"The only secret I know is that consistency of just going, here's what I do. Here's how I can help you," she says. "I'm not saying you have to do it like me." She was at a conference in 2009 with Allie Brown, the first female millionaire she'd ever seen in real life. 'Oh my God, look, she's made all this money,' he recalls her telling him.
People ask me all the time, “Denise, how long does it really take to make a million dollars?”
For me, the magic number was five years.
Five years from starting my business to pushing over the threshold of $1 million in annual revenue.
But that’s not the whole story.
Because truthfully, I was waiting in the wings for years before starting my business. Listening and learning – gathering all the information I needed to be successful.
I didn’t wake up one day and think, “I’m going to make a million dollars!” and then five years to the day later had a huge check in my hands.
But maybe that could be your journey.
Today on the Chill and Prosper podcast, I share the struggles I faced when scaling my business, from my first try at nine years old to everything I have today.