Single Mom goes all in on herself —in hopes of building a life on her terms
Recently divorced, now a single mom, Shelly took control of her destiny when she discovered how to double her Net Worth in 2 years.
After listening to our guest Shelly Kane on episode #5 of the Value Driven Investor podcast. It will be very apparent to you…
Shelly is our kind of person.
We all have challenges, but when your life is turned upside down after a recent divorce and you have 3 kids to care for all on your own, you’re faced with a HUGE challenge that can leave most struggling to make ends meet.
The Survival Phase
Shelly worked side by side with students at the local community college making $30,000 - $40,000, she was a mother of 3, and recently divorced when she was given the biggest challenge of her life. We have all been in this situation — in one way or another. We all have our own struggles and are left with a choice in life.
Fight or Quit
Shelly decided she was going to fight for her 3 kids and a better way of life. She knew there was a better way. It was just a matter of her finding it.
At that moment she chose to start a side hustle and became a wedding planner.
Waking up at the crack of dawn, getting her kids ready, and hopefully having 5 minutes to get herself ready, she got them off to school before heading to school herself so she could be “The Teacher.”
After a long hard day’s work, she picked her kids up and brought them to their after-school activities. For all of us who have kids in sports and after-school activities, we can appreciate what this life was like for Shelly.
Then after coming home, feeding her 3 kids dinner, and hopefully getting them to bed at a decent hour, Shelly didn’t relax with a glass of wine, she dove into her side hustle and grinded for another 3-5 hours until the early morning hours, hoping to fit in a few hours of sleep before waking up and doing it all over again.
That pattern repeated day after day, for years.
This was Shelly’s life and it is the life of so many trying to find their path and create a life on your terms.
Your Mindset Will Set You Free
Shelly told herself, “This is what I must do to have the life I want for me and my kids.”
She didn’t give herself the choice of quitting. Quitting on herself and most importantly quitting on her kids. Because what kind of legacy would she be leaving if looking back felt guilty that she “failed them.” That she “didn’t do everything I could to provide them with a better life.”
If there is one thing you will learn about Shelly. There is no way in hell she would have ever put herself in that position. She would have rather die trying than never trying at all.
The question one might ask in this situation. “Would she have ever done this if “life” had not thrown her such a challenge?”
Only Shelly will ever know the answer to that question. But, I can tell you from experience — this is what “life” is all about.
Hell, I don’t know if I would be the person I am today if “life” didn’t throw all the challenges it has at me.
WAIT!!
Now that I think about it… I know I would not be the person I am today if “life” had not thrown me the challenges I have faced and in some cases will face for the rest of my life.
When you listen to this podcast episode, listen to Shelly’s words very carefully. Listen to how she shows you her fighting spirit and never-quit attitude. Listen to the words she uses and the path she designed for her life.
It wasn’t a matter of “If” it was a matter of “When.”
Are you like Shelly, are you using words that will allow you to JUMP?
Execution is your gateway to “Life on your terms”
As a wedding planner, Shelly worked countless hours planning other people’s biggest day. The day they get married.
Like her husband, our good friend, Bob Grand said, “Wait a minute she is not telling you the whole story here!!”
Then Bob goes on to tell us Shelly took a wedding planning business from nothing… To one of the most well-known wedding planning companies in all of Eugene Oregon. He also tells us about the scale on which Shelly was planning these weddings. It was no small task to plan weddings with budgets in excess of $200,000. Some of these weddings took 6 months to over a year in the planning. Just for one amazing day!
Wedding Day!
Shelly proceeded to inform us she did up to 20 of these types of weddings every year. Most of the time they all took place in a 6-month window of time every year. Because not only did she need to plan these weddings she also needed to execute her plan to perfection. Otherwise, her client’s weddings would be a bust.
I don’t think I need to tell you how much pressure she was under on wedding day :-)
For years, Shelly planned and executed some of the most extravagant weddings in the land. Then she realized she was getting burned out. Sure, she had money and success…
But, did she have the life she wanted — Or was it a life of SURVIVAL?
That’s when she started asking herself, “Is there a better way?”
Life on her terms
This is when a new chapter in her life started to take form.
One day while managing her personal budget she realized, “Wait a minute, look at all of the equity I have built in my personal home.”
It was at that moment she started to pay attention to real estate. It was in the moments after, where she started to dig in and figure out how she could get, “More equity in her life.”
If you don’t already know by now — When Shelly sets her mind to something. She will figure it out and take it to the next level. Needless to say, Shelly set her mind on finding, “More equity in her life.” And that’s just what she did.
Her next step, Selling the turnkey home she lived in for what she called, “A piece of shit!”
For most of us investors, we call it a “Fixer Upper.”
Her plan was to take the $40,000 in equity she received from selling her turn-key home, buy a fixer-upper, rehab it and sell it in two years (avoiding capital gains) with the hopes of doubling her money.
I don’t plan on giving away what happened on this blog. You will need to listen to the episode yourself.
Click here to listen to Shelly’s podcast episode:
Shelly’s story is one of true GRIT and perseverance.
Shelly is one of us. The kind who are met with a challenge and know nothing other than to fight with everything we have to WIN the game of “life.”
As our first guest on the “Value-Driven Podcast” I don’t think we could have found a better person or a better story.
Sure, I could have hunted down Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, or some other name you know and had them on our podcast.
Those are not our kind of people like YOU and ME.
The kind who are unknown and fighting for what Donald or Robert have achieved in life.
That’s why Shelly!
That’s why YOU & ME
Because together we can help each other achieve what very few have or will.
A “Life On Our Terms.”
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