Optimize Opportunities for Financial Success | Imane ’Pokimane’ Anys

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Hi, my name is Lewis Howes, and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show. I'm curious about your perspective on money. You started making really good money in your late teens, early 20s. More than 99.9% of people in their late teens and 20s in the world, probably. How did that affect you? And what is the dark side of making money for someone who's really young?

31.317 - 59.046 Imane 'Pokimane' Anys

Well, I don't want to act like it's such a detriment, you know? Yeah, because, I mean, I started streaming when I was in high school, didn't make much. In college, was still in debt for like two years. And then it started taking off. And then maybe two, three years after that, I started making significantly more, like more than what a doctor makes. And then for like two, three years, it was...

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Much, much more than I could have ever imagined. So initially, it was really just like step by step. Like, I'm just looking to have like a part-time job, basically. I can make a little bit of money here while studying engineering. Cool. Then I was like, wait, if I focus on this for a couple months, I can pay off my student loans. Cool.

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And then, frankly, for me, my dream in life was always engineering. to make six figures. And I really felt like at that point, I was like, OK, I'm good. But it felt like the expectation in life is to optimize that. So when you see the opportunity, right? It's like, go for it, go for it.

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But at some point it's like, you don't really realize what you're sacrificing or if you should keep going for it. And I think there were a lot of times where I just put like my health and my mental on the back burner because I was so fixated on like, I need financial stability.

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And just like with anything else, it just becomes a habit, almost like addicting. It's like, okay, I need to focus on this. And I just, I lost sight of, again, like, what do I want? What actually makes me happy? There was such a scarcity sentiment. Yeah. I mean, even with content creators, it's like, you don't know where your career is going to be in a year or two.

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Right. What if the algorithm changes? What if they cancel my account? What if... Who knows, right?

144.993 - 161.168 Imane 'Pokimane' Anys

Yeah. I'm not going to say that there were like crazy downsides aside from like things that I had to figure out myself, right? Like how to really manage my life and my business structure. But I do feel like sometimes to my peers, maybe they like viewed me differently.

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And honestly, just try stuff. Experiment almost like very considerably. Sure. Safely. Like I'm going to try this intentionally and I will jot down how it goes. Should I keep doing it? Yes. No.

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