Kim, a notary public loan signing agent, makes $117,000 a year without a college degree. She talks about overcoming adversity, reinventing yourself in your 50s, and building a six-figure income through persistence and financial independence.
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You made six figures in the first 10 months. I don't even think I've said that yet. We're at the beginning of December, and Kim had made six figures by October of this year. She's now at 117. Like, that is incredible. You know, if you could just say some words to somebody else right now. Kim, who has been told that they can't amount to anything, who's been told that, you know, who doesn't have a college degree and feels like, wow, I don't have a college degree. There's no way I can make six figures. What would you say to a person who's been told they can't amount to anything?
But those are lies, and don't listen to those lies. You need to believe in yourself and know that you can do it and just set your heart to it and believe in yourself and put in the hard work. You know, nothing's gonna come easy. You have to put in the footwork. You have to put in the hard work and the legwork. But if you be persistent and you keep on and just try to do everything with excellency and superior and top notch, I mean, you're gonna. It's gonna pay out for you, but you have to just keep on. And for me, for a lot of years, I listened to the lies and listen to the lies anymore, especially I think, being a woman, you know, being married, like, I love my husband. He's a great man, and we've been married almost 31 years. But, you know, it's always, you know, I just. I wanted to just do something, you know, on my own. I didn't want to have to have a monthly budget because, you know what? Quite honestly, like, out of the two of us, he's great at saving money, and I'm really bad at it. I like to spend money, and so I can never stick to the budget that he gave me. And so I like having this little bit of freedom where I can make money. And you know what? Now he doesn't bother me about how much I want to spend.
You're making six figures. I mean, let me blow your mind here. According to what you read, what statistics you read, what percentage of Americans do you think make six figures in a year? Like, give me a percentage.
You think 3%?
3%?
3%. It's 8%, okay?
You are in the top 8% of all of America.
Wow, that's unbelievable to hear that.
Think about that for a second, right? Like, in all of America, you know, it's anywhere between 8 to 10 depending on what poll or study you read. But look, even if you're in the top 10%, that's incredible. And look, you have, you came from where you came from. No college degree. And I want to aspire another subset of women here or men. You're 55, you know, and I don't say that that's old in any stretch of the imagination, but there are, there is a belief that like I can't reinvent myself in my 50s. Like that ship has sailed. What would you say to someone in their 50s saying, no, watching your story, saying there's no way that I could be 50 something and reinvent myself to your six figure level.
If I can do it, anybody can do it. And I read those stories and I hear that from people too. And they're already cutting their feet off by saying those things. And you know what? There's just power in the tongue. Like the words that we speak are so powerful. And like we cannot speak that to ourselves because the mind is going to believe it. You have to speak positive things. You have to keep telling yourself, I am going to do this, I can do it, and then just follow what we've been taught and it will work. Telling you that's all I did. You know, I think in this, and it's so sad because with the pandemic right now of COVID you just hear so much despair of everybody losing their jobs. And after so many years, some of them have been on the job for a long time and they don't think that they can do anything else. And this business is proof that that is wrong. Don't listen to that line. Step out. Do it. Let's go, let's go. I love.
