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I hardly know where to begin, introducing our guest today.
She is an incredibly accomplished person in so many different realms. Her staff sent me her bio, and I’ll put it on the website, but I don’t believe that it even scratches the surface of her accomplishments and what makes her such a force of nature.
I met Ann McNeill at the National Speakers Association’s annual Influence conference. I told people I was writing a book geared toward female real estate investors and every one of them said, “Oh you have to meet Ann McNeill,” “Have you met Ann McNeill,” Come meet Ann McNeill.”
So I was finally introduced to Ann and she told me that she speaks and consults on the principles of Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich, which is true, but I found out later that she’s also mentioned in one of the latest reprint of that book, that she’s the president and CEO of MCO construction, and services, which is one of South Florida’s few African-American, female-owned construction companies and that the company is not only surviving in the male-dominated construction industry, but it is kicking butt and taking names, winning huge contracts like the $200 million American Airlines Arena project in downtown Miami.
A little while after that, I learned that she’s also the founder of NABWIC, the National Association of Black Women in Construction, helping turn contacts into contracts and it has a whole program to support STEM training for young girls. And I still, every time I meet her, I’m uncovering more of her accomplishments. She’s been featured in Black Enterprise Magazine, USA Today and ABC World News, she’s a real estate investor, a stock market investor she’s dedicated to helping black women to create lasting wealth. Ann does not do anything half way. She’s an inspiration not only to her friends and family, but to thousands of her fellow speakers, other women in construction, thousands of others who have discovered her through her speaking engagements and through her Saturday morning, International Mastermind Association podcast, which of course is an association which she founded and I’m sure I’m forgetting some things, and maybe you know some things about her that I don’t even know.
A very accomplished and well-rounded, multi-faceted person. Ann, thank you so much for joining me today.
C: The main reason that I wanted to speak to you is because I feel like you are the embodiment of the whole Get your FILL lifestyle – that you have those qualities. It seems like every time I see you, you’re taking on more things and getting more fired up about something.
Ann: It’s a goal we set – just like right now we’re talking about setting goals for the future, so it’s not a goal. I set yesterday, or last year, or even 10 years ago, even 20 years ago.
It’s a goal I set, starting with a small, itty, bitty financial goal that now has lived on for 40 years. So that’s why when you see anything that I do is not like it’s a heavy lift because many of these balls have been up in the air for 10-20-30-40 years and I’m able to see actually the power of the compounding from a $20 bill or a $50 bill every month just because of the time. In a flash, as we know with everything, with the market, half of it or all of it can go away, but learning how does not go away. And I think that a lot of what you’re talking about has to do with mindset shifts.
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