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SORRY, WE’RE NOT HIRING ANY VISIONARIES TODAY
I’ve been working in real estate. There was someone who knew my family for over 27 years. They’ve been a real estate agent for my whole family. He heard about my story and wanted me to come for him. But I was very focused on speaking and told him I wasn’t interested.
Eventually, the time was right for me to join him. He offered to be my mentor. I don’t have my realtor licence. I’m not allowed to do transactions and things like that, but I’m learning from him. I accompany him on every single house visit. We knock on doors, and I make cold calls.
I take care of everything that has to do with speaking. So I’m his associate, and we’ve been doing it for a couple of months. If I had known that real estate makes money, I would have done it long ago.
Being a one-woman show is already hard enough. I always want to do every- thing myself. I know what needs to be done and want to do it. But just look at it this way. Let’s say you have a task that takes an hour. That same task could take me up to two hours or more. It takes me time and a half. So it is tough for me. I do all the marketing myself. Do you have a big budget, or do you have to do everything from the bottom p? I use social media because this is something that I knew I could do.
I built myself a little platform. I haven’t been active lately, but during the COVID time, this was the peak for me. It was a peak. I got a couple of followers. Some people found out about me and invited me to Florida to speak.
In terms of local publicity, it’s mostly via word of mouth. My professor became my representative. He would refer me to organizations and take me to his speaking engagements.
In terms of my goals, I want a foundation in the next five years, but it will happen before that. I want a foundation to help people with visual impair- ments become financially independent and have a future. I want them to have a career, plans and finances. I want them to become independent.
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