Welcome back to Building Billions. Man, what a frickin day. Though called. Yes. They called. Like, we actually had a phone call. And the email of the person I was talking to is literally at Conde Nast, which owns Vogue. So I'm not here to talk to you about all things Vogue. However, I might give you a little sneak peek into what might be happening at the end of the episode. And to be honest, this isn't even really
about me. It's about what you do when the universe hands you a little nod, a little acknowledgment of the work that you've put in place. So this thing with Vogue, to be honest with you, it's not like I'm spending my days trying to figure out how to become a fashion influencer, or really how to do anything with fashion, to be honest. Like it's it's not something I like picking out clothes. I, I find a lot of play time like fun. It would be my version of fun.
But again, I'm not spending a lot of fun time. Honestly, seven days a week I am focused on building this
business because that is my primary goal. However many moons ago when I first started this goal setting process, I will never forget I was about 24 years old and I wrote down every single one of my wildest dreams, my goals that made me feel silly, even putting down on a piece of paper so cringe y thinking somebody would ever find it to the point where I had to work myself up, like total self-talk in order to
even be able to tell these things to Brandon. One of the things on this list was, and I'm dead serious, yachting with Beyonce and Jay-Z in the Amalfi Coast. That's on my bucket list in my lifetime. I want to do that. And when I was 24 years old, I was so far from being the person that could go yachting for a vacation with Beyonce and Jay-Z. I was lazy, I was insecure, I was dependent on other people. I was emotionally just not in a good place. You know?
There was never anything crazy. It's not like I've never done drugs in my entire life. I've never abused alcohol, and I don't have any secret addictions or anything like that. But I was just. Soft. I was just a really soft person. I didn't have a purpose. I didn't know what I was doing with my life. I knew I had potential, I was certain I had potential, but I just didn't know anything else about what I was trying
to do or where I was trying to go. So I made this master list, and one of the items on this list is an invitation to the Met Gala. So it's now been six years where I established this vision of my life. This, like Natalie, wants to be this person and sees herself as this person. And I have all this imagery in my head and at the time, like, I really visualizing who I was going to become and how I would carry myself and how I'd walk in a room and what I'd be spending my time doing.
So there were more substantial and like meaty things on this list than yachting with Beyonce and Jay-Z and hanging out with Anna Wintour at the Met Gala. And those meaty things, honestly, are what I'm doing today inside our business at Carlisle Ventures. When I was 24 years old, we hadn't started Kado Ventures yet, and I had business experience, but nothing near what today looks like. We didn't have a company at that moment in time, and so today
I spend time speaking on stages. Back then I couldn't imagine speaking on stages. Today we have a business paying us what I thought I wanted my net worth to be by the time I was 30. Like we have that the business paying us that a year. So. I spend so much time, energy and effort. Focused on keeping the main thing the main thing. But I've never forgotten because it's a part of my goals. Like you can't deny yourself your goals and this is part of this
like you can't. I've never forgotten that this Vogue group of people, this vogue. Opportunity of my life is something that I really want for myself, and it's not for some silly reason. I believe that it brings me passion, and there's lots of great people that I could meet and connections that are inside this world that I'm not even remotely a part of. Like, my life is so far from being connected to vogue on a day to
day basis. And yet it's this passion of mine. It's this thing that at some point in my life, I know that I would be disappointed if I never figured out how to become the person that was just fashionable enough and just connected enough to meet with really cool people who are talking about culture and art and experiencing life from this more. What would the word be? Uh, this more aesthetic side and not aesthetic, like fake, like
just like an aesthetic wavelength. Like a light wavelength. Because on the day to day, it feels like a fucking grind. It feels like emails. This particular morning, I woke up at 445 this morning in order to knock out two projects, answer emails, work out, have five executive and leadership calls. Right up until I did a book shoot with calls in between. And the call one of them was the Vogue call. But not all days, like no days. Let me just be honest. No days look like having a
Vogue call a day. So. There's something about your goals. And if you haven't written your down your goals yet, if you haven't claimed whatever it is that you want, for me, it's like this. Billions. Net worth target this billions portfolio. Helping other people create billions like that is a massive component of my vision. Where I'm going, what
I believe I'm meant to do in this life. And when you have those things written down and some of them are not fully connected, when you have a moment where the universe reminds you that there is this intention that you've set, that there is this opportunity, that you believe you are ready for, that this lifetime is going to have as a connection point. Just appreciate the fucking moment. Just take in the moment. And if this Vogue thing doesn't work out, I'm good. Vogue is not going to
change my life. If this doesn't, you know, pan out even in the future. I am so thrilled with how I've kept the main thing, the main thing, and what I actually do for for our clients and for our team and for myself and who I've become and how proud, proud I am of myself. However, every once in a while, the universe will just plop open this opportunity. And I've had a handful of these come through, most of which have actually happened through interviewing for reality television shows. One
of them was with Bethenny Frankel. I got like so caught up in in this opportunity, another with Real Housewives, and I've just wanted some. I've wanted some opportunity that happens or I think is about to happen, and then it doesn't happen. But take the minute when these little things pop up to just appreciate that this is the direction that your life is heading, and your life doesn't even have to go that direction. For the The Real Housewives,
my my life did not go in that direction. I did not with actually, it wasn't just one Real Housewives there. There have been a number that I've interviewed with. It didn't go that direction. But in the moment, instead of appreciating the acknowledgment of, like, Natalie, you're on the right path. I, I get I've gotten caught up in the past and with this Vogue opportunity, I'm not caught up with it.
It can either happen or it doesn't happen. However, I'm so fucking proud of myself in the work that I've done, and if it happens, I'm going to be so excited. And it's this new opportunity. But never play small when it comes to identifying what you truly want in this lifetime. And again, in those moments that. You're appreciative of the opportunity even potentially being able to happen, or you're one step closer. Don't beat up yourself and say like, oh,
but it's not going to happen. And what if it doesn't happen? Just take the second. The moment, the opportunity to just be grateful and then do everything you can to make it work right. Short of changing who you are or altering your goals or, you know, trying to become something that's just not you. For this Vogue thing, I showed up to this call today and was just excited to hear more, excited to understand what the process
would look like. And I showed up as myself. And I'm proud of showing up as myself, because that's the real work that's taking place over the last six years that I've done the work that is required in order to have these new opportunities show up. And this moment is making me feel better about all of the other moments, all of the other sacrifices, all of the things that I do every single day. Because it's just this reminder that, hey,
wait a second, you're on the right track. And so if you have one of those come up in your life over the next little while, don't overthink it. Don't over process it. Do everything you can in order to make it happen, right. I'm not saying you should just hope and wish and cross your fingers that something great is going to happen. Like no, show up and be
prepared and be your best. But also just take it as a moment and appreciate who you're becoming, who you're about to become, all of the hard work that it's taken to get you to where you're at today, and then just lean back in and take it as a sign. Now, when I say take it as a sign, I mean squeeze every last motivational, inspirational moment that you can out of this because you're going to need it. You need these little wins and don't miss them on the journey.
The winds are the thing that allow every other area of your life for you to feel phenomenal about. This Vogue call for me, I'm like, I'm working out harder. I'm going to be more proud of. I don't know, finishing projects and happier in my relationship because it's it's this like it's just this moment and it's a win and it's a like feather in my cap. And I'm going to use it in order to fuel this next thing.
I'm not going to miss this opportunity to soak everything out of this acknowledgement that I'm doing the right things. I'm on the right path. And, you know, I'm literally pulling into my nail place right now in order to get my nails done before my trip to Florida, where we have this event. But I'm even thinking of my event this weekend. And how can I be better? And how can I show a different to my audience? And how can I just continue to push to this next level?
And the reason I feel this way is because I have this little win, and I feel like the wind is at my back and it's propelling me forward because of this moment. So I'm juicing this thing. I hope that you choose not to just let real wins pass you by. Like lean into them, acknowledge them and go for it. Because don't forget, you got this shot. I don't know if we have more shots than this, but I do know that we have this shot and you
shouldn't undermine. You shouldn't feel less than. You shouldn't think that you can't have everything that you want. And as you start to get it, it's a beautiful thing. It really is. But keep striving, keep going. I'm rooting for you. I'm pulling for you. Can't wait to see you on the next episode.