But I want to build my company to a billion-dollar organization.

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I want to have an impact fund and raise capital from women and help empower women to rise.

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And especially with this big transfer of wealth that's happening to women, a lot of them aren't spoken to.

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Right.

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So I want to speak to the women, help them rise.

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And then I want a portion of the profits from my fund, which the fund is going to be used to finance commercial real estate projects for our clients.

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And I want a portion of those profits to be part of my foundation, to go into orphanages and teach underprivileged children, entrepreneurship, emotional intelligence, self-love, self-compassion,

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how to heal from their trauma

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and use their trauma to actually turn their pain into purpose

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and power and to be able to create whatever lives they want to live.

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So I have a grand vision and I absolutely love what I do

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and ultimately I just want to build an empire

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so I can give it all away and have that passive income

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that can help people for generations to come long after I'm gone.

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That's beautiful.

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I absolutely love that.

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You said you had a mentor.

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How many mentors have you had?

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Oh my God, so many.

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And you know, when I didn't have any money getting started, my mentors were always authors, you know, books, reading on Google, researching online and reading books.

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So Rich Dad, Poor Dad was the first book I read at 13 years old on financial intelligence.

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And that was a light bulb for me that made me understand

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that poor and middle class work for money and the rich have money work for them.

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And so if you start to see money as a tool to create more money and stop trading your time for money, then that allows you to create infinite abundance in your life.

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And so that book gave me the knowledge

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and the tools to set out on the path to go acquire assets

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and start to use money as a tool and create assets

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that are going to replenish money in my sleep

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so I don't always have to trade my time for money and end up being a slave to money my whole life.

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I love that.

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What states is it the best place for any entrepreneur that's looking into doing commercial real estate?

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What states should they go into?

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Yeah, so the nice thing with AI is there's tons of market data out there right now, and you can really easily research demographics, politics.

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You can see where the U-Haul moving truck reports.

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You can see where people are moving into and where people are leaving.

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And so since we finance commercial real estate, a lot of lenders like the Sunbelt states right now, generally states that are more landlord friendly.

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And because there are certain states that are not landlord friendly, and it's very hard to get a property back if you foreclose

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or it could take a long time and you can really increase your risk in those states.

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So I like the Sunbelt states right now.

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A lot of lenders like the Sunbelt states.

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Arizona is great.

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Texas is great.

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Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, lots of those states.

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And then the Rust Belt states where I'm stay, where a lot of lenders are staying away from right now.

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And I personally don't love as much as far as my own investments.

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That's more like Washington, New York, some of those colder states and also more politically charged states where they're not so landlord friendly.

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And so wherever the money is flowing is really where we wanna focus on investing.

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And that can shift over time.

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Excuse me, miss.

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How old were you when you became a millionaire?

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Oh, I don't know.

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Maybe 20.

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How are you able to become a millionaire?

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Real estate.

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What do you do in real estate?

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I own properties.

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How'd you get into that?

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My first job, I guess.

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What have you learned so far in order to become a millionaire?

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I guess you have to trust your instinct.

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That's amazing.

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So I'm actually a part of a channel where we're talking to a millionaire

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and billionaire women and to giving them tips and success for the younger generation.

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Do you mind if I chat with you just for a second?

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I'm running late.

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I'm meeting my daughter for lunch.

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Just a couple more things, a couple more things.

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Okay, so tell me, like, where are you investing your money at right now?

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I'm buying properties, actually.

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Yeah?

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Yeah, right now in LA, West Hollywood, and Beverly Hills is a great location because markets down.

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Really?

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That's so interesting.

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Do you think this is the best state to invest in, or are there other states that you would go invest in?

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I think California is a great time right now to invest because it's very down.

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But New York is also, so I don't know.

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I would recommend New York and California.

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So where do you exactly get your money in order to invest?

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What did you do?

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Oh my god, I've invested in stock markets and real estate and I have income generating properties.

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That's amazing.

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Are you a mother?

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Yes, two children.

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That's amazing.

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You're a mom, you have the kids and you have the career.

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So do you believe you have it all?

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Are you happy?

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Of course, yes.

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Yeah, very happy.

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What are you teaching your children about investments?

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I want them to learn and make wise decisions, so not be impulsive.

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So there's decisiveness and impulsive.

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I want them to be decisive, but do their research and then be decisive.

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What type of risk is there in order to do real estate investment?

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Oh, there's risk in everything.

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I mean, without risk, then you're going to sit on the sidelines.

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So you have to take chances.

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What type of risk do you take?

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Oh, big risks, big risks.

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Yeah, I mean, bigger the risk, the better the reward.

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So you have to sometimes just say whatever I have to lose.

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Try something different.

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That's amazing.

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I love that what do you think is the biggest mistake people make when going into real estate investment?

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I think they think too much.

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If you don't overthink it and trust

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that your losses are going to be a lot less and your returns are going to be much higher, you have to evaluate and make a decision.

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And how did you learn to do all of this?

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I watched a lot of people around me and how they were working.

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There's one piece of advice you can give to the younger

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generation right now to be able to go from zero to 100k to 100 million.

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What would you tell them?

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Same thing.

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I think it's about realizing what your risks are, evaluate it, and see where your comfort is.

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And if you can take a chance with your comfort zone, then take a chance.

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Always about taking a chance.

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Thank you so much.

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Have a nice day.

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I can't believe I was able to interview Hannah Hamon, one of my favorite entrepreneurs.

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The best part is she has so much mentorship advice that we can actually take away from.

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Don't forget to like, subscribe, and comment on who your favorite entrepreneurial woman was and I will see you guys in the next one.

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