Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

Self-Funded Success: How Rodial Scaled to 35 Countries Without External Investment

4 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Maria Hatzistefanis built Rodial into a 35-country brand over 18 years without outside funding. She wrote her book on her phone in fragments, calling it

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I never really sat down and say let's take three to six months out of my life to write the book. I took my phone, I started putting some notes. Then the next.
Day I put.
A few more. I put an anecdote, then I put a quote. And slowly.
It first.
It all happened by starting something, putting.
The first step.
And everything I've done in my life.
The biggest.
Projects that I would never have imagined, it was all about, as you say, taking.
That first step.
Celebrating it.
And I finished the book. It was a big success. It's called how to.
Be an Overnight.
Success, which you.
Cannot be an overnight.
Success, but that's it's, it's a.
Catchy title. And from the first page I say.
It took me.
18 years to be where I am today. There's nothing like an overnight success.
But I feel people.
Want the overnight success now.