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How To Be Fearless and Build an Empire - Alycea Ohl
What if chronic illness became your secret superpower rather than your downfall? For Alycea Ohl, spending over $300,000 on medical treatments wasn't the end of her story—it was the catalyst that transformed her from corporate employee to globe-trotting entrepreneur.
From her early days as an All-American lacrosse player to becoming a government contractor selling aerospace and defense equipment, Alycea's path seemed traditional. But when health challenges struck, she faced a critical decision: continue the security of corporate America or build something that offered both financial freedom and location independence.
Whether you're struggling with health challenges, feeling trapped in your career, or simply seeking inspiration to take that next bold step, Alycea's story will remind you that your greatest obstacles often become your most powerful motivators.
I spent like over $300,000 on just my health.
Speaker 2:What made you transition from like your shoes? How'd you go from your shoes to like credit repair?
Speaker 1:I started getting really interested in it because it was super empowering to help people, Especially like people would just come out of nowhere and they would say I know you from Instagram from like five years ago, but we never met. But I have like a 500 credit score, I've got kids and I can't even qualify to get an apartment right now. And I was like, oh, I want to help these people, Because you know that's an even crazier calling when you're really like helping.
Speaker 2:Yeah, changing lives for real. Yeah, changing lives. So what would you tell? Like a young version of yourself or like a young female college student? What would you say?
Speaker 1:so you just have to one. Not of course you hear this all the time but don't be afraid to fail and just work hard. You know when you get. When you do fail and you take losses um, you know, scare money don't make no money, right. So take the losses and just like, not necessarily let go of them, but you got to learn from them and really just make sure it doesn't happen again listen y'all back on the podcast.
Speaker 2:we got another amazing episode, but on this one specifically, I got this guest who flew all the way from Houston and we've been wanting to get her on the podcast, I would say, for at least about a month or so, and her and I have been going back and forth on the DM, back and forth on the text. We actually have a mutual friend as well that has been trying to get us together, I would say, and we're finally here. But this is the thing. She has a lot of information to give you guys. Serial entrepreneur and someone that I feel like you guys can learn a lot from right. So on the Pursuit Podcast, we connect with six, seven, eight-figure entrepreneurs. I bring them to you so they can break down exactly what they do, so they can help you change your life a lot faster. So, with that said, on today's episode we got alicia, oh all right was that better?
Speaker 2:thank you, yes, that was better yep all right, cool, cool, cool, um. So first off, thanks for being here thank you for having me yeah, you look amazing, thank you, yeah, yeah, uh, how was the commute to uh florida? It was good yeah, quick flight, you fly delta american you fly to american, yes, okay, okay, how was that?
Speaker 1:it was good yeah well, it wasn't too bad yeah, yeah, I like american, it's a good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude okay, so you fly, so you fly a lot. You, you're always on and off a plane, um I'm always bored.
Speaker 1:How does that feel?
Speaker 2:because, because for me I'll give an example.
Speaker 1:You do too right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I feel like there got to be a faster way. It'd be too slow, you think.
Speaker 1:With the planes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, six hours, let's say you're going from here to LA.
Speaker 1:Six hours is like yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:I just see I've taken some flights. What's the longest flight you've ever been?
Speaker 2:on Thailand, 13 hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thailand, I think it was 13 hours. Bangkok.
Speaker 2:No, I went to Phuket.
Speaker 1:But you had a flight into Bangkok first, right, the big city. I don't think so.
Speaker 2:I think we flew into China and then from China to Phuket. I went for a wedding. It was all white. It was on a floating. It was like on this floating platform in the ocean. It was fire.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:I look good too.
Speaker 1:That's crazy. That's a long for a wedding. Who was it? Was it a friend?
Speaker 2:Yeah it was a friend of mine. We've been friends since we both had brands in fashion.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And we just he was like my best friend in fashion and I met, you know, obviously met his wife when they got married. And then he had his he's Vietnamese, so we had like his big wedding in the States and then he had like an intimate for people Nice. So we had like 80 people that went to the destination wedding Nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a long flight. My friend, she and I are going to go to Bali soon and I've been there, but if you know, you've been on that side of the world. It takes so long to get all the way over there, excuse me. So, um, she asked me like girls, how long is? Like 10, 15? And I'm like no, it's gonna, it's gonna be a while. We got to get to bangkok first and then from there go down to jakarta and bali and all that. But yeah, just getting to that side, to thailand, it takes forever so you're like, so you're like a world citizen for real, honestly.
Speaker 1:Honestly, this is something that was kind of new this year. So this year I went to 30 different countries and I went to a lot of them multiple times like different visits and stuff. I went to Dubai probably, I think, four times. I was in Spain. I like Spain a lot, so I'm kind of looking back on it like man. It was my first year as a full-on entrepreneur. I can do what I want. My businesses that I might've been running on the side before are just going smoothly. So it was addictive, honestly, traveling out there and then you get to Europe and there's just so much to see asia. I like asia even more so, so normally, no, that was.
Speaker 1:This was like a new alicia this year you know I got to see the world and it honestly it feels like this year was like four years long so do you feel like this is who you are, or was that just last year?
Speaker 2:like, are you?
Speaker 1:no, I think yeah, I don't think it's gonna go away now. You know, I got a whole another list of countries I need to hit this year and I don't know if I'll hit like another 30. But you know, once you start seeing all that stuff, it's like man, you have the freedom and you can work from you know your phone. My partner calls it Wi-Fi money. So you know, once you got that Wi-Fi money, you're on the flights and I get a ton of work done on flights and airports.
Speaker 2:So I don't want to glaze over that, because you said 30 countries in 12 months. Yeah, and in some of these countries you've been multiple times.
Speaker 1:Probably half of them.
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Speaker 2:But you've been to 40, 40, no 30 different countries. You've been to 30 different countries, so let's talk about that a little bit did. Did you ever feel like what was the first time you from New York originally? So what was the first time you like moving out of your city, living in a different place? And then, when you moved to a different place, like what did you feel being in a new environment?
Speaker 1:yeah, that's a good question. So, um, also with the states I've been to I think 40, 40 out of the 50 states, so yeah, you got 12.
Speaker 2:What 12 months ago, 10 months ago? You got 10 months ago on two territories yeah, 10 more.
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly, I've been in puerto rico and so, but, um, yeah, so first of all with the, what were we talking about before?
Speaker 2:when you, when you relocated to a new spot, lived in a new spot. What was that like?
Speaker 1:before, when you, when you relocated to a new spot, lived in a new spot. What was that like? So, yeah, so, first of all, with what you said, like, um, I went to, actually went to school in tennessee, um, so I was in new york pretty much my whole life. It's kind of crazy. I've been everywhere, but I've lived all over east coast, so, like pittsburgh, um, all my people are philly jersey, new york. You know charlotte I was in charlotte last seven, almost eight years, but I actually was born in Oklahoma and everyone's like what, I would have never guessed that right, my dad was in the army and so they had me on a military base.
Speaker 1:My dad is from Pittsburgh and, yeah, I mean, they just they had me. My parents had me down there, my mom's from Brooklyn, so she, you know, hated Oklahoma but they had me down there, and like's from Brooklyn, so she hated Oklahoma but they had me down there. I think two weeks later is when they moved me to New York. I never went back to Oklahoma until recently. So it's random, I was actually fun fact born in Oklahoma, but my whole life I lived in New York. I played lacrosse, I was All-American.
Speaker 2:I'm swinging.
Speaker 1:I was actually going to Fresno State and. I tore my ACL. Of course, at that time we're in high school, so something like that happens to you. You think the world's over, you're so upset. So I lost my scholarship to Fresno State, ended up going to Juco and up in New York and then finally made it out of the state, went down to Tennessee and then I just never went back. So it's been 10 years 11 years since I graduated in 2014. So yeah, 11 years since I left New York.
Speaker 2:Were you ever afraid to move around, or did it already feel comfortable?
Speaker 1:to you, Honestly no.
Speaker 2:Because it kind of cripples people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, honestly, from a young age I was just always independent. I was just always pretty fearless, which I've definitely had my times where I've learned from mistakes. You got to watch, you got to move certain ways. But, yeah, I moved down to Tennessee and, I'll be honest, at the time I had a long distance relationship. We were together Again, I was happy in love like five years long. Right, my Juco boyfriend at the time and I went to Tennessee. I was far from him, far from my family. Tennessee was. I was in the middle of nowhere in Tennessee. So it was very different really, night and day compared to where I'm from. And, yeah, at first I was actually like sick, like it actually made me feel I was like oh, but then you know, you get used to it. And then I started eating the Bojangles, the Bojangles yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, you know, moved to Charlotte and I just, I fell in love. I'll be honest, tennessee wasn't my favorite place, but you know, I graduated, got my degree and everything my favorite place. But I graduated, got my degree and everything. I worked for the government While that's where I traveled around the country. I was selling missiles and actually, if you've heard of an F-35 or F-16, I was selling government life sciences and aerospace and defense equipment directly to the government, so it was like a government contract.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it was basically a government contract. Yeah, so it was basically government sales um, and I sold very technical products like oscilloscopes, signal analyzers, who's buying that? Just like governments buying it yep so like united states government yeah, but I also worked with our allies, so I would sell stuff to japan, italy, um a lot of our allies as well. So if you've, if you've seen the movie War, Dogs you've seen that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's. Obviously this was legal and it was very different. But if you actually listen to what they say in the movie, if you get a chance to watch the movie, they're talking about small business and how the government has to do so much with small business. And so there's a lot of good facts in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say if y'all watching this right now, y'all should definitely look up SAMgov. You can get a government contract. We have my guy Government Cheese on here. Almost a year ago we did a part two as well, but that episode he breaks down exactly how you can get into government contracting and anyone can get a government contract. So y'all should definitely go to sandgov and just kind of poke around. Um, it can literally make you a five figure, six figure, seven figure, you know, entrepreneur potentially, depending on what realm of the government, if it's product services or if you're middleman in it or whatever it is.
Speaker 2:But I would check that out.
Speaker 1:So that's pretty dope yeah, yeah, I mean I was I. I had a very fast like career path. I was selling everything like solar panels, all these technical products. I ended up selling cars and I was only like 17. So I was in college, still selling cars, playing lacrosse, doing all that kind of stuff, and I was like a tutor. I was an RA but again, I had a long distance relationship. I never went out. I don't think I went out once in college.
Speaker 1:So now here I am traveling and, like you know, really living and a lot of people are like like people get that kind of out of their system in college. You know going and doing things. But I really was just like to myself, like about you know making money and stuff in college. So after the car sales it's kind of a funny story, long story short the um, my boss, the vp of sales at this company, with the government right, he had come to the car lot and recruited me. He was just like look, you don't want to be selling cars forever, do you? And I was like I mean, I actually really like it, like it was really fun. And he was like you know, you can come work for me, you can be making like like pretty much six figures. You know, 18 years old, I was still in college and I wasn't 18. I was probably 20. Yeah, because I graduated college when I was 20.
Speaker 1:I wasn't even 21 yet. So, yeah yeah, long story short, he came recruiting me, told me you're going to be flying everywhere and I said, well, I have a full ride for lacrosse. I mean, that's how I'm paying for school. And he was like you're not going to care about that, Don't even worry.
Speaker 2:He was prophesizing over you, yeah.
Speaker 1:And he gave me really great advice because, fast forward, I was unhappy. I felt like I was stuck in Tennessee. I signed a contract with them that they were going to move me to DC and you know I was going to be making great money, you know, moving up in this company. And he sat me down one day and was like we need you out here for another year. And it was like east tennessee, you know, we're not talking about nashville, I've never been to nashville way east tennessee. And um one day he said, uh, I don't know if I can say this on the podcast.
Speaker 1:So I don't know, this is like private information, but basically he he told me I should probably leave if, because I'm not happy. He said look, alicia, I know you want to thrive, you want to be. You know it's as I can't live in tennessee anymore. And he said look, alicia, I know you want to thrive, you want to be. You know I can't live in Tennessee anymore. And so he said I'll tell you what I'll give you. I'll say it was a very good severance package and it was very like, very nice of them. And so basically he just said I'll give you this money If you go to Charlotte. I'm telling you you're going to thrive. There's young entrepreneurs everywhere. He kept calling them like young, whatever it was. He was like there's young professionals in Charlotte. It's a booming city, and I went there and I was super happy with it. So I started working for a company that I always wanted to work at when I was young, and I was there for like eight years.
Speaker 1:It like flew by.
Speaker 2:So how did you end up transitioning to like doing your own thing? Because at this time you're like working for companies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a good question. Back to like the first question too. Yeah, Tennessee was scary for me.
Speaker 2:So I knew I wanted. I know I thrive in bigger cities full of people that are so it was scary because it was small and just out the way it was small.
Speaker 1:I felt so isolated. I was in the middle of nowhere. I felt very lonely. I actually prayed one night. I remember I was just praying like God, I don't know where it is or what's your path like, whatever your path for me is, but get me out of here, please, help me to. And of course, you got to make those moves on yourself too. So Rob my manager I guess VP of sales he sat me down the next day and when he said, look, I'll give you all this, I want what's best for you. I was like bet and I left. I'll give you all this, I want what's best for you. I was like bet and I left.
Speaker 1:So, but yeah, to transition out of it, I worked for a really, really great company, like I said, for eight years. I mean they were awesome. I was, I was doing sales, engineering, like lots of business development with them, and it's a very technical company. I was. I was really lucky to really get in there, because I actually don't have an engineering degree and they teach you, kind of, how to be an engineer. So you're learning about network engineering, it infrastructure, data centers, all the telecommunications that build up for Wi-Fi to be enabled.
Speaker 1:So I had a really cool job. I was going to like sports stadiums Denver Broncos stadium, the Atlanta Hawks, atlanta Falcons and I was actually working with the IT department to design the infrastructure so to allow for, like I said, good wifi. Basically to keep it simple. So hospitals, universities, stadiums, hotels I was going to all these like very cool places. I was in Vegas all the time and, yeah, just helping you know the hotels and all of them to basically like build out the infrastructure. So I mean it was a company that took care of me, great benefits. They had like private jets.
Speaker 1:So I used to be, you know, living my best life, flying on private jets and like, well, I'm super young and I'm able to to work for this company. And I actually got sick. I got really sick like four years ago in Charlotte. Basically, I had gotten this chronic illness and I a lot of people don't know this about me because you would never- like Come on, let's get it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to say Get on the podcast illness and I a lot of people don't know this about me because you, you would never like, come on, let's get it. Yeah, I was gonna say I probably normally I wouldn't be talking about this in public, but, um, yeah, you would never tell, like you could never tell from my instagram. But, um, I actually got, you know, really sick and I deal with this, um, chronic illness and I was spending. I spent like over $300,000 on just my health. Yeah, I mean I woke up in pain and I was in pain every day for I mean, still now I am. So it's like that's something I deal with. That, again, people don't really know.
Speaker 1:So you still deal with that. Yep, I've seen doctors. That's one reason why I travel the world. I've seen doctors all over. Reason why I travel the world. I've seen doctors all over.
Speaker 2:I have doctors in dubai, germany you want to share what it is or not um, it's, it's very um, it's like very rare, but it's similar to lupus how do you so lupus? How? What triggers it? Like, what, like when would you get like a?
Speaker 1:um alcohol I actually don't drink.
Speaker 2:I don't drink alcohol because yeah, but everyone's going crazy on a pot earlier, okay, um no I have a little sip every now and then.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he said it was natural so I'll try it.
Speaker 2:But um so alcohol, what else would trigger?
Speaker 1:um, like a lot of like sauce, like hot sauce, like spicy seasons and stuff, but um, but yeah, I just I have to be very careful and I spent so much money on that. But I was working this nine to five. I was making pretty good money, like I was making six figures. But um, I started buying houses and of course, now you got, I mean I pay like 10,000 a month in mortggages plus to maintain my houses and the bills, but anyway. So with this, basically I was like man, I'm having to throw $60,000, $70,000 into this. $10,000 into medicine was expensive, so I started my shoe company and that's when I started.
Speaker 2:So the shoe company was the first one.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm Yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And, with my sneaker company, shout out to anybody that's ever bought a shoe from me because I mean, y'all really mean a lot to me. Like I said, it's much deeper, it kind of gets into like my health and it's my shoe company. I'm very passionate about that because, again, that's really what I started selling shoes. I made crazy money like what I was making was way more than I ever dreamed in, like my engineering job so breakdown a shoe company.
Speaker 2:For those that may not be following you, but I mean, if you're on the instagram, you'll see that you'd be posting shoes pretty consistently in the story yeah, you're getting these drops, you get access to shoes like, so to let her know a little bit about that yeah.
Speaker 1:So I have factory connections. Um, we get, we get super great deals. You know, direct straight to the factory. I'm talking to them every day, all day. You know placing orders and, um, my, my thing is, if you're my customer, you know these shoes might be going for 1500 or you know two thousand dollars plus whatever it is. I always, always just sell everything for the low, so it's like I will always be anybody's deal. So any shoe store, stockx and Go, obviously, all the hype stuff. So Travis Scott's they're my favorite Off-White's Designers, stuff like that. So, yeah, I mean I was really blessed to be connected to a lot of um athletes and then they would spread the word to their teams and I mean some of them were in college. So after college, the whole football team, you know a lot of them go pro. Now they're spreading it to their um. You know the nfl teams now they're transferring, they're getting traded and stuff and then, before I knew it, I was selling to every NFL, nba, mlb team, college teams.
Speaker 2:So you're basically just sitting there like they're placing orders, but you see lots.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like a lot of them have like cousins and stuff, like some of my one of my favorite customers. He's got like he's at the Patriots and then his cousin played for the Steelers and they had another cousin of the Panthers and stuff, and so they a lot of people would jump around and then, like I said before I knew it, they were like, hey, you know she could do this and that. Well, now obviously I fixed credit credit repairs, my, my big thing, and business funding. So a lot of these guys I mean they've got, um, you know, obviously they've got, they want to invest and they want to do different things, but maybe there's something holding them back on their credit.
Speaker 1:We actually remove child support. That was one big thing. So someone might have 100K in child support or a repo or you know whatever had happened in the past. So we really get them right with the credit. And then next thing you know they're on a business funding. We're getting them like 200 plus K in business funding. So I've been very, very blessed because all of these connections really came from shoes.
Speaker 2:What made you transition from like the shoes? How'd you go from shoes to like credit repair?
Speaker 1:Great question. So, yeah, something about me. I I've always like, no matter what, I've always had multiple. I get bored really easily. But also, you know, it's for um, what? What did you call earlier a serial entrepreneur?
Speaker 1:I mean you, you gotta have your mind on different things. Um, you know, and different clients, clients will tap in with you on different businesses as long as you do good business right. So basically what happened was I was selling shoes. I made a ton of money and I was still. You know, I had a good job. Like I said, I was without job for a long time. I was selling solar panels on the side. My boss at my company was like I really missed door-to-door. I used to do door-to-door sales and I loved it. That was probably my favorite thing. I just love meeting strangers, talking to people and just selling them on the spot and it's challenging. So it was very fun. It was like a game for me. So, for fun, I would go and sell solar panels. So I was doing that. And then, yeah, like I said, eventually it was clear that selling shoes was profitable, so I started buying houses. Whenever I would buy a house, I would move into it and do the house hacking Y'all probably hear it all the time from real estate people.
Speaker 1:You move in friends, move in, cool. Then you move out. I was paying my tenants like $300 to $700 plus to go find another tenant right To have a roommate, which they loved it because they're going to be living with them anyway. So you buy a house right, move into it, get some people in Live there, go buy another house, house hack. And so I started doing that. But the thing is I was living, you know I was. I wanted to live in nice places. So I'm buying like five $600,000 houses and before I knew it, the houses when they would sit vacant. I've had houses sit for seven, eight months vacant. I mean that's no fun, right To be paying a mortgage again.
Speaker 2:God bless the shoes.
Speaker 1:And so basically, yeah, when I was filling in with tenants, I figured you know what I can make all this money on Airbnb and everybody wants to do Airbnb. Right, if you haven't done it and you're kind of like, oh, real estate, everybody's asking me every day.
Speaker 1:I swear I probably get like five DMs a day about you know, help me with my Airbnb and I mentor people and I am doing a course on that soon. So, yeah, with Airbnb, I started running those and I try to make them different. So I have like a Monopoly themed house because charlotte is actually the banking capital. So, like one of my houses, it's right by the panthers stadium, um, that's run as a monopoly themed airbnb, but a lot of them um, again, a lot of my tenants are actually pro athletes that you know play for, like the Panthers, the Hornets, and so I started again. Like, once you do good business and you network and people know you, I think that it definitely kind of like trickles.
Speaker 2:When did you realize that, like people, needed to help with the credit and then like what made?
Speaker 1:you. Oh yeah, I'm sorry With the credit. So so, long story short, I get a call again. My nine to five was always like my and like kind of like my platform that I felt protected with Right and it's it is hard from. I don't know if you've done that yet. Where you're in a nine to five and you, you take the risk, Right, you quit. Recruited by another company, it was a Swedish fiber optic manufacturer.
Speaker 1:They called me one day, headhunter called me and by that time I'm doing real estate, I'm doing all these things and I'm like I want to move to Texas. I'm bored of Charlotte. I've been in Charlotte like eight years and then before that I was just all over that area already. So Headhunter calls me. He's like look, I have a job for you. You're going to be making like double. You're going to be making like crazy good money. You're going to be moving up. And they promised all these things, right. And then he says and we can move you wherever. So Houston, dallas, phoenix, like you name it. You, you're good, we want you.
Speaker 1:And so I started talking to them, interviewed, it was a full remote position. So, long story short, I ended up moving to Houston with them. I get there and I'm like literally in trenches, like digging in these big like clay trenches. I got my Tims on and stuff and we're like I'm teaching them how to deploy the fiber underground. And basically that's what I did. I was deploying the AT&T fiber, like fiber to the home, to all these new neighborhoods across all of Texas. So I'm driving to, like you know, these areas in the middle of nowhere and you know the heat is bad in Texas. So it's like July you know in trenches, yeah, Teaching people.
Speaker 1:I know Spanish a little bit, but it was like sometimes we had to have like real translators, because it's like hot as hell and we're in these trenches and I'm like pass me this and do. That wasn't really for me. And I ended up meeting the CEO Academy guys, right, and one of the girls she's no longer there but she had hit me up and said, like look, you're a real entrepreneur. I see you do real estate, I see you sell shoes. It looks like or something. Why don't you come, Like I have an opportunity for you, I have an opportunity. And I was like I got all this going on with my I'm an engineer, I'm doing this job. That was literally crazy. I was not sleeping, I was working super late hours and I think I was kind of underpaid, for, even though you can make crazy money and still be like man, this is really taking up my life. I'm not even happy?
Speaker 2:No, it's facts.
Speaker 1:So she hit me up. I started calling in to Jarrell's calls and everyone and I'm listening and yeah, I mean, I don't know, I just quit. I left, took the leap of faith. I knew that I had money coming through with my Airbnb business. I was pretty confident that I would be all right. Shoes was very, very good and very lucrative for me.
Speaker 1:So that's when I started traveling and literally just I said I'm going to just take a break from like all this and, you know, leave the job.
Speaker 1:Maybe I might end up selling credit repair on the side, but I'm going to travel and I was working on getting my real estate license in Texas, so I started doing all the real estate, like the online training. And I lived in Hungary for a couple months Budapest so I was living over there, going to like Vienna and exploring Spain and Italy and France and all these places, and my credit repair just took off. Like I started getting really interested in it because it was super empowering to help people, especially like people would just come out of nowhere and they would say, hey, I know you from Instagram from like five years ago, but we never met. But I have like a 500 credit score, I've got kids and I can't even qualify to get an apartment right now. And I was like, oh, I want to help these people because you know that's an even crazier calling when you're really like helping Changing lives for real, yeah changing lives, calling when you're really like helping changing lives, yeah, changing lives.
Speaker 1:So so that, to answer your question, it was like I had a weird transition to where I was. I was leaving the nine to five world. I probably I was pretty sure I was gonna like probably go back and get an engineering job again, but I was like let me just relax and travel right now. And then the credit kind of I came across that I started meeting credit gurus in Houston and everywhere and you know, watching their reels and watching even them on podcasts and stuff to explain like the power and the loopholes of what we have. And I started thinking, man, like as an American, you can't. Credit is very interesting. You can't get what we have anywhere. Yeah, you go to Dubai if you want to rent an apartment, you have to pay them 12 months up straight. So if your rent's, you know, 2000 US, which is low, you're coming out like at least 24 bands plus deposits and stuff. So they really get their money. You might as well buy a house for that over there.
Speaker 1:It's cheap over there, it's like it's going to be about the same Over here. You can buy everything off credit and that's why you know, with our real estate Americans in real estate I mean, we can do business funding, we can flip, we can wholesale.
Speaker 2:We can do so many different things that are so hard in different areas of the world. So there's three things that that you mentioned I think really interesting. Um, and I so not even that you mentioned them, but you actually did them. So number one is like you move into multiple places, people are afraid of that. They're not, they're afraid of change. It takes people a lot to think about. Oh, I want to move to the city. I got to bring all my stuff, my friends, my family, I don't know nobody.
Speaker 2:But it sounds like you, you do that with ease, right? And then, secondly, like you, quit a corporate job. I literally just got a text from a friend today. He was like I could read the text right. He hit me with this text, right. He said, let me find it actually.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:He says wait, wait, wait. Is this it right here? Yeah, he's like yo. How do you? Is this it right here? Yeah, he's like yo. How do you approach making decisions career wise? I've been with my company for 16 years. I'm kind of run down. I've gotten everything I need, um that I think I can, from them, but I'm afraid to do my own thing.
Speaker 2:You know, what I'm saying. So like people are literally afraid. But then, like you quit a corporate job that sounded like it was making you some good money, you go off and do something else, right, and then sales. You know how many people are afraid of sales. They just have this whole preconceived notion like oh my God, sales. I want to start a company, but I don't want to sell my stuff because I'm afraid of sales.
Speaker 2:Sure you know what I'm saying? Sure, but those three, I'm going to call them skill sets. Like the moving, the moving around is a skill set, right, okay, door to doors is terrifying. Terrifying To you, it's fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like for me but, I also like I don't know so like, so, like the moving, uh, you know, not being afraid to quit or do something different. And then the selling, like did you learn these things? Or you feel like that's part of your personality, you're just not fearful, so you just kind of like, went with it I think, um, yeah, I'm pretty bold.
Speaker 1:I moved out of my parents house when I was like 16 and I just ever since then. Obviously, like I said, I've learned in so many occasions that you have to move very smart. So I, like, I know when there are risks. I know certain countries I don't want to you know personally, I know everybody loves Colombia.
Speaker 1:I personally I don't even really like to visit a lot of places with the cartel and stuff, because I've had some crazy experiences. I got robbed by the cartel, they took everything, yeah. So certain times where I've visited places, I'm not going to say everything went smoothly, but now it's like I mean I don't fear anywhere in the world really, because I've been everywhere. And it's kind of funny that you say that my. So, like I said, my dad is from Pittsburgh. Um, my grandpa, his father, was in the army so he went to Germany and stuff. But he's like you, you just be hanging out in the Middle East like you think like that's cool or something, and I'm like the Middle East is where it's at like.
Speaker 1:Qatar, like you know, Doha is really nice Dubai I go on and on about Dubai and they're like because they've been to Iraq and Afghanistan. My dad served and stuff, and so we. I think that in America we think of like the Middle East as we see like at least me, I mean. Growing up, I was like six, seven years old and my dad was over there. All we saw were, you know, bombs over baghdad and it's like um, the the middle east is actually very safe like there's.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of um places where I feel way more safe than houston and um yeah, america's kind of crazy yeah, america, america can be crazy.
Speaker 2:Issue is we're just numb to it because we live here yeah there's propaganda, but it's like think about this. So I thought about this the other day. New year's was like a high right, so the whole country excited new year's. You have fire, fireworks, no matter where you are in the country, you're excited. Literally the next day there's there's a bombing, like the tesla, the tesla car you know I'm saying in front of trump plaza kind of fire bomb yeah, and then in um. Where was it new orleans?
Speaker 2:you know, saying there was a shooting. It's like lit, like literally. You could be happy for 10 minutes, the whole country, and then you never know something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's in america, we're just so used to it yeah, I mean I've, and I so, as a as a investor, I buy in gentrified areas. Another thing my family is like wait, you said what you got shootings every day.
Speaker 1:And it's like to me that's nothing because I'm so used to, but that's crazy I will say I'm I don't want to say I'm fearless because you know, but yeah, I mean I'll take a risk, I'll move places because I trust that I can adjust. And, um, you know, I also I go to like a lot of my peers and like a lot, like a lot of the people we're connected with and stuff. Like you might see, I might hit you sometime. Hey, I know you're in miami. What do you think of this or something? So I mean, I definitely use my um my yeah as a resource.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean sales. I mean that never scared me. I always tried to be the best and do my best whenever I was selling a product. So, like I said, I used to do door-to-door. I was like the number one Verizon sales rep in the nation and that was like for every year that I was doing internships.
Speaker 1:And every year I would start selling again, and every year I was, I was starting something, and they're like oh, she back. And so so, yeah, like variety, like selling like phones and stuff, internet tv. I always try to be like at the top. You know how there's always rankings.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I used to uh work at sprint oh, did you wow?
Speaker 1:is sprint around still. No, no, no, I forgot about that, no, no sprint.
Speaker 2:So sprint by nextel and then, I think, 18t by sprint okay or or team over one of them.
Speaker 1:I used to like sprint. I always had sprint when I lived in tennessee yeah, sprint got the first.
Speaker 2:They got the first uh flip phone that I had a camera oh, okay, okay, yeah, it was like oh wow y'all, there's a camera in this joint technology is crazy as it's come.
Speaker 1:But so, to answer your question, I mean, yeah, sales has never scared me. Honestly, I've done door-to-door, where you walk up to the door and they got like a gun and it's like whoa, and so I've seen, like some, I've definitely been put in some crazy situations. I had a very, very aggressive tenant recently and I had to I sort of had to evict him. His lease was, his lease had ended, but he just wasn't leaving and so I had to fly over and and I'm not going to lie, I just went by myself, I don't, and that that wasn't smart.
Speaker 1:But, I mean, I had a friend that went with me. But I actually spoke to some of the people in CEO Academy. They're like are you crazy? Like he could have shot you, he could have done so many things, and it's like you know what I didn't even think about that.
Speaker 2:Do you believe in God? Yes, okay.
Speaker 1:So then even gone. Yes, okay, yeah, so like yeah, I got with you, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I I mean I guess like my faith is part of it. If I know I'm gonna, because I do, I plan to live in dubai maybe one day. Um, I definitely go out there and look at real estate a lot. Um, I believe that if I, you know, make it out there, if I don't like it, I'll just come back. Yeah, I mean, I will say, hou, houston's not my favorite place, and so I'm always like, all right, it's not the end of the world.
Speaker 1:I, luckily, I am very, really just blessed to have my customers and my business running and, like you said, God to help me to be financially free, because I think that's what it's all about. If you don't like your situation and you know, just change it.
Speaker 2:How do you look at business like your business? Because you have, you got your situation. Then you know, just change it. How do you look at business like your business Because you have the Airbnb right, you got credit, you got funding, you got your shoes, you know, and you got other things shaking and baking, and you traveling a lot. So how do you look at it? How do you approach the way you do business?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And how you do it all.
Speaker 1:I would say across the board, like I said earlier, um, good business is good business. So, um, I used to do like sports betting, like I would sell my picks and stuff. And it's funny because I have people that it's happening with credit now and they're like oh good, like I can trust her, I'm gonna get my credit fixed. And I'll ask him, like, have we ever met or did someone refer you? And they're like I know you don, you don't remember, but years ago we used to do the sports betting stuff and then I bought a bunch of shoes from you and then I saw you were doing this and that, and then here you are doing credit. So I think that those are the coolest customers when they've really like kind of done business with you throughout time. But, yeah, I would say managing it and like how do you kind of handle it? I literally just kind of take things as they come. Um, I prioritize, like obviously, like the credit is important it's you know people's lives and people's privacy and it's a very sensitive topic.
Speaker 1:So credit um is going to be very different than just selling a shoe. The shoe is like the sales over with and I tell my people I actually have affiliates that work under me and I I supply them yeah and I tell them all the time. I mean, if y'all want to be affiliates for credit, that's cool too. Just remember, it's a longer life cycle. So I mean you might have someone get some things removed and then they like you just don't know. With credit there's so many variables. A shoe is a shoe right.
Speaker 1:Airbnb once you really have it down. When someone comes in, throws a party, trashes the house, it's like you don't fear that because you know, you already know the process of how you're going gonna go through with the insurance that Airbnb provides. So it's like Airbnb, I guess I would say. A big portion of my operating costs for everything are, like I said, the rents every month, right, or the mortgages. So my tenants take precedent over, like my tenants, my credit repair clients and then my shoe clients, no matter what, to me, a client is a client and I gotta do good business because who knows they could like. Like I said, I have a cousin or someone that needs a spot to rent for a year and that's a really you know, it's a good quality tenant. In my opinion, the hardest part of real estate is getting good tenants yeah, no, I would say that that's something I fear yeah, getting a good tenant
Speaker 2:you know, yeah, getting a good tenant. I remember I had a bad one at a section 8 property really, so I was like three. I was like two for three. I had two good ones. That last one was crazy. It was a brand new spot. It's a brand new spot. It was a brand new spot. Brand new kitchen, brand new bathroom, immaculate clean. I had a victim, yo. The bathroom was a whole nother color. The kitchen was a whole nother color.
Speaker 1:They painted it. No like just how they maintained it.
Speaker 2:And then I had to go in there one time and the bathroom smelled crazy. I just didn't know what was going on there. But so I can understand bad tenants. Bad tenant yeah, yeah and I had an airbnb in boston, me and my boy. We had two airbnbs and, again, like it'd be a one-off, we had one, one visitor. They went crazy in there.
Speaker 1:I was like, I was like, I was like what I've had cleaners, tell me because you know, I don't live in Charlotte anymore and my poor cleaner. One time she texted me and she was like I can't even do this one, you're going to have to come out here for this, and I had to fly out there. It happens sometimes, but yeah, I've had some crazy Airbnb ones too.
Speaker 2:So what about your mindset? So what are some of the things that help you grow?
Speaker 1:Yeah, what do you?
Speaker 2:focus on Do you read?
Speaker 1:Do you have?
Speaker 2:affirmations. What do you do? Because very inspiring, for sure, you got a lot going on. You're someone that it seems like you want to continue to progress, sounds like you have really good core values. So, like, how do you get up for you? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:For sure that's a good question too. So first of all, I love music, so listen to music. I love like simple things, right, like cooking. I go to the gym. I used to be an athlete, so sometimes it's kind of funny. If people are in Houston at my gym they would laugh at me if they heard me say this. Everyone always sees me on the Stairmaster for like an hour or two. You know what it is. I'm going through all my with my phones and going through and just making sure all my clients are taken care of, because I had to get a whole separate phone because the other one was just. I mean, I might've had like at least 300 messages coming through daily and that's like maybe even on the low side, like people just kind of coming out of every direction.
Speaker 1:like you said, you got to manage and prioritize yeah and so I always tell people just call me if for some reason I didn't get to your message, and it's of course if it's immediate. But um, so I that's the first thing I usually do is to just make sure that my everything is running, to check in with the go through the all the credit repairs and stuff. Honestly, sometimes I'll go on the stairmaster for like an hour you just knock it up yeah, and it goes by so fast, like so I don't know about that.
Speaker 2:I've been on a stairmaster, that joint just now. I go by fast for me. I mean, I don't know, I'm cool with like 10 minutes on a stairmaster, I had enough yeah, yeah, but I like I go running this stuff like I like yeah I'll run every morning like I. Obviously I live in miami so there's like this bridge, so I run over the venetian bridge. I do like a mile and a half every day yes, like I'll do that.
Speaker 2:I can't be. My boy had me doing a standmaster um in the morning, so I used to do it. I don't do it anymore. Maybe I should get back to doing it like at least 10 minutes something. But 10 minutes is a lot for me, understand, master yeah, so an hour? I don't even know. I can't, I can't see it, I'd be bored.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's probably what it is, and I like to watch sports, like the last um, with all the football games on yeah.
Speaker 1:I know that, like, if I can't get it on one of my you know whatever apps on the tvs are at home, um, I'll just be like you know what I got to get some work done and I need to go through those texts. I need to do everything anyway at the gym, so I'll go like watch, so I'll be like watching football or whatever on my phone and then, you know, watching the news too on the other TV, seeing what's going on in the world, and then, yeah, just kind of getting through all the texts. But yeah, so things I like to do is, like, you know, cook, go to the gym and then, as far as like really getting my mind right, I do read a little bit.
Speaker 1:I've got a lot of like sales books and books from my mentor, my old manager at the first nine to five company that I was with, and so she was a very strong, like powerful saleswoman and, um, very assertive. And you know I've always um as a you know, young female, especially in like a lot of male dominated industries, um, being like assertive and really like just going through those books. That's kind of helped me. So every once in a while I'll be like you know what I'm going to go through that. So I read those. It's crazy. I've never gone on TikTok. I guess I have one, but I know a lot of people say that they learn from TikTok and it's like with me I really just learned from calling my mentors and stuff and people. And I've got a good mentor up in New York my real estate mentor, and so I hope to flip more houses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you believe in mentorship and coaching and stuff. Yeah, so like this year that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Yes, this year I really have a lot of more goals to get rid of the big, like I said, the high mortgages and stuff and start getting cheap stuff, flipping it, reselling or doing short-term, long-term rental.
Speaker 2:And so, yeah, I talked to my mentors and stuff quite a bit too so, with all the business you do and all the people you meet, uh, all the different situations you've been through and being like, you know, women in business, what, what, what's on the other side, like like are dudes approaching you kind of crazy. You know what I'm saying. Like, what's it like being like, what's it like being you. So I'm being you. Someone hit you up. You know I need some shoes, I need my car repaired, I need some funding. You know, and like, what are some of the situations you might run in as a woman in business?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Some of these crazy situations I think you shared one with me one time, yeah, yeah, so what? So what's like? What like you running?
Speaker 1:into crazy situations often yeah, what's it look like? Yeah, I'll be honest, even like my grandparents and stuff. Again, they'll be like we, we like we worry about you and I'm like, no, I'm good, like I got a gun, I got this and that. Like Like I'm good and they're like we, just no one ever knows where you are. And I'm like, yeah, and that's how it should be, you know. So like I don't like people knowing like where I am, I try not to, you know, be too out there. Because, yeah, I've definitely had a lot of situations of, I mean, I know a lot of people.
Speaker 1:I've lived a lot of places and now I do business with people and then they refer me and stuff and again like that's why it's so important to do good business, because I mean, again, credit you're, you're really dealing with people's lives right, like they're you're you're consulting with them and they really trust you and they're also paying you like my, my services aren't like super cheap, so I wouldn't say like I try to like crack people on the head, like I do what I can to pay my team and you know, but, um, but yeah, I mean people. This is like thousands of dollars and people's lives that you're you're dealing with. So, um, that's important. And as far as like the crazy people and just running into people on daily basis is, um, I mean, yeah, you just gotta, being a female, you gotta, like I said, just be smart, move smart. Um, and yeah, just make sure you're you're moving smart, you're you're protected.
Speaker 2:So what's like? Could you share? Like one crazy situation oh, with the people yeah, I'll tell you one.
Speaker 1:So, because I'm like man, there's so many, um, oh, I've had people because I run out my houses, sometimes too privately to people, I know, and like that. That's another thing. It's like you know, there is a line where you got you can't mix like business and then, like you know, friends and in relationships with that, but, um, all right. So one time this is how I bought, um, one of it's like my, my favorite house in charlotte um, I, this guy, he, oh, there's, there's like different, there's so many.
Speaker 1:Now I'm thinking of all these shoe customers, but shoes, it's like look, you get which. You know the way that I am. It's like you see what you like, you're getting what you see, you know, I'm very honest, very transparent and I actually send out like you know, I'm always sending out like contracts for the credit repair or for shoes. I send out a disclosure message that says you know, this is why the shoe is so cheap, this is exactly where it comes from and this is like what it is.
Speaker 1:And so, um, I had a guy, random, like they, they drove like a few hours to Charlotte because they really wanted these shoes and, um, I had, I had sold them some shoes. So they knew that I was real. They knew that the shoes, everything, the check, everything it was good and they wanted to order more and the shoes. I placed the order with the factory and then the shoes were shipping. I placed it with my people and everything and then the shoes were on the way but they just couldn't. Sometimes people can't just chill out. You deal with so many great clients that are super patient and like just like super thankful they want to wait for them.
Speaker 1:But well, they just didn't like understand that. That's how it is sometimes. I mean, you know, I'm not a Nike, I don't have like a factory in my kitchen, it's not the store. It's like you pay me and I like I pay like it's.
Speaker 1:I'm really hooking people up right and so, long story short, there was like that. And then I had a trainer. I had a gym trainer in Charlotte and he, um, same type of thing happened. He like, he like ruined his shoes and he tried to go resell them, like, so he was upset. And then these um, I'm thinking of two separate occasions, but again someone I came out to my car and I used to drive a Dodge Charger and everybody knew me, like everybody you know, charlotte Small said like I had bright purple headlights, that idea. So like I would be on the highway sometimes and people would say, oh, I just saw you on the highway, I'm like, oh, turn the headlights a different color or something. Oh, I just saw you on the highway. I'm like, oh, turn the headlights a different color or something. And so, anyway, yeah, I walked up to my car one day and it was just like they slashed all my tires smashed the windows Over some shoes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, over some People will do anything, they will probably kill someone over some shoes, I mean yeah, people are crazy, I mean yeah. People are crazy. And that day I went and I bought my Go ahead.
Speaker 1:I literally went to. I was driving and I was so upset and I'm like man, people just don't understand, they just can't be patient. But I felt like I was, that was like an attack. So I went and bought a new crib the next day I told my roommate hey, y'all like if I pay you each 700, if y'all could find a new tenant, 12 month lease, whatever.
Speaker 1:Boom they found her in like an hour and I was like, yep, and I paid them and I went and I bought the crib. It was a brand new build. It was the first time I bought like a brand new house and that was like my baby, no-transcript. And so I mean that was a situation where I felt like they robbed, like they took what they could, smashed the windows, what not, and I was like, yeah, I got to go buy a different house so what would you uh tell?
Speaker 2:like a young version of yourself, or like a, um, maybe like a young female college student that, um, they're thinking about what they want to do with their life? They don't even know that what you do exists, so they're thinking about maybe getting the best job that they can find you know I mean. So speaking of that, that that person, but then also keeping you in mind, because you were once that person, what would you, what would you say to to yourself?
Speaker 1:I would say that, like, first of all, um, you know you talked about skill sets, what you're good at and all your skill sets, they're gonna pay off. Like I used to deliver pizza, I worked in restaurants for years. I started working in restaurants when I was 14. I worked really, really hard. I always had the work ethic and the grind and the hustle, but I wasn't making that much, but still it was like the principle. It's more about the work that you're doing and learning sometimes than the actual money. So I would say, first of all, you know me at a young age or um, so my, my aunt, fosters children and the little, the young girls, they're like 13, 14. So they, you know, they kind of look up to me and she really hypes me up too. She's like Alicia over here, like she's doing this, and that you need to follow her, like you need to, you know, call her once in a while and talk to her. So for the girls that I talk to about this too, I'm always telling them like just one, like you know, just simply enjoy life, right. Like, whatever you're doing, if you're stressed about money, there's always time to change. And, like you said, you might not I had never checked my credit.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be honest, I was very blessed to have, like I always made my payments and stuff, so I never had checked my credit score or knew what I know now, um, up until like like a couple years ago when I started really getting credit cards and understanding like this stuff. So, um, I would say one, like, like you said, there's so many things out there, you might end up doing something you you haven't even heard of yet, right, so one. And then so one is just there's, like you said, there's so much out there. Um, if you're not happy, fix, fix it, right. Like the guy that was, like I just feel like I need something more. Like no one's saying he has to quit his job, but he could go do something on the side.
Speaker 2:No, for sure.
Speaker 1:And so that's what I would say. Like you know what are you interested in? Right, a lot of the the young athletes that I mentor. They, you know they're rookies, they got drafted and stuff and they're like alicia, I know you do airbnb. Um, can I do an airbnb? Should I do it? And I'm like, listen, this is what you already know, what it's gonna come with. I'm, you have a stressful job already, like you don't?
Speaker 2:even got time to worry about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah so if you are gonna do it, we gotta work something out where you find a manager and you're more hands off, and so a lot of these young people.
Speaker 1:They just don't know what they don't know. And I mean, that was me too. I've made so many mistakes and I look back at like actually even just like, the loans that I've. You know, when I buy a house, or bought a house, I would structure the loan a certain way and now, the more you buy, the more you you know you're behind the closing table like all right, and this is that, and my closing costs are here right, and so you can really like have more of a hold.
Speaker 1:You know, when you're that young 21 yearold girl I think I bought my first house at 21. I mean, maybe I was 22 at that time it was like I didn't know anything about the loans and what I could do, so you just have to one. Of course you hear this all the time, but don't be afraid to fail and just work hard. When you do fail and you take losses, you know, scare money, don't make no money, right. So take the losses and just like, not necessarily let go of them, but you got to learn from them and really just make sure it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2:No, I like that a lot. I think that's really good advice it take. It could take someone a little bit to get into that mindset because you know it, just, I guess depends on your surroundings. But no, that's that's, that's solid. So we're gonna hit you a couple of quick fire, rapid fire joints and then, um, give you an opportunity to share anything else that you want to share okay um, all right. So look, no shoes, no credit, no funding no. Airbnb can't travel. If you had to do something else, what would it be?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good question. I can't travel man. Well one. I've always wanted to serve in the military, the way that when I worked for that one company I always felt like that was kind of my way of helping support the war fighter. I would probably do something. I've always been interested in the military and all of that. But what would I do Like my dream job or something?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't do nothing. You're doing right now.
Speaker 1:I've never actually even thought about that man. There's so much I mean. Being a teacher would be cool. I love little kids. To be honest, in life, the only thing that I really care about doing is I want to be a mother, Like and I'm not yet right, obviously, but like I'm just these days too, I'm getting old and so I kind of joke around about it. But yeah, I mean it doesn't really matter, like what I do or how my business is run At the end of the day, like when I leave the earth, I want to be a mother, right and so, and I want a big family. So, um, being a teacher, like being, you know, able to, um kind of influence young children I really like that so.
Speaker 2:So that's cool, because teaching okay yeah because, you. I mean how it is now. You can teach online, you can teach. Teach your family, you can teach yeah so that teaching you make a lot of money even right now, teaching really, you know, yeah, for sure not not in the traditional sense, but utilizing, obviously, technology yes information right, so that's a good segue. So, uh, you're not married, right? Are you dating?
Speaker 1:no kind of not, I mean I will go on a date, but I don't have a man.
Speaker 2:All right, so so okay, cool, so you want to be, you want to be a mother, so you obviously want to have a family. So what are like three qualities uh a guy uh would need to have if he would be a good candidate for you.
Speaker 1:Three Okay, all right. So one is obviously just the work ethic. I've been with people before where we just didn't vibe on that, we didn't connect with that.
Speaker 2:I think that could be a challenge for you, possibly because you do so much, and a lot of people. I'm not saying that they got to compete with you, but you understand the capacity of what one can do if they put their mind to it, because you know you've done a lot.
Speaker 1:And I mean, even if you kind of take it as like they're passionate, I should say like being passionate about what they do and like doing it well, okay, passionate.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they could do like doing it.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, right, so yeah, they could do like one thing be a pharmacist and they are just like the way that they, um, the way like they wake up every morning and they're motivated by what they do. That's yeah. One thing would be like just being passionate and but hard working in general, too honest, like I just I'm honest, I'm an open book. I literally would just tell anybody anything. So if I'm with someone, I mean I'm going to give them my full, 100%. Honesty is super important to me. And then it kind of goes along with respect. Right, respect like. Yeah, like honesty and respect kind of go together. But those two are just like really important qualities for me because I'll be honest. The second, because I'm honest, um, the second, like someone just I've been like, oh no, that was disrespectful. I can't like look at them the same way and so yeah, so passionate honesty and respect yeah, those are good.
Speaker 1:Okay, you can't find that it's been hard I would say like you know, there's other things along the way, they got to be like funny and like down to earth and, like you know, genuine, just actually be like very like you know, just connect with me. But I think that's with everyone. We're all looking for someone that's like that.
Speaker 2:We just like enjoy our time with yeah, do you find it's hard to date or like find a connection or what?
Speaker 1:nowadays, you think, it's hard I know we all kind of say that too I feel like, I think it's hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah With the media. It's, it's a challenge.
Speaker 1:And then the other thing is like so, so I'm not like an Instagram girl, right, right, I remember years ago I did a guy and he was like I don't like Instagram, I don't really want you on Instagram. And I liked him and I mean I was young, this was like years, this is probably like six years ago. And I mean I was young, this was like years, this is probably like six years ago. And so I literally posted like one time that year, like I was never an Instagram, like an influencer or anything, but once I started selling shoes, it's like you can make a lot of money on Instagram.
Speaker 1:And again, it's like it comes from the heart, it's business Like. It's not like, oh, I want to be, you know, in the spotlight. It's just like look, I've networked, I've met so many like some of my like greatest, like some of my best friends bought shoes from me from the beginning, or something like that. And so I will say the media. It's so hard because I don't want to be posting every day, but I have to in order to keep generating like credit clients. So I think that that might be hard for um someone. If I meet a guy and they like me, they. Sometimes I'm feeling like lately it's almost like I connect well with people that have to like, that are posting and doing things like that as well, or just business owners in general because they get it. So but I mean, I've actually I've never dated like a business owner. I don't think, which I would love to because, like I, said yeah you kind of all my friends own businesses and stuff.
Speaker 1:Um, now we all do credit and the funding and all of that and so, um, but yeah, I mean I don't really have any like, I don't have a type. I'm kind of open to honesty, respect loyalty.
Speaker 2:Lead with the honesty. Respect, yeah, no, for real. All right, so all right. So my last question for you, if you so imagine, this individual doesn't have good credit, so you have the opportunity to work on this person's credit and you have the opportunity to get this person some funding. Anyone in the world that you have the opportunity to fix your credit and get their funding it could be anyone dead alive who would you want to, uh, help?
Speaker 2:out man and they need you, but it also gives you an opportunity to to meet them I don't know. I'm gonna say my future man, no, I kidding Yo come with some bad credit, bro, no, no.
Speaker 1:I shouldn't.
Speaker 2:No like.
Speaker 1:I feel like just someone that's like going to be super important to me down the road, so it doesn't have to be like a celebrity.
Speaker 2:So no celebrity, no athlete, no historian.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like I've seen it all, Like I've definitely helped rappers with their credit and funding and yeah, like in the beginning it was like wow, this is cool, Like I've definitely listened to you for years and stuff, and like so, rappers and athletes, like it's pretty cool to help them, because everybody needs help.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know us. You know people come to me all the time. They set up a credit console and they're like you don't even want to see mine. And I'm like, no, trust me, like we see.
Speaker 2:I've seen way worse than you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've had a 380 score before, like I've had a client with a 380 score, and so, anyway, the you know the celebrities and stuff, I feel like years ago I would come across him all the time and be like, wow, this is cool, this is really a nice opportunity to help him. But um, now I mean maybe like a like a king or something I don't know, like a saudi king? That's a good question. Someone in in america like I don't know, trump okay, trump trump has a lot of funding, though that's cool.
Speaker 2:He's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, trump got the funding, but someone that's very, you know someone that's just like a huge figure in the US.
Speaker 2:That makes sense.
Speaker 1:But athletes, I mean like someone like LeBron, that would be cool Help him out, but I don't know. That's a good question, he might need it.
Speaker 2:I don't know. That's a good question. He might need it. He might need it. Listen, this has been dope. I had a lot of fun with you on the pod. Is there anything else you want to share with listeners and the viewers? Maybe you didn't have an opportunity to share that, or maybe there's something that you definitely want them to know and you can look right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so no, I mean not really. I would just say if you ever need anything, you know I'm always here DMs always open and all of that. I work with people every day to even, you know, at the least just kind of help and guide them. So I'm here to be, you know, helpful, as if you need a real estate mentor, or even with Airbnb I'm going to be dropping some courses soon so credit, airbnb or just, you know, being like a young professional woman and kind of, you know, graduating and, like you said, at that early age, I have a soft spot in my heart for younger, you know, girls who are just trying to make it and they might be confused or lost. You know what they're doing, so you know what they're doing, so you know you're not alone. Obviously I'm lost all the time. I make a new ideas and moves every day, and so I would just say yeah, um, I'm always open to it if, if, anyone needs my help so let them know where they need to go um, so instagram is alicia sky a-l-y-c-E-A-S-K-Y-E.
Speaker 1:And yeah, I mean, there's a link in my bio, yeah we'll put it below too, so they can grab it. But yeah, other than that, I think just Instagram. If you've got my phone number, call text anytime. Like I said, call me if it's urgent. But yeah, I think that's about it.
Speaker 2:I really appreciate you, so before we get out of here, I'll give you one opportunity, just like new. You want an opportunity?
Speaker 1:ask me anything you want hmm, um, I mean, what's what? Are your give us, your top three biggest goals of 2025, and how are you going gonna accomplish them?
Speaker 2:uh, number one would be get this um. So I got an agency that hosts entrepreneurs getting on podcast. So listen, if you are entrepreneur with a proven offer and all you need to do is get in front of more people, then click the link below and apply to work with the pod agency. So one of the goals for pod agency is um, it's a it's a new gross million. So right now, based on all our numbers, it's 55 clients. So right as of today, we need 52 more, or no 51? Yeah, 51 more and it'd be a gross million in that agency. So one would be. The first goal is that you know um. So to help me do that, I need to hire more people. Um. The second thing is is I'm learning. This is like I'm doing it now, but I you know this is for the future.
Speaker 1:I'm learning trading you know so yeah, so I'm taking a trading conference the other day, yeah, so I'm taking some time to do that.
Speaker 2:And then the third thing is um, uh, my government contract business okay oh awesome, so you are gonna do it. Yeah, I mean I have everything, I just have to just you know, submit for contracts? Yep, yeah. So those things, I mean, those are all gonna be game changer and then um, how am I gonna make it happen with all of them?
Speaker 1:I think it's, you know, just more teamwork, um, leadership, delegation, um, and then, just you know, just being a better manager and a better leader sure, that's awesome, that's what I got yeah, we'll have to talk about the trading twos, yeah let's go crazy crypto trading all that is just yeah it's going crazy and it's like it makes you as a nine to five, you you know, like when you are working in a nine, to five, you're like man, these people are making this and like once you start seeing it, it's like that's some move now. I mean you don't have to go to college anymore.
Speaker 2:No, no. What y'all need to understand is like you got to figure out, you got to learn the language of money and you got to like, think bigger than you think, because, like there's, like money's literally unlimited you know it's like literally unlimited, so you can make as much as you want, but you need to learn the language and actually spend your time in areas where you can make money and like you can make money doing whatever but you can make a lot more being in areas where, like, the money's actually moving.
Speaker 2:So I like, if I had to speak to my younger self, that's what I would say like instead of me. Like running a basketball league and starting a clothing company even though the clothing company did hit seven figures.
Speaker 2:I would have spent more time in areas where the money's at, because people need more help with that. Sure, most people don't. Most people never learn how to trade. They don't know how to budget, they don't know how to save. They know how to invest. So if you learn that stuff, you can make a lot of money just helping people get the confidence to, because there's a lot of people Not everyone's broke. There's a lot of people that got money, even people that just got regular jobs. Yeah, so there's a lot of people with regular jobs that have money that don't know what to do with it and they're and they're afraid, and they're afraid to put it anywhere and they think the best place for it is in the savings account or they're holding on to their 401k and they're just waiting for some arbitrary date to use it, when they could actually put the money in motion, because money needs to move that's really the secret of money, like it's based on water loss, so money needs to be in motion.
Speaker 2:That's on another podcast, but that's what that's. That's you know yeah, that's probably what it is. For sure, yeah, no, for sure, yeah I think that's a big thing.
Speaker 1:Like you said, there's a lot of people that have money but for them to and they want to invest it. But also I mean maybe they might be working at nine to five and it's scary. My dad is like super smart, he's always investing, he's trading, he's doing crypto and all that, and I'm like he's buying gold like, yeah, he's, he's tough but he's worked, you know, nine to five jobs, since he's been at the same company since before I was born like what? 30 years, 29 years and um.
Speaker 1:He has an 850 credit score and I'm like dad, you're using it, not using it. That's what I'm saying, and so I sat him down for christmas. I'm like dad, you ain't using it Not using it.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying, and so I sat him down for Christmas.
Speaker 1:I'm like so, all right, so what can we do? Because you know, now I'm with this business funding and I'm like you are, you're like a perfect candidate. So I'm trying to get you some money, like what kind of? Because he has a business owner, but he's like I think I'd want a car, maybe like a car wash. I'm like, bet, I'm looking at car washes going right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, looking at car washes for sure so. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, overall that's good advice.
Speaker 2:Listen, y'all. It's been another amazing episode of the podcast. I had a lot of fun. I feel like we could just keep rolling, but I got to let her go. She'll probably come back, though. Maybe we'll get a pop in houston, or or you come back. Uh, let them know again. Uh, look at this camera. Let them know again where they need to go to tap in with you on instagram yep, alicia sky, a-l-y-c-e-a-s-k-y-e and um, yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 1:That's basically. I've got a facebook and stuff but yeah, instagram is really mostly what I use, so so if y'all need some shoes.
Speaker 2:You got to get your credit fixed. You want some funding or maybe you want to get that Airbnb coaching. Definitely hit her in the DM. It's going to be down below and it's been another episode of the On Pursuit Podcast, where we connect with amazing people that we bring in you so you can learn from them and then change your life, make it a little bit different. We'll see y'all in another episode together podcast school.
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