SMALL BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL STORY | CELEBRATING 2 YEARS ON YouTube (2021)
hello welcome to take a step to a better you i'm so excited today because today we celebrate two years of me being on this youtube channel and you with me so two years 265 videos including live streams uh 12 000 subscribers that just happened recently and youtube you know keeps playing around with those that number because some people subscribe without watching so it removes them put them by like the sound cam and remove them so i've been watching that number hopefully right now it's like 2000k but you know when you watch you go to a channel and you're so excited you just subscribe without watching after youtube removes you in about you sometimes it takes a few days so they've been doing that on my channel people come and just subscribe without watching so always when you want to support someone please watch before you subscribe all youtube remove people okay that wasn't intended now i'm so excited because it's also my birthday i'm 54 years today it's july 1st 2021. welcome welcome if you are new my name is Sherifa Nakalema i'm a business owner here in Virginia USA and on this channel i like to share i'm passionate actually about my messages what i know and what i continue to learn this time all these years i started i was very passionate about inviting people when the COVID gets started inviting people calm down this animal online i talk about business tips youtube tips personal development asking you to to to better your habits their habits being grateful writing i am statements SMART goals 80 20 rule that's what i've been doing here today and then recently i started the books i finished reach that what that i have 68 videos on that i'm reading cash flow quadrant that this is by robert kiyosaki i'm a video we just finished 37 so all this is intended to ask you to take a step to make your life better and in this you know think about what to do on this day and locally here in virginia there is a lady i've been watching but um uh she owns a Property Management Company her name is Michele Odems and i i'm actually a contractor in this business because i own a cleaning company locally so we clean their homes their homes when people are moving out like other renters are coming in or so we put on sale we clean with other cleaners i mean other companies that are one of my companies one of them so i said let me if i asked her to come and talk to us my viewers and she said yes i think she'll be the perfect guest because she is a true go-getter so for those of you who are interested in business kind of things i mean topics even in just like i have today i'm talking to miss michelle or them it's a conversation that's going to happen in the store and you have something i think you take out they call them nuggets they're nuggets there that's coming next but before i get to miss michelle i want to mention the stairs you know those stairs you see when my people are starting where with the message take a step to a better you those are old stairs and i'm wearing old shoes there's the message there i mentioned it one of my motivation videos oh i think one of the by the way if you want to know more about this channel i recorded the video when i said i got to 100 videos and another one when i got to 10 000 subscribers i'm going to read those because i don't want to go through oh when did you get to 10 to 1000 subscribers when you get monetized i tell all those stories so i'll link those two videos you can go here my story there but for now i want to still talk about those those steps we can move ourselves first of all how to take mistakes like how you see i'm taking a step that would mean in that image those are all steps you can move yourself from all the steps to better steps better steps would be a new house then shoes those are all shoes look like one of my girls uh talk about those shoes where does she yes there's a message in those shoes because those shoes are old we can work hard and get ourselves to better shoes so that's my message that's what i'm doing here mine is a certain word story uh if you if you can want to know my story i call i have it in a video called we need more money that's what what most people the first subscriber to this channel are saying we need more money it's still a message we need more money so in that one i told the reason why i'm starting over more and you can go watch that uh i don't think i'm reading that one if you go to search for we need more money or in the i think it's the affiliate marketing uh playlist you'll find it it has the most i think the second watched video on this channel that's where i tell my story so it's starting to go but we can make better and make it better and see these books that i read but written by Robert yourself they can change your life they are better than the business degree so i said i have six or eight videos i called lessons from robert kiyosaki i'm reading this one the cash flow quadrant uh this one's more for the talks about employees are self-employed and being a business owner investor and you breaking it down so keep keep it here my intention in the next phase as we start the third year is i want to make sure these books this message goes to more and more and more people let me first finish reading them and think this one then the next goal will be to make sure your son your daughter your mother your father anyone you know listen to this this message because it's really empowering you need to know what an asset is reliability is passive income all those topics and the other thing i'm going to do and i think i'll connect it to my live streams i want to go back to why most people came to this channel well the first subscriber came because i was talking about way more money and i was promoting affiliate marketing which is the promotion of uh the promotion of other companies products and services to any commission i'm coming back to that message in the third year i'm going to connect it with the live streams so that i can answer your questions i'm going to try and search for what people people without money can promote because you could promote this for someone to provide their email address and get paid so i'm going to focus on that more the third year but you hear me with business messages because i strongly feel that's why i'm interviewing with michelle is that business ownership is where we get liberated that's where we're going to get liberated because when you're an employee the more money you earn the more taxes you pay and all that stuff robert is breaking it down so please keep it here i want to thank all of you who watching every day especially those who come my opinion those who see a notification and click on it those are two by the way you see that i have live numbers but most people because i think i talk about so many things i also talk about youtube things i need to narrow it down maybe more that's why some people don't care about what i say because they came for different reasons uh that's why it might be when you see that the views are low some people but they also have a number of people who really love to watch but they don't they can't afford the data or especially in developing countries so it's a combination but where i'm going with this i want to emphasize owning something owning something i'm going to own something by fast making the money so i'm going to be coming live maybe more right now i'm coming on Friday live but maybe i'll add in another day and i'll be please when you see me show up in your feed make sure by the way that you're subscribed look at the button please subscribe to this channel and click on the notification the bell that comes up so that you get to know when i'm here when um something's coming up i'm always looking for things that can benefit my community and it's daily i'm here daily i want to just schedule today i'll just say i'm here daily watch some more videos and get to know more about what i do okay so right now again i thank you all for supporting this message this is this is a very important message but i'll invite you before i move you to the interview with miss michelle the conversation i want to invite you to come to my facebook group i'll put a link below i'm putting a link below for to take it one hour when i pinched 100 videos another when i got to 10 000 subscribers i'll also put a link to Ms Michele's website and also i think let me put a link to my facebook group please come over there i'm live every monday and i'm emphasizing having a smart goal i teach what is my school is and every member i want every member for if you're watching them you don't have a smart goal yet at my group you are behind we are setting up smart girls success habits being graceful every day writing i am sickness uh listening to our nightingale have an audio all that stuff when you're in my group and then of course when i start sharing the man online stuff if you applause then you know what i'm doing please i'll put a link 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to offering the time and sharing didn't he didn't leave anything out we just had a conversation he said no limits who god into private matters thank you so much and to my viewers please share this message keep coming again thank you thank you so much if i've impacted if what i do here has impacted you in any small way please this is the time to put in the comments post a comment and say since i watched you this is what has happened in my life please add that into uh in the comments below okay thank you so much now let's start uh let me take you over to the conversation i have with i'm having with miss uh michelle odin especially for business owners and also for those not business owners anyone who wants to make a better life actually although we are discussing business if you have a business i think you should be attentive in that conversation it's like personal but also we share things that are important because she's moving her company to another level so we are learning from her okay again don't forget to leave a comment for me thank you for watching this question now next to the conversation with Ms Michele thank you you know as we celebrated two years on this YouTube channel i thought about who to talk to who to have a conversation with that would benefit from and i'm honored today to introduce to you a special lady a true go-getter that have worked for eight years she is a small business owner growing getting to where Robert Kiyosaki always suggests that you move from from S to B i think she's go heading over there that's why i'm inspired by her story and when i asked her to to come to talk to us to share her story she said yes i'm so happy to introduce to you Miss Michele Odems she's the owner of RPM Direct which is a competitive Property Management Company here in Virginia and welcome Miss Michele thank you thank you for having me i don't think you even understand how much i admire your business so don't get into how i got to know you but first of all tell us something about yourself and help you i'm going to tell you something about myself that i can direct but first i want to say hi to your go-getters right there and i'm happy to be here with you today and also i want to make sure that you know Sherifa that i also admire you very much a very long-term relationship yes 8 years i checked my records yes and i know you often talk about how much you you admire me and how my company has grown but also i admire so much about you and what you do in your business and also what you do here online it's remarkable thank you so much so i wish i didn't have talk to talk to you through a mask but you know these times so tell us something about RPM and what you do so RPM Direct is a property management company located in Virginia we manage 400 properties so these are primarily for people who are in the military or the state department and they own rental properties they're leaving the area they're going around the country around the world different time zones and they can't manage their properties themselves so they entrust their properties to us and we manage it for them you know when i see what you do i see it's actually a very basic science it's very very important but how how did this start why profit management why do that i feel like it's a lot of work it is a lot of work we fortunately have a really good staff you know our staff so we have a great staff to help me implement it the company was actually started 12 years ago my husband was a real estate broker he had been a broker for probably 10 or 15 years at that time and he had a lot of clients who were in the military the stock mark the real estate market had just crashed and the values of homes were down significantly so a lot of the military clients that he had sold homes to were now getting stationed in other areas overseas helped to grow and they had to go and they could not sell their house because the values of the house were low some other people were letting their houses go to foreclosure or doing short sales but the military members could not do that because it would impact their security plans so they had to keep their homes but of course they couldn't manage it themselves from where they were going around the world so several of them had called my husband and asked for a recommendation from property manager yes after this happened several times he realized that this was a trend that was um so he and his friend actually started a property management company and uh so there were no property management companies at that time there were very few um there were very few companies that actually specialize just in fact there are several large real estate companies in this area that have a property management division but they were not really any companies that just focus on population might go to me to think of something i didn't even think about so how do you set up this whole system so how you know you know robert kiyosaki the one i admire a lot you read the book he said a business has to be assistive you don't have you set up things how they go and i watch how you go so how who set that up how do you know so what i first did was i contacted uh some other property managers that i actually knew and i asked them for like the most basic things that they use all the time like what forms do they need what software do they use what rules do they have well they want to say the regulations for the state and so i kind of started with that and then after that i just kind of learned as i left i learned something from every single client that i brought on as i brought them on whatever process we went through whatever unique situations caused us to expand so you learn as it goes forward like it trains and then you do better you learn and move on so i have to mention how i first met you the reason by the way why i decided to talk to Miss Michele is because from the time i watched her i've been learning and as you learn the lessons on this channel i said the things we are learning from the books i read she's actually doing so maybe if you bring her here she's gonna tell us like how she does things so maybe you can also learn and and use in our own lives this conversation is going to help those of you who are interested in business either think about starting a business already have a business but also small business right a yes but growing because our goal like robert is teaching us in the casual quadrant book is to move ourselves from small to grow it to be large where you in fact i'm going a little other people's time like you i saw you like how you travel and people can manage things when you're not there that means you're getting to that when you step out and people can do work when you're not there so the benefit of this conversation is for those people who want to learn how do you really move it from small to large stitches are you do you want to get it from life what's your intention i do want to continue going to companies okay we've always from the time we began we've really had this goal to add on a new employee every year and so we've been a business 12 years we have 10 employees and so we're kind of on track for that goal and i want to continue to do that in order to add on new employees we obviously need to add on your customers yes so i wanted to mention the story of how i got to that committee because on my channel i told that the cleaning story for me it just happened out of starting over i'll of desperation what can i do because of what happened in my heart my vaccine and everything so i said how do i get places to clean so i just sat down and wrote a letter and i wrote and i said i went in the yellow pages at that time to be okay right i i looked at companies property management i said who could i send these results to so i wrote i'll say i'm so and so i really i could do a good job with your property clean stuff like that i made them and then someone called not you though because that's something i learned too because at that time you had like one or two employees but you still didn't make the call yourself right that's something to learn because delegation right you sent someone else to call me and i remember when i walked in eight years ago i i came and she went and called you this this kind of was over there yes we just rearranged so you came out and said i wonder why she didn't call him herself so i was learning so we learn learn to delegate simple things like your time you know valuable come and meet me you don't have like she had to invite me in and i was ready and then when you're ready you can that means you're managing time there's some minor lessons right there right yes i mean that's when someone starts their own business initially they're doing everything right like usually when people start their own business up to doing everything and then they as they can afford to or as they can allocate funds to they usually bring on people to help with the tasks that take the most of their time and so that they can focus on another thing that bring more value to the company yes and the the reason i brought that up i thought that because you are not big yet but you still even know you do it you know when to do because for you you always respond like so fast so you solve the problem really fast you know when i talk about you know my mind the way it works it jumps around so i'm sorry for that but okay and now i'm thinking about time management because one of the tips i give about primarily something you can solve in five minutes don't say later do it you do that all the time like when i call you and i say okay this is something you're gonna handle look in a minute you already responded and already i mean how do you get to be like that i think for me sometimes i'm worried about if i don't do something right away then it'll fall off of my radar and i won't get to it so i'd like to get everything that's all that i need to do quickly but back to the point about delegation because i've been doing this business for 12 years i can do it quicker than anybody else right i have so many experiences in my mind that i can come up with a solution pretty quickly so that's why sometimes i direct you to say hey you know call my staff for that instead of me because how else can i respond right but how can they ever get to that level if they don't handle everything you know the problems that they want so i really tried to divert the the actual day-to-day work so that i can focus on the things to help the company grow the things to help the company improve but still it could also be a personality thing uh this point i wanted to mention your late husband because at some point we were talking about him what are the process and he made a statement he said he made me yes what does that really mean so the statement i said is i am the woman that lingam built right so my husband Lingam people called him Lee for business yeah um he passed away last year and we have been together for 36 years 36 years yes and so we met when i was 19 so literally my whole entire adult life was with him and he was such a go-getter yes such a goal and a goal setter yes and professional yeah and he really pushed people to be their best and so he pushed me and so think of for 36 years he literally like had he had his hand on my back pushing for 36 years he never took it off but when i first met you it wasn't so obvious it seemed like you're not at the same level the way you're doing things were you still learning for well the company was well you know newer yeah when we met but you seem like you know what you're doing were you still learning i learned every day just like you talked about reading i read every single day just like you do yeah we have that in common yes so i'm always learning one of the things that over the past couple of years i've learned is that i've developed skills to be an excellent property manager but i haven't yet just developed skills to be an excellent people manager is that sometimes if my employees need to have take corrective action i had always learned that you want to start on a positive statement talk about the corrective action and then come back to another positive statement so that they feel good about the process but i feel like for me i do too much positive on the top and the bottom and then i don't focus enough on what the actual corrective action is and so i mean i thought they didn't work yeah like if i have to show you know tell them they did something incorrectly and i need to talk to them about how to do it better in the future i for me that's one area i need to improve in and then i need to make sure i'm really focusing on how for them to change for the better and not so much on being positive at the beginning maybe you're just a good person yes but if my goal is to help that person improve on their job we can't be the best property management company around unless we have the best property managers and so a very important part of my job is to help them grow and learn and improve that that's true that's what i need to focus on so you have to grow in that but the real reason actually i wanted to talk to you was because i remember when i first met you said that you want to grow you have that you have like 100 properties maybe and you said by next year i want to grow it to 200. i remember the number that's double i remember thinking huh and when i was talking to you you said you didn't advertise tonight right we never advertised until this year actually see how do you do that so we were very fortunate that for the first you know eight plus years as we as we grew that almost all of our business came from google searches natural google searches no seo optimization or anything like that we were very very fortunate because as i mentioned earlier there weren't really any property management companies that would just focus on property management so some of the larger real estate companies their website might have ten pages and nine of them were about real estate and one was about property management i read books on google i did i did have a background in it also so yes i made sure that our website was following everything that google needed to yes i think that helped to you know advertising is always a big big part of like the expense of yes we actually did start advertising this year for two reasons one because of coded the military moves uh last year slowed down significantly they really stopped for a number of months and so that impacted our business and some of i'm going to call them my colleagues the my competing companies property management companies in other areas i do call them my colleagues because i'm friends with them they have started marketing in our house yes competing directly yeah so they're my friends i called them i asked them to stop marketing this area yes what it's a friendly innovative way in a friendly way but they all said no they're going to do that so well i tried and it didn't work so because they're marketing so heavily now i'm not so much at the top of google search because there's a lot of ads you know that are up top that my colleagues in other counties are putting out there so i've had to join them that's interesting they've got to talk to your competitors please management community we actually have a organization the national association of residential property managers to normal and we meet on a regular basis so we know each other we get together and we we share ideas and departments so how did we grow because by the end of that year i think the year when you wanted 200 you had like 400 i think probably close to the 300 at that time because i was asking you did you get to the 200 you say oh it's more and then i was watching it too like more people and everything will happen so how did you get it there fast how did you get there that fast i will say honestly that the most important thing was to respond immediately to the leads like if somebody called i called them back right then i took every single call if i missed a call i called right back like following up on these was the most important thing and no matter what i was doing if the lead came in that stopped everything and did that i remember one time in that time period where somebody called me i was in kohl's and i literally sat on the floor and talked to the person for like a half hour and got that as a person as a client and i mean literally i i took everything and i think from what's working with you right now i didn't mention that i actually worked for you i didn't mention it right no i mentioned that you called me another but i didn't tell where it ended you actually ended up hiring my company and gave me the biggest house all right first let me say i was really impressed by that letter and by your company's name on the other side but then you did a fantastic job i was like i'm still learning and uh i wanted to uh to mention because remember these are two but you know we didn't want to talk about me and then we left okay because we stopped okay so you also mentioned that he's my late husband is a word that doesn't feel good for me but um he's my husband who passed oh yeah it's not the same thing it is the same thing it's just a word that i don't like to say myself but so he's um he passed away last year he had a 10-month unwinnable battle of cancer oh they're about to ask you how long it took exactly so um it was ten months that he was fighting it he's fighting it very hard and we literally thought he was going to make it but just that's totally sort of unwinnable but also it kind of goes to a point where that you were talking about when you own a business what it allows you to do with your time so from the day that he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer i didn't come back to work and there's something if you don't mind i wanted to mention about that because i had it in my last year that i've never seen i think a person committed to treating someone or to loving someone to the end i i've never seen it because it will happen you know i didn't say they said no i can't take the call i mean the gospel because you can answer no i i i have never seen that you see i don't want to get too emotional though yeah no i'm i'm okay with it um it was the hardest year of my life obviously but yes i didn't come to work i took care of my husband for 10 months and you you kept saying this is the most important thing this is the most people that say what i thought maybe you could take a moment a little bit no no the only thing that i did is i had to sign checks so my staff would call me if there's checks that need to be signed and i would either come to the office at night to sign them or they would bring them to the hospital so i could sign them there that's commitment and i think he died the happy man is that a good segment to say i mean with you i will say it a different way in that 10 months we had the opportunity to say everything that we needed to say to each other there's no single word more that i needed to say to him or i'm sure yes um so uh he was a joker he jumped around a lot and he wanted to joke with everyone who came here yes yes yes yeah we miss him but he was very strong really you're a very strong person and i learned that from you very loving and something i need also to mention very humble do you know that do you know i try no let me tell you why i know you are humble i don't know if you want to mention this to the whole world because when i went for height remember you came to work before recovery you came and although i okay i'm a contractor for uh rpm i clean your properties and all that another person will see me as far down there because i clean you see what i mean well i see you as my equal yeah no no no that shocked me though yeah because other people don't see like that when they give you because i had worked for other companies before here they see cleaners as like even it doesn't matter no they don't see you as people at all well i see you as a small business owner yes yes but what's some of the humble that i'm talking about i didn't know how much money you heard or whatever i didn't know what your level of success at that time when you came until i came to your home and you never even mentioned about your home when i was recording and talking about apartments and i remember mentioning a million dollar home that i have entered a million dollar home that was her home because i've cleaned them we filled them the big ones but to enter it at the setup home it was your home and you came to my small home and you're so humble i know that i appreciate that very much and keep it up please because you set a very good example even with their employees the way people don't they don't play you it's like you're all almost equal the way you say although they still respect you right yeah i hope so no no they do all right you fire them you like i just said i literally didn't come to work for 10 months those employees they're they're like my family like they had my back yeah yeah because for those of you who are owners maybe there's something i'm sorry business owners or bosses whatever if you are maybe you can learn something from her how do you do that though how do you humble yourself i'm not sure i mean it's just it's not your thing or is the way you're raised or what because i mentioned the million dollar home when you came to my small home you didn't behave like oh this is small whatever i mean i didn't i couldn't imagine you're coming from that kind of home until i snapped it but still another person would see if you live in a gated community you could see yourself as high up there but someone dealing with you would never know that and i appreciate that about you so i mentioned already hard work i think you mentioned the hard work right very hard work professional dream kindness but strict there's something yes i wanted to mention when you say that why didn't you lose homes there's something else you do with your company that i get used to of someone moving out of a home at 5 pm and make sure it's ready for the next person by 12 noon the following day yes i think that's big so not a lot of property management companies do that yes it's a significant decision to do that yes but the reason we do it is because most people want to move in on the first of the month and if we don't have that house available in the first month and we took time to other than you know right now we're having people on standby to clean it on the night of the 30th or 31st or the morning of the first if we took extra days to do that then probably we wouldn't have a tenant move until the 15th of the month or later because people always want to move in on the first that's the natural grade to move in okay so if we didn't like if we said okay this house is available on the third people need a house on the fence so they wouldn't be able to move they would pick another house yeah and so then we would be getting people who were looking for the first of the next month but are willing to move in early so we didn't do this one day turnover our landlords would be having some vacancy some money we'll be losing some money so we specifically are looking out for our landlords and so we put a lot of work on our staff to do that we put a lot of work on our vendors to do that and we feel like it's really oh i'm one of them yes so you know i know where the house is i remember one time i had good stuff to we had a thing feeling home to clean so i had seen one i'm telling another and then i think i got a message to say this one should be first or could we finish but the stuff's already in another house but then it's 20 minutes away and then i think Victoria was saying we need this one guess what i have to go to Home Depot and buy a set of i mean i said how can i drive back over there everything set up clean the other house and now this one is needed i said then we could just buy some things i said what i will go with the flow we go with the flow because i know it must be done it has to be done i appreciate that i definitely appreciate that there's a lot of scrambling you know on that one day turnovers that we do especially at this time of year so this is our busiest time of year and um but i feel like it's enough our landlord's best interest and that's why our company is able to grow because we really focus on so i hope you are for those of you who are business owners you are learning something from this discussion for those of you who are regular viewers you may say i wonder what they're talking about actually what we're sharing here is really really important the other thing that's important and i first heard this from Oprah a long time ago i was watching Oprah she said i think some people stole her money so she said sign your checks sign your checks and through all that remember you said even when you're the hospital they'll call you to sign the check you'll sign the checks i do sign the checks it's very important for me um because some of the checks are our businesses money you know like when you pay our employees they um the utilities and everything associated with running a business of course that's our business is money but we also manage a lot of money um that are in our accounts that doesn't actually belong to us so we hold the security deposits follow our tenants we take rent in from our tenants it's going to ultimately go to our landlord so a lot of money passes through our accounts and we have to be very diligent yes imagine that not only do i sign all the checks but we also have three levels of audits so we have one of our one of our our bookkeeper she's not an employee but she's a contracted bookkeeper she audits um every month one of our employees audits every week and then we have a third audit done by an outside company that specifically obvious property management company so we have three audits how are their um we have to make sure that our bank accounts are reconciled to them that's that's that's great and so as a business owner what do you think is more important cash flow or pro pro stability um how so how we started um we started with just myself so there wasn't like it was myself and then the first client so there's like no cash right because the um cost the income from that one client isn't covering the likelihood you know so for us we it wasn't probably until three years in that we were truly profitable right so i did not take any pay to myself for the first several years um it was more important for me to keep the funds inside the business so that we could grow and get to work yeah so i feel like um cash flow is really important to manage because if you aren't managing your cash flow you could be you know come up with not being able to pay your employees yes and that's how businesses fail exactly so it's really really critical to keep your company organized yeah so what do you learn from that you know some people especially like you know this is the local business by the way we are discussing a local business a service business but for some people when they start a business they expect to make a profit immediately so it's you could go even three years without the profit but at least you have to be looking that you're improving oh yes absolutely yeah we literally from the time that we took on our first client all the way through 2020 we grew every single month yes we brought under classes how do we improve it otherwise you could borrow money you can't pay back yes that's also we never borrowed money that's what we have houses so hopefully there's something to learn from this now Miss uh Michele do you have anything you wanna close with to go get us anyone who is hesitating and maybe we should have mentioned the advantages of business ownership over being an employee okay we can talk about that first of all i love that you call your um subscribers go again i love that um my husband and i always talked about striving to be the top five percent and so forth from burn yeah four percent even yet so um but i love the term go get it so i love that we refer to them as that um because that's my message yeah so i think that um the most important thing in my mind is to always be learning so figure out what skills you need to improve on to just constantly learn sheriff and i both read yes yes things are changing so there's a couple of different levels of learning so in my property management business right now i have to be on top of all the new regulations that are going into place because of COVID because of national eviction moratoriums have to stay on top of their everything yep extended it so there's the type of learning to keep me up to date on my business the actual core of my business but there's also the type of learning to continue to improve myself personal development i talked about needing to be a better manager of my people my employees not just managing properties um i need to be a better speaker i need to be a better leader like those types of things just always as an individual have room for improvement and so to me i feel like no matter what industry you're in what no matter what business you're want to start a word and be involved with i feel like you have to just always keep learning to improve yourself as a person and i think that's fine that's the students we have here what do you think Lee would say right now how long has it been done um so that's in February so it's a little over a year now what do you think he would say because i see you are committed i see you're committed this i'm committed to this because i'm committed to following the path that he and i have been on for a very long time we had a lot of goals and dreams and he would want me to keep on um and he said he said everything so he wanted me to keep going with this what was his wish for this one yeah he really wanted to begin to grow the business um he believes that so like i mentioned in the first several years we didn't take any salaries at all and he believed that the company would get to a critical mass so that we would not have to work his home many years we worked 60 hours a week we worked nights weekends we put a lot into it and it was stressful and frustrating but he would always say there will be a time when all of this hard work will pay off yes and so unfortunately we are at that time i work much less now than i ever did even though our company is you know growing thriving it's easier for me because i have the business to be able to increase the staff and have less workload on myself so we are now at that point that he always wanted to be i'm really sad that he's not here with me to enjoy that part but this is where he was always striving to be he would never want me to give up you know at this point actually what business owners are looking for so Robert Kiyosaki in the book Cash Flow doesn't say that you always have to have a plan either you sell it you plan i think you said you said if you said you have an exit plan yes so what is it for you can i just say one thing before i talk about that because uh we also were readers of Robert we actually yeah have you uh are you familiar with the game yeah i played it she played me playing so and we had all of our kids played our friends played so that was a good part of our life for a long time no no no i mentioned this i played and i i've said at some point if i can show it in the video we'll see where it's going i could kind of bring it on the channel yes strategy was to retire because he was actually 11 years older than me and so we did want to be able to sell the business and retire so we could do other things that were important to us while he was still you know able to get around easily um and not before his body start getting you know losing interest in traveling where a lot of um charitable organizations and causes that he wanted to work with so we did have a strategy to retire at some point in their future but now that he's gone um have a lot longer or working years you know in me so i'm definitely going to continue oh i see it again i think we're really proud we don't know what uh where whether they see or we don't know where they are maybe we can see maybe he's here we don't know yes no he'll be very proud actually for us for watching you and those who watch it did i even mention that the kindness is uh i watched both of you the way you were you have the same spirit i remember the very first time when i met you when i came remember you first gave me homes before you gave me the office too yes yes yeah so one time you said why someone had been cleaning this but you're going to call it our office too so i came when i met you both of you after everyone is gone and then you was you promised that you gave me you said yes after i walked around and told you how much it cost he said yes and then you wanted to give me a key i didn't have an extra key so i remember him offering him his name his key yeah because he wanted to go make a copy for me he gave me this game you're talking about and i'm so honored that you uh you gave us this time you shared this time i know you're very busy thank you so much so you have anything for us i think just i love what you're doing i really do i know a lot of people who started youtube channels and the ones that i know haven't had the um the level of success succession and i think the difference is is that you are very committed with a time schedule i know that my people in my office are telling me oh Sherifa uh focusing right now she has a recording schedule you are very consistent and i think that i really think that's a big factor in people's success and so let's talk about always be learning but really that consistency where having a plan and wrapping it and sticking to it consistency is important and the habits that you when you have a routine you have all that so maybe we'll get you back here when you get to a hundred thousand subscribers yeah so we celebrated now we just completed two years you're starting out here congratulations yes yes yes and wishing you the very best too thank you i wish you the very best okay thank you okay thank you so much for watching please leave a comment what do you think what do you learn what did you learn from what was michelle shared actually that's a lot to learn from what she just shared hopefully it was clear hopefully you follow that because this was the big business and she is hopefully she got to move herself from the s to the b because that's why i wish for you so you can just go hang around somewhere be happy are they money flows in right so that they do a good job because then you have to have the right people by the way we didn't get into the right people topic but that matters a lot before you trust but now you have achieved trust we didn't even mention Johnny Johnny that one is the treasure yes yes yes yes so but i think those people are good because you are good too i think they're working for you you're a good person so they do a good job yeah so thank you for watching it please leave a comment especially about miss this year i don't know if you wanna link your website on my channel okay you can put this you got to go check it out and see for those of you interested in properties i know that if you're watching this maybe this could help you you could come and give their services thank you so much for watching like i always end them i say take very good care of yourself take very good of your family take very good care of your health take a step to a better you bye you
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