Let's Start This $hish Off Right | Happy New Year 2023

LaTonya Johnson reflects on 2022 losses, including a friend's death, and shares updates on her short-term rental business after investing $60,000 in year one. She's pivoting her pricing strategy and planning a late-January workshop for her audience of 500 signups.
Questions this video answers
$60,000
TJ said she is 47 and her friend was 49
Dr. Robert Gilbert; vesica.org
About 500 people (TJ said 'I think over like 500 people signed up')
Chapters
Are you just seeing one of me or two? Just don't make no sense. It's ghetto. But I promise you I got a good message tonight. I sound nasally, and I'm sorry about that. These allergies have been whooping my. You know what? My nose looking all red. And I'm trying to use my phone because I don't know what's going on with that stupid camera. So what pic? I need to see what picture y' all see, because I have two things set up. This is ghetto. But I got a message for you, so stick with me. I promise, I promise, I promise. I'm. I have something for you tonight.
Okay. I think that's it. I'm trying to figure out, like, how I look. Oh, just one. So you see a pretty good picture. It's not like a picture. And then. Okay.
I started not to come on tonight. Please excuse all that ghetto beginning. Hopefully, I can.
X nay that out. But, you know, man, y' all have really been on my spirit today. Welcome to 2023, baby. We made. Let me tell you something. Everybody did not make it. I have a friend, 49 years old. I've known him. He was an Olympiad from University of Houston. He trained. My daughter died Friday. Hello. 49 years old. I'm 47. And that kind of hit home for me. Am I looking crazy? And put my glass back on that kind of hit home, because it's like, dang, everybody gonna get. Some people gonna make it to the door 2023, and not be able to cross over. That's crazy.
So I've gone through the day, and I don't know if you believe in any of this stuff. I've been looking at my horoscope and different things, and it's talking about 2023. And my spirit has just been dealing with me and talking to me about certain things. And one thing that came up today.
Was, what story are you telling?
Are you telling the old story, or are you ready for a new story? Because.
You are. Your story. Whatever story you tell. Whatever story. If I'm a widow, people don't see me. I don't ever have any money. I'm always broke. Men don't look at me. Whatever your story is, lead as in 2022 and create a new story.
You have the ability and total control at this moment to choose a new story. That old story is dead. We left it. I left mine in 2022. So who are you today?
What is your new story? You can create a new story. You don't have to Continue to live in that heartbroken story. You don't have to continue to live in that story of what didn't work and what the heck went wrong. Because. So I ain't talking to you. I'm talking to us. Let's. Let's get that clear.
Sometimes when God tells me to do things, I say, yeah, but last time I tried that, yada, yada, yada.
I don't trust you like that last time you dropped me, you know. So what story are you telling, sweetheart? What story? What do you want this story to be for 2023? That's the major thing. What do you want the story for 2023 to be for you?
Because it can be anything you want. What do you want the story for 20? I'm trying to hear myself. Okay, I did.
I'm trying to hear myself so that I can make sure that it sounds good. But yeah, so, I mean, that's my story for y'. All Tonight. I want y' all to choose another story. I want you to.
Choose a story of love, of success, of prosperity, of joy, of abundance. And absolutely, abundance includes so many more things than just money. Money is one of them. But your peace. I want an abundance of peace. I want an abundance of peace of freaking mind. You hear me? I want an abundance of love and of joy and of healing.
We have gone through, baby, this, this Earth school that we're in. Whoa. It'll knock your lips backwards. You know how in that cartoon Daffy Duck, his lips, you know, something hits him and his head stays still, but his lips go backwards. Hello.
Baby. Life then knocked my lips back.
Don't make no sense.
However, I'm ready for a new story. That story is dead. And I. I hope and pray that every time in my subconscious I start telling that story. I remember this conversation that I'm having with you about.
2023, baby. New story, new me, new story. Because if you keep playing that same story, you will continue to live that same dead gum thing over and over and over again.
New story.
So part of my new story is everything that happened is that happened in the past is in the past for me. I'm moving on. I am happy, I am healthy. You know.
I love my life. I have. I just experienced this thing right before I got on this call and it interrupted my flow. That's kind of why the video wasn't all the way together. So again, please pardon me, but. So I. I run these short term rentals and I'm gonna tell you, my baby, if ain't nobody else Tell you this to knock my lips backwards.
This business. A lot of people think that owning short term rentals is a real estate investment. No, no, no, no, no, no. You get into the hospitality business and it's a business. It's a business. It is a business. The hospitality business. It is not at all real estate.
Your main goal is to make sure that when people come into town, they have a great time. That's it. That's short term rentals. So.
A couple of things have happened to me this, this month. One great thing. Look up. I don't even know how to pronounce Sean's name, but his name is Sean Rakadich. R A K I D Z I C H.
He came to visit me because I was going to sell the short term rentals. I was done. November, I had to put money into it. And I just, you know, my first year I put $60,000 into the thing out of my own pocket just for it to survive. And so.
When I had to put money into it in November, I was like, oh, hell no, I can't. You know, I've been, I've gone broke before. I'm not going down with a sinking ship. Well, Sean came, he looked around, he, you know, gave me some really good ideas. And long story short, with his handsome self, hello.
He told me that no, he could buy from me, but he's not. Have a little grit, stick to it. He told me that I'm doing better than most people have most of the stuff right. Gave me some ideas of some things that he would change, stuff that you know, is doable.
But this is just a season. It's a slow season for everybody. But some people are getting. They hold lips knocked off. I thought my lips was knocked out. No, they have nobody. I mean, it is dry. So.
He came. Then right before I got on screen, this person.
One of my guests from last week, had a FedEx package sent to my short term rentals. I didn't know it. Tonight he comes knocking on every door in the place, asking people, did I stay here? Last week, did you receive a package?
So there were a group of ladies and he was a Hispanic guy. There were a group of ladies and it scared them. It would have scared me too.
I'm right across the hall from where he was. Didn't knock on this door. Oh, I wish he would have knocked on my door. But he didn't. He knocked on every door but this door. That's crazy, right? Anywho, he scared the ladies. So I've contacted airbnb that might be money. I lose, and I don't need to lose no money. Hello. But it'd be stuff like that business. There are little bitty things that you can just count on. So a lot of people in the since COVID have decided to go on their own, have decided to be business owners. And I'm gonna tell you something. This ain't for the week. You have to be very strong. You have to be very resilient. It is a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot.
All of the success stories that you hear, it's not all successes. You have some wins and some losses. And, you know, my cousin Shami was telling me I'm not good at.
Congratulating myself for my wins, because constantly having the money, regardless of where it came from, to keep this thing afloat is a win. It's a win, It's a win. Another thing that Sean told me was I need to be in acquisition mode while I'm trying to get rid of it. He's like, girl, you need to buy more. And I'm like, oh, wow. For real?
Oh, okay. So, you know, we'll see what comes. I mean, he kind of told me how to do it and what to do, and I'm gonna take his advice. One thing that I'm majorly working on in the short term rental business is the pricing. That's the whole business really pricing to get people through the door, messing with the algorithm. It's a lot. It's a lot, and it is a huge learning curve. And, you know, it's so much that I didn't feel like at one point I had enough time and energy to split between doing that and coming and being with y'. All. Let me tell you what brought me back over here.
The world, the market has changed, and I was looking at content and what other YouTubers are putting out, and they were not telling y' all how to pivot. Everybody just talks about the same thing over and over and over again to get views, telling them, you know, how their business is going, how their day is going. What next? How do we pivot? What do we do now when it's slow? What am I supposed to do? Especially if I've quit my job for this 10 to $20,000 a month that people were making. What do I do now? Hello. Nobody was talking about that. And, hey, you can prove me wrong. I might be wrong if somebody was talking about that. Please, please, please let me give them their flowers. Please let me know who it was, and I will Definitely give them their flowers. I just didn't see anybody doing it. So I said, hold on, let me come back up. And so that's when I said, listen, let me show y' all what I'm doing, right? Because I still get a lot of business. I still get business. A lot of. I mean, my notary business, man, listen, yeah, praise God, I'm still going to go and market to hospitals. I'm still going to do different things. And that's why I put the event on, that I put on. And for those of you who couldn't make it, have no fear. I mean, I think over like 500 people signed up, if I'm not mistaken.
We didn't have 500 on there, but it was the holidays, so I want to do it again. And this time it'll be in probably late January, that I'll do it again. I need for you to come because I. I'm dropping heat. I'm dropping heat. I ain't just, you know, it's not a sales pitch. I'm showing you step by step how to do something.
Now.
I can't give you all of my knowledge in one, two hours. So I do sell something at the end if you want to buy. Okay? So listen, listen. I can show you how to set up an ad. I can do that in an hour. But I can't show you how to pivot when something goes wrong. I can't show you how to troubleshoot. I can't give you every little detail because it'll take too long.
So that's why, you know, people come in and you have. Okay, I'm gonna tell you this part. I'm gonna walk you through it, and then bam, you go and do it and buy the book. Just in case anything goes wrong, I'm gonna give you the rest of the information, you know what I'm saying? Because you can do ads. It's not rocket science, but then it is. You know, there are certain parts of everything. It's like, oh, I didn't know that. Short term rental business. Oh, wow, I didn't know that. So I'm steadily having to learn and.
You know.
Get the information from other people.
But I wanted to make sure.
That I came on here and that I want y' all to know that I am sincerely here for you. I don't. I don't have to be. I. I come back because y' all are my family and I want to make sure y' all are straight. I want to make sure that y' all are eating and I. If there's a new way to eat, I want to tell you the new way to eat. I operate in integrity. I ain't on here just capping and. Yeah, that ain't me. That's not me. It's not me.
But I do want to always come on, let you know what's going on. Give you the latest information that I have. I'm on my phone right now on this live because it just was not looking right. I don't know why my dog on com, that camera. I can't get the thing to work right. It's ridiculous.
So that's why. That's why I'm here now.
Looking at it this way, if y' all are on, let me know that you're on. Let me know how your new year is going.
Let me know if you.
Had any challenges or anything wonderful happened. I do want to know. Like I said, abundance, man. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance. Abundance in clarity. Abundance in physical, mental, spiritual health. One of the main things that I'm gonna have to force myself to do. I bought this class. I don't know if I told you all about it. It was from.
Dr. Robert Gilbert.
He has. Has an amazing. I mean, I'm going through it so far. It is amazing. He's@vesica.org. that's vesica.org and I believe that I gave y' all that B, E, S, I, C, A.
I just put it in the chat. I believe that I gave y'. All. That's my. Just these bangles that y' all hear ringing and going on. I'm take them off. I believe I talked to y' all about that. I'm gonna have to force myself and act like I'm going through school in order to go through this. I'm have to wake up, sit down, look at the video, read and study. Because this is my year to really get this stuff.
He gives a whole.
Amazing.
I'm putting Do Not Disturb on on my phone.
That gum. Come on now. Oh, it's too much ghetto stuff going on on Solutions by TJ for me tonight. But yeah.
Life, life, life, life, life.
So I want to know how y' all are doing. You. Hey, I gotta laugh at myself because this year it be going down in the dms. All kind of stuff.
Happening as we speak. I'm on Live the dog on phone ringing.
Hello. But so spirituality is one of my main things that I want to work on. I need to go within. I need some peace and quiet inside my own spirit.
Some things have been brought to My attention, you know, I do a lot of reflecting and looking at my own thoughts and what I'm thinking. And.
This. My hair falling out had a lot to do with me being able to look at me, take all that other stuff away. Take that hair away. Are you still pretty? Do you still feel pretty? Do you still feel confident? Some days I did, some days I didn't. I mean, I feel like sometimes I have, because I have been forced to live on my own, fend for myself. Masculine energy, right? So.
I wonder sometimes, do you know this hair short and everything? Damn, do I look like a boy? It's just been all kind of crazy stuff going through my head. But you know, I hate the term boss, babe. It gets on my nerves because I don't want to be that bro. I just want to be a girl. Hello. I don't want to do none of this.
I do it because I don't have a choice. I gotta get it for me and Madison because ain't nobody else gonna get it for me and Madison. And if I did have a dude.
I'd still be doing whatever I want to do, but I don't want to have to do it. You know what I'm saying? Oh, I'm a woman. I don't want to have to do it. I don't want to have to. I want to do it because I want to do it. I want to be one of those women like my sister and like my sister in law who don't even know how to pump gas. Hello. These people ain't pump gas. It baffles me. I, I stood there and laughed. Y' all don't know how to pump gas. This is crazy. But hey.
They don't know how to pump gas. They know. My sister's been with my brother in law since she was 19 years old.
Just to be a woman, not have to do all of this stuff. That would be nice. That would be nice. So, I mean, I'm saying that because one of the reflections that I had to come to in 2022 was, Dang, I'm looking at TJ. I'm looking at you. You. What do you think of you? No, hell, you. I really like that blonde hair. It was so cute. I wish I could have blonde.
That platinum blonde was beautiful. But I'm still pretty bald headed, you know what I'm saying? I.
Bald headed and all. I'm still cute. I'm still me. I'm still happy. I don't know what other people think, but I still like it. I know it Wasn't intentional. But still.
I'm still. Still gonna keep on rocking however it goes. I'm looking at. Boy, you could tell I was rushing because I'm looking at all of the typos and the name and all kind of stuff. Y' all just bear with me. I ain't gonna be on here long. I just wanted to get on here and tell y' all that we are doing the live event again. So I want you to be there if you have any questions for me. If you want to talk about anything, how to start this year off, what are my thoughts? What. What do you need to do to get to the next level in 2023? I'm here for you. I'm available to talk to you. Let me know and we'll jump on. We'll jump on the phone on wherever. We'll chat.
Yeah, I'm probably try to erase some of the top parts of this video because that was insane.
Me trying to get all of this stuff together. But God bless y'. All. I wish you the best 2023 ever. You are wonderful, and if nobody has told you today, you are extremely loved by me.
I think of you, I pray for you. I want everything in your life to go well, for you to be happy, for you to be prosperous and in peace with yourself and with the world. And if there's anything that I can do to help you do that, let me know. And I will do my damnedest to help you as much as I can.
Support@solutionsbytj.com supportolutionsbytj.com if you need anything, baby, I'm here for you. I'm here for you. All right. This is TJ with Solutions by TJ. Hey, Ms. Addie's Virtual Academy. How are you? If y' all need anything, let me know. Other than that, I don't really have anything else. I just wanted to give y' all that real good quick word, huh? That good quick word and get on off of here. I love y'. All to life, and I have so much in store for us. I'm excited. I hope you're excited, because this year is gonna be. Oh, yes. Hopefully I can get this camera to work like I want it to. It still ain't quite the background, but whatever. Okay. God bless y'. All. I love you. To life. See you later. Bye.
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