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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Good Mom's Bad Choices.
Speaker 1: I'm Erica and I'm Nila, and it's Wednesday.
Speaker 3: It's hump Day, bitches.
Speaker 1: Another Wednesday. Remember when we used to put our show
Speaker 1: out on Mondays?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, that never was a thing.
Speaker 1: Yes it was.
Speaker 3: No, we moved our show date. No, the very first
Speaker 3: post we have it says hump Day.
Speaker 1: It was Monday.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you that we moved it because we realized
Speaker 1: that it was not a good podcast day.
Speaker 3: I remember, I did not recall that. I remember always
Speaker 3: being hump Day.
Speaker 1: Do you remember. No, we actually then started calling it
Speaker 1: hump day because we're like, oh, this makes more sense.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when we were Parental Advisory Good Mom's
Speaker 3: Bad Choices.
Speaker 1: That was dumb. It was that was a lot of words.
Speaker 1: And we only did that because we the Thick Podcast
Speaker 1: had like remember Tabria's podcast, she had a like she
Speaker 1: had like a like a line before the Thick Podcast.
Speaker 1: So we were like, this must have us see how
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be.
Speaker 3: And then we made that long ass email called Parental Advisory.
Speaker 1: G NBC at gmail dot com. Please don't email that email, please,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna get checked anyway. How are you, darling,
Speaker 1: I'm good. It's rainy in La. It's been raining and
Speaker 1: raining and raining, and I love it. Everyone's like freaking out.
Speaker 1: I mean, granted, my roof isn't leaking, so you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the blessing. I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are freaking out because there's a lot of shit going
Speaker 1: on in their backyards and things. But I really like
Speaker 1: the rain. I feel like it's a like a renewal,
Speaker 1: renewal and God knows, La needs to.
Speaker 3: Be washed washed if it sins, I know, just green, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we know, dry as how I like it too. I've
Speaker 3: made every cold season recipe that I know so far.
Speaker 3: I've made chili, I made mansa ball soup what Jewish woman.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I like luck because too, okay after I've made
Speaker 3: mashed potatoes on maltcas.
Speaker 1: This is some Valley girl shit for sure, but no.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed. I enjoy it watching movies, making hot chocolate.
Speaker 3: My immediate like thing is like go to the supermarket.
Speaker 3: So I've gone to the supermarket like three times in
Speaker 3: the storm. But the lightsman out at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, it's like this is new for lah.
Speaker 1: So that's very Costa Rica.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking. I was like, I left
Speaker 3: the jungle to come back to the city jungle.
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been enjoying. I'm good though, I'm good, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling I'm did meditation today and I was really focusing
Speaker 1: on being like bringing in the joy today because there's
Speaker 1: things in my life that are a little stressing me
Speaker 1: out a little bit. And I was like, no, bitch,
Speaker 1: not today, and not tomorrow and not anymore.
Speaker 3: I like that bringing in the joy. I feel like
Speaker 3: that's necessary because as an adult can wake up and
Speaker 3: immediately be with distress.
Speaker 1: No, it was so I check my email and I
Speaker 1: was like.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of things to worry about,
Speaker 3: but there's so much not to worry about. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: let's introduce our guests. I was going to go on
Speaker 3: a deep dive, but let's not keep our wonderful guest waiting.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the show again, our favorite wealth witch in
Speaker 3: the world, Loose Warrior, the financial educator, author, and I friend.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Loose, Thank you all so much for having
Speaker 2: me back. It's truly an honor to be here with
Speaker 2: you all.
Speaker 1: We love having you on our show. You are a
Speaker 1: fan favorite for sure, and I'm just so excited to
Speaker 1: have you. You know, this month, we're in March, we
Speaker 1: typically focus on finances, so what better way to focus
Speaker 1: on finances than with loose And you have this new
Speaker 1: book out, a Wealth Warrior, Eight Steps for Communities of
Speaker 1: Color to Conquer the stock market, which you know can
Speaker 1: be really intimidating. I think people hear the word stock
Speaker 1: market and they're like, not for me, I'll figure it
Speaker 1: out later, I know.
Speaker 3: And I love that it's like eight steps to heal
Speaker 3: your money, your money wounds, and claim your abundance. Those
Speaker 3: are things we don't hear a lot, but I think
Speaker 3: it's like so necessary to even acknowlogy you have money
Speaker 3: wounds to begin with, to even like start to claim
Speaker 3: your abundance. It's a whole like relearning and process. So
Speaker 3: I love that your book addresses all of the things.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, It's been definitely a labor of love.
Speaker 2: I think that my intention with this book is to
Speaker 2: make the stock market a lot less intimidating, something that's
Speaker 2: really important and that I think we should really pay
Speaker 2: attention to is that the top ten percent, like the
Speaker 2: top wealthiest people, own eighty nine percent of the shares
Speaker 2: in publicly traded companies, and a lot of the reason
Speaker 2: for that is because we don't have accessibility to resources
Speaker 2: that make sense to us that we can process like.
Speaker 2: It is very intimidating. It's like speaking an entirely different language.
Speaker 2: And I've been studying it for such a long time.
Speaker 2: I've done my absolute best to simplify it, and I've
Speaker 2: seen so much money grow so effortlessly and easily via
Speaker 2: the stock market. And we are in such an important
Speaker 2: moment in time right now because we are in a
Speaker 2: down market and shares are much more accessible right now
Speaker 2: because they are cheaper. And I think it's for those
Speaker 2: that are interested in the stock market. I think these
Speaker 2: types of resources are so important and we just don't
Speaker 2: have enough of them.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to know. I already know, But for those
Speaker 1: of you who are just kind of listening and tuning
Speaker 1: in and maybe have never been introduced to Loose Loose,
Speaker 1: I would love for you to share, really like your
Speaker 1: journey into stock market, because I feel like people think
Speaker 1: that you know, you have to come in and you
Speaker 1: have to be like super knowledgeable and like maybe you
Speaker 1: come from finance or like these are things that you know,
Speaker 1: you like grew up knowing, or you.
Speaker 3: Took a college course and then you understood suddenly, Yeah,
Speaker 3: well you.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm going to start with this because I know
Speaker 2: we love witchy things and just like finding connecting all
Speaker 2: the dots and destiny and all of that space. So
Speaker 2: I was I want to say, I was seventeen years
Speaker 2: old and one of my high school teachers was taking
Speaker 2: a group of students myself included, to New York and
Speaker 2: I couldn't even afford the trip. My teacher fronted for
Speaker 2: me to go to New York. On this trip, I
Speaker 2: had twenty dollars and we were going to be there
Speaker 2: for approximately seven days, So twenty dollars was supposed to
Speaker 2: like purchase food for me. Granted, there were some meals included,
Speaker 2: so from my perspective, I was like, all, just wait
Speaker 2: until the next free meal comes throughout the trip and
Speaker 2: I went, and I was so excited to be there.
Speaker 2: They were taking us on all of these incredible tours,
Speaker 2: and one of the tours was to see Sally Jesse
Speaker 2: Rafael or to go to the New York Stock Exchange,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I really want to go see
Speaker 2: Sally Jesse Rafael, like I want to know what its
Speaker 2: studio would look like like that entire TV experience. And
Speaker 2: I got chosen to go to the New York Stock Exchange,
Speaker 2: and I remember being so upset, and I'm walking into
Speaker 2: this enormous building that is extremely intimidating, and I remember
Speaker 2: walking in and just feeling the energy.
Speaker 4: It's extremely masculine heavy.
Speaker 2: I remember not seeing any women around other than the
Speaker 2: students and the teachers, and we went to ring the
Speaker 2: bell in the morning, and I also remember very vivid
Speaker 2: understanding that something really important was taking place in this
Speaker 2: building that was impacting not only the United States, but
Speaker 2: whatever was happening was also rippling out into the entire world.
Speaker 2: Mind you, at the time, I was not living with
Speaker 2: my parents.
Speaker 4: I was a teen mom. I had a.
Speaker 2: Three year old baby, maybe almost four at the time.
Speaker 2: I mean I was It was a moment for me
Speaker 2: to just be in the space coming from where I
Speaker 2: came from, and so I really feel like that moment
Speaker 2: almost gave me a glimpse or maybe foresight or planted
Speaker 2: a seed into what would eventually come in the future.
Speaker 4: I ended up.
Speaker 2: Later landing, you know, a really big position at Netflix.
Speaker 2: Big from my perspective, like coming from the hood, being
Speaker 2: a teen mom, all the things.
Speaker 4: And I was only.
Speaker 2: The second Latina to be higher in the entire company.
Speaker 2: Mind you, we had already launched in all of Latin
Speaker 2: America and they didn't feel the need for like Spanish
Speaker 2: speakers or anyone that understood that territory. So it was
Speaker 2: just like a big deal for me to be there,
Speaker 2: just like as a person of color. And I was
Speaker 2: so nervous about the amount of money that I was
Speaker 2: making because it was the first time that I was
Speaker 2: making real money. I was working at a tech job
Speaker 2: in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 4: It was a big deal.
Speaker 2: And I remember just like praying for guidance on this
Speaker 2: money that was coming in. And simultaneously, I had this
Speaker 2: white colleague who would come to my desk and pester
Speaker 2: me about buying Netflix stock, and I was like, what
Speaker 2: the fuck would this guy like? You know, I was
Speaker 2: so intimidated by him, and he would just like throw
Speaker 2: this stock market jargon and I think he could tell
Speaker 2: like how I would shrink, like I can't have this
Speaker 2: conversation like and we don't talk about the stock market.
Speaker 2: That's that's your world, bro, not mine, you know, And
Speaker 2: he was just so persistent, and looking back, I realized
Speaker 2: like that he was what I was praying for. Really,
Speaker 2: like that's what I was praying for. And he was
Speaker 2: so patient, showed me his portfolio, which I'd never seen,
Speaker 2: like a million dollar portfolio like that another human owned,
Speaker 2: you know, and very transparent, and started to explain, like,
Speaker 2: you're in tech, so you understand you have this unique perspective.
Speaker 2: You need to be taking advantage of this and investing
Speaker 2: into Netflix stock. So it took him about, I want
Speaker 2: to say, a solid six months to convince me. I
Speaker 2: finally started investing. I invested two hundred dollars a month,
Speaker 2: and after a year, I saw that money pretty much
Speaker 2: double itself in just one year. So I saw, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, it grew exponentially, and I thought to myself,
Speaker 2: this is wild. I'm going to double my money. Instead
Speaker 2: of taking two hundred a month, I'm going to take
Speaker 2: four hundred a month, which was a pretty big expense
Speaker 2: for me at the time because the way I was
Speaker 2: calculating it in my head was like, this is like
Speaker 2: a car payment that I'm making into the stock But
Speaker 2: I started to really become a student of our get.
Speaker 2: I wasn't tapping him for resources. I just read books
Speaker 2: and really to understand what it is that was taking place,
Speaker 2: because the way money was growing so effortly and easy
Speaker 2: was something that I'd never experienced. I mean, I come
Speaker 2: from you know, immigrant parents that had three four jobs.
Speaker 4: Just to sustain the household.
Speaker 2: So I computed, you know, you have to work really
Speaker 2: hard to make a lot of money. And what I understood,
Speaker 2: and what the stock market taught me, is that you
Speaker 2: really need to understand how to let go of money
Speaker 2: and invest it in order to make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Working more does not equate making more money. So that's
Speaker 2: kind of how this journey started. I invested in and
Speaker 2: around a total of nine thousand dollars, and I watched
Speaker 2: those nine thousand dollars turn into half a million, and
Speaker 2: I felt like I needed to share what I had learned,
Speaker 2: not be a gatekeeper, and provide like digestible resources.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of I mean, oh I got here.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's so incredible that that a you
Speaker 1: start like to go to New York. First of all
Speaker 1: and and A have twenty dollars in your pocket. God
Speaker 1: say yeah, no sorry not Jesse, sorry, Sally, Jesse Rafael,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be this, but kind of give
Speaker 1: you a preview, like a foreshadow, yeah, like into your future,
Speaker 1: and like obviously you didn't even have a concept of
Speaker 1: what was to come. And then the prayer and it's
Speaker 1: showing up differently, and then we always talk about that too,
Speaker 1: and like your prayers and your manifestations showing up not
Speaker 1: exactly how you think they're going to show up, but
Speaker 1: if you like really listen and if you really have
Speaker 1: your eyes open, you'll I'll be able to catch them.
Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't like their prayers are answered,
Speaker 1: and they don't even they didn't even catch it. But
Speaker 1: you said something about like letting go of money, like
Speaker 1: not having fear around letting go of money, And I
Speaker 1: think that that's really like I think what for many
Speaker 1: people investing in the stock market and crypto and all
Speaker 1: these different things, that's the fear is like it's like gambling.
Speaker 1: I mean for me, even like when I Vegas is
Speaker 1: like not my thing, It's never been my thing. The
Speaker 1: idea of like giving my money away in hopes that
Speaker 1: I'm going to get it back. I mean, obviously Vegas
Speaker 1: is a different type of gambling, but even the stock
Speaker 1: market feels like a gamble. I think for a lot
Speaker 1: of people where you feel like this is this really
Speaker 1: does this really work? How do I know like what
Speaker 1: to invest in? Or you know, if I give it
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars, like is it just going to disappear?
Speaker 1: And you know, feeling like does my whole life have
Speaker 1: to now be the stock market once I started? And
Speaker 1: I have to check every every day all day, Like
Speaker 1: how does that even work? Do I have to like
Speaker 1: be super invested in order to see my my wealth grow?
Speaker 3: And like when can I take it out? Can I
Speaker 3: take it out? Can I like not take it out
Speaker 3: for two years? Maybe I'll never get it? Or like
Speaker 3: it's this like this idea of this like fantasy, untangible world,
Speaker 3: because like literally I feel the same way about gambling,
Speaker 3: Like I'm not a Vegas bitch. I'm not going to
Speaker 3: go put some money down and hope like no not,
Speaker 3: I'm not putting my heart o money and then like
Speaker 3: hoping it triples. But like I think the difference is
Speaker 3: it's like that's a real gamble when this is an
Speaker 3: actual investment, but that they're both feel intangible in ways
Speaker 3: like you may you may feel it, you may not,
Speaker 3: and so it feels like super scary and like not
Speaker 3: even that, like, you know, Black History Month just passed.
Speaker 3: But I took my daughter to she she was she's
Speaker 3: in a dance a dance school shut out to Heart
Speaker 3: dance School, and they asked her to be in this
Speaker 3: Black history lessons in Black History like performance while we
Speaker 3: were in Costa Rica. And I guess the portion of
Speaker 3: the part of this is a long story, just a
Speaker 3: portion of it is they they cover the Birmingham bombings
Speaker 3: and you know, little girls die, like a lot of
Speaker 3: people died. So she calls me, she's like, I don't
Speaker 3: want to be in it because it's scary. And I'm like, yeah, word,
Speaker 3: it is scary and I remember learning about it. And
Speaker 3: you know, she's eight, and it's just like such because
Speaker 3: they're on the same age, the girls in the church,
Speaker 3: and it's just like this this such dark history and
Speaker 3: that like at some point you have to learn it,
Speaker 3: and you're going to learn it. So we watched this
Speaker 3: entire like two hour dance you know, performance, and there's
Speaker 3: acting and they're singing and they cover like all the
Speaker 3: great like all the great Black inventors, and they cover
Speaker 3: like how we were stolen from Africa, And you know,
Speaker 3: midway through, I'm just realizing, like I mean, not realizing,
Speaker 3: but it's just a reminder the amount of like complexities
Speaker 3: that it takes for us, for a lot of us
Speaker 3: to be here. And like when you're when you're removed
Speaker 3: from your culture and your language and these your safety
Speaker 3: and money is not even something that you can earn
Speaker 3: and you have no knowledge of it and there's none
Speaker 3: given to you, and like that your power is taken away.
Speaker 3: There are so many there's so much energetic complexities that
Speaker 3: come with embracing finances, even in this time, even in
Speaker 3: the freedom. So like a lot of the freedom and
Speaker 3: the ability to get to that place is your mindset
Speaker 3: and the energy around it, you know. And it's just
Speaker 3: like historically when you're an immigrant or when you've had
Speaker 3: like generations and generations of just negative energy with finances
Speaker 3: and security, it is a very difficult concept to grasp
Speaker 3: and to understand. And you do say, like someone comes
Speaker 3: to your desk and you're like, yeah, bro, that's all
Speaker 3: you you know, like that's what that's your thing, like
Speaker 3: your dad, your daddy did that for you. But it's
Speaker 3: like just understanding that this is also my right and
Speaker 3: this is also something I can I can understand and
Speaker 3: grasp the knowledge of instead of completely writing it off.
Speaker 3: You know. It's just like historically it's been something that
Speaker 3: we've been and not included in, so it's easy to
Speaker 3: not include ourselves and just say fuck it, you know,
Speaker 3: like this is the money that I put in the
Speaker 3: bank and not even go down the route. But like,
Speaker 3: luckily you had the insight and that pestering guy was
Speaker 3: like you're blessing, Like hey, bitch, hey, how about now
Speaker 3: you know? And then you actually taking the advice and
Speaker 3: investing the money and like ending up with half a
Speaker 3: million dollars. That's a huge discovery.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 2: It is, And I think that I want to be
Speaker 2: clear that I do think that the reason it's so
Speaker 2: easy to compare gambling to the stock market is because
Speaker 2: the lack of education that we have. So if you're
Speaker 2: just investing without really having a full understanding of the
Speaker 2: stock market, it is like a gamble. And it's two
Speaker 2: part because you may not fully understand the company that
Speaker 2: you're investing in, which makes it really scary, but also
Speaker 2: you do not know how you are going to react.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite.
Speaker 2: Types of investments, or the reason why the stock market
Speaker 2: is my favorite type of investment, is because I feel
Speaker 2: like it is a window into my money wounds. The
Speaker 2: market itself if we look at the way it moves erratically,
Speaker 2: like up and down, that is just collective energy of
Speaker 2: the most wealthiest people in the world, where the energy
Speaker 2: is generating more money, losing money, generating money, losing money.
Speaker 2: It's almost it's not almost. It is a direct reflection
Speaker 2: of our emotions. So I find it really interesting for
Speaker 2: me when I was really exploring my money wounds and
Speaker 2: my personal money relationship. The reason I loved the stock
Speaker 2: market so much is because it felt like a control
Speaker 2: center where I was able to control my emotions, my
Speaker 2: money story, and my narrative in real time versus some
Speaker 2: elusive abundant experience where I could see abundant if I
Speaker 2: saw a lot of food on the table, I could
Speaker 2: see abundance, if I had a happy day.
Speaker 4: I could see.
Speaker 2: Abundance in so many different ways, but I was never
Speaker 2: really getting to the root of abundance when it comes
Speaker 2: to money like physical money and generating actual money in
Speaker 2: the form of abundance, and the stock market really allowed
Speaker 2: for me to do that, and so it's almost like
Speaker 2: I use it as a let's say, you're trying to
Speaker 2: get spiritually healthy in all facets of your life. It's
Speaker 2: almost like the stock market for me is like my gym.
Speaker 2: That is where I go and work out my emotional
Speaker 2: money stories in my relationship in real time, and it
Speaker 2: has helped me tremendously. And I think to go back
Speaker 2: into the topic of being scared to let go of money,
Speaker 2: we constantly talk about wealthy people being very greedy, and
Speaker 2: I think what we fail to admit is that greed
Speaker 2: isn't something that just exists with wealthy people. Greed is
Speaker 2: something that affects every single person. It's like jealousy. You
Speaker 2: can't escape it, you know, just because like they're just
Speaker 2: because you don't have money, it doesn't mean you can't
Speaker 2: feel freed. We one thousand percent can feel greed, And
Speaker 2: so I think that's a really big misconception and I
Speaker 2: think that to flip that not being able to let
Speaker 2: go of money is a form of greed, even if
Speaker 2: that is to invest in yourself. You still feel like
Speaker 2: the money is better held in your hands, and you're
Speaker 2: afraid to invest it in a summit. You're afraid to
Speaker 2: invest in a course, You're afraid to invest in a vacation.
Speaker 2: You're afraid to invest in whatever it is it's going
Speaker 2: to improve you in the future. It's still a form
Speaker 2: of greed per se if you can't let it go.
Speaker 4: So it's such a laird topic, right.
Speaker 1: Well, when you said you think, when I think about
Speaker 1: greed and I think about investing in yourself, I can't
Speaker 1: help but think about our even our retreats that we do,
Speaker 1: and how how you know a lot of women are
Speaker 1: interested in coming to these retreats. We just did one
Speaker 1: in Costa Rica. We have one in Mexico in July.
Speaker 1: And one of the biggest things that we hear is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't afford it, or I'll go on the next one,
Speaker 1: or like I just I just can't, I just can't,
Speaker 1: or it's too expensive. And granted, these are all real,
Speaker 1: real things, right Like I'm not one to tell someone,
Speaker 1: you know, what their bank account looks like and what
Speaker 1: their capacity is for a trip like that. But what
Speaker 1: I do know is like when when people do you
Speaker 1: do invest in yourself, like, it comes back tenfold. And
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen it with these women that
Speaker 1: come and they say, you know what, I said, fuck it,
Speaker 1: and I spent the money. And now I'm back home
Speaker 1: and I feel so much more valuable. I have so
Speaker 1: much more to offer. I got the raise that I've
Speaker 1: been waiting for. Now I'm ready and activated to do
Speaker 1: this or that, and that that idea really manifest in
Speaker 1: all ways, whether it's investing in a tree, whether it's
Speaker 1: investing in the stock market, whether it's investing in yourself.
Speaker 1: For that course, like in order to evolve, in order
Speaker 1: to grow, in order to expand, in order to make
Speaker 1: more money, you have to be open to letting go.
Speaker 3: Well, there's this perception of like, like you said, like
Speaker 3: rich people are greedy or like I like, if you've
Speaker 3: grown up and you don't have like an abundance of
Speaker 3: you're like you have a perception of what rich people
Speaker 3: are like. But the truth of the matter is is
Speaker 3: like I even noticed, like even growing up with like
Speaker 3: rich ass friends, it's like it's actually the energy of
Speaker 3: not worrying about if it's coming. You're going, Like girls
Speaker 3: spend it like all you're tripping, like I'll leave that
Speaker 3: food there, you know, whereas like I'm like I'm taking
Speaker 3: it home knowing damn well, I'm not going to eat it,
Speaker 3: you know, like like I feel guilty leaving it because
Speaker 3: like someone can eat this food or but like it's
Speaker 3: actually the understanding that you let it go and that
Speaker 3: it easily flows back to you. It's like a constant flow.
Speaker 3: But are a lot of times we've we've labeled it
Speaker 3: or perceived it as this like negative thing that it
Speaker 3: almost feels for me. It's not almost I almost feel guilty,
Speaker 3: like when I'm okay, you know, like oh my god,
Speaker 3: like somebody else is not okay, but I'm okay now.
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, like working all this
Speaker 3: time to get to that point, and then you're like
Speaker 3: you're even you feel even weird being in the point
Speaker 3: of which you work to be in because you've perceived
Speaker 3: it a certain way. The other day, I was watching
Speaker 3: a movie and I had this like brief thought and
Speaker 3: it was crazy, like I don't know, they're supposed to
Speaker 3: be in a rich place and like a rich home,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, yeah, they're rich. They have
Speaker 3: wallpaper that's my thought. I was like, oh, well, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're rich wallpaper. But then I was like, I was like,
Speaker 3: you can have wallpaper too, you do.
Speaker 1: You do have wallpaper.
Speaker 3: But I was just thinking for that brief moment, I'm like,
Speaker 3: what are you thinking about? Why are you thinking this way?
Speaker 3: And I was like you, I told myself, like, you
Speaker 3: two can have wall of paper. But in my mind
Speaker 3: I had written it off as this like very wealthy thing.
Speaker 2: Something that I recently started practicing that you just reminded
Speaker 2: me of is when I have those types of thoughts,
Speaker 2: when I'm like airing, for example, let's just take the
Speaker 2: wallpaper thing. Then I will be intent on like where
Speaker 2: is it that I want wallpaper?
Speaker 4: What is it that I want to wallpaper?
Speaker 2: Where am I admiring abundance somewhere else that I can
Speaker 2: bring into my life to make me feel like rich,
Speaker 2: like that, you know when I walk into a room.
Speaker 2: So for my abundance board, my vision board, it's a
Speaker 2: compilation of little feelings that I've felt throughout the weeks
Speaker 2: that make me feel richer, that make me feel elevated,
Speaker 2: that I might not be thinking about had I not
Speaker 2: just experienced them, noted them down and I'm making sure
Speaker 2: that I'm bringing those experiences into my space.
Speaker 4: I find it to be really helpful.
Speaker 1: Where do you want wallpaper in your home?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I was taking like the bathroom, okay,
Speaker 3: like the powder room. But it's so crazy how like
Speaker 3: subliminal and subconscious those little thoughts are you like take
Speaker 3: a moment to like dissect them, like what the fuck
Speaker 3: are you thinking about? But I feel like I've those
Speaker 3: moments have come up a lot recently, just because I
Speaker 3: think you can tell me if you can relate to
Speaker 3: this too loose. Is like our book is about to
Speaker 3: come out, you know, and it's like a major accomplishment
Speaker 3: to be able to like be a published author, and
Speaker 3: you know, like it's a tangible source of something you
Speaker 3: can see, it's black and white. It's like it's yours.
Speaker 3: There's an expectation, there's possibly critics, you know, and like
Speaker 3: just to be you know, like see my dream come
Speaker 3: to a full manifestation and being a new world, like
Speaker 3: a new literary world. It's like, oh shit, Like I'm
Speaker 3: also I'm proud, but I'm also like there's also a
Speaker 3: part of me that has that imposter syndrome, you know,
Speaker 3: like do I belong here? And it's like, yeah, bitch,
Speaker 3: you do because you're here. And it's also like just
Speaker 3: knowing like there has to be such a special and
Speaker 3: specific combination of people two for each of us to exist,
Speaker 3: you know, like two people abound, two people around, two
Speaker 3: people amongst two people had to come perfectly together to
Speaker 3: make you. You know, like every every story, like the
Speaker 3: fact like how your mom got here and how your
Speaker 3: grandparents got here, and like the particular like combinations and
Speaker 3: like worlds and energies that had to exist for us
Speaker 3: to be created for just for these like these, like
Speaker 3: I'm always really obsessed with stories, like the behind the
Speaker 3: scenes stories of how things come to be, because a
Speaker 3: lot of times it is so magical and like you
Speaker 3: have a foreshadowing when you have twenty dollars for a
Speaker 3: week and you're the stock market only for you to
Speaker 3: be here and literally publishing and writing this full you know,
Speaker 3: this your baby to the world about financial literacy. It's
Speaker 3: just like they're so like you had to really come
Speaker 3: into who you are and believe that you're that person
Speaker 3: in order to deliver this to the world. And you're
Speaker 3: just going to affect and change so many people's lives.
Speaker 3: And it's like the sooner that we understand that our
Speaker 3: voice and our gifts and our purpose is so particular
Speaker 3: and special and like there's no other combination of people
Speaker 3: that could produce these things. It's like we would have
Speaker 3: spent so much less time worrying about, you know, for
Speaker 3: where we're supposed to be and if we're like worthy,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's a lot of like unlearning those
Speaker 3: things to be present and to be like, you know,
Speaker 3: come be in the moment and really like walk in
Speaker 3: the door and like I'm that bitch. But it's just
Speaker 3: like a lot of programming and reprogramming that comes around
Speaker 3: accepting that you can have these things. You can have wallpaper,
Speaker 3: you can write a book, you know. So I think
Speaker 3: it's it's such powerful work that you're doing.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I have to parent myself constantly, you know,
Speaker 2: Like sometimes I wake up freaking out in the middle
Speaker 2: of the night, Like I wrote a book about the
Speaker 2: stock market, Like what if I'm wrong somewhere in there?
Speaker 2: What if some white man comes and reads my book
Speaker 2: and caris it apart?
Speaker 1: Like I get I.
Speaker 2: Constantly have to remind myself like this is my process
Speaker 2: it is okay, like you know, but I feel like
Speaker 2: that part of it, I don't know if that well.
Speaker 2: I honestly, I hope that never ends because it means
Speaker 2: that I am striving towards achieving things that are so
Speaker 2: big that I perhaps never saw myself doing that. I'm
Speaker 2: constantly having to remind myself you belong, you're here, this
Speaker 2: is a new level of expansion, a new place you're
Speaker 2: reaching for. So, but yeah, a lot of parenting goes
Speaker 2: into it, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's definitely moments for sure. I mean, I today
Speaker 1: the joy like I had to like take myself down
Speaker 1: and be like, it's okay, everything's going to work out
Speaker 1: for me. With and we've talked about this on other
Speaker 1: episodes with you about like you know where your money
Speaker 1: wounds begin, and generally they begin in childhood and feeling like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like at some point something happened where
Speaker 1: you began to fear money, began to fear like feel
Speaker 1: like this idea of like that it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: not it's always gonna leave your hands or it's out
Speaker 1: of your control. And you know, me and Mila, we've
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of big accomplishments this year between
Speaker 1: you know, putting out this book, you know, doing our
Speaker 1: fifth and sixth retreat in Costa Rica, opening up our
Speaker 1: podcast studio that we're sitting in right now, buying we
Speaker 1: actually just bought land in Costa Rica. And these are
Speaker 1: all like really big investments, like the biggest investments. Taking
Speaker 1: out a loan that we like fucked up, Like we
Speaker 1: took out a really bad loan, and like now we're
Speaker 1: really having to like learn hard lessons about money. And
Speaker 1: you know, some of these things have like triggered my
Speaker 1: money wounds of feeling like, oh my god, like did
Speaker 1: I fuck myself? Or like, am are we gonna be okay?
Speaker 3: Go bankrupt? Podcast We're gonna go back to the living room.
Speaker 3: Oh my that.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I've had to talk myself off
Speaker 1: bridges and ledges and and and also there's also this
Speaker 1: thing that I have also so knowing that even though
Speaker 1: I'm still working on my money wounds, I know too
Speaker 1: in my life and I think it is a testament
Speaker 1: to my mom and her acquiring a lot of wealth
Speaker 1: later on in my life, and also me going to
Speaker 1: school with wealthy people that watching them spend their money
Speaker 1: like and seeing that like there was no fear there,
Speaker 1: and for some reason with me in my life, like
Speaker 1: whenever I'm at my last dollar, something always comes through,
Speaker 1: something always comes through that it's like we're gonna be okay, okay,
Speaker 1: And and I just had to remember that even this
Speaker 1: morning when I was like, bitch, are you got me
Speaker 1: stressed out today? No, you're not. We're just gonna we're
Speaker 1: just gonna talk through some things and just like make
Speaker 1: sure you know, me and Meela on the same page
Speaker 1: about what we have to do and like figure it
Speaker 1: out from there. And also like money's on the way
Speaker 1: at like literally it's on the way, so just chill
Speaker 1: the fuck out, but like not spiraling out of control
Speaker 1: and just being like, girl, you're doing amazing, Like look
Speaker 1: at all these things you've accomplished. You accomplished them because
Speaker 1: you've you've acquired the thing that you've been so afraid
Speaker 1: of from the beginning, and you've been able to like
Speaker 1: do make these purchases, invest and you know, and people
Speaker 1: believe in your and your dreams and your ideas and
Speaker 1: you have to like really be stand ten toes down
Speaker 1: in that and you the fear will pop up and
Speaker 1: you know, what. You might make a bad investment in
Speaker 1: the stock market and it might fuck up, and that's okay,
Speaker 1: because that's how you learn not to do it again.
Speaker 1: Just like this really terrible loan that me and Mila
Speaker 1: took out. Like I'm like, okay, well I've learned my lesson.
Speaker 1: Like I really need to ask a lot more questions.
Speaker 1: I really need to send a lot more emails. I
Speaker 1: really need to like have a lawyer look through the
Speaker 1: contract before I fucking sign it, and not just trust
Speaker 1: the invisible white man on the other end, and he is.
Speaker 3: Going to lie to you blatantly, great face, he is
Speaker 3: going to lie to you, like, straight up. I don't
Speaker 3: think that that nice man on the other line the
Speaker 3: side of the phone is not going to straight up
Speaker 3: fucking light to you, because they do and they will.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I think this goes back to what you
Speaker 2: were saying earlier in terms of investing into going to
Speaker 2: Costa Rica and having a powerful experience and making the.
Speaker 4: Space for it.
Speaker 2: I think what we really need to understand and lean
Speaker 2: into practice is when we let go of money, we're
Speaker 2: also making space for more money to come in. The
Speaker 2: tighter we hold on to the money that we have.
Speaker 2: It's like, imagine your arms are full holding the money
Speaker 2: that you have, instead of letting go, opening your arms
Speaker 2: and releasing money to flow out and making the space
Speaker 2: for money to come in. I can't tell you how
Speaker 2: many times I've stepped out and just faith that something
Speaker 2: is going to happen with no money, with no backup,
Speaker 2: And every single time I do that, I am always
Speaker 2: rewarded with multiple so much more money, like it multiplies
Speaker 2: for me, and it's always incredible to witness. And also
Speaker 2: that the concept of you know, you can you have
Speaker 2: all of the experience where money has flowed in and
Speaker 2: it has saved you. And I think it's important for
Speaker 2: us to move into the space of it overflowing and
Speaker 2: not like meeting the end of the wire, like instead
Speaker 2: knowing that the wire is continuous and it goes on
Speaker 2: forever and ever, so no matter how much is spent,
Speaker 2: is always going to return. Literally, the belief that money
Speaker 2: is you know, is like it's like in a pizza
Speaker 2: pie versus its infinite. Is such a disservice to ourselves
Speaker 2: because I think, especially I know you all as entrepreneurs,
Speaker 2: you understand that you you are the creators of money.
Speaker 2: You picking up the microphone being the creators of money
Speaker 2: investing into land in Costa Rica, and you know what
Speaker 2: that's going to return to you tenfold as you take
Speaker 2: more communities out there. What that's going to bring, how
Speaker 2: you're going to show up for community and like you
Speaker 2: get to say, yeah, I have investments in Costa Rica,
Speaker 2: Like how fucking dope is that? How many of us
Speaker 2: get to say that? And then we get to hear
Speaker 2: you all say that. You know, it gives it makes
Speaker 2: it easier for us to be able to make those
Speaker 2: same type of moves. So, yeah, that's awesome. Congratulations, that's
Speaker 2: such a big that's such a big step. Thank you,
Speaker 2: It's inspiring.
Speaker 1: It felt really good. Thank It feels really good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was looking through your book and I do I
Speaker 1: love how how easy it is to really understand, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that there's a lot of books around money
Speaker 1: that feel really overwhelming, and there's a lot of words
Speaker 1: that you feel like you have to google and then
Speaker 1: like can I remember them? Do I know what they mean?
Speaker 1: And your book really breaks things down. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to say it's like stock Market for Dummies, because
Speaker 1: I know that book exists and even that when I
Speaker 1: think it's a little confusing, but it's like a it's
Speaker 1: like a real person's guide to understanding, like from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and you have this chapter where you talk about like
Speaker 1: it's setting money intentions. Can you talk Can you talk
Speaker 1: to us about what that means?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's for us. Setting money intentions. For
Speaker 2: me is to simply set a goal with money, an
Speaker 2: intention with money on what you want to invest in.
Speaker 2: So what's really important about the stock market is that
Speaker 2: it's time in the market. That's what's really going to
Speaker 2: make you wealthy. So like that's what has made Warren
Speaker 2: Buffett wealthy. It's not the selling of the securities, it's
Speaker 2: not the selling of the actual shares of.
Speaker 4: The stock itself.
Speaker 2: It's spending time in the market. And so I've always
Speaker 2: found for me, when I'm making an investment, I set
Speaker 2: an intention for that investment. So for example, with the
Speaker 2: Netflix stock, I told myself that that investment was one
Speaker 2: day going to buy me a house, which is crazy
Speaker 2: because you think seven thousand dollars, when has that ever
Speaker 2: been able to.
Speaker 4: Buy anybody a house?
Speaker 2: But I said this intention for myself, and I had
Speaker 2: to see it through and in the midst of it,
Speaker 2: I got laid off.
Speaker 4: In the midst of it.
Speaker 2: Two weeks after I got laid off, my partner got
Speaker 2: laid off. Two weeks after that, we find out we're pregnant.
Speaker 2: We're moving into my sister's house. We're making all of
Speaker 2: these changes into our life. And the one thing I
Speaker 2: never did was sell the stock because the intention for
Speaker 2: that stock wasn't to save my ass in case, you know,
Speaker 2: we were trying for a child. What we didn't expect
Speaker 2: was to get laid off and to have the child
Speaker 2: happen at the same time.
Speaker 4: I didn't use that money to like save my ass there.
Speaker 2: I really kept the intention for it, and I was
Speaker 2: truly rewarded like I was at the time because I
Speaker 2: was an entrepreneur and I was bringing in, you know,
Speaker 2: not a significt amount of revenue in my business.
Speaker 4: I only qualified for a.
Speaker 2: Loan that was like one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: which limited me to where I could buy a home.
Speaker 2: You know, I moved out here to Texas for that reason.
Speaker 2: But also I was able to pull one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty thousand from the stock market to add to that
Speaker 2: loan and not limit myself to a certain area or
Speaker 2: constrict me in any way.
Speaker 4: I completed the intention for that money.
Speaker 2: So it's really important for me as you move through
Speaker 2: the eight steps in the book that it's very relatable,
Speaker 2: it's very intentional. And also my story is interwoven throughout
Speaker 2: the entire books, so it doesn't feel heavy in that
Speaker 2: you're learning eight steps. Like you said, it is relatable,
Speaker 2: but my own personal story is just mixed in there,
Speaker 2: which helps you take a brain break understand my perspective
Speaker 2: where I'm coming from in terms of money wounds, what
Speaker 2: I've had to overcome to get to this place, to
Speaker 2: hopefully inspire others that they can also do the same
Speaker 2: and make these types of investments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that's I think it's really important.
Speaker 1: It's like, is it not? Is like the victimhood part
Speaker 1: and you have this part. I love it. It says put
Speaker 1: a lid on the Bobcitallo and step out of victimhood
Speaker 1: and like basically put a lid on like poor me
Speaker 1: and step out of like you know that everything bad
Speaker 1: always happens to me, or I'm not good with money,
Speaker 1: or money is the root of all evil. And like
Speaker 1: you've said this before, and I remember you talking about them.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think that money is the root
Speaker 1: of all evil because you know, we see how capitalism,
Speaker 1: you know, it is just you know, to see how
Speaker 1: it works here in America. But it's really it's a tool.
Speaker 1: And if you know how to use the tool, then
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be evil. It actually work in
Speaker 1: your favor. It can work for you, it can work
Speaker 1: for your family. It's just you have to get out
Speaker 1: of this victimhood mentality and really address your money wounds
Speaker 1: to really be able to start reprogramming and rewiring your
Speaker 1: mind around this concept of money.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and.
Speaker 4: A lot of the time, sorry no goep no go ahead.
Speaker 2: A lot of the times it's really hard for us
Speaker 2: to see our own victimhood, right, Like it's really hard
Speaker 2: for us to realize like, oh shit, I'm really behaving
Speaker 2: like a victim in this moment in time, especially when
Speaker 2: it comes to money.
Speaker 4: It's so challenging, which is why it's.
Speaker 2: Important to always have I think, like a safe community,
Speaker 2: a partner friendships where you're able to call those things
Speaker 2: out with one another, like, hey, you're behaving like a
Speaker 2: victim when it comes to this to this specific issue.
Speaker 2: Here because I was doing that. I was really good
Speaker 2: at owning my shit everywhere else. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: when it came to money, I really believed poor me,
Speaker 2: Like I really really believed that I was at a
Speaker 2: strong disadvantage. It wasn't until I unders stood that today,
Speaker 2: in this day and age, our thoughts are currency. You know,
Speaker 2: when back in not that long ago, seashells were currency.
Speaker 2: But today, in this day and age, our thoughts are
Speaker 2: what is currency. And I can tap into those thoughts
Speaker 2: and I can capitalize on those thoughts and at the
Speaker 2: same time improve and make better for my community. It's
Speaker 2: not just all about me. It's also about what I'm
Speaker 2: doing for my community, what I'm reflecting.
Speaker 1: Speaking about your community, I'm so I'm interested in I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you're an educator and you teach a lot
Speaker 1: of people. Do you have any success stories that you
Speaker 1: can share with us that maybe like we're just really
Speaker 1: you know, surprising or just really just really impactful or
Speaker 1: really left a mark on you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know. One of the biggest things for me early
Speaker 2: on tying this back to victimhood is that I felt
Speaker 2: that every buddy else had the same money story as me.
Speaker 2: So like I felt sorry for myself in certain areas
Speaker 2: or I don't have money for this. I don't have
Speaker 2: money for that, and I would im pole outside of me, like,
Speaker 2: they probably don't have money for that, they probably don't
Speaker 2: have money for this, not even I was basically just
Speaker 2: assuming that because I'm broke from my perspective of this space,
Speaker 2: that so is everyone else in my community. And I've
Speaker 2: really had to work through that because that's what has
Speaker 2: stopped that's what stopped me early on on adequate pricing
Speaker 2: on any experiences that I was providing, whether it was
Speaker 2: live events or whether it was courses, Like I had
Speaker 2: to understand that it's not me I'm selling too, that yes,
Speaker 2: there is a lot of me that's coming out in
Speaker 2: this work, but I can't assume that everyone's in my
Speaker 2: financial situation. And so I think what has been the
Speaker 2: most eye opening is when I get to have one
Speaker 2: on one in which I do from time to time
Speaker 2: with our students, and I get to see their portfolios
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at like one hundred thousand dollars portfolios,
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars portfolios, or even just thirty thousand,
Speaker 2: forty thousand, fifty thousand and they started investing with me
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty and I'm like, dang, like you're really
Speaker 2: out here doing like you've taken everything I've said and
Speaker 2: you really are out here applying it.
Speaker 4: And it's that to me blows my mind.
Speaker 2: When they were like before you, I didn't even have
Speaker 2: a portfolio, and just getting to look at Commas and.
Speaker 4: Zeros is like this is real.
Speaker 2: Like I know it's real, but I think, like, I
Speaker 2: know it's real because I see it in my life.
Speaker 4: But to get to see it reflected and to get to.
Speaker 2: See our students have some incredible portfolios and then do
Speaker 2: boss shit like sell a portion of the stock and
Speaker 2: go purchase a house for an Airbnb and I'm like, yes,
Speaker 2: like this is what I'm talking about. It's not just
Speaker 2: about investing in the stock. It's about understanding that the
Speaker 2: stock market is accessible to us. I don't give a
Speaker 2: fuck what they say, like it is accessible to us.
Speaker 2: There's a book here, eight steps on how to do it.
Speaker 4: That's one small component.
Speaker 2: It's important for us to diversify, also have real estate,
Speaker 2: you know, invest in other things as well, but make
Speaker 2: sure that we understand that we can play in this
Speaker 2: space and that it's it may feel hard, but it's
Speaker 2: really not as hard as we make it out to be.
Speaker 2: We don't We're not scared to drop a thousand dollars
Speaker 2: on an iPhone, you know, We're not scared as content creators.
Speaker 2: We're not scared to drop a thousand dollars on a microphone,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. And it's that same thing.
Speaker 2: We're investing into these companies that are making so much
Speaker 2: money off of us already. It's just securing a part
Speaker 2: of their bag. That's all it is. It's not necessarily
Speaker 2: that you have to do anything that's risky. It's paying
Speaker 2: attention to what it is that you're consuming and what
Speaker 2: your business is dependent on. You know, if you take
Speaker 2: a payment plan, payments through Square app, if you use
Speaker 2: Square space, if you use an iPhone, it's just really
Speaker 2: taking a look at all of the things that not
Speaker 2: just you are dependent on, but that you are very
Speaker 2: dependent on, and so is your community. It's just tapping
Speaker 2: into that company and taking.
Speaker 4: A piece of their bag.
Speaker 2: It's so important for us to understand that space, and
Speaker 2: they've been dominating it for way too long. The amount
Speaker 2: of people that buy direct stock in the United States
Speaker 2: that isn't tied to their four oh one k's is
Speaker 2: only fifteen percent. So out of all of the Americans
Speaker 2: in the United States, only fifteen percent own stock directly,
Speaker 2: and out of those fifteen percent ten percent the top
Speaker 2: ten percent own all eighty nine percent of shares. So
Speaker 2: it's only the elite that are tapping into this, and
Speaker 2: it's not that they they just understand Yo, everyone is
Speaker 2: dependent on Apple. It would make sense that if the
Speaker 2: United States is depending on Apple, then perhaps this might
Speaker 2: be a company I should take a look at investing into.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people think, like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: too late for that. Oh I'm too late to invest
Speaker 1: in Apple. I'm too late to invest in Netflix, like
Speaker 1: I don't even know, Like I think that that's also
Speaker 1: been my mindset too around it, like, oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: get in early, so it doesn't you know, I missed
Speaker 1: that that ship is sailed, you know. And and what
Speaker 1: I'm hearing is it's not true. And I know, like
Speaker 1: even from our previous conversations, and what I think you're
Speaker 1: also saying here too, is that you need to invest
Speaker 1: in what you know, like, don't invest in shit you
Speaker 1: don't know shit about, Like if you have an if
Speaker 1: you're an iPhone user, hello, Like, if you use this,
Speaker 1: what is it that adds value to your life? And
Speaker 1: invest in that? Don't invest in like random? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know cryptocurrency is a whole other, you know, ballgame.
Speaker 1: And I even invested in crypto early and I didn't
Speaker 1: know what the fuck I was doing at all. Literally,
Speaker 1: my friend did it for me. She took my phone
Speaker 1: and did it. I was like, what is a theoreum?
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the fuck this is? But
Speaker 1: I'm investing. And you know, I watched it grow and
Speaker 1: I still didn't know shit about it. And I also
Speaker 1: watched it totally leave because I didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 1: I invested in something I know absolutely nothing about and
Speaker 1: I didn't educate myself. And I just said, I always
Speaker 1: want I want to get on the bandwagon before it's
Speaker 1: too late, and you know that was That's my mistake,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the mistake of a lot of people.
Speaker 1: And then they get defeated. They're like, Okay, well this
Speaker 1: isn't for me. I'm not going to do this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I also like to take it
Speaker 2: back to missing the boat on something. I think it's
Speaker 2: important for us to understand a couple of things. The
Speaker 2: first is that Netflix is still a really young company.
Speaker 2: Like let's look at big time companies in the stock market.
Speaker 2: We're talking Johnson and Johnson, We're talking Coca Cola, were
Speaker 2: talking McDonald's. How old are those companies? People are still
Speaker 2: continuously buying shares into those companies because they feel that
Speaker 2: we will still be addicted to coke. Come ten fifteen
Speaker 2: years from now, We'll still be eating cheeseburgers at McDonald's,
Speaker 2: like you know, So compare the weight of that company
Speaker 2: to companies that are newer, like an Apple, like a Netflix.
Speaker 2: I mean, imagine if at ten years of Walt Disney
Speaker 2: being a company, people were like, I can't invest in
Speaker 2: this anymore because I missed the boat. We're looking at
Speaker 2: a really old company that is still extremely valuable and
Speaker 2: is promising into the future with their streaming service. They're
Speaker 2: always there's always going to be innovations. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: to invest in any of those companies. I'm just using them,
Speaker 2: as you know, as just to show you how they're
Speaker 2: actually really young companies. Netflix didn't even become profitable until
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. That's how new it is, it's still
Speaker 2: reinvesting into itself, it's still figuring things out. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think there's a real opportunity here. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think also blockchain technology is incredible. It's still really early, though.
Speaker 2: We're looking at a new asset class. So what we're
Speaker 2: looking at is a new type of currency that is
Speaker 2: being built in our lifetime. The dollar bill existed long
Speaker 2: before us, so imagine this new currency we're going We
Speaker 2: should expect for it to come up and come down,
Speaker 2: and come up and come down. We also had a
Speaker 2: really unique experience in twenty twenty with a pandemic where
Speaker 2: everything just kind of ran up really high, and now
Speaker 2: it's just giving back all of those gains, which is
Speaker 2: what took place with ethereum and bitcoin. But I think
Speaker 2: in the long run, we're going to see these types
Speaker 2: of investments like real winners, not all of blockchain, not
Speaker 2: all of Like I'm just talking about bitcoin and ethereum specifically.
Speaker 2: I don't know about the other coins or anything like that.
Speaker 4: But I do think.
Speaker 2: That that asset class is still really brand new, young,
Speaker 2: and it's still has a lot of potential for the future.
Speaker 1: Are there any companies that you would recommend investing in now.
Speaker 2: So I can't, like legally, like by law, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to give any tips on what to invest in.
Speaker 2: But I think what's really important for us to understand
Speaker 2: that is really hot right now, and it has been
Speaker 2: for a while. I've been into this for a while,
Speaker 2: is it's AI, it's artificial intelligence. Understanding where artificial intelligence
Speaker 2: is going.
Speaker 4: To take us.
Speaker 2: That was why I began investing in Tesla, you know before,
Speaker 2: because I didn't feel people saw Tesla as an electric company.
Speaker 2: I didn't see it as an electric company. I actually
Speaker 2: saw it as a artificial intelligence car. That's the way
Speaker 2: I looked at it. This way I continue to look
Speaker 2: at it. They still have the most data that they're
Speaker 2: retrieving from their AI, but I do think that's the
Speaker 2: future and a lot of these companies are implementing AI technology,
Speaker 2: and so I kind of feel like AI is like
Speaker 2: going to be the new gold Rush of our lifetime.
Speaker 4: That's going to be the next big thing.
Speaker 2: So I would say that if you're going to invest
Speaker 2: in anything, investigate whether that company is dabbling in artificial
Speaker 2: intelligence and what their plans are for that. Artificial intelligence
Speaker 2: so scary, so scary.
Speaker 3: That's the part that it scares me. And that's what
Speaker 3: I stay away from it too.
Speaker 1: You know, I know, and it's true. It's like I
Speaker 1: think people hear AI, or at least I do, and
Speaker 1: I almost like want to reject it immediately.
Speaker 3: I think of like Will Smith and Rob I Roba, Well, I.
Speaker 1: Think of like I think of the root of all evils,
Speaker 1: and I think, okay, well, okay, if I can look
Speaker 1: at money as a as a tool, then I could
Speaker 1: look at AI as also a tool and not look
Speaker 1: at it as this like super scary thing that's going
Speaker 1: to like rue society.
Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing about perspectives to like even what
Speaker 3: Luce was just saying about, you know, like having like
Speaker 3: assuming that like people are in the same financial situation
Speaker 3: as you too. It's like like having a trouble pricing
Speaker 3: your your merch or you're you're you know, the things
Speaker 3: that you have in business, or like having this fear
Speaker 3: like or even if you've like scrolled through Instagram and
Speaker 3: you see like rich bitches and you're like, oh, fuck them,
Speaker 3: like they have this or they have that, Like you
Speaker 3: make an assumption about them and the same way you're like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: you know, my friend was struggling three years ago, she's
Speaker 3: probably still struggling. I don't want to talk too much
Speaker 3: about this, or I don't want to make my candle
Speaker 3: super expensive, or like, am I worth this price? But
Speaker 3: it's it's like you have to change the shift that
Speaker 3: that mentality and know that you're at like every people,
Speaker 3: there's more than enough for everyone, and it's worth what
Speaker 3: you're selling. It's worth what you're pricing it as, and
Speaker 3: you're worth what you're doing, and you're worth like, you know,
Speaker 3: deserving of this amount, this price point. You know, Like
Speaker 3: it's so interesting how our minds shape the way that
Speaker 3: we like perceive things and accept them in our you know,
Speaker 3: in our personal lives.
Speaker 1: True true, true, oh loose. Before we leave, we have
Speaker 1: two things we have to address. A. I would love
Speaker 1: if you shared an affirmation with our audience.
Speaker 2: So this affirmation is tried and true for me. It
Speaker 2: is an affirmation that parents me. I'm I'm sure I've
Speaker 2: said it in the podcast before, but it is still
Speaker 2: the affirmation that holds me solid day in and day out,
Speaker 2: and it is I am unlimited supply it just I
Speaker 2: can't let go of it. It's my daily affirmation. And
Speaker 2: it really just reminds me that I'm not dependent on
Speaker 2: money outside of me. I'm not dependent on what money is.
Speaker 4: Doing outside of me.
Speaker 2: I am solely dependent on my my intelligence in my
Speaker 2: head and how that sustains me, and it sustains my
Speaker 2: family and it sustains my community.
Speaker 1: I am unlimited supply.
Speaker 3: I am unlimited supply.
Speaker 1: I love that. And we also pulled a card at
Speaker 1: the top of the show, actually well before the show,
Speaker 1: and Lucy pulled the Chariot card m the Chariot.
Speaker 3: It usually means control, willpower, success, action, determination. The chariot
Speaker 3: is a card of will powered, termination, and strength. You
Speaker 3: have discovered how to make decisions in alignment with your
Speaker 3: values with the Lover's card, and now you're taking action
Speaker 3: on those decisions. When the chariot appears in a TIRA reading,
Speaker 3: take it as a sign of encouragement. You have set
Speaker 3: your objectives and now channeling your inner power with a
Speaker 3: fierce dedication to bring them to fruition. When you apply discipline, commitment,
Speaker 3: and willpower to achieve your goals, you will succeed.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Now isn't the time to be passive in the hope
Speaker 3: that things will work out In your favor, take focused action,
Speaker 3: and stick to the course no matter what challenges may
Speaker 3: come your way, because believe me, there will be challenges.
Speaker 3: You may be pulled in opposite directions and find your
Speaker 3: strength and conviction tested. Others may try to block you,
Speaker 3: distract you, or drag you down to pursue drag you
Speaker 3: down the pursuit of your goal. But the chariot is
Speaker 3: an invitation to draw upon your willpower and home in
Speaker 3: on what's essential to you so you can push past
Speaker 3: the obstacles in your way. Hmm, willpower and focus, Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: got you to be the wealth warriors. So it seems
Speaker 3: on point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And for those listening like yes, focus and willpower
Speaker 1: is what it takes, really, I think to be successful
Speaker 1: in all ways and to go down this road of
Speaker 1: you know, feeling confident in the stock market or whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you know, whatever avenue you're using in
Speaker 1: order to invite more abundance and cash flow into your life.
Speaker 1: So thank you, yes, thank you for that, Thank.
Speaker 2: You, thank you for having me. The book comes out
Speaker 2: April eleventh. I wanted to make sure I share that,
Speaker 2: and it's pre order right now. You can get it
Speaker 2: at Target, Walmart, Barnes and Noble.
Speaker 4: Amazon. Yeah, so definitely.
Speaker 1: Yes, and we'll make sure to put If you click
Speaker 1: the link in this episode description, you can pre order
Speaker 1: Loose's book today, Wealth Warrior, eight Steps for Communities of
Speaker 1: Color to Conquer the stock Market. And where else can
Speaker 1: our people find you?
Speaker 2: Yes, you can find me on Instagram at Lou's Warrior
Speaker 2: and our business Instagram where we give all the stock
Speaker 2: market news at in Loose we trust.
Speaker 1: In this we trust and also has amazing courses. Make
Speaker 1: sure you check out her courses and tap into her
Speaker 1: community so that you can feel supported and know you're
Speaker 1: not alone in your journey into abundance and wealth. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much, Thank you louse joining.
Speaker 4: Us, thank you for having me, and.
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Speaker 3: Bye.