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Speaker 1: don't judge me because today I am giving you pajama
Speaker 1: party energy. I didn't feel like getting dressed up energy.
Speaker 1: I'm pregnant and I feel nauseous energy and I have
Speaker 1: my Onesie and Mike. How do you call this STU
Speaker 1: exactly and don't say, well, I'm being sad. Um. I
Speaker 1: am so excited today. I really wanted to dress up
Speaker 1: and be like really bourgeois, but I just I just
Speaker 1: didn't happen. But today I have a really special guest.
Speaker 1: I am so proud of her. I had the opportunity
Speaker 1: of sharing energies and spaces with her. Um. She is
Speaker 1: the founder and CEO of her own luxury real estate firm,
Speaker 1: Allure Realty. UM. She's also one of the stars of
Speaker 1: the Netflix show Selling Tampum. She's here to spell all
Speaker 1: spill all the tea. And one of the great things
Speaker 1: that I love about being able to talk to her
Speaker 1: is the fact that one of the reasons why I
Speaker 1: wanted to do this show is because I also wanted
Speaker 1: to empower women. I wanted you to know, you know,
Speaker 1: first learn there's so many things for us to learn
Speaker 1: empower women. UM. Let you know that you're not alone.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been an easy journey for you know people.
Speaker 1: You see the people when they're in the top, but
Speaker 1: the journey, the process hasn't necessarily been is easy for everyone. UM.
Speaker 1: Some people have had it harder than others. And some
Speaker 1: people really have a story to share that can be
Speaker 1: inspirationally inspirational to you so that you can get your
Speaker 1: ship together. So with that being said me that ai
Speaker 1: s when I really say mogul so you can get
Speaker 1: your notebook, get your pencil, get your pen and start
Speaker 1: writing down all this tea because not only um is
Speaker 1: she amazing with real estate, but again I'm being she
Speaker 1: was in the army. Look, I'm not gonna tell you
Speaker 1: too much. I'm just gonna let her tell you the team.
Speaker 1: Let me see, because you don't get my English is
Speaker 1: not very good looking. Shirley Rosaldo, I mean Rosalo? Where
Speaker 1: are you from? My father's Puerto Rican and my mom
Speaker 1: is African American Jassa and Rosal was like me more,
Speaker 1: she has to be maybe Dominican. She's poor a Reagan
Speaker 1: and don't say, my love, how are you doing? How
Speaker 1: are you feeling? I know that right now you're one
Speaker 1: of the most amazing stages in your life because you're
Speaker 1: also having a baby. Yes I am. I'm ready to
Speaker 1: give her her eviction papers, but I'm excited. Everything is
Speaker 1: flourishing for myself, my agents, my business. Um, I'm just blessed,
Speaker 1: truly blessed. Amen. And you know, before we get into
Speaker 1: all the tea and all that good stuff, how do
Speaker 1: you manage right now to still be a boss, still
Speaker 1: be a mom, still be pregnant, still be an amazing wife,
Speaker 1: you know, just going through the whole process. How do
Speaker 1: you find that balance? You know, just from the military,
Speaker 1: they taught you to basically you have to be ready.
Speaker 1: If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.
Speaker 1: And that's my mentality that I live by. So trying.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you stay ready for your kids?
Speaker 1: Like you have your kids already had to take care
Speaker 1: at home, but you still have to make time to
Speaker 1: be on your computer, handling you know, your business. Even
Speaker 1: if you have other people and you know working for you,
Speaker 1: you still gotta be on top of everything that's happening.
Speaker 1: And then at the nighttime when your husband, when your
Speaker 1: man was not volunte you also gotta give time for that.
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It is a lot, so um right
Speaker 1: now and enjoined, you know, my business is set. I
Speaker 1: have delegated UM roles to people to make sure that
Speaker 1: it's running smoothly. My kids, I have teenagers. They they
Speaker 1: fanned for themselves at this point, and of course you
Speaker 1: know I still have the one on one time with
Speaker 1: them where we communicate daily, see how how school was,
Speaker 1: how their day went. I have to give them their time.
Speaker 1: And then my fiance, he's lowmate it he doesn't requires
Speaker 1: and if I want some of my wakes behind up
Speaker 1: and do what I need to do and go back
Speaker 1: to now you have. Selling Tampa is the follow up
Speaker 1: of Selling Sunset on Netflix. Right, yes, we are a
Speaker 1: spinoff of Selling Sunset. Okay, so tell me a little
Speaker 1: bit about the show. The show is gonna show our
Speaker 1: amazing brokerage UM and the amazing ladies of a low
Speaker 1: realty that start helped me start a lot realty. It's
Speaker 1: gonna show us killing the luxury market. It's hard for
Speaker 1: minority women. It's a predominantly white male industry, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna show us tapping into that market and showing that
Speaker 1: it can be done. Of course, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: little drama, but what business doesn't have drama. But the
Speaker 1: great thing about my show is that we know how
Speaker 1: to bring it back together. We are a family and
Speaker 1: we agree to disagree. When you're see a little bit
Speaker 1: of drama, mind give me a little bit of TV
Speaker 1: because you know we can't give it so cute. What's
Speaker 1: that deed? Who's who's the one that's being gonna gave
Speaker 1: bitch or whatever? Who wants the money? I mean, you
Speaker 1: have some people that want to be, you know, take
Speaker 1: my place, want to be the boss, but there's only
Speaker 1: one boss within the lord, and they can't be done.
Speaker 1: And if you don't like my rules, there's the door.
Speaker 1: I also saw I'm not sure because I saw the
Speaker 1: promotions on your social media platform, which, by the way, guys,
Speaker 1: I go to her Instagram every day to see her
Speaker 1: she's but I saw that they're all women. I love
Speaker 1: the fact they put all women together, showing you know, empowerment, unity, minorities.
Speaker 1: I love it, But doesn't it get a little bit
Speaker 1: hard when it's a hope into women because it gets real, Caddy,
Speaker 1: I know that I can't do a room for the
Speaker 1: women all the time. And in business and money is
Speaker 1: involved and power and status is involved, it can get
Speaker 1: very complicated. No, I feel like that's the stereotype we
Speaker 1: have to break. And that's what I love about uh
Speaker 1: selling Tampa. It shows powerful women, appletype females all in
Speaker 1: one room. Yeah, we may have disagreements, we may not
Speaker 1: agree on everything, but we know how to bring it
Speaker 1: back together. And that's the stereotype we need to bring
Speaker 1: break that just because a room full of black women
Speaker 1: get together, that it's always gonna be fighting, you know,
Speaker 1: punching and all this going on. But no, it's it's business.
Speaker 1: Business is being handled at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: How how do you still maintain yourself as a boss,
Speaker 1: as a woman, as a boss with a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of other females and not. Uh. I don't want to
Speaker 1: say lower yourself, but you never have those moments where
Speaker 1: you want to still because I know you're very bourgeois,
Speaker 1: you're very put together, but okay, the hood is still
Speaker 1: in there. Really still it's still in there. It so
Speaker 1: how do you keep it together? And I'll be like, beats,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something, this is my damn firm. Like,
Speaker 1: you don't have those moments that you get it. So
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I don't have the acknowledge that this
Speaker 1: is my business. They know it. I have laid the
Speaker 1: ground that you know, who wants the show and they
Speaker 1: respect that. Being in the military did teach me how
Speaker 1: to be a strong leader and UM, I don't have
Speaker 1: to raise a voice. Like I said before, I laid
Speaker 1: the rules. I made the table. I brought the table.
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, I can give you the ingredients.
Speaker 1: I support you, but the sauce would never be the
Speaker 1: same period. Oh my god, I love it now. If
Speaker 1: there were to be uh you know other women that
Speaker 1: want to get into the real estate UH industry, what
Speaker 1: advice would you give and if they wanted to work
Speaker 1: for you, how can they reach out to you? UM?
Speaker 1: Advice on people getting some real estate industry? UM. Never
Speaker 1: look at someone else that says and based it off yours.
Speaker 1: Focus on you. Set up a plan for you that
Speaker 1: benefit that compliments your what you're doing, and then go
Speaker 1: from there. But once you start looking at someone else success,
Speaker 1: you'll never prosper your your business will never prosper um.
Speaker 1: And keep going. You're gonna have obstacles. They're gonna come.
Speaker 1: You may not get a self for the first year,
Speaker 1: but keep if this is a passion that you want
Speaker 1: to do, keep on going. UM. And for agents that
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the lord. Right now,
Speaker 1: I put a hold on hiring because it's crazy. But
Speaker 1: once I do start back hurn. I do, Um, you
Speaker 1: have to be an experience agent. I don't hire new agents.
Speaker 1: What do you look for when you need to hire
Speaker 1: people for your firm? Like I look for women that
Speaker 1: are like this? Are they only women? Do you also
Speaker 1: take except men? Or what is it that you're looking for?
Speaker 1: I except men too. You just have to be a
Speaker 1: go getter. You have to produce. You have to. It's
Speaker 1: it's your A lot of agents interviewed the broker, but
Speaker 1: I interviewed the agent. You have to show me your numbers.
Speaker 1: If you're not producing and you just want to be
Speaker 1: a part of a glamp, you think this is a
Speaker 1: UH model agency is not. You need to show me
Speaker 1: your numbers, show me that you got it, because I
Speaker 1: don't babysit. So who did that? Does better? Men? Agents
Speaker 1: or women? We do it the best? Okay? Period? Because
Speaker 1: I do feel like I don't want to say this
Speaker 1: is a male predominated industry like pretty much every industry. UM.
Speaker 1: I do know there's a lot of men running the
Speaker 1: real estate UH industry. However, I feel that sometimes women
Speaker 1: know how to use certain words or know how to
Speaker 1: I don't want to say convinced, but I just feel
Speaker 1: like the hustle is a little different. We know how
Speaker 1: to convince, we know how to get that house so okay,
Speaker 1: And you sell properties all over the United States. I
Speaker 1: have referral partners all over the United States, and I
Speaker 1: handle all over Florida. So well, talking about that, I've
Speaker 1: heard that here in Florida houses are going to get
Speaker 1: even more expensive. I heard that now you know with unfortunately, um,
Speaker 1: certain disasters that have happened in certain states will now
Speaker 1: make those properties cheaper. Is there any advice or any suggestion?
Speaker 1: Why not suggestions, but advice that you can talk about
Speaker 1: when it comes to real estate. How is the market
Speaker 1: looking right now? Right now? It's crazy. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's still a seller's market. But the interest rates are
Speaker 1: still low. And if you find something, jump on it.
Speaker 1: Do not sit and wait thinking that the market's gonna crash.
Speaker 1: I don't have a cross the ball. But right now
Speaker 1: the market is not turning around. Um, it's it's great.
Speaker 1: The it's a seller's market and if if you have it,
Speaker 1: go ahead and take advantage of it. Yeah. I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot of people that they're waiting for the market
Speaker 1: to go down, for it to crash, and then you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna be able to buy cheap properties. I
Speaker 1: don't really think that that's gonna happen either, but um
Speaker 1: that yeah, I do know that it's a sellers as
Speaker 1: a seller's market right now. So basically, for those who
Speaker 1: don't understand what exactly a seller's market is, what is
Speaker 1: it for for them to understand a seller's market is?
Speaker 1: Basically the seller has control over it. They have control
Speaker 1: over their price. Um, it's it's more demand of people
Speaker 1: purchasing than people actually selling their home. So, um, the
Speaker 1: demanded is load. People are paying outrageous prices over asking
Speaker 1: price just to get home, so sellers can take advantage
Speaker 1: of that and raise their price more than and sell
Speaker 1: it for more than what it's worth. Oh well, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm not trying to sell my house right now,
Speaker 1: but like it sounds good to me right now. How
Speaker 1: do you also feel good? Questions? How do you also
Speaker 1: feel about investing outside of the United States? Are are
Speaker 1: you a believer in that? Like there's other countries or
Speaker 1: cities or I mean islands or whatever. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about investing outside the US? I'm definitely a believer
Speaker 1: in it. It's if you have the funds definitely jump
Speaker 1: on it UM short term rental. It's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: UM hotels hated. They are finding ways to, you know,
Speaker 1: try to stop it, but it's not going anywhere. Take
Speaker 1: advantage of it. That's residual income and the prices are cheap.
Speaker 1: If you would have jumped on it a year ago
Speaker 1: or right before the pandemic started, you hit a gold mom.
Speaker 1: But it's still not too like. I definitely suggest getting
Speaker 1: with someone learning UM the knowledge of invest in overseas
Speaker 1: and taking advantage of it. I agree a thousand percent.
Speaker 1: I personally have invested in the Dominican Republic. It has
Speaker 1: gone great for me. I am a fan of it,
Speaker 1: especially if you want to invest in a country that
Speaker 1: is touristic, especially if it's a country that is nice
Speaker 1: and warm. You know, you're always find people that are
Speaker 1: willing to travel over there and you know, spend a vacation,
Speaker 1: spend a couple of weeks, Airbnb your property, or whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. So definitely, don't be scared to
Speaker 1: do your research. Don't be scared to do your research.
Speaker 1: Follow me at Amada Airbnb, a Mata Airbnb. I always
Speaker 1: post information there all the time. If you want to
Speaker 1: ask me anythings. Feel free to slide up in my
Speaker 1: d M s. I love helping people. I love seeing
Speaker 1: people grow because it makes me feel It makes me
Speaker 1: feel good to know that I was able to help
Speaker 1: you somehow. So with that being said, guys, don't forget
Speaker 1: whatever you do, do not miss out on selling Tampa,
Speaker 1: like I said before, is the follow up of selling
Speaker 1: Sunset on Netflix. You have to watch this. It's so empowering, empowering, um,
Speaker 1: and it's a beautiful thing to see minorities, black women
Speaker 1: come together show that they can be you know, intelligent,
Speaker 1: powerful financially, you know, they got it together. They look beautiful.
Speaker 1: We need more shows like this, and I love the
Speaker 1: fact that Netflix is giving platforms for shows like this
Speaker 1: and women like yourself. They are so you know powerful that, Um,
Speaker 1: you've been able to do so much from yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: for yourself. You don't come from a rich or like
Speaker 1: super wealthy household, No, no, I do not. You have
Speaker 1: to work your way up. And that's why I wanted.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask what made you want to get
Speaker 1: into the army? How was that? What made you finally
Speaker 1: take that decision? Okay, this is the best thing that
Speaker 1: I can do in order for me to improve, you know,
Speaker 1: an upgrade my life. Well as some people know. You know,
Speaker 1: I lost my track scholarship in high school. I was
Speaker 1: that a pregnant mom, uh, teenager. UM, So I want
Speaker 1: the best for my daughter. I didn't want her to
Speaker 1: have the life that I I lived. So I decided,
Speaker 1: what better life to get out of the small town
Speaker 1: I'm in, What better life to have and have great benefits?
Speaker 1: Why not join the military. I didn't care if the
Speaker 1: war was going on, didn't care about any of that.
Speaker 1: My main goal was to make sure that my daughter
Speaker 1: was taken care of. Wow. And that's and you know
Speaker 1: now now more than ever, you know, at least we're
Speaker 1: already gone through the experience. But I am starting to
Speaker 1: understand that that motherly instinct that comes out of you,
Speaker 1: that you're willing to sacrifice to do anything to protect
Speaker 1: that child. And you were willing to even if the
Speaker 1: war was happening, even if it ben sacrificing yourself anything
Speaker 1: just to give a better future to to your to
Speaker 1: your children. Um. And then did you ever regret it?
Speaker 1: Like once you were in there. Because one thing is
Speaker 1: when you're like, oh, I'm gonna go to the military.
Speaker 1: Once you were there, were you ever a damn? Okay,
Speaker 1: this wasn't the best idea. I didn't regret it. You know.
Speaker 1: It's some things I'm not proud of that happened during
Speaker 1: the military, But that's life. You're gonna go through obstacles
Speaker 1: that you can't control sometimes, and um, it's a learning lesson.
Speaker 1: I feel like things that I went through it made
Speaker 1: me a better person and make me the person who
Speaker 1: I am today. So I'm truly grateful for the experience
Speaker 1: that that I did serve while serving in the military.
Speaker 1: I'm truly grateful for being deployed. I'm truly grateful for
Speaker 1: even going through the bad things that I went through
Speaker 1: because it made me the strong person I am today. Amen. Amen,
Speaker 1: for sure. And the same thing goes for having to
Speaker 1: finally make that decision of Okay, so now I'm going
Speaker 1: to go to war. But now that the go to
Speaker 1: war or I go to military. Um, first of all,
Speaker 1: how long were you how we're how long did you serve?
Speaker 1: Twelve years, nine months, and nineteen days to what that's crazy?
Speaker 1: That's a long time, Okay, but you did it and
Speaker 1: you survived it, and look at you. You know better
Speaker 1: than ever now now as a mom. At that moment,
Speaker 1: especially you know the first time, Mom, how old was
Speaker 1: your baby when you left? And how difficult was it
Speaker 1: for you to be able to go to work and
Speaker 1: know that, you know, you had to leave a review
Speaker 1: with someone else. My daughter was six months when I
Speaker 1: left to go off the training, UM, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get her back until I got to my
Speaker 1: first duty station. So it was probably like almost a
Speaker 1: year later before I was able to basically bring her
Speaker 1: with me. Um. It was hard, but I mean the
Speaker 1: end result was great. I have a great support system,
Speaker 1: my mom and my my dad. They are amazing. UM,
Speaker 1: and I felt comfortable. I knew she my daughter, would
Speaker 1: be taken care of leaving to you know, to deploy
Speaker 1: or if I had to go spawn special missions. I
Speaker 1: knew that my daughter was insane hands has your daughter
Speaker 1: ever that you know? Mom, I'm kind of thinking about
Speaker 1: it or what would you say if she were to
Speaker 1: hit you up? Like Mom, you know, I'm thinking maybe
Speaker 1: I would want to go to Merrige, to the to
Speaker 1: the military. My daughter is full. She didn't have the
Speaker 1: life I had growing up, so I feel like she
Speaker 1: saw what I went through as a child. You know,
Speaker 1: she experienced the be in a way. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a route that that they, any of my children
Speaker 1: will choose because of having to leave at any drop
Speaker 1: of a dime. Um, that's something that they don't have
Speaker 1: the experience because I sacrifice tim um with my life
Speaker 1: to make sure that they were good. So they have
Speaker 1: a free Roight scholarship to go to college and do
Speaker 1: whatever they want to do. And I'm gonna support and
Speaker 1: even if they do decide to go into the military,
Speaker 1: I'm going to support them. Well. You know, they've also
Speaker 1: asked me now as a future mom, what are some
Speaker 1: of the things that you want to teach and implement
Speaker 1: to your children? Um A, by the way that you
Speaker 1: grew up. Some of the things that I want my
Speaker 1: kids to learn is um Well, I used to clean
Speaker 1: houses with my mom, used to clean toilets to get
Speaker 1: like fifty dollars a day. I remember selling flowers in
Speaker 1: the in the stop signed and I remember going through
Speaker 1: that whole process. Obviously, I worked hard enough that now
Speaker 1: my children won't necessarily have to go through that, but
Speaker 1: I still want them to go through it, even if
Speaker 1: I'm just right there at the stop siding with y'all.
Speaker 1: But I want to see y'all sweat. I want to
Speaker 1: see y'all go through it. Is there anything that you
Speaker 1: will want your children to experience that you went through
Speaker 1: that was you know that changed you or made you
Speaker 1: mature or see life differently. So the things I change,
Speaker 1: I have two answers for that. I definitely make sure
Speaker 1: that they work hard for what they want. It's just
Speaker 1: not given to them. They have to make sure that
Speaker 1: they bring home good grades. They have to make sure
Speaker 1: that their chores are done. Um nothing is given. And
Speaker 1: I also I changed the narrative in my household than
Speaker 1: what I hadn't. Coming from a minority household, we wasn't
Speaker 1: able to communicate with our parents. It was basically I speak,
Speaker 1: you listen, I speak, you execute, shut up. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear anything. And that I felt like that
Speaker 1: effect that my communication skills then a young adult. So
Speaker 1: now I bring that in. I make sure I implement
Speaker 1: that and I spread it to young parents and parents
Speaker 1: who are who are dealing with teenagers or children in general.
Speaker 1: Make sure you communicate with your kids because it's gonna
Speaker 1: help them in the long run for sure. And talking
Speaker 1: about communication for a business that you definitely need to
Speaker 1: know how to communicate and you gotta have you know,
Speaker 1: spit that game online and know how to convince. The
Speaker 1: baby is when it comes to real estate and you
Speaker 1: are a real estate mogil, you are amazing and great
Speaker 1: at what you do. You have created an empire. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that you're a woman, that you are
Speaker 1: a minority, that you were strong, that you nothing was
Speaker 1: given to you. You work for every single thing that
Speaker 1: you have. I love these type of stories because I
Speaker 1: feel there's a lot of listeners. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that feel like, oh, well, she's pretty, so she
Speaker 1: just probably pulled it off from somebody, or she da
Speaker 1: da dada. No, she worked for what she has, period,
Speaker 1: So what made you do this? Like three sixty, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna leave the military and I'm just gonna dedicate to
Speaker 1: real estate and this is what I'm gonna do. Real
Speaker 1: estate was always stuck in the back of my head.
Speaker 1: I purchased my first home in North Carolina when I
Speaker 1: was twenty two, and just going through that experience, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed looking at homes and um, the broker at the time,
Speaker 1: he was like, you you're a social butterfly, You'll make
Speaker 1: a great real estate agent. Always been a hustler. I
Speaker 1: always had a good talk game. So I felt like
Speaker 1: when I knew I was transitioning not the military, I
Speaker 1: felt like, UM, let me give it a try and
Speaker 1: see if I like it. Let me double debble in
Speaker 1: this while I'm still collecting the paycheck guaranteed paycheck. UM.
Speaker 1: I received my real estate license in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1: Seen and I was very successful as a part time
Speaker 1: world to are making more than I was making in
Speaker 1: the military, and I was like, this is for me.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed doing it. The money is great, um, and
Speaker 1: I love just helping people. It wasn't even about the
Speaker 1: money at that time. It was just sign if I
Speaker 1: enjoyed doing it, and I did, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a career out of this. So what
Speaker 1: better way. I'm tired of working for people. Let me
Speaker 1: open up a brokerage and all the fees comes to me.
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about paying my broker. So
Speaker 1: and that's what I did. And it's been up from
Speaker 1: here for um four years in the real estate industry,
Speaker 1: and I'm killing it. For anybody that's out there interested
Speaker 1: in getting into the real estate because I was one
Speaker 1: of those girls during the pandemic. I realized that you
Speaker 1: can't put all your eggs in one basket, especially as
Speaker 1: an artist. Is like you live from your body or
Speaker 1: want me to beave now my body now unless you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, unless there's an audience is into
Speaker 1: like pregnant women. Um right now, I'm not living off
Speaker 1: my sex. You're killing it. I was trying girls, so
Speaker 1: are you. Um? But you know, just like overall, I
Speaker 1: am my business. And I realized, you know what, one,
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in generation of wealth, which we'll
Speaker 1: discuss that now because as a mother, now I'm not
Speaker 1: just thinking about myself and I know you as well,
Speaker 1: you also think about their well being, being able to
Speaker 1: leave something God forbid, something goes wrong. Mommy left your house,
Speaker 1: Mommy left you property. I left you something that you
Speaker 1: can leverage off. But real estate really became a thing
Speaker 1: for me. I loved watching the TV shows where you
Speaker 1: like renovate homes and all this stuff, and I started
Speaker 1: doing my research. I started buying properties in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it in the States because it gets
Speaker 1: a little experience, but I did it. I did it
Speaker 1: outside and it works for me. Have have your kids, um,
Speaker 1: you know been in the process. Have they told you
Speaker 1: we like what you do or this is more your
Speaker 1: own thing? Do you teach them about it? How important
Speaker 1: is it for you that they know about real estate
Speaker 1: or finances? Overall? I don't force it up on them,
Speaker 1: but I do show them the what I do. I
Speaker 1: show them the checks that come in from it, um.
Speaker 1: But it's whatever they I support whatever they do. I
Speaker 1: do teach them about how important it is to save
Speaker 1: and how important it is to prioritize what you want
Speaker 1: versus what you need. Um. And they're big on that
Speaker 1: you you can't have everything, and it's not about like
Speaker 1: in today's society, especially young adults, feel like you have
Speaker 1: to live up to a certain STENTERD. I teach my
Speaker 1: kids you don't have You're not here to impress the
Speaker 1: next because these some people are are going broke just
Speaker 1: to impress the next person. Your main thing is to
Speaker 1: make sure you have residual income and make sure you
Speaker 1: have enough save where you can suffice in this world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in case of an emergency. In case of an emergency,
Speaker 1: you see all these expensive ass dinners that y'all be
Speaker 1: posting on the Instagram that y'all know you can't afford,
Speaker 1: and y'all got to spit it up on cash app
Speaker 1: keep it together. You know why. If you have to
Speaker 1: cook at home, then cook at home. It's okay. You
Speaker 1: don't have to go out all the time and spend
Speaker 1: And if you want to dress nice, you don't have
Speaker 1: to spend all that money because it's about the attitude
Speaker 1: and it's about how you rocket. It's not necessarily your
Speaker 1: name brands. And if you do, you know, just buy
Speaker 1: it and then return it. But you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like I think we have, we do need more people
Speaker 1: like ourselves. Realistically, I'm a big thrift store shopper and
Speaker 1: I love it, you know. I love to find bargains.
Speaker 1: I love to find um, you know, treasures. That's on me.
Speaker 1: But I feel that we need more people like ourselves.
Speaker 1: That is, you know, letting our listeners and the younger
Speaker 1: generation and the people that are looking up to us
Speaker 1: know that you in order for you to financially be
Speaker 1: rolled off later on in life, you do need to save.
Speaker 1: You do need to know about finances. You do need
Speaker 1: to know about how to reinvest your money. You do
Speaker 1: need to know all these other things. Um So, now,
Speaker 1: how many people do you have under your firm? I
Speaker 1: have two offices, a total of twenty eight agents, um
Speaker 1: between Tampa the headquarters in Miami. Okay, So for this year,
Speaker 1: right before the year is over, I do have any
Speaker 1: goals anything? Do you wanna like? I need to finish
Speaker 1: this this this because next year my goals are to
Speaker 1: do this. Is this? Actually, I feel like I surpassed
Speaker 1: my five year mark and it's great. Um I haven't
Speaker 1: with so much that has been going on. God has
Speaker 1: truly been blessing me. Right now, I'm just more focusing
Speaker 1: on Okay, pulling back. Everything is falling in place. Um
Speaker 1: let me focus on spending more time with my kids.
Speaker 1: I'm retired, now, let's travel the world retired. How do
Speaker 1: you get retired? You're like, you're like my age. I'm
Speaker 1: medically retired from the military. So that's a guarantee check
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. Um more. And I
Speaker 1: run a business. My business is so successful. I hired
Speaker 1: the top tier agents where I don't even have to
Speaker 1: compete be a competing broker anymore. I can just run
Speaker 1: my business and let the agents just go out and
Speaker 1: kill it um and go from there. That's the goal.
Speaker 1: The goal is being able to create some type of
Speaker 1: business where you no longer necessarily have to be the
Speaker 1: head face of it and it can still run on
Speaker 1: its own, and you know, you can just lay back
Speaker 1: a little bit, like right now. You need this time
Speaker 1: for yourself, and that's what I plan to do. So
Speaker 1: my goal is to just travel the world with my
Speaker 1: family joy that. I want to be able to do
Speaker 1: the same thing. Girl, I'm working on trying to be
Speaker 1: like you. I'm working towards it. Thank you once again
Speaker 1: so much for joining me on exactly a mode of today.
Speaker 1: I wish you nothing but the best with your babies
Speaker 1: and everything. I can't wait to see your baby already.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I don't know if you're gonna post.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna post her on social media? You're gonna
Speaker 1: wait a little bit. I've waited a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: they need to watch the show first. They need Okay, okay,
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