At a very young age, when internet was dialup, and I was in middle school, I always had a fascination for websites and blogging. At only 10 years old I started a website and within a year had over 100k views and 20+ visitors at a given time. Websites were amazing, I was obsessed. I continued my obsession throughout my career. I did what everybody did; went to school, got a college degree (in web development focus, IT), graduated and got a job in a related field. I wanted to get a taste of what it would be like to own a company that made websites for people because that is what I wanted to do at age 21. This is where it took a turn. I worked as a Web Consultant in a small web design firm where the owner was VERY stressed out all the time and so were the developers. He worked a lot of hours and hardly took any vacation. I worked with clients that could potentially be MY clients and I was appalled about how they treated myself and the developers. I even got offered a pretty high up management position where I could have made a decent amount of money. However, I decided in the short 4 months I worked there; this was not my path.

Next, I worked as a Systems & Data analyst and enjoyed the work environment very much. I got paid a decent salary, however, I always yearned for financial freedom and I chased money anywhere I could. I was the person that looked up “Top high paying salary jobs in the US” and that is what I wanted to do. IT was one of them. However, at 18 years old what I didn’t realize was, working a 9am-5pm job was not financial freedom. I’ve always wanted to own multiple businesses and earn passive income anyway I could, but I wanted it to be my own.

You see, I was raised with an entrepreneur father who worked hard. Growing up, I didn’t see him work much, he was very involved with the family and he made a lot of money eventually. I remember him working hard in the beginning and being curious what he did. I remember the excitement in the house when he sold the first business for millions of dollars. I remember always wanting what HE had created for himself and the life for his family. He mentored me through school (as he was previously a teacher and has education in this). However, at age 18 I didn’t know what that meant. He always wanted myself and my brother to work with him, but both of us wanted to do our separate thing and grow ourselves. This is where my ego got in the way. I wanted to grow my own business from the ground up, but now that I am 31, I realize that he created this business so that we could continue to grow it, if we wanted to.

So how did I get involved with him as an investor? As I was working my 9am-5pm job I became very sick. I was getting constant migraines and I couldn’t figure it out. I saw neurologists, doctors, naturopaths, you name it. Nobody could figure it out. I continued to work as best I could, but it was taking a toll on my performance. But, I kept going and worked as hard as I could as I was the breadwinner and needed to make an income.

Meanwhile, my father was working on a new green business that was VERY exciting. I never realized EXACTLY what my father was involved in and all the opportunities that had been coming his way during that time. I started attending these meetings with VERY experienced businessmen and women ages 50+ with hundreds of combined years of experience. And I was the only woman sitting in the meeting with all of these grown successors in my mid 20s taking in so much knowledge. I realized in this moment, “this is my opportunity to grow.” I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to be sitting in those meetings taking in so much knowledge from very experienced and successful people. I noticed myself drifting into thinking about those meetings while working as an analyst.

My migraines didn’t go away, and I finally put in my 2 weeks’ notice after not being able to figure it out. My father had told me, “Come and work with me for a bit until you get your health under control.” At this point, I had already been very excited about the new green business he was working on, and knew this is what I wanted to do. The day I left was the last day I ever experienced a migraine. It was environmental and potentially black mold in the building still. I let a couple of my co-workers know and I know they were working on the issue and that was the end of my analyst journey and on to the best journey of my life. It was a blessing in disguise.

I have been working with my father for 6+ years now full time and I won’t ever stop. I have gained so much knowledge from his 40+ years of experience and will continue to grow. On this blog, I will show you how I went from $60K to millionaire status and all the knowledge I have gained from all the residential investments, commercial real estate investments, business investments, stock investments, etc. I am combining my blog and business passion and I am thrilled to be here. My first step into me becoming a millionaire was this…

I became my dad’s partner. He added me to his business within a few months of working with him (I will explain details later as it is complicated). I instantly took the huge responsibility and commitment to dedicate my entire self to his business, and soon-to-be our business. You see, it is easy to make a million dollars. The most difficult part is maintaining the millionaire status, and I was determined to figure it out. And I did. With his expertise, and my drive to grow and learn as quickly as possible, I have become a very confident investor. And you can too. Sure, many people may think “You’re lucky, everything was given to you.” or, “You didn’t make that money your dad did.” And yes, I am very lucky, but it wasn’t as easy as you may think.

I will give you an example. Imagine going to school to become a web developer (or any career for that matter) and right out of college you get offered to be the CEO at a mid-size firm. You know absolutely nothing about being a CEO, you are on a board with 50+ year old’s with zero experience in your 20s, and you are taking on the responsibility to hold that company up and not mess up. It is essentially skipping your way to the top instantly with a ton of responsibility. And at this point I had some knowledge growing up with him, but not much knowledge. So, in this scenario at least you had education in the field, I had not much knowledge.

I am not the typical “trust baby” where I collect money without working for it. I put my heart and soul into this business because of my drive and passion to learn more and more and make more and more. Financial freedom and passive income are very desiring to me and I am going to teach you what I have learned in my 6+ years of cramming all the information I possibly could from my experience. I learned every single part about my fathers beginning stages as an investor up until now. You are in for the ride of your life and it will all be worth it.

I am sharing this information because I find it very important knowledge to share. I had an amazing mentor who happens to be my father, but it changed my life. I want to change YOUR life with the knowledge I have gained from an actual mentor with a college teaching background. I fast tracked my knowledge and now I am a confident successful investor.

We have fix and flipped houses, built two apartments, bought partners out, refinanced loans, have hard money lending experience, built a network of relationships, built value in our office and retail center, increased our stock portfolios, built a $200M business with an amazing team, and so much more.

So the question is where do YOU start? First, in order to become a successful entrepreneur, you must develop an entrepreneur and business mind. Click here to learn how to develop an entrepreneur and business mind. The next part is to have the tools to analyze real estate properties successfully. You can find my investor tools here