This is a YouTube video titled "From struggling to millionaire with Lisa Nichols" featuring an interview or talk where Lisa Nichols shares her personal journey from being a struggling mother on public assistance to becoming a successful millionaire entrepreneur. The content, created in June 2021, focuses on mindset shifts, skill development, and perseverance over many years. The format is a monologue or interview with two participants, Lisa Nichols and Dave, discussing her transformation and business insights.
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The thing that just still blows me away that you shared over dinner when we first met is that you were a struggling mom on public assistance, and you did something and became a million dollar millionaire entrepreneur. What did you do?
Well, it wasn't overnight, so let me be clear that it wasn't overnight. I. I began to implement a number of things. Number one, I realized that wherever my mental mindset was, my bank account, my lifestyle was going to follow. So the first thing I did was I began to feed myself something new, feed myself a new conversation, feed myself a new possibility. And then I began to, as a technical skill set, I began to share my speaking ability. I knew I had a gift. You know, sometimes, you know, you have that something, but you just don't know what to do with it, how to wrap your arms around. And I think one of the biggest pains, Dave, that I used to experience was people saying, oh my God, you're one of the most amazing speakers I've ever heard. But I had no idea what to do with that. And I go, and that means what?
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Can you show me how to monetize that? This gift that you say I have? And so I learned how to monetize it. I learned how to wrap skill set around gifts. Because sometimes gift alone isn't enough. You have to wrap the skill set. And the skill set that I learned, that I wrapped around it was a skill set of a CEO. How do I do that? So I had to learn how to become at peace with money. My historical background with money was that there was never enough of it. We ran out of money before we ran out of month. Money was divisive. It was the bone of contention in my home. It was the lack. We always robbed Peter to pay Paul. I never thought Peter and Paul could both be paid. And so I had to change my relationship to money and my relationship to me and money. And then I had to change my relationship to me and a lot of money. And so there was this process I delved into understanding about finances, money, numbers, sales, so that I can be comfortable with that. And then I got on the treadmill and I'm a grinder. Will Smith says it best in an interview that he did years ago. He said, I might not be the smartest one, I might not be the cutest one, but I will always be the hardest working one. He said, if I'm on the treadmill next to the next guy, either one or two things are going to happen. Either he's going to get off. I'm a die on the treadmill. And I was willing to stay on the treadmill for 10,000 hours. I was willing to go learn what I didn't know, say what I've never said, and do what I've never done before so that I can become the woman I've always known myself to be. I wanted to meet her. I wanted to meet this image of me that I had in my mind. And that's what I did for the next 15, 20 years or so.
