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Listen as Adina from Immigrant Finance talks about how undocumented immigrants can start investing and building wealth. Many times we are told immigrants cannot invest. This simply is not true and Adina drops some important information you don't want to miss.

Key items you will get from this episode:

If you're interested in learning more, we go deeper into all this in our group coaching program IFS. IFS is our 6 week personal finance and building wealth group coaching program for immigrants and their families. We empower people to make that shift from surviving to thriving to build generational wealth. So if you'd like more information on how to move from surviving to thriving head on over to immigrantfinanceschool.com

Victor talks about his immigration experience and experience building wealth through Airbnb rentals and his real estate investing journey. Victor and his wife, Adriana, are two Latinos living and fulfilling a minimalist lifestyle with less stuff. Listen as Victor gives helpful strategies for how you can also be successful with house hacking to reach financial independence.

You can follow their journey on Instagram: @ourjourneywithless

We invite you to a live training with Victor on increasing income through Airbnb and rental properties on Monday April 12th at 6pm PST/ 9pm EST in our private community group - “Immigrant Families Building Generational Wealth!” Join here: https://facebook.com/groups/ImmigrantFinance  

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IMMIGRANT FINANCE™

We help immigrant families build generational wealth through financial education and group coaching on money management and investing, online business development, and community accountability and support.

Subscribe to the Immigrant Finance Podcast to learn about personal finances, creating online businesses, and building wealth for immigrants and their families.

Join our Private Community Group "Building Wealth for Immigrant Families" and access a network of supportive, financial-oriented immigrant families as well as receive our complimentary trainings on finance and online business:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/ImmigrantFinance

Sign up to receive our weekly Friday newsletter with resources for immigrant families building wealth: https://immigrantfinance.com/newsletter

Apply to join Immigrant Finance School™, our personal finance and online business group coaching program for immigrant families building wealth: https://immigrantfinanceschool.com

Listen as Adina from Immigrant Finance talks about her and her husband Mauricio having their first virtual assistant in business helping with the IF podcast. Why should this matter to you and your business?

This shows that we’re growing as a community and re-investing it back in to making IF a better resource. Our desire is to help more people and this allows us to spend more focus on the actual content.

The three key takeaways:

1. Work smarter not more and definitely not harder.

2. Discomfort is expected in the beginning.

3. We have to always be expanding, forward thinking.

IMMIGRANT FINANCE™

We help immigrant families build generational wealth through financial education and group coaching on money management and investing, online business development, and community accountability and support.

Subscribe to the Immigrant Finance Podcast to learn about personal finances, creating online businesses, and building wealth for immigrants and their families.

Join our Private Community Group "Building Wealth for Immigrant Families" and access a network of supportive, financial-oriented immigrant families as well as receive our complimentary trainings on finance and online business: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ImmigrantFinance  

Sign up to receive our weekly Friday newsletter with resources for immigrant families building wealth: https://immigrantfinance.com/newsletter  

Apply to join Immigrant Finance School™, our personal finance and online business group coaching program for immigrant families building wealth: https://immigrantfinanceschool.com

Listen as Adina, from Immigrant Finance talks about how It’s more risky for money to sit in a bank account than to invest. WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT?

You need to know the pros and cons of how to navigate different financial products to build wealth for you and your family. Your money sitting in a bank account is not a real plan to build wealth. It DOES make sense for your emergency fund, but not much else. You will miss out on an opportunity of building real wealth. 

Investing is an important tool for immigrants to learn about to build wealth. Although some investments can be risky if they try to beat the market, investing with a smart, reasonable, and long-term strategy can produce wealth that an immigrant family otherwise might not have been able to obtain. Many immigrants come to the U.S. for economic opportunity with only a little bit of money and the hope and dreams of working hard for a better life. By saving money alone, an immigrant is not as likely to build wealth than if he or she invests that money to grow with time. When investing is done in a responsible manner, saving money cannot compete.

Smart, long-term investing can help an immigrant family to go from poverty and struggling financially to potentially a comfortable, middle class lifestyle building generational wealth.

Want to learn more? This is just one great example of the kinds of things we teach in Immigrant Finance School (IFS). IFS is our 6 week group coaching program for immigrant families. We empower people to make that shift from surviving to thriving to build generational wealth. So if you'd like more information on how to move from surviving to thriving head on over and apply at ImmigrantFinanceSchool.com or DM us for a direct link.

We saw it was equal pay day and thought it would be awesome to highlight the story of a woman like Fabi, who has been - and continues to be - courageous in going and asking for what she deserves for her incredible value and talent! Fabi is an  example of what it looks like, and how the universe shows up, when you take steps to own your self-worth, cultivate wellness, and embrace abundance.

Follow & Support Fabi:

IG/TikTok : @wholesome_fabi

Fabiola ("Fabo") Bautista is an immigrant who was brought to the States at an early age of one. Fabi didn’t become fully aware of her immigration status until her early teens when faced with challenges when traveling and applying to University. Determined to obtain a College degree Fabi worked full time while attending college. Ultimately, graduating with honors and a degree in Human Resource Development. Currently, Fabi works as a Corporate Trainer and Instructional Designer. Fabi recently started her side hustle, designing wellness posts for a non-profit. Fabi credits her success to a growth mindset and visualizing abundance. Fabi hopes to create a community around mindfulness and intuitive eating something she is passionate about. To find more follow her at wholesome_fabi.

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We stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community during these difficult times. The many escalating violent attacks against the AAPI community are one of the many manifestations of the white supremacist culture and systemic racism in this country.

As described by Whitney Parnel of Service Never Sleeps, scarcity mindset - the idea that there are scarce resources, not enough for everyone, and that resources have to be taken away from others to have enough - is the source of racism.

It's also the same mindset that blocks us from thriving and building wealth. Believing there are not enough resources for us is the source of many money mindset challenges.

But scarcity mindset is a myth. There are enough resource for everyone. The natural state of the world and each of us comes from a place of abundance.

Sign on to Asian American Advancing Justice's Collective Statement - "A Community-Centered Response to Violence Against Asian American Communities."

We are pleased to share with you the new Immigrant Finance™ logo, designed by the talented May Pérez, Designer, of @mujxrdluna and Member-Owner of @radiate_bayarea Radiate Consulting Bay Area, A Worker-Owned Cooperative!

For us, the tree symbol means so much to what represents the Immigrant Finance™ community - growth, stability, balance, and aspirations. Our new logo symbolizes the work we are all doing to grow roots as well as a family legacy in our shared goals to build wealth. The branches reflect endless potential to abundantly thrive.

Thank each of you who have supported the growth of this amazing community, empowered yourselves and others to learn about building wealth, and inspired us so much. This design is a reflection of the hope you have given us and others.

As described in the episode, the logo design process was such a reflective and powerful experience to go through in terms of learning more about ourselves, our business, and our intuition.

When we realized we wanted to have a tree in the logo, a few people we consulted with thought no one would “get” the tree symbolism, and we second guessed ourselves (well Adina did - Mau not so much, he is less influenced by others haha and the tree made total sense to him as an immigrant from Ecuador wanting to build roots and grow here in the U.S. :)).

Then, we realized the couple initial people we had asked, though close family and friends whose opinion we trust, were not immigrants or family members of immigrants. They were allies but not actual members of our audience and community.

We then asked several of our very best friends who are. Layla, a child of Lebanese immigrants, was immediately like “OF COURSE the tree makes sense!!!" Fernando, a Mexican immigrant, was like “Yes. This feels right.” Amy, a child of Taiwanese immigrants, had the idea to add a simple single dollar sign in one of the leaves to make the connection between the tree and our focus on finances and building wealth.

This experience was a reminder of why it’s so important to listen to your instinct, and to talk to your actual audience to inform business decisions, two of the most important lessons as a business owner.

A lot of the business journey is learning to distinguish between instinct and thoughts that are more second-guessing yourself. As one of our business mentors has taught us, one way to tell is how the thoughts are coming up. If there's a calmness and steadiness to the thought, it's intuition. If it's mental chatter, it's likely noise.

We realize also that being a business owner is about learning to own your power and your decisions, not letting fear of judgment and people pleasing tendencies get in the way. While letting your audience guide you.

We were so fortunate to get to work through all of this with such a professional to guide us through how this all plays out through design. Thank you to May for her patience, flexibility, and creativity throughout the emotional up and downs and business and personal self-reflection that comes with logo design!

Who knew picking a new logo would be such a journey?!

Adina & Mau

Co-Creators, IMMIGRANT FINANCE™

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Work with May Pérez:

@mujxrdluna

Email: [email protected]

https://www.radiateconsulting.coop