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Hello and welcome back to the ultimate advisor podcast. Brittany Anderson here and today I have with me a wonderful lady. Her name is Sonya Galleon comma Nika, she has stepped into her best life and was given an amazing gift of teaching single parents financial and life principles that will put them on a path to success. She was a single parent for the majority of her children’s childhood and desperately needed guidance and wisdom to raise her children. She needed action steps to get out of a life of poverty. And for a long time, she didn’t have what so many like her needed. After many years and multiple businesses. She is sharing what works for her and has a goal of helping 1 million single parents live a life of abundance, opportunity and hope for the future. She’s a mover, a shaker has a heart of gold, and her story is about to inspire you into action. I am so grateful for our special guest today. Sonya, how are you?

Fantastic. Brittany, thank you so much for having me on your podcast. I really appreciate it.

Well, you know, as we know from from your brief bio, you got a lot going on. So I would love for you to share. You know, just just talk a little bit about your journey. We don’t need to go back to the womb by any means. But talk a little bit about your journey. And what brought you to this point.

Thank you so much. Well, my journey started in Pennsylvania, of my parents, Cheryl and Tyrone, and they were it was an era door and almost desegregation and tremendous recession going on in the United States. I grew up into a family for the first five years of my life that was kind of militant Islamic family, I guess you’d put it that way. That marriage didn’t last very long. We relocated to Massachusetts, where I was born, hopefully we relocated to Massachusetts, and my parents divorced. I was no longer Muslim. We attended various churches, the majority of my life has been kind of like organized religion, very strict, very rules based. So that’s probably guided a lot of my thinking in my life. My mother was a single parent off and on throughout my childhood. I had a couple stepfathers still do have one right now grew up with a lot of abuse, actually, even at a very young age, age five, being beaten actually just for playing in the living room. So that really dictated my thinking. So from that point on, I had was determined I would never let that happen to my children. I developed quite a bit of hostility because I didn’t feel protected by my biological parents. Until I kind of got on a mission where I was determined to help other children not experienced the same thing, and especially my own. I grew up with quite a bit of hostility. I was a pretty angry teenager. And I had to work through that through various counseling and things of that nature attending school residential setting, just to get through the anger, the anger took a long time to work through that was pretty much there. I had extreme hatred for I guess, my biological family at that time. And then I married Of course, naturally, if you don’t heal and you’re constantly focused on anger, you’re going to attract more of that into your life. So that’s exactly what I did. So I I married somebody and had three children with him, who was also very violent and angry. So here I am an African American woman and I married a white southern angry man. So that was a combination destined for happiness. His family didn’t even know my nationality. So and my family definitely didn’t approve that Was that was very interesting. And when they found out they were not pleased either, so both sides of the family who were bringing children into a situation of grief hostility, that obviously didn’t last. I went on later to have a child with a child, say four children. And during that period living with somebody who that much has still, he was not very committed to our children either. And he’s actually very abusive toward children. And I kind of put me on a journey where I was determined to help other single parents, they didn’t exactly know what I was gonna do. I would buy books, you know, Tony Robbins books, and I was very motivated, but hadn’t didn’t have a clue as to what I was motivated to do, or what even the steps were. I mean, I used to listen to pastor Joel Osteen. And I would hear a lot of positive things, but I didn’t really know how to implement half of the stuff that I was learning. I didn’t have any financial guidance. And I would receive large amounts of money, you know, as a single parent and for tax refunds, and just give it to the kids because I always felt guilty that they didn’t have a good, good father figure. And then later, you know, long story short, within the last five years, I became got into financial services. And I would Oh, my gosh, all of this silly things I did. I did not even realize that there was this much financial information out there during the time, like I was getting large sums of money, I could have paid for the whole year of housing. I’m like, What am I thinking? Like Tim and I, we went through tremendous amounts of like homelessness and challenges and didn’t have a clue. I mean, there were hotels everywhere, there’s actually really no reason to be homeless. I worked in health care, I worked in jobs that I thought, Okay, well, I can be home with my children during the day, I would work third shift, that wouldn’t work. I’ve worked per shift, they work double shifts. But then I learned Oh, wow, it’s really your money has got to start working harder than you do. And then I begin to get my life stable. I’m married again, I’m married. I’ve been married for 10 years, very stable. And I started meeting other people who were struggling with the same situation. And I was in the same thinking, that’s a mindset that I Oh, it’s too hard, I don’t have enough money, I can’t take an Uber, you name it. And I said, Okay, I’m going to read a book. And I’m going to explain to them the very things that I wish I had known when I was a single parent. So I actually wrote a book called 10 things I wish I knew as a single parent. And I put those financial principles that I had not learned at the time, and this book, really trying to just back and help. Some of the financial things I had learned were in life insurance, that for me, it’s fundamental to everything else, is just having that setup, you know, as a single parent, especially when you’re receiving large sums of money. Every year for 20 years, I mean, that just thinking you’re getting, you know, seven to $12,000, over 20 years, that’s a couple $100,000 that you have no idea where it went to. And then I started participating in other groups, real estate groups and finding out that there are people, one woman in particular, she was only making $20,000 a year as a waitress, and she actually bought properties with her tax refund. She currently has a $3.2 million net worth. And so there was so many things like I was like, Oh, my gosh, I cannot believe that people are actually doing this stuff. And I’ve never even heard it. I’ve never heard in the community. I didn’t hear from my family. I hear from anybody I was surrounded with even my husband, he had, you know, sometimes couple $100,000 in his bank account, and he didn’t hear it either. None of us did so. And I said, Okay, let me get it out there. And then like I said, I was meeting with people, either through life insurance and various groups, and some people were struggling just to pay their mortgage. And I’m thinking myself, why are they struggling to pay the mortgage, like, the information is so simple. Some of them were previous single parents, and they still had kind of the same thinking of lack and poverty. And so even though they’re remarried, they’re still struggling with paying $100 Premium month, and I said, Okay, I’ve got to do something like this is just not working. So they would sign up, they’d recognize the benefits, but they wouldn’t have the patience to sit and allow the money to grow for a period of time to the cancel their policy or something where they just wouldn’t follow through. And so that was becoming disheartening. And I said, Okay, I’m just gonna write something. And it’s not just about my book is not just about financial principles, it’s about life principles, as well. Some of the things I also did, that kind of affected my life was just working too much like becoming a workaholic, I guess you would say, I would work double shifts, and then you’re exhausted, and you’re really not getting anywhere by doing that. Um, and you were also putting your children at risk as well. So there’s a lot of things.

You know, I think there’s, there’s so much to unpack with what you just shared. And I think from the listeners perspective, as they’re hearing this, you know, we hear so often, and I don’t I don’t know that it’s unique to our space, but I think it’s just maybe talked about frequently in circles is that a lot of people have come from some sort of struggle, and I’m a firm believer are that people tend to learn more take even further action if they can see themselves through other people’s journeys. So I just appreciate so much of what you’ve gone through and that self realization to have, you know, hey, I became a workaholic. And I saw these problems, and I saw things that I was doing that, you know, wasn’t serving me serving my future serving my family. So, you know, I think about, I think about the journey of struggle. And fear plays into that, too, you know, when you’re talking about these people that you’re helping, and they’re, they’re not letting that premium sit, right? Like they can’t, they can’t just sit and watch it grow. There’s some sort of fear or scarcity mindset that’s coming into play there. So I would love to know, we’ll spend this on a little bit of a personal one is, you know, what’s a time where you overcame fear, you didn’t let it get in the way and talk about that journey through it?

Sure. I’ve been overcoming fear a lot more lately than I ever have before. Or I think when I changed my mindset, and I started realizing I can, if I just make up my mind, to take care of whether it’s bills or relationship, you can actually do it. Most recently, I guess, my husband had gotten injured. And that was a little fearful. He fell, broke his arm and I thought, oh, my gosh, he could have actually died. And I might actually have to use my life insurance. That was a bit scary. And I just overcame that by I guess getting up I meditate daily meditating is probably been the best thing that’s helped me. I’ve been praying and I’ve been reading the Bible for many years, but the biggest way I’ve been able to overcome stress is just meditating every morning. In addition to that, my husband getting injured in that fear, I guess, just raising the children by myself, there was a lot of fear, it was I was, I was living fear on a daily basis. Because I’m always feeling guilty, like them, I’m thinking they need to have a father in the picture, there’s, and of course, children obviously do need a father in the picture, they don’t need to be abused. So but overcoming I guess neediness?

You know, that sort of depend codependency. I overcame that just by get some counseling, actually, a lot of therapy, a lot of getting out of my own skin, dealing with things that were uncomfortable. Working through it with counselors, that sort of thing that’s been, I guess, the biggest thing, biggest way of overcoming things I was afraid of, you know, and I think there’s so much merit to that, where we get to that point where we can talk openly about, you know, the steps that we’ve had to take, and things that we’ve committed to, and just that, again, that journey through. So a lot of our audience members are successful financial advisors, and or Wealth Advisors, I should say, and, you know, they’re all at different points in their journey. So they are, you know, we get kind of a range of people that tune in to this, people that are really close to breaking through that seven figure mark. And then there’s people that are, they’re well into their seven figure production revenue, you know, however you want to say it. So I would be curious, you know, when you think about the value that you bring to the table, and I’m gonna give you a chance to get a give yourself a little shameless plug here. And here’s, here’s the purpose behind it, is that we firmly believe in bringing resources to the table that our listening audience can actually take away and potentially put in front of their clients. You know, and it’s our duty on the back end, to do our due diligence to make sure that we’re talking to great people. So you know, for those that are tuning in, I actually met Sonya at a Genius Network or through a Genius Network events. We had been at the same annual event, there’s a whole bunch of people there weren’t able to necessarily connect there, but we’re able to connect after. So that’s where this conversation blossom and blossom and bloom. So you know, Sonya, I think putting your cat on the with the advisor community in mind, you know, what are some things that you’ve seen be extremely beneficial, you know, when putting in front of clients, and this can be across the board. It can be something you know, along the lines of the financial services that you’re in, or even into some of the resources because they work with single parents. They work with divorcees, they work with, you know, I mean, even think about like widowhood. It’s a different kind of mourning, but their struggle, and there’s transition, and there’s so many things going on. So just talk a little bit about, you know, some of the things that you’ve seen really working well.

Right. I mean, that’s great. You should say that you said that. My husband actually has a client who her husband recently passed away and thank God he had had life insurance for the family. But recently this weekend, I met somebody who was not in the same situation from Canada and her husband had not set up for life. I would say the best thing no matter what level we’re at, I was in a group this weekend they were nine figures I’m never lose perspective, I suppose of the people around you. Sometimes it isn’t financial, sometimes you might just need someone to confide in or someone to care about you, I guess is the biggest takeaway. Yes, you definitely want to have advisor you definitely have teams. I mean, when you’re in the multimillion dollars, you are now a target for people wanting more from you and wanting and wanting to be your friend also. So obviously, you I’m sure most of us are taking that stuff seriously, take it seriously recognize that you do need to protect yourself. But also, there’s a great need out there to help other people and to really recognize that there are single parents or people that are silent, they’re not, you wouldn’t even know most of the time that they’re having a struggle having a challenge when I was a single parent, nobody knew, I wouldn’t tell people I’d go to networking events, I wouldn’t go to I trainings and they wouldn’t know unless I told them. So allow people to be open, I guess within their own situation, make them feel comfortable, don’t spend so much time talking about, I guess what you’re trying to sell them or buy from them. But really, just keep it open, keep a human be loving towards others, you know, try to find out how we can work together without your own interests, I guess being the dominant factor. Me personally, I want to be able to give $10,000 a week, every week, to a single parent for the next 20 years. So I guess always finding ways to give ways to be kind of better human because I was at an event this past weekend and every five seconds you’re getting okay come be part of this come be on the yacht, take the private jet. For 4500 or nine, I mean, every five minutes, it was the same thing. And you just felt like you’re more of a commodity than you were human being, I guess, have fun together, I would always just sometimes it didn’t feel that people shun us and to just really, you know, be human, be fine. And really take the needs of your clients seriously, and really try to dive in maybe a little deeper and try to understand who you’re dealing with.

You know, I think there’s some really great points to pull out there. You know, one of which being that I think all progress starts by telling the truth, and I can’t I did not make that up. I wish I did. But I can’t remember where that that quote sources from. But anyway, so, you know, I think that’s so true. And if you think about it, in business, and in life, where, you know, you talked about how you’re in these great networking events. And you’re kind of keeping it secret that you’re a single mom. And I think there’s so much to be said there. Because I think about some of the advisors that come into the you know, whether they fill out the application on our site to come into the mastermind, you know, they join the accelerator, which is a little bit more self paced, you know, whatever way they come in, the ones who truly thrive are the ones that are like, here’s the deal, I’m killing myself at work, my family’s not getting my attention. I don’t know what marketing is, I have no idea what these terms are that you guys are talking about. I am struggling to keep team members like I don’t know, my I feel like my world is falling apart. Like those people that come in with that super raw, transparent commentary, are the ones that are changing the game in their business, because they’re like, here’s where I’m at. And I need help. And I don’t know what else to turn to. So here’s what I’m doing. Whereas the ones that come in, and they tend to put on that, that facade, that brave face, that shield that kind of protects them. It’s hard to know where somebody needs help, when you’re not telling the truth when you’re not really speaking into it. And so I think that’s so important to from a client perspective, and I’m sure you can relate to this. You know, as an advisor, if you’re tuning in, and you’re thinking about how this can apply in your business, it is our duty in this industry, to pull that information or help it come out of our clients too. So if you’re taking face value answers from your clients, that’s a problem. And I think Sonya, that’s what you’re saying here too, is that, you know, there’s problems to be solved. And there’s reasons that people make the decisions that they do. And if you just sit there and you just take it for what it is, you can’t really help people. So when you’re talking about showing up and you’re talking about, you know, leading with a loving heart, and you know, really leaning into helping people. I mean, that’s huge, that’s huge in life, that’s huge in business, and that’s where people make great strides. The other thing I gotta pull out of there, too, that you commented on is just the whole idea of giving away $10,000 a week. That’s what’s gonna get you out of bed in the morning. You know, that’s the kind of thing that that is going to truly motivate you to never quit and never stop because you have a mission that’s bigger than I want to fill my bank account. So along those lines, I would love to know what is a really big and you can’t use the same one you just use. But what’s a really big aspiration or dream hopefully You have for your future? And and why is it important to you?
We’ve actually been talking about something recently, my husband and I have talked about getting a private plane just for genius members on our side of the country to bring to the event. I think I feel really blessed to be part of the Genius Network. We’ve been in a lot of groups. And there’s a lot of fake stuff out there. And there’s a lack of caring for other people. And I would like to do more, that actually genuinely shows concern for other people, especially within our group. The other thing is, one of our members is a widow after 62 years of marriage, and you start to think, wow, we’re literally all going to be in this situation at one point or another. used to always be the woman passes away. The women live, excuse me, the women live longer, and the men pathway early, but I’ve been seeing the reverse. In the last couple of years, I’ve been having friends passed away, that the husband was sick, 20 years older than her and she’s the one dying and then recently, we’re at another funeral. And it was a similar just found out, she passed away, which has been unreal. So I guess maybe something that makes us more human when dealing with death, and dealing with widows and bringing people together. Sometimes we get so caught up in our own life that we forget, there’s people that are lonely out there, there are seniors that need us. I, the first part of my career started with seniors, I worked in health care, and I loved it. And I still love it. So I would love to see more. I don’t know more of a connection. Maybe in our group, we take a senior out once a week that is alone that recently became a widow, maybe we all have a requirement to take them out to dinner, we get involved, we interact with one another on a deeper level, not just Okay, have a great day. See you next year at that event. I guess I would just like to see us be more humane, more human and more caring about each other. I was at an event this weekend, it was kind of heartbreaking. It’s a huge event, they have events every every month. So there’s kind of a lack of caring, I think for the people, because you can just go to the next event and make money off the next group. So but there are people that they cancel their hotel reservation, so the company that created like I said the company’s name, but they set up everybody’s hotel reservations, and then my ATM was cancelled. So if you wanted to get back to your room, you couldn’t get back in your room, we had to go pay. I mean, it was just the most horrible thing, they were walking around with their luggage. And I’m thinking, this is horrific, this would never happen with genius. But there are a lot of organizations out there that are making tremendous money off of people that really do not care about each other. And you because you’re so desperate to make money, you’re just putting yourself in those circles thinking, Oh, this is gonna work, that’s gonna work. But it’s not the reality is actually the more genuine and the more caring you can be about other people, the better. So whatever we can do for the seniors, whether it’s having just a meet up, I know we have senior centers and stuff, but just really checking in on people making sure they’re okay. Bringing them a cup of coffee in the morning. I know we’re all busy. But there’s got to be some something you can do, whether it’s single parents, to seniors, whatever I was, me, that’s my focus single parents and seniors and whatever you can do, you can just get up give somebody a thank you card, any thing to make them feel like they’re appreciated, you know, for their service for being a human for being on the planet. So I don’t know, which I’ve been one of our members. You know, I think you know, I’m talking about finding like somebody to be a companion for him and Yeah. But you gotta you don’t think about that until it actually happens in front of you. And you go, wow, you know, we’re all going to probably need this at one point or another. What if we have nobody there for us? Not family, none. And even family members don’t always tell each other what’s going on. You don’t know. Like, I have a friend recently her mom passed away. She didn’t realize how bad it was. And she was visiting her every couple of weeks and she was talking to her. And still you don’t know what’s happening. So you really have to be in front of people and interacting where they don’t feel like you’re there being a burden. You let them feel we love you. We care about you. Oh,
okay. No, no. No. And oh my gosh, and I’m thinking and Sonya, I think we can we can honestly say who who we’re talking about here because our community is actually familiar. Hopefully I’m tracking along the same lines. But are you talking about my lovely friend Joel Weldon. Yeah, yep. So Joel, and this actually is a throwback. So sound you don’t know this. But when we first pulled together the first ultimate advisor mastermind, it was down in Dallas. Joel actually was our special guest and kind of turned into a little bit of an emcee. So Joel has a has a heart of gold. I have talked about him on here before he was my first speaking coach. And it changed my life and I can say that smile to that smile. He radiates sunshine everywhere he goes. But yeah, he lost her who lost his wife recently and I think there’s there’s a couple things that that I want to comment on here. So number one, just going with the theme like Sonya, you’ve identified her to two groups that you want to serve, be it through, you know, the work that you’re doing, like the physical work that brings in money, or just through your genuine care and nature and how you’re dedicating and donating your time. So I think that’s really important for the advisor audience to think about is, you know, who pulls on your heartstrings. Where does your passion lie? You know, I can, I can say, like, from the perspective of Brian sweet, so he’s one of our partners and ultimate advisor, he’s the founder of sweet financial, he was raised by a single mom, and he watched her, you know, basically just do everything that she could in her power to provide an amazing life for him. And he was able to, she actually recently passed this year as well. But he was able to create a foundation that gave money and still gives money every single year, scholarships to kids of hardworking single moms. And the beautiful thing in this is that he was actually able to participate in that with his mom while she was still alive. So they got to meet these kids, and they got to, you know, see some of the journeys that they went on. And it was such a beautiful thing. He was living his legacy today. So again, advisors listening to this, how do you want to live your legacy? How can you live it today? And how can you contribute to something that’s meaningful to you. And on the second side of that are the flip side, you know, I know, a lot of the advisors have reached out because we have a whole platform at Sweet financial called Women forward. And a huge component of that is supporting widowed women. You know, we do see that demographic still where, you know, the husband is maybe passing away sooner. And I think it just depends on the walk of life you’re in, because I don’t know if there is a magic number to it. But the problem is, is that there’s people out there that prey on that too. And we want to be the truth. And we want to be able to be a true partner with them, versus, you know, keeping them away, or basically, instead of keeping them away from people who are maybe preying on that demographic. So we have a ton of advisors that reach out and ask about that, who feel called on their heart to they’re like, that’s horrible that there’s people preying on, you know, a widowed woman that’s horrible that there’s people out there taking advantage, what can I do? How can I create a platform similar to support that, so whether it’s a widowed woman, whether it’s a single a single parent household, you know, maybe your niche is, you know, upcoming entrepreneurs, maybe it’s long term business owners, whatever that is, figure out who you want to serve, and go all in. And, you know, I gotta go back to our friend Joel, like Joel is a ray of sunshine. He is so wonderful. And this man, I mean, how old is Joel now?
8781? Or maybe 81?
I think you might be right, yeah. Or maybe earlier. 80s. But either way, I mean, this guy is in wonderful shape, he is still teaching, he is still coaching. I’ll give him a shameless plug, get his speaker course, because it’s amazing. It’s a game changer for myself and so many others that have engaged with him. So I have to give that shameless plug plug to our friend, Joel. But Sammy, I think those examples are so wonderful. And it just speaks to the heart that you have, and you know, the progress that you’ll continue to make in life and on your journey. So I want to ask to you, what’s something that you’re working on right now. And this is interesting, because I got to just squirrel for a moment here. Because as I first was talking to Sonya, she’s like, Yep, so I’m in the, you know, the financial planning space. And, you know, I’m helping people in this regard with, you know, the life insurance. And this over here. Oh, and by the way, we also have, basically like a construction, business and landscaping and I’m sitting here going, girlfriend, you have got a lot of stuff going on. It’s a lot of really cool thing. So I want to know, what are you most excited about right now?
Yes? Well, I’m most excited about all of it. The foundation for all of our companies, the umbrella is actually SGK investment. And that is the investment piece that brings all these other things together. As GK investments, we acquire text to politic, real estate, and auction properties, that sort of thing. And the goal of that was actually to help people I didn’t realize that some people in the space we’re not doing it in the right way I heard the other day, somebody. But our goal is actually to help homeowners, whether it’s a single parent, or whatever, just to get out of a tough situation or to even stay in that home, maybe we can help guide them to stay in that home. And then what comes next is that my husband’s landscaping company a lot of times people need landscape construction. He understands the challenges that homes have. So when we go into the property can look at it evaluate it, not do us an inspection per se, but he does know what, you know what needs to be done in the home. So we kind of bring them all together and obviously there are tax benefits to being a real estate company are working in the real estate space. And then life insurance, I believe is fundamental. I know not everybody appreciates the life insurance. One of the biggest things I want to do is to help a lot more single parents understand it and to use it as a tool to build wealth and to acquire real estate.
And then, of course, my book. The biggest thing is always we’re always in the real estate space.
I just have to laugh though, because sure entrepreneurial nature, you What are you most excited about? Every? Excited about all of it. So I will hone this in a little bit. So Sandy, I would love for you to talk about, you know, where can people find this book? And I just realized, I’m like, I don’t think you’ve shared the title yet. So let’s talk a little bit about where can they find the book? How can that serve? And then I do have one more comment on, you know, I have an idea, I guess I should say, for the audience member. So go ahead and talk about where can they find your book?
Right. Oh, funny story. I actually had somebody create a landing page through Fiverr. Not too long ago, I was creating a campaign for Sirius XM for the book. And that landing page lasted about two weeks. And I had already created a national campaign with that. So right now I’m working with Raelynn, to build to actually somebody from genius to actually build the website better. So the best way to get it is to go to Amazon. And you could actually just put in my name, or I think you’re gonna put a link probably in the show notes I well, for Amazon is the best way, if or I can mail to you for Amazon, you would get the e book or Kindle version. If you want to read that way. Otherwise, the title of the book is 10 things I wish I knew, as a single parents 10 things I wish I knew as a single parent.
You know, so here’s my thought. And Santa, you tell me if this is totally out of line. But my initial my initial thought would be if you’re listening to this as an advisor, and you have multiple single parents that you’re working with, because I do know, just because of some of the comments, questions, things that have come in, where people are talking about their niche, target focus, that kind of thing. If you do have single parents, I would highly recommend, you know, grab this book for them, do a random act of kindness and this as the gift that truly will keep on giving. And I think Sonya to you know, when you think about your, your direction, and your your desire to serve, you know, get a hold of Sonya and see if she’d maybe come and speak to your community. That could be a really neat thing to zoom is a wonderful thing where you can have people speak from all over that are brilliant, we don’t need to have people be right in front of us. That’s not always necessary. So that was the idea that I had, you know, we’re always looking at Sweet financial for ways to kind of surprise and delight our clients, especially during really difficult times. So you know, grab the book gift it do do kind of your your good deed for the day. So Sonya, before we wrap, if somebody wants to get a hold of you learn a little bit more about what you’re doing. Maybe they have piqued interest in the real estate space, maybe they’re interested in what you’re doing in the financial space, how can they get a hold of you?
The best way is just call me and then we can connect from there, my number is 833-369-7111. Again, 833-369-7111. And then I just want to say make a couple of comments. For the advisors when you are speaking to single parents kind of don’t let them off the hook because many times they have more money than you think they do. And then Don’t lump them all into one category. I mean, we have the single parents Kim Kardashian level, and we have the single parents that may be making 100k 250k a year. So just recognize they have different needs. And the need is always for more time energy and sleep, no matter what level you’re at. And just treat people with respect. You don’t know why they got into the situation they’re in so just allow it recognize, like I said, there’s different needs and respect people.
I mean, I’m not a single parent, but I could use some more energy sleep and time.
Yeah. Anybody could get into that situation anytime like somebody dies. I mean, it’s just you know, even my husband got injured now I’m he’s did the cooking majority, the cooking and the drive, he can’t drive. I’m doing all the cooking now. And he everything he used to do I now do so. Even that feels like single parenthood again. But that’s a whole story.
Amen. So I have one last question to ask you. Before we wrap. What haven’t I asked you that I should have?
No, I think you’re pretty much covered it. Thank you. You have the book, the information for the book. Anything else? Thank you. Yeah, no,
no problem. We always like to end with that just because there can be times where we get gone in conversation. And there’s something that you’re like, Man, this would be great for this audience. And I don’t open the door for you. So I’m glad that we covered it. Sonya, I so appreciate you. I’m excited to see the progress that you make going forward. Yeah, you’re gonna keep on killing it. And if we can be a resource to you in any way you let us know. I know that our advisor community absolutely got a ton of value from today.
Thank you so much, Brittany, I really appreciate you So,
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