In this episode, Dr. Teresa Martin, ESQ, shares her journey from financial adversity to success, emphasizing the importance of taking the first step and collaborating with others. She offers guidance through her book, “Push Beyond Your Limits,” and her magazine, “Fiscally Fabulous,” and invites listeners to her upcoming 3-day event in November.
Guest bio:
Dr. Teresa Martin, ESQ is a financial empowerment expert, attorney, and author of “Push Beyond Your Limits.” She specializes in helping women entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and real estate investors achieve financial stability and success.
5 Key Points:
1. (09:45) Overcoming Financial Adversity: Dr. Martin shares her personal experience of overcoming a drastic credit score drop and financial struggle after 9/11.
2. (17:20) Importance of Collaboration: Emphasizing the need to focus on strengths and collaborate with others to fill in the gaps, especially in areas like marketing.
3. (25:00) Serving Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Dr. Martin discusses her focus on helping women entrepreneurs secure funding, navigate legal complexities, and achieve financial stability.
4. (33:10) Mentorship and Coaching: Stressing the value of mentorship, coaching programs, and collaboration for business success.
5. (40:15) Taking the First Step: Encouraging listeners to take the first step towards their financial goals, no matter how small it may seem.
Main Quote:
“The hardest step is the first one. Take it.”
Links:
Connect with Dr. Teresa Martin, ESQ: www.enjoyyourlegacy.com
Was this episode helpful?
Please leave us a review and subscribe to the show to be notified of future episodes.
Until next time, keep moving forward!
Chuck Anderson,
Affiliate Management Expert + Investor + Mentor
http://AffiliateManagementExpert.com/
Transcript
Hello, everybody, and, welcome back. This is the creative
Speaker:collaboration show with Chuck Anderson, and this is the show
Speaker:where we serve business owners, entrepreneurs,
Speaker:and, anyone on a journey to build
Speaker:wealth, in whatever way you're doing that. And part
Speaker:of the journey of building a business
Speaker:is obviously to earn money. One of the things
Speaker:we're gonna talk about today is how do you keep that money,
Speaker:and how do you get it to grow for you? And so it's all well
Speaker:and good to earn money through your business, but then what do you do with
Speaker:it afterwards? So today's guest is an
Speaker:expert at that and has some really awesome advice for
Speaker:you and some great strategies. Today, I am
Speaker:joined by doctor Teresa r Martin Esquire,
Speaker:otherwise known as doctor t, and, we're gonna have a lot of
Speaker:fun today. So, Teresa, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. So much.
Speaker:I'm so excited to be here. I love talking about this topic, so
Speaker:I'm excited. Yeah. So I think a great place
Speaker:to start is, let's let's tell your story.
Speaker:Let's let's go with, you know, tell everybody a little bit more
Speaker:about, you, what you do, and, and
Speaker:how how it came to be that you're doing this work. Well, thank
Speaker:you for asking. And, you know, for me, it was, you
Speaker:know, go to school, get a good job.
Speaker:Nobody told me that 911 was gonna happen, and someone was gonna
Speaker:run planes into buildings, and then everything just go complete.
Speaker:Right? So I saw I saw my credit go from a
Speaker:739 to a 437, Chuck. I
Speaker:couldn't go to the bank to get money without a mask and a gun. Okay?
Speaker:That's where the story started. Okay? So I started thinking, you
Speaker:know, about how do I, how do I get from here? I love real
Speaker:estate. I come from a family of real estate investors, but like I mentioned,
Speaker:my credit was just not what it needed to be. So I basically had
Speaker:to kind of figure out how was I going to stay in the game. I
Speaker:was an attorney, you know, I know how to do certain things, but that
Speaker:ESQ didn't matter. Right. And so that's how it really
Speaker:started for me. So through every single crisis, it seems
Speaker:like I had to do a pivot. So COVID wasn't anything new for me. So
Speaker:I, you know, took that and I figured out how to do creative
Speaker:financing. I figured out how to get my credit back where it needed to be,
Speaker:but I did it the long way. Right? And so now I'm on
Speaker:a mission, you know, to help people get from foreclosure to fiscally
Speaker:fabulous. Right? And so that's exactly what it is that I do, and
Speaker:I'm really excited about the work that I do and the people that I
Speaker:have come into contact that I'm able to serve. So that's the story in a
Speaker:nutshell. Wow. And I I bet that story
Speaker:is very relatable to a lot of people listening that to the show.
Speaker:I know that I have survived the 439
Speaker:credit score or something. It could have even been lower for all I
Speaker:know. And and so you
Speaker:just can't get anything from anybody when when when when
Speaker:your score is like that. And so, to be
Speaker:able to go from there, turn things around,
Speaker:and, like you said, you know, live that fiscally fabulous
Speaker:lifestyle. I love the I love the the the title of your book, which
Speaker:we're gonna definitely talk about, later. You
Speaker:know, that it's quite a journey. And, you
Speaker:know, getting there you know, getting to that point
Speaker:is one thing. What would you say was the
Speaker:turning point? What was the big turning point for you? It's like, hey. Things
Speaker:went in a certain direction, and you realize, okay. This
Speaker:is not working. I need to I need to do something different. You
Speaker:know? What what was the turning point that kinda either led you to discover what
Speaker:you're doing or learn or get a better result? Like, what
Speaker:what was that point? I think the I think what made me turn
Speaker:everything around is because I had just built my my home from ground
Speaker:up. Right? And so what a terrible time. And so when you now I got
Speaker:mortgage to pay, I got kids to feed, you know, I've got stuff to do.
Speaker:Right? And so there's no time to kinda wallow and things of that sort.
Speaker:But one of the things that I learned through this whole thing, Chuck, and
Speaker:I'll tell your audience out there, if you're really struggling and this first,
Speaker:you gotta get over the shame. We as women, we hold a lot of, you
Speaker:know, shame and stuff. Right? You know what? People to know, you know, your story,
Speaker:especially when you're coaches and trainers. Right? So you're help you're helping other
Speaker:people solve their problems, but yet back in the in the in the
Speaker:bush when nobody sees, you know, we have to deal with our own. And
Speaker:so one of the things that your credit I really realized
Speaker:that your credit tells that story. Right? And I always say
Speaker:it's, you know, your social security number is how they find you,
Speaker:but your credit score is how they define you. And I
Speaker:never ever wanted people to define me any which way because it wasn't
Speaker:my fault that the the, you know, the planes went to the thing and I
Speaker:lost everything and everything like that. Right? So I read everything that
Speaker:I needed to read, and the traditional stuff out there really just didn't
Speaker:work. Okay. Save. What if you don't have no money to save? I got no
Speaker:money to save. Okay. You know, go work harder. I'm working hard. I I you
Speaker:know, what what am I gonna do? Right? You know, invest in real estate. Okay.
Speaker:I I don't have any money to invest in real estate. Right? So everything people
Speaker:were telling me, I I couldn't really relate except for the fact
Speaker:that when I graduated high school, my parents gave me a house,
Speaker:for my graduation gift. And when I graduated when my kids graduated, I gave
Speaker:them 1. And so we kept that whole rich dad thing going on.
Speaker:And and and so for me, it was just a matter of
Speaker:really just trying to figure out, you know, who could help me. And I went
Speaker:to every seminar. I went to, you know, every
Speaker:bootcamp I could think about just to get the information. Because remember I
Speaker:still had, you know, law behind me. I still had some education. I still
Speaker:knew some stuff. Right? And then I really realized that,
Speaker:okay, I can sell my knowledge. I can sell my
Speaker:knowledge. I went to school. I, you know, I I know how to do this.
Speaker:And then I just started mapping out the SOP. I didn't know it was SOPs
Speaker:at that time. This started mapping out everything that I was doing and then
Speaker:everything that I did, I then created that now into a
Speaker:course and stuff like that. So it really was really just
Speaker:listening, you know, reading and really just taking in and
Speaker:being coachable. That's really, you know, what helped me. And when you
Speaker:have, when you go on from broke the joke, you know what I mean? It's
Speaker:it's kinda, you know, people give you all this nice wisdom. It sounds
Speaker:nice at parties, but that's not the real world. Right? And so I really
Speaker:was struggling, and I really had to figure out how to make ends
Speaker:meet. And I was one of the people who actually hired
Speaker:to do the death certificates for those people who perished in
Speaker:911. And and and so, you know, it it was
Speaker:really difficult for me seeing, you know, other people going
Speaker:through that because I survived and other people wasn't, you
Speaker:know, that lucky. And so when you put things in perspective, you
Speaker:realize that I'm here for a reason and this is what I'm gonna do.
Speaker:And I'm I'm never ever gonna look back and I'm gonna do everything in my
Speaker:power so people can follow my road map and they never have to worry
Speaker:about this again. And that's how I developed my programs where you can
Speaker:apply for a loan and you'll never be denied again if I if you follow
Speaker:the steps that I give you. So that's how I came about, Chuck. Amazing.
Speaker:And I love your energy around this. It's just it's just fantastic.
Speaker:And, so, you know, I love that
Speaker:story because, again, being someone who was in
Speaker:that 4 100 area, I'm also
Speaker:someone who turned it around. I get it because
Speaker:there's just so many, there's just no options. And then to to
Speaker:decide, okay. Yeah. It wasn't your fault that that happened, but you know
Speaker:what? You took responsibility, and you did something about it,
Speaker:and you created something amazing. So let's talk about
Speaker:that. So you you you created this work. Let's talk a little bit
Speaker:about who it's for. Like, who are you finding who who are
Speaker:coming to you for help? What are you hearing from them in terms
Speaker:of the struggle that they are experiencing
Speaker:that you're able to help with? Yeah. It's one
Speaker:one of the things I'm finding is that it's entrepreneurs. You know,
Speaker:my, my space is obviously serving, you know, aspiring
Speaker:women entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, real estate investors,
Speaker:And you know, that's who I'm usually, you know, in that
Speaker:space that that's who I work with. And the reason why is
Speaker:because as entrepreneurs, you know, we talk about, you know, we're, we're
Speaker:self funding, right? And you know, we're bootstrapping, right? We don't really, you
Speaker:know, we're trying to figure it out. You know, sometimes, you know, you're trying to
Speaker:get into a coaching program. You don't even have the money to get into a
Speaker:coaching program, hoping that they got a payment plan. You know, that, but
Speaker:you're you're trying to get in. Right? And so that's who I'm
Speaker:serving right now. So women who are looking to start
Speaker:their own businesses, who need guidance to secure funding or
Speaker:business credit or navigating, you know, the complexity of, you know,
Speaker:entrepreneurship, you know, legal entities and things of that sort. And then
Speaker:real estate investors who are looking for, you know, ways that they can actually get
Speaker:into real estate or save the home that they're actually currently working in. So
Speaker:I'm in the b two b space. Anyone who is really looking
Speaker:to, you know, try to separate their EIN from their social,
Speaker:you know, separate themselves and not have to self guarantee, you know,
Speaker:in order to get funds so that they can build, grow, and sustain their business.
Speaker:That's who I serve. Mhmm. So I bet that there's
Speaker:some of those people listening in right now because it's such a common,
Speaker:you know, such a common story. And, like you said, we we do
Speaker:fund ourselves. We are, in a sense, our own bank.
Speaker:And then, and and through the grind,
Speaker:we're out there selling our services, selling our
Speaker:courses, selling our programs, earning what we can.
Speaker:And and then, you know, obviously, keeping the cash flow going. But then,
Speaker:also, the bigger picture is, how do we keep it? How do we
Speaker:save? How do we build wealth,
Speaker:in all of that so that at the end of this, when we're done with
Speaker:our business, when we're done working, you know, there's something
Speaker:we can look back and go, yeah. I built that. And there's you know, you're
Speaker:not just starting from, you know, let's say, ground 0 again,
Speaker:which unfortunately does happen in entrepreneurship. So what is
Speaker:your advice to someone listening in right now who's
Speaker:at that stage, or whatever stage they're in? What what
Speaker:is your advice in terms of, you know, some of the things they need to
Speaker:start thinking about differently than perhaps they're doing right now?
Speaker:Well, first thing I would say, well, you know, get with Chuck. Right? Because, you
Speaker:know, you know and and and I say that and I and I say that,
Speaker:you know, in reality because, you know, some of the big big
Speaker:biggest expenses that we see as entrepreneurs and business owners is
Speaker:marketing. Right? It it's it's it's, like, huge. That's like a big
Speaker:thing. And so a lot of times, you know, people are out there, you know,
Speaker:before they're ready going out, you know, getting social media ads and, you
Speaker:know, they're doing things before they're actually ready, you know, to do these
Speaker:things. You don't really know who your real avatar is. You don't know who's
Speaker:listening. You don't really know what the metrics are saying. You're not really
Speaker:understanding how to read your numbers. You know, business,
Speaker:Like, behind everything that we're doing, it's just bare
Speaker:bone business practices. Right? So we think that
Speaker:we go out, you know, we wanna make a 100 k, so we know that
Speaker:we're gonna sell, you know, a $1,000 product to a 100 people. That's a 100
Speaker:k. But what about the profit margin? What about, you know, how much did it,
Speaker:you know, cost you, you know, in those expenses to actually get that? What
Speaker:is the real true value customer value that you're putting,
Speaker:you know, onto your clients and your customers? So I would say
Speaker:the advice that I really would have is if you're not in a good coaching
Speaker:program and you didn't go to school for business, you know, you really
Speaker:need to understand business and the foundations and fundamentals
Speaker:of business, you know, because sometimes 1 plus 1 is supposed
Speaker:to be 2, but sometimes it's minus because you haven't accounted
Speaker:for, you know, the payment or the bill that you haven't paid waiting for the
Speaker:client to pay you. Right? So now you're in a negative because you're still trying
Speaker:to, you know, figure it out. So it's a lot of things like that. So
Speaker:my advice is really to get into a good mentorship program, get into a
Speaker:good group coaching mastermind. You know, I can't tell
Speaker:you enough, but partnerships and affiliates,
Speaker:you know, is really, you know, the key. You know, that's why I came into
Speaker:your community, Chuck, is because, you know, for me, it's just like, I don't
Speaker:understand anything about the marketing because I know how to do, you know, the
Speaker:fulfillment. That's what I do. Right? I'm a fulfillment specialist. You tell me this is
Speaker:your problem. You need this money. You need this. You need that. I can get
Speaker:it done. The marketing, not so much, but I am smart
Speaker:enough to know who to go to when I need help. Right? And so
Speaker:that's the advice that I give everyone listening, that you
Speaker:really need to, you know, take the chip off your shoulder. Let's
Speaker:get rid of the ego. Okay. Because I always tell people,
Speaker:revenue feeds your ego, but profits feed
Speaker:your family. And we need to focus on profits.
Speaker:Okay. And so that's what we need to get, you know, through to
Speaker:everyone is that the revenue is the first step, but you also need to
Speaker:make sure that those profit margins are making sense. Because if it doesn't make
Speaker:sense, it absolutely can't make dollars. Yeah.
Speaker:If it can't make sense, then it absolutely can't make dollars.
Speaker:I I I love that. That's,
Speaker:I've never heard that one before. I really like that one. That one see, it
Speaker:stumped. It it it blew me away. So I love what you
Speaker:were just saying here about, you know, what the my takeaway from
Speaker:one of the things you just said was not doing things alone.
Speaker:Yes. And, you know, when I first started in business, I wish someone
Speaker:woulda just, you know, pulled me aside and slapped me around a little bit and
Speaker:said, hey. Stop doing everything
Speaker:yourself. And we hear it all the time. Like, I'm a solopreneur
Speaker:or I'm a self made millionaire or whatever. And I No such thing.
Speaker:No such thing. Exactly. You know? Like, nobody's really self made. Like, partners. It didn't
Speaker:involve employees. It didn't involve anyone. You're self made. Yeah.
Speaker:So, you know, it well, you know, one of the themes that we like to
Speaker:talk about is collaboration and and then,
Speaker:you know, working collaboratively with others.
Speaker:So, you know, what's your what's your philosophy on
Speaker:that? And and, in terms of when do you know when
Speaker:it's time to bring another piece in? Like, there's a stuff that you
Speaker:do, and then when when is it time to bring another piece in? And
Speaker:then what's your what's your go to place? Where do you start to go
Speaker:to look for what you need? Yeah. So
Speaker:so how do you know? I you always know
Speaker:because when you're coming outside of your zone of genius Mhmm. You always
Speaker:know that it's time to go and collaborate. Right? And so you
Speaker:because you can't be everything to everyone, I have my
Speaker:zone of genius. Even though you may do something similar,
Speaker:it's not the same. You add another oomph to it.
Speaker:Right? So I say I stay in my zone of genius. And,
Speaker:you know, for me, I think that you need to
Speaker:hire or collaborate your weakness. My weakness is
Speaker:marketing. I know that. Okay? I don't like marketing.
Speaker:You know, I like talking. I like speaking. I like engaging. Right?
Speaker:But I don't really like the task, the administrative task of
Speaker:marketing. Facebook ads and funnels. I don't even it's just too much. It's
Speaker:overwhelming, you know? And so I get away from my zone of genius
Speaker:when I'm focused on that. Right? I don't need to do that. There's someone I
Speaker:can collaborate with that that that is their zone of genius. So I
Speaker:need to collaborate with someone who loves marketing and who knows that funnel
Speaker:stuff inside and out. And then I can then bring my zone of genius, and
Speaker:now we are like a 1, 2 punch. Right? So
Speaker:that's, you know, what I would say about that, how, you know, you always
Speaker:know now whether or not you want to admit it and you want to be
Speaker:this one pony show or whatever the case may be, you know, but I say
Speaker:you serve your customer. You do, you do your customers or
Speaker:potential customers a disservice when you're trying to be everything,
Speaker:because you're gonna miss something and you need to be their difference.
Speaker:You know? It's a but they may be coming to you with their
Speaker:last. And how dare you, you know,
Speaker:really jeopardize their last because you're trying to do things that you really don't
Speaker:have the skill set to do. Because you don't want to collaborate or you don't
Speaker:want to, you know, partner with someone or you don't, it's not enough money on
Speaker:the table, you know, how dare you, you know? And so that's what
Speaker:I would say, to that. And then when do you go? You go to
Speaker:communities. You know? You go to, you know, the community you have a community, you
Speaker:know, there's commute, joint venture communities, affiliate, you know, communities,
Speaker:partnership communities. And then just really just going
Speaker:in and identifying, you know, with that
Speaker:vibe, everybody's not going to mesh. Everyone's not for
Speaker:you. Just like every client is not my client and I'm not their
Speaker:sheep. I tell people if you don't like what I say, because I'm New York.
Speaker:Yeah. I'm straight no chaser. Right? It's just kinda hard. You know, you love me,
Speaker:don't love me. You know, it it is what it is. But if what I
Speaker:say, you know, offends you, I'm offended that you're offended. That's
Speaker:what I tell my guys. Right? And so all I'm doing is trying to share
Speaker:my wisdom, my knowledge, and, you know, I'm like the, you know, personal
Speaker:trainer. You may not wanna do the extra push up. You might not wanna hear
Speaker:that you need to do more, but I'm here to let you know that you
Speaker:do need to do more. And so for me, I think that you need
Speaker:to engage with people who are not your yes people and who will give you
Speaker:something straight no chase. So that's a real accountability group.
Speaker:Okay? If your offer suck, if your talk
Speaker:tracks suck, you need to have a real accountability partner to
Speaker:say, you know, okay. Maybe, you know, say suck. But maybe you say it needs
Speaker:a little work. Maybe you say whatever. But if you're not that person who
Speaker:can, like, take criticism, then that's not someone who will be
Speaker:a great accountability partner for someone else. Because if you can't
Speaker:take critiques, then you can't really give them. Right? And so
Speaker:I say that when you're looking for communities, it has to be a
Speaker:community that you know, like, and trust, that you trust with your,
Speaker:you know, inner inhibitions. Right? You need to be able to
Speaker:be transparent because that's the group that you are now growing
Speaker:with so that when you go out into the marketplace, you know, your
Speaker:stuff is shining. Right? I tell my ladies, you know, you want somebody to tell
Speaker:you your slip is hanging or you got a little tissue on your shoe. Right?
Speaker:You know, you need somebody to be able to tell you that. Right? And so
Speaker:that's how I know about, you know, when it's time to collaborate and when do
Speaker:I go to find collaboration partners or potential collaboration
Speaker:partnership. So now let's take this a step further.
Speaker:For the people who you work with, what is
Speaker:the point where they should not be trying to do this on
Speaker:their own, but they should be reaching out to you for help because you're
Speaker:the right person to collaborate with. What what is that for them? I
Speaker:I think it I think that looks like, you know, if you're in a
Speaker:space where, you know, you have limited access to
Speaker:funding and, you know, you know that you have been
Speaker:using your own funds, your savings, or what have you, you know,
Speaker:to fund your dreams, fund fund your deals. You may
Speaker:not know that your entity is a funding ready
Speaker:LLC, you know, that you can actually get funding
Speaker:straight from your, you know, LLC or your c corp or s corp,
Speaker:not partnerships. Right? So, you know, you wanna make sure that if
Speaker:that's something where you are, that's when we should have a conversation
Speaker:so that I can do an assessment because everything is like an assessment. I always
Speaker:tell people when you start taking money from people without giving a full assessment,
Speaker:it's like a doctor, you know, going into operation without doing the
Speaker:x-ray. I don't know what's wrong with you yet. Right? So we kind of need
Speaker:to know where you are, you know, so that you may not need my services,
Speaker:but you may need the services of 1 of my collaboration partners.
Speaker:Right? And you might need, you know, some, some, some help from one of my
Speaker:affiliate partners or something like that. I may not be your girl yet.
Speaker:You know, I might be your girl soon, but maybe not right now. So
Speaker:if you know that you're confused and overwhelmed about starting your business as
Speaker:far as the formation and entity is concerned, you're limited in your
Speaker:funding, you lack the financial education in the real estate
Speaker:space or the business space, and you lack support and guidance in that
Speaker:arena, I'm your girl. I love
Speaker:that. So what is the first step
Speaker:into into connecting with you? I know you have events, you have
Speaker:webinars, you have your book. What is the best first step
Speaker:for someone who's meeting you for the first time and they wanna make
Speaker:take the next step to learn more with you? I think the first
Speaker:step is to either, you know, jump on my calendar, you know, on
Speaker:my website, enjoy your legacy.com, you know, and let's just have a
Speaker:little conversation, no holds bar, you know, it truly is a
Speaker:conversation, right? Because you know, it's just like the first date. Right? And
Speaker:I always tell people, you know, you gotta have the 1st date before you have
Speaker:the second. Right? You never, you know, ladies, you know, you never want them to,
Speaker:you know, kind of try to take you home on the 1st date. So, you
Speaker:know, why are you trying to make that sale on the first date? Right? So,
Speaker:you know, it's really I call it the first date. And I think that's the
Speaker:first, step into, you know, coming into
Speaker:the space because you may have something that I need. I may
Speaker:have something that you need. Let's have that first conversation. Let's have that
Speaker:first date, you know, and see if the and see if we're a fit. So,
Speaker:you know, go to my my website, enjoy your legacy.com, and you can just
Speaker:schedule an appointment right there. You also get to see all the fine goodies and
Speaker:freebies that I have on the site. You get to know me a little bit
Speaker:better. I have a little video there so you can hear my story, you know,
Speaker:just to see if this is something for you, you know, cause I'm not easy.
Speaker:I'm not easy to take sometimes. And you gotta, you gotta make sure, you know,
Speaker:that it's, it's a good fit, but you know, I love on people. I love
Speaker:helping. I love serving. I am a servant leader, you know? And so, you
Speaker:know, this is what I do. So that's the first step, Chuck. Just come on
Speaker:to my website, you know, see if I'm a fit for you, and let's have
Speaker:that first conversation, that first date. Yeah. You know what, Teresa?
Speaker:I've I've had the privilege of spending some time with you multiple
Speaker:times over the last month or so. And, look,
Speaker:nobody wants a coach who has low energy. Like, you know, so, you know,
Speaker:you gotta bring some energy and bring some fun to it. You and I have
Speaker:fun, in a in our in our conversations.
Speaker:And, you know, so I think, you know well, that's what's really wonderful about,
Speaker:that. By by the way, Teresa did mention
Speaker:her website address. If you're watching
Speaker:this on video, look beneath the video. There's a link
Speaker:there, so that's really convenient for you to go ahead and click
Speaker:that and and visit our website. And if you're listening to this on
Speaker:a podcast, just click into that player, whether it be Apple
Speaker:or Spotify or whatever it is. And in the notes is the link
Speaker:to her website there as well. We're gonna have some other links
Speaker:there, of some of her other things. I know you've got the book. You've
Speaker:got an event. You've got a webinar. Let's talk a little bit
Speaker:about your book. I mean, because you've got that. You know, tell everybody about that
Speaker:and and, yeah,
Speaker:what's it called, and what's it about, and what what are they gonna learn?
Speaker:And so I have a book. I have many books, but the book that
Speaker:I'm most proud about is my anthology book, which is push beyond your limits,
Speaker:teaching people how to become physically fabulous. It's a
Speaker:nice anthology of some super fantastic, co
Speaker:authors inside that book, and it it definitely is like
Speaker:telling their story, Right. Because everybody started from somewhere. Some
Speaker:people have already achieved, you know, what they are set out to
Speaker:achieve. Because my goal is for everyone to hit that 6 figures and
Speaker:then go beyond. Right? So once you hit the 6 figures, that's enough to
Speaker:show you that you can do this, and you can pay expenses and things of
Speaker:that sort. And then you can now do, you know, the acceleration and going
Speaker:into that, you know, quarter million and then the half million and then that million.
Speaker:Right? And so that's the whole goal. Right? We gotta start from somewhere. So push
Speaker:beyond your limits is just that, push beyond your limits. You can find it on
Speaker:Amazon. You can find it on my website. It's a free chapter. If you go
Speaker:on my website, you'll get a free chapter of that. And then also
Speaker:I have, you know, my magazine, subscribe to that or
Speaker:fiscally fabulous magazine. And that's also, you know, helping you,
Speaker:you know, just learn how to be fiscal and fabulous at the
Speaker:same time. And, you know, and that that's pretty much, you know,
Speaker:what it is. And I have a super fantastic event. I'll be remissed if I
Speaker:don't tell people about, you know, my 3 day event that I have every November.
Speaker:It's in New York, and it's a 3 day 100%
Speaker:implementation event. You come, we're implementing. You're doing your
Speaker:social media. You're you're getting your entities form. You're you're getting your you
Speaker:know, you're getting funding. You're getting access to funding. All of that. We're doing
Speaker:all of that. When you walk out on the 3 days, you already are walking
Speaker:out with your game plan and things are already in motion for that and and
Speaker:on that Saturday we have a purple carpet because it has to be purple.
Speaker:It's a purple carpet affair and paparazzi style
Speaker:just like the Grammys. We're going to be doing it there, that's our awards dinner
Speaker:and it's just a fun time for everyone and everything that you
Speaker:invest into the conference is being reinvested back into your business. That's the whole
Speaker:goal. So there's no selling from the stage. There's none of that. It's all
Speaker:about you, your mission, your vision, and implementing in those
Speaker:3 days. Fantastic.
Speaker:And, do, again, check those notes
Speaker:beneath this video and in the podcast player because we have links not only
Speaker:to, the book, the magazine, the,
Speaker:the 3 day event that's coming up in November, and
Speaker:some regular preview webinars where you're gonna get a chance to
Speaker:learn more about that and meet Teresa as well. All
Speaker:those links are right here, beneath the video and in the
Speaker:podcast player, and I highly recommend that you go and, check that
Speaker:out And, go spend some time with Teresa. It's time well
Speaker:spent. Before I let you go, right, before I
Speaker:let you go, I wanted to ask you because, you know, we we we were
Speaker:talking about your book, but, you know, some some such a
Speaker:big part of my journey as an entrepreneur has been learning
Speaker:from other people's books. So
Speaker:and I started asking on the show a while back what
Speaker:people's favorite book was. And it's hard to pick just one
Speaker:favorite. I get that. But it's it's kind of turned
Speaker:into a bit of a social experiment now where everyone's got their
Speaker:own favorite. I thought I was gonna hear all the the same books over and
Speaker:over and over again, but I I didn't. It's just like
Speaker:everybody has their own favorites. So my question for you, Teresa, if you
Speaker:could recommend just one must read book
Speaker:that was, you know, life changing for you, made a big difference to you,
Speaker:that could potentially make a big difference in other people's lives as
Speaker:well. What book would you recommend? I would
Speaker:say, hands down, it would be Cashflow Quadrant by Robert
Speaker:Kiyosaki. So I I that
Speaker:that book really changed the
Speaker:trajectory of my mindset going from
Speaker:the employee to self employed to
Speaker:business owner to investor, you know, that left side of the quadrant
Speaker:where we have everybody stuck and then moving over to that right side of
Speaker:quadrant where we become business owners and running businesses and
Speaker:investing. Absolutely. No doubt. Cash Flow
Speaker:Quadrant. Everyone should read it. Wow.
Speaker:You know, I love so much that you have recommended Cash
Speaker:Flow Quadrant. I mean, I I read that book. It was probably the second
Speaker:book of Kiyosaki's that I read.
Speaker:A lot of people say Rich Dad Poor Dad, which was, you know, a great
Speaker:introduction, but it didn't have quite the depth.
Speaker:Cash flow quadrant goes into depth. Yeah. And, you
Speaker:know, I had the the privilege of touring with the the Rich Dad Poor Dad
Speaker:seminars for a while and got speak on stage and all of that. And,
Speaker:it it I saw when people really learn the
Speaker:quadrant, everything you're just talking about, it absolutely
Speaker:changes everything. It changes changed for me. I thought I was a business
Speaker:owner. I was really just a self employed person with, you
Speaker:know, you know, like and sometimes we quit our job and we start our own
Speaker:thing, but you have more bosses as a self employed person than you did
Speaker:when you when you had the job. And then being able to move into
Speaker:a real business owner, having the systems in you know, in place
Speaker:for your business to run without you and then having that
Speaker:money to invest, into,
Speaker:you know, places where your money will grow. It is
Speaker:it's so huge. I think when you get it,
Speaker:hindsight's 2020. It's like, yeah. Yeah. I should have always got that. But it, you
Speaker:know, it's not obvious to most people. Right? And so I love
Speaker:you start getting that mailbox check, Chuck. That
Speaker:mailbox check is real. When you when you can go away on vacation
Speaker:for 2 weeks and you come back and you got mailbox checks,
Speaker:it changes everything. So yes. Absolutely. It's
Speaker:phenomenal. Absolutely. And, and one thing I can say
Speaker:is I probably earn money in all 4 quadrants. And, I
Speaker:mean, there I definitely have my favorite. I mean, it's gotta be more, you know,
Speaker:from that right side and, less from the
Speaker:left side. And, you know, that's that's a great reminder, and
Speaker:thank you for recommending that book. Well, I have put a
Speaker:link beneath this video to cash flow quadrant and in the
Speaker:podcast show notes. So go check that out. It's, one of,
Speaker:Robert's better books, to be honest. You know, it
Speaker:was one that was probably the most impactful for me as
Speaker:well. Teresa, thank you. This has been amazing.
Speaker:I love the journey. I love the energy. I just I
Speaker:I think that we've, we've we've shared a lot of great stuff here
Speaker:today. And I just wanna also
Speaker:thank our audience and, you know, look. Hopefully, this has
Speaker:been time well spent for you. And if we've inspired you to take
Speaker:even just one action towards
Speaker:your goal, towards your financial future, towards that
Speaker:thing in your business or your investment or whatever it is, then go and
Speaker:do that thing today. And if you don't know what that thing is, then go
Speaker:to Teresa's website, book a time to talk to her. She'll
Speaker:help you figure it out, and, download the free chapter of her book and
Speaker:all the goodies that we talked about here today, because that was a great step
Speaker:if you don't already know what to do. And
Speaker:so, Teresa, if we were just gonna leave our audience here with just one
Speaker:final, piece of advice or words of wisdom, what would you leave them
Speaker:here with today? The hardest step is the first one.
Speaker:The hardest step is the first one. Yeah. Just take that first step,
Speaker:whatever that step is for you. You know? Just take it.
Speaker:Just take it and it gets easy. Yeah. And it gets easier from there, doesn't
Speaker:it? So Absolutely. Great words to end this
Speaker:episode by thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being such an
Speaker:amazing guest. And to our audience, thank you for tuning
Speaker:in. Hopefully, this has been a a great,
Speaker:time spent for you. This has been the Creative Collaboration
Speaker:Show. I am Chuck Anderson. Please join me for the next one, and go click
Speaker:on those links, everybody. And in the meantime, keep moving
Speaker:forward. Never ever give up on your big dream, your goal,
Speaker:your business. Whatever it is, there's a solution to every problem, and
Speaker:we're gonna bring you even more of these solutions.
Speaker:So go connect with us, connect with Teresa, and keep
Speaker:moving forward. We'll see you on the next one, everybody. Thank you.
