Her Story
About Breonna
I started as a registered nurse at a very young age - I got my associates first, then my bachelor's degree. I worked in ICU for 3 years, and being in critical care was overwhelming. I barely knew how to take care of myself, let alone handle all the emotions and everything else going on. I felt like if I wanted to take a break and not work for a while, I wasn't able to do that. My family didn't talk about investing, or real estate, or stocks, so I became obsessed with retirement and figuring out how to retire. I learned through listening to podcasts about financial literacy, started investing, and six years later, I am financially independent and financially free. I work when I want to, and I work on my company when I want to. I've moved throughout the world how I want to, which is very foreign to some people. I started the podcast to teach other people how to do it, but also to learn how other people have done it. It's turned into something different than what I imagined - it's turned into the media company. I used to edit my podcast, shoot them, schedule everything, even janitor cleanup. Now I have people to help me with that. Because I knew how to do all of the things, when I started to learn how social media worked, I started to see how to creatively direct my social media posts so they could potentially go viral. I would get hundreds of thousands, or at least thousands of views on things. I started bringing other people on my podcast, and they started to get thousands of views on their content as well, so I was like, oh cool, I know how to amplify this. That's when we branched into brand amplification through social media. I didn't want to work anymore, and I figured out how to do it. Now I want to teach other people.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Breonna
01What do you attribute your success to?
Absolutely God, Jesus Christ - that's it. I mean, faith, and just knowing that I wanted more out of life. Understanding that God doesn't bless who you pretend to be. So leaning into my faith has helped me to lean into myself more, and I truly believe that money is a product of success. I'm not in it for the money - I'm in it to impact and change lives, and if money comes after that, then that's fine. But I'm here on a journey from God, which is a very soft life, because I don't even have to really think. He opens doors and he closes them. I don't have any fear of the unknown. I already know I'm taken care of. So, definitely my faith.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase - that's from Martin Luther King, Jr. I didn't grow up with a lot of mentors and leaders, so a lot of this stuff I had to learn myself. If you believe it in your heart, mind, body, and soul, no matter what anybody else has to say, I would go for it and do it. Make sure it's calculated as well. I've had to be confident and go against the grain. So I would say if you believe it in your heart, mind, body, and soul, take that first step without seeing the whole staircase.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I'd like to have more partnerships and connections with people who have a platform who may want to partner with my platform so that we can reach a larger audience. Definitely connections to people in the media industry, in the media field. And then partnerships - if people want to sponsor the show, affiliations with people who also need brand amplification and who want to come to me, who have shared values about spreading the good word of financial literacy, and if your company kind of aligns with that. We have a few different partnerships with credit unions, smaller credit unions, my personal bank, Primus Bank. I want more strategic and intentional partnerships like that, because I want to make sure anybody who I have a collaboration with, I've used them personally, so I just want to make sure to build my network up so the people who are coming to you through me have a good experience.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Definitely relationships. I truly believe that your network equals your net worth. I've gotten a lot of opportunities just because I'm likable, so relationships are important. Education, of course - I think that people can come and rob you and steal you of all of your things, but they can never take away your education and the tools that you've created for yourself. Philanthropy, giving back. I just want to make sure that people feel something when I'm talking to them. I don't just want to sit here in a monotone voice saying you should invest in the stock market. I want you to understand why, so that you can actually take this with you and give it to somebody else.
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