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