Candy Valentino

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464 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3 Feb

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Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan · Confidence Classic: Build Wealth Without Becoming Trapped in Your Business with Candy Valentino · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

But I read a book at a really young age about

And it just made sense, like about bad debt and depreciating assets and appreciating assets in real estate.

And so I was 20, 21, 20, 21 years old, first couple years in business, making things work.

I had a six-week run rate on my SBA loan to figure it out, like six weeks or I was going to be out of money.

So...

Talk about your back up against the wall and needing to figure it out.

But I feel like that leverage is what was like, I will not fail.

I will make this work.

And I think sometimes we're a little too soft on ourselves.

And I feel like we're in a little bit of a culture that's kind of weak sometimes.

That we, you know, put down hard work and we put, you know, we want to wrap hard work up into like hustle culture and think that it's like some demonizing thing.

But if I didn't work hard, if I didn't say no to a lot of things, have the long nights, I wouldn't, I'd still be in the same place that I was back then.

So the story is, you know, it's really kind of interesting.

I just think it's, I read the book.

I walked out of my business.

I was going to buy at 21 years old, my dream car, which was a Jeep at the time.

Cause what 21 year old doesn't want a Jeep.

And I was sitting down with the numbers.

I had already went and looked at the car and I was doing a cost analysis because I was

Learned very early that numbers is where you really learn how to build business.

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