You Didn't Do Anything Wrong

like forty seven thousand copies sold. Beyonce sold four hundred seven thousand copies, of which it's in the era of streaming. I mean, you know what I mean, Like, it's incredible. It is incredible, so not just number one country but also number one album period.

But the school just texted me and sent a message and they're like, yeah, we're not h taking on the liability of your children's eyesight, so if you want them to see this eclip, you better come pick them up at two.

You got to like go to Buffalo. You gotta be in the zone of totality.

It makes it so much more difficult to have a business. At the same time, but instead of kind of resenting it, I'm sort of like, at least for today, because some days I'll be so annoyed, but today I'm just going to be like, look, you can stand to not do a little bit of work, Like for the next six months to a year. Only thing I got to do, really got to do is the podcast in my book. And if I just focus on those two things, then

I will stop. I think like resenting and pushing so much because the problem is that I really love it. It's I freaking love sitting down and doing a craft or a lego for like three hours. And I know that makes me I don't know what it makes me.

Donald Miller's house. He's got this fifteen acre estate in Nashville, Tennessee, really well appointed. He has three compounds on it his home kind of like this meeting space that looks like a home but it's really beautiful, and then also to a guest house. So it's just fancy. I fancy on fancy. So when I was at Author Authors, I won we played some raffle and I won a prize. And one of the prizes that I won was to go to

Donal Miller's house with my team for coaching session. Because he is also really well like world renowned, as like this like business coach like he's coached with some of the biggest names in business. And so my team and I prepared ahead of time to kind of share all things happening with budgeties the Liberatory Academy where we're kind

of having trouble. So I brought my finance person, I bought the manager of the academy, I brought my project manager, I brought my content person, and myself until we all created this presentation where we presented to him the good, the bad, the ugly of all things happening, and he

gave us just some really amazing feedback. I mean, you know, you know me, I've been talking a lot to all of my kind of like mentors and things because last year was such a hard year and it's clear that there's a shift happening in this space, and I wanted to get ahead of that shift. And he confirmed some of those shifts. So one the number one thing that well, what I really loved is that when we were done presenting, he said, first before I start, I want to commend

you for the amazing business that you've built. And I was like, what he said, I can tell by the way you guys are talking and sharing, you know, we did like forty five minutes of presentations that I don't think you fully understand what you've built here and how amazing it is that you've built something with integrity that helps people that down the market, that has made nearly fifty million dollars fifty and you've been in business for

fifteen years. Impossible on impossible, impossible, but you've done it. I just want you to like absorb that. So I was like, okay, because you know, you're like and then this is wrong and this is wrong. And he was like I could tell that you don't fully like, no, I just we gonna let that so good, you know, And so that was just amazing. And then he was like, and second, I want you to know there's a shift

happening in this industry. That what you're seeing is the shift, not because you've done anything wrong, you know what I mean. There is a shift away from I think people are maxed out on a lot of digital courses and things. If not done well, they're kind of maxed out. He's like, there's a shift. He's like, I've consulted with Masterclass. There's a shift. I've consulted with all these other big online kind of courses in schools, and he's like, there's just

a shift happening. And so he just gave us some suggestions about what we can do to circumvent the shift, which really to kind of build a whole different business model. And he gave me something this is really good for our business people listening. He gave me this really good piece of advice or kind of like insight. He said. Even as someone who's been as successful as him, he said, he felt overwhelmed, like every few years, he felt like he had to rebuild his business. And he said, what

am I doing wrong? And then he went to Disney World with his daughter. He took her for the first time, and he said that when he had been to Disney World as a kid and he noticed, he's like, oh my gosh, Gardens of the Galaxy, that wasn't there. Oh my gosh, Harry Potter, that wasn't there.

and such as such an important. It's just it reminds me of how I talk to people about their careers too, because like you can't like index funds are amazing, right, passive investment, you set it and forget it. But your career a business, kids, it's not like that. And I think when you expect the when you expect a little bit of that up and down, then it's people are so hard on themselves when like, oh, this job is like it was great for two years, but now it's

like not a good fit anymore. I got a new boss. I you know, I want to find I need to find a new job, but like, oh, what am I ever going to find the job? You know, like the thing? And I'm like, well, I mean instead of finding against the change and like the need to pivot, just expected and planned for it. And I think a lot of us in our careers are just even though we're I think a lot of us understand we're not like the thirty year you know, retirement plan with the pension employee anymore,

that doesn't exist. But at the same time we still crave that like stability that we're going to be here for it's going to be great forever to our own detriment. Like mentally, I love that. I love that mindset shift and approach, and I love that, yes, gave you the recognition that you damn well deserve at the jump, you know.

good ideas about that. Because the problem right now with Budgetista is I because I've been doing this for so long, I'm getting people that come to me and say, Tiffany, I used to be a dream catcher, thank you so much, and I'm like what, because what happens is is that we really cater to the like you come in, you're

really struggling, or maybe you're really young. Then you need like kind of like this handholding and then you're like, my budgets together, my dad is getting down, I'm good yet, and then you leave because we don't have anything else for you. And so like that was one of the things too, that was a grid aha moment. And he said, Tiffy,

you've done such a good job. Then you graduate people and then you have no calls for them to go to and I was just like okay, And so he really like that was one of that he helped us to kind of identify like some like next level because I always felt like adverse to having like higher ticket items. And he's like, yeah, you don't need to do a higher ticket item to the fresh out of college college student.

But the woman that you've helped get to a certain level is looking for more well, and she knows it.

some of that. Honestly, it was just it was amazing. I just had like a really good talk with the team today. I guess the hard part is is that as you shift business that everybody might not be able to go. And I think that's the part of the game.

of those people behind. But like, you know, you work with people for a long time and it's like, you know, like we have it's almost like having this like Mexican restaurant and the cook is amazing, everyone is amazing. And then you shift it to selling sushi and you're like, we need a sushi like chef and it's.

tell us what's going on. But at the end of it, she was like, I quit it's too hard, and people, of course thought she was like, oh, I'm quoting music, blah blah blah, And then she came back and said, actually, no,

I'm not quitting music. I'm just quitting like I'm quitting caring about what people think about me, essentially, and I am like, I'm worried about Lizo because then she posted like this old Tumblr not she posted on her old tumbler like this essay about her childhood and about like and it's written like in a third person, so she's speaking about herself and the third person like maybe Melissa was constantly had to force her feelings down and not feel anything and not admit how she felt and stay

strong for her family and all this, and she posted it and it was extremely vulnerable and like raw. But I just wanted to talk about her because I kind of feel like we're seeing a bit of like the Simone Biles moment for her. I mean, when Simone, like you know, walked away from the Olympics because her head wasn't right and she was endangering herself. And Lizo's doing it in a public way, but I have feelings about it. I just wanted to know, like, what are your what

are your thoughts on it? Do you even care? Hey, be a fan, We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back.

and give you joy, then do so. Yeah. I mean, Lizzo has been through a lot. I mean, I know, you know there's all the stuff about her or whatever, but you know, she's been through a lot, and I just hope that like she figures out away the center and to find peace. I mean, I think we're all trying to figure that, and lord knows, I am, you know, I just.

Because to me, it's like like you were saying, I mean, as you're growing as a business, or as you're growing as a celebrity and you're creating a business and you're becoming a CEO of your business and you're managing people for the first time, Lizo's so young. I hate that there's not a margin for error. And I think we all know, especially as a black woman, like there's so

little margin for error. And people like to make fun of Lizo for her body positive tivity kind of stands in the beginning, and now they're kind of holding her. They're like judging her against that, like, oh, but you said you were going to be perfect and you were going to be different and you were always going to be positive, but you failed, and so now like you don't get to do what you did anymore. It breaks

my heart. Like Beyonce took her out of her song when the Renaissance came out, I'm like, give her some freaking like some latitude, give her some like room to figure shit out. And I it just makes me sad, and I hope that she gets through this because I thought we were doing better, right, We're all supposed to be like, don't forget about how we did, Brittany, Like, we're supposed to be better.

joked about it. She said, they're ubsessed with me, right, like obsess So what she said it like you know, and she started laughing, not wrong, right, And then she said, honestly, my team hates that I do this, but I don't read the good or the bad, she said, because if I read all the good things about me and I believe them, then when I read the bad things about me, I believe that too. And that she just said, I just do my job and I love all my parents and my partner. That I don't read the good or

the bad. And I think there's something to be said about not giving too much energy to everybody blowing you up and gassing you up, because if you do that, then you're going to give them a lot of energy when they start to tear you down, which inevitably they will.

And I loved and they lost. I guess they got to the final four and they didn't they didn't win, But at the press conference, I just loved how her teammates went out of their way to like stand up for her, yeah, and just remind people that like she's a twenty twenty year old, like twenty one year old woman, Yeah, in a very like high pressure sport and where again not giving anyone a chance to just.

we're all, hey, girl, how you doing? Like all that exists that like that whole like because they're women playing and honestly, let's be real, because it's a black woman, because y'all didn't say that you didn't have that same energy for Kitlyn. Caitlyn talks shit too, that's okay. Like sports, it's about like you know, it's this aggressive energy that's

part of sports. And then afterwards, it's only if later I see you at the club and now I'm trying to run up in your face and that's not the case. And it's just like, no, they're on the court, emotions are high. We're not lady like on the court, like we're here, we're talking shit like this, it's happening, and so like, I just think that that is the you know, that's the part that's kind of disheartening is that, like, you know, she's not allowed to play sports the way

everybody else is allowed to play sports. It's like, as a black woman, I'm not gonna lie like what we

talked about last week. If I'm at a restaurant, I'm even more mindful if I'm being too loud, even though the drunk table next to me of white girls can can who holler as much as possible, you know, but I know the moment that I'm like, ah haha, it's like, oh, here comes black people being loud, and I'm just like ugh, it's really annoying and tiring, and so I understand, like it it's respectability politics that are only impressed upon black

and brown women in that way. And so in a shame on Emmanuel Ocho, who is this Nigerian American like commentator and like just dragging. I don't know the thing about manual, So I'm not gonna lie so one like you know one, you know, he has a series like conversations, uncomfortable conversations with a black man, which I want to be honest, I feel a little co opted. It was

little co opted someone who has Nigerian parents. I don't know that I'm going to do uncomfortable conversations with a black woman because there's a space where I'm like, hmm, my experience is different because of like both my parents being born and raised in Nigeria. Let me sit this one out and support a black woman who has this like African American black experience, because that's basically what he's kind of co opting. So there's already pushback on that.

Nigerian American Yes, which I'm just like, let's be real, it's not the same experience. It's okay to sit back and just say although I am black, there is levels and I can't speak for a community that I only have part of my foot in as it relates to like you know. So there was a little bit of push back there where Well, here's the thing. It doesn't mean that like because it's like, as I speak for black people, sir, I don't know if that's appropriate, you

know what I mean. So there's that. And then two the way he came down so hard on injuries, talking about she's the villain. Angelice does not identify herself as villain. If you go to her her or her insta, she's like girly, feminine. This is what the press has called her. And you just reiterating that as a black man, so you claim.

So I just want to say, shame on you, sir, as a fellow Nigerian American, you know, and so.

Maybe he listens, maybe he doesn't. But I'm like, like, you know what I mean that it was giving that that. It's like I hate when I see that. It's just like oh talk yoh shit, like I'm not trying. I'm

not here. Like I saw this really great clip of some of them interviewing in African when was he was a filmmaker, and like you know, they were speaking I don't know if he was Nigerian or Ghanan, but they were speaking Ghanan and the language and he had like produced it and with a can all these other things. And they were asking him, do you think that this is going to alienate like the fact that there's a language spoken here, that it's not angels, that it's going

to alienate viewers? He said, what viewers? White viewers? He said, I know this is going to sound crazy to you. I do not send to white people in my life. I don't like I created this this movie or this film for the audience that I belong to and that I don't have to like no one else centers. Did you ever think of yourself, Oh, how is that going to affect the black audience? You don't because you don't send to black people. It's okay for black people. Do

not have to center all things white. There's something why with white people. It is okay to create things specifically for your audience intended, and people can either get along or not. People can either figure it out or not. They could read the subtitles like everybody else is forced su when they don't understand English or whatever. And so I just think that like that is the thing that it's like people like him sometimes I feel like they

center that experience as the experience. It's a experience. Is it a valid experience? A white experience, absolutely, but not any more valuable than an African, an Asian, a Korean, uh, you know, a Mexican experience. Like all those experiences are are valid and it's not like that is the central experience. I think that is why we have the trouble we have now in this world, that there are some people who really believe that their experience is the experience, not just a experience.

and your own your own self just to survive. That's the that's the reality in corporate is like you can't be your full authentic self as much as they want you to be because at the end of the day, like the people who are in power don't look like you, and they'll only tolerate you and your realness for as long as it doesn't make them uncomfortable. And then when you start making people uncomfortable, which we so often do when we get comfortable ourselves, then you have the friction

and the issues. So it's like, damned if you do, damned if you don't. But I just want to acknowledge that because I do think now that you and I own our own businesses, we are just a lot more free, yes to you know, to say the things that we say.

they lost their five starters. Five starters, so starters are basically the best people on your team that start the game, and so five of them were gone because they went off to college or whatever it went off to wherever they went off to, graduated whatever, and so to have basically almost a new team starting it is a testament

to excellence in coaching. To take not even your best players to to you know, undefeated status, but to take players not to say all these players are obviously amazing, but you know, like to start from the from the beginning with the like you know, with this kind of fresh crop. You know how it is when you play

something with someone there's like this team paraderie. You know, you can do a no look past because you understand, like, oh, that shoulder shake means this whatever, to start from that and to get to this and then at the end he.

her in February and she agreed to coach me. And then she told me she was having something in April where she was like basically teaching the fundamentals of like investing in the market. And I said, oh great, you know what I got to do with me though, he was like, well, if you know, maybe some of your audience members might want to join this five day live masterclass, and I said sure, And so it is coming up

April fifteenth to the nineteenth. This is the last week to register because it's live, and it's live from the fifteen to the nineteen from eight to ten pm Eastern Standard time. Can you commit to five days for yourself? Terry is teaching every single day. Day one, she's teaching you all about the stock market. You might say, I know you don't. Day two all about indexes, which is one of the more more passive ways to invest, So we're not going to be trading, you know, in a

traditional sense. Day three she's teaching all about opening up the right brokerage account, like where should I actually do this investing? Where should what platform should I use? And not even like specific platforms for what to look for. Day four, we're gonna buy our first stock, right, I'm excited about that, and so she said the stock range costs will be between about three to five hundred dollars.

Even if you don't have the money to buy your first stock, that's okay because there'll be a simulator available where you could do paper money online, so you still get to the practice. And day five you get to sell your first stock. Same thing simulator. If you don't have the money which is fine. It's ninety seven dollars. So this live class five days. She has to have guest speakers. I'm one of the guest speakers. I'm the

guest speaker on Thursday. I'm going to talk about how to get your money ready to invest, but also the mindset shift necess to invest. I'm just excited, so so much so so Terry. There is a VIP upgraded option, which I think in total is like two ninety four. That means you get the replay of the lives for those people who want the replay. The replay will be available for six months. You also get a six day instead of five days, and I think, yeah, that's what

the VIP. So I am so passionate about having a group of people do this with me that I asked Terry, can I add some bonuses to this five day live

masterclass and she said, you sure can. So I created bonuses for people who are signing up, and the bonuses are one if you sign up for just like general admission the ninety seven dollars, I'm going to give you an ebook worth about fifty dollars about learning to earn because sometimes you need to make more money traditionally, so in order to like have money to invest in the market, if you sign up for the VIP admission, which is what I'm doing obviously, is that you get like obviously

you get all the live classes. You also get like I said, the you get a bonus session, all the replay. But for me, the component that I'm giving away is I'm going to give you a learn to Earn class. I'm going to give you a learn to Earn ebook. I'm going to give you this quick start guide that I created about investing in the stock market that Terry

helped me to create. I also am going to give you one month free to my Literature Academy, and I'm creating a pop up Facebook group for the six days for the VIP people where I'm going to be in there. I'm actually flying to South Carolina where Terry is taping since I have to do like my own interview with her, but I'm flying there and I plan to get us some behind the scenes video with Terry. That's my and so that's a total value. But about additionally one thousand

dollars because I learned to Earn classes three fifty. The e book is fifty. The other ebook is fifty, Literature Academy one month is fifty dollars, and the pop up Facebook group is five hundred. So it's about a thousand dollars.

So on thousand dollars worth of bonuses that I'm adding on to that you don't have to pay for because I'm just I'm wanting, like I said, for myself, I don't want to I know that I work best in community, and I don't want to navigate the fundamentals of investing and beyond because I plan to do whatever's next that Terry offers to me, like I don't want to do

it by myself. That I know that I need a group of people around me, and so I'm cultivating my group, and I gotta bribe y'all saying, do it with me. This is my do it with me. If you want the bonuses that I'm creating, if you go to Budget needs to stock bonuses, I'm going to have your money put it in them. It's a stock one yet I'm going to have her put it in the the what's the name the show notes? But budget needs to stock bonuses, and you'll see all the bonuses listed. And so if

you want those bonuses. You know, you sign up for Terry's class there, and when you do that, I'm going to ask for your name and your email and now I'll be able to see who signed up, and then on the day before class starts, the fourteenth of April, I will send you those bonuses digitally. And yeah, because honestly, like I said, I would love to have a group of like one hundred people because I know a bunch of people will sign up. Already a few hundred people

I have already signed up. But I know, when you really get down to the get down, if there could be like one hundred women that I could be like in community with, like all right, this is what we're doing this week. Because I just know that like investing is like a way to manage or grow wealth differently than I've been doing because I feel like it's a little heavier lift, like a less heavier lift than like business. So certainly I've grown wealth through business, but I'm like, well, what,

I don't want to do business anymore than what? And so for me, I really want to get down with the investment components. So I'm excited about that. So a bunch OFISA stock bonuses five day Masterclass VIP. If you want to upgrade, I'm going to give you additional bonuses because I'm trying to bribe you all to do it alongside me. I don't want to do it by myself. And it starts next week. This is the last week after this. This is what y'all always do. I was

too late. You should have told me. I've been told y'all, you know, like that's it. I don't know what Terry's gonna do after this, but I know it won't be this. So if you want to join, link us in the show notes, and we are back and even browner because we have ready in the house October a little bit of in our local today we can call Leche Little Due said today okay, and now it's time to booster. Break up, Booster, break up, Booster break Are you gonna boost?

Are you gonna break? What you're gonna do? What you're gonna take? La la da da? Are you gonna boost? You're gonna break?

advice they give me. We talk every first Thursday of the month and we kind of just like share, like what's been happening, and they give the most just well thought out, kind loving advice, and so it's just been so helpful. And I don't know if y'all not, like in community with other women, it's just really important. And so like I just yeah, I just cannot speak highly enough of like I have other groups of women. But just recently I had my talk with them, and Sondra

in particular from stage financial. She told me, she said, sweetheart, I want you to think of this. I want you to ask yourself, independent of family, friends, people, you're working with, money, anything, what actually brings you joy? And so I want you to you have made enough money to actually craft the other things around that joy, like what do you enjoy doing?

And so I've just been thinking about that a lot lately, and it's really going to shift the way I navigate business because it has to, you know, it has to. I watched. I was on Facebook the other day and Facebook had this remember this eight years ago and it was a video of me, and so I listened to it. In the video said, hey, this is me Ti. This is my first Facebook live. I guess Facebook life mucha just came out and I was talking, you know, I

was talking about over work, overwhelming burnout. Eight years ago. I said, geez, I'm like, oh, Pastiffany, trying to do better. And I thought to myself, like, if I don't shift something, if I don't center something else, eight years from now, I'm still going to be talking about the same thing. And I thought that making more money would ease it up some and it hasn't. And so yeah, I just like I just want to boost having like wide sage advice and actually taking it. And so thank you Sandra,

thank you Lynette. You guys are awesome.

a boost break. I thought, dead Patel like, and I know him from slum Dog Millionaire and like, uh, anyway, he's kind of like one of my celebrity crushes. And so he has a new movie i'll call monkey Man, and I was like, he's directing it himself, he's starring in it. I'm like, let's go see this dead Ptel movie. And Rinkue wanted to see the Godzilla thing and I was like, I don't want to see Godzilla on our on our anniversary, and that's not going to be what. Oh,

I should have read the synopsis for Monkey Man. It was the most violent, bloody I spent like half of it with my hands in my face. Don't be tiffany about the bad movie. I did it to myself. He liked it. He was laughing, and I'm like, but what he just gotta ladys thumb off like Jesus. But you know, all all all kudos to death Patel for directing and starring in his own film. It's basically John Wick but set in Uh. India and it was like beautifully shot in all of that, and it was about it was

kind of about motherhood but a lot of blood. So boost for his first film. Go check it out. I feel like we got to support anytime someone's making their own art. But also a break for the ladies who accidentally, uh got tricked yourselves into thinking it was going to be a death Patel first Trap film and it was not. And that's all. And Remy Rue, your first episode of Brown Ambition.