EP 45 - Entrepreneur Inspiration: Empowering Voices in the Digital Landscape with Sabrina Victoria

Sabrina Victoria is the resilient founder of Her Nation, as she shares her story of transformation from a struggling single mother to the creator of a sanctuary for women's empowerment. Her Nation, a support system like no other, enables women to share their expertise and stories, fostering a space of togetherness and vulnerability that's needed now more than ever. We'll explore the critical role of community that can amplify our connections and productivity—insights that are invaluable for anyone looking to enrich their personal and professional life.

Journey with us through the power of podcasting with Her Talk Show, where the simple yet profound question, "What do you know that you wish more humans knew?" unlocks a treasure trove of wisdom and shared experiences. Sabrina opens up about her own evolution from a restrictive background to advocating for women's empowerment, a testament to the strength we can harness through storytelling and personal growth.


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2. What strategies can be used to escape a toxic relationship and achieve financial independence?
   
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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:23

My entire family, my entire community just dropped me like a hot potato and I led. This stereotypical single mom broke ass life of just absolutely no money digging my couch for 25 cents to put gas in my car, eviction notices in my apartment door, car getting repoed, real suicidal thoughts dealing with postpartum but didn't know it was postpartum, so literally just feeling like the shittiest mom in the world.

Speaker 2: 0:52

What's going on? Everybody in the Owl community we're on the Owl podcast. I'm joined here by my cohost, daniel Santilli, and, to my left, sabrina, and I'm going to let Danielle start off by telling everybody a little bit about Sabrina.

Speaker 3: 1:05

Yeah, well, sabrina and I actually met at a local wellness event, but she runs Her Nation and it's a really amazing community of women who I mean you can better describe it than I can, but I'm just going to say an amazing community of women who really support each other, help each other out, connect, communicate. I think after COVID, it's so important for everyone to have community. So if you want to share a little bit more about Her Nation, I'm about to hear it.

Speaker 1: 1:37

Awesome, yeah, so Her Nation is a community of women, and it's divided into two different containers. So container number one is teachers, mentors and coaches, and container number two is the students or the audience, and the idea is that all of us, all humans, are experts or authorities in one area of our life. We're killing it. We're total champions in one area of our life, and then, on the down low, there's also an area of our life that we, totally low-key, suck at. So the idea is to show up powerfully as a teacher or a mentor in the area of which you are an expert in, in order to teach, and, at the same time, allow yourself to show up vulnerably in an area of your life that you're not so good at. This way, other women can show up powerfully to be able to teach in their expertise. So it's a really beautiful synergy that we're creating, and it's just women supporting women, which we haven't, you can't find that everywhere.

Speaker 3: 2:34

Yeah, I think it's crazy the way that you describe it. It's exactly what Owl is. I was about to say You're pretty planned this episode, right? No, I was like that's a perfect explanation. We have experts who give advice and then we have people calling to get advice. So, just like you said, it's very, very in line with what we do here.

Speaker 2: 2:53

I love that you stuck to deck. I think Someone's going on. Did you plan?

Speaker 3: 2:56

this one out. This is just how my life has been going lately.

Speaker 2: 2:59

I've been Owl week and we're doing all these things on the platform.

Speaker 3: 3:02

And Sabrina's a perfect guest. She's a podcast host expert herself. How many episodes have you done?

Speaker 1: 3:08

I mean well over 1,000. But just within her nation I've hit just over 500. Wow.

Speaker 3: 3:14

We are rookie and she's the one who I stole the Calendly app from too, so I just started automating everything and it's amazing. I can't wait to start using it.

Speaker 2: 3:24

We all need help right At any rate. It doesn't matter where you are in life. If you're the richest man in the world like Elon Musk, he needs advice from people. He's not a professional or perfect at every single thing, especially like fitness nutrition. Right Like we all need to just call someone at the end of the day.

Speaker 1: 3:39

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 3:40

So describe your group a little bit more. Do you do retreats? Do you have local meetups? Are they all on Zoom? Are they on Clubhouse, like where does all this happen?

Speaker 1: 3:48

Yeah, so the free version is a group on Facebook, sweet and simple. That's where we all hang out. It's an extremely active group. But, yeah, I do everything from podcasts. I run a podcast every single day. I run panels, events, conferences Everything is done virtually. Right now. The 12-year vision for us is to eventually have in-person conferences and in-person events where these women are up on stage. One of the examples that I give is when I was in my dark story of my journey of life, I would Google and I would Google inspirational stories or inspirational or motivational speakers, and Google would produce hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of lists of white old men. And I always joke that women didn't save me from my darkness. Actually, white old men who were balding usually saved me. They were the ones that Google fed to me to be able to tell me that I could do anything and that I was capable and anything is possible. And I fed into that and because of those powerful words I was able to pull myself out of the situation I was in. But at the same time, there was this thought process inside of me as far as, where are all the women? I should be listening to women's stories, and that's really where the whole concept kind of came from is just more women on stages, more women's voices, more women's stories being told, and there's so many women warriors out there that have been through so much.

Speaker 2: 5:17

What is the name of your podcast?

Speaker 1: 5:18

Her Talk Show.

Speaker 2: 5:20

Cool.

Speaker 1: 5:20

And it's based on one question. The question is what do you know that you wish more humans knew?

Speaker 2: 5:27

What's the answer I?

Speaker 3: 5:29

have a lot of answers. What is the answer, Danielle? I don't know. What's the answer, Jason? I'm not allowed to be on the show.

Speaker 2: 5:35

I'm male.

Speaker 3: 5:37

Well, actually you can wait to watch my episode because I'm going to be on in August. So I'm going to leave that cliffhanger for you guys. I think I'm going on August 24th, I want to say, because I'm going to Burning man the next day. That's nice. So yeah, I remember I was like I got to stay for the podcast and then I'll be going the next day. Claire, watch my episode on her podcast on the 24th.

Speaker 2: 6:02

I guess they're in person online.

Speaker 1: 6:05

Zoom right. Yeah, do everything on StreamYard Cool.

Speaker 2: 6:08

Yes, streamyard's a good platform. Then you can live stream it to LinkedIn, facebook, youtube or wherever.

Speaker 1: 6:13

All places yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:15

OK, well, this is our week, right, so I think we got to get a lot more calls on the platform as soon as we can, right? So this week happens once a year where we do contests, we do promotions for folks that show up to our Zooms, our clubhouse rooms, and, of course, on the app itself. So we're going to do a lot more calls than usual. So this is one of the uniqueness podcasts, because we could call people that are literally waiting for incoming calls on OWL, right, that's. There's not many podcasts that could connect a whole entire app to right. So it's kind of like the old days, remember, like Z100, I was in New York, yes, and they're like we have a call coming in and you know, of course, they had a lot of fun pranking people.

Speaker 1: 6:51

Yes On those days. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:54

But it's pretty unique.

Speaker 1: 6:55

Yeah, I actually would. That's one of the dreams for her nation. Also, that I have for us is to be able to take live calls in, so when we have an expert on, to be able to have you know Maybe we can show you or put them after this.

Speaker 3: 7:08

Yeah, but before we start calling people, I do want to ask you, like what is your story? Like you talked about your dark period and like, kind of what, what was that dark period? And then what makes you, I guess, qualified to be giving these women advice today?

Speaker 1: 7:27

So I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. For those of you that don't know what that is, it's a fairly strict religion. I got pregnant at the age of 20 with no husband emphasis on the no husband part and because of that sin I was cast out into the world. My entire family and my entire community dropped me like a hot potato and I led this stereotypical single mom broke ass life of just absolutely no money, digging my couch for 25 cents to put gas in my car, eviction notices in my apartment door, car getting repoed, real suicidal thoughts dealing with postpartum but didn't know it was postpartum, so literally just feeling like the shittiest mom in the world. And I met a man about a year and a half later. I don't know how I did that for a year and a half, but somehow I did. I met a man who I thought was given to me by God because that's what I was praying for was money, and he was wealthy. So I fell hook, line and sinker for all of the tricks. I ignored all of the red flags, which was there was ton of them and I ended up in this extremely toxic relationship with a man who convinced me to leave my place because I couldn't pay for it anyways, to leave my job because it sucked anyways, and to live with him and to work for him, to build an empire together and within a very short amount of time. I'm working for between the 16 hours a day. I'm getting paid $250 a week. So I'm still broke. Over the course of eight years we went from making about 100 grand a year living in a little tiny townhouse to moving on up in the world. I mean, my blood, sweat and tears got us five houses paid in full, 12 cars paid in full, zero debt, make it a million a year, building a sales corporation over four states, six different offices that I took care of. Absolutely nothing was in my name. I had zero money in my account. I'm living a bougie life, driving a brand new BMW. I'm living in a beautiful house in Boca Raton, florida, and I'm broke off my ass mental, emotional, sexual and financial abuse times 10. It was absolutely horrible, was a nightmare, and One day I'm on the floor in the bathroom just having a total mental breakdown, like the type of breakdown where you're crying and you're screaming and yelling at the same time because crying isn't enough, like you feel like death is coming out of you. I mean it was absolutely horrible and I'm literally on the ground. I'll never forget it. In the dark, like for real, and I pull my phone out of my back pocket and there's just bright screen in front of my face and I Google why is my boyfriend bullying me? Just like crying, and I use the word bully because I didn't know any other vernacular other than the word bully. I'm just like he's being mean to me. He's so mean and Google let me know I was in a toxic relationship. I had no idea. Narcissism, you know, no, no, no voice, totally codependent. I have high empathetic vibes and just a mess. And this is really where her nation stems from right. Like I was killing it in business. I was killing it in sales. I could get in front of a group of a hundred people and teach all kinds of tactics on marketing and sales and create flows, and I was just a Champion in this area of my life. And then I had this whole other area of my life. That was just a total mystery, just totally sucked. And so, anyways, I got my power back. I dove head first in a personal development. I Opened up a secret bank account, I started three online secret businesses and over the course of four years I Collected fifty thousand dollars, which doesn't seem like a lot of money, but I felt like a millionaire and I ran away. One day I took my son or close on my bicycle. That's all I took. I left everything else behind and I started all over again with a mattress on the floor. Wow and ever since then, I'm fully dedicated to Educating people on things that they don't know, that they don't know now.

Speaker 2: 11:13

He wasn't wealthy at the beginning of your relationship.

Speaker 1: 11:16

He wasn't wealthy. But a hundred grand to somebody who's taking their couch cushions 25 cents is a car, yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:22

I'm a good BMW and I okay, he's gonna apartment and yeah, you don't know the numbers behind it. You know my back. I'm a financial advisor, so yeah. I know what you're saying. It's like that looks like rich and well, but yeah, really, you know, you, you were the one that forced, you know the drive of all these brands. And then he just kind of, you know, of course, hit everything you know, and you just kind of like, well, we started this together and he's got my back. Yeah but really never had your back. He was just, it was all floating yeah to the accounts that he happened to have and there was always excuses. I'm assuming it's like, well, we have to do it for this right Cuz. I'm assuming it's like why not a joint account?

Speaker 1: 11:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:58

I'm sure you said what won't we have a joint account and all the things? What was his answer?

Speaker 1: 12:02

I mean always something different. Why don't you trust me? I'll always take care of you. This is the way it was set up in my house. Why not your house? Are you planning on leaving me Always? Would somehow flip it back on me. As far as you know, how dare you? Or why would you question me? Or you Obviously have alternative thinking. Yeah, so they court. You know, I'd get cornered very quickly and I wasn't very quick on my feet, especially, you know, not until I started doing my learnings, but then it wasn't until I started during my learnings. But then at that point I was on this mission to get out. So even when, on my eyes open, and I finally realized all these tricks like gaslighting and manipulation and Triangulation and all these little things that I realized he was doing, I also couldn't say anything because at that point I was trying to build a separate life. So I couldn't be like I didn't even care. So I was literally leading this meek, you know, submissive role on one side and then building this entire Empire power you on the other side.

Speaker 2: 13:08

Yeah, and and how long ago was, was that's all?

Speaker 1: 13:11

I mean, it's been over a decade decade. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 13:14

I'd you and then talk about your current business model, right? How do you, you know, have these groups on Facebook and then where, where the payments come in? Yeah, it is their premium type bank account where all the members get certain things, for example, yeah.

Speaker 1: 13:27

So when I first started out I was doing just one-on-one coaching, just like we all start out. We have no idea what we're doing, just doing one at a time, just flipping hamburgers, basically one at a time. But then got into group coaching, realized the benefits of group coaching and how you can make multiple amounts of money in one sitting and then from there, you know, I said her nation has been around for two and a half years. I here, so I do memberships now, which is really awesome, because one of the thing that was so frustrating about coaching is when you do one right, then you have to go out and you have to sell another and then you have to go out and sell another, and yeah, so I thought it was smart. With the group coaching it's like you know, then you're doing more and you're getting more and it's less time, but then you're still having to go out and find a new group Right. So once the 12 weeks is up, you still have to go out and you have to find another eight to 10 people to now join the group again. It's this whole like cycle of just ridiculousness. So the membership which you know about memberships is nice because you it's a continuation. It's forever. So women join at. You know, I have a mastermind group of females entrepreneurs that join at a certain rate my rate right now is $67 a month where we do networking meetings, we do a mastermind, we do our panels and our events are, you know, like what I was telling you before with our 16 hour podcast that we did. Those were all women.

Speaker 4: 14:46

Nice.

Speaker 1: 14:47

Her mastermind, yeah, that we're able to attend. And and then we have a lower level, which is women, who are kind of predominantly coming in just to kind of check it out, right, they don't really know what's going on. They're thinking about maybe joining the membership, but they definitely know that they need some learning. So it's kind of like a low ticket $9.99 a month to be able to just be around us, right, I? I, one of the things that I talk about all the time in my community is you are the sum of the five people closest to you. So, um, you know, I guarantee one of the things that I talk about is just the, the plethora of power, knowledge, education and empathy within my community. So isn't that a community that you would want to surround yourself with? So that's $9.99. And then the community itself, the, the Facebook group is free. I mean, that's just a plethora of, it's the same individuals. Um, the membership takes place in a platform which you've probably heard of, called circle.

Speaker 2: 15:41

Awesome. Yeah, danielle, you gotta have some follow up questions here. You're in her group, of course. Yeah, well, I joined the.

Speaker 3: 15:49

I know I joined the Facebook group, but I still I. I tried to join the Facebook group. I don't even know if I'm. You are here in a minute, okay, okay.

Speaker 2: 15:56

I love the recurring model, of course, because then it's just like every month you could pay your bills right? Often business owners make a mistake where they chase those big commissions where it's like the one-on-one coaching for for five grand a month, but then all of a sudden, like four months later you know they're gone and then you got to find another one and another one and then the group one same thing, where it's like if it's just a six week course you know, you know, twice a week. Then again it's chasing and chasing. But recurring also builds a better community. Exactly, and we see that on the OWL platform. It's like when people keep coming back, then it's like no way I'm quitting this group. These are my people.

Speaker 1: 16:32

Exactly, yeah, and one of the things that I've really implemented within the community and I and I do myself. I believe that to be a strong leader, you can't just tell people what to do. You have to do what you're telling other people to do. So I work off of what I call a give get method. I coined it as my method, but it's just normal reciprocity, right. When you give, you'll get in return. It's just the law of reciprocity. Yeah, so I teach you know give, give, give. Always show up to any conversation with what can I do to help you, how can I help you, where can I insert myself or who can I connect you to? And when you show up consistently with the attitude of giving, just automatically the law of reciprocity will kick in and that individual will give back to you. So it's not a give take, as a lot of people think it is. It's actually a give get, meaning you don't have to ask, the person will just automatically give back to you.

Speaker 2: 17:23

So what about the people like you, right, when you were going through, you know, your darkest days, you couldn't afford $99, right? So a lot of people on join your group and get those perks you have? You know, almost like this, like certain criteria, like you hit this, you're allowed in and we're, we want to support you. Yeah, there's a lot of, you know, females that have been through what you're talking about. We have a narcissist expert on the platform and he works with a lot of individuals in New York City and he tells a lot of people these stories. It's crazy. You know what he sees out there and it's stories like yours, right, and the money's not there. So do you have a component where you know it's hard, because most people can actually just like, act like they don't have money, but do you know, and you're running a business at the day? So what do you do with that group?

Speaker 1: 18:08

Yeah, I mean, that's where the podcast really comes into play. So my entire foundation of my entire company was actually based off of narcissism. That was the very first coaching program that I created was how to leave your husband in 365 days. It was my actual program. I was selling it for about $40 to $50, depending on how I felt I gotta make sure my wife's not watching that one. But that's where a lot of the women were coming from. So the entire foundation of her nation is those women. But that's what the podcast really is right. So I'm always promising my females within my community to bring in expert guests that will help them in all the areas of their life, so narcissism is one of them. Your health, your relationships, your money, your career, your happiness, your spirituality, and really linking with beautiful, intelligent women to guide us in all the ways possible.

Speaker 3: 19:00

I am curious when you were first starting out, especially in those days after you left your community and you said you were just doing sales and marketing and built that company up, where did you get those skills? Did you go to school for that beforehand, or was it just pure determination? I will not be broke. Where did that come from? How did you get so good at it?

Speaker 1: 19:24

Yeah, well, I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. I was going to Lord of Doris since I was five years old, hawking Religion, and the company that I was working for at the time was the Daily Herald newspaper in conjunction with the Chicago Tribune. The Chicago Tribune is one of the largest papers in the country, was the largest paper in the country. But when I met him, he was doing my ex, he was doing door to door sales, selling newspapers door to door, so, or subscriptions, not the newspaper subscriptions. So when we met, I mean obviously he saw just a cash cow right there right then, and there I mean I was raised. I was greeted to go door to door and to be on stage, you know. So when he brought me in, it's not like I knew all of the things. I mean I did not go to college, as you said. That's one of the things he used against me. All of the time he insisted that I was stupid and dumb and didn't know anything. It had absolutely no college education and no business mindset whatsoever, even though I was killing it in sales. But I was just totally self taught to a degree and just kind of learned as to when. I've always taken the mindset of a student I have. I'm very, very humble. I have. No, my fiance actually always gets mad at me for this, because I ask questions consistently, even if I know the answer to the question. So you know, we'll be in the middle of a conversation and I'll ask somebody a question who'll be there with me, and then afterwards we'd be like why the hell are you asking this person that question, like you already knew the answer to that. You look like an idiot and I was like, well, maybe that person knows a different avenue or a different way of doing things that I didn't previously know. And so that's kind of the way I've always been and kind of how I got good. So when I was in sales, consistently just asking other sales reps like, how do you do this? And digging deep, and you'd be surprised what people will tell you. You know, when you ask questions because people like to feel empowered, they like to feel like you know, they know something. Yes, and they will. They'll just tell you all the things and you know, and I she's going to be a fan of Al.

Speaker 2: 21:24

You got to call people whenever you want one in the morning, four in the morning, and they're there. And then people just want to speak. A lot of people forget it's not about always business, business, business. People want to be heard.

Speaker 1: 21:33

Yeah, 100% yeah, so.

Speaker 2: 21:35

I think it's the time to call some people on Al. Yeah, we have hour week right now, so I promised all these people on there I'm like be ready. We're going to make more calls than normal on the platform. So what we're going to do is we're going to patch somebody in I want to see if there's someone new on here, Sorry and what's going to happen is we're going to ask them what their expertise is, and then we're going to have you ask them a question about their expertise. Got the perfect one. Oops, she's $25. Sorry, Danielle, I'll live. She's going to get so excited. She's like I just raised my price to $25. She's, she's working us. She probably knows. She's like Jason's probably going to call me.

Speaker 1: 22:17

Ah, smart business woman there.

Speaker 2: 22:19

Very smart, very smart. She's awesome. She had me in a clubhouse room yesterday in front of 30, 40 people and she's brought in the most referrals on the platform. Last week, that's fantastic.

Speaker 1: 22:33

Are you guys on clubhouse?

Speaker 2: 22:35

Yeah sometimes Not as much anymore back in the day a lot more.

Speaker 3: 22:39

Yeah, are you?

Speaker 1: 22:41

No, I tried it a little bit and it just wasn't aligned with. Yeah same, it's okay, like.

Speaker 3: 22:46

I try it and I'm like I don't know, I don't know why. I find it overwhelming and just too much going on. I don't know.

Speaker 1: 22:54

I went into quite a few rooms but to actually speak on it I think it feels very like distant for me, because you're not looking at anybody and not hearing anybody and it's not one on like the, the owls and I speak because it is one on one.

Speaker 3: 23:07

There's like one with that. It's like what are they talking about when you come in and then it's hard to get your voice heard if you're not with the one up on stage speaking.

Speaker 2: 23:15

Yeah, it's so much in your room for an hour and you get like one sentence, one question to ask. Yeah, and sometimes it's very fluffy because being recorded and you feel uncomfortable like being yourself because all these folks are in the room.

Speaker 1: 23:26

Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2: 23:28

Okay, we're calling somebody else, the first person to not pick up.

Speaker 3: 23:31

So, guys, I say this a lot If you are on and available and your button is green, that means that you should expect calls should be at your phone. Don't go live if you're not going to answer calls. I don't know how many times we're going to have to say it, but we're we're figuring that out, the developers.

Speaker 2: 23:55

This is what happens when you call brand new people on the platform.

Speaker 3: 23:58

Yeah, they're setting to make sure your notifications are turned on. If they're not turned on, then they're in another app and they don't know anyone's calling them. That's mainly why we're kind of setting up a whole system now where we're going to do demos with new people, because then once they realize, oh, I have all these missed calls, I don't know why I missed them because you didn't have your notification turned on either Totally, and that is a lot of it too, I know with her nation it was the same exact thing.

Speaker 1: 24:24

If somebody doesn't know how to use the community, then they drop off and they don't hang out very long yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:29

Correct. It creates a bad experience. You're brand new. You have three $10 in your account. You call someone home picks up. Call second person pick up. You're like okay, this thing doesn't work.

Speaker 1: 24:37

Exactly yeah, 100%.

Speaker 2: 24:39

So now we list those under new, new owls, so that way people know like if you call someone that's new, more likelihood that there's an issue.

Speaker 1: 24:46

Got it.

Speaker 2: 24:46

Hello green 610. Welcome to the Owl podcast. You're here with me, danielle Santilli and Sabrina and what we want to do. I know this is your first time on the Owl app and, of course, the Owl podcast. You didn't see this coming. Can you tell our audience a little bit about what you do in 15 seconds, 30 seconds or less? And then Sabrina, our guests of the day, is going to ask you a question about your expertise.

Speaker 4: 25:11

All right, no problem. My name is green 610. I'm a recording artist and a social media influencer. I pretty much focus on building community and social media growth.

Speaker 1: 25:25

Ooh, how do you build?

Speaker 2: 25:26

community, and the best part about this is he is the number one person referring people to this platform right now. We looked at this earlier today and we were with all these brand ambassadors and I thought it was going to be someone different, and then, all of a sudden, he was at the top of the list. So he put a post out on his Instagram account and other accounts and a ton of his audience has already downloaded it. Because, as you know, danielle, you know, artists don't like giving out their cell phone. A lot of trolls who then hit you up, unfortunately at weird hours, and it gets uncomfortable.

Speaker 1: 25:55

I could see that. Oh, the question is how do you build community? What does that mean for you?

Speaker 4: 26:02

For me it's just it's a couple things to me right. Some of it is the audience, some of them are other influencers where we kind of tag team our network to make a bigger network. And then we also deal with a lot of people who just want to learn how to get into this social media race. So some of them are just kind of they're watching, you know, seeing the way I'm marketing some of my stuff, seeing the way some of my team is marketing their things, and then they're able to kind of take notes. So it's really just a safe place for you know, all different type of people to be able to come in, whether they're there for my music or they're there for, you know, growth hacks and just understanding how you know. Social media to me is a marketplace, not really a place where we, you know, just make friends anymore. So that's kind of like what the community is about. That's kind of how I grow it.

Speaker 1: 26:56

I love it. How would, if you were giving some, going to give somebody, three ways to beat the social media race? What would those be?

Speaker 4: 27:08

I would say consistency is one. One, understand how to attract audience would be two, because not always your product is that attracting sometimes. So sometimes you need to figure out how can you attract the audience, especially with the algorithms being so tough. And then I think three is community. I think joining a community, being a part of the community, is one of the easiest ways to kind of break those algorithm algorithm issues that we're seeing right now on these large major platforms.

Speaker 1: 27:46

Oh, I love that. How long have you been in this, on this journey?

Speaker 4: 27:51

I've been in the business background. I've been doing it all my life off social media. I've been I've been trained by large companies to turn D players into a players. So I had some good companies invest a lot of money in me. I've ran a lot of corporate companies. I still am involved in doing things like that. But the social media thing I've been going really, really hard for about three years now kind of started on TikTok and that's why I'm kind of where how I learned about community monetization and I seen that there was availability for me to take what I've been learning, you know in my business background, you know my nine to five and kind of like move it to social media.

Speaker 3: 28:37

What kind of recording artists are you?

Speaker 4: 28:40

It's like rap kind of rapping, hip hop, pop-ish kind of you know you might get some R&B, you know. So it's a little bit of a kind of a commercial vibe Not too much you know, not too much you know on the violent side. You know I did. I did grow up, you know, in poverty, so you know there's definitely times in my music where you'll definitely, you know, understand where I came from and you know things that I had to overcome to get to where I am now today. But my music is mostly like a hip hop, pop, r&b kind of.

Speaker 3: 29:13

And what I'm only asking. I'm an artist as well. Where can I like? What's your artist name on Spotify? Is it Green 610?

Speaker 4: 29:21

Yep, I'm Green 610 everywhere. You guys can find me on all major platforms.

Speaker 3: 29:26

All right, cool. Well, thank you for chatting with us and I'll have to. I'll give you a call later on OWL so we can talk music.

Speaker 4: 29:34

Awesome and I appreciate you guys for reaching out to me. It was a surprise. Thanks for having me on the OWL podcast. It's an honor and I'm really excited to continue to utilize the app and grow with you guys.

Speaker 3: 29:47

Yes, Everybody listening. Make sure you follow Green 610 on all social media platforms. All right, we'll talk to you later. Bye, cool, that was your first OWL call.

Speaker 2: 29:58

I'll see the power community. Just call someone out of the blue. That's awesome and there you go. How cool was that.

Speaker 1: 30:04

I love it Absolutely. That was fantastic, yes.

Speaker 2: 30:07

You know, when it comes to these communities, the same thing with OWL. It's like people are not joining it just to make a living. They're not joining it just to make a couple bucks on taking calls. It's just like what you just heard, Like everyone is seeking different things. They want to connect with people and, of course, you know, grow with them at the end of the day and you could see how quickly you call someone, pay a few dollars and you're chatting away.

Speaker 1: 30:29

That's pretty cool, right. What was your reason for building?

Speaker 2: 30:32

it. It's a great question and it's a great time to ask me that question being that's OWL week, it's OWL week. You know, being a financial advisor for over 15 years serving clients, you know, it's always been amazing. I'm serving those clients, you know. But podcasting brought another side of me out right. After getting like 200, 300 episodes all done in person, really started to listen to all these entrepreneurs and I was taking notes the whole time. And then COVID-19 hit and it just felt like the right time to go on offense when everyone else was going on defense. And it hit me when I was podcasting. I was doing these fireside chats on zoom. I'm used to doing in person shows and we used to get a lot of cancellations. We see, you know, even no show not no show so much, but like five minutes early, like hey, I can't come, I'm sick. I'm like why didn't you tell me a day ago or four hours ago? And you know, when it came to our fireside chats, we went, uh, 10 shows in a row with 44 different business owners and it was crazy. I'm like none of them were late and I'm canceled because I almost craving you human interaction, and I was driving to work one morning. I was like you know, it's so stupid. I was like I get to listen to a podcast and get to listen to music right now. That's what I do every morning, but I can't actually call anybody. You know everyone is sitting at home right now craving to talk with me for other people, but there's no way to do it. We we went so far in the other direction with texting and messaging that it's not appropriate anymore to call someone. If I called you on my car ride to work at eight 30 in the morning, you would look down at your phone and say what the fuck is Jason calling me?

Speaker 3: 32:07

Yeah, he right, and unless you're getting paid for the call, right.

Speaker 2: 32:11

But for this like but that makes no sense to so many like minded individuals that just want to BS going a car ride job. So I'm like, how could we get it where somebody else is out there is saying call me, jason, you know, or even my own Rolodex, my own cellphone context. Well, I will enables that because you're putting yourself available and you're welcoming people to call you at the price level that you set. Now, when I drive to work every morning, I have that ability to just make an outbound call and make more use of that time, get to actually speak to like minded individuals, to pick their brand on any topic and really build relationships. At the end of the day and we all need help- why double W and double L owl?

Speaker 1: 32:49

why?

Speaker 2: 32:49

Because owls are wise and too well, because you're going to love it. Yeah, Imagine you are you know your homework right. Old, you're wearing black, which is, of course, our color, color tones, and, um, you know, at the end of the day, like owl was taken, obviously like OWL, and we just had to be unique. Like most brands that are very successful have only so many characters, especially for apps, or you can't have a long name. Uh, you know, in the app store it just it doesn't fit with the character limit. So there's, owls are so powerful, they're wise, they're intelligence and so many people love them already. So, immediately, if you love owls, when I say you should try this out, you immediately are like I should try this out. So we get a lot of downloads just from that.

Speaker 1: 33:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:32

And people love wearing our brand. You know, we put on T-shirts like this and it's not one of those T-shirts you give away at a conference and it goes somewhere in that top drawer and never, never worn or worn when you're, when you're cleaning the kitchen, scrubbing the floors. Yeah, this is a people love wearing it, so that that's the why.

Speaker 1: 33:51

Cool Okay.

Speaker 2: 33:52

Well, for audience listening, they want to get in touch. Besides for Owl, what are, what's your social handles? What's your website?

Speaker 1: 33:57

Yeah Easy, sabrinavictoriacom. Cool, all my stuff is there.

Speaker 2: 34:02

Call her on Owl. She'll be the featured expert of the week next week and thanks again for joining us today. Thank you, everyone for listening, peace.