#5: How She Makes $1.9M/Year at Age 28 on AirBnB
Today, I talk to Karen Bello. We discuss how she started as a personal assistant making minimum wage to starting her own Air BnB empire with millions in revenue. Enjoy! 💌 Free weekly productivity insights/advice - https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter 📕 Get all my free Notion templates discussed here - https://www.amanmanazir.com/notion 📄 Get my free resume template - https://www.amanmanazir.com/resume 📝 Sign up for Notion - https://affiliate.notion.so/2nh3pjr6l5l6 📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amanmanazir/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/amanmanazir 0:00 - Intro 0:45 - How Did She Become a Personal Assistant? 3:54 - What Did She Study in College? 4:07 - How Did Her Mindset Change? 6:02 - Rich Dad Poor Dad 7:40 - Transition After Being a Personal Assistant 9:22 - What Made Her Think She Could Start A Business? 10:25 - Working as a Therapist 16:00 - Airbnb Business 21:55 - Growing her Business in The First Year 23:18 - Getting The Confidence to Start 26:20 - Rental Arbitrage 30:53 - Managing Time Working Two Jobs 32:05 - Scaling Her Business 34:05 - How Does Cohosting Work? 40:02 - Profit From Year One 41:04 - Cohosting vs. Rental Arbitrage 45:05 - Balancing Two Full Time Jobs 46:10 - Where Did She get her Drive From? 48:30 - The Value of Networking 51:07 - 3rd Year Numbers 54:50 - How is The Business Now? 58:45 - Where Does She Want to Take The Business? 1:00:00 - What Does The Team Look Like? 1:01:27 - How to Find an Assistant 1:04:15 - What Does an Assistant do? 1:09:04 - Advice for Airbnb Businesses 1:12:30 - How Does an Advanced Person Learn? 1:16:15 - What's The Next Step? 1:20:52 - Focusing on Your Niche Karen's Contact Information: bhstr.com karen@bellohomesstr.com 336-459-9756 I'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter (https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter).