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Niké Ojekunle Got Scammed. Now She’s Helping Others Avoid the Same Fate By Advocating for Financial Literacy

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She decided she’d start mentoring other young influencers who approached her with questions about brand deals or the fine print in their contracts. So imagine, you have all that fame, plus you didn’t go to school, you have no formal education, you have no financial literacy at all.

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

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My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. You’ve got to be educated. Kids need to start learning the difference between a debit and a credit card. We all need to build a good library. Here’s one of the books he recommended: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Shoaff asked me, “Doesn’t that title intrigue you?

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10 Modern-Day Leaders in Personal Growth

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Mel Robbins Photo courtesy of Mel Robbins The Mel Robbins Podcast is one of the top education podcasts in the world—and for good reason. It’s a show he started when he realized he could seek out new mentors—folks from Ice Cube to Esther Perel—to share their views on everything from creativity and wealth to finding your true purpose.

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16 Rich Habits

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Stay away from accumulating credit card debt. 79 percent read educational career-related material. They understand that you can learn and educate yourself only by listening to what other people have to say. Get a mentor. Among the wealthy, 93 percent who had a mentor attributed their success to that person.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

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I tried selling credit card machines door to door once. Now I coach startup entrepreneurs and get to see my students make their first sales, grow , and start mentoring other entrepreneurs. He truly wants to serve, and that’s why he enjoys wild financial success. I didn’t care about the product, so I sold precisely zero units.

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Wellness Entrepreneur Kris Carr Believes Finding Success Begins with Self-Awareness

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My doctor educated me about my type of cancer,” Carr says. “I We were told that it wasn’t going to work, and we couldn’t call it that [ Crazy Sexy Cancer ], but I kept whipping out my credit card and saying, ‘Well, I’m going to make this thing because I believe in it, and I don’t care if I’m the only one who watches it.”

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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

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On his website, ( RejectionTherapy.com ) Comely sells cue cards with ideas on ways to be rejected: Request a lower interest rate from a credit card provider; challenge a stranger to an arm-wrestling match. Now they attribute their marriages, new jobs and educational opportunities to Rejection Therapy.

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