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Speaker 1: all those empowered strong women out there, this is your show. Today.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Nelli Galan, a financial success and women empowerment.
Speaker 2: Queen Gango because you know we both t Ko Latino Market.
Speaker 2: You know, I used to be president of Telemundo. I
Speaker 2: was a station manager, and I worked my way up
Speaker 2: and I became the first Latina president of Telemundo. And
Speaker 2: then I realized all these women were calling me and saying,
Speaker 2: how did you do that? Did you go to Harvard?
Speaker 2: I go no. I started from the bottom, like an assistant,
Speaker 2: like an intern, And and I had really luckily, I
Speaker 2: had really learned a lot about money. I lived beneath
Speaker 2: my means, I saved my money. I am that I
Speaker 2: taught women don't buy shoes by buildings.
Speaker 1: Obviously, you're a Latina media mogul, right, and and I
Speaker 1: love the fact that you empower other women. You're an
Speaker 1: advocate for being independent. I also think it's so important
Speaker 1: to really have the mindset that we have. In my case,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure yours as well. I came from poverty.
Speaker 1: It took me a long time right to understand the
Speaker 1: importance of being financially educated and understanding the power of
Speaker 1: money and how you can flip it and how you
Speaker 1: can lose it, and how you can build up to it,
Speaker 1: all those great things. But they don't teach us anything
Speaker 1: about finances in school, and a lot of minorities.
Speaker 2: It's like speaking about money is like a dirty thing.
Speaker 1: Briefly, give me a sum up of Like, how was
Speaker 1: it growing up? Do you come from money?
Speaker 2: I'm Cuban. I moved. We moved here when I was five.
Speaker 2: My parents were broke. We lost everything. We came with
Speaker 2: the shirt on our backs and my parents like, I mean,
Speaker 2: I had to I had to make money too for
Speaker 2: the family. And I always tell everybody that I sold Avon.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the Avon chicks out there, you know,
Speaker 1: they everywhere, Like I got the lotion in the perfume
Speaker 1: with that I love.
Speaker 2: I live.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: I didn't know anything about money. I just knew that
Speaker 2: my parents were broke and I was lucky because I would.
Speaker 2: I worked for a lot of rich people, and I
Speaker 2: asked a lot of questions. I realized, oh am, I
Speaker 2: these people are not doing what my pa are doing.
Speaker 2: Like I thought it was so important to work for
Speaker 2: other people only and get a salary and all that.
Speaker 2: And I realized, if you don't have a side hustle,
Speaker 2: if you don't start thinking like an entrepreneur, if you
Speaker 2: don't start thinking about how to make money, put the
Speaker 2: money away and then invest the money one of my
Speaker 2: bosses said to me, when you grow up, you got
Speaker 2: to like live beneath your meetings and buy property so
Speaker 2: that you make money while you sleep. And I thought,
Speaker 2: it's gino. I don't know what he's talking about. And
Speaker 2: it's like, we don't know that the money you make
Speaker 2: and the money you might save isn't going to take
Speaker 2: you to the rest of your life if we don't
Speaker 2: start that process, even like in the gig economy that
Speaker 2: you sort of like if you drive an uber, like
Speaker 2: so many immigrants now they're coming from Venezuela and all
Speaker 2: these countries. They drive an uber and you put that
Speaker 2: money away and you invest that money on the bus
Speaker 2: and Benthana, You're not gonna have money.
Speaker 1: You're my type of friend. Okay, period. But okay, but
Speaker 1: there's a lot of women, there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that are like, yeah, but I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: I can do it. The word debts, the word debt
Speaker 1: has become a fear full word. You have to somewhat
Speaker 1: get yourself in good debt. Can you talk about your
Speaker 1: experience with debt? Were you scared that you were you
Speaker 1: scared to get in debt? Were you scared to start.
Speaker 1: How did you start financially?
Speaker 2: I think that the first thing you got to do
Speaker 2: is be very grounded and wanted. You have to draw it,
Speaker 2: you have to say it. In order to manifest big things.
Speaker 2: You have to declare what you want. And then you
Speaker 2: have to sacrifice a little bit. Come on, people think
Speaker 2: sacrifice is a bad word. It's just like you gotta
Speaker 2: sacrifice a little something for a period of time to
Speaker 2: get on the road to your goals. So medical says,
Speaker 2: you got to save money. And the way you save
Speaker 2: money is by any means necessary. Like I was talking
Speaker 2: to Alex, your producer. Sometimes you can't live in New
Speaker 2: York City, in la in Chicago. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 2: move to other places, emerging cities. He just moved to
Speaker 2: North Carolina. You gotta live beneath your means and save
Speaker 2: money and have two years of your salary saved.
Speaker 1: And that sounds mod gosh, Lord, two years of my
Speaker 1: salary is safe.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to do it. And how you do
Speaker 2: it is because you only need to save for a
Speaker 2: period of time to have that. Once you have that
Speaker 2: nest egg, your life begins because that's the money that's
Speaker 2: going to make you reach.
Speaker 1: When you'll say, wait, two years of your salary saved.
Speaker 1: Do you mean saved or invested?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I say saved. You can't invest till
Speaker 2: you have two years because you need one year for
Speaker 2: an emergency for you. Now, what you can do with
Speaker 2: that money is put it in like a treasury bill
Speaker 2: or in a savings that's making you money. But you
Speaker 2: got to first accumulate two years for canton say. After that,
Speaker 2: you have many decisions. You can say, I want to
Speaker 2: start a little business. I mean not everybody's an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2: I want to invest in my friend who's a genius
Speaker 2: in their startup. I want to go and buy myself
Speaker 2: a franchise, which I don't know why more women and
Speaker 2: minorities don't buy franchisees. Why do we have to start
Speaker 2: everything from scratch When there's a million franchises and make
Speaker 2: you rich. You can decide what to do, like you're
Speaker 2: building something. You're sacrificing to have a pot of money,
Speaker 2: and then you begin and sometimes in order to do that,
Speaker 2: you got to move first to a cheaper place. If
Speaker 2: you're single, you gotta have more roommates. Maybe you're not
Speaker 2: buying Starbucks every day. You got to sacrifice for a
Speaker 2: short period of time in order to be think like
Speaker 2: a rich person. You have a pot of money now
Speaker 2: to decide what are you going to do next? And
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that part of the money is sitting
Speaker 2: at home under your mattress. As I said, it could
Speaker 2: be making interest, but you have to save it.
Speaker 1: Way on me, how you already know that I already
Speaker 1: fucked up because I've invested in a couple of properties.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of properties in the Dominican Republic
Speaker 1: I do. I have a lot of Airbnbs and I
Speaker 1: also have tenants and it's worked for me. But right now,
Speaker 1: if you were to tell me, oh, two years meha,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm ana listen. If I said, I mean, what.
Speaker 2: Do you had two years? You don't realize it if
Speaker 2: you put all these down payments down. This is why
Speaker 2: I say you have to have a plan. Me did
Speaker 2: you just make way more money than we did? And
Speaker 2: I go no, But when we were all young, you
Speaker 2: bought a Jaguar and went on a trip to Europe
Speaker 2: that was very expensive, and I bought a building. If
Speaker 2: you have a clear vision for your life, you thay not.
Speaker 2: When I was twenty years old, I went with my
Speaker 2: girlfriends on my twentieth birthday to color me mine and
Speaker 2: I made a plaque and I said to everybody, let's
Speaker 2: do what we think we want our life to be.
Speaker 2: And I did like a little just like a muceramic,
Speaker 2: and then it went in my parents like garage. And
Speaker 2: twenty years later they sent me boxes because they were
Speaker 2: retiring and moving. And I opened the box and I
Speaker 2: look at the thing and my son goes, Mom, you're
Speaker 2: a manifestor because the house that I live in now
Speaker 2: in California I just moved is exactly the house I
Speaker 2: pictured it. Like everything I put, the line entertainment, my company,
Speaker 2: I put all these things that were in my imagination subconsciously.
Speaker 2: Then you sacrifice because you're like, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: do that because I want this bigger thing, and you
Speaker 2: have to things like that.
Speaker 1: We all know about the Lemundo right, there's only like
Speaker 1: two major networks I think for Latino communities like Telemundo.
Speaker 1: How did Telemundo influence you? How did it make you
Speaker 1: grow as a woman as a professional? What did you
Speaker 1: gain and learn from being in Telemundo?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I was like the like basically
Speaker 2: these two. I was a reporter for CBS as a
Speaker 2: young girl. I got a job early on and I
Speaker 2: interviewed these two guys that bought the first station, Channel
Speaker 2: forty seven in New York, and they said to me,
Speaker 2: you should come and work for us. And I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't want to be in Spanish TV. I want
Speaker 2: to be at CBS, And he goes, are you stupid?
Speaker 2: Do you not know the Latino market is going to
Speaker 2: be the biggest thing in the world and that if
Speaker 2: you're our first employee, you're gonna be You're gonna do really, really,
Speaker 2: really well. And I quit my job as a young
Speaker 2: reporter at and I went to work for what is
Speaker 2: now Telemundo, but it was like one station at that time.
Speaker 2: So for me, I feel like Telemundo taught me, with
Speaker 2: other people's money, how to run a business from the
Speaker 2: bottom up. Like a lot of people that you know,
Speaker 2: like they might be afraid to go work for a startup,
Speaker 2: but that startup is going to be the next AI.
Speaker 1: But then what about if it's not, Then do you
Speaker 1: lose all your money because there's a gamble.
Speaker 2: Realistically, you don't lose because you learn how to be
Speaker 2: how to run a business from the bottom up, and
Speaker 2: then somebody else grabs you. And sometimes to be entrepreneurial
Speaker 2: and do things, it takes three or four or five
Speaker 2: or six times to fail, but then you hit it big.
Speaker 2: You know, when I worked at Channel forty seven, they
Speaker 2: sold the station. I didn't think I was going to
Speaker 2: end up. I didn't think it was going to be Telemundo.
Speaker 2: I started a little business, and for four years, I
Speaker 2: made no money, but I did odd jobs and I
Speaker 2: did a lot of jobs, and I stayed the course.
Speaker 2: And I stayed the course, and I this company, little
Speaker 2: company that I started to launch channels abroad. I ended
Speaker 2: up launching HBO, ESPN, Fox, all these channels in Latin America.
Speaker 2: My company finally hit big, and then Telemundo hired me
Speaker 2: back because Sony had bought Telemundo and they were my client.
Speaker 2: What So, my journey has been very slow and steady,
Speaker 2: and I have failed so many times, but in the end,
Speaker 2: I won because you're learning as you go and you
Speaker 2: figure it out.
Speaker 1: You went from that to you know, real estate investments
Speaker 1: and all these other things. Where do you think your
Speaker 1: passion stands at this moment?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I went from Telemundo. We sold
Speaker 2: it to NBC and then I became a producer, so
Speaker 2: I became Tyler Perry Latina. I produced like seven hundred shows,
Speaker 2: including The Swan, which was a big hit in English
Speaker 2: for Fox. So I produced shows in English and Spanish.
Speaker 2: And then I at the same time, I started investing
Speaker 2: in real estate. And then finally, when I had made
Speaker 2: a bunch of money, my kid was I had a
Speaker 2: little kid at the time. Now he's twenty three, and
Speaker 2: he was not doing well in school. And he goes, Mom,
Speaker 2: you never finished school and you've done really well. And
Speaker 2: I said, you know, one of the things I regretted
Speaker 2: that I didn't finish school, so I went back to school.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I I regret that too. I regret
Speaker 1: that too. I really want to go back to school
Speaker 1: at some point in my life, just to get it
Speaker 1: out of my system because I okay, well, I I've
Speaker 1: already done some other kolsa and mim. But by the way,
Speaker 1: this is a little info of me that I never
Speaker 1: really made public like that, but I guess. But anyways,
Speaker 1: I went to college for business administration. I really wanted
Speaker 1: to go for funeral services because I've always been Okay, no, Sam,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to that and that's a really good business.
Speaker 1: People die every day. And then I ended up not
Speaker 1: finishing because my mom was like, Oh, my mom's very spiritual,
Speaker 1: She's like want So I didn't do it, but I
Speaker 1: still kind of feel like I want to be able
Speaker 1: to give her that damn paper. It's a piece of paper,
Speaker 1: but I know it would make her so proud.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you it's never too late to
Speaker 2: go back to school. My son is the number one
Speaker 2: skateboarder p rod and he he's about to retire as
Speaker 2: a skateboarder down you know, in a couple of years,
Speaker 2: and I tell him, you should go back to school.
Speaker 2: It's never too late. And school isn't always just about
Speaker 2: a papelito. It's about having time to think what am
Speaker 2: I going to do next? What can I do that
Speaker 2: is like different? And what came up for me a
Speaker 2: mana when I was in school is I focused on
Speaker 2: the I went to psychology school and I focused on
Speaker 2: the psychology of money in multicultural communities. Because I was
Speaker 2: I kept thinking to myself, why is it that we
Speaker 2: all don't like, we don't get wealthy? Why are we
Speaker 2: not wealth building, and I work for all these amedicanos
Speaker 2: and they figure it out.
Speaker 1: And we don't.
Speaker 2: And I went deeply into that and that's when I
Speaker 2: decided to write this book.
Speaker 1: Yes, I definitely want to talk about that. Let's let's
Speaker 1: get into your book. Okay, self Made. Just from talking
Speaker 1: to you, you're so motivational, inspirational, You're so driven. You
Speaker 1: have such a great charisma and energy. I can First
Speaker 1: of all, I want my own copy because i'm reading
Speaker 1: I love the title self Made. First, before you get
Speaker 1: into the details, I want to talk about what inspired
Speaker 1: you and why do you feel motivated to help others
Speaker 1: get their shit together, get financially stable and rich.
Speaker 2: First of all, I have been very not just blessed.
Speaker 2: I have also worked very hard to be a wealthy woman.
Speaker 2: And I think that when you know so, I don't
Speaker 2: know that that so. And I feel like no. I
Speaker 2: was on Celebrity Apprentice with Donald Trump. And when I
Speaker 2: was on Celebrity Apprentice, all these minority women were writing
Speaker 2: to me. They go, how did you learn to speak
Speaker 2: truth to power? Because he would yell at me and
Speaker 2: I would let him have it, And I go, are
Speaker 2: you kidding me? I said, because I have my own money.
Speaker 2: Because I've worked for a lot of very rich people,
Speaker 2: I've found my voice. But you know what, when you
Speaker 2: have your own money, you don't put up with a
Speaker 2: bad man. You don't put up with a bad you
Speaker 2: don't put up with a badmi, you don't put up
Speaker 2: with a bad co Okay. So I realized that I
Speaker 2: that because so many people said to me, you're like
Speaker 2: a hidden figure. How did you do it? And I
Speaker 2: had not gone to Harvard or anything. I went to
Speaker 2: school later. So I wanted to write a book to
Speaker 2: say and the book I love what I wrote here
Speaker 2: because I said the book is called Self Made, Becoming Empowered,
Speaker 2: self reliant and rich in every way because also as
Speaker 2: a Latina, it's not just about money. It's rich in
Speaker 2: every way, rich in family, rich in spirituality, rich in love.
Speaker 2: Better money is important because there's mission and there's money.
Speaker 2: And in a way, money has to come first. You
Speaker 2: have to get your life settled financially in order to
Speaker 2: really do big things. You gets in a podcast, book,
Speaker 2: you'll get to make a movie book. I can do
Speaker 2: it because I made money first, and I'm still young,
Speaker 2: and I made money by sacrificing and investing the money,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to tell other women how to do it.
Speaker 1: I come from an immigrant household, you know where My
Speaker 1: mother didn't know till this day, I don't know. No
Speaker 1: English didn't get to you know. She she wanted to
Speaker 1: go to college. She never got to, like she had Muto, right.
Speaker 1: I feel that, to a certain extent, is me trying
Speaker 1: to accomplish those things for her and be like Thoto
Speaker 1: sacrifices that you did to get to this country to
Speaker 1: make sure that I was, you know, gonna have a
Speaker 1: good future. You did it. I did it. I'm here,
Speaker 1: I'm learning, I am breaking generational curses. I am, you know,
Speaker 1: moving forward. However, I know more obviously about finances that
Speaker 1: my mother did. That's why she couldn't teach me. I
Speaker 1: know that my girls are only one and this is
Speaker 1: a very long journey still. Yeah, but I want to
Speaker 1: know how did you or have you or how do
Speaker 1: you talk to your children about money? How do you
Speaker 1: teach them? How do you start them off? Go madre.
Speaker 1: If you have a little sister, if you have a
Speaker 1: little brother, whoever is listening, and you have someone that's young,
Speaker 1: at what age should you start teaching them about what
Speaker 1: finances are.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you how I did it. And my
Speaker 2: son is very good because I've taught him. But here's
Speaker 2: you don't teach. Here's what you do. You make it fun.
Speaker 2: Like what I would do with my kid is I
Speaker 2: go to we go to eat breakfast, and I go, Lucas,
Speaker 2: what do you think this place makes? Like let's do
Speaker 2: the math, like what do you think they're making? Let's
Speaker 2: let's each try and figure it out. And so I
Speaker 2: would say, like what does it cost us to eat here? Okay,
Speaker 2: like twenty bucks a person that was before the pandemic.
Speaker 2: And then I go, okay, how many people are sitting here?
Speaker 2: Let's do the math. Like we'd make it a game,
Speaker 2: or we go bowling, and I'd say, Lucas, do you
Speaker 2: think this bowling alley makes a lot of money? Like
Speaker 2: in other words, I made it like a fun game. Okay.
Speaker 2: We'd go to like toys r us and I would say,
Speaker 2: what do you think is a top selling toy in
Speaker 2: this in this thing? And and and and he go,
Speaker 2: I think it's this, and I go, I think it's
Speaker 2: I go, let's look it up. And so we started
Speaker 2: always talking about money like a game, game, a fighter
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean. So then like now
Speaker 2: he's like, Mom, we can't spend money on that. We
Speaker 2: should be doing this because it became such a conversation
Speaker 2: all our lives that now it's normal. I normalized it, right,
Speaker 2: And I think that when we were growing up, we
Speaker 2: just knew our parents didn't have money, but they didn't
Speaker 2: say like, and we knew that they didn't turn the
Speaker 2: lights on because you know, I always say Latinos are
Speaker 2: green before everybody else because our parents didn't want to
Speaker 2: waste money. But we never really had a conversation about it.
Speaker 2: And I think that that's what I do with my son.
Speaker 2: And if you met my son, you wouldn't believe it
Speaker 2: because he is so good at all this stuff. Because
Speaker 2: we always talked about it. It was like it was
Speaker 2: and we still do. Like when I told him listen,
Speaker 2: he was in University of Miami and I said to him, sorry,
Speaker 2: you have to move to LA And he goes, why
Speaker 2: and I go, because I'm not paying for your apartment
Speaker 2: in Miami when right now we have three buildings empty
Speaker 2: in LA and you could live there. And plus you've
Speaker 2: got to learn all the real estate that I own.
Speaker 2: I'm throwing you into into the lines. Then you got
Speaker 2: to give me one year of your life to learn
Speaker 2: my business.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree. And and something else that I'm
Speaker 1: getting into to I'll talk about it later, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm finding out about getting a trust and all these things. Oh,
Speaker 1: nobody talks about, Like my mom doesn't even know what
Speaker 1: the hell that is. I'm if you don't know who's
Speaker 1: supposed to teach me. So I'm over here. And I
Speaker 1: feel that you should use Instagram and YouTube obviously as
Speaker 1: a teaching and educational platform as well, because there's so
Speaker 1: many amazing people on these platforms teaching you and giving
Speaker 1: a free game. I never even knew what a trust was.
Speaker 1: And now that I own several properties and I have
Speaker 1: certain things, I'm a single mother, it's okay. I have
Speaker 1: to be able to prepare for that day. I think
Speaker 1: that's something else that Latino community doesn't like to talk about,
Speaker 1: is death, death, finances, taboo topics. Let's talk about it
Speaker 1: so that we know what's going on. Se get mommy
Speaker 1: passes away. You don't know what I have, you don't
Speaker 1: know how to run it, you don't know nothing.
Speaker 2: I was a single mom too, and in a way
Speaker 2: it's a blessing because then you get to mold your
Speaker 2: kids the way that you want and and it's very
Speaker 2: important that they see that you're always learning and that
Speaker 2: you care about learning and that it's okay. Also that
Speaker 2: everything is moving so fast in the world that we
Speaker 2: also like right now, AI is going to be the
Speaker 2: next big thing and we have to learn all that.
Speaker 2: So I think if your kids see you wanting to
Speaker 2: just learn all the time. And in a way, my
Speaker 2: son has helped me because like my son said to me, Mom,
Speaker 2: you don't know what you're doing with social media. You
Speaker 2: need my help. Like if you make it so that
Speaker 2: you're building a family trust that everybody helps each other
Speaker 2: in the family to become wealthier and make money and
Speaker 2: you're learning all these things together, it's it's what we
Speaker 2: never had.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But at the end of the day as well,
Speaker 1: you know something that I've studied and seen myself many
Speaker 1: other communities. Let me just put it as a whole,
Speaker 1: communities where wealth is built into the family as a whold,
Speaker 1: we're not in competition with one another. You know, we
Speaker 1: do businesses together, we buy properties together. As a family,
Speaker 1: we do things so financially we're able to create a
Speaker 1: name magdon You know, you create a powerhousehold. But we're
Speaker 1: in a generation. We're in a time lapse where people
Speaker 1: are competing against each other. You're competing against your brother
Speaker 1: and your sister instead of looking at them as partners
Speaker 1: that you can rely on. And you're dividing your wealth
Speaker 1: because everybody independently wants to have so many things. Okay,
Speaker 1: everything starts to fall apart. I think that that's I
Speaker 1: think that is important for the Latino community to learn
Speaker 1: that in order for us to create wealth is how
Speaker 1: can we leverage off each other? Why are you gonna
Speaker 1: go pay somebody else? And said, this one is a
Speaker 1: constructor and you can build together.
Speaker 2: I mean the idea of like which we don't even
Speaker 2: think about, is like generational wealth. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: it's funny. Yes, I just went to I just went
Speaker 2: to to Spain because I was trying to get my
Speaker 2: dual citizenship because my grandparents are Spanish. And I said,
Speaker 2: and I was there, and I go, how do these
Speaker 2: people live? I mean, Europe is expensive, man, it's worse
Speaker 2: than here. But what I realize is that these people
Speaker 2: have generational wealth. Like you get a young person in
Speaker 2: Spain and their great grandfather left them the house. We
Speaker 2: don't have that.
Speaker 1: Yet, say about so, like we're new to this.
Speaker 2: Country, right, so if we don't think how to work
Speaker 2: together and how to build, you know, like so that
Speaker 2: your kids get to inherit something and their kids get
Speaker 2: to inherit something. We don't even think like that yet.
Speaker 2: But that's how we have to think, right.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's also important to talk about it.
Speaker 1: I love seeing a strong, powerful, educated, ambitious woman because
Speaker 1: I see I see a little bit of me obviously,
Speaker 1: and you and other things that I want to learn.
Speaker 1: I think it's also important that we don't talk about
Speaker 1: it much. Is women Empowerment also includes sisterhood, whether you're
Speaker 1: not from the same country, whether you may not have
Speaker 1: the same background. But if you find another woman just
Speaker 1: doing amazing, great things, don't be a hating ass bitch
Speaker 1: and not feel like you can't pass down the info
Speaker 1: me and Mama, I I am good. Let me pass
Speaker 1: you some info and help you get up, because you're right,
Speaker 1: that's we're so caddy with one another. If I know
Speaker 1: some game, I'm the first one to be like, Mida,
Speaker 1: do this CALLFUNO.
Speaker 2: This is how it works. I don't have a problem
Speaker 2: sharing a kid. Okay, I think that the best way
Speaker 2: to find a woman to help you. And I tell
Speaker 2: young women, I go find a woman that's way older
Speaker 2: than you. My mentors. Like I'm in my fifties and
Speaker 2: my mentors are eighty. Okay, because if you come to
Speaker 2: me and I'm older than you, I mean I've already
Speaker 2: been there down that bought the T shirt. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: have more experience experience, so like, come to women that
Speaker 2: are older than you and like try to be friends.
Speaker 2: My mentor, my real estate mentor, is an older Jewish
Speaker 2: lady who I met years ago when I started inviting
Speaker 2: her to lunch.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Nelly, Nelly, will you be my mentor?
Speaker 1: Do you want to go to lunch?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I love girls. Did you see that? You see how
Speaker 1: easy that was? Don't be scared to just talk to
Speaker 1: another woman. Don't be scared. It's super simple. Your life
Speaker 1: can change with one With one conversation, your mind can
Speaker 1: completely expand, change so many connections. Muchak Nellie O that
Speaker 1: before before we have Oh my god, I don't want
Speaker 1: to finish this conversation.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. We're going to get together. We live near
Speaker 2: each other. I think.
Speaker 1: We spoke about our children, We spoke about our careers,
Speaker 1: We spoke about our ambitions, our goals, our dreams, all
Speaker 1: those great things. What happens to your love life? Do
Speaker 1: you feel as I talk about it all the time.
Speaker 1: When you're an independent, strong woman, it's very hard in
Speaker 1: my eyes to find a man that doesn't see you
Speaker 1: as competition, who can see you as a partner, who
Speaker 1: you know all those things? Has it been hard for you?
Speaker 1: Has it been easy for you? Did you have a partner?
Speaker 1: How did you go about this?
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm going to tell women you can't have everything
Speaker 2: at once. Hu. I have been in, you know, several
Speaker 2: long term relationships. I mean, I just broke up with
Speaker 2: someone that I was with for thirteen years. I'm alone.
Speaker 2: I am in a place and alone because I finally realized,
Speaker 2: you know, I didn't want to die without finding real love.
Speaker 2: And I've had many loves, but you know they don't
Speaker 2: always last. Exactly what you said. When you're an empowered woman,
Speaker 2: you know I have fascy better. I am not. I
Speaker 2: don't give up, and I believe, I believe it's possible
Speaker 2: for all of us. It just doesn't happen all at
Speaker 2: once and that and to me, I wouldn't give up
Speaker 2: all my empowerment, all my accomplishments, everything that I've accomplished,
Speaker 2: because I feel very whole and complete, and I think
Speaker 2: that to find someone that's also whole and complete, you
Speaker 2: have to feel that way.
Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you. It's been very tough
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: Fast.
Speaker 1: Let's say you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Speaker 1: I wish that we all could.
Speaker 2: I'm going to just speak for myself because I'm older
Speaker 2: than you. When I was younger, and I was young
Speaker 2: and dating a lot of people. When I look back
Speaker 2: now because I've had time to reflect, I dumped a
Speaker 2: lot of people that were really great men for guys
Speaker 2: that were a little more dangerous and sex.
Speaker 1: And I'll talk about it. Talk about it, ya, mediama
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 2: If I had to give advice now, we all don't
Speaker 2: listen because when our hormones are raging, we make bad choices.
Speaker 2: I would say, choose a man that you think would
Speaker 2: be a great father, because in the end, our children
Speaker 2: are the loves of our lives and you're never going
Speaker 2: to respect a man and he's not a good father
Speaker 2: to your kid.
Speaker 1: And by the way I asked you you know that
Speaker 1: personal question because I also know that when you are
Speaker 1: at peace in your personal life, all those things do
Speaker 1: also influence the way that you look at life. Ambitions
Speaker 1: that you have, they also influence in the way that
Speaker 1: you're able to succeed in your career, whether you're alone
Speaker 1: and you have that piece, or whether you're with a
Speaker 1: partner that supports you during this journey, because what you
Speaker 1: can have is someone in the background. Don't invest in this,
Speaker 1: don't do that. I think there's a bad idea. Why
Speaker 1: are you going to do this? If you're going to
Speaker 1: have someone that's hating you during your journey of growth,
Speaker 1: it's best to be alone. And I know it's going
Speaker 1: to be hard because sometimes you may be in love
Speaker 1: with this person, you may think that they're great, but
Speaker 1: these could be the same reasons why you haven't been
Speaker 1: able to reach your goals in life. Mina Mammy. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you last but not Liz, Please please
Speaker 1: tell us where can we purchase your book? Where can
Speaker 1: we go? How can we follow you? We want to
Speaker 1: know more about you.
Speaker 2: Okay, so number one at Nellie Glan on Instagram. My
Speaker 2: book in English is called Self Made and in Spanish
Speaker 2: it's called Adelante. You can get it on Amazon. And
Speaker 2: I have a podcast money Maker in English and Mimundo
Speaker 2: because I did that for all the immigrants. I want
Speaker 2: all these beautiful immigrants that are coming into America to
Speaker 2: be able to be onboarded financially. By the way, you
Speaker 2: have to do my podcast too, because I love you,
Speaker 2: but you look at Kitto this seed is. I just
Speaker 2: want you to know that when you're young and going
Speaker 2: back to the love thing, because I want women to
Speaker 2: leave on a good note on the love thing. You know,
Speaker 2: your hormones are raging. You're young, you're hot. Men like
Speaker 2: you for your hotness and your looks. But the good
Speaker 2: news is, as you get older and men have gone
Speaker 2: through a lot of hell with a lot of women
Speaker 2: that are taking their money and all this stuff, men
Speaker 2: like you. Later in life you have a whole new
Speaker 2: batchel men that like you because they admire and respect you.
Speaker 2: And that's what you want your kids to You want
Speaker 2: your kids to respect and admire you, so they picked
Speaker 2: good mates.
Speaker 1: I love that you said that. Guys, listen today is
Speaker 1: really hard to do a well you can take home
Speaker 1: with you because this just such an inspirational conversation of
Speaker 1: just be ambitious, be driven, you know, don't be afraid
Speaker 1: to create good sisterhoods. And ask ask a well I
Speaker 1: learned today, ask a older you know, an older woman
Speaker 1: who's had more experience and is not going to see
Speaker 1: you as competition, but it's going to see you as
Speaker 1: a little sister, and it's willing to guide you into
Speaker 1: becoming wealthy, into becoming financially stable, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think it's important as well. Copy paste. If you see
Speaker 1: a girl that is also trying to learn her ways
Speaker 1: into society, into life and you know right from wrong,
Speaker 1: feel free to give some advice. Nellie, I'm so grateful for.
Speaker 2: Because what you've done is amazing. Proud.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: As a younger Latina, very proud man.
Speaker 1: Likewise, I love having women like yourself. You're such an inspiration.
Speaker 1: They are all the greater compliments that you've done. And
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, guys, thank you so
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