A multi-millionaire, investor, business owner, award-winning speaker, author and a wealth coach, Karen talks to Marina about zero-to-millionaire investing, a billion-dollar vision and, how after a car crash and being told that won’t be able to walk, she went on to do mountain skiing in 2 years!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• One of the proudest moments, where I consider myself successful is, I had a car crash and I was left in a wheelchair, unable to walk. I learned to walk again two years after the accident. To me, that was a huge success because it meant that I could set my mind to anything that I wanted to do, and I was going to be able to do it. People kept telling me I’d never be able to walk and wrote me off, but I kept hounding until my GP sent me to a psychiatrist because he said I wasn’t learning that I can’t do what I used to do. When I saw the psychiatrist I told him “I want to you tell my GP there’s nothing wrong with my brain, it’s my legs and back that don’t work!” I could have given up and accepted that that was my future, but I wanted something different.
• Our adopted daughter was playing the game ‘Cashflow’ from the age of 8 years old, and we put her straight in at the hard level. We wanted her to understand money right from the start, and for it to be hard, so it became the norm for her. She would ask if there was an easier version of the game and we’d tell her this was the easiest one. Within months, she was getting out of the game really wealthy and she asked to move onto the harder game, which is when we told her she’d been playing the hardest game all along, the next thing is to start doing it in reality. By the time she was 12 she was trading in the share market.
• When I had the car crash, I struggled to cope with everything. I had to give up my banking job and had to pay for two years of rehabilitation because the government only pays for the first 90 days, so I needed to find a job. I started working in my husband’s business and we grew that to a multi-million-dollar business.
• There are five things that make a person successful. 1) Choice, everybody has to make decisions about things. 2) Focus, making sure you put that focus into whatever it is you actually want to do. 3) Create a plan, there is a pathway, when you break down what wealthy people have done to get wealthy there is a pathway that you can also follow. 4) Take action steps. 5) If you don’t know something, get educated on it. All wealthy people talk about these five things.

BEST MOMENTS

‘My Dad used to say: “There’s no such word as ‘can’t’”, he had a dictionary and would tell me to look up the word ‘can’t’ whenever I said I couldn’t do something, and the word wasn’t in there.’
‘I absolutely love banking, though I’m not a maths person, I study data and I see trends.’
‘I was always reading biographies of actors, musicians, athletes and I wondered how and why did they did what they did to get wealthy. I started to see patterns in their stories.’
‘When you’re dealing with creating wealth, for me, 80% of it is to do with your mindset. I teach the skills, but I can’t teach one without the other.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Karen is a multiple times decamillionaire, investor, business owner, award-winning speaker, international #1 best selling author and a wealth coach. She famously turned £300 on a credit card into £10mn in a few years, and now teaches people to do the same at Karen Newton International.

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Woman Self Made podcast brings you interviews with hugely successful women from all walks of life – world renowned business leaders, disruptive entrepreneurs, world class athletes, self-made multi-millionaires, entertainment and TV personalities. In these conversations we dive into their unique stories with an aim to deconstruct their secrets for success. We talk about their journeys, ups and down, while distilling along the way the habits, tools, tactics and tips, which you can learn and use.

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ABOUT THE HOST

Marina Bennett had a high-flying international career in strategy and finance, and in 2019 she decided to leave her £300k/year City job to take entrepreneurial plunge from scratch. She is now a multiple business owner on the way to her first 7 figures. Marina is also a founder of Woman. Self-made. (@womanselfmade.inc) - an online community of confident, ambitious women who want to achieve success and live the lives of their dreams.