A woman built 13 passive income streams after her family became homeless following her husband's death in 2018. She worked 80-hour weeks learning real estate strategies like buy-and-hold and wholesaling, which let her take a year off to grieve and care for her teenage twins.
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Are you in the deal room with nothing? Married my late husband in 2001 and he had a dream and we turned his dream into a multi million dollar company. We sold the company in 2008 and 2009, the economy tanked and he got super, super sick. At that point we had a few years earlier we had adopted our twins out of the foster care system, a boy and a girl. And so they were four months old. We got them and they're now 21. Anyway, when my husband got sick, I went from being a stay at home mom, these beautiful gifts from God that were given to me, like, we're literally homeless. What the hell are we going to do? And so I had a choice, like, you know, be homeless or figure it out. And so that's when I figured out that the average millionaire had seven streams of passive income. And I'm like, I got to figure this out. So I was working 80 hours a week or in the chemical dens, you know, it wasn't sustainable. And that's the start of investment. We got into buy and hold wholesaling, doing all the things with the purpose of creating the passive streams of income because. Because I couldn't keep this set 80 hours a week. And in 2018, my husband died very tragically, leaving me a widow and a single mom of 14 year old twins. But at that point I had created 13 streams of passive income for my family and it let me take a year off and grieve with my twins.