In episode 22, we asked Meyer de Waal to come back to the show and talk to us about creating real estate structures.
After our interview with Nqabakazi in episode 13, we got a lot of people enquiring about trusts and property investment companies and we thought it would be best to bring in an expert.
I spent years being too scared to dream and too scared to ask the universe or life for new things and new experiences.
I believed that the only way too get out of debt and be financially savvy was to eliminate all my desires and stop wanting things, because having a desire or wanting something meant spending money.
I believed the only way to become debt free was to eliminate all my wants and desires and to stop feeling my needs.
Or to deny all my needs.
Besides, I seemed incapable of achieving any financial goal I set for myself.
In episode 21, we interview David Beattie, the author of "The expert landlord" and owner of Equip Property Services, a real estate letting brokerage firm.
David started off as a property investor and soon realized that he was a better property manager than investor, so he changed gears and built a brokerage firm that specializes in property management.
Furaya Joyce says, "Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you've outgrown."
I can't get this quote out of my mind and I keep thinking about how we sabotage ourselves financially to fit people and places we’ve outgrown:
*Job positions
*Clients
*Managers
*Pricing (refusing to increase price to reflect quality and experience)
*Friends
*Countries
*Romantic relationships
We know it's time to move on, but we refuse and fight it at all costs.
We see the signs and fight them.
We hear the intuitive nudge and ignore it.
Until life makes us and forces us out and when that happens, it's not nice and never peaceful.
How are you shrinking yourself to fit in something you have outgrown and how is it affecting your finances?
When we shrink ourselves, we make ourselves invisible so we can fit in.
This is the second part of episode 20, the podcast on land.
In part 2 of the podcast, our guest is Manti Maifadi, she and her husband, Sam, own Naledi Farm, an agritourism destination for guests who come from the city.
How do you feel about asking for money in any situation?
- Asking clients to pay you?
- Asking for a raise?
- Asking friends to pay you what they owe you?
What goes through your head when you have to ask for money, even if it’s money owed to you?
Asking for money or increasing my prices and letting people know about the price increase was very stressful for me.
I used to believe that asking for money made me look like a beggar and made people pity me; I used to think people would look at me and think, “oh shame, she’s broke, that’s why she is asking for her money.”
And because I didn’t want the pity (even when I was broke), I’d wait, pray and hope that people would remember to pay me my money or tip me for work done.
