Goldie Matthew: Your Guide to a Joyful & Prosperous Life

Goldie Matthew.

She walks into a room, shakes her golden curls, and instantly the room feels different.
Goldie is a joy to know. One simple conversation is laden with hope, inspiration, education, laughter, wisdom... She is a master teacher that has designed a life of joy, freedom, and abundance… and it's made her rich. 

The way she thinks, her big heart, her desire to help others is inspiring but also educational. Get ready to take notes. 

Here are just a few of the Goldie nuggets from our conversation:

✨ “Never pass up an opportunity to make a new friend or experience something new.”
This is the motto she lives by, and it's given her permission to do the things that make us nervous - things like get to know interesting people, go on amazing trips, start businesses.

✨ She became the #1 sales rep at Tastefully Simple in ONE year.
Not by luck but by breaking big goals into small, consistent actions and staying committed.

✨ She doesn’t rely on one income stream.
She built multiple streams of income — from business, to real estate, to community experiences, creating true freedom in her life.

✨ “Find someone smarter than you and learn from them.”
She credits her success to this one principle. No ego. Just learning.

✨ “Go see how you can help other people first.”
Her secret to networking, business, and life? Lead with an authentic desire to see how you can serve and help others — everything else flows from there.

Goldie calls herself a “daily spreader of love and joy.”

And she means it.

From hosting motivational movie nights in her home…
to sending daily messages that uplift others…
to building businesses that bring people together…

She’s not just making money.

She’s shining her unique light everywhere she goes, raising the vibration of every room she enters. Her energy uplifts and in that vibe, her life overflows with abundance.

If you’ve been asking yourself:

✨ What is my contribution?
✨ How do I create a life that feels aligned and abundant?
✨ How do I actually start?

This episode is for you.

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Transcript

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Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Shine Your Light Crew podcast, shining our unique light to heal, evolve, and manifest our best life. I'm your host, Karina Duque. Each episode will shine a light on our personal and spiritual growth, sharing our story, inspiring others. And staying motivated on our own evolving journey, and I want you to be a part of these conversations with us. So if this sounds like your cup of tea, hit the subscribe button, sit back and welcome to the Shine Your Like Crew podcast. I wanna introduce the world to Goldie, those that don't know you. Goldie Matthews, like, um, your name Tu so perfectly one. You have these beautiful gold ringlets of hair. We met at a, women's networking group, which is called Wi Sos Women Entrepreneur Secrets of Success. And we'll talk about that in a minute because that was life changing for me and probably many other women. And you'd come into the room and shake your curls and say, hi, my name is Goldie. You know? And it was just so memorable. And everyone knew who you were and you always had the camera with you and you were taking pictures of everybody. I have a picture that you took of me that I love, that I still have on my website. And I wanna talk about Goldie's motivational movie night. I want to hear how that was born. Talk about your amazing living room that you've turned in your, your, uh, basement, that you've turned into a beautiful movie theater. You put motivational movies on and then you, have this group discussion and you give out raffles and you give out prizes and it's so much fun. And I have actually, one of my little treasures that's on my bookshelf is a book that I got from you, and it was, um, everyday Positive Thinking by Louise Louise. Yes. Yes. That was so cool. I love it. And I flip through it, you know, for a little motivation every now and then throughout the years.'cause I've had it for years now. And before your motivational movie night, you have a spread of delicious food and appetizers and snacks and everything now. And you are a very smart business woman because you created motivational movie night to uplift, inspire, gather community, um, gather amazing women to talk about stuff. And then before that, of course you have food because we love to eat, we love food, we love to talk and eat and then watch a movie. Hello. A dream night. And, but you charge, I don't know how much you charge these days, but so there is a price to come to the motivational movie night and it's not that much, you know, it's like. Way cheaper than actually going to the movies, minus all the food, right? Minus all the good company and conversation and raffles at the end, and prizes and stuff. Because you are also a consultant for Tastefully Simple, you're not just a consultant, you are a very high level consultant I want you to tell us like what level you're at and how you got there and all of that. So there's so many things to talk about, so many things to inspire others. And then you have the daily spreader one of the things, you say is you are a daily spreader of love and joy. That's one of your like. Hats that you wear every day, daily spreader of love and joy is an important title for you. You put it in your bio. So that's important for you. And you know, I wanted to start with that because I think, that the earth is receiving a lot of downloads or people are receiving the downloads each human being on the planet matters and how we present ourselves to the world, what we bring our gifts, our unique light, our shine, right? Like this is called the Shine Your Light Crew. And you are definitely part of the crew, you are shining your light out into the world. And I think more and more the, realization is coming into people's minds of like, how am I contributing my light to the world? And, you know, you don't have to be rich or famous or, reach millions of people. You can do it within your family, within your community. So you've known this for years, like you've had this. Awareness of how am I going to spread love and joy? Like what is my contribution to the world? And I think that you started,, I don't know, I wanna hear your, your, how you started, but throughout the years you've just kind of added on to it. And while at the same time, creating a life of abundance, you are a self-made woman. You're an entrepreneurial woman. Like you have your own home, you have a luxury car. You go on these amazing trips, you bring friends, but you do it all, like inspiring people and having fun and, and taking pictures and it, and like bringing everyone along for the ride. So I want to hear about this, how it all started, and, uh, spread your light and, and help inspire people that are like, yeah, how am I, what's my contribution? How am I gonna contribute? So, yeah, tell us more. Goldie, that was a lot of things. So since you were saying a lot, I was jotting them down and there were nine items you talked about. So, uh, why don't we do one at a time. I'll just tell you stories'cause I think stories, uh, resonate with people. Sometimes people can see themselves in the stories. And, and the first thing I wrote down is you were asking about how motivational movie night came about. Yeah. And um, I'd like actually an interesting story. I was watching a podcast that said anybody could be a millionaire. And I'm like, okay, I'm listening. And he said, I'm gonna ask you one question I'm gonna ask you, Corina Corina too. I'm gonna ask you one question and I want you to answer it without any forethought. No matter how crazy the answer might be. Don't overthink it. Just whatever first thing comes out of your mouth. You ready? Here was his question. He said, what can you do to the wee hours of the morning, three o'clock in the morning? And you're so engrossed in it, you love it so much, you enjoy it so much. You can't stop. Time just escapes. You go, what's your answer? Meditate. Oh, interesting. Interesting. Meditate. You wanna know what my answer was? What? Read. I love to read. I never have enough time to read. I get so engrossed until I actually fall to get tired. But I love to read. That was my first answer that came to my mind right away. And I thought, great. How do you, how do you become a millionaire reading? Keep asking yourself questions. Okay, well, what kind of books do I like to read? I like to read motivational, inspirational, um, um, you know, uh, biographies and self-help books and self-discovery, those types of things that elevate you. And I thought, okay, well how do you make money doing that? Uh, maybe I could be an audio, you know, for audio. No, I don't have the voice for it, nor did it really appeal to me. And then I thought, um, I like documentaries too that are like that, and I have a lot of them. And after I watch one, I looked to the left, I looked to the right, and there's nobody there that I could say, oh, this wasn't this so good. And I thought, well, maybe I could do a a documentary club, a movie club, like a book club, a movie club, a motivational movie club, or a movie night. And I just kept playing with those questions. And then we all get those monkey brains, right? As soon as we get a good idea, which is the universe inspiring to help you to move along your path, our monkey brain will say, yeah, who, who will come? If you did a movie night and who would even pay to come to your house to watch a movie? Come on now. And, and so then, you know, you keep going back and forth, but when you get, these are what I call God whispers. When you get an idea, and it's not just an idea, but it's an idea that has an energy about it, that will not leave you. That means this is something you are meant to pursue. Do not ignore it. Follow it. And that's what I kept feeling this energy about it. The idea wouldn't leave me. And so, I thought, well, how do I add enough value to the night that people would come and see the, uh, spending it? So I charge$30 now for it. And, um, 25 if you pay early to help get that all taken care of before the night of me doing it. I always hold'em the last Wednesday of each month. And, because I am. Tastefully simple consultant for 23 years now. Um, I, that's all I know how to cook food. Everything is easy to prepare. No more than two ingredients to make. So it's dinner plus the movie. So people come at six o'clock for dinner and networking and it's such a cozy, warm, you've been to my house environment. Lots of art and pillows and blankets. It's just a really cool, you know, warm vibe environment. So for an hour they get to mingle and eat like Thai lettuce wraps and pesto salmon. And, I mean, I really put out a spread of incredible food. Mm-hmm. And then, uh, we go down to the base. We bless the space. Oh, and just fun things like I will, um, have a sticker for, for the movies when they check in, they get a notebook for the first time and whatever the movie is, like when it was, um, walking the Camino, they were little feet when it was happy, it was a smiley face, but something to designate. They, they were there for that movie. And then it almost becomes like a, a club like, like Girl Scout badges. How many stickers do you have on your, on your notebook? And people kind of brag about, oh, I went to that movie. I went to that movie just to make it more fun. And, uh, they get a ticket at the front door for coming. And if they bring a first time guest, they'd get another ticket. So I do a drawing. And, uh, the first drawing is for the best seats in the house. When they get downstairs, they, they're John and my seats, they recline to face the screen and, and, uh, and then we do a drawing afterwards. So we, we bless the space. We watch the movie after the movie. This is their favorite part. Open discussion, um, about the movie. And so afterwards people would share their takeaways that they like about it. So I've done things like. I did still, which was Michael J. Fox, uh, l last month was December. We had a pajama party, Christmas, and we even had awards for like coms, pajamas, funniest pajamas, things like that. And I did a movie, um, about Tina Turner, her documentary. And I remember asking one question, were you ever in a situation where you knew you didn't belong there, but you were staying? And, and what was the pivotal point that made you get up and like, I'm not taking this anymore and you got out? I it, boy did it bond the room. Everybody shared stories. We never knew about each other. It was just very, it creates a community, a safe area for us to just, um, you know, connect. And then I let each person stand up and state their name and what their business is. So in their notebooks, as they're hearing each person, they could put the names down and afterwards say, can I get your card? I have a business table for them to put their business cards or any flyers for upcoming events. So a lot of business women like you and I have met through esos, um, like to come because it's an opportunity for them to network, um, write it off as a business expense, promote their business in a fun environment. So I've been doing it for nine years now. Here's a good story. Um. I came from lower middle income. My parents, we had one car. My dad worked during the day, and then he would come home and give my mom a the car and she was a nurse and she would work the night shift. We had a home. We had food, but not much more. They call that comfortably broke. I heard that new term. Have you heard that? No. Where, you know, your bills are paid moderately, your, your homes, but you don't have any extra. If somebody said, Hey, let's just go away for the weekend to so and so. Oh, I can't, I don't have the money. You know, they're comfortably broke. Isn't that interesting? So that's what we were, we didn't know any different, you know, that was like the neighborhood and all. And I remember my back door neighbors, uh, Jean and Judy Johanek lived over. I lived in Westmont. They lived over the um. Hardware store. And so they were like business family. They had a little bit more and they had a Monopoly game. And we played with these kids. They were our neighbors. And I loved this game. It was so much fun. I remember coming home to my dad and I said, daddy, we gotta get a Monopoly game. Oh my God, this is, so we're talking the sixties now. I don't know how old you are, but anyway, it would pretty much, you know, it was a relatively new thing. And my dad looked at me and he said, Goldie, we don't have money for a Monopoly game. I remember in my, my like 6-year-old brain thinking, how do we not have money for a Monopoly game? So I went into my bedroom and I took my piggy bank and I shook all the change outta my bed and I scooped it up and I went to my dad. I said, this, will this help us get a monopoly game? I mean, I really wanted one. And, uh, my dad, uh, left the house and he came back a couple hours later with a Monopoly game and I was, he's six foot tall. I was this little tiny thing. I literally, Karina ran up my father. I literally, I was so happy all the way up to his face and I kissed his face. I was so happy. I was so, so happy. We got this monopoly game. But then I remember, I solidly remember to thinking to myself, when I get older, I'm gonna make so much money. I can buy as many Monopoly games as I want. And nobody can ever tell me I can't get a Monopoly game. I distinctly remember making that. Decision when I was like seven, you know, because people ask me, where do you get your drive? And I had to think about that. And it, it took me back to that time. Hmm. And then I was always, you know, making things and selling things. I was always really good in sales. And then when I was about 21, I dated, um, a Jewish guy, Ronnie Wonder what happened to him anyway. Um, and he taught me one thing that changed my life. I, I wish I could get ahold of every 21-year-old and shake him by the shoulders and say, listen to me. Listen to me.'cause I listened to this guy. It was very simple. You know what he said? Wow. He said, Goldie, if you put away now it's 21. 20 to just turning 21. If you put away$2,000 in an IRA every year, by the time you retire, you'll be a millionaire. And we get out. I mean, I didn't know any millionaires. And uh, he said, no, it's true. And he showed me this chart where if you did it, it compounded. He said, but you can't spend it. And I go, well, that's no fun. What's the point of it? He said, individual retirement accounts are set up now because who knows by the time you retire if Social Security will be able to take care of you. So they want you to invest in your own individual retirement account, and they'll give you, um, tax benefits if you do. And so I listened to him, I went to the bank, I said, I have no idea what I'm doing, but I understand I need to open up a. IRA So after five years of doing this,$2,000 at a time, um, after five years, you would think you'd have 10,000. I had 16,000 and I thought, whoa, this is cool. I did not work for that six extra$6,000. My money did that. And so I tell this to people that if you wanna be successful in life, focus on two things. Really just focus on two things. One, find people who are smarter than you in the area in which you wanna excel. Partner with them, learn from them. Sometimes it's books, sometimes it's people. Take them to lunch. Whoever's in your field who's over the best find out what they're doing. And if you do what they do, you two will be successful. You can leapfrog that much faster to success. So that's one. It's very important. And two, now this is me. I look for opportunities for passive income. 95% of Americans trade time for dollars. They work, they get paid. If you want more pay, what do you do? You work overtime. You take on a second job, but you can only physically do so much. Wealthy people do not trade time for dollars. They've set up things that can make money while they sleep. So that was my first experience of, you know, getting out of poverty or comfortably broke that if I invest the money can make money for me. So I thought that was really cool. So I got excited about that. I said, how do I speed up this process? So, um, I started interviewing in my early twenties financial advisors and I didn't actually like the first two. The third guy I really liked a lot, and you know why? Because no question was too dumb. I mean, I didn't know anything about investing and so I would say like, okay, you know, I've heard of mutual funds, but what are they exactly? And then when he drew it out on a napkin, I'm like, oh gosh, that makes so much sense. So he was like teaching me. And I like that. I, it was empowering me to know, don't just blindly believe what people say. You wanna know what you're doing, you know, with your money. And so I became obsessed. Like, what else can I invest in? And I made it a game. How much can I put away? And how little can I live on? I knew how to live on little, I grew up that way. I knew how to stretch a dollar a penny. I made my own clothes, shop at, um, Goodwill, which I still do to this day. I love it. You know, I knew how to live on little all this excess money working one, two, and three jobs. I was putting it all away and investing, learned about money, purchase plans and annuities and set by and all the, this stuff. And by the time I turned 37, I was able to retire. Ah. Oh my goodness. That's why I wanna get ahold of every, you know, youngin or, and it doesn't matter how old you are.'cause I started dating my boyfriend, um, and he came to the table. With a lot of debt and it was because of an ex-wife and, it's never too late. I helped him get completely outta that, not me. Introduced him to people who are smarter than me in that area. And then now he's got a nice little nest egg. Started late in life, so it's never too late. That's my story. But, the earlier the better, so if, if you wanna learn a little bit more of all these different things I do, I call myself a serial entrepreneur. Um, I figured out how to make a website. You could go to www.goldiematthew.com, so it's G-O-L-D-I-E-M-A-T-T-H-E-W like a man's name. Goldie matthew.com. And it lists all the, the several things I do. So going back to 37, I'm retired. I'm like, whoa, this is it. You know, how cool is this? I used to work for Spiegel mail order company and they were transferring out to Ohio, and I didn't wanna go to Ohio. I wasn't in love with my job that much, that that was something I wanted to do, and I had choices now. So I thought, well, now what am I gonna do? So I asked the big guy upstairs, what can I do? I don't wanna work in a corporate office. I like people. I like social things. Tell me what's next for me. I distinctly remember my last days at Spiegel in my cubicle with my swivel chair and the plexiglass between the different, you know, little offices and I had a piece of paper and a pen, and I kept writing on the paper. Get out of your comfort zone. Get out of your comfort zone. And I wrote it over and over'cause I had to, gosh, mentally psych myself up out of getting out of that comfort zone of the regular paycheck that comes with working for someone else. Get outta your comfort zone, get outta your comfort zone. But the big figure freaking question is what do you do? What can you, if you leave this, what can make as much money? As what you had, that you can maintain your things and keep going because even though I reached that big old honking amount in my account, it's retirement. I can't touch it. Oh, it's retirement money. That's a really good point. When you say I retired at 37, my first thought was, that's it. So you must have enough money. Live, but no, that's for retirement. So in the meantime, you still have to generate money and you have a net. But you still want that income to come in. So yeah, for my daily expenses, yes, because he told me, don't touch it. I reached my first million at 37. That really was about what I needed for retirement, but it was sheltered. If you take it out, you pay penalties as some people have found out when they needed to, and so I didn't want to need to, I wanted to keep that momentum of keeping it. And being able to add to it. I just didn't know what to do next and I knew I was done with working for someone else. Being an entrepreneur is scary. It's not easy. Sometimes people are not good bosses. They're not good task masters to make sure that they get up and the hours that you would spend at a job that you are spending on something, so didn't know what to do. Put the big question up to the big guy upstairs. I got invited to a tastefully simple party and, um. I barely knew the girl she was someone I casually met at the gym. She had mailed me a little invitation and when I got it, I just kind of threw it in my in invite. Then I saw that I had a message. She had called and left a message and I thought, oh, I really need to call her back. And then she called me again and she got me and I answered the phone and she said, Hey, my party is Saturday. Are you coming? So that is a tip for people. My life changed because she was persistent. So if you or have any sort of business, a lot of people will make one attempt to reach somebody and they don't wanna bother them, so they won't call'em again or whatever. Patient persistence pays, write that one down. So Tastefully simple, for those of you don't know, I tell them it's kinda like Pampered Chef, if you're familiar with that. They're home parties, but it's food and everything in their line requires no more than two ingredients to make. Yay. We have beer, bread, garlic, garlic. All kinds of great stuff. Anyway, the gal says to me, so how would you like to, uh, have a party? No, I don't think so. I don't do these kind of things. Now. This was 2002. Nobody had heard of it before. And my friends were like, well, are you gonna have a party? And I said, I. Well, if I do, will you come? And they all said they'd come, they wanted to eat. I finally made my decision, well why don't I try it? You never know unless you try, right? I had my first party and I got no bookings, had my second party, no book. You start off having like six parties is like how they want you to get off the ground. First convention, I was three months into tastefully. Simple. Didn't have a team, didn't have any people that I had enrolled to be. Party girls, but I was getting my parties moving and I'm in the rafters. This is another good story for you. I'm in the rafters and I'm looking down in the stage. It was at the Minneapolis Convention Center and these girls are going across the stage and they're telling their stories and I'm crying right along with'em and, oh, I was able to do this. And then I'm like, oh man, that'd be so cool. I'd so love to walk across the stage like these girls and, and uh, and as soon as I thought that there goes that monkey brain. Who do you think you are? You've tried three other home-based businesses before and you couldn't get'em off the ground. Yeah, but it is food and everybody does eat. You know, I'm going back and forth seriously. You know what I'm talking about, right? Where your brain, you know, has a great idea and then immediately wants to give you all the reasons why it's not a good idea. And then I thought, you know what? If I'm gonna do this, and that's pretty brave of you to go to the convention after. Not being in it for that long. Three months. Yeah. I love to learn and I love people and I thought it would be an exciting thing to do. I was all by myself, but I didn't care. You know, like I'll go to restaurants by myself. I don't mind going places by myself'cause I like to learn and the excitement and the adventure and the experience of things. I'm always, in fact, on the back of my business card, you know what my one mantra quote is, never pass up an opportunity to make a new friend or experience something new. Mm. That's on the back of my business card. Oh, good. And, and because I live by that, it gives me permission to do things that I might not normally do. My friend wanted know if I, I wanted to go to Africa. I'm like, ah, do I wanna go to Africa in July? There's that monkey brain. I. Never pass up an opportunity to make a new friend or experience something new. It was an experience of a lifetime walk. The Camino in Spain, you know, a lot of things where the opportunities come up. This is the universe helping you have a rich life. Why do we say no right away to things? So when convention came up, I went to it, I'm in the rafters, and I thought, you know what? I'm gonna go for it. But then I thought, well, if I do it, what category would I do? I thought, oh, definitely sales. So I looked to see. What were the top sales of that year? What the person was? It was over a hundred thousand girl. Beer bread was only 4 99. And to have a hundred thousand in personal sales, that is a lot. Mm-hmm. And, well, if I'm gonna go for it, let me break this down. So I divided it by 12. A hundred thousand to get an idea of what I would need to sell. It was like 8,000 a month. Every month I would have to have to even be in the ballpark. I thought, well, my parties are about 500 to 800 a month. I mean a party in sales and uh, there's always catalog parties. So I determined that I'd have to have no less than 12, about 12 to 14 parties, but no less than 12, and then have reorders and catalog parties to make up the difference. And I thought, well divide that. By four weeks. 12. That's three parties a week. I'm working five, six days a week, eight hour days. I can work three days a week, four hour days. Girl, I got this. So is that something when you take a big goal and you bite it down, they say, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. So you break it down into bite size bites and anything can be achievable. That's the key. Don't get freaked out by the goal. Break it down. I'm dropping some good nuggets here. Yes, you are. So when you looked at the people that had made a hundred thousand a year in sales, that didn't stop you. You were like, I'm not gonna compare myself, because a lot of people fall there. They're probably smarter. They're probably no more people. That's something I never thought that, I only saw it as a measurement so that I could make a sustainable goal toward, I never thought that I couldn't do it. I just thought, how do you do it? Gimme the key. What's the secret? How do I break this down that I can do it? Yeah, because you know how I think if somebody else can do something, so can I. If anybody else has the ability to do something, they've just proven to me it can be done. And so therefore I gotta break down how do they do it? How did they do it? And that's how my mind works. I don't ever think I can't. I think, oh, they just proved to me it can be done. That's awesome. And how am I no different than anybody else? They put their pants on one leg at a time, and if they are doing something. That I'm not aware of. I wanna learn it. Find people who are smarter than you in the area. You wanna be successful, learn how they do it. What are their daily goals. So anyway, once I realized it was three a week, that became my goal. I know how to set appointments. I made sure I was having at least three parties a week, four hours booking mortgage. You always have cancellations. And when Roman canceled, I'd make an I'D get on the phone and make an note.'cause I knew I had to stay on this. Path every month, and it wasn't easy. I would get cancellations, but because I had a set mind thing in my mind of what I had to reach, I wouldn't do anything less than that. And then I started visualizing me walking across the stage what I would wear. I knew what I was gonna wear ied. Just what I was gonna say, I saw myself so many times my energy on that stage that the lights were so bright, I could barely see past the front row that I would hear feedback on the microphone. I knew what joke I was gonna say. I had it. I visualized this girl and I kept working it. And do you know, one year later I walked across the number one one year in the company sales that year that I rafter. And I made a plan and I stuck with it. That year I was number one. Now what that happened was it made me famous and I had built in for 12 months. My habit and that was my full-time job of making sure my kid,'cause people would say, gosh, how are you able to get parties in February? You know, Christmas? Yes. You know, under$10 Christmas job. And I was like, people eat in February. That became my job. And a lot of people look at. These home-based businesses as a hobby, and it's cool. They'll try it for a month or two when they're excited, but as soon as they get some feedback or resistance or a lot of nos, they're like, okay, maybe this isn't for me. No, you gotta get back up. This is what strengthens you. You learn how to master your home-based business. And your company always has trainings to teach you how to do it. It's just up to you to make it happen. And I remember when I decided. To make Taly simple, my form of income, your back is against the wall. Failure was not an option because I wasn't married, you know, I didn't have any other source of income, so you have to pick up the phone. And make those calls and book the parties and have fun with it. Law of attraction, energy, when you are at a high vibration, you create an an environment of people having fun. They're gonna book very easily for you. When you're putting pressure on yourself and you think it's hard and you wanna do it, you're at a lower vibration and you're gonna get more things to be frustrated about. So that's a key too. Have fun in whatever you're doing and everything will flow a lot easier to you. And in the beginning you probably got nos. Oh my gosh, yes. And like I said, and even probably now you get nos, right? Oh, in everything that I do, so, so tastefully simple. I was making that my full-time thing. And then I had a lunch with Micone Mikaela, so she was from Weso too at home Mom. Five kids and I met with her'cause we would have what they call one-on-ones. You have lunch to get to know each other and see how you can support each other. And she was shopping with a company called melaleuca.com. It's an online shopping club, kinda like a Sam's Club or a Costco, but they don't have any toxic ingredients in it. And. Her thing was when her son, Damien, was two years old, he had really bad asthma and they had him on nebulizer treatments and steam showers and hospital portable guy was struggling to breathe and she started noticing a correlation. Every time she would spray his high chair with Lysol, it would trigger his asthma. Mm-hmm. So she looked on the backs of the bottles and thought. Oh my goodness. It says right on caution warning, do not inhale what you know. We know the warning labels are there, but whoever looks at'em, our parents use these things. Our grandparents use these things, you know, tide, Clark, all those things. And so she started doing her research, found Melaleuca. Love the fact that they have no toxic ingredients in any of their products in their store. Their laundry detergent's like$6 cheaper than Tide. And with five kids that came in handy. So she started shopping there and within one month his asthma noticeably improved. Within three months it was completely gone. Her daughter's eczema cleared up, never putting two and two together. It was the harsh ingredients and these everyday products. And um, so when she met with me. For lunch, I was at the top of my game. I was number one in sales outta 20,000 consultants. And at that point I was like 11 years in of still doing Tastefully Simple, had the big ego, everybody knows who I am. And she said, how long have you been doing this? Uh, tastefully Simple. And I said,, 11 years. She said, do you mind me asking how much you're making? I'm like, well. I was making about 70 and I thought that was not bad for working three days a week and you know, partying for a living. She said, do you know how much my enroller made last year? And I said, I have no idea. 320,000 with Melaleuca. And I'm like, what? And I said, well, I'm sure. That not everybody is, you know, top person like that. She says she's not the top person. There are people making over a million dollars a year at Melaleuca. And she said it's because they have a 96% reorder rate. This is how she got me. She said, um, you know that I have to start from zero every single month with my sales, and she's right. I mean, 22 years later, I start from zero Every month I have to have my sales. If I want to have the. A commission from my team and she said, with Melaleuca, whatever customers you had last month, we just had a few more on and they had a few more on. So every month you get to pick up where you left off. And it just keeps getting higher. Oh my God. So I've earned a car from them. I drive a, so you mentioned I have a luxury car. It's a Genesis G 70, and I got it from Melaleuca, just from sharing with people where I shop. I've been on trips. The owner of the company rent out a whole cruise ship for all of us customers. If we told X amount of people, we got to go on to a cruise. So it's like just a really neat nother form of income. So tastes really simple, Melaleuca. Motivational movie nights. I flip buildings. I have a business partner. You don't have to only earn income from one place that other people control how much your income can be. So if anything else, hopefully these stories will help people see. You can get sources of income from various different places. The um, average millionaire has seven sources of income. They don't just have one. A lot of people, when they hear I have like six, they're like, Ugh, you know? They take a step back because they think linear. They, they think like 95% of Americans that trade time for dollars. Mm-hmm. How do you combine Melaleuca and tastefully simple into a conversation? Well, generally, kinda like this, people ask what all I do, and I, I almost have to pause. I just wanna send'em to my site because I have to rattle off all these things. Yeah. Um, so what I do is I listen to what they do. I wanna know about them. I'm fine, I'm set. I wanna know about them. And generally in listening to what they do. I can find whatever thing I have might help them. Like one girl, uh, you might remember Karen Carlson. Oh yeah. She was very active with her church and they were always looking for fundraisers. I said, you know what, let's do a tastefully simple party and I'll just give all the proceeds to the church. So I did that with her and I was able to write him a check for a thousand dollars. When I hear people there have kids with eczema, things like that, I'm like, oh my God, I gotta turn you on to, have you ever heard of melaleuca.com? So I like to tell everybody about that and it just kind of comes up naturally in conversation. This is where I shop. They may or may not be interested in hearing more. If they are, I show'em a little overview. Goldie, you're like a really happy and personable person and you're easy to talk with and you go up to people. What advice do you have for people that are shy, that it's like, oh, I have to go to a networking thing. Like, oh God, I don't wanna go. I'll tell you why they don't wanna go, because they are stuck in their own head. Because the only reason why they don't wanna go is because they're thinking, what will people think of me? I don't know if I'm gonna say the wrong thing. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. And that's why they don't wanna go. So my advice is go not for yourself. Even though it's counterintuitive, right? People usually wanna go'cause they wanna promote their business. And if that's how they go and like, here's my card and the people are gonna be turned off by you, go to see how you can help other people first. Trust me, business will flow your way afterwards. So I look when I go to networking events. To hear, what do people do? She just wrote a book. Oh, tell me more. What's the book? I wanna buy it. She, uh, is just, they're launching their, you know, art popup thing. Tell me when I wanna go. I wanna see, you know, I, I am so excited to support other people and learn what they do, and I remember what it's like to try and get your business off the ground. That becomes my. Motivating thing is let me go to see how many people I can meet and how many people I can get to know and help. And when people see that that is your approach, they're happy that you're interested in what they're doing, and then what will they naturally say? So tell me what you do. Your turn will come. Yeah. And your business will grow because they know that you sincerely care about them. So my advice is go to networking things with the biggest curiosity of how many people can I meet and learn about them. Hmm. And it will just net, does this make sense? And it's so true. Yeah.'cause if you go and your main goal is I gotta tell everybody about what I do, I gotta build my business, I gotta yada yada, got. They're gonna feel the pressure and you are gonna feel the awkwardness that's gonna make you not wanna go. All of that is low resistance. It's all like not good mojo. Yeah. Yeah. But if you go being curious about other people and, and sincerely excited to meet and be, make new friends and meet other people that will draw you to want to go to networking events. Totally, totally. Let's talk about Weso. Women Entrepreneurs Secrets of Success. I've been with them since. It's one of my all time favorite places to network. It is. Um, my man just popped in here, popped out. It is Stands for Women Entrepreneurs Secrets of Success. They've been around since about 2012. I know, because when I went there was only about. 17 people there and now they've got thousands in there, have many chapters. And you know ZOS is, you can go to zos network.com and you can learn all about it and see which chapters and locations, if there's any that are near you. And they're always looking for chapter leaders to start up some chapters too, how that works. As we go to whatever restaurant they might be holding their meeting, they do their meetings in once a month and it's scheduled where. Like it's 30 minutes of networking. We have a person who will speak. You spoke one time, I've spoken for about 20 minutes. So we have somebody who can share some information of value and then we order whatever the food is, so that supports the restaurant. Then each person gets 30 seconds to stand up and state their name. So you really have to polish your 32nd commercial and then the meeting is over. And it's really a lot of fun, though. It's only for women or people who identify themselves as women. It's just a good mojo, don't you think? We've, we've created Oh, totally. You and I met there and same thing, uh, we felt the desire to support each other. When you decided you wanted to start doing tarot card readings and things, I said, I wanna be your first person. Come to my house and you know, what do you charge? And that's how we are. Step Fru is a girl who does readings and she posed a question to me, she said, what is your purpose? And I went, oh, I don't know. She said, I want you to think about that. And so I really did. And I was kind of getting angry'cause they're like, why am I here? What's my purpose? Meaning if your job were, because a lot of people say, oh, I'm meant to be a coach, or whatever. No, it's a deeper question. Take the job away. Now what's left? What is your life purpose? And that's, I found that to be a hard question. Then I kept asking myself and I kind of came clear to me that my purpose is, is to spread so much love and light, to be so joyful and happy with my energy, that it is contagious, that it spreads. So when other people see it, they recognize the light in themselves. Yes. And because I am such a. A voracious reader of all things motivational and positive. And a lot of people don't wanna take the time to read. And I read a lot, um, and I condense what great nuggets I've learned and I teach it. And that's why I speak, teach it and pass it on to others. So it lifts them up, it raises their vibrational energy. So that is my way of spreading love and light. Wow. Yeah. So I am put on this earth to any. Opportunity possible to help raise other people's vibration. So when you asked me Can we talk, I said Absolutely. Because I know that's my mission. Yeah. Is to help as many people as possible. So people like a little daily dose. Motivation. I don't know if you're on'em already, but every morning at 6:00 AM central time, I bless my friends with a daily motivational quote. And they're not your normal ones that you hear all the time. They're, and I've been doing it for almost two years now. Um, DM Qs Goldie's Daily motivational quotes. So if you go to either my website, you'll find it there or go to www dot goldies. G-O-L-D-I-E-S daily Motivational quotes.com. You can put your first name, last name. And email address and free of charge. There's no catch. It's just me spreading love and light, and I love that. I love the idea that I'm spreading a ripple effect, and I've got about 330 people right now. It takes less than 10 seconds to read, to start your day off thinking in a higher vibration. And if you start to stay that way, everything else can just get better. That's wonderful. I love that. So one of the things I wanna tell you about is. One of my pillars of income, and that's real estate and how it came about. So when I first retired, like I said, at 37, I had a friend who I thought, what am I gonna do now? And so before I got into Taly Simple, he sold Rainbow Vacuum cleaners. His name is Michael Theresa. He's my business partner today. And, uh. Really good guy, great outgoing personality. He's Italian guy and everybody loves him and he's got a really good business acumen, takes good care of people who work for him. And so I sold rainbows for a while. It was really a lot of fun. And uh, at, at one point he had his eye on a. A piece of property in Chicago on Michigan Avenue, and it was the penthouse unit overlooking the lake, and he knew he could get it at a really good price. It was worth at that time, this is like mid nineties, about 400,000, and he had the opportunity to get it for about. 280. The only problem was he had a home in Westmont that he lived in, and all his money was tied up in that, and he needed to come up with a down payment, escrow, some money within like 48 hours if he wanted to nav this. So he comes to me and he says, Goldie, if you can help me, I can help you. He said, I really wanna get this place and I need to have a down payment. If you can give me$35,000. So that I can get this, then, uh, I will pay you back the 35 and more. I'll give you 50,000 as a thank you for doing it. And I'm like, Hmm, that, that sounds sweet. So I listened to him, I agreed to it, and I put a lien on his. Property as collateral, and he taught me that. I wouldn't have known that you always hang out with people who are smarter than you, so that I would feel comfortable to know this, that I would get my money back. Ended up getting his property three months later, gave me my money back, the whole 50,000. So I thought, oh, that was like sweet. I'm all about passive income. I let my money make money for me. So, uh, then he got this wild hair up his butt that we, we wanna start flipping buildings. It looks so easy on HGTV, right? So. And I like that he's a man of action. You don't know know things unless you try them. A lot of people get an idea to flip buildings, but then they never really follow through. You gotta just learn it and go along. So he found this property in Chicago and we got it at a pretty good price. So the deal was he was gonna do all the work. I was just gonna be the financial backer. Um, I worked really hard to pay off my first house. I bought my first little house in, in Mount Prospect. It was a 1200 square foot ranch. Worked really hard and paid it off. It doubled in price and then. I sold that to buy the house I'm in right now and I cashed out some stock, so I pay cash for this house and it has increased in price. So we use a line of credit to pay for workers for flips, but at the time, he did everything wrong. Like we would put wall up one area and then the village, the city would say, we can't see what's behind there. We have to inspect it. We have to inspect it before you go any further. Tear it all. We don't have to tear it all out so they can inspect the walls. Oh my God. We had workers who didn't show up because we didn't wanna pay for. Union people, and we wanted to have like people he knew were tradesmen who could use the extra money, but then they have regular jobs, they don't show up. So it was just taking so long people would steal from us. There was a fire, I mean like, oh my God. And so it sounded so appealing initially. Yeah. We'll be in and out in three months flat and we can make this much money. We're into fifth month, six month. I need another 7,000. For the windows and I'm writing a check, need another, you know, for the roof and another for the work. And it was like, I'm writing these checks and the mortgage is due every month and I feel like I've got a ball in changes dragging me down and I'm not liking it. It's like 10th month, 11th month, and I'm suffocating, I'm panicking and I'm like, this is the biggest mistake. What did I get myself into? And uh, so I started praying. Go to the big guy upstairs, help me, what do I do? So I said, help me get out of this. Please just help me get out of this. And I'll be darned within like a week.'cause God hears all prayers. We've got a posse on the other side that is all working for us. We just have to connect with them and work with them. Uh, we got someone to buy the building as is where we were like halfway doing things. Still learning. And, uh, we lost money. We lost, but we lost about nine grand. And because we were splitting everything, it was only like 4,500 a person. So I'm looking at the positive. It's like I could take a class or work for a college education. It spent far more money than that and not learn all the lessons we learned. And, uh, so I looked at it as a positive. Got to really, and then, um. The next property we did was in Downers Grove and we started getting the hang of it. He started knowing the people in the villages, knowing what permits you had to have, having relationships with things. So things moved a little bit smoother, found good workers, and got rid of the ones that were bad and where to get the best sales for your tile and your lumber and things like that. And he loved it. This helped his creative juices go. I was just on the sidelines. I'd just show up. You know, for the closings. So that one, we were able to finish in four and a half months. We still, I think we broke even, I think we lost about 500 when it was all said and done, but we were excited. We were like, we're getting the hang of this. Had the workers and, and kind of got a sense of don't get too excited about making it fancy. Keep it, you know, cost effective and, and we've been making money ever since. And so we flip about one or two a year. We're doing this for 25 years. Wow. So that's another source of income for me, is he gives me juice money every time he flips a building from the profit of the building. I'm just the financial hacker. Wow. And one of the buildings here, I gotta show you something. I believe in having gratitude journals, success journals, and I had written in my journal on. November 18th, which was the day after my birthday on 2011, and this is my thing, you put five things in it every day. Three things that you're grateful for that actually happened, and two things that didn't happen, but you're grateful for'em because you are manifesting it. You're putting it out into the universe of what you want. So this is what I wrote down. I'm grateful, uh, for the conversation about going into business together, forming an LLC and growing bigger. Buying properties to rent. That was on November 18th, 2011, December 19th. I'm grateful that Michael Reso and I, you ready for this bid?$56,000 on a two flat in Chicago. That was$400,000 and it was accepted. Life is good. I bought a two flat. I put it out into the universe that I wanted to get a piece of property. I don't know how this happened. We've never had a deal that good or since it was a mess, but it was a two flat in Chicago. What's a two flat? It's a, it's a walkup in Chicago, they have these old, you know, from down brownstones. It's a brownstone and it's two level long. Apartment, one apartment over the other apartment. Okay. It's two apartments, one stacked on top of the other. It was a mess though. It had like, floors weren't even straight linoleum, you know, on top of linoleum. On top of linoleum, you know,'cause they were from like 1887. They're, wow. And so they, we gutted it entirely down to its studs. Re-put in HVAC. We put in, you know, electrical, put in new flooring to, so it, it was really, it was down to basically the brick of the walls. So we put about a hundred and. 20 into it. So we were into it all at about 180 and it's worth just under 400,000. And so this was supposed to be a flip, and I just kept getting a God whisper. I think I wanna keep this one. I think I wanna keep this one. It grew. Oh, that, that energy kept growing. And I said, Michael, I think I wanna keep this one. What We can make so much money on this, blah, blah, blah. I said, I just, I, it won't leave me. I think this is meant for me to keep. I bought him out and then my biggest fear was, oh, see, monkey. Hop in there. Hey, it sounds great that you're gonna have income. You got an apartment building. Uh, yeah. But what if, uh, things go wrong in the middle of the night? And what if you're chasing money and they're not a good tenant, and how do you get'em evicted? And they're like, all those things are coming into my head, my monkey brain. And I was sharing this with him, and he said that, don't worry. He says, I got a really good gal. Uh, Lauren Shoe, she's still doing it, so if you're interested, she will put it on the multiple listings and she will do a background check, a credit check, uh, criminal check. She'll call the former landlord, she'll call their jobs. And she only brings to me people with a one perfect credit rating and the other one she won't even bring to me. And, uh, so we've, I've had only good tenants and check this out, the money from. The tenants and the checks from Melaleuca paid off the building in four years. So I have, I own it free and clear. So that's another source. Wow. Of passive income. So when people hear, you know, the average millionaire has seven sources of income, and then I've got all these sources. They think jobs. I'm like, no. I collect rent. That's, I'm a really good landlord though. I'll tell you. They get Christmas cards and birthday cards and when they pay the rent, I text them and say, thank you so much for being an awesome tenant. You rock. Have a great month. No other landlord does that. They love me. I love them. So I've got some really great tenants in there. And God is good. God is really, really good. Wow. Yeah. You know what? Thank you so much for my birthday cards. It's such a joy to get a birthday card in the mail. And then you send them to your tenants too. How do you keep track of doing all of that? I have a program, uh, it's a CRM that I've had since 2004 that has now all of my customers friends and I can sort them. Um, over 20,300 people are in there now that I've met, have bought for me for over the last 20 years. So I can sort it too. Only hostesses, only my Melaleuca team. Only my taly simple team. So then I can print out the labels to send them, you know, Christmas cards or whatever. But every first of the month, it's part of my routine of my, uh, best calendar. I bring up the program to see whose birthdays are that month, and I write them on my calendar so I can see, and every day I print out labels and send out cards. I go. To the dollar store, and I buy a couple hundred at a time. So every couple months I go and get more cards, but I send out cards. That's my thing to people every single day. Wow. Who are important to me. So you can feel special. I honored. I'm honored to be on your list that you actually, every day you mail them out. Not even like just once a month, you No. Every day it's maybe one to five cards because depending on their birthdays. So that they get'em. Wow. Sometimes a day later too, but I try to be on time. Now, here's a tip for you and anybody else who wants to like, well, how do you know, how did you get people's birthdays? So when I do meet people and I have on one a, one-on-one, it. I have a little like, okay, tell me all about you. What's your name, address, email, phone number, and, and, uh, birthday. And I put that in the thing when I come home, but also any notes that I took about them. So those go into the CRM. But what I was gonna say, anybody can do who's on Facebook? Check this out. Type in birthdays, like if you're gonna type in Goldie or your name, type in the word birthdays and events will come up showing you everyone who you are a Facebook friends with whose birthday is that day and, and for that whole month. So I take those and I put them on here too. So that's how I know who to send the card to. So that's a tip for people. If they wanna know, if they wanted to start doing it, how would they even know people's birthday? That's a way to do it. You can do it by just finding'em out from Facebook. Hello. Wow. Incredible. Well, thank you so much Goldie, and I hope you like that story. Yes, I do. Anytime you need me or want some, you know, interesting stories, feel free to call me up. You know, I'm happy to talk. Thank you so much for shining your light out into the world and sharing it with us. All your Goldie nuggets and your life experience, your insight and perspectives on life. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it was perfect. You're a great speaker too. I love you Corina, and I miss you, so it's good to spend time talking you. I love you too. So if you want to find out more about Goldie, all her information in the show notes, so check that out and reach out to her if you need anything. If you are interested in Melaleuca. If you need any beer bread, uh, if you need, need motivation or the, or if you just need a little daily motivation, you can go to goldie matthew.com and uh, click on any of the things to get more information or to be able to reach out to me. Awesome. Thank you so much Goldie. Love you. Love you too. Thank you for being part of the Shine Your Light Crew podcast. If this conversation moved you, inspired you, or made you think differently, I'd love for you to follow the show, rate it and leave a review. It truly helps us grow and reach more people who are ready to shine. And if you're not already part of our crew, come join us. 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