Hannah HammondFounder & CEO, HB Capital & The Firm RE · CEO of HB Capital | Helping CRE Developers & Investors Fund Deals Nationwide | Host of The Hannah Hammond Show

The younger generation needs to hear this advice…

Name: The younger generation needs to hear this advice…
Uploaded: 2026-06-10T01:05:08+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Hannah Hammond
Description: In this brief YouTube segment, speaker Hannah Hammond answers the question, "If you could leave one message to the younger generation, what would it be?"…

10 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, speaker Hannah Hammond answers the question, "If you could leave one message to the younger generation, what would it be?" She challenges the common advice to simply "follow your passion," arguing that while passion is important, it must be paired with a career that can financially support oneself and one's family. She uses the example of a badminton enthusiast to illustrate that passion alone may not guarantee a sustainable income. Hammond emphasizes that any worthwhile pursuit will be difficult, requiring persistence and hard work, but that staying the course will ultimately pay off.

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If you could leave one message to the younger generation, what would it be? This whole "follow your passion" advice that we get as students or adolescents, it's incomplete. It's not bad. You do need to be passionate about what you do, but it also needs to be something that can also feed yourself, right? Maybe there's someone out there who's like obsessed with badminton. I don't know how much the world's top 50 badminton players make, but I, I don't know if it feeds their families or not. So you got to have both of those things. And anything worth doing is— and doing well has got to be difficult. So you stick and stay and it'll pay.