Julia Collins

Because then when I went to Tom and Dave to say, hey, listen, this is big.

I'm going to help you build it.

I didn't also have huge salary requirements at that time.

Yeah, there was a salary.

And you're right, it wasn't meaningful.

But I had shored up my own personal cash to the point to be able to do that.

And that is how I've thought about my wealth building journey is in these increments.

In order to do this incredible, wonderful thing that I want to do, what can I do to make sure that I have the financial stability in my own life to make that possible?

Right.

And to find yourself some friends who will talk about money with you.

My family gave me a lot, almost everything you could imagine.

But for some reason, we really didn't talk about money at all.

I think a lot of people don't.

I think it was considered a little déclassé to talk about money.

And so I needed to find the wise people in my life, the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the friends who would tell like, what is the salary?

How do the taxes work?

What are you paying in rent?

Where are you investing?

You know, where are you banking?

And that matters.