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Speaker 4: People always see the success, right. So we're in Puerto
Speaker 4: Rico and it's beautiful convention center. You've done tremendously well
Speaker 4: for yourself, and but where did it start? Like, where
Speaker 4: did it start from point A to getting here.
Speaker 5: Yes, well it started with me scrapping in high school.
Speaker 5: Like I used to have a lot of fights. I
Speaker 5: don't know why, but the queen, Yes, shout.
Speaker 2: Out to queen or listen, I'm feisty. And that's the thing.
Speaker 5: I would be the quiet one, like I'm quiet, I'm
Speaker 5: not coming for you. But if you come for me,
Speaker 5: were about to fight, and listen, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 5: a run for your money. Like I may not be
Speaker 5: able to say that, you know, I beat your ass,
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna give you a run for your money.
Speaker 5: You ain't gonna want to come back. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: that part. So that's where it started.
Speaker 2: Write that down.
Speaker 5: But I think there's something to that, right, like even
Speaker 5: just being a fighter, all of the challenges, I'm very
Speaker 5: grateful for them now because I think it just it
Speaker 5: helps you.
Speaker 2: To be, like I was talking about earlier, relentless.
Speaker 5: You know, when you have, you know, issues with lights
Speaker 5: going out, and you know, I would go to the
Speaker 5: grocery store and have to pay with food stamps and
Speaker 5: I would be like hiding in the aisles waiting for
Speaker 5: my friends and my neighbors to leave. So that they
Speaker 5: wouldn't see me, you know, because I had so much
Speaker 5: shame around it, and you know, wait for them to leave,
Speaker 5: be very strategic, and then sometimes you get caught and
Speaker 5: I just leave, walk home from the grocery store and cry,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, just being embarrassed. I think
Speaker 5: all of that helped me to be very focused and
Speaker 5: helped me to be relentless, like a dog with the
Speaker 5: bone when I want to make something happen.
Speaker 2: So I'm very grateful for all of those experiences.
Speaker 5: And I'm also grateful because then I relate to a
Speaker 5: lot of people too, because a lot of people have
Speaker 5: that story, and everybody has a story of struggle of
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Speaker 6: Yeah, So this mindset, and I wonder when when I
Speaker 6: listen to you speak, sometimes I'm wondering that millionaire mindset.
Speaker 6: Is that something that that you're naturally born with or
Speaker 6: is it something that's developed? And I wondered because I remember, right,
Speaker 6: it's one of these things.
Speaker 3: When I was younger, I used.
Speaker 6: To write the stories and I'll say, Mom, I of
Speaker 6: all buy you a mansion one day, and she kept
Speaker 6: the stories like, well, Troy was my mansion.
Speaker 2: Wait, I mentioned that time to pay the piper.
Speaker 6: Right, So I wanted. I mean, obviously that was in
Speaker 6: my mind at that time when I was a young child.
Speaker 6: But I'm wondering, from your journey and being around your community,
Speaker 6: is that something that you see that is inherently part
Speaker 6: of a person's characteristic or is that something that's developed.
Speaker 5: I think a millionaire mindset is developed, and I think
Speaker 5: it keeps being developed, right, like even now. What has
Speaker 5: made me so proud of this conference too, is that
Speaker 5: the speakers are changing their flights and sticking around.
Speaker 2: A lot of speakers dip in and out.
Speaker 5: They're like, oh no, no, no, no, no, I'm staying here.
Speaker 5: I'm a hangout right. That makes me so proud. And
Speaker 5: the reason why I mentioned that is because even when
Speaker 5: we're far, even when we have New York Times bestselling
Speaker 5: books and we have eight figure businesses. There's still so
Speaker 5: much to learn, right, There's still so much to accomplish
Speaker 5: and to do, and you never stop learning. So I
Speaker 5: think you're always working on that millionaire mindset. But I
Speaker 5: also know that having to go to the grocery store
Speaker 5: with food stamps and having the conded come to my
Speaker 5: door and turn off the lights and all of the
Speaker 5: stuff that that came with that got me very focused
Speaker 5: on money at a very early age. So I was
Speaker 5: always curious, like, how are people making money? And I
Speaker 5: tell the story in my book about how I used
Speaker 5: to babysit for this.
Speaker 2: Little girl named Alana. It was a Jewish family.
Speaker 5: They were so sweet, and it was in Douglaston and
Speaker 5: I grew up in Flushing, Queens, right. Douglaston is a
Speaker 5: much nicer neighborhood. And I would take the bus over
Speaker 5: there and it was like tree lined streets and it
Speaker 5: was you know big houses.
Speaker 2: There was three of them.
Speaker 5: It was you know, Mom, Dad, and Alana in this
Speaker 5: giant house that had so many rooms.
Speaker 2: I was like, what are you doing with all these rooms?
Speaker 2: What is this room? It was a formal dining room
Speaker 2: I had. I was like, what is that. I've never
Speaker 2: seen a formal dining room before, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And I would open their pantry to like make her
Speaker 5: a snack and it was like so many options.
Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, one day, I'm gonna be able
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Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
Speaker 1: were here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 1: Do what's right.
Speaker 2: Leave now.
Speaker 1: Under President Trump, America's laws, border and families will be protected.
Speaker 3: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 5: Get those frozen waffles that my mom always says, No,
Speaker 5: it's always those little things, right, Like what was it
Speaker 5: like you wanted Coco puffs and you couldn't get the
Speaker 5: Coco pubs.
Speaker 2: Your mom said no because I don't have the money.
Speaker 5: It's like, but I would see that and her father
Speaker 5: worked from home and the mom would be at work,
Speaker 5: and I'd be like, what do these people do for
Speaker 5: a living? And I would ask, you know, I was
Speaker 5: always trying to be a detective, like people who have money.
Speaker 5: How did they get it? Because I just had no idea.
Speaker 5: I couldn't fathom, like, how do they have so much?
Speaker 5: And so learning that Like, that's what I think got
Speaker 5: me to focus on money is the fact that we
Speaker 5: didn't have any right if we would have been very comfortable,
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have been a priority to me.
Speaker 6: You think that inquisitive nature helped shape your career path
Speaker 6: because of od times in our communities, we see a
Speaker 6: few avenues of where we can make money, right usually
Speaker 6: in arn't so performing or entertainment. But the fact that
Speaker 6: you were inquisitive and trying to find out how other
Speaker 6: people were making money, did that help in the way
Speaker 6: you were choosing the way you were going to go
Speaker 6: with your career.
Speaker 5: Yes, And honestly I didn't really know that as a kid,
Speaker 5: like I didn't know I saw performers, black performers, I
Speaker 5: saw black athletes, but really nobody from my neighborhood was
Speaker 5: becoming an R and B singer or a basketball player,
Speaker 5: right Like they might have had hopes and dreams, but
Speaker 5: I wasn't actually seeing it happen in my my neighborhood.
Speaker 5: So to me, I was just like I just want
Speaker 5: to know how like what job y'all got?
Speaker 2: And I learned like what I had found is.
Speaker 5: Like a lot of people were highly educated. So I
Speaker 5: was like, okay, then I need to go to school.
Speaker 5: Great works for me because I'm good at school. Right,
Speaker 5: Like I like to study, I like to learn, I
Speaker 5: love to read, and so all of those things will
Speaker 5: benefit me. Just where do I go to school? What
Speaker 5: pathway do I need to take? Like, just break it
Speaker 5: down for me, show me right, like I just wanted.
Speaker 5: I was so hungry to know, and I was gonna
Speaker 5: be relentless until I figured it out.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you this, what moment did you
Speaker 4: realize you had something special?
Speaker 2: Good question?
Speaker 5: I think you know. What was interesting is I started
Speaker 5: with a law practice. So I went to law school.
Speaker 5: I graduated during the two thousand and eight recession, and
Speaker 5: there were not.
Speaker 2: A lot of jobs available.
Speaker 5: How low was I was actually studying like family law.
Speaker 5: I actually went to a school that has specialty in
Speaker 5: IP law, and I was like, nah, I'm not interested
Speaker 5: in that. I was like, no, I'm going to do
Speaker 5: family law because I wanted to help people.
Speaker 4: What does that mean, like you know a city battles
Speaker 4: and stuff?
Speaker 5: Well, yes, but also like I imagine doing something like
Speaker 5: working for a nonprofit. And I remember I sat down
Speaker 5: with my sister and she had like a neighbor. We
Speaker 5: had lunch with her, and they both sat me down
Speaker 5: and they were like, listen, you need to get this money. Okay,
Speaker 5: you see these loans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're not doing
Speaker 5: the nonprofit thing. Maybe you could do that in the future,
Speaker 5: but like, right now, you need to pay these loans backs.
Speaker 2: Right. So they had to have a talk with me
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 5: But what was interesting, So I started I want to
Speaker 5: start in my own law practice, because law firms are
Speaker 5: often very toxic spaces. And I had intern at a
Speaker 5: few places, and I was like, this ain't gonna last.
Speaker 5: Like I'm just not the type of person that is
Speaker 5: obedient enough to work in a corporate environment long term.
Speaker 3: That's very well put. I know some people like that.
Speaker 2: So I was like, this ain't ever gonna work.
Speaker 5: So like and here was my thinking, and I literally
Speaker 5: said this to my husband.
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm already broke.
Speaker 5: So if I'm already broke, it's better to not take
Speaker 5: the law firm job where I'd make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: It's better to stay broke.
Speaker 5: Now start the entrepreneurial journey while I'm still broke. And
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm comfortable being broke, right, I've been broke,
Speaker 5: so like, let me just start now. If I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be broke, be broke doing my own thing instead of
Speaker 5: going somewhere getting comfortable, upgrading my lifestyle and then trying
Speaker 5: to find a way out of it. So that was
Speaker 5: kind of my strategy. So I started my law practice
Speaker 5: and it was so interesting. Literally within six months, I
Speaker 5: was getting a lot of press, Like it was just
Speaker 5: like I was an anomaly, you know, like being a
Speaker 5: young lawyer right out of law school. People don't just
Speaker 5: go solo out of law school. You're supposed to pay
Speaker 5: your dues, work at a law firm, be trained by
Speaker 5: partner over a long period of time, then you can go.
Speaker 2: So then you have permission. And I just did it.
Speaker 2: And I did it with my afro and not you know,
Speaker 2: not wearing the suits. And it was interesting.
Speaker 5: It like attracted so many people to me because it
Speaker 5: was just different. People were looking for a lawyer that
Speaker 5: looked like them, that they felt comfortable talking to, that
Speaker 5: explained it to them in plain English, that didn't act
Speaker 5: like they were better than them, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm onto something here. And I think that's when I
Speaker 5: first figured out that just being myself was enough, and
Speaker 5: actually the more I was myself, the more it actually
Speaker 5: attracted people to me.
Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christinom, the United States Secretary
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings
Speaker 1: are at the lowest levels of ever recorded, and over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported. You will
Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
Speaker 1: border and families.
Speaker 2: Will be protected.
Speaker 3: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,