Catherine Bell lost everything in 2009 when her family's single multimillion-dollar company tanked during the economic crash and her husband got sick. She learned the hard way that owning 100% of one business leaves you exposed. Small stakes in many companies beats full ownership of one.
When we lost everything in 2009, that was the biggest thing I wanted people to understand is that we were 100% owners in one company. Yes, at the time it was a multimillion dollar company. We sold it, but then of course my husband got sick, the economy crashed, like all the things happened because we had one income source. We were 100% owners of one company, and that's when I realized and like clued into it was better for us to be a small percentage owner in hundreds of companies rather than 100% owner in one. That was really important. So
