This Entrepreneur Made $7 Million Investing. Now She’s Teaching Other Women How To Do It Too

one second yes you have a degree in computer science MH you are the smart girl you were always the smart girl I was always the smart girl but I didn't lead With that back then you know it's like you know you know that a lot of my friends in the conversation and people To be very honest, it wasn't something and he saw it, so frankly he thought it was a waste of time and what happened was he never , I never forget. In our Discord chat, very much in brand groups on Discord, I asked him a very simple thing. question like um can you explain to me why a QQQ is

this

or something really basic that I didn't fully understand because I'm trying to learn and he embarrassed me in front of 300 people and turned it into a joke moment everyone laughs at me on Discord and I remember it on that.

At the time I said, "Okay, I'll show you," and at that time I spent a lot of my money. I had my initial investment and spent a lot of money taking online courses reading books trying to find mentors. I spent around six and seven months of intense work. I didn't do anything but study stocks and investments and I love the idea of ​​business and building businesses and things coming together, so at the time I was obsessed with that, that was my new boyfriend, that was my new passion , that was my new Love like it couldn't end is because he discarded me, so I thank him to

this

day because if he hadn't discarded me, I probably wouldn't have tried so hard to be where we are today because I was just. like there's no way to make a woman feel like that, you're not going to make me or my identity or what you think my identity is or people who look like me feel, you know, and this isn't even a question of race.

It's a woman for a man, right, you're not going to make me feel like I'm not valuable to learn something that can make me better, you're not going to do that to me, the world already does that to us, but you black man, you're not going to do this to me, let's do this, I'm going to kill it and at that moment I knew we needed a safe space, yeah, because once I started building a Many

women

like me I want to build or even

other

women

who were in the financial space is how I want to do it.

There aren't a lot of safe places for women to talk about these things, like you should take the lead on this, yeah, and then. This community came and interestingly enough, a lot of black men started helping me like that, nuggets that I didn't know because I was building them and in my case, I didn't go to school completely for this, but what I do know is that I know. how to lead because I've been in positions and had to lead my whole life, but I also knew what I didn't know: I can hire or get people on board to create this team where people from Goldman Sachs and these big financial institutions started to to work with us and to work for us, so I had my gift and then I had people around me to support the gift, which is now the modern black girl, so how did you go from just being a community to a complete community? -full-fledged company, you are now CEO, how did this happen and how did you learn to be CEO?

Yes, after college and that's fine. I do not do it. I don't see myself working for anyone. I worked for a company. as a frontend developer for two or three months and I was like, "We don't like this. I'm going to start my own web design company and I used to make everyone's websites in Brooklyn like back in the day, so I just wanted a frontend developer to do it." loved it. I'm creative at heart so I was able to create but I used my skills so I already had that

entrepreneur

ial spirit in me so there was that and then events started doing events and things like that, but Then, also in Hospitality. , you know, sometimes I had to manage a team as well, so I always had little experiences in my life that led me to this point, but also once we got here, as you can imagine, those businesses did very well, they did. okay, but they weren't modern black girls, right?

I also wasn't responsible for hiring a whole team that I managed. I have to create the rules for that. There were already systems in place, but with a girl. modern black, what do you want, what did you want to feel, what is your company culture, what are these things that I had to put in place and because of these

other

experiences, I knew what these other businesses were missing with respect to just the hospitality, but also the things that I did wrong as a web developer and things like that and just putting together little things, you know, trial and error, you know, and we were able to build this company, but I think working in hospitality and just seeing how they structure their business I say, okay, I like it, okay, I need a good CRM system, I need this, I need that and just trial and error and everything, so talking about that.

Trial and error, what do you think is the most important lesson you have learned? Since you started hiring modern black girls for your weaknesses and not your comfort, what I mean by that is that as a leader you need to know what you do well and what you don't do well, but you also need to know what you need to let your company thrive and in the beginning I hired people who

made

me feel comfortable, like, yeah, IT, you're going to do great, yeah, we're going to do this. we're going to the moon and that hampered some of the growth in the beginning when in hindsight I should have hired people who said actually no, that's wrong, we're actually not well positioned and we should change this, we need to structure this. you're looking at this the wrong way people that would challenge my intellect and I feel like in a business you need you don't need yes men around you you don't need people who see your vision and only your vision but who can I don't see beyond and I can't see the growth of where things should go and the moment I started to see things well, I'm a little nervous because I just started this company, oh no, we are a company that We are here and we are where we want achieve our goals and once I started looking at it from that perspective, I started hiring with that mindset, okay, this is you at the top of the pyramid, what are the other roles that you need?

What are the other people you need to make sure this is scalable and can grow? Never got investors for a modern black girl? We have been profitable from the beginning. There's no need. Never existed. We never needed one. investor and this is what I mean by purpose there are certain doors like we don't have them we have tons of people wanting so of course you come into our business oh we can help you grow. I say no, I don't need it. No? We are profitable, we have been from the beginning, so if I am going to get an investor, it has to be a strategic investor because, also, I am not a person who believes that it is necessary to own 100% of the business.

I think you should absolutely do it if you feel like there's a need or you know there's an investor that can add value to take it or scale it to the next level absolutely, but it's not necessary yet. Well, I want to pivot a little bit and I want to talk about how you really help the black women that you serve, so what tips would you give for maneuvering

investing

in an economic downturn? Yes, I think the most important thing is to know that this is your time, don't invest when things are hot or when the market is booming or when you know the economy you know things are when you don't want to invest when things are up because At that point you can't buy at a good price, it's like being able to see a gem before everyone knows it's a gem, and right now that's exactly what's happening.

If you look at our economy, our economy is structured to grow, there are now different levels at which it can grow, rather than certain sectors that are thriving. It's technology, materials or consumer discretionary depending on what's happening, but it's positioned for growth because our economy is run on the stock market, so even if we have this period of decline, it's a perfect position, it's a perfect time. and it's a perfect time for you to position yourself to learn and get all the knowledge you need for the next career and that's what I tell women all the time and I always tell them to look at yourself and your own development. personal, right?

I don't want people to necessarily see you when you're down, but it's when you're doing the most self-discovery, it's when you're learning everything you need to, and then when things open up, then you can go out like nothing happened. Now there are many people who have been laid off, there are many people who are going through bad times now, but this is your moment of calm, this is your time to take everything that you have learned and start applying different things and create something. maybe maybe don't go back to another position, maybe this is your time to give birth to something and then something beautiful comes out of here or maybe this is your time to see the full scope of your position and see how you can grow and do . other things and maybe take another position that can essentially propel you to a new level, so I always look at things like that when it comes to the market, where this is the time for you to learn why we are in an economic crisis and learn what. comes later because history always repeats itself as if nothing we are going through now is new mhm true, maybe technology and its influence, but people have always been the same since the time of Jesus, we have always felt emotions, we have always felt jealousy.

We have always felt happiness, we have always felt these emotions, so as we are here as humans and people, there will always be something to invest in, there will always be something to invest in, as long as there are humans here, there will always be something to invest in and Once you've got that mindset, stocks and

investing

become easy. Oh wow, Tiffany. I see that you are a great teacher. I see it well. I want to know what advice you have for first-time stock investors. Yeah, so I guess I would say look at your life and look at the things that you've invested in right, so what I mean by that is I sit here today.

I invested in these nice cargo pants. I love these cargo pants. I wear them all the time, they are my favorite and they are Just like my lucky cargo pants, I always wear them and they are an investment and this investment that makes me feel comfortable makes me feel happy so I invest in them and I have a few pairs and I love them and this is my favorite position. pants and I think when it comes to my house, I live very comfortably and I invested to get to that level and essentially the results are that I am happy to have a comfortable place to live, that was an initial investment so when I think about your life and where you go you always have to make some level of investment instead of people it's your house it's a job you always have to make an investment and that's the same when it comes to money you're already investing every day your time your energy now you're just investing your currency in something that could essentially propel you anywhere and anything you want to do in your life, so don't see it as something new, because you are already investing now, this is you. just investing in your future and establishing your legacy and that's what investing does, it's a legacy builder and we should all do it, especially because young people are people of color, whoever they are, we have to think about Legacy when we're building and When you do, you have to think about it now, we asked everyone this about new money, yeah, what was the smartest and dumbest purchase you've

made

since you got the money, okay, let's start with the smartest investment, just make sure it works, okay, cliché, but I like to invest in my mom and dad's safety and my mom and dad's health.

As soon as I got my money I had to go back to them and make sure they were okay now. You're not here playing, you know, my dad doesn't have the 911 on him or whatever isn't happening, but he's comfortable and that was important to me because now that I know they have an M part, I can have a part of me just . because you know we didn't grow up with money so that was probably the smartest decision because now I don't have to worry too much about a lot of things when it comes to my parents, which in the past I used to think. all the time because of finances and the silliest thing, uh, in 2022 I bought a lot of bags, just a lot of bags, I really bought so many bags.

God knows they're just sitting in the closet. I'll probably give it to them. away very, very soon because you know, what I've noticed is that it's a way of thinking and I see rappers. I had my rapper moment. I'm going to be honest, oh, you were flexing here, I was flexing in 2022, okay, I bought it all. I remember my advisor came to me and said Tiff, do you know you spent a quarter of a

million

dollars on bags, shoes, all the things and I was like, no, yes, I did, yes, I did and of that only two or three pieces were like investments like things? that I can actually make money for the rest of the things, okay, you're going to lose at least 50 or 60% and I was like, "I'll never do it again, I'll never do it again, so now like theLast two years, oh, I don't buy as much as I used to, but I had my rapper moment.

I thought we left, we're here. I'm about to box, buy the Sho, whatever you want, want to go out, whatever you want. I had that, but I'm glad I got it out of my system quickly because essentially the only thing it feeds your ego is when you start buying things knowing that even if you have it good, there's no reason you need it. all the things that I bought like it was crazy, every color, this, you're just feeding your ego and what that exposes me to is there's some work that I need to do inside and once I did that work, I was like that.

The bags were really stupid, but taking care of my mom and dad is priceless, so what's next for you? What are your goals for yourself? Tiffany and your goal for a modern black girl. Yes, for me personally. I love business. I love investing in businesses. I love business growth, I mean I look at it every day, looking at stocks and businesses go from here to here or from here to here, I've seen it all, so I think just investing in other businesses as an investor angel and stuff like that has been really cool for me, just using some of my money to invest in other future businesses.

It's been something I really enjoy, a modern black girl, we've done a lot of work working with the everyday girl and guy, mainly the ladies, but also the

entrepreneur

s that are coming up, but we are establishing a new structure of our business . A new part of our business that will focus more on entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, things like that because we are starting to see that there is a market where our influential people are influential, but when it comes to money, there is still a big problem here and us. We want to use some of our tools and tips and help some of our leaders because if we can help our leaders, then they can essentially start talking to Bren and get the message across, so we're going to hit the ground running then.

We also have some smaller projects, actually big projects that I can't mention yet, but you know, stay tuned for Modern Black Girl and you'll be able to see those things coming out and they're more global, oh actually, I can mention one thing, Global , the United Kingdom. UK girls to Europe tours we're going so we'll see you soon, we'll see you actually this fall, this summer, uh yeah, UK girls love modern black girls and we're talking about 400,000 women, 70,000 of them in total. A lot of them have been to the UK and taken a class or something and they say we want you not to talk to us and I'm like, okay, okay, I'm definitely doing more in Europe for women. who want to learn about how to invest in construction, oh finally, could you leave us your top investment tip?

Yes, I want it to be something I've never said before. To truly create wealth and happiness for yourself, it will take an investment, that's all, it will take an investment and many times we are afraid to make investments, but once you start to realize that you are literally making investments every day, you can start to look at the word investment a little differently and get started. It involves investing in all areas of your life instead of investing in your health, your happiness, your finances, your legacy, all the things, investing is a necessity and it is necessary for your growth, oh, I love it, yes, well, Thank you very much for joining me today, thank you. you absolutely