Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, Hey, I'm just my voice.
Speaker 2: We're back. We're black.
Speaker 1: Brown, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, Brown in the studio today.
Speaker 1: It's not just me and Mandy. We got a guest
Speaker 1: in the stew But first, Mandy, how are you girl?
Speaker 3: I am doing well. I spent the last two hours
Speaker 3: undoing the weekend that happened to my house, my two kiddos,
Speaker 3: so you know, doing and I'm sure that's somewhere in
Speaker 3: both y'all's book outsourced that ish, but you know what
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 4: It was meditative, it was doing good. How are you?
Speaker 4: Where are you? My little firefly just a buzzing all over.
Speaker 1: I actually so yesterday I got an award from Homework Mahogany,
Speaker 1: which is really awesome.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, you look so pretty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I had my You know, Hallmark has this
Speaker 1: like black and brown brand called Mahogany where they really
Speaker 1: celebrate the brownness of it all.
Speaker 4: I did not know when you said Homemark.
Speaker 3: I was like, did, Yeah, I've been because movies that's
Speaker 3: what I know them of.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm buying Mahogany cards because if you go into
Speaker 1: like you know, Target or Walmart, whatever, you'll see a
Speaker 1: section the Hallmark section, but then you'll see a mahogany
Speaker 1: section where there's actually black and brown faces on it,
Speaker 1: which I love. And so yeah, that's why I got
Speaker 1: to get my car from and so yeah, they had
Speaker 1: this inaugural event where they just celebrated twenty eight like
Speaker 1: black Indevadis Honorees. I was sitting next to this woman,
Speaker 1: this I was sitting next to. Oh don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what they identify as. I want to be respectful.
Speaker 1: I was sitting next to them. Their name is x
Speaker 1: X created this this algorithm or tool that helped Google
Speaker 1: identify the different intonations in black and brown skin.
Speaker 2: Wow, which I was like, how am I here? Because
Speaker 2: they're changing the world. So it was amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean it ran the gamut from Pinky Coal was there,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. Fantasia Burno spoke and she was just,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we should talk. We'll talk about her
Speaker 1: her speech later about how she shared how she's lost
Speaker 1: her fortune again for the third time, was like, what
Speaker 1: it was weet?
Speaker 4: We like pre color purple okay or you know what? Okay,
Speaker 4: that kind of tracks, but yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1: So it just was really awesome because we're black and
Speaker 1: brown women, especially black women. This is a room full
Speaker 1: of black women, kind of like commune. People are just
Speaker 1: loving on you. Just you're so many No, you're amazing. Yes, dress, yes, hair,
Speaker 1: Okay now yes, So it was just awesome and so
Speaker 1: to convenue, continue to awesome. Does we have an amazing
Speaker 1: guest today? We have Rachel Rogers.
Speaker 4: Wed So in her banana glam.
Speaker 1: You might have heard of Rachel. I mean all of
Speaker 1: y'all have heard of. We should all be millionaires. If
Speaker 1: you haven't, what rock have you lived under? Well, Rachel's
Speaker 1: missed is to help historically excluded groups, including women, people
Speaker 1: of color, queer people, and people with disabilities, build their
Speaker 1: businesses and become a millionaires. If you've never heard her speak,
Speaker 1: you are missing out.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Since the inception of her company Hello seven, she has
Speaker 1: helped hundreds become millionaires and thousands become financially free. We
Speaker 1: welcome Rachel to the still.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rachel, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: So, you know, like Mandy I had that that not
Speaker 1: so secret group, the Bad Bitch Support Group. It's like
Speaker 1: a group of like a handful of life.
Speaker 4: Yes, you have told me many times.
Speaker 2: Rachel's one of the babies. So I didn't know what's
Speaker 2: what you call it?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 4: What's it called again?
Speaker 1: We just we just made that up the bad bitch
Speaker 1: support girl.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's accurates.
Speaker 1: So it's just really awesome to just have like this
Speaker 1: group of amazing women who are doing amazing things. But
Speaker 1: what I love.
Speaker 2: Is that we mostly just focused on Oh, sire, what'd
Speaker 2: your husband saying? What about these?
Speaker 1: It's like, certainly talk about business and things, but it's
Speaker 1: just really support for like you holistically as a woman. Yes,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, yes, Rachel's going to be
Speaker 1: in the stew with this.
Speaker 3: So how did that little group get formed? And how
Speaker 3: long has it been going? Because I feel like that
Speaker 3: is so necessary, especially for the online entrepreneur people who
Speaker 3: are working like super virtually. And I think that is
Speaker 3: I think people listening are thinking, oh, I would love
Speaker 3: to do that. But yeah, how did it get started with?
Speaker 1: How did it from your perspective?
Speaker 5: Yes, So one of our members decided that this group
Speaker 5: needed to exist, and so she just emailed and texted
Speaker 5: friends that she thought should be in this community. So
Speaker 5: that's kind of how it formed. It was It's very informal.
Speaker 5: It's just like a group of friends getting together and
Speaker 5: just deciding that we're going to be here for each other.
Speaker 5: And we're sort of like all kind of colleagues that
Speaker 5: knew of each other. There were some friend groups within it,
Speaker 5: but it was kind of like all just black women
Speaker 5: who have accomplished a certain a certain level of success
Speaker 5: in business.
Speaker 2: And she just owned.
Speaker 5: Well, I was singing seven or eight figures basically, and
Speaker 5: so yeah, she just asked us to get together and
Speaker 5: so we did.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think we thought it was going to form
Speaker 1: like this permanent group. I think we were just like
Speaker 1: I'm tired, You tired, I'm tired, come to your house, okay, girl,
Speaker 1: and we just kind of like had this amazing time
Speaker 1: and it was like can we keep the party going?
Speaker 1: And so yes, I would say it's been more than
Speaker 1: six months, maybe I think November of last year or
Speaker 1: December of last year of twenty three.
Speaker 3: So I hope it lasts forever because that's such an
Speaker 3: intention that's such an intentional way.
Speaker 4: Of doing the whole well.
Speaker 3: I believe in communities for every facet of life, like yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like for yeah, so I have
Speaker 3: my mom group who's like, you know, they can be
Speaker 3: local but not local.
Speaker 4: But then I have my super local mom group and.
Speaker 3: The neighbors, and then I have my career you know,
Speaker 3: entrepreneur kind of people, and like even a community. I
Speaker 3: just joined a don't talk it too much, but I
Speaker 3: just joined a group.
Speaker 4: My first group therapy program can be.
Speaker 3: Running for twenty weeks because I need to find my
Speaker 3: people when it comes to high functioning anxiety. So I
Speaker 3: found some people. I found a group through my psychiatrist,
Speaker 3: and I'm really excited. But anyway, I was just thinking
Speaker 3: about how like to make your own community around the
Speaker 3: thing that you feel like a little alone in or
Speaker 3: like a little lonely in.
Speaker 4: I think it's beautiful.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean that's literally my whole business journey, to
Speaker 5: be honest, it's just creating the community that I craved
Speaker 5: and couldn't find.
Speaker 1: You know, well, let's jump in, like Rachel, like just
Speaker 1: in case for the people who do live under rock.
Speaker 1: Hey rock, people like a girl us a little bit
Speaker 1: about yourself.
Speaker 5: So I am a former lawyer. I'm a mom of
Speaker 5: four children, and I am married also, and so I
Speaker 5: just my first business was at law practice. And I
Speaker 5: did that right out of law school because there was
Speaker 5: a recession in two thousand and eight. I graduated two
Speaker 5: thousand and nine, A lot of the jobs that were
Speaker 5: advertised to me my entire career, you know, schooling career,
Speaker 5: were gone by the.
Speaker 2: Time I graduated.
Speaker 5: I'm like, how convenient is that? And I had six
Speaker 5: figures and loans to pay back. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: what am I going to do? So I did a
Speaker 5: clerkship for a year, and then after that, still not
Speaker 5: a lot of job options, and so I decided to
Speaker 5: create my own and just start my own practice. So
Speaker 5: I had my own intellectual property law and business law
Speaker 5: practice and eventually hired attorneys, hired team, scaled that up,
Speaker 5: and then realized once I got really good at it
Speaker 5: that of course I don't want to do it anymore,
Speaker 5: as we do, right, get good at something and then quit.
Speaker 5: So then, but what they were coming to me for
Speaker 5: all the time, Like my clients who were coming to
Speaker 5: me for they were paying me for legal advice and
Speaker 5: legal work. They kept asking me for business advice, which
Speaker 5: I gave them, and tour of mine was like, stop
Speaker 5: giving that business advice for free.
Speaker 2: You need to be charging for that.
Speaker 5: So I was like, oh okay, So I just started
Speaker 5: dabbling and like you know, basically book a consult with
Speaker 5: me about business for five hundred bucks or something, just
Speaker 5: to see what would happen.
Speaker 2: And there was a lot of interest.
Speaker 5: And then finally I took on my first one on
Speaker 5: one coaching client, worked with her. Her business like exploded
Speaker 5: within six months, and so I was like, oh, maybe
Speaker 5: I'm good at this. And then I slowly transitioned into
Speaker 5: Hello seven, which is the company that I run now,
Speaker 5: And like you were saying, like I really built it
Speaker 5: because all of the entrepreneurial spaces I went into. First
Speaker 5: of all, most of the business advice for women was
Speaker 5: geared towards like hit six figures, your first six figures,
Speaker 5: And I was like, cool, but I did that already
Speaker 5: and I'm still money's still tight.
Speaker 2: So what else you got? What about that seven figures? Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. So I was like, and this is of.
Speaker 5: Course back in the day, because I started in twenty ten,
Speaker 5: so that was when I started my first business.
Speaker 3: Is it really can we not make too any time
Speaker 3: back in the day?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just a couple of years ago, fourteen years to
Speaker 6: the same aide, This feels mean, That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It just looks like an attack.
Speaker 5: So but back then, right, it was like everything was
Speaker 5: six figures, six figure, six figures, and I'm like, cool, cool,
Speaker 5: But who got that seven figure joint?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 5: Like because I want that one, right, So, like, tell
Speaker 5: me about how to build a seven figure business. Nobody
Speaker 5: was talking about that, definitely not geared towards women.
Speaker 2: And so I was like, I started to.
Speaker 5: Discover these spaces, which like tech bros basically, and that's
Speaker 5: where I was going to get, like to join their
Speaker 5: masterminds or going to events, and I, you know, was
Speaker 5: sexually harassed in those spaces. People's one. I was called
Speaker 5: the N word by an employee. After spending tens of
Speaker 5: thousands of dollars to be a part of this this community,
Speaker 5: I've just experienced.
Speaker 2: All kinds of fuckery.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm allowed to say that on
Speaker 5: the podcast you are okay, So yes, all kinds of fuckery.
Speaker 5: And so I was like, Okay, I need a space
Speaker 5: with ambitious people who look like me, who are diverse,
Speaker 5: who care about having women on the stage, who care
Speaker 5: about having people of color on the stage, like you,
Speaker 5: white guys are not the only ones making money, right,
Speaker 5: because I see it online, there's other people doing it,
Speaker 5: so like where they at and who they're masterminding with
Speaker 5: and how can I find them?
Speaker 2: And so I just decided to create the community that
Speaker 2: I was craving with. Hello seven.
Speaker 5: So we've had a variety of programs over the years,
Speaker 5: but our biggest one now is the Club, which is
Speaker 5: a membership community with diverse members who are building businesses,
Speaker 5: scaling businesses, making some of them making seven figures. We
Speaker 5: have some eight figure members now and people who are
Speaker 5: just starting out so like basically you know, climbing up
Speaker 5: the ladder to hit their revenue goals.
Speaker 4: Hey, be a fan.
Speaker 3: We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
Speaker 3: right back. Like what's your favorite kind of because there's
Speaker 3: so many different kinds of businesses and styles of business.
Speaker 3: What's your like superpowers you feel like? Or what kind
Speaker 3: of entrepreneurs do you attract to the club?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like run the gamut?
Speaker 3: Or is it sort of like online entrepreneurs? How do
Speaker 3: how does it shake out?
Speaker 2: We have a great variety.
Speaker 5: I think we surveyed them once and we had like
Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty different industries and careers like represented
Speaker 5: types of businesses represented. But for me, I actually do
Speaker 5: feel strongly that we should build businesses around our superpower.
Speaker 2: So I love that you asked that question.
Speaker 5: So my superpower is definitely public speaking and like basically
Speaker 5: taking complex ideas and simplifying them. This is what I
Speaker 5: did as a lawyer, and it's what I do in
Speaker 5: business as well, Like, Okay, this business concept that I
Speaker 5: need to understand, how can I simplify it so that
Speaker 5: I can turn it into actionable steps? So I think
Speaker 5: those that's what I'm good at. And public speaking, speaking
Speaker 5: to a crowd. I love like big groups, you know,
Speaker 5: and I love commune so and I would say writing
Speaker 5: too is in there as well. And sometimes I think
Speaker 5: I'm a better writer than speaker, but I get complimented
Speaker 5: on speaking more.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know anyway, but both of
Speaker 2: those things. So I basically just.
Speaker 4: Don't like to read any more, Rachel.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 5: Hence audio books my audiobook sell like hotcakes.
Speaker 2: I mean, like the audio is meet people where they
Speaker 2: are exactly, and I mean it's me too. I'm an
Speaker 2: audiobook junkie as well.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so anyway, so yes, I've built the business
Speaker 5: around like basically me speaking in groups. I really like
Speaker 5: curating community and having groups of people. I think when
Speaker 5: I've coached people one on one, what happens is I'll
Speaker 5: coach them, They'll will help get rid of some of
Speaker 5: the mind trash, They'll start taking action, but then all
Speaker 5: the people in their life are sort of reinforcing who
Speaker 5: they used to be, the old thoughts, right, and so
Speaker 5: then it's like by the next call, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: they still have retained ten percent of what I coach
Speaker 5: them on the week before, but now I got to
Speaker 5: recoach them on everything else. It's like, I'm like, I
Speaker 5: need to get you in a community where you can
Speaker 5: be reflected back, you know, like who you really are,
Speaker 5: what you're capable of, You're surrounded by people on the
Speaker 5: same journey. So I figured that out pretty early on
Speaker 5: in coaching, that it's actually more effective if you can
Speaker 5: do it in community. So even if they are getting
Speaker 5: one on ones, I still like them to be in
Speaker 5: a community of other people also getting coach because Iron
Speaker 5: shop AND's iron So that's how I've always done it.
Speaker 2: Community is always huge.
Speaker 5: So community, coaching and education, those are the three elements
Speaker 5: of every offer that we do at Hello seven.
Speaker 1: I love that, yes, so I know you wrote your
Speaker 1: book came out. What did your book come about twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one, Yeah, May May twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: And so why did you write we should all be millionaires?
Speaker 1: Who did you help to reach? And I know you
Speaker 1: have a new book which is like the workbook version
Speaker 1: of this book that's coming Yeah, it's come out already,
Speaker 1: or it's coming out.
Speaker 2: It's coming out June eleventh.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, tell us about like we should all
Speaker 1: be millionaires in this new book that you have coming out.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we should all be millionaires. Why did I
Speaker 2: write it?
Speaker 5: I think I wrote it because why I do almost
Speaker 5: anything is because something's annoying me, and I'm like, somebody
Speaker 5: should do something about this. And then after a while
Speaker 5: I get tired of hearing myself complain about it, and
Speaker 5: then I'm like, fine, I guess I'll be the one
Speaker 5: to do it.
Speaker 2: If you insist.
Speaker 5: So that it was basically the same thing with the book,
Speaker 5: Like I just felt like, y'all, we're not even paying
Speaker 5: attention to our money, Like we need to focus on
Speaker 5: our money. We need to recognize our agency when it
Speaker 5: comes to our money.
Speaker 2: Like there's a.
Speaker 5: Lot of and we also need to acknowledge the factors
Speaker 5: out there that are all designed to keep people that
Speaker 5: look like us broke.
Speaker 2: Right, we need to acknowledge that.
Speaker 5: That's true, and you know, deal with the hurt of that,
Speaker 5: and at the same time not take that on as truth, right,
Speaker 5: and recognize our own agency to create financial freedom. So
Speaker 5: and it comes out like your money is affected by
Speaker 5: every choice you make, right, the decisions that you make,
Speaker 5: the boundaries that you do or do not have, the
Speaker 5: people that you allow to take advantage of your time.
Speaker 5: Now you don't got time to make money because you're
Speaker 5: doing all this other stuff for your mom and your sister,
Speaker 5: your cousin, everybody else's needs are prioritize instead of yours.
Speaker 5: All the excuses we make, all the things. I was
Speaker 5: just like, you know, sometimes I just want to take people,
Speaker 5: shake them a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, you know. So that's basically what I was doing
Speaker 2: in this book.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm like, okay, here's everything I want you to know.
Speaker 5: And I was also unpacking my journey, like who did
Speaker 5: I have to become to become a millionaire from growing up,
Speaker 5: you know, very low income and struggling.
Speaker 2: What did it take?
Speaker 5: Like, how did I have to change who I am?
Speaker 5: How did I have to change how I was showing up?
Speaker 5: How did I have to change my beliefs in order
Speaker 5: to become a millionaire. I wanted people to be able
Speaker 5: to have a pathway to do that, and so it
Speaker 5: was really just me unpacking that in the book, and
Speaker 5: it really was cathartic. And I don't know if you
Speaker 5: found this too, but like, I think it's healing to write,
Speaker 5: Like I literally cried through some of the stories I
Speaker 5: was telling. It was like my own personal therapy. And
Speaker 5: so that's the first book, and then Million Dollar Action,
Speaker 5: which is the follow up. Is you know, I've had
Speaker 5: hundreds of thousands of people messaging me for a couple
Speaker 5: of years saying, you know, I loved this book. I'm
Speaker 5: you know, I've taken action on certain parts of it
Speaker 5: and they loved it, and you know, it was it
Speaker 5: was great. And at the same time, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: but like I would love for you to take more action, Like,
Speaker 5: let's see, how can you take action on every part,
Speaker 5: not just like the part that you liked the most,
Speaker 5: Like that one chapter you took action on, Okay, cool,
Speaker 5: but what about the rest?
Speaker 2: So the workbook is.
Speaker 5: Really about it's sort of taking action. It's million dollar actions,
Speaker 5: like what are the actions that are required and let's
Speaker 5: actually do them right now in this book, you know,
Speaker 5: and some of these these are a lot of exercises
Speaker 5: that I do with my coaching clients to help them
Speaker 5: to get results. So it's really deconstructing that and helping
Speaker 5: them go through it on their own so that they
Speaker 5: can start to create this. It ends with a million
Speaker 5: dollar plan, right, like, what is the plan that's going
Speaker 5: to help you to build that wealth?
Speaker 4: Okay, so you got to share some of those steps.
Speaker 3: Okay, I could share Maybe I don't know one that
Speaker 3: someone could do right now that's kind of like a
Speaker 3: baby step, and maybe one that you are like, ooh,
Speaker 3: this is like this is when they really turn it
Speaker 3: up to the next level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like not for me or anything.
Speaker 1: Just like for everyone, for everyone, because you know, we
Speaker 1: were just talking about this other day. It's just like,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, this would be great.
Speaker 4: Yes for my friend.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: So one of my favorite steps in the book is
Speaker 5: about like creating your vision, right, what is the life
Speaker 5: that you actually want for yourself. I think a lot
Speaker 5: of times we have these dreams and desires, and we
Speaker 5: don't see them as real or we don't think they're possible,
Speaker 5: so we don't actually plan around them. We don't actually
Speaker 5: say like, Okay, how do I make that happen. It's
Speaker 5: just kind of like this esoteric thing that's out there
Speaker 5: that's like that could never be me, you know. And
Speaker 5: I grew up with family members too, who were always
Speaker 5: dreaming up business ideas, who are always dreaming up like
Speaker 5: big visions that they literally never even thought about taking
Speaker 5: action on. And so I'm like, okay, how can we
Speaker 5: make this tangible? So and this is literally what I
Speaker 5: did along the way to like continue to grow my
Speaker 5: income is I would just get in touch with like
Speaker 5: what do I actually want?
Speaker 2: What are my desires?
Speaker 5: And so you get in touch with your desires and
Speaker 5: you create a list like what are the lifestyle upgrades
Speaker 5: I want? What are the changes that I want to make? Well,
Speaker 5: how do I want to feel every day? How do
Speaker 5: I want to show up every day? And you just
Speaker 5: create that vision and write it down, right, And when
Speaker 5: we write it down, we're making it real.
Speaker 2: That's part of it.
Speaker 5: And then I want them to run the numbers on
Speaker 5: that what does my dream life cost? Because sometimes we're like, well,
Speaker 5: i'd have to be a billionaire, or even being a millionaire,
Speaker 5: you might be able to have ninety percent of what
Speaker 5: you want without.
Speaker 2: Being a millionaire. You know, like you don't even know
Speaker 2: what it costs. Let's find out.
Speaker 5: So it's like, I want one of those big beautiful
Speaker 5: houses in this type of neighborhood. Okay, cool, go run
Speaker 5: the numbers on what a big beautiful house in that
Speaker 5: neighborhood costs? Right, how much would that cost you monthly?
Speaker 5: And I make them do it monthly so that because
Speaker 5: I think when we think of like.
Speaker 2: Oh well that's a million dollar house. Cool, how much
Speaker 2: does it cost a month?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: Because who cares?
Speaker 5: Right, Like if you pay for it monthly, So what
Speaker 5: does that look like to like get the monthly number
Speaker 5: for all the different things that you want. And so
Speaker 5: then I have them add it all up and we
Speaker 5: figure out like, okay, now you know what your dream
Speaker 5: life costs. Now what are the action steps we need
Speaker 5: to take to make that happen and make it real?
Speaker 5: So it's like I like putting numbers on things, like,
Speaker 5: let's just do the math on it so that we can.
Speaker 2: Figure out how how do we get there?
Speaker 5: Because sometimes we think that number is way bigger than
Speaker 5: it is, like I need to make five hundred thousand
Speaker 5: dollars a month maybe, or maybe you just need to
Speaker 5: make another twenty thousand dollars a month, which that ain't
Speaker 5: that hard.
Speaker 2: You know. So that's one of the exercises that I love.
Speaker 5: Another one is really about their their mindset, because I
Speaker 5: always start with mindset because so many times I've had
Speaker 5: clients come to me and be like, just tell me
Speaker 5: the action steps so I could get this money, Like
Speaker 5: I just want to have the money, like you have
Speaker 5: the money, just tell me the action steps. I just
Speaker 5: want to skip to the part where you give me
Speaker 5: action and I'm like, listen, I hear you.
Speaker 2: I get it. But let me tell you what.
Speaker 5: You're not going to do any of the things that
Speaker 5: I tell you to do until we deal with the
Speaker 5: mindin trash, right, Like until you deal with what's stopping
Speaker 5: you from You already know what to do half the time, anyway,
Speaker 5: you're just not doing it. Why that's the question we
Speaker 5: need to answer. So that's actually what we deal with
Speaker 5: first in this book, helping people to unpack the thoughts,
Speaker 5: like what are the thoughts that you have what are
Speaker 5: the stories that you're telling yourself that are preventing you
Speaker 5: from taking action? And we always have them. I have
Speaker 5: them right now right.
Speaker 2: I just spent some time this weekend identifying.
Speaker 5: More thoughts that are holding me back, and so I
Speaker 5: was like, okay, I'm taking action now. So but you know,
Speaker 5: but I spent probably months not being aware of it,
Speaker 5: and you know, so I want us to have exercises
Speaker 5: that we can use to help make it clear what
Speaker 5: is it that's in my head that's stopping me from
Speaker 5: taking action. So that way, when you have that list
Speaker 5: of like here the okay, now now you have your
Speaker 5: tangible to do, why are you not doing them?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: But when you deal with the mindset trash, you will
Speaker 5: actually start working that list.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, b a fam, We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break and we'll be right back.
Speaker 3: I wish we could all just like put our heads
Speaker 3: on each other's shoulders and then kind of like run
Speaker 3: each other because I just feel like if we could
Speaker 3: take the us out, like the art the eye out
Speaker 3: of the situation. We're so good at giving advice to
Speaker 3: everyone else and like wanting them to be great and
Speaker 3: build like all that you're talking about the Hallmark thing, Tiffany,
Speaker 3: when you get in the room with black women, it's
Speaker 3: just like love and yeah you got it.
Speaker 1: Girl, you so flying yeah in the mirror, like do
Speaker 1: I look cute today?
Speaker 2: And everyone is like and the.
Speaker 4: Uber just like, what the hell did I say? That
Speaker 4: was so stupid?
Speaker 3: You know, And I think if we just don't know,
Speaker 3: just had some kind of weird Frankenstein experiment, we're just like,
Speaker 3: let me borrow Rachel's brain for a day and I
Speaker 3: could do this.
Speaker 4: But short of that, a book is fine. I guess.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's why I love community though, Like, that's
Speaker 5: why community is so crucial, Like we should never be
Speaker 5: doing this alone if we can avoid it, you know, like,
Speaker 5: definitely get friends involved, recruit people. And I include stats
Speaker 5: about that in this book too, about how if you
Speaker 5: can recruit a squad of friends and get them together
Speaker 5: and tell them what your goals are and make sure
Speaker 5: you're communicating on a regular basis about the goals, like
Speaker 5: you are ninety percent more likely to accomplish your goals
Speaker 5: literally if you do them with a friend, even just
Speaker 5: one friend.
Speaker 2: You know, So, how many of.
Speaker 4: Us feel alone?
Speaker 3: Too many of the people that too many of y'all listening,
Speaker 3: even if you're listening to this alone. I'm almost like,
Speaker 3: start a brand ambition podcast club where you just listen
Speaker 3: to the episodes and yes that yeah, it just it
Speaker 3: just helps to have that because I think our thoughts
Speaker 3: like when we're in when they're listening right now. I
Speaker 3: do this to say I was listening to a podcast earlier,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I need to actually write something down
Speaker 3: from this because it sounds so good in the moment,
Speaker 3: But where's the like Tiffany, when you say when you
Speaker 3: teach something, you learn it twice or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you teach, yeah.
Speaker 3: Someone like you tell someone about it, you learn again?
Speaker 3: And I had I was like, who do I turn to?
Speaker 3: I just heard this cool thing. Husband's like I can't
Speaker 3: take it any more information. I just want to watch
Speaker 3: videos on how to fix a Rolex watch. But you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know, You're like you needed other things, your squaw.
Speaker 3: I wonder to tell the story of how he owned
Speaker 3: it for a day and I made him return it.
Speaker 2: About how do you Rachel?
Speaker 1: Do you find that especially women of color or or
Speaker 1: just people from historically exclude excluded groups really struggle with
Speaker 1: even allowing themselves space to dream. Yeah, I find that
Speaker 1: people are like I can't. I'm like, girl, it's in
Speaker 1: your own head. No one you can literally say I
Speaker 1: want to fly like a bird. It's allowed.
Speaker 2: But they're like, oh, I can't. Even Like the other day,
Speaker 2: I'm friend of mine.
Speaker 1: She was like saying, what I fly.
Speaker 5: Like a bird is my favorite example. I'm the starting
Speaker 5: to say because.
Speaker 1: If you ask, if you ask a little kid like
Speaker 1: like yes. One of my nieces, Amelia, she told me
Speaker 1: she wanted to go to the moon and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, but then she also told me like I
Speaker 1: want to meet Stevie Wonder because saying her like the
Speaker 1: Stevie Wonder version of Happy Birthday. She's like, that's for
Speaker 1: kids too, and I said, yeah, she's a who sings.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, Stevie Wonder.
Speaker 2: She was like, show me on YouTube.
Speaker 1: So I showed her on YouTube.
Speaker 2: She said I want to meet him, and I was like,
Speaker 2: you can't meet Stevie.
Speaker 4: She's like said no more kids, bops.
Speaker 1: She she told me to google where he lives and
Speaker 1: I guess he like grew up in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: And then she told me to google his mom because
Speaker 2: I guess she won big a point date with her mom.
Speaker 1: And honestly, it sounds so crazy, but I was telling
Speaker 1: you who works with STEVIEE. Wonder. I didn't know, but
Speaker 1: she works with Stevie Wonder's ex wife and they're still
Speaker 1: very close. And I was telling a friend of mine like, oh,
Speaker 1: my niece is so silly. She's like no, no, Like,
Speaker 1: next time I see her, because we're doing business together,
Speaker 1: I'm going to let her know. He's got to meet
Speaker 1: your fan. And if you know, Tiffany, if you bring her,
Speaker 1: she can meet him. I was like, wait, what the.
Speaker 2: A Milias of the world get what they want? And
Speaker 2: I told her. She looked like, okay, girl us exactly.
Speaker 5: Google Google, did y'all see the story about the kid
Speaker 5: in the Philippines?
Speaker 2: Who is Beyonce? Is his friend Beyonce? Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he was like, Beyonce, that's his.
Speaker 5: Friend now, yes, she sent him flowers and no no,
Speaker 5: And it was like, why is Beyonce not coming to
Speaker 5: eat pizza with us? Obviously she's our friend, she should
Speaker 5: come eat pizza with us.
Speaker 4: Like it was such a dope job to just be
Speaker 4: the floral, like, oh my million for Beyonce.
Speaker 2: First of all, the viewers. First of all, I.
Speaker 3: Just need to grow them in that place where they
Speaker 3: grow the flower in black and black panther.
Speaker 4: Look at that word.
Speaker 5: We're just gonna speak it into existence that one day
Speaker 5: I'm getting a bouquet from Beyonce, and when I do,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna just fall out. And then once once they
Speaker 5: bring the wake me up, then I'm gonna do a
Speaker 5: whole video about her.
Speaker 2: But you have to get your meeting on.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, what can those of us who are
Speaker 1: like listening, who are really like struggling with just even
Speaker 1: in the secrecy of our own arts, say yes, want
Speaker 1: because we're feeling we're undeserving or can't happen, whatever it
Speaker 1: is that we're telling ourselves. What is a way to
Speaker 1: kind of break free from just even saying thing that
Speaker 1: we want? How can we do yes?
Speaker 5: One of my favorite coaching questions that I loved, well,
Speaker 5: there's two of them, but one of them is what
Speaker 5: would I do if I wasn't afraid?
Speaker 2: Right Like? What's what's? What is?
Speaker 5: What would I do right now in these circumstances if
Speaker 5: I wasn't afraid? And it helps my brain to start
Speaker 5: just thinking about things and going there instead of doing
Speaker 5: what's practical, because I think we create practical and it
Speaker 5: becomes just like a ceiling for us and a box even,
Speaker 5: you know. And I'm like, there's nothing practical about my
Speaker 5: life when I look back at my life, right the
Speaker 5: way that I grew up and the circumstances that I
Speaker 5: dealt with, Like, you know, there was no there was
Speaker 5: nothing practical about going from like paying for our groceries
Speaker 5: with food stamps to you know, now having a significant
Speaker 5: net worth and becoming a millionaire, right, Like there was
Speaker 5: not that was not a pactical plan you know that
Speaker 5: I had from day one. I just wanted to I
Speaker 5: just didn't want to struggle financially anymore. Right, So, like
Speaker 5: I had that in my brain, but I didn't even
Speaker 5: think of trying to become a millionaire because it wasn't
Speaker 5: even something to think on. So like, your dreams can
Speaker 5: continue to grow with you. But I have a whole
Speaker 5: section and we shall be millionaires literally dedicated to telling
Speaker 5: people how to get back in touch with their dreams.
Speaker 5: Because sometimes when I coach clients and I say what
Speaker 5: do you want, Like I always start, what do you want?
Speaker 5: Let me help you? I will help you get it.
Speaker 5: But like, first, you got to know what you want.
Speaker 5: If you don't know what you want, I can't help you.
Speaker 5: I don't know what to do with you.
Speaker 2: You got to go to go to my friend.
Speaker 5: She does life coaching. She'll help you figure out what
Speaker 5: you want. Then come here and I'll help you get it.
Speaker 2: You know. So, But sometimes they don't.
Speaker 5: Even know because they've not been asking themselves. They've never
Speaker 5: admitted it to themselves. They don't even know how to
Speaker 5: dream anymore.
Speaker 2: You know. And I saw something from do y'all know?
Speaker 5: Sonya Renee Taylor, who wrote The Body is not an apology.
Speaker 5: She is an amazing activist, body positivity activist and men
Speaker 5: other things, amazing poet and a friend of mine. And
Speaker 5: she U, I'm losing my train of thought.
Speaker 2: She posted the other day. What did she post? Lord?
Speaker 4: Something about knowing what you want?
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, she said, She said, thank you. I
Speaker 2: appreciate you. Yes, mom, brain is real.
Speaker 5: She was saying that, like my desire birthed a movement,
Speaker 5: Like I just wanted to create this poem for my
Speaker 5: friend who was feeling uncomfortable in her body.
Speaker 2: She has a disability. She's a black.
Speaker 5: Woman, and she felt shame right, like in a intimate
Speaker 5: relationship with someone that she was with, and you know,
Speaker 5: she was like, she responded to that by writing this poem,
Speaker 5: The Body is Not an apology. And she gave this
Speaker 5: poem I think back in twenty thirteen or something, you know,
Speaker 5: twenty fourteen, something like that, and that poem became the
Speaker 5: birth of a movement. And she wrote recently on social
Speaker 5: media like on the anniversary, you know, many years later,
Speaker 5: maybe it's the tenth anniversary of her delivering that poem
Speaker 5: for the first time, and you could see it on
Speaker 5: her Instagram. But she was like, my desire birthday movement,
Speaker 5: So I need to I'm going to follow my desires
Speaker 5: even more. I'm going to tap into my desires. I'm
Speaker 5: realizing the power of my desires. And I think there's
Speaker 5: something like spiritual about that. Like I think God literally
Speaker 5: or whoever you believe in, gives us these desires so
Speaker 5: we will take action. And maybe they're selfish. Maybe it's
Speaker 5: like I just want a nice house and I want
Speaker 5: to drive a Q car, you know, or whatever selfish
Speaker 5: thing that you want. But in the process, right in
Speaker 5: order to get that nice house or Q car, we
Speaker 5: have to figure out, how were we going to serve
Speaker 5: other people because they ain't going to pay us for nothing, right,
Speaker 5: And so in the process of me trying to create
Speaker 5: financial security for myself, I've now created a movement and
Speaker 5: a community that has helped so many other people. And so,
Speaker 5: like we think desires are selfish, No, no, no, this
Speaker 5: is God's design. This is way more complex and sophisticated
Speaker 5: than we think. Right, it's not selfish. It's actually following
Speaker 5: your desires is helping you create a world that we
Speaker 5: want to live in, you know what I mean. So,
Speaker 5: like we need to really tap in, Like our desires
Speaker 5: have so much power both to create wealth, but to
Speaker 5: create who knows all kinds of things in the world, right,
Speaker 5: to like make this world so much better. And I
Speaker 5: think we are really disconnected from that. We're like disconnected
Speaker 5: from our bodies, the messages that we're being told, right,
Speaker 5: Like this this internal wisdom that we have, we don't
Speaker 5: use it, and that is that is the key.
Speaker 2: So when people are like what kind of business should
Speaker 2: I start? I'm like, what kind of business do you
Speaker 2: want to start?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: What is calling to you? What is your interest? I
Speaker 2: don't care if you have zero experience what's your interest
Speaker 2: right where you.
Speaker 4: Want the link in bio.
Speaker 3: They want the Amazon the Amazon link bio of like
Speaker 3: the things that they need.
Speaker 4: That's kind of how like the brain works. Now it's
Speaker 4: like what are you selling?
Speaker 3: Where can I get this? Like I got you know,
Speaker 3: I got this specific scrubbing brush and now my home
Speaker 3: is spotless.
Speaker 4: Like that's what That's.
Speaker 3: My kind of TikTok that I want it like clean talk,
Speaker 3: and I just feel shitty because I'm like like that
Speaker 3: and listen, it's let's talk about it. Yes, but like
Speaker 3: I think that a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 3: and I'll put myself there too, like we sometimes will
Speaker 3: look or or will look at other people living their
Speaker 3: lives on the internet like we does and sort of
Speaker 3: and then it's like, oh, I want that too, and
Speaker 3: I want that.
Speaker 4: But it's like what do you actually.
Speaker 2: But that's good follow that. I actually encourage people to follow.
Speaker 5: Jealousy if you feel jealous, like I used to feel
Speaker 5: jealous of like wait, I just saw her buy a
Speaker 5: house and now she's on vacation.
Speaker 2: How she do that? I can't do both of those
Speaker 2: things in the same year, let alone the same month, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like how did she do that?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: I wanted to know, how do you have enough money
Speaker 5: for both of those things? And so like figuring like
Speaker 5: follow that that that jealousy is a signal, Right, it's
Speaker 5: giving us information. It's not about that other person.
Speaker 2: It's about you.
Speaker 5: It's about your seeing something that you want some version
Speaker 5: of it. You probably don't want the exact same version
Speaker 5: as this person you're watching, but maybe there is some
Speaker 5: version of it that you want, you know, So like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: I just mean, like, when you see someone who has
Speaker 3: like a vending machine business, do you really want a
Speaker 3: vending machine business or you just want the freedom that
Speaker 3: it comes with that or the passive income that comes
Speaker 3: with that. And I think we have these like trends
Speaker 3: of you know, business like, oh I saw this on
Speaker 3: ig this person has a trucking business or whatever, and
Speaker 3: I'm going I want to go start that thing. But
Speaker 3: if you actually don't have a desire for it or
Speaker 3: like that, it's so much harder because it is hard
Speaker 3: to start and keep a business, it's harder to keep
Speaker 3: it going.
Speaker 2: I think this is good though.
Speaker 5: I think when you see some like let's say, let's
Speaker 5: take the vending machines Okay. So you see somebody who
Speaker 5: has a vending machine business. Cool, right, You're like, okay,
Speaker 5: they have freedom. They don't have to like sit in
Speaker 5: a cubicle, which is what I want to get away
Speaker 5: from whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Maybe they have freedom because we don't know. Because it's
Speaker 3: the internet, they can write.
Speaker 5: So yeah, but they have something that I'm seeing that
Speaker 5: I'm interested in. So let's just follow that inkling, right,
Speaker 5: and so then maybe you start a vending machine business,
Speaker 5: and then the vending machine business, like you know, maybe
Speaker 5: you make some money from it.
Speaker 2: There's things that you like. You like talking to the customers.
Speaker 5: Maybe you like managing the business, but like going around
Speaker 5: filling the vending machines or whatever is not the part
Speaker 5: you like.
Speaker 2: Maybe, but it introduces you to.
Speaker 5: Entrepreneur, you know, being an entrepreneur, right, and introduces you
Speaker 5: to business. And maybe through that you really love the
Speaker 5: retail stores that you're delivering to. And then you're like,
Speaker 5: you know what, that's what I want. I want to
Speaker 5: start a retail store. So it's like follow those inklings
Speaker 5: because they're taking you down a path like hello, seven
Speaker 5: is what made me a millionaire?
Speaker 2: And what has you know?
Speaker 5: It's like I was running a law practice because I
Speaker 5: wanted freedom and I had. I had a law degree
Speaker 5: and legal skills, so I'm like, Okay, if I run
Speaker 5: my own law practice, I will have that freedom. And
Speaker 5: then I really didn't like practicing law. But I discovered
Speaker 5: through having my own legal business that I love. Running
Speaker 5: a business like that was super fun. I loved marketing,
Speaker 5: I love talking to the clients. I loved educating them. Right,
Speaker 5: So I figured out what I loved from it, and
Speaker 5: then I transitioned into this. Without the law practice, there
Speaker 5: would be no Hello, seven, Yeah you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like, I'm about to pass the coming explain
Speaker 1: that it was true. So for example, like I think
Speaker 1: about like my first book that came out, I self
Speaker 1: published it. It's called One Week Budget, and I wrote
Speaker 1: a while the kids were sleeping during that time when
Speaker 1: I was teaching preschool and because I just had this
Speaker 1: inkling because people I knew I really loved teaching and
Speaker 1: I was really good at like basic financial like money management,
Speaker 1: and people kept asking me and I kept getting annoyed.
Speaker 1: So I created a notebook where I was like, sit
Speaker 1: with me in this notebook, and then someone was like
Speaker 1: why don't you make this like a book book? And
Speaker 1: I was like, I guess. And then I'd heard about
Speaker 1: they used to call it vanity publishing back in the day,
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, you just print your own stuff.
Speaker 1: And I met a woman who like it was literally
Speaker 1: just on the cusp of there's this company called create
Speaker 1: Space that had not been bought by Amazon just yet,
Speaker 1: and so like, you know, like you can vanity, but
Speaker 1: you can actually sell and I was like, huh okay.
Speaker 1: And I remember distinctly, the Divine God was very clear.
Speaker 1: He said, this book is going to make you a millionaire.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what hello? You know because I
Speaker 1: used a little girl that I was going to be
Speaker 1: reached one day and I was like, so I was
Speaker 1: very literal.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I must, I'm going.
Speaker 1: To sell enough books of this book and it's going
Speaker 1: to make me a millionaire because of the book sales.
Speaker 1: First month I sold one hundred books and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: look at me on my way. Second month I sold two,
Speaker 1: third month zero, four month, zero, six months zero zero zeros.
Speaker 2: Let me get Jesus on the main line, because he had.
Speaker 1: Said, but it was where the bullions at that book
Speaker 1: taught me how to market. It taught me how to
Speaker 1: bring an idea to fruition. It taught me how to
Speaker 1: ask for help. Because I met a guy that was
Speaker 1: consistently selling a few hundred copies a month. I was
Speaker 1: at like a like some little kid had invited me
Speaker 1: to like their career day. So I was talking to
Speaker 1: the creator. He spoke, I was in line with the kids,
Speaker 1: like hold up my turn stuff.
Speaker 2: I say that I didn't like to ask a question.
Speaker 2: He was like, you look a little big and fourth grade.
Speaker 1: I'm liken't worry about all it.
Speaker 2: So you said three books a month now and so.
Speaker 1: But it did make me a millionaire, but indirectly so
Speaker 1: because I gathered all these skills to I mean, the
Speaker 1: BUDGETISA had so many iterations. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: do one on one. I thought, you know, and so
Speaker 1: now I'm just free flowing into world. The next thing
Speaker 1: is so I love that. I didn't realize that's what
Speaker 1: I was doing, kind of like following the inkling. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, there's this interest, and then the interest birds
Speaker 1: the next interest, and there's the next thing and the
Speaker 1: next person, and before you know it, you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: that initial you're going to be a millionaire one day
Speaker 1: or whatever that thing is. I'm here now, you know.
Speaker 1: I drive from I used to live like a forty
Speaker 1: five minutes outside of Newark, and New York is known
Speaker 1: for its international airport, and so every morning when I
Speaker 1: was driving to teach preschool, I would see the planes
Speaker 1: and the sky and something said, one day you'll be
Speaker 1: coming to Newark because you're gonna be getting on a
Speaker 1: plane all the time. M And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: sounds cute, but I'm about to go to like, you know,
Speaker 1: crack Alley because my girl where I taught daycare was
Speaker 1: dangerous and.
Speaker 2: You know, and like, okay, girl.
Speaker 1: And now I live in Nord and I'm always on
Speaker 1: the plane, and I'm like, oh, and so the inklings
Speaker 1: are I think, the buying downloads, And yes, so many
Speaker 1: of us don't follow them or to afraid to see
Speaker 1: where they're gonna lead exactly. It's crystal clear. But they're
Speaker 1: not meant to be clear, you know.
Speaker 5: I agree, And they're not going to add up today
Speaker 5: right like that somebody might have done the math on. Well,
Speaker 5: it's gonna take me, you know, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 5: sell whatever this many you know, hundreds of thousands to
Speaker 5: get to a million dollars. That's never gonna work, never mind,
Speaker 5: and then you wind up like taking longer to get
Speaker 5: down your pathway. Like I feel like almost like these
Speaker 5: are little shortcuts for us, but sometimes we don't listen,
Speaker 5: and then we got to do it the hard headed way, right,
Speaker 5: And trust me.
Speaker 2: I have hard headed moments myself.
Speaker 5: So I know I have delayed, you know, gifts that
Speaker 5: were meant for me, things that were meant for me
Speaker 5: because I wasn't listening.
Speaker 2: But I think tuning in is really important.
Speaker 5: And I know it sounds hokey and people are like, ah,
Speaker 5: that don't work. Just give me something tangible, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: trust me, it does work. I promise you it does.
Speaker 5: But there's some other tangible things you can do along
Speaker 5: the way as well. But tuning into your desires is
Speaker 5: very powerful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think you know, as you guys are speaking,
Speaker 3: I'm like, no one ever told a little kid who
Speaker 3: wanted to start a lemonade stand, like don't do that.
Speaker 4: That's dumb. You'll never make any money from that.
Speaker 3: Like you encourage that discovery, like we know, maybe we
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe they'll strike some new like discover some
Speaker 3: new flavor or whatever. Yes, but we get so much more,
Speaker 3: I think, like less, we just get We're more likely
Speaker 3: to say no to ourselves and to anticipate failure, and
Speaker 3: then you have that confirmation bias of like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: I see other people trying something into not working out,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't have to be that way for you.
Speaker 3: But like we'll tell we'll like find other messages that
Speaker 3: sort of confirm our own doubts and stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I get it. Totally get what you're saying. And I
Speaker 3: think that it's a lot of too what I do
Speaker 3: in my career coaching. It's like helping women be comfortable
Speaker 3: with trying something different, yes, not having it be the
Speaker 3: thing like this next job has to be the one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, what if it's like one of
Speaker 3: many and that's how it's supposed to be and we're not.
Speaker 3: You know, we've just sort of like changed the story
Speaker 3: that we tell ourselves about the journey and what that
Speaker 3: can look like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can. You can't get to the other thing
Speaker 2: without it something else.
Speaker 5: Another quote from Sonya Renee Taylor is every story about
Speaker 5: scarcity is a lie. This is something she said on
Speaker 5: stage at my conference that I do every year ROI.
Speaker 5: She was a speaker of the first year, and we
Speaker 5: had a conversation about is it ethical to become a millionaire?
Speaker 5: Because I noticed that was a conversation that was always
Speaker 5: happening among black and brown people, is like, we we're
Speaker 5: supposed to hate capitalism, but we're okay with having businesses,
Speaker 5: right like, and so this disconnect in their brains is
Speaker 5: causing them to not grow their businesses.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, let's handle this, let's deal with this.
Speaker 5: And so I had Sonya come, I had Rachel Cargo
Speaker 5: com and we had a discussion about that. And that
Speaker 5: was one of the quotes that has been repeated so
Speaker 5: many times by myself and all these people in my community.
Speaker 5: Every story about scarcity is a lie.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: So it's like, if this next job isn't you know,
Speaker 5: it's not enough, right, or if I don't have the
Speaker 5: thing right now holding on so tightly to the dream
Speaker 5: and demanding it be today, is is scarcity?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 5: It's it's sourced from scarcity, you know, it's not if
Speaker 5: it doesn't happen, how it's never going to happen.
Speaker 2: Right, That's a lie. You just making that up make up.
Speaker 5: If you gonna make up things, make up useful things, okay,
Speaker 5: make up helpful thoughts. Don't make up negative thoughts that
Speaker 5: that discourage you.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing how your community so they can give
Speaker 1: you new thoughts.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: I wish speaking to ourselves the way we do like
Speaker 1: preschoolers and kindergarteners, right, because we tell them it's all possible,
Speaker 1: it's all this, it's all it's till third grade.
Speaker 2: None not gonna happen for your life.
Speaker 3: Dang third grade. I wanted to be an actress, not
Speaker 3: in the third grade. I didn't really lose hope until
Speaker 3: about the tenth grade.
Speaker 1: But you know, like we telled like young people that
Speaker 1: it's all possible, and then we look ourselves in the
Speaker 1: mirror and tell us but not usis yes.
Speaker 2: You know, it's so true.
Speaker 5: And actually, this is the funny thing that was happening
Speaker 5: this last week. I was recording the audiobook for Million
Speaker 5: Dollar Action, this new book that's coming out, and I'm
Speaker 5: reading to myself, my own words and my own coaching
Speaker 5: and coaching myself for the process and be like.
Speaker 2: Girl, you see where you've been playing yourself?
Speaker 5: Like literally the words of the page were coaching me
Speaker 5: as I was reciting them. And then I just came
Speaker 5: home and was like, Oh, I see where I've been
Speaker 5: playing myself like I believe it for my clients. I've
Speaker 5: believed it for myself in the past, but I'm not
Speaker 5: believing it right now with this new thing, because that's
Speaker 5: what happens, is like we get a new dream or
Speaker 5: a new vision, and we go right back down to
Speaker 5: the bottom of not believing and having to go through
Speaker 5: this journey again. And so can I tell y'all what
Speaker 5: my new dream is?
Speaker 2: This is exclusive.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask you excessive out loud just.
Speaker 5: For y'all, but no, and it's also for me right
Speaker 5: for exactly what you said, Mandy, to say it out loud.
Speaker 5: But and this was the thing that I started taking
Speaker 5: action on this weekend because I realized, like, oh, I've
Speaker 5: been playing myself like I'm doing the same thing that
Speaker 5: I tell my clients not to do. So new another
Speaker 5: dream that I have is I want to start other businesses.
Speaker 5: This Hello seven is largely run without me, although I
Speaker 5: am involved, I'm just not as involved in the day
Speaker 5: to day and I have a president who runs the
Speaker 5: day to day and so I'm like, Okay, well what
Speaker 5: else could I be doing with my time? And I've
Speaker 5: been thinking about this vision and I took action on it,
Speaker 5: and then I kind of I talked to my best
Speaker 5: friend about it, talked to my husband, I talked to
Speaker 5: all these people and they.
Speaker 2: Were like, I see it, and they were excited, but
Speaker 2: like not really you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: You know how you say it and you're like so
Speaker 5: hype and they're not matching your energy, so you get deflated, right,
Speaker 5: And I'm like, how is that any different from when
Speaker 5: I started Hello seven?
Speaker 2: Nobody saw the vision that I saw. It's a new vision.
Speaker 2: Why would they see it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: Like it's in my head, it's not in the world yet.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, actually, it was like I needed the
Speaker 5: words from my own work book to coach me again
Speaker 5: and to remind me that, like, I don't need everybody
Speaker 5: to believe, even my closest people, even the people I
Speaker 5: love the most, they don't need to hold this dream
Speaker 5: for me. I'm holding it and I believe it, and
Speaker 5: I know I have support and I know I want
Speaker 5: to do this, So like, what is it that I'm
Speaker 5: actually waiting for?
Speaker 2: So I was like Okay, I'm going to take action.
Speaker 5: So I took a whole bunch of action yesterday, just
Speaker 5: sent all the emails to like get this party started.
Speaker 5: But the dream is I want to I want to
Speaker 5: create an in, Like I want to buy an old in,
Speaker 5: renovate it, and turn it into this like hub of
Speaker 5: physical community for historically excluded people to just have this
Speaker 5: beautiful luck space to go and to know that they
Speaker 5: are welcome, to know that their identity is celebrated, and
Speaker 5: to just have dope things like.
Speaker 2: Beautiful art from historically excluded people on.
Speaker 5: The walls and jazz playing and you know, I just
Speaker 5: have this whole curated vision of what the experience is
Speaker 5: going to be. And I'm like, I already identified the
Speaker 5: property and it's still on the market. I went to
Speaker 5: go see it in January, but I keep messing around
Speaker 5: and now I'm like, you know what, just do it.
Speaker 5: So I sent the email to the realtor. Yesterday I
Speaker 5: talked to an architect, made an appointment.
Speaker 2: Like I just started lining up the ducks. You know,
Speaker 2: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I can see myself there already.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I was reading a book.
Speaker 3: I was reading a book and it was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know stories from entrepreneurs on advice and stuff, and
Speaker 3: like I was just flipping through it and I stopped
Speaker 3: on a page and I hadn't heard of it, but
Speaker 3: this heard of this woman. But she was the former
Speaker 3: editor in chief of Essence and she started her She
Speaker 3: has like three ends now, and I just like, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I know who you're talking about.
Speaker 2: God, I don't know what is it? The qua?
Speaker 1: Yes, something like that one in DC's one.
Speaker 6: In d C.
Speaker 3: And what's like when you when you put together your
Speaker 3: mastermind of in owners Just like, I'll tell you it's
Speaker 3: possible because she did it.
Speaker 4: There's one in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: Look what Okay, let's just recap what just happened for people.
Speaker 2: I also have her phone number, so just put that
Speaker 2: in the mix. Look at that. Okay.
Speaker 5: So I was brave enough to say it out loud,
Speaker 5: and then Mandy, you're pointing out, Okay, here's enough. The
Speaker 5: next step you need to take. You need to call
Speaker 5: this woman, Steve. She'll take your call and have a
Speaker 5: conversation with her. Tiffany already got the number in the connect.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You see what happens when
Speaker 2: you say you get help.
Speaker 3: You know, I want to brown ambitions, No, what is happening?
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, no, but I love that
Speaker 1: You're right instantly. It doesn't always happened like this, but
Speaker 1: look what happens when you open yourself up, yeah, reality,
Speaker 1: Then you open yourself up to also receive the things
Speaker 1: that you're needing for success, so that.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't have known about the woman if you hadn't
Speaker 3: like started hello seven and then change your mind and
Speaker 3: not change your mind.
Speaker 4: It's still going. But then you met Tiffany through that
Speaker 4: and now you're here.
Speaker 3: And now it seem yeah, we shall stop here, guys
Speaker 3: before we up.
Speaker 4: But like that was like the perfect.
Speaker 2: Feel like it's not gonna get no better shut it down.
Speaker 3: Just cut the video, cut the video right there were
Speaker 3: something else?
Speaker 1: Now this is real. Honestly, it is such a testament
Speaker 1: to that the thing you're wanting. I always think to
Speaker 1: myself that, like, is it that big of a deal
Speaker 1: because you're motivating and find like an old nickel from
Speaker 1: eighteen twenty five that's worth two hundred thousand dollars, I mean.
Speaker 2: Anything, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, sometimes we think to ourselves, okay, in order to
Speaker 1: make two hundred thousand. I don't know if you used
Speaker 1: to watch like Anti Groacho, where I used to love
Speaker 1: to find out this guy was like poor. His whole
Speaker 1: life was like, oh, I don't have any money. His
Speaker 1: grandmother passed away.
Speaker 2: On the wall.
Speaker 1: She had some blanket or something like that. It turned
Speaker 1: out to be some original Native American hypochi, but it
Speaker 1: was worth a million dollars. He wasn't poor his whole life.
Speaker 1: You had a million dollars on your wall. And so
Speaker 1: so many of us literally are navigating life in that
Speaker 1: way where the thing that we're wanting is right there
Speaker 1: in proximity, but because we've already been committed to the narrative,
Speaker 1: if I don't have, you know, it's like the universe
Speaker 1: is like I I guess, honey. Meanwhile, a million dollars
Speaker 1: sitting on the wall at Granny's house just chilling, you know,
Speaker 1: And so you know, say the things. I call it
Speaker 1: getting my mimi on. Like I took the kids, my
Speaker 1: sister Carol has two kids, and I've got a niece
Speaker 1: in Chicago. I took them to the White House. We
Speaker 1: were to Washington, DC, and I had taken them to
Speaker 1: the White House, but the course, we're outside the gate
Speaker 1: and she put her hand through the gate in Secret
Speaker 1: Services like no, no, no, and she was.
Speaker 4: Like, don't talk to me. I was like, girl, we
Speaker 4: will both be arrested.
Speaker 2: And then she said why can't we go in?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, you know, see those men here
Speaker 1: if they're to protect the president. She said, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you met the president like.
Speaker 2: Girl playing with somebody else. I said, I hear you.
Speaker 1: But I said, Amelia, you can't just go in. And
Speaker 1: she was really upset by that because she was like,
Speaker 1: I don't that doesn't it's not.
Speaker 2: Tracking you saw me there. And so because she.
Speaker 1: Told that to me, I was like, I had gotten
Speaker 1: invited back to the White House for the State of
Speaker 1: the Union this year, and the coordinator who invited me,
Speaker 1: I was telling her the story as a little key key, like, oh,
Speaker 1: I brought my niece here a few months ago, and
Speaker 1: she was like upset and got in trouble with the
Speaker 1: Secret Service because she wanted to come in. And she
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you know, we do private tours, just
Speaker 1: bring your family. Whenever I was like come again, she
Speaker 1: said yeah. And when I told him Millia, she was like, as.
Speaker 2: I said, okay, once again, but.
Speaker 1: That's what I mean, is that like if she had
Speaker 1: never said that, It's like I had the scarcity mindset,
Speaker 1: you know, not her. She was like, I saw you
Speaker 1: at the White House. It's possible play with somebody else.
Speaker 1: And so because of that, We're going to the White
Speaker 1: House and I'm going to bring my family. We gotta
Speaker 1: get a private tour.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: Listense and she taking new care.
Speaker 1: I'm like my therapist always till tell me. She's like, well,
Speaker 1: what would Amelia do?
Speaker 2: Because she let my little also taco because.
Speaker 1: She hasn't been the world has not told her no yet,
Speaker 1: yes you know, and I'm just like, what would she
Speaker 1: do in this instant? You know? She said she wanted
Speaker 1: to go to the moon, and we all laughed, and
Speaker 1: she's like, joke's on you.
Speaker 2: She's six ship.
Speaker 3: You can know Jack Beso, she can meet him and
Speaker 3: get you never know possible.
Speaker 5: I was thinking earlier, Amandy, when you said you wanted
Speaker 5: to be an astronaut when you were younger, and I
Speaker 5: was like, you could still be an astronaut now if
Speaker 5: you wanted to.
Speaker 4: You don't even need math. You just need you know,
Speaker 4: to know a Bezos or whatever.
Speaker 3: Them.
Speaker 2: You know, what I mean, I might get there.
Speaker 4: I saw that Brad Pitt movie.
Speaker 2: I love it. Yeah, sorry about Scarcey is a lie.
Speaker 1: I'm just I wrote that down. That's just yes.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing is like, just because the world
Speaker 2: has told.
Speaker 5: Us no before, It's it's like we don't even pursue
Speaker 5: our dreams because we're afraid to be told no again.
Speaker 5: And it's like, but you didn't die though from it,
Speaker 5: Like it's not that serious. Just keep going, just try
Speaker 5: it and just collect those nose until you get that Yes.
Speaker 1: You know, wait, soil, where can the girls find your book?
Speaker 1: I know you said it's coming out June.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes, if you go to helloseven dot co slash
Speaker 5: Million Dollar Action, they can find there's a landing page
Speaker 5: there about the book. But you can also find it
Speaker 5: everywhere like Barnes and Noble, Amazon, your local black owned bookstore,
Speaker 5: all the places. So it'll be out soon. And you know,
Speaker 5: I hope people go through it and really do all
Speaker 5: of the action steps so they can start to be
Speaker 5: in touch with their own desires and start building that
Speaker 5: plan for their beliefs to happen.
Speaker 1: And where they order you like on social media.
Speaker 5: Yes, so I'm on Instagram Rach Rogers e s Q.
Speaker 5: I still got that Esquire from the early.
Speaker 2: Days, Rogers. It means lawyer. Just it's a fancy way
Speaker 2: to say lawyer.
Speaker 3: You know, like like you need a dick Tracy like
Speaker 3: hat and I feel like in a suit.
Speaker 2: Like it makes me think of car San Diego. You
Speaker 2: know I used to love that show.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's a vibe. You worked hard for that ship.
Speaker 1: So hell here, helly exactly so Rach Rach Rogers s
Speaker 1: Q on Instagram. Anyplace else that you like to bet
Speaker 1: they want to just connect?
Speaker 5: Yes, Well, the Hello seven podcast is coming back. So
Speaker 5: I've been on hiatus for a year, but I got
Speaker 5: my life together now, so I'm going to the podcast
Speaker 5: is coming back, so yeah, so people can can check
Speaker 5: me out on the Hello seven podcast.
Speaker 3: So I'll try to play it cool, like I don't
Speaker 3: already have the podcast downloaded. Wait, I won't play it cool.
Speaker 3: I'll just say that out loud.
Speaker 4: That really so much for me, Rachel.
Speaker 1: Thank you amazing guests. You have been amazing. Even more amazing.
Speaker 1: I knew of you, you know, but like to get
Speaker 1: to know you better, like as a person, as a woman.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a light thank you. This was so fun.
Speaker 2: Y'all are a blast.
Speaker 5: I would hang out with y'all every day.
Speaker 4: Say yes, let me know when, let me know when
Speaker 4: the end is open? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: This is on the early the Early Adopters list, whatever,
Speaker 3: sign me up.
Speaker 5: Yes, I have the best name for it too. I'm
Speaker 5: not going to share it yet, but I'm so excited.
Speaker 4: Oh look at your face lighting up. Yes, you deserve cool.
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