Todays guest is Shira Charles and in a Life Unfiltered first,  we're not in LA but, in a studio in NYC! Shira is a hands-on entrepreneur who’s building a software solution to tackle recurring challenges in value-add real estate. Starting her journey as a single mother, without a high school diploma. or a college degree, Shira explored various paths before discovering her passion for problem-solving.

After years in corporate healthcare and launching an interior design firm specializing in multifamily projects, she identified a pattern of issues her clients faced and developed a software tool to help investors make faster, data-backed decisions. Today, Shira balances growing her software company, raising a high school senior, sharing resources for aspiring interior designers, and searching for her life partner.” To find out more about Shira visit shiracharles.com.

To support Shira's ride with Next Step, an organization which helps amputees get the prosthetics they need, as well as subsequent therapy and support for themselves and their families, as they learn to live a new and different chapter of their lives. Please visit https://www.thenextride.org/ShiraCharles

This episode is sponsored by  https://thelafacialist.com/ and in particular the CO2 mask that saved me today while podcasting while sick. The LA Facialist is my one stop shop online for all my beauty needs. They carry a wide range of brands from clinical to niche. If you’re in LA make sure you stop by for a facial with her or any of her skilled techs. You won’t be sorry!

Topics covered:
• Her childhood
• Academia is a business
• Using the internet as a teacher
• Bringing back mentorship
• How do ideas come, can you develop the muscle?
• The person who can wear 'the hat"
• Being married young,  no formal education and beating the odds
• Latest tech venture
• Those who can and those who can’t, what it really means.
• Moving forward in spite of deep trauma
• The gratitude chat

To find out more about Adele and her work, please visit https://www.lifeslookingood.com/
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