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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi. I am Rashan McDonald, a host the weekly Money
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- 0:23Speaker 1: to me. Now let's get this show started. My guest
- 0:26Speaker 1: is founder and chief executive officer of Implify, a leading
- 0:31Speaker 1: fintech company dedicated to financial education. She is the former
- 0:35Speaker 1: Wall Street analyst, Howell University graduate and an expert in
- 0:39Speaker 1: our field and financial education. It's a new year, a
- 0:44Speaker 1: new White House administration, so it's time to update your
- 0:47Speaker 1: financial literacy. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation Masterclass Ashley M. Fox.
- 0:54Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. Thank you.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Welcome Ashley, thank you, thank you. What do you do?
- 0:59Speaker 3: I financially empower the world, showing them that they that
- 1:04Speaker 3: they can start with who they are and what they
- 1:05Speaker 3: have and effectively build wealth generation at the generation.
- 1:09Speaker 1: How is it that defined in your brand? How did
- 1:13Speaker 1: you figure that out?
- 1:15Speaker 3: So? I always wanted to be in finance cause I
- 1:18Speaker 3: liked making money and I liked business. So I went
- 1:20Speaker 3: to Howard major in finance, and I wanted to be
- 1:23Speaker 3: in the financial.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Capital of the world, which was Wall Street.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Now, remember I just wanted to make money, so I
- 1:28Speaker 3: wanted to be around it, and had four internships laying
- 1:32Speaker 3: in my dream job working with ultra high network in
- 1:35Speaker 3: individuals on Wall Street, and I got to see the
- 1:37Speaker 3: ins and outs of what everybody did with their money.
- 1:40Speaker 3: So if you had at least twenty five million dollars,
- 1:42Speaker 3: I was in your bank account. And from where they shop, traveled, lived,
- 1:46Speaker 3: what they invested in, how they avoided taxes. Like I
- 1:48Speaker 3: learned so much. But when I went back home in
- 1:50Speaker 3: to Philly, where I'm from, people thought I was rich.
- 1:51Speaker 2: And so I'm making a.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Good six figures in my twenties. But I'm like, this
- 1:55Speaker 3: isn't money what I'm seeing on Wall Street. I want
- 1:58Speaker 3: that life and I want the world to have that.
- 2:00Speaker 3: And so I learned that to truly build wealth in
- 2:02Speaker 3: this country, you have to either create your own idea
- 2:04Speaker 3: or invest in somebody else's idea. And I wanted to
- 2:07Speaker 3: be able to create my own, and so I left
- 2:09Speaker 3: Wall Street and created this word called amplify, which was
- 2:13Speaker 3: more really about a feeling because the biggest thing I
- 2:15Speaker 3: learned on Wall Street it's not that there's a lack
- 2:17Speaker 3: of financial education. There may be a lack of implementation,
- 2:20Speaker 3: but there's also a lack of self belief. When you
- 2:23Speaker 3: think and know and believe you have the power to
- 2:25Speaker 3: create wealth and you deserve wealth, you move a different way.
- 2:28Speaker 3: But if you don't come from money, you're not around it.
- 2:31Speaker 3: The lack of belief is there. And so I wanted
- 2:33Speaker 3: to be able to instill the Wall Street experience, the
- 2:35Speaker 3: Wall Street knowledge and bring it to the everyday person,
- 2:38Speaker 3: and so create this word called emplify, which is a
- 2:40Speaker 3: word in power and modify merge together. Where the goal
- 2:43Speaker 3: was to be able to give you those financial tools
- 2:44Speaker 3: and resources, give it you in the palm of your hand,
- 2:46Speaker 3: so that you're not running from money or afraid to
- 2:49Speaker 3: talk about it, you're running towards it. And so left
- 2:51Speaker 3: Wall Street creating them five lost Everything got to a
- 2:54Speaker 3: point where.
- 2:55Speaker 1: Now lost everything explain.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Got kicked out my apartment, maxed out credit cards, and
- 3:03Speaker 3: slept on my parents' couch for two years. After being
- 3:05Speaker 3: evicted from my apartment with the intent to build empathy.
- 3:08Speaker 3: And I think when you get to a certain point
- 3:10Speaker 3: in life where you see certain things. I could not
- 3:12Speaker 3: unsee the money that Wall Street exposed me to. So
- 3:14Speaker 3: you couldn't tell me that I couldn't have it, and
- 3:16Speaker 3: you couldn't tell me that the world could not obtain it,
- 3:18Speaker 3: and I was gonna be the woman.
- 3:19Speaker 2: To be able to give it to the world.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Went on to create financial education programs in school systems
- 3:24Speaker 3: and prison systems because I felt like prison systems, yeah,
- 3:30Speaker 3: one of the things. So prior to after leaving Wall Street,
- 3:33Speaker 3: I was a financial advisor, so I was targeting load
- 3:36Speaker 3: of moderate income individuals but giving them the tools and
- 3:38Speaker 3: resources Wall Street gave to its rich clients. Got to
- 3:41Speaker 3: a point where I felt like I was dealing with
- 3:43Speaker 3: a lot of mentally and financially broken adults, and it's like,
- 3:45Speaker 3: how can we prevent that from happening? Because you shouldn't
- 3:48Speaker 3: learn about money once you get it. You should learn
- 3:50Speaker 3: about it before you even get to that space in life.
- 3:52Speaker 3: And so he wanted to go into the school system,
- 3:54Speaker 3: and so I went into the school system, was teaching schools,
- 3:57Speaker 3: had contracts with school districts, and then the prison system
- 3:59Speaker 3: reached out to me, and so that was never the
- 4:01Speaker 3: I was n I think the big overarching goal was
- 4:03Speaker 3: a target at ninety nine percent. I think I stopped
- 4:06Speaker 3: worrying about how I was gonna do it and just
- 4:08Speaker 3: knew the impact was going to be felt when when
- 4:10Speaker 3: the right opportunities came to the prison system. So at
- 4:12Speaker 3: the time they were there were a lot of children
- 4:14Speaker 3: or miners incarcerated at Rikers, and they created that law
- 4:18Speaker 3: that now says adults and children cannot be housed in
- 4:21Speaker 3: prison together. And so they took all those children who
- 4:24Speaker 3: were under eighteen from Rikers and we've taught them financial education.
- 4:28Speaker 3: So literally every single week I was in a prison
- 4:30Speaker 3: system teaching kids from Rikers how to build wealth, which.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Was Now, when you say underserved community, who are you
- 4:38Speaker 1: talking about to me?
- 4:39Speaker 3: When I say that, I mean the individuals that could
- 4:41Speaker 3: not walk to the twenty seventh floor that big bank
- 4:43Speaker 3: that I worked at because they did not have twenty
- 4:45Speaker 3: five million dollars. The people who didn't have the financial
- 4:48Speaker 3: education and resources may not have come from money but
- 4:50Speaker 3: deserved to have it, just don't know how to make
- 4:52Speaker 3: financially educated decisions.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Now you say twenty dollars. Absolutely, twenty dollars.
- 4:58Speaker 2: We could go to ten.
- 4:59Speaker 1: Talk to us because my audience is listening.
- 5:01Speaker 3: So when you think about investing, when it comes to
- 5:04Speaker 3: investing in your own idea of somebody else's idea, one,
- 5:06Speaker 3: don't let the internet fool you. You don't have to
- 5:08Speaker 3: have a business to build wealth. Right now, you can
- 5:11Speaker 3: invest in somebody else's business. And one of the easiest
- 5:14Speaker 3: ways to do that, where you don't need a lot
- 5:15Speaker 3: of money to start, you don't need to be an
- 5:17Speaker 3: expert in finance, is to buy a stock. And I
- 5:19Speaker 3: think back when I was on Wall Street back in
- 5:21Speaker 3: like twenty ten, the.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Game was different.
- 5:24Speaker 3: Now it is a lot easier, it's a lot more accessible,
- 5:27Speaker 3: and you have the Internet now, and so you can
- 5:29Speaker 3: open broken accounts. It's the account that you need to
- 5:31Speaker 3: buy a stock with less than twenty dollars. I always
- 5:34Speaker 3: tell people just start with twenty dollars because you can
- 5:36Speaker 3: buy pieces of company. So the way I think of
- 5:37Speaker 3: a stock is like a box of pizza. The company
- 5:40Speaker 3: is the whole pie, but each slice is a piece
- 5:43Speaker 3: of that company. When you go and buy a stock,
- 5:45Speaker 3: you're buying that slice. Every slice has a price Now,
- 5:48Speaker 3: let's just say the price is one hundred dollars, but
- 5:50Speaker 3: you don't have one hundred dollars. You might only have fifty.
- 5:53Speaker 3: You can get a half of that slice. You still
- 5:55Speaker 3: own a piece of that company. You still have that slice.
- 5:57Speaker 3: And if the value of that slice goes up, down,
- 5:59Speaker 3: or however moves, so does your net worth attached to it.
- 6:02Speaker 2: And so the.
- 6:03Speaker 3: Biggest thing I tell people is that you don't have
- 6:04Speaker 3: to have a lot of money to start.
- 6:05Speaker 2: You just have to have the will to begin.
- 6:07Speaker 3: Because investing is not just something that you are, something
- 6:10Speaker 3: that you do. It's one thing you become. And you
- 6:12Speaker 3: gotta be consistent. Because if I told you now, I'd
- 6:15Speaker 3: give you twenty dollars every single month for.
- 6:16Speaker 2: The rest of your life, would you take it?
- 6:18Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 6:19Speaker 2: Why would you take it?
- 6:19Speaker 1: Right? It's not a lot of money, but I feel
- 6:22Speaker 1: that it's money.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Right, So that's how we got to think about it.
- 6:25Speaker 3: So a whole lot of twenty dollars can get you
- 6:27Speaker 3: to a million as long as.
- 6:28Speaker 2: You don't stop.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Right, let's talk about this. I'm speaking to Ashley M. Fox,
- 6:33Speaker 1: founder of Amplifier. Ashley, before we go any further, how
- 6:37Speaker 1: do we reach out to you, so you.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Can email me infow at implify dot com.
- 6:41Speaker 3: Our website is wwwmpify dot com empify dot com and
- 6:45Speaker 3: I'm all across all social media platforms on Instagram, Underscore,
- 6:48Speaker 3: Ashley and Fox, TikTok, I am the Ashley m Fox
- 6:51Speaker 3: LinkedIn YouTube, Ashley and Fox as well.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Okay, I've been intervying you a lot, and if I
- 6:55Speaker 1: always walked away educated because you had it you being
- 6:59Speaker 1: in HBCU graduate Howard Yes, the Big Age, Yes went
- 7:08Speaker 1: to Wall Street. Talk about that moment when you went,
- 7:12Speaker 1: this is not me.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Okay, I remember it.
- 7:15Speaker 3: There was a day, well eight months into my job,
- 7:19Speaker 3: I was a bit uneasy. I didn't have the desire
- 7:22Speaker 3: to be great. I didn't have the desire to stay late,
- 7:24Speaker 3: and I'm wired to strive for excellence. I did everything
- 7:27Speaker 3: I could. Four internships at I were graduated when honors.
- 7:30Speaker 3: I had to be the best of anything.
- 7:32Speaker 2: That I did.
- 7:33Speaker 3: But I didn't want to be the best on Wall Street,
- 7:34Speaker 3: and so I thought something was wrong with me. But
- 7:36Speaker 3: I got more joy out of studying our clients and
- 7:39Speaker 3: learning how they built their wealth versus watching them sustain
- 7:43Speaker 3: it and helping them stay rich. And I actually always
- 7:45Speaker 3: want to be a teacher, though, but I did not
- 7:47Speaker 3: associate education with money, and so I chose the money
- 7:51Speaker 3: route personally. But I remember this one time, a really
- 7:55Speaker 3: good friend of mine told me to go to so
- 7:58Speaker 3: I worked at the head quarters of a company on
- 8:01Speaker 3: Overlooking Park Avenue, and so I sat on the twenty
- 8:03Speaker 3: seventh floor. He's like, look outside and look at all
- 8:05Speaker 3: the people. How do you feel? And I was like,
- 8:07Speaker 3: I feel trapped, right, And he was just like, okay,
- 8:09Speaker 3: I want you to close your eyes and envision its
- 8:10Speaker 3: building is empty and it's all yours. How do you feel?
- 8:13Speaker 3: And I was like, I feel on top of the world.
- 8:15Speaker 3: And in that moment, I couldn't tell you why I
- 8:18Speaker 3: felt trapped. And in that moment, when that building was mine,
- 8:21Speaker 3: I felt like I could do anything. And that just
- 8:23Speaker 3: did something to me. So I think that exact same
- 8:26Speaker 3: exercise with one of my colleagues. I'm like, look out
- 8:28Speaker 3: the window. How do you feel. He's like I feel fine?
- 8:30Speaker 3: And I'm like, no, no, no, how do you feel?
- 8:33Speaker 3: He's like I feel regular? And that's when I knew
- 8:34Speaker 3: I was different. That's when I knew I wasn't the
- 8:36Speaker 3: woman helping wealthy people stay wealthy. I was that wealthy
- 8:39Speaker 3: client that belonged in that building. But I also knew
- 8:41Speaker 3: that I could create that life for myself by showing
- 8:43Speaker 3: others how they could do the same.
- 8:44Speaker 1: But you've done that, Now how are you reaching people?
- 8:47Speaker 1: I know you have the social website, but how do
- 8:51Speaker 1: you reach your clients?
- 8:53Speaker 3: The biggest way right now, considering this day and age,
- 8:55Speaker 3: is digital marketing when it comes to maximize on all
- 8:58Speaker 3: social media platforms. I think the big this thing for
- 9:00Speaker 3: me is just being normal, meeting people where they are.
- 9:03Speaker 3: I don't have to have a suit, I don't have
- 9:05Speaker 3: to be on Wall Street. It's meeting people where they
- 9:07Speaker 3: are with what they have. So where are our customers.
- 9:09Speaker 3: Our customers aren't walking into a Wall Street bank, They're
- 9:12Speaker 3: on social media, they're watching television.
- 9:13Speaker 2: How can I meet them where they are?
- 9:14Speaker 3: And we have our Welfareess community membership platform who are
- 9:18Speaker 3: now adults on their phone can learn financial education and
- 9:21Speaker 3: be anywhere in the world, will be amongst thousands of
- 9:23Speaker 3: people doing the exact same thing. And so I would
- 9:26Speaker 3: say the biggest, biggest and most impact for us is
- 9:28Speaker 3: maximizing social media because one of the biggest things I
- 9:30Speaker 3: always tell people, you never know who's watching. I've gone
- 9:32Speaker 3: on national television because a company slid in my dms
- 9:36Speaker 3: on LinkedIn, or on TikTok or on Instagram. And so
- 9:39Speaker 3: if for me, it's like, how do I tell our story?
- 9:41Speaker 3: How do I live my normal life? How do I
- 9:43Speaker 3: show you my ups my downs? Bring you along this journey,
- 9:45Speaker 3: but give you the most education that you can receive
- 9:49Speaker 3: that the school system forgot.
- 9:50Speaker 2: They give you.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Your brand is Ashley M. Fox. Yes, three numbers, seven
- 9:55Speaker 1: point four million, Yes, three thousand, Yes, accounts twenty five
- 10:00Speaker 1: for countries. Wow, those are milestones.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely you And how were you university to graduate? Yes?
- 10:08Speaker 1: Your job was to work on Wall Street. Tell us
- 10:11Speaker 1: about that journey to what I just said?
- 10:15Speaker 2: Woof okay, okay.
- 10:18Speaker 3: So we got to the point where I got kicked out,
- 10:21Speaker 3: We got to the point where where we were teaching schools.
- 10:23Speaker 3: We got to the point where in prison systems. It
- 10:25Speaker 3: got to a point where so many people were reaching
- 10:27Speaker 3: out to us that I couldn't scale. I turned into
- 10:32Speaker 3: an individual who built a company that was hiring and
- 10:35Speaker 3: firing people, not massively distributing financial education. And in that moment,
- 10:39Speaker 3: I realized I needed technology now. At that point. I
- 10:41Speaker 3: had no idea what that was. I just knew how
- 10:43Speaker 3: could I take financial education? And I want to give
- 10:45Speaker 3: people in person and give that same dynamic experience through
- 10:48Speaker 3: technology to scale it. And so in twenty twenty, when
- 10:52Speaker 3: COVID hit, schools didn't know how to operate, and so
- 10:56Speaker 3: the beauty of that was, at that point, we were
- 10:58Speaker 3: only teaching children, okay, and adults were like, hey what
- 11:02Speaker 3: about us? And I didn't want to be a financial
- 11:04Speaker 3: advisor because I can only talk to so many people
- 11:06Speaker 3: as your advisor, So how can I massively reach children?
- 11:08Speaker 3: How can I massively reach adults With the financial education
- 11:11Speaker 3: and resources they're asking for.
- 11:13Speaker 2: I just gotta figure out how to give it to them.
- 11:15Speaker 3: And so when COVID hit, the beauty of it was
- 11:17Speaker 3: we could not go into schools anymore cause they didn't
- 11:19Speaker 3: even know how to operate. And so that's when we
- 11:20Speaker 3: launched our membership based platform, the Well for this community,
- 11:23Speaker 3: which we like to call like the Netflix of finance,
- 11:25Speaker 3: where you have access to over three hundred hours of
- 11:27Speaker 3: of classes, tools, resources. We have events in person digital
- 11:31Speaker 3: events where you're learning how to build wealth, whether it's
- 11:34Speaker 3: from buying your first stock to building your estate planning,
- 11:36Speaker 3: to properly pass down your wealth plan for retirement, invest
- 11:39Speaker 3: for your children. And so literally, with those numbers you
- 11:42Speaker 3: were stating, our members have opened over three thousand accounts.
- 11:45Speaker 3: So we're talking about first time investors who might not
- 11:47Speaker 3: who might not have even had twenty dollars, but figured
- 11:50Speaker 3: out how to start with at least five dollars to
- 11:53Speaker 3: get their account open and to buy their first stock.
- 11:55Speaker 3: And collectively our members have invested over seven point four
- 11:58Speaker 3: million dollars. And this is like, if you to this
- 12:00Speaker 3: out of today, you want to invest for with one
- 12:01Speaker 3: hundred dollars, we track that number you submitted it. We
- 12:04Speaker 3: have this race. We're on a race to now ten million.
- 12:06Speaker 3: My goal for twenty twenty five is a race to
- 12:08Speaker 3: twenty million.
- 12:09Speaker 1: So okay, okay, let's get in this race. Now, get
- 12:12Speaker 1: me in this race. Talk to me.
- 12:16Speaker 3: You now you well one, this is exclusive to the
- 12:20Speaker 3: wealth biteressed community. So you gotta get in. And when
- 12:23Speaker 3: you're in, you got to commit to investing. There is
- 12:26Speaker 3: no pressure on how much, There is no pressure on
- 12:29Speaker 3: what you buy. It is I need to know you
- 12:30Speaker 3: process that transaction and you investing in somebody else's company
- 12:33Speaker 3: with the intent to build your wealth for you and
- 12:35Speaker 3: your family. And we have an infrastructure in place that
- 12:37Speaker 3: calculates and all of the investments that our members doing.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Right now, we're at seven point four million, but I
- 12:43Speaker 3: believe we can get to twenty million this year. And
- 12:45Speaker 3: so the more people we impact, the more education we
- 12:47Speaker 3: give them, the more comfortable they are with investing for themselves.
- 12:51Speaker 2: We're able to get that done.
- 12:52Speaker 1: My daughter when she hears you, she's a fan. And
- 12:56Speaker 1: because you simplify things, because you impa five thids.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Yes, okay, there you go.
- 13:04Speaker 1: Educating families. How do you do that?
- 13:08Speaker 3: There's always one wealth builder in the family there. You
- 13:11Speaker 3: gotta find that one. And it's not not everybody is
- 13:14Speaker 3: always ready. Everybody wants money, but not everybody's ready to
- 13:18Speaker 3: become the person they need to become to prioritize themselves
- 13:22Speaker 3: and wealth for their family. Because it's so much bigger
- 13:25Speaker 3: than how much money you make. It's so much bigger
- 13:27Speaker 3: than your past, so much bigger than your credit score,
- 13:29Speaker 3: so much bigger than a president in the United States.
- 13:30Speaker 3: It has to be something inside of you. So you
- 13:32Speaker 3: gotta find that one person in the family that says,
- 13:34Speaker 3: nobody but me is gonna lead the charge for my family,
- 13:37Speaker 3: and I'm gonna do it whether they're on board or not.
- 13:39Speaker 3: And so for me, that was me and my family
- 13:41Speaker 3: when my my family didn't buy stocks, so I opened
- 13:43Speaker 3: all their brother's accounts, I funded all their accounts, I
- 13:46Speaker 3: got all the life insurance policies. But now we're in
- 13:49Speaker 3: a space where they're doing it themselves. Now they're in
- 13:52Speaker 3: a space where they're trusting themselves to be able to
- 13:55Speaker 3: do it, and that's important. So it's one you have
- 13:58Speaker 3: to set the tone for yourself and shine that light
- 14:00Speaker 3: on you first, because at some point that light will
- 14:03Speaker 3: shine on your family.
- 14:03Speaker 2: They'll either follow sup, but they're always watching.
- 14:06Speaker 3: And as long as you commit to something more than
- 14:08Speaker 3: just your personal gain, because it has to be bigger
- 14:10Speaker 3: than you, Especially for parents, it's like you might not
- 14:12Speaker 3: have had it when they were growing up, or you
- 14:14Speaker 3: might not have had it growing up. But what about today,
- 14:16Speaker 3: What if we can twenty dollars our way so that
- 14:19Speaker 3: our kids don't have to take our student loans the
- 14:20Speaker 3: way we did. What if we can twenty dollars our
- 14:22Speaker 3: way to ensure that our kids are set for retirement
- 14:24Speaker 3: because we may not have been set for retirement and
- 14:26Speaker 3: so it has to be something.
- 14:27Speaker 2: So much bigger than you.
- 14:28Speaker 3: And then once your family sees what you're committed to
- 14:31Speaker 3: and they see your growth, they will begin to follow suit.
- 14:34Speaker 3: Now it might take long, you might not get every
- 14:35Speaker 3: family member, but you cannot say that you did not
- 14:38Speaker 3: do the best that you can for the people that
- 14:39Speaker 3: you love without having to rely on anybody else, or
- 14:42Speaker 3: any infrastructure or any system.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Just a person in the mirror.
- 14:45Speaker 1: Are you, Ashley, in fact, part of a movement?
- 14:50Speaker 2: That is a great question.
- 14:51Speaker 1: HM.
- 14:53Speaker 2: My first thought was, amplify is the movement? It just
- 14:56Speaker 2: has My.
- 14:57Speaker 1: DNA and financial livers say, seems trendy. I see a
- 15:03Speaker 1: lot of people out there. I won't say no names,
- 15:06Speaker 1: I won't say they're frauds, but I don't like what
- 15:09Speaker 1: they're doing because I know it's not right in the
- 15:12Speaker 1: way they apply it, like it's a YouTube setup. How
- 15:16Speaker 1: do you separate yourself from I want to say competition.
- 15:20Speaker 3: One of the biggest thing I do I don't do
- 15:22Speaker 3: is bash other people. That's the first that's my first standard.
- 15:27Speaker 3: Because I remember when I was on Wall Street, when
- 15:29Speaker 3: I bought my first stock in twenty eleven, twenty twelve,
- 15:31Speaker 3: there was no financial educational Internet. I have my Wall
- 15:35Speaker 3: Street and the everyday person did not have it. It
- 15:38Speaker 3: was not in your school system. You weren't talking about
- 15:39Speaker 3: the dinner table. So one of the beautiful things about
- 15:42Speaker 3: the Internet is that at least there is a conversation
- 15:45Speaker 3: about something our community has never talked about. That's the
- 15:48Speaker 3: first thing. So I applaud anybody who makes an attempt
- 15:52Speaker 3: right now. One of the biggest things that I think
- 15:54Speaker 3: I do, and an advantage I might have, is I come.
- 15:57Speaker 2: From a Wall Street background.
- 15:58Speaker 3: Yes, so I knew finance and was doing finance before
- 16:02Speaker 3: the Internet became a thing. The Internet just became an
- 16:05Speaker 3: outlet for me to release what was already inside of
- 16:07Speaker 3: my heart. And so my story never changed from the
- 16:10Speaker 3: day I started posting on Instagram to the day I
- 16:12Speaker 3: left Wall Street.
- 16:13Speaker 2: My mission has never changed.
- 16:14Speaker 3: I've gone through things in life, I've evolved as a woman,
- 16:17Speaker 3: but the core focus was always dedicated to the people
- 16:19Speaker 3: that I did not see come into that building when
- 16:21Speaker 3: I worked on Wall Street. And so I think one
- 16:22Speaker 3: of the biggest differentiators is one I never did this
- 16:25Speaker 3: for money, mm, because if I wanted money, I would
- 16:28Speaker 3: have stayed on Wall Street. Like if I'm if like
- 16:30Speaker 3: I went through a lot to even try to figure
- 16:32Speaker 3: out how to teach a child how to buy a
- 16:34Speaker 3: stock when people were not paying emplify anything. And so
- 16:37Speaker 3: I think one the authenticity around the purpose where it's
- 16:41Speaker 3: not driven by money but driven by the how.
- 16:42Speaker 2: To show the world how to build that wealth.
- 16:44Speaker 3: MM people can feel that, and I run my entire
- 16:47Speaker 3: company like that. And so when we think of Empify,
- 16:50Speaker 3: and if you look at our logo, it's it's it's
- 16:52Speaker 3: a transformation into the colored green. Green doesn't represent money,
- 16:56Speaker 3: it represents the heart chakra. So everything we lead with
- 16:59Speaker 3: is from all Because if you love the person in
- 17:01Speaker 3: the mirror, you can build any type of wealth that
- 17:03Speaker 3: you need. But if you don't believe in a person
- 17:04Speaker 3: in the mirror, it's now empathized job to believe in you.
- 17:08Speaker 3: And because I've seen what was possible and you might
- 17:10Speaker 3: not have, you got to borrow my belief. But if
- 17:13Speaker 3: I don't love you for who you are to take
- 17:14Speaker 3: you where you need to go, it doesn't work. And
- 17:15Speaker 3: I think that is what people can feel.
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- 17:44Speaker 1: Ashley, I go to your social media, you are fire taking,
- 17:51Speaker 1: I see finance, I see fashion. Is that intentional?
- 17:55Speaker 2: Absolutely?
- 17:58Speaker 3: When I went to Howard, one of the best there's
- 18:00Speaker 3: things I loved about Howard is that you had to
- 18:02Speaker 3: wear a black and blue suit to business orientation twice
- 18:05Speaker 3: a week. Yes, I learned how to eat, I learned
- 18:07Speaker 3: how to dress. I had the ugly stockings, I had
- 18:09Speaker 3: to shoes. I had all of that to prepare me
- 18:11Speaker 3: to be on Wall Street. And I don't I couldn't
- 18:14Speaker 3: say that it was fully who I was, And I
- 18:17Speaker 3: can't say that that always resonates with the people that
- 18:19Speaker 3: I serve. And so the day that I left Wall Street,
- 18:21Speaker 3: I told myself, I will never go wear stockings. I
- 18:24Speaker 3: would not force myself to wear a black or blue suit.
- 18:27Speaker 3: I was going to create and feel that Ashley I
- 18:32Speaker 3: wanted to be and show the world wealth doesn't have
- 18:34Speaker 3: a color. Therefore it looks like Ashton Marie Fox, and
- 18:37Speaker 3: so I am intentional about what I wear, how I look,
- 18:41Speaker 3: because if I wore a suit, if I look like
- 18:44Speaker 3: I'm on Wall Street, you would judge me, Yes, you
- 18:47Speaker 3: would you You would have a preconcy perception.
- 18:49Speaker 2: You might be a little intimidated.
- 18:51Speaker 3: But no matter what I look like, the moment I
- 18:54Speaker 3: open my mouth, it sounds like I worked on Wall Street.
- 18:56Speaker 3: It sounds like that I have education, And so for me,
- 18:58Speaker 3: I want to be Ashley and I wanna connect with
- 19:01Speaker 3: the people that from a normal place. I don't want
- 19:04Speaker 3: to be black and blue suit trench coach like Wall
- 19:06Speaker 3: Street has a look and it it works well. But
- 19:09Speaker 3: for the audience, I want to serve who who hasn't
- 19:11Speaker 3: had the opportunity to be in that building. What if
- 19:13Speaker 3: I built my own building and we looked we all
- 19:15Speaker 3: looked a different way, and it didn't have a uniform
- 19:18Speaker 3: and had a level of excellence based off of who
- 19:20Speaker 3: you were and what you wanted to do.
- 19:21Speaker 2: And this is just who actually is.
- 19:23Speaker 1: That's all Ashley Financial literacy, social media engagement. Are you
- 19:28Speaker 1: shocked how people react to you?
- 19:30Speaker 3: In the beginning, I was if I'm if I'm being
- 19:33Speaker 3: really honest? The reason I went the reason I went
- 19:35Speaker 3: to therapy is I was asked to be on Fox News.
- 19:39Speaker 3: This was like twenty seventeen and no, no, even before that,
- 19:42Speaker 3: I was featured on Jim Kramer's The Street in twenty fourteen.
- 19:45Speaker 3: That was the first time I had makeup. I was
- 19:46Speaker 3: in a green room and I was I didn't really
- 19:48Speaker 3: sign out to be famous. And I was also on
- 19:49Speaker 3: the version and kicked out my apartment. So I felt like,
- 19:51Speaker 3: who am Midasa? The world about money and I don't
- 19:53Speaker 3: even have it. But when I started going on TV
- 19:56Speaker 3: and people started to reach out, I liked what I saw. Uh,
- 20:00Speaker 3: you know how you look at yourself on camera, you
- 20:01Speaker 3: tryn to find what's wrong with you, Like there was
- 20:03Speaker 3: nothing wrong. I did great, but I couldn't handle it.
- 20:06Speaker 3: And so I remember a mentor of mine telling me,
- 20:09Speaker 3: it's selfish of you to how who you are from
- 20:10Speaker 3: the world, knowing what you know. And in that moment,
- 20:13Speaker 3: it was kind of like, however, Astuley and her energy
- 20:15Speaker 3: and whoever she is, and it's becoming that needs to
- 20:19Speaker 3: be seen because when I think about just a a
- 20:22Speaker 3: black person in finance, with the education, with the intellect,
- 20:26Speaker 3: with the credentials, we don't always have that and it's
- 20:29Speaker 3: like they might exist, but they might not be allowed
- 20:32Speaker 3: to be public the way I am because we were
- 20:34Speaker 3: for a bank.
- 20:34Speaker 2: You can't really do a lot of those things.
- 20:36Speaker 3: And so it was really important for me to accept
- 20:39Speaker 3: who I was and know that my purpose in life
- 20:43Speaker 3: was not for what I wanted, but what I felt like.
- 20:44Speaker 2: The world deserved to have.
- 20:46Speaker 3: And then as time progressed, it was kind of like, Okay,
- 20:49Speaker 3: maybe you're kind of good at this, right because I
- 20:52Speaker 3: never really did it for the money, and I I
- 20:54Speaker 3: also didn't know what came with the world knowing who
- 20:56Speaker 3: I was. M. I thought it just came with the
- 20:58Speaker 3: world having what was inside my brain.
- 21:00Speaker 4: MM.
- 21:00Speaker 2: And I think it's a culmination of both.
- 21:02Speaker 3: And I think we do the Black community specifically, a
- 21:05Speaker 3: disservice by hiding who we are because there's not enough
- 21:08Speaker 3: of the excellence dominating our time lines or dominating the world.
- 21:13Speaker 3: And sometimes I feel like I have to compete with America.
- 21:16Speaker 3: I have to compete because the news is not going
- 21:18Speaker 3: to promote all positive things. That's not how they make
- 21:21Speaker 3: their money, and I respect it. So if I gotta
- 21:23Speaker 3: compete with your timeline our natural desire for negativity, because
- 21:28Speaker 3: that's what we're drawn to, that's what we sell. M
- 21:30Speaker 3: How can I just give you something that gives you
- 21:31Speaker 3: the joy that I need you to feel, and the
- 21:33Speaker 3: education and I need you to receive and constantly embedded
- 21:36Speaker 3: in your mind so that I'm conditioning you the same
- 21:38Speaker 3: way the Internet conditions your mind. And when I started
- 21:41Speaker 3: to understand the importance of that and the reframing and
- 21:44Speaker 3: the unlearning we have to have when it comes to
- 21:47Speaker 3: ref redefining what wealth is, I made that my duty.
- 21:50Speaker 3: And so I think in the beginning, no, that wasn't
- 21:52Speaker 3: the goal, and I didn't really care. But as I
- 21:56Speaker 3: started to evolve, it kind of was just like, who
- 21:57Speaker 3: but Ashley Fox is going to do this? And I
- 22:00Speaker 3: just that just became my purpose, my life's purpose.
- 22:02Speaker 1: Okay, mm compound interests account? Is that a safe way
- 22:07Speaker 1: to start a stock?
- 22:08Speaker 2: I don't think it's a this or that.
- 22:10Speaker 3: I think it's this and that, right, So I don't
- 22:12Speaker 3: I think the world tells you you get a job,
- 22:15Speaker 3: you go to school, you get the job to pay No,
- 22:17Speaker 3: you go to school, get the job, you go you
- 22:19Speaker 3: get the job to pay for school back, buy a
- 22:21Speaker 3: house and you're good, right, And I think we all
- 22:24Speaker 3: know people who make good money. Well that's not the
- 22:27Speaker 3: American way, be cause that's not a bankan SYSM makes money.
- 22:29Speaker 3: But yes, but if we talking about the actual banking system,
- 22:33Speaker 3: you buy that house, you take out that credit card,
- 22:35Speaker 3: like the bangan sism thrives off a debt. So if
- 22:38Speaker 3: we go the American way, which is fine, I just
- 22:40Speaker 3: think that's that's not we can't stop there, right. I'm
- 22:44Speaker 3: not telling you to quit your job, but I am
- 22:45Speaker 3: telling you to create wealth. I'm not telling you not
- 22:47Speaker 3: buy your house, but I do want you to know
- 22:49Speaker 3: that America makes a whole lot of money every time
- 22:50Speaker 3: you pay that mortgage, and they make a lot more
- 22:52Speaker 3: money off of you in that house. You're paying that mortgage,
- 22:54Speaker 3: but you got Undertand how the game is played.
- 22:56Speaker 2: What happens after that?
- 22:58Speaker 3: What if we save and you ud utilize savings accounts
- 23:01Speaker 3: because I have a savings account for my short term needs,
- 23:03Speaker 3: but not for my long term GA gain like my
- 23:05Speaker 3: long term game plan. So yes, you can save and invest.
- 23:10Speaker 3: Yes you can invest and pay down debt. So you're
- 23:13Speaker 3: not a bad person with debt. You're not a bad person.
- 23:15Speaker 3: If you only save, you're not a bad person. If
- 23:16Speaker 3: you don't save, but you cannot expect to have the
- 23:18Speaker 3: financial ease, the financial clarity, and the freedom you want
- 23:22Speaker 3: mentally and financially if all you're gonna do is you
- 23:25Speaker 3: to saving the account because you cannot save your weight
- 23:26Speaker 3: to wealth and you can't work your way there. And
- 23:28Speaker 3: please show me somebody who has done that, cause I
- 23:30Speaker 3: would love to talk to them. But when I was
- 23:32Speaker 3: on Wall Street, if our clients only had money in
- 23:34Speaker 3: a savings account, it was our job to tell them
- 23:36Speaker 3: how to put it to work because it's something called inflation.
- 23:39Speaker 3: You can't sit and talk to somebody with a hundred
- 23:40Speaker 3: million dollars and inflation is three percent, and they they're
- 23:43Speaker 3: gonna lose money just by sitting there. So instead of
- 23:46Speaker 3: me having a hundred million and losing thirty million on
- 23:50Speaker 3: my money, I'm thinking, I'm thinking not thirty million, but
- 23:54Speaker 3: you get y yeah, yeah, you get the math. Me
- 23:57Speaker 3: thinking what if I had a hundred dollars and I'm
- 24:00Speaker 3: losing my three percent? While it might not seem like
- 24:03Speaker 3: a lot, I gotta wire my mind, like I'm like,
- 24:06Speaker 3: I'm that one hundred million dollar person. And so I
- 24:08Speaker 3: used to like train my mind to like they started
- 24:10Speaker 3: with one hundred million. I bought my first stop with
- 24:12Speaker 3: one hundred dollars and I'm just gonna do it a
- 24:14Speaker 3: in a small way and grow over time. But I
- 24:17Speaker 3: will watch how if they had savings accounts and there
- 24:19Speaker 3: was money sitting in there, we had to go work
- 24:21Speaker 3: with investors to put together a structured plan for them
- 24:25Speaker 3: to ensure that they're not losing money with it's just
- 24:28Speaker 3: sitting there. And people think wealthy people like when you
- 24:30Speaker 3: see like big companies or people have billions of dollars
- 24:34Speaker 3: or they're worth billions. They're worth billions, they have billions
- 24:37Speaker 3: in cash. Wealthy people don't just have cash laying around.
- 24:40Speaker 3: It's always going to work. And so it's training people
- 24:43Speaker 3: to know. You gotta give your money a job description,
- 24:45Speaker 3: what is it going to do, what is it doing,
- 24:47Speaker 3: how is it performing? To make sure it gives you
- 24:49Speaker 3: what you need and the results you desire. And unfortunately
- 24:51Speaker 3: you can't do that in a savings acount. And not
- 24:53Speaker 3: to mention when people you saves, again, I don't they
- 24:55Speaker 3: know the money gets loaned.
- 24:56Speaker 2: Out the people.
- 24:57Speaker 3: So your credit card, your student loans, your business sans,
- 25:00Speaker 3: all of that comes from somebody savings account and they're
- 25:02Speaker 3: just lonely getting charging you a interest but charging someone
- 25:05Speaker 3: a higher interest rate on that debt. And that's how
- 25:07Speaker 3: the banking system makes money. So yes, but that's not
- 25:12Speaker 3: your only option. Okay, and and and and life has
- 25:15Speaker 3: shown us that that can't be your only option.
- 25:18Speaker 2: There has to be something more out there for us.
- 25:20Speaker 1: To do, right, Okay, let's this Black Enterprise honored you.
- 25:27Speaker 3: Black Enterprise, so you know what's so interesting. Black Enterprise
- 25:30Speaker 3: was one of the first companies to see me MM.
- 25:32Speaker 3: And this is back when like MM scared Ashley was
- 25:35Speaker 3: just starting therapy, and they had asked me to start
- 25:37Speaker 3: writing for them. And I'm like writing I don't even
- 25:39Speaker 3: know I knew how to write, but I'm like, I
- 25:41Speaker 3: got something to say. And I've done a lot with them,
- 25:45Speaker 3: and I've been featured a lot of places. But I
- 25:47Speaker 3: think Black Enterprise meant a lot because I did not know.
- 25:49Speaker 3: I remember seeing an email I was getting my hair done.
- 25:51Speaker 3: I was like so excited. But I remember what Black
- 25:54Speaker 3: Enterprise represented to me growing up and what it represented
- 25:58Speaker 3: to me when I was trying to figure out emplify
- 26:01Speaker 3: we weren't that when Black Enterprise saw me and I
- 26:03Speaker 3: spoke at their conferences and did interviews and things like that.
- 26:07Speaker 3: This was not the Ashley that they saw. This was
- 26:10Speaker 3: not the emplify like we were still figured. I don't
- 26:12Speaker 3: know if we had a website at certain points in time,
- 26:15Speaker 3: but it was cool that they saw something and they
- 26:19Speaker 3: felt something when it was just the idea in my mind.
- 26:21Speaker 3: And so to be able to be on and on
- 26:23Speaker 3: their forty under forty list it meant the world to me.
- 26:27Speaker 2: I've been featured a lot of places, but it was.
- 26:28Speaker 3: Like that was at one place, like you guys saw
- 26:32Speaker 3: Ashley when she was in her twenties, before Ashley even
- 26:35Speaker 3: knew that this was a possible thing, when she still
- 26:37Speaker 3: doubted herself. So it actually really really meant a lot
- 26:40Speaker 3: to me, Ashley.
- 26:42Speaker 1: I keep going back to social because you are defining
- 26:46Speaker 1: wealth from a standpoint of it can be fun, you
- 26:51Speaker 1: could be attractive, you can make money, you could be
- 26:55Speaker 1: fashion savvy. Because the way people react to you, I'm overwhelmed.
- 27:00Speaker 1: I mean brands I go, you know, especially on Instagram,
- 27:03Speaker 1: I go that many, like many, that many views, that
- 27:09Speaker 1: many views. Really, I know it's not normal because you're
- 27:13Speaker 1: not normal. What's the big picture?
- 27:16Speaker 3: I think now, it's really not a question of like
- 27:20Speaker 3: if it's a matter of when, like at what?
- 27:23Speaker 4: What?
- 27:24Speaker 2: How big can I go?
- 27:25Speaker 3: How big can I create Ashley's brand, empathize reach because
- 27:30Speaker 3: there's people all I'll be in the airport, I've I've
- 27:33Speaker 3: had conversation. I remember in Greece, I'm teaching people on
- 27:36Speaker 3: a boat about investing, and it's like, how do Because,
- 27:39Speaker 3: like I said, wealth doesn't have a color. It does
- 27:41Speaker 3: like it has no true identity to it. So it's like,
- 27:44Speaker 3: how big can I take something so general but so
- 27:49Speaker 3: important to so many people and embedded in their mind
- 27:52Speaker 3: to show them that you can heal, smile, go to therapy,
- 27:55Speaker 3: figure life out, and still build wealth.
- 27:58Speaker 2: And still do what it is you want to do.
- 28:00Speaker 3: And I think for me, it's all about every post
- 28:02Speaker 3: I make has an intention, Every post I make has
- 28:05Speaker 3: a training and an unlearning that I want to give
- 28:08Speaker 3: the world a sense of inspiration, a sense of guidance,
- 28:10Speaker 3: a sense of struggles, Like I want to be as
- 28:12Speaker 3: honest and transparent so that people can see me at
- 28:14Speaker 3: my core but also see me in the intellect that
- 28:17Speaker 3: I present. And at this point, it's just a matter
- 28:19Speaker 3: how big can you get and how consistent can you be?
- 28:23Speaker 3: And how big of a team can you build so
- 28:25Speaker 3: that this is an operating machine that changes the world
- 28:28Speaker 3: every single day with every single post.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Okay, I'll be remiss if I didn't ask you for tips,
- 28:34Speaker 1: at least three tips, then my audience could take away
- 28:36Speaker 1: from the Implify brand.
- 28:39Speaker 3: The first thing I would say, and this goes for everybody.
- 28:41Speaker 3: We don't got to go deep into this, but I
- 28:43Speaker 3: feel inclined to say this. The last time I checked personally,
- 28:48Speaker 3: there was no president that put me through college was
- 28:52Speaker 3: there with me getting kicked out my apartment building. Emplify
- 28:55Speaker 3: was there to help me buy my first stock. And
- 29:00Speaker 3: the person in the mirror is the person we always
- 29:02Speaker 3: got to depend on. And people can have their political views,
- 29:06Speaker 3: which I respect. I just think at the end of
- 29:09Speaker 3: the day is you and you, and there's no president
- 29:12Speaker 3: that can build the wealth that you can create for
- 29:14Speaker 3: your family. And I think when we allow our emotion
- 29:18Speaker 3: to subside and we start thinking like a business owner
- 29:23Speaker 3: with intellect and putting our family and our goals first.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Because you can't be angry and bill wealth at the
- 29:29Speaker 3: same time. You can't be emotional with the market and
- 29:34Speaker 3: build wealth at the same time. And so the biggest
- 29:37Speaker 3: thing I would say is let go to the emotions
- 29:38Speaker 3: and start using logic and play the game like I
- 29:41Speaker 3: wanna build a billion dollar business.
- 29:43Speaker 2: I'm not there.
- 29:43Speaker 3: Yet, but it's a lot of billion dollar businesses out
- 29:45Speaker 3: there that I can own a piece of. I don't
- 29:48Speaker 3: have to like you. I don't have to work at
- 29:51Speaker 3: the company. But if I use your product, and I'm
- 29:55Speaker 3: the reason you're a billion dollar business, I'm helping you
- 29:58Speaker 3: build wealth, so I deserve a piece of the pie.
- 30:01Speaker 3: So take the logic, own where your dollar goes, and
- 30:07Speaker 3: consider owning a piece of the company. Cause they are
- 30:10Speaker 3: about five big old companies that are worth trillion dollars,
- 30:12Speaker 3: and I can pretty much guarantee at least three out
- 30:15Speaker 3: of those five we use on a weekly basis. So
- 30:18Speaker 3: my mere existence is, for example, why an Amazon exists.
- 30:21Speaker 3: I buy Ketchup, I buy Shower, I buy everything, but
- 30:24Speaker 3: I own stock in that company.
- 30:26Speaker 2: I don't know bet Jeff Bezos.
- 30:27Speaker 3: I don't have to like Jeff Bezos, but I love
- 30:29Speaker 3: the company he created and it's getting even better. And
- 30:32Speaker 3: but I own a piece of that, and so does
- 30:34Speaker 3: my seven year old niece, and she will be wealthy
- 30:37Speaker 3: for the rest of her life. So that might have
- 30:39Speaker 3: been like five tips in one. But the moral of
- 30:40Speaker 3: the story is no emotion, straight logic, and consider the
- 30:45Speaker 3: companies you give your money to and own them because
- 30:49Speaker 3: they are a lot cheaper than you think. While it's
- 30:52Speaker 3: worth a trillion, the stock is like two hundred dollars,
- 30:55Speaker 3: the stocks are less than three four hundred dollars, right,
- 30:57Speaker 3: So really consider those things.
- 30:59Speaker 2: The other thing I would say.
- 31:00Speaker 3: Is pay yourself, and we pay everybody. We make money,
- 31:06Speaker 3: and we we want, we gotta pay our bills.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I gotta pay down debt.
- 31:11Speaker 3: It's like I was talking to somebody the other day, like, yeah,
- 31:12Speaker 3: I gotta pay down debt, and it's like, yes, do
- 31:15Speaker 3: that and invest because when you pay down debt, you're
- 31:17Speaker 3: also making the banking system richer. Mm so what about you,
- 31:22Speaker 3: Maybe we can consider owning a bank stock that we
- 31:23Speaker 3: gotta pay the credit card back to. I don't know,
- 31:25Speaker 3: but but pay you and sometimes that is twenty dollars.
- 31:29Speaker 3: And then you go pay your rent because you pay
- 31:31Speaker 3: your rent, you pay yourself one, but you pay your kids,
- 31:32Speaker 3: you pay the restaurant, uh, the bar tend at the restaurant,
- 31:34Speaker 3: You pay your cardinal, you pay your ga, you pay everybody,
- 31:37Speaker 3: and you look up and you're the one that doesn't
- 31:39Speaker 3: have money, and it's like, well, who who's gonna worry
- 31:41Speaker 3: about you? M not the American system, not the the
- 31:45Speaker 3: not the mortgage company, not the gas nobody's nobody's worrying
- 31:48Speaker 3: about you. We want them to, but they're not. They
- 31:50Speaker 3: gotta run their business. You gotta look at you like
- 31:52Speaker 3: that you incorporated. You have to take care of you.
- 31:56Speaker 3: You have to pay you, and sometimes that means you
- 31:58Speaker 3: gotta start with twenty dollars. Because people are not gonna
- 32:01Speaker 3: be driven by the result. You're gonna be driven by
- 32:02Speaker 3: your progress. I need you to be addicted to investing.
- 32:06Speaker 3: I need you to question every company you come across
- 32:09Speaker 3: and wonder, if it's publicly traded, how much is it.
- 32:11Speaker 3: Let me go research that company because I might want
- 32:13Speaker 3: to put that in my portfolio. I always tell people,
- 32:15Speaker 3: when you think about the stocks that you choose, they're
- 32:16Speaker 3: sitting at your table. Their job is to perform for you,
- 32:19Speaker 3: and if they're not, you bencham when you get rid
- 32:21Speaker 3: of them. These companies deserve to be in your portfolio,
- 32:25Speaker 3: but you have to make sure they deserve to be
- 32:26Speaker 3: sitting next to you, and that is to me.
- 32:29Speaker 2: It's an honor to be in.
- 32:30Speaker 3: Ashley's portfolio, because if I don't like you, I'm not
- 32:33Speaker 3: investing in you. But I have plans, and I know
- 32:36Speaker 3: I don't want to do it alone, so let me
- 32:38Speaker 3: help somebody. Let me allow some of these billionaires to
- 32:40Speaker 3: help me get money too. You gotta think like that.
- 32:42Speaker 3: We can't hate the people with wealth yet yet to
- 32:44Speaker 3: have a desire to obtain it. We got to figure
- 32:46Speaker 3: out how to take what we know lead, take the good,
- 32:49Speaker 3: leave the bad, to be able to change our family's
- 32:51Speaker 3: lives because nobody's gonna do it but you.
- 32:53Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, Ashley. You're wonderful as you usual. Tell
- 32:57Speaker 1: us how to rehuat.
- 32:58Speaker 3: You, Ampifi dot com, empify dot com. You can shoot
- 33:01Speaker 3: me an email info at mfi dot com. I'm across
- 33:03Speaker 3: all social media platforms, Underscore, Ashley, m Fox, TikTok, I
- 33:06Speaker 3: am the Ashley m Fox, Ashley and Fox on YouTube,
- 33:09Speaker 3: LinkedIn everywhere, and emplithizers all over Instagram social media as well.
- 33:13Speaker 3: But yes, I do respond to dms, I do respond
- 33:16Speaker 3: to emails. I might not always hit you right when
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