Nancy Alert

I attribute my success to taking action on the advice I'm given. One of my early mentors, Christina Bhari, said to me 'I don't mind giving you advice because you actually do something with it.' That's been key for me. I also learned an important lesson about only giving advice when I'm asked. I used to run around like Captain Save Everybody, trying to save people that didn't even ask to be saved. But I recently read The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, and it saved my life. It helped me release my stress. Now I only give advice when people ask me, because I've learned that not everybody wants it, they might just want to talk. But when I'm asked and people take the advice and use it, that's what makes me smile. The 2008 crash taught me that evaluated experience is the best teacher, not just experience. If you have the experience but you didn't know why you had that experience or how it happened, you're going to repeat it. But if you evaluate it, you can figure out what happened and learn from it. That's what I did when I lost $850,000. I evaluated it and realized that multifamily units were the answer, and that changed everything for me.

The best career advice I ever received came from Lola LaCroix, one of the women who mentored me when I first started. She said to me, 'You don't know it yet, but this is the industry for you. You're going to be amazing at it, and don't ever change. Don't let anybody tell you what you're doing is not what you should be doing. You be you, everybody else is taken.' When she said that to me, it really stuck with me. I've always said I'm being me because everybody else is taken, or I'm being me because there's only one Nancy Alert in this whole world. I Google myself all the time, there's not another Nancy Alert. There's only one of me, and nobody else can be me like me. She also told me 'you know what I realized about you? Most important, you action what you're given. I don't mind giving you advice because you actually do something with it.' That advice gave me the confidence to be myself and to take action on the opportunities in front of me.

My focus is to help single women, especially single parents, because you have it hard. I was raised by a single woman, and I'm single as well, I'm divorced. I tell people I'm a 'me and I,' and the 'me and I' have to be very careful about what we do, how we do it, where we do it, and how we spend our time. We don't have somebody else to fall back on. When I'm talking to groups of women, my focus is to show you how to create your own financial blueprint so that it doesn't matter if you became a 'we and us' or if you stay a 'me and I,' you will be good. You're creating your own financial blueprint. I even tell married people and people in relationships, you have to know where the money is. You cannot walk through life saying 'oh, my husband takes care of that' or 'oh, my wife takes care of that,' because life be lifing without your permission. If something happens to your spouse and you don't know where anything is, you don't know what you have, what kind of debts you're in, if you're in debt. When I'm teaching financial preparedness, we start from the mindset. You have to change your mindset about money and what the true meaning of money is. You can't be thinking how your parents thought about money because most of the time they came from a place of scarcity and lack and fear. They did the best they could to get you to this point, so now you can do better, so now do better. You need to change those financial ancestral curses. It's not a curse, I just think it's the education part and the mindset that you change. Money is not bad, being rich is not bad. Some rich people are bad, but it's not because they have money. They'd be bad with or without the money, it's just the money helps them to be worse. Money just amplifies who you are.

While women have made significant strides in real estate and financial services, I believe a key challenge remains in fully promoting financial empowerment and independent ownership. Having overcome my own early career self-doubt through the power of female mentorship, I now see a tremendous opportunity to guide women—particularly single women—in building long-term security and passive income streams through multifamily real estate investing, entrepreneurship, and financial education. Ultimately, I am passionate about using mentorship and strategic investing to help women confidently lead in business, build wealth, and create lasting generational impact.

For both work and personal, it's God first, family, friends, and home. Everything I have is because of Him. Every day I wake up, I am so grateful for what I have and what He will give me. He's paving that way. I just have to open my eyes and walk, and know that though I don't see the road in front of me, when I get to that point, there will be a road for me to walk on. He promised that I'm gonna live a life of abundance, and if I don't believe it and feel it in my core, then that won't happen, but I do believe it and feel it. Having God in my life is very essential. My family and friends are very important to me, especially my single friends. I check in with them every week because life is being so crazy right now. I want to make sure people are good and they're not suffering from any depression or they're afraid of anything. I am not a passerby friend or one that's standing on the sidelines. I am part of your life. I'm also not a yes friend. If you're messing up, I'm gonna let you know you messed up, because that's what I want from you. I believe in having a work ethic and being structured. I also believe in working hard, but at the same time, you have to do self-care, that me time. I travel to 5 or 6 different countries every year because I want to explore the world and make sure my mind doesn't burn out. You gotta turn it off sometimes. My me time is very important to me. I have to protect my body because this is the only vessel I have to use to move around, so I have to protect my mind and my mental health. I don't do negativity. If that's your life, I'm gonna have to love you from a distance. I don't do 24-hour news because that does something to your inside, that negative energy. I'm not a Pollyanna, but I'm about positive vibes, positive energy, because like attracts like. If you see your life and all you attract is miserable people, you might want to look at yourself for a second and see what energy you're emitting.