How To Start Over and Crush Your Goals | Angela Duncan

Empower Her Money author shares how she rebuilt it all better than before

Wes Schaeffer
March 05, 2024

“Empower Your Money” was her book last year
Survivor of childhood abuse and poverty
Grew up in Section 8 housing
Has studied money for 25 years and wants to help people understand money, leverage money, and grow their net worth
Now it’s “Empower Her Money”
Men are logical when considering their investments
Women are more emotionally attached to money

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Women are good creators of businesses but bad with investing their earnings
Kids aren’t taught anything about taxes or money or building a business
Worked for BofA in college
Had great mentors—two confident women
She asked questions and offered help in exchange for mentorship
Don’t be a time-suck when you approach a potential mentor
Got her real estate license and went on her own in Tampa just before the real estate crash
There aren’t really “real estate crises,” there are debt crises and mortgage crises

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Pick a lane.”

Angela Duncan on The Sales Podcast

Tax liens are lucrative now
FL is not her favorite state for tax liens
IL pays up to 36% with much shorter time frames for foreclosure
Leveraged every free marketing resource she could find in 2008
Helping investors helped her weather the storm
Be quiet once you answer their question
Use a little humor when appropriate
She’s more in the commercial real estate space now
Got married and co-owned a top Re/Max office
Got into insurance as well
She ran their books and walked out with cash and moved to Miami
It was hard
She took some time off and prayed, and God told her, “Patience…get to know Miami…build some confidence…”
Wrote a book…threw a popular event…launched a popular podcast
When she speaks for non-profit organizations with little or no budget, she’ll ask them to buy some of her books and/or share the attendee list

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Say yes and figure out how.”

Angela Duncan on The Sales Podcast

She believes in having great coaches and mentors to shorten your learning curve
Feb 2023, she sold her insurance company and took a month off and got bored…
She was networking, and someone mentioned she should write a book
Hired James Malinchak as her book coach
His team helped with everything, including having “boomerangs” in your book
Became an Amazon best-seller (sold 98 books in one day and became a best-seller in four categories)
She wanted to do a live event on her own to prove to herself that she could get a group of women together as a workshop, not a rah-rah
She got five amazing women to agree to speak
Found a great venue in Miami
Hired a great video team to document it
Had four sponsors, 75 attendees, $197 tickets; oversold it
From idea to event, it took six weeks
She picked up the phone and called people
10% did not show
Now she’s focusing on growing her podcast
She’s old school and has her guests follow her and subscribe
She does a daily podcast
Be consistent
Invest in yourself
Find experts on YouTube, etc.
She has fun on her podcast
She is authentic and herself
She’s a cheerleader for her guests
John Lee Dumas is her podcast mentor
Her podcast is now her focus
Get her podcast checklist, “The Ultimate Podcast Launch Checklist”
Follow her on Instagram and message her “podcast”

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