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"I think we live in a very interconnected world. When I first started SheTakesOnTheWorld.com, I was building my first business, traveling the world and documenting the experience on this little personal blog. Now, we reach a community of tens of thousands from all over the planet."
"I was smart enough to start asking the question, “What are successful people doing that I’m not doing?” And I began reaching out to mentors who pushed me and steered me... One by one, I started acting upon those principles and those practices."
"I don’t spend a lot of time in the negative with my clients. I’ve been schooled in positive psychology so we spend a lot of time thinking through what you want and how to get there. We're not dwelling on why you’re not there."
"I’m teaching students to become debt-free every single day. How can I teach them that if I’m not doing it myself? I think that’s counterintuitive. So, I used my class as my motivation, I made them my accountability partner in this process."
"My hubby and I are debt free, but have basically zero retirement saved. We want to begin investing for retirement immediately, but we also want to buy a house. We currently have 5% of a down payment. What should we do?"
"You’ve got to be aware that sometimes even when you’re doing everything right, you can stumble and you can get booted out. That’s just the way that the economy goes these days. That’s just the new way of doing business."
"In the book, we try to shine some light on the fact that the average investor is being systematically taken advantage of by the financial services industry and by average investor, we mean anyone who has a retirement account, anyone who has a 401(k)."
"The words you use to describe yourself and your business are so important whether it’s your home page or your about page. People go to your about page maybe first after they’ve landed on your website, that’s I think the number two most visited page."
"When I think about Goop, I think less about contextual commerce. I think of it as "actionable content" because not all of our content relates to products that you can buy. It’s more about doing something, so it’s content that I read and I can take action against."
