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Tenth Grade Dropout to Real Estate Investor: The Mindset with Gail Villanueva

Episode Summary

Gail is a mortgage note investor and author of Real Estate-What's Your Best Fit? She has had a fascinating career going from top real estate agent to working at NASA. She also has experience in real estate wholesaling and property rehabs. Most interesting is that she has lived through the deaths of her mother, sister, father, and daughter. She left home at the age of 16. Fast-forward to today, she has achieved financial freedom through passive cash flow.

Episode Notes

Gail is a mortgage note investor and author of Real Estate—What's Your Best Fit? She has had a fascinating career going from top real estate agent to working at NASA. She also has experience in real estate wholesaling and property rehabs. Most interesting is that she has lived through the deaths of her mother, sister, father, and daughter. She left home at the age of 16. Fast-forward to today, she has achieved financial freedom through passive cash flow.

Favorite Quotes: 

“What you think about is where you go.”

“We’re locked down but our minds are not.”

Takeaways:

• Trust your gut instinct, which processes information more quickly than your mind, when you are making a course correction
• Everybody has the same goals of wanting a better life; don’t judge others
• Just because someone else close to you lives a certain way doesn’t mean that has something to do with you and your life
• It’s okay if the answer is “I don’t know” when grieving the loss of someone close
• Starting with why is the first step to goal-setting
• There are positives to the lockdown if you choose to see it
• The power of visualization and being open to possibilities

What you’ll learn:

• How Gail survived and adapted growing up witnessing the deaths of her sister and mother, dropping out of tenth grade, and becoming homeless
• The defining moment when she decided to leave home
• Why and how she made a pivot to working at NASA while selling real estate, and how she managed her time to do both
• How she found inspiration while sleeping at the Greyhound terminal and being jobless
• How Gail dealt with a divorce after 25 years of marriage around the 9/11 attacks and saw the opportunity within it
• What to do during the grieving process
• About Gail’s morning routine, which includes gratitude, planning, journaling, and coffee

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• Real Estate: What’s Your Best Fit? - Gail Villanueva

Links:

Gail the Note Gal

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