Speaker 1: And you're listening to exactly a mada Our production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio. And let me get right into it,
Speaker 1: because today we're gonna be talking about a topic that
Speaker 1: really hits home, and it's about generational wealth. It's about
Speaker 1: the rise of the female CEO, talking about the importance
Speaker 1: of educating and empowering women at an early age. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm all about pro women empowerment, be independent, get
Speaker 1: your money, get educated. How are we growing together less
Speaker 1: unite forces? I'm all about that. And anybody who's ever
Speaker 1: known me knowing that I've always been like that. And
Speaker 1: guess who has a little mini ceo on you know
Speaker 1: that's on her way to become a true boss because
Speaker 1: you know, okay, I am gonna be her personal mentor.
Speaker 1: It is my co host Stevie noonez hello, And I
Speaker 1: am so excited in fact about it that you know
Speaker 1: that in the US, for example, the non adjusted average
Speaker 1: females annual salary is sev of the average male salary
Speaker 1: compared to for the adjusted average salary. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: get more into that. That's crazy. So that in fact,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is is that the woman, the average
Speaker 1: woman gets paid less than men in the United States
Speaker 1: is happening right here, and they don't give us you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying like that, I feel like they
Speaker 1: don't really appreciate us and women. We bring so much
Speaker 1: value to companies, corporate um as, you know, the family aspect,
Speaker 1: and every single aspect you can think of. The women voice.
Speaker 1: Women's voices are so important. So knowing all those things
Speaker 1: that my mom had to go through in order for
Speaker 1: me to have a better future really really inspired me
Speaker 1: to have this conversation because I feel like when is
Speaker 1: at the right time to teach your kids about being
Speaker 1: a boss, about stepping up, about working hard, about work
Speaker 1: ethic development stages. I would start at five. I mean honestly,
Speaker 1: sometimes we go and we go purchase something and I
Speaker 1: give her. You know, she she definitely works and she
Speaker 1: definitely works around the house as far as chores are concerned.
Speaker 1: And you know girls, now we're talking about girls. Girls
Speaker 1: really work harder than boys. Girls do the dishes at
Speaker 1: a young age. Girls make their bed good, girls take
Speaker 1: care of it. My case, I have a junior s J,
Speaker 1: which is one years old. Chloe takes care of s J.
Speaker 1: So at this point she gets paid, you know, every Friday.
Speaker 1: And what we do is we go out and we
Speaker 1: go shopping, and she saves a little bit of what
Speaker 1: she has. She puts it in a you know, her
Speaker 1: little piggy bag, and then she goes and she buys
Speaker 1: what she needs, which is don't pop back into everyone loves.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that's like a whole thing. You know.
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember that, Um, now, yes, no, yea,
Speaker 1: I remember growing up. Um. I used to love to
Speaker 1: go to party City and they had these like colorful
Speaker 1: pencils and like the fun you know, uh racers. They
Speaker 1: were like little you know, horses or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And I used to do. God, god, I used to
Speaker 1: love it was so colorful and fun and you know bright.
Speaker 1: So um. I used to Oh my god, I used
Speaker 1: to be so happy whenever my mom let me buy
Speaker 1: some pencil alive a thousand things like that, And then
Speaker 1: I will go to school and sell it for twenty
Speaker 1: five cents, and I will come home feeling so proud,
Speaker 1: like mommy, look, I have four quarters. Like I think this,
Speaker 1: So I feel that I've always been an entrepreneur without
Speaker 1: even knowing I was an entrepreneur. And then even though
Speaker 1: there's a misconception of only child of the only child syndrome.
Speaker 1: My mama was really made me work for for things.
Speaker 1: She made me work for everything I wanted. It wasn't like,
Speaker 1: don't get at me, I haven't to get freega. You
Speaker 1: want to do, you have to do something for And
Speaker 1: I think that that's the first step into teaching your
Speaker 1: kids how to become an entrepreneur, don't you agree, which
Speaker 1: is amazing. And also, you know, investing in your child,
Speaker 1: you know, um, really investing because it takes a village
Speaker 1: to raise a child and community. I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: that you know, especially the people that are migrated from
Speaker 1: the Republic, they would bless you know, the children that
Speaker 1: are trying to come up so that they are not
Speaker 1: you know, stressing um and where there we're gonna get
Speaker 1: their money for comment. Yes, yes, correct, But before blessing
Speaker 1: the children, I think that because education plays an important part,
Speaker 1: our families need to get educated first, because a lot
Speaker 1: of our families come from poverty as well. And whenever
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity to have a little bit of money,
Speaker 1: they're not thinking about generational wealth. They're thinking about themselves
Speaker 1: and the present. And that's what I think is important
Speaker 1: to really teach your children, and really teach and it's
Speaker 1: not just your children because you could be grown. I
Speaker 1: learned a lot of these things as an adult. Um,
Speaker 1: I had to figure a lot of these things out
Speaker 1: on my own. So what are the values you have
Speaker 1: to teach them at an early age or earlier on.
Speaker 1: You can still be in high school. You can still
Speaker 1: be in your twenties and your thirties and be learning this.
Speaker 1: I feel that as long as you're alive, you still
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to fix whatever it is that you
Speaker 1: feel you you're you haven't accomplished, and values would be
Speaker 1: like learning how to be independent. Stop. This message goes
Speaker 1: directly to the ladies. Number one setting. That means if
Speaker 1: you have a man, I mean, but if you don't,
Speaker 1: I mean you could live and do with as much
Speaker 1: as you can do without. That means get your own money,
Speaker 1: pay your own bills, do your own thing. Not sit
Speaker 1: here depending on the fact that you have a pretty phase,
Speaker 1: nice tips and a fat ask that they they're just
Speaker 1: gonna maintain me. No, no, no, because the day that
Speaker 1: that is over, they get to what have you? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? So definitely learn how to be independent,
Speaker 1: learn the value of money. I think that school, the
Speaker 1: school system is fucked up in so many ways, and
Speaker 1: this is part of it. They teach you that. Please
Speaker 1: tell me. I'm not saying don't learning. Please learn whatever
Speaker 1: they teach you in school, But almost the last time
Speaker 1: you use algebra and about on the top divide, why
Speaker 1: don't you teach them about finances, taxes, saving your money, credit,
Speaker 1: All those things are so important, Like, there's just so
Speaker 1: many values to be taught. No, you're right, especially they
Speaker 1: should implement the credit um educating people on credit, especially
Speaker 1: at a younger age. I wish someone taught me on
Speaker 1: that credit is everything without credit me and a lot
Speaker 1: of people haven't. I know people, I know people can
Speaker 1: so that they never pay taxes, don't even know how
Speaker 1: this works, you know, and then they're investing your money.
Speaker 1: A lot of people because of poverty and because we
Speaker 1: come from parents that didn't know any better, or they
Speaker 1: were too busy working to try to provide for us,
Speaker 1: which we respect and we understand. But we have the
Speaker 1: ability to become better. We have been blessed with the
Speaker 1: ability of saying, Okay, I'm going to educate myself because
Speaker 1: now I got technology. Now I have access to other things.
Speaker 1: And that's why I say, if you don't know something,
Speaker 1: if you don't progress in life, because because they don't
Speaker 1: want to, because everything you've ever needed, you spend more
Speaker 1: time on social media taking selfies of your ass instead
Speaker 1: of using that time to find ways to become better
Speaker 1: in life. I think I don't want to hear it,
Speaker 1: but that really like yourself, knowing your value, knowing that
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be working for free. You know, work means
Speaker 1: equals money, so never work for free. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of people and especially in our industry, amount of
Speaker 1: we can touch on this topic because this is like
Speaker 1: a big roadblock. And on the road is that we
Speaker 1: do a lot of yes, yes s yes, but then
Speaker 1: we still have to provide. We still have to provide
Speaker 1: for our kids. We still have we know we want
Speaker 1: to make it to this dream, you know. And I
Speaker 1: feel like this is huge, especially for a women you
Speaker 1: know that want to become actresses, that I I want to
Speaker 1: go to Hollywood and just you know, drop there one
Speaker 1: day and just say, oh, I want to do this,
Speaker 1: but make sure you're getting paid for your work and
Speaker 1: knowing your bad Never do anything for free unless it's
Speaker 1: something that's going to bring you to the next level. Ah,
Speaker 1: this is a this is but a way I am
Speaker 1: going to disagree with you, and that ask me for
Speaker 1: two seconds. You know how many things I've done for
Speaker 1: free in my life, A lot of things, you know,
Speaker 1: everything and that and and that's another mistake. Sometimes you're
Speaker 1: so busy just chasing the money that you lost opportunities
Speaker 1: chasing the money, and those opportunities had could have doubled
Speaker 1: that money, because a lot of times it's about being present.
Speaker 1: You never know who's watching, you never know who's listening.
Speaker 1: You may sacrifice a certain amount of time of your life,
Speaker 1: but that your whole life can change from one day
Speaker 1: to the other. So I personally have done a lot
Speaker 1: of things that haven't been for a lot of money.
Speaker 1: But I've always had the vision that if I do this,
Speaker 1: I know that I can benefit this other way, or
Speaker 1: this will come thanks to that, or whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. So, yes, don't undervalue yourself, but also don't
Speaker 1: be chasing money and at the same time losing opportunities
Speaker 1: that could get you to bigger checks. So anyways, that's
Speaker 1: us to have a purpose, and that is a great point.
Speaker 1: I'm out of I feel like it always does have
Speaker 1: to have a purpose. But a lot of times we
Speaker 1: are not living a purpose driven life, and we are
Speaker 1: and that's because it's okay, it's because we didn't know.
Speaker 1: But now that you are underneath the sound of the
Speaker 1: voice of a Mana and Stevie, we are letting you
Speaker 1: know that you should be living a purpose driven life
Speaker 1: and that you should have goals and that you should
Speaker 1: definitely be creating wealth and multiple strings of wealth, which
Speaker 1: you've be talking about later on on this show, because
Speaker 1: a Mada has a an announcement coming up. You know what,
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I was gonna say now,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if I should wait to the end.
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna say no, no, no no, no, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make you'll weight. But I was talking about but talking
Speaker 1: about waiting. Um. Part of the reasons why I decided
Speaker 1: to make that big step which I'm about to announce, um,
Speaker 1: it's because I am a huge believer in generation of wealth.
Speaker 1: And that's one of those are the things that nobody
Speaker 1: teaches you. You know, back in the days. Latina and
Speaker 1: Dominicana back in the days and are great great great
Speaker 1: grandparents are ancestors used to sacrifice themselves just to own
Speaker 1: a piece of land because they understood, they understood the
Speaker 1: value of generational world. They understood that if I sacrifice
Speaker 1: myself now and I can leave something for the next
Speaker 1: generation to come, whether it's you know, my my my son's,
Speaker 1: my daughter, my my grandchildren, I will be providing a
Speaker 1: better future for them and they will continue the legacy
Speaker 1: of the sacrifices that I have done today. So that's
Speaker 1: something that we have lost. We have lost it because
Speaker 1: of lack of education. We have lost it because of
Speaker 1: lack of financial education. We have lost it because I
Speaker 1: believe that with time we have gotten more greedy and
Speaker 1: we think more about ourselves and more about our immediate family.
Speaker 1: Immediate like my wife, my husband, my children, my mom,
Speaker 1: my dad. Yeah, so okay, cool. But then when you
Speaker 1: look at these with all due respect, the way that Caucasians, right,
Speaker 1: a lot of them work, and we obviously know this.
Speaker 1: They like to build generation of wealth. That's why there's
Speaker 1: these long lasting names that go on and on like
Speaker 1: and then you go, uh, Hilton, because of the sacrifices
Speaker 1: and the way that they have set things up. Your
Speaker 1: great great, great, great great great grandchildren will be fine
Speaker 1: based off the sacrifices and the work that you did.
Speaker 1: Do you get what I'm saying? Yes, absolutely. When when
Speaker 1: it comes to Caucasians, since you brought it up, I
Speaker 1: feel like they're they're set up to win. And we
Speaker 1: know that a Latinos, we are not set up to
Speaker 1: win because we are not the CEOs. We are not
Speaker 1: and we have given they have given us the opportunity,
Speaker 1: you know, and um, a lot of Caucasians have given
Speaker 1: us the opportune. Let's keep it real because a lot
Speaker 1: of people on top are Caucasians. And but lately there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of African American women that have been
Speaker 1: um become CEOs of companies. That happened during the whole
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter movement after that and even like impact,
Speaker 1: Um no, but directly after they was like African American
Speaker 1: women that became like CEOs of company and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But there needs to be more of us on top.
Speaker 1: But also education goal coincides with and knowledge coincides with
Speaker 1: your you know, look at that phase. I love that vision.
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying, I'm just trying. But education coincides with
Speaker 1: generational wealth and honestly, like I'm not gonna sit here complain.
Speaker 1: I'm not complaining. But I was a very intelligent young man,
Speaker 1: but I didn't qualify for a scholarship to go to college.
Speaker 1: I had to, you know, pay it myself, and it
Speaker 1: was hard. Whereas my friend that was Caucasian, like you
Speaker 1: had said, had their family had already put aside money
Speaker 1: in a separate bank account for them they set up
Speaker 1: so they set their kids up. And for me it
Speaker 1: was hard. It was like you had said, it was hard,
Speaker 1: and I just want to get this out, okay, because
Speaker 1: it was really hard to come up. And I'm driving
Speaker 1: a little Mercury Cougar to to work and they're driving
Speaker 1: a little BMW. It doesn't matter because it's not about
Speaker 1: what you drive. It's about your drive and what you
Speaker 1: have had. But I felt like like you had stated,
Speaker 1: I'm out of you hit. A very important key point
Speaker 1: was let's set up our children, and if you're listening
Speaker 1: right now, let's set up our children to win. Let's
Speaker 1: set up it doesn't matter if you're white, black, Asian,
Speaker 1: whatever you are. Let's set up our children to win.
Speaker 1: And that's a very powerful message with more of exactly
Speaker 1: a mata yes and we're back, but exactly a mata um. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do understand. I don't want to make this a
Speaker 1: race thing, because the point of this conversation it wasn't
Speaker 1: a race thing. I do understand, how um, Caucasians, which
Speaker 1: we all know this, have certain privileges that minorities don't have,
Speaker 1: especially people like myself, right, we don't have the same privilege.
Speaker 1: I get all those things. I'm not discrediting that because
Speaker 1: I'm from there, you know. And like I said before,
Speaker 1: I've been through everything. I've joining Biagaza. I used to
Speaker 1: clean houses with my mom. I used to sell flowers
Speaker 1: in the corners of the stop of the stop of
Speaker 1: the stop life. I've done everything. I used to put
Speaker 1: flyers after the club. Me and my mom were the
Speaker 1: ones putting the flyers in your in your car window,
Speaker 1: um at twelve o'clock at night. I've done every single
Speaker 1: thing that you can think of to be to where
Speaker 1: to be where I am today. And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful. And because I'm grateful and I've been all
Speaker 1: the way to the bottom, I understand how bad I
Speaker 1: never want to be there again. And I worked my
Speaker 1: ass off so a lot of times we can dwell
Speaker 1: over spill milk, and it's like, oh yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: handed that they have come from, you know, other countries
Speaker 1: with no education, where no nothing but their dry They're
Speaker 1: ambition to become successful gets them places in life. So
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, we can keep continuing to dwell and
Speaker 1: cry and say but it's because they don't do this.
Speaker 1: It's that oh yeah, may yeah, snap out of it.
Speaker 1: How are we going to fix the problem. And let's
Speaker 1: also talk about generational Wealth's a lot of time for
Speaker 1: those that for those families that financially can't do it.
Speaker 1: It's not just about the money. It's education, everything that
Speaker 1: you teach, the knowledge, the wisdom that you teach your children.
Speaker 1: That's also generational world because they can pass it on
Speaker 1: from one from one generation to the other. But I
Speaker 1: think a yeah, yea momento words like how much more
Speaker 1: crying are we gonna do about the things that happened
Speaker 1: in the past? Right now, you need to work your
Speaker 1: ass off and that's it, Like we all have the
Speaker 1: same twenty four hours. Yes, I'm not discrediting and I
Speaker 1: am clear that other people, other races have privileges that
Speaker 1: we don't, and that's what we have to work twice
Speaker 1: as hard. Yeah, they get it easier, of course, just
Speaker 1: based off the color of their skin, they get it easier. However,
Speaker 1: if you are driven, if you are ambitious, if you
Speaker 1: are disciplined, if you want it, you can have whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you want. And the same aspect goes
Speaker 1: for education. There are many ways you can you can
Speaker 1: get yourself educated. I went to college. I couldn't finish
Speaker 1: either and I had to pay students, you know, so
Speaker 1: I definitely get where we're coming from. And that's, like
Speaker 1: I said, that's another education educational system because we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to be paid because then you have to pay
Speaker 1: off the school loans. If you don't pay off the
Speaker 1: school loans, there goes your credit. Now our credit is
Speaker 1: all messed up. Now we're trying to get the next house,
Speaker 1: the next car. Now we gotta work double for that.
Speaker 1: And it's not complaining, but I feel like it's right.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a system that's in place to
Speaker 1: kind of we have to break and I respect women
Speaker 1: such as yourself I'm out of that have broken barriers
Speaker 1: and that have you know, fought right through all of
Speaker 1: that and you know, and I just pray that the
Speaker 1: people such as yourself, that you know have gotten to
Speaker 1: this point. Could I challenge you today to bless someone,
Speaker 1: help somebody that's educated that needs education, you know, even
Speaker 1: if it's another country, help somebody like I all you recently,
Speaker 1: you just donated a bunch of supplies and stuff to
Speaker 1: a bunch of children. If you want to talk about that,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Helping kids out, you know, helping them out
Speaker 1: and tam being um. I think that it's very important
Speaker 1: for parents, right And I'm gonna say this because I
Speaker 1: don't have any children, but my mom, you know, raised
Speaker 1: an amazing woman, and I'm so grateful for what she did.
Speaker 1: But I'm you gotta work, work yourself and loquez work
Speaker 1: ethic discipline, So you need to take that role as well.
Speaker 1: I know you're tired. I know you want a party.
Speaker 1: I know you won't have a good time. I know
Speaker 1: you're you may be tired of your damn kids for
Speaker 1: a little bit. I get all those things. But while
Speaker 1: they're growing up, you said, lem though, this is your
Speaker 1: moment to make sure that you always encourage them, because
Speaker 1: the more that they hear in the house, no sep
Speaker 1: with them. We can't do this. We don't get money.
Speaker 1: How are we gonna do that? It's more of how
Speaker 1: are we going to find a way. Let's find a way,
Speaker 1: let's figure it out. Anything is possible. It's it's it
Speaker 1: all starts in the mindset. You have to change the mindset.
Speaker 1: The body works with the mind. You'll need to program
Speaker 1: and force your mind to make whatever decisions it is.
Speaker 1: And that's why I want to go to this topic,
Speaker 1: um and going back to what it is, you know,
Speaker 1: what is making money these days? Is it working on
Speaker 1: nine five? Is it, you know, being a hustler and
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out on the side, a little
Speaker 1: side gig, a little side job. I personally haven't done
Speaker 1: in the nine five since I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe uh nineteen, because I always do personally, I don't
Speaker 1: like people bossing me around before all of this, before
Speaker 1: of this, Like, what was the really cool job that
Speaker 1: you did, like such as myself, I did Duncan for like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Duncan donuts and people was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Did you take a lot of donuts home? I can regal,
Speaker 1: I guess because they were so much and they were
Speaker 1: so nice, I was able to bring them home to
Speaker 1: my family. Duncan was so nice for that back then.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they do, know it was amazing nice.
Speaker 1: My first okay, so first, so first, when I was
Speaker 1: I started working at a very very very early age,
Speaker 1: little gay. I started doing taxes when I was four. Um,
Speaker 1: but like a regular job. My mom used to work
Speaker 1: and a rest in a restaurant. Yeah no, I don't
Speaker 1: restaurant slash supermarket. So I would put a little plastic
Speaker 1: cup and then you know for the people in the
Speaker 1: low cards. So I used to get no money there.
Speaker 1: But like, my first official job was at fifteen at
Speaker 1: Target tar J. I used to Target Service Tarja. I
Speaker 1: used to work there. Then I also worked at the
Speaker 1: Risk Carlton as the receptionist and that was actually my
Speaker 1: last nine o five that that was my first see me,
Speaker 1: I'm but I guess what to get to that prestigious job.
Speaker 1: Anybody that's from Miami. I used to live in Brown
Speaker 1: cub close to the Poking Beings, Opa Locka, this area
Speaker 1: over here Liberty City. Um, I used to live around
Speaker 1: that area and then I would literally walk five blocks
Speaker 1: then take the metro rail, which is the train all
Speaker 1: the way to Civic Center. I'm just saying this for
Speaker 1: the Miami people. And then from there, I used to
Speaker 1: take the Deer or the Sea bus to go all
Speaker 1: the way to South Beach to work over there because
Speaker 1: I just felt like Yobiwaukee and ghetto nor My. So
Speaker 1: I will go all the way through that mission just
Speaker 1: to get get to that job. So that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you have to sacrifice. People only see what you see
Speaker 1: on social media. See Davie, you see that part, but
Speaker 1: you didn't see all the sacrifice and all the ship
Speaker 1: I had to put up with to get to where
Speaker 1: I am. And just like me, I am talking about
Speaker 1: all the successful people because I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of people could be judgmental. And I'm not saying if
Speaker 1: you come from mommy and daddy who gave you the money. No,
Speaker 1: I'm saying for those that came from nothing and became
Speaker 1: something I would love to see, let's not just mimic
Speaker 1: their success. Now, let's mimic their process to become successful.
Speaker 1: So anyways, part of that is, yes, you may have
Speaker 1: a nine of five. Go have your nine of five
Speaker 1: because you have to pay bills because you have There's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with having a nine five ship. Hey, you're
Speaker 1: getting your money. Do what you gotta do. But once
Speaker 1: you get out of that nine, figure out a way
Speaker 1: to make some time for yourself, for your own personal
Speaker 1: dreams and the things that you want to achieve for yourself.
Speaker 1: If you want to start a small business, dedicate a
Speaker 1: couple of hours after work to studying your craft, to
Speaker 1: figuring out how you can get investors, how you can
Speaker 1: get partners. Maybe a family member wants to hook you,
Speaker 1: you know, hook you up with some bread, or wants
Speaker 1: to help you out, or wants to give you a
Speaker 1: loan or a friend. Figure out ways that you're not
Speaker 1: just being a work slave for someone else and creating
Speaker 1: someone else's generation of wealth. Figure out ways that on
Speaker 1: the low you can sacrifice some of your twenty four
Speaker 1: hours and do something for yourself and for your family
Speaker 1: and for your personal you know, um, you know, bloodline,
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about it. You already know we
Speaker 1: will be right back go Ma's day, exactly Amada, and
Speaker 1: we're back with more of exactly Amada. I feel that
Speaker 1: at firsthand, you know, when it comes to you, let's
Speaker 1: get into an exactly Amata moment, exactly mad um. A
Speaker 1: lot of you know, while we were working on this show.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw a lot of restless nights. I
Speaker 1: mean I saw times where you didn't even sleep. I
Speaker 1: know you were working on something, and now it's all manifesting.
Speaker 1: Would this be the perfect time for you to tell
Speaker 1: us about this new venture, this great announcement. I think
Speaker 1: this is the perfect time. Let's take this time right
Speaker 1: now and tell us all about what Amada has going on.
Speaker 1: I'm missing you, babb Thank you so much. Okay, So
Speaker 1: long story short. UM. Like I said before, UM, on
Speaker 1: our previous episodes, I spoke about during the pandemic. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm an artist, saying I dance, I do radio, I
Speaker 1: do a whole bunch of things. But I've always been
Speaker 1: curious about real estate because I don't know, like wanting
Speaker 1: to own land, wanting to own things that I can
Speaker 1: pass you know, pass down. And also it comes from
Speaker 1: you know, traumas from being homeless after that experience of
Speaker 1: literally not having a home and made me feel like
Speaker 1: I need to buy as many homes as possible so
Speaker 1: I never have to fear being homeless again. And and nothing. Basically,
Speaker 1: during the pandemic, I had some money saved and I
Speaker 1: was like, going on if I just leave the money
Speaker 1: in the bank, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep spending it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep, you know, wasting it. I need to
Speaker 1: figure out a way that I can invest it and
Speaker 1: I can make some money from it. So what will never,
Speaker 1: you know, depreciate, what will always grow is real estate.
Speaker 1: So I studied investing in real estate. I went to
Speaker 1: a Dominican Republic. I I, you know, I wanted to
Speaker 1: buy one one property, you know, I wanted to give
Speaker 1: myself one property for my birthday. I ended up buying
Speaker 1: three all at once, and then now I current we
Speaker 1: have nine. But while I was doing that, I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: so what else can I do? How can I become
Speaker 1: better at this? Like that yank, I buy apartments and
Speaker 1: an Airbnb. Then but like, what's the bigger vision? And
Speaker 1: then I've always looked at like buildings, and I like,
Speaker 1: one day I could have my own build. That would
Speaker 1: be so sick, like I'm out of building something that
Speaker 1: I would be crazy. And I was. I was just
Speaker 1: talking about it like that, and thone says, every night
Speaker 1: I get on my phone and see every night while
Speaker 1: you are sleeping, I'm on my phone doing my research
Speaker 1: I'm on my phone studying because let me tell you something. Rich,
Speaker 1: rich people or people that are successful in life, they
Speaker 1: don't be sleeping the K eight hours. Well everybody, well
Speaker 1: everybody's sleeping, they're working. So then I learned that mindset. Okay,
Speaker 1: well everybody's sleeping. I need to be working because I
Speaker 1: need to take as much advantage as I can out
Speaker 1: of my twenty four hours came. I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Two months till um till this air.
Speaker 1: I love in hip hop, bad room. Um. You guys
Speaker 1: know that I have a business partner in the Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: in the Dominican Republic. Um his name is Alan, and
Speaker 1: uh he you know, he has his company. So Lucien
Speaker 1: is Alan Alan, So Lucien is. We came together, we
Speaker 1: partnered up and I told him, listen, how can you
Speaker 1: help me? Help me have my own, you know, my
Speaker 1: own project. And then one thing let to the other.
Speaker 1: I've taken a couple of trips to the Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: We got a couple of investors. We all came together
Speaker 1: and now Amta Residents it's officially happening. We're selling. Yes,
Speaker 1: Amata Residents is in samana Um. It's forty two apartments,
Speaker 1: twelve penhouses, um, two pools, full gym. It's like a
Speaker 1: whole production. I'm so excited I to owning all of this. Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: I am so excited. This is my first time so
Speaker 1: because I've never done anything this big. And anyways, this
Speaker 1: is part of the things that I'm saying generational wealth.
Speaker 1: When I have my children, I want to be able
Speaker 1: to leave them something and the most important thing that
Speaker 1: I'm going to lead them is wisdom and knowledge in
Speaker 1: my experiences so that my legacy doesn't die. I want
Speaker 1: to be able to maintain that name like and my
Speaker 1: children to be to feel proud of me, like we
Speaker 1: have this because mommy worked hard and now we can
Speaker 1: pass this on. And I want you to not just
Speaker 1: depend on me. I want to teach you how to fish.
Speaker 1: Like it's like it's like they say, don't give me
Speaker 1: the fish, teach me how to fish. I want to
Speaker 1: teach them. So anyways, Amta Residents is available now if
Speaker 1: you go at Amada Airbnb. At Amada Airbnb you can
Speaker 1: find all the details on how you can buy your
Speaker 1: apartment now. And I'm excited. Yeah, you know you need
Speaker 1: you need to start filming like commercials for this because
Speaker 1: you would do like it would be great to see
Speaker 1: a visual give us a little you know, look and
Speaker 1: to what you're doing. The whole Testament. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's such an amazing thing. But really it's happening to
Speaker 1: being a CEO of boss tapping into that and really
Speaker 1: going from homeless. That's so powerful motive. From homeless to
Speaker 1: owning a building and and oh my god, this is incredible.
Speaker 1: And now where in the Dominican Republic isn't located, it's
Speaker 1: very touristic, is in Samona, which is actually where my
Speaker 1: mom was born. Um, and I am so people to
Speaker 1: my partner Alan, We've been able to do this together.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful because he believed in me, he believed
Speaker 1: in my dream of putting this together. We've worked so
Speaker 1: hard together to make this happen, and I pray that
Speaker 1: we can continue repeating this. And this is what I'm
Speaker 1: saying when I speak about this so with so much passion.
Speaker 1: I speak about it because I've been there, like I
Speaker 1: have been there. No one gave it to me. I
Speaker 1: wasn't sucking for money, I'm not selling drugs. I'm not
Speaker 1: as amer and if you're do any of those, congrats
Speaker 1: do what you do. But for those that don't do
Speaker 1: that and are hard working people, anything is possible. Stop
Speaker 1: being scared to ask for help. A Mata, this is
Speaker 1: so great And speaking of you know, women empower this
Speaker 1: is incredible. When there was a time when, remember, women
Speaker 1: couldn't shouldn't speak, They should not be They should just
Speaker 1: be seen and and and not heard. To see so
Speaker 1: much women coming up and becoming CEOs. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like there's competition now or should we you know, stick
Speaker 1: together as women? You know, should you guys stick together?
Speaker 1: Should we let go of the pettiness? Should we let
Speaker 1: go of all of that and just know that together
Speaker 1: there are power and numbers? So what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: about that? A Mata? I think that definitely women, um,
Speaker 1: women should stick together. Like if you feel that you
Speaker 1: can't do whatever business adventure on your own, fine other
Speaker 1: empowering women that are willing to help you. You know.
Speaker 1: I think that women are very smart when it comes
Speaker 1: to business. I think that we're passionate. I think that
Speaker 1: when we really want to make something happen, we could
Speaker 1: be the best partners ever. And I think that if
Speaker 1: you pay attention, this is happening. There's more women becoming CEO,
Speaker 1: there's more women becoming educated, there's more women becoming uh.
Speaker 1: There are in powerful whether it's corporate or whether they
Speaker 1: have their own independent business. So yeah, if you leave
Speaker 1: the pettiness and stupidity alone, and you leave the jealousy
Speaker 1: and the competition, and you focus on business and becoming
Speaker 1: better and helping you know, another woman do the same,
Speaker 1: then we got together and work together as a team,
Speaker 1: we would really be unstoppable. I mean even in radio,
Speaker 1: there's program directors like the and then you have like
Speaker 1: Angie Martinez and then you and then you have you know.
Speaker 1: I think that there is a lot of women in power.
Speaker 1: And honestly, growing up, um, I'm just gonna this is personal,
Speaker 1: I took more, um gonna a holes and advice from women.
Speaker 1: It was easier for me because my mom kind of
Speaker 1: I had my dad in my life, but my mom
Speaker 1: kind of taught me a lot. You know, she's a teacher,
Speaker 1: so it was easier for me to take direction from women.
Speaker 1: So I think women are more nurturing. I mean, even
Speaker 1: when it comes to training that job. I love a
Speaker 1: woman that's in leadership that could train me as a man.
Speaker 1: I never had an issue with that. Um, I feel
Speaker 1: that women get the job done, you know, and women
Speaker 1: definitely get the job done. And I don't have an
Speaker 1: issue as a man taking you know, directions from a
Speaker 1: point good pointin yes, and you know what and talking
Speaker 1: about that too. Something I missed out to talk to
Speaker 1: talk about and I'm going to talk about it really quick.
Speaker 1: It's finding a good mentor. These days, social media can
Speaker 1: help you so much to find someone that inspires you.
Speaker 1: Find someone on social media with a hand bloke that
Speaker 1: they're doing something similar to the vision that you have,
Speaker 1: and don't be scared to slide them, slide up in
Speaker 1: them dms, send them a d M and say, listen,
Speaker 1: you really inspire me and I would love to follow
Speaker 1: your footsteps. Is there any way that you could be
Speaker 1: my mentor? Or what tips can you give me? Whatever?
Speaker 1: You never know. There's a lot of people on social
Speaker 1: media that are literally in the tip of your hand
Speaker 1: on your phone that are willing to help you, to
Speaker 1: give you advice. You just never know. So if you
Speaker 1: have a business idem, if you have any questions, if
Speaker 1: you want to mentor if you're looking for some guidance.
Speaker 1: Don't be afraid to send a d M wherever it
Speaker 1: may be, whether it's Instagram, Facebook, don't they say and
Speaker 1: ask for help because that small little step can change
Speaker 1: your whole life. Trust and a clothes mouth does not
Speaker 1: get fed, and you can. You cannot be afraid to
Speaker 1: talk to someone. You should always have a mentor and
Speaker 1: a mentee, someone that's you know, doing greater than you
Speaker 1: and you're learning how to get there. And then as
Speaker 1: you're getting there, you have a mentee someone that you
Speaker 1: can help also get there. You know, it's never a
Speaker 1: selfish act. You should always find that the you know,
Speaker 1: the cup does run over, you know, and that's how
Speaker 1: you stay blast and a matter. I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the reason why you stay blessed because continue to help
Speaker 1: people and you're not if I if I can put you,
Speaker 1: if I can put you on, or I know that
Speaker 1: there's an opportunity that can be good for you, I
Speaker 1: will be the first one to be like, they're looking
Speaker 1: for this over here, or I'm gonna put you in
Speaker 1: contact with somebody, or just put up real quick, do
Speaker 1: this for free, or do whatever it is you have
Speaker 1: to do. Once you get yourself inside that inside that
Speaker 1: open door, run for it. And you know what, I've
Speaker 1: done that for a lot of people, and it makes
Speaker 1: me feel proud. It makes me feel good to know
Speaker 1: that I've helped someone else because in moments that I
Speaker 1: was in need, no one helped me. So I want
Speaker 1: to be able to be that person for someone else.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm so proud when I see that
Speaker 1: these days, there are so many self made women that
Speaker 1: have amazing companies on their own or that I've been
Speaker 1: able to, you know, give them a little push. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of I think that the pandemic also,
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I feel like the pandemic
Speaker 1: brought the hustler out of people. The pandemic really inspired
Speaker 1: people to work to you know, build that business or
Speaker 1: that business adventure, whatever it may be. Um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: On social media, these are like I have my own
Speaker 1: business and I just love it. I think this is great.
Speaker 1: It is. It is incredible, and I think that the
Speaker 1: pandemic did bring the hustle out of people. You should
Speaker 1: have like a clothing line or something, or shades, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, something, It's like, what are you wearing? Shady By?
Speaker 1: I love it, say you see this. This is how
Speaker 1: you start. You start with, you start working around, You
Speaker 1: start with a dream, you start with the concept. Now
Speaker 1: let's put it to work. Oh my god, let's pray
Speaker 1: that before you know, our first season is over, we
Speaker 1: can have your your shade collection out. Mahina that again.
Speaker 1: I'm going to help you. Let's figure it out. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. You see that as always so helpful. See
Speaker 1: this just happened. This literally, do you happened? I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing Yes, it's the new, new, new, new darling
Speaker 1: and yes, yea. That's such a being a class act also,
Speaker 1: really how you present yourself. Presentation really helps you. Being
Speaker 1: a boss is acting like a boss. You know, they
Speaker 1: always said fake it till you make it. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't be out you're acting ratchet and you're thinking
Speaker 1: you're gonna get somewhere. I mean, it could happen, but
Speaker 1: those are the odds of that are You have to
Speaker 1: really be a class act and really show who you are,
Speaker 1: especially you know, um, you just have to really change
Speaker 1: it up. People, challenge yourself to change it up. You know,
Speaker 1: get dressed for that interview, look great for that interview.
Speaker 1: I mean it starts there. I'm really excited. And also
Speaker 1: also going back into your kids, going back into your kids,
Speaker 1: your cousin, your nephew, can't say listen, motivate them, motivate them,
Speaker 1: inspire them, show them you're doing showing show them that
Speaker 1: you sacrifice, that you put in work, that you even
Speaker 1: as an adult, you study, You study your craft. Even
Speaker 1: if you have a nine to five, when you have
Speaker 1: some free time, you also work. Showed them because that
Speaker 1: motivation inspires them at an early age. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of great entrepreneurs that are like twelve years old.
Speaker 1: I know girls that have their own eliminated stands on
Speaker 1: the weekend that they sell, cookies that they sell person
Speaker 1: that they sell loque. Say, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people were getting the little stimulus check. You if you
Speaker 1: get a little stimulus check, give one to your kids.
Speaker 1: Be like, what would you like to do if you
Speaker 1: had your own business? How would you like to make money? Oh, mommy,
Speaker 1: I like I don't know, I like um, I don't know. Bowls,
Speaker 1: I like hair bowls. Fine, go online even if it's
Speaker 1: on one of these you know wholesale vendors. Buy them
Speaker 1: a couple of bolts and just help them feel productive,
Speaker 1: help them feel that they are a little entrepreneur on
Speaker 1: their way to success, that the smallest little thing can
Speaker 1: change your whole life. Christmas will be right around the corner.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna go spend a whole bunch of money
Speaker 1: buying Bulgaria and stupidless and for your kids that later
Speaker 1: on is just gonna be rolling around the house, why
Speaker 1: not invested in their future and teach them for you.
Speaker 1: For Christmas, I am going to give you your own
Speaker 1: business and this is what you're gonna do, and this
Speaker 1: is how we're gonna do it. Like that really is impactful.
Speaker 1: Especially when you're getting that child tax credit. You should
Speaker 1: really be investing in your children. Because it's called child
Speaker 1: tax cut. It should I say that one more time,
Speaker 1: child tax credit, you should be helping your children or
Speaker 1: really using that for school, for education, making them and
Speaker 1: also I'm out of as small as making them feel
Speaker 1: good when they go to school, dressing them up, making
Speaker 1: them confident, confidences, you know, working on their self esteem
Speaker 1: at such a young age is so important. Every night
Speaker 1: before my daughter goes to bed, I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: what we're wearing. Let's go into your closet. We're gonna
Speaker 1: style you up and you're gonna walk in there with
Speaker 1: all this confidence. But you gotta build your child confidence
Speaker 1: investing your children. Okay, you get a child tax credit
Speaker 1: and you're looking good and your kid is with some
Speaker 1: beat up. Jordan's like, make sure that your kid is
Speaker 1: looking representable and looking ready to be successful. I agree.
Speaker 1: And also, um, before we we go, because you know,
Speaker 1: unfortunately we're about to wrap it up. And I love
Speaker 1: these topics because I'm really passionate about it because I
Speaker 1: feel like if we've had we had more of these conversations,
Speaker 1: if I if I could inspire more women, um to
Speaker 1: to be successful, to be fearless, to go ask for help,
Speaker 1: to start your business, to educate. If I could do
Speaker 1: that and I can change one person's life, I feel
Speaker 1: like I did my job, like I did what I
Speaker 1: was supposed to do. So definitely, I feel like there's
Speaker 1: so much help out there. Don't be afraid to start
Speaker 1: whatever business adventure. Be a boss bitch. Stop talking about
Speaker 1: being a boss bitch, and let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: There's levels to this ship. Just some women to feel
Speaker 1: that being a boss is having a broken bag, Which,
Speaker 1: go ahead, show you could do that and there's other
Speaker 1: women to feel like. Being a boss is having her
Speaker 1: own business. Being a boss is being independent. Being a
Speaker 1: boss is having generation of well. Being a boss is
Speaker 1: owning land. Being a boss could be many things, taking
Speaker 1: care of your family. Being a boss could be many
Speaker 1: many things. So figure out what you consider being a
Speaker 1: boss is. Figure out what you want to be a
Speaker 1: CEO of. Figure out how you can change today to
Speaker 1: have a better future tomorrow. You are in power, you
Speaker 1: are in control. You got this, And if you feel insecure,
Speaker 1: feel free to slade up in my d m at
Speaker 1: amdaaa a l N or slat up in exactly amata
Speaker 1: that we will be right there to support you, to
Speaker 1: guide you. If there's any hope that you know that
Speaker 1: we can provide for you, we will be right there.
Speaker 1: And um, I love you guys so much, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for listening to another amazing episode of Exactly
Speaker 1: a Matter. I hope that this episode was you know, inspirational,
Speaker 1: motivational to you that you feel more confident that you're
Speaker 1: really gonna just not listen to this podcast, but now
Speaker 1: you're gonna get your ass up and you're gonna do
Speaker 1: something about it. And you know what is a Wrap,
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