Digital Social Hour - Annetta Powell On Surviving Prison, Making Millions & Meeting Oprah | Digital Social Hour #127

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

On today's episode of the Digital Social Hour, Annetta Powell reveals what she learned from meeting oprah and michelle obama, making millions off the tax industry and how she survived in prison. BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] APPLY TO BE ON THE POD: https://forms.gle/qXvENTeurx7Xn8Ci9 SPONSORS: Opus Pro: https://www.opus.pro/?via=DSH HelloFresh: https://www.hellofresh.com/50dsh AG1: https://www.drinkAG1.com/DSH Hostage Tape: https://hostagetape.com/DSH Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How long were you in prison? 15 months. That's a long time. A lot of successful women, they struggle dating for some reason. I see articles about this. Have you experienced that? You know I have. Could you date a guy that made less than you though?

Yes, but it has to be like mid six figures. Can you really teach people how to make 100k in 90 days? Have you done that? Of course, have I? I didn't, what? I didn't make. That's a lot of money welcome back to the digital social hour i your host, Sean Kelly. Here with a great guest we got today, Annetta Powell.

Yes, me. How's it going? I'm doing amazing. Okay. You seem like you're in a good mood. You just fly in? Just positive energy all the time. No negativity?

No, that's low vibration. Yeah, you block all that shit out, right? Yep, you already know. Yeah, it's tough though when you grow up in certain environments. It is, that's why, you know you know when you get older that's why you got to learn personal development so how did you start going down that path of personal development you know when the real estate market crashed I was looking for um another stream of income and you know I learned network marketing and when I was in network marketing they teach you a lot of personal

development and so I really studied that and and it really helped me with my mindset. Yeah. So with this real estate economy looking weird, like I don't know if it's going to crash, but do you have a plan if it does? Well, of course. Because guess what? It'll be a buyer's market. So that means that the prices go down really low and then I can buy. Right.

So I'll have a bigger portfolio. Okay. So you're going to stack up. All day long, without a doubt. When the 08 crash happened, where were you at with that? When 2008 crashed, I was in real estate investing, but I was flipping houses. So when the actual houses flipped, you know, when I were flipping the actual houses, the real estate crashed, estate crashed my money crashed at that time I didn't understand how important passive income was yeah and so at that time I took all my money and I invested

it into houses they were really cheap back in Detroit like two three thousand four thousand dollars but I looked up I had no money so um now I know what a crash is so I'm waiting for the actual crash because then it'll be what a buyer's market so i'm prepared and i got some money now okay so you're just stacking up getting ready for the for the crowd getting ready for whatever absolutely you think there'll be a crash as bad as 08 you know what the banks are getting really smart. Banks are literally like buying their houses and fixing them and holding on to them. So I don't I don't think that the market will be lucrative, but I know they'll probably put some houses out there. But banks are familiar. They already know how to, you know, gut them out and resell them, fix them up. They kind of do that as well. So, you know, it's going to be kind of tricky because they up on you know what we do yeah they've learned from that oa crash that one was brutal yes um is real estate how you made your first million yes real estate is how i made my first million finding fixing and flipping properties i was actually a materials coordinator right and my

dream what i wanted to do in life is I wanted to actually be a corporate, like this corporate lady, a director. But when I was working at Johnson Controls making $40,000 a year, I realized that you could never become a millionaire working for somebody else. So that's when I diversified and I met a guy and he was saying, if I could show you how to make a million dollars, what would you do? I said, I can you have. So I did. So make a long story short, he ended up showing me how to do it. But he was doing it the fraudulent way. Like literally back then they didn't have technology.

So you literally can take one house and sell it like five different times. And by the time, yeah. And by the time the bank catch up, you know, they got all these liens, it's done. But now the technology, immediately they'll know if the house has been sold. Wow. So where'd he end up? I don't even know because I was like, I can't, you know, I just kind of like disappear because that's something that I didn't want to partake in.

Yeah. What were you like growing up? Were you like really different from everyone around you or? Definitely. Like, well, I used to be this bad kid. I used to want to fit in. When I was growing up, work, you know, like we had like this little, it wasn't a real game, not no Bloods and Crips stuff, but I thought it was,

because I wanted to fit in. And then as I grew up, I knew I wanted to be independent. And I knew, you know, like, I'll never forget, like, I was kind of confused. I wanted to go to college, but I didn't want to go to college. So I end up working at EDS. And so when I start, yeah, it's like all this automotive stuff within the Detroit, Michigan area. And I was working at EDS and I just was like, I got to do something different. So what happened was after I left EDS, right, that's when I got into real estate. So and I realized that, you know, once I realized that you could never become a millionaire, that's when I start, you know, thinking about entrepreneurship.

And once you made that money, how much did your life change from there? How much did my life change? Yeah. It was like, you know, how about when I made my first 10,000? Okay. I'll never forget. No, I was a hustler. So my first hustle, do you know where New York is?

Yeah, I'm from Jersey. Okay, Canal Street, all that fake stuff yeah well i used to literally my dad used to work at actual general motors and we could fly in like to new york like anywhere for 19 so i right so i literally would jump for auto playing go on canal street my first thousand dollars i turned it into like ten thousand bringing actual like you know uh knockoff purses back uh do you remember the iceberg sweaters no okay well they got you know the gucci fake sweaters yeah i know those i brought that back and that's how i made my first ten thousand so i never oh i was rich back then i thought i was but you know that was like i was excited

when i made my first 10 000 but what i have realized in life is if you can make 10 you can make a hundred thousand you can make a million dollars it's just you know strategically learning how to do it levels yeah and a lot of successful women they struggle dating for some reason i see articles about this have you experienced that you know I have you know what this is my take okay and I don't know you might you might disagree but I believe that successful women we have standards right like you can't you know do anything with us and so I think men nowadays women have made it easy for them like it's like you got to put in work you got to to date me, you got to court me, or whatever the case may be. But you have another woman that literally is okay with a man.

I'll give you a prime example. If you tell me we're going on a date at 8 o'clock, right? Okay, you need to go on a date or call me at 7.30 or 7 and say, hey, I'm not going to be able to make it. Don't call me at now, 3.10 o'clock, tell my, oh, my bad. We not doing it. Right. So to me, like, I feel like if a man interested, he is definitely going to be on point when it comes to a woman that he likes.

This is what I believe. I always tell women there's two things a man going to do if he really likes you. He either going to step it up if you have standards or what or he gonna you know go away it's it's you know it's either or interesting it doesn't sound like you're asking a lot just show up on time I don't get why there's issues I don't know like you gotta think like my last it was so funny because um I was thinking that me and my last ex-boyfriend, we were going to be start dating. And then it was like he wanted to pursue me.

But then he was like, oh, you know, I didn't know. I'm thinking that like we were going to date exclusively. I'm thinking we reunited. And he said, oh, no, I want to date. We're going to date other people. And I'm like, no, not me. I'm not going to partake in that. Open relationship.

Right. But a woman, see, we have our own, you know, money. But hold up, we still have to humble ourselves because it's all about how you make a man feel. Do you agree with me? I like to feel good. Exactly. You can't have an independent woman, you know, like really like, you know, like not saying affirmations, you know, not building them up, not making him feel good. No, it's super important.

Your partner's got to have your back. Exactly. So it's all about how you make a man feel and i think that's very important and a lot of women men don't like women that just you know they like talk crazy you know right exactly they need to be positive right um could you date a guy that made less than you, though? Yes, but it has to be like mid six figures. I like nice stuff. There's a base. Yes. Yeah. Okay.

So 500K a year is your base. I can work with that. Right. Yeah. That's a good amount. It's nothing crazy, but actually, no, it's pretty high. It's top 1%. Well, let me get the 1%.

Yeah. I mean, not a lot of guys make it but I guess you're making a lot so it's easier to find those people right I can't build a man up I ain't doing a build a bear up build a man up you gotta come with something to the table yeah so you've met some crazy people let's go through these you met Oprah what did you learn from her Oprah I learned from her she said that in life you only need two or three people. And that's true. To actually grow with you and build with you. And I really believe that.

Like a lot of times people think they need a big entourage. But you just need two or three friends like me. And I took that. And that's what I have. I have two to three friends that I actually have built with, developed a great relationship. And, you know, we've inspired each other to be the best version of who we want to be while we own the universe.

That's cool. Yeah, she keeps her circle tight, I noticed. Well, yeah. I never knew why, but she probably, yeah, people probably tried using her and she just keeps it tight now, you know? Yes. What about Michelle Obama?

Michelle Obama was more of a like meet and greet okay so i really um she just really talked about you know this watching what you do like she was saying like you know when she was in the white house she was like they would have to watch what they do you know because they were in the white house like is you can't do anything people always watching you and i feel like even when you are a social media when you have influence on social media you got to watch what you do you know you can't you know be out there doing all these different crazy things like i give you a prime example like some women like have different types of men on their social media like that's not

like you won't find one on my social media i'm very private you know we don't talk about how to make some money i'm gonna talk about inspire you but far as coming into my personal life i don't think that needs to be disclosed on social media interesting yeah i noticed that about you when i was going on your ig no guys at all which is yeah not a lot of girls i can't be looking like a 304 okay uh what about rick ross rick ross was really cool you know what he is a great entrepreneur like literally uh he has a lot going on and um his mindset like he believes in like he has this thing called uh what is it i can't remember but he also have like a conference that he does at his house boss up I think that's what it is and literally people come and talk about their business ideas and things like that and when I was talking

to him he was just saying because I asked him about Wingstop and he was like it's great he was like but at the end of the day when you learn how to make more money you know with different businesses you kind of move to a different level you know so um he he you know people probably look at him as a rapper but he has really diversified what he got a private jet now i mean he's making some moves man he's and a lot of rappers go broke but he seems to have gone the other way you know what i liked about him in his contract right he actually was only supposed to talk but he actually you know rapp wrapped and you know did a couple songs which I loved nice yeah I like that about him uh I saw you got in the tax industry I'd like to learn more about that I've never met someone in that industry the tax game oh my God I love it in the

tax industry you know a lot of people it has really transitioned people life like people really don't understand it like I know you know 10 people right that has earned income and so let's just say for example if you're charging $400 or 500 that's 10 people that's like 5,000 and it's like you can build up and make money in such a short span like you know 100,000 in 90 days a. It's all about what type of work ethic you can put in. I always tell people when the tax came, you can go to zero to a hundred real quick. Wait, so how does it work? Like how do you make money off the tax? Oh, so usually you're dealing with people of low income because usually low, you know, the tax actual system is really set up for low income to mid income people. so usually they receive

a refund okay so when you file their taxes let's just say you have somebody that makes 16 17 000 with three children usually they're going to receive anywhere from six to eight or nine thousand like there's low income so what happens is your actual fee is deducted from their actual refund amount and you receive it the very next day once you they receive their check yeah so similar to employee retention credit have you seen that one yeah i have erc yeah i did that for a bit wow i didn't know uh people got refunds like that though right i didn't know can you really teach people how to make $100K in 90 days? Have you done that? Of course. Have I?

I didn't. What? I didn't make. That's a lot of money in 90 days. To me, 90 days. You know, and being in the tax industry, it's not because you got to think. If you have 100 people, you charge them $500. What is that?

That's what? $5,000 or $50,000? $50,000. $50,000. You market to 200 people. If you put out 20,000 flyers and only 1% of people come and file their taxes with you, how much money is that?

I can't even do the math. That's 100,000. Oh, yeah, yeah. So it's not just really like, you know, putting the content out, putting the pieces of material that you need to drive those people. And I'm sure you already know people

that has earned income, right? It's not hard. You could really run up a bag. Yeah, you can. So how are you getting people? Are you just going like door to door? Like, how are you getting thousands of people? I mean, you know, we do, you know,

marketing, flyers, door hangers. You know, it's a whole bunch of different ways that you can actually, you know, obtain people to actually prepare their taxes. Nice. I was actually at a conference. Oh, yeah? I just left, yes.

Which one? The Latino. Latino? What's that? It's an actual tax conference. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's the good thing about Vegas.

There's so many here. I can't even keep up with it. Right. And I see you going to a bunch of them, speaking at them. How did you get started with that? speaking yeah you know what a lot of times um people like to hear my story and you know a lot of times you successful and you can inspire people people always you know reach out to me ask me hey can you speak at this event can you speak at that event i just have to make sure the event is going to be a win-win situation right because you know you can speak at some

events and you could be running a non-profit organization and i don't going to be a win-win situation. Right. Because, you know, you could speak at some events and you could be running a nonprofit organization, and I don't want to run a nonprofit organization. You don't want to get in a charity? No. I do have a 501c3 with my dad, though. Okay. What's that about?

My parents, my mother and father, they are deaf. They cannot hear or talk. So pretty much we give back to the deaf community, I went to prison I went to federal prison and so what I realized when I went to federal prison was I remember sent you know being at the halfway house and it was so many women coming home from doing five ten years they didn't have anything and so now every year around Christmas time I actually sponsored their Christmas parties and I give gift certificates

as well as I give my actual clothes to the actual halfway house to help women, you know, actually get a fresh start. Wow, that's crazy. How long were you in prison? 15 months. That's a long time. Were you freaking out in there?

Like, what was that like? Prison pretty much was like, you know, one thing I can say is when I actually had to go to prison, I was like, okay, I got to go to prison. So I put a plan together. So what I did was I wrote myself 100 books. I mean, I typed up 100 books. And the day I had to turn myself in, I had a driver. We went to the mail, but I went to the post office, mailed my list to me, and I went in. And so I read, I worked out, you know, got my mind spiritually together.

And, you know, people say this saying, like, when you go to prison, you sit down. You really do sit down. Like, you got to really figure it out. And during that time, I really took some time to develop me. you sit down you really do sit down right like you gotta really figure it out like and during that time i really took some time to develop me and so when i got home um i did like you know 800 000 i always i was stuck there in the tax industry so when i got home i finally did over a million dollars tax industry back in 17 wait you typed up a hundred books? Yes a hundred books. Can't you just print it out though? I'm confused you typed up? No I typed it up because you know like in there

I can't go to you know Google and look up a good book or I can't go to Amazon so what I did was I googled all the books that I desired to read yeah while I was incarcerated so I typed the list up and then I mailed it to myself. Oh the list up okay. typed the list up and then i mailed it to myself list up okay yeah the list up i thought you meant you typed up the whole book no no no no no so what i would do is i would call my friend or my family and i would say okay now send these five books and so they would send them in and i would read them wow you getting any prison fights uh-uh no no not listen y'all gonna'all gonna laugh at me, but I had this friend and she was getting to it

and I told her, listen, if you get into a fight here, you're gonna be fighting by yourself because I wanna go home. Like literally, if you fight in prison, you know, they'll lock you up, take you to a different campus. Like I ain't got your back in prison. I'm trying to get out on my due date, okay?

Like having that date to go home is like a dream yeah and it's like they give you a date to go in and then you have to request a date to go out oh you don't even get a date to go out i thought you know how much time you get no you do but you have to request you have to request at the hat like they have to send a request to have you you know go to the halfway house so that date is not available they may give you another date they request to have you go to the halfway house. So if that date is not available, they may give you another date. They have to have room in the federal system

for you to even go home and make room for you. Yeah. And is it true it's like divided by race in there? No. Oh, no? No, it's diversified. Like I was at a camp. So literally, you know one thing

when I went to federal prison, when I got sentenced, I never had any handcuffs on me. Literally, I got sentenced, went downstairs, they fingerprinted me, I got out. You know, the feds is like some gangsters, okay? So after that, I'm just saying, after that they mail you a letter and tell you when you got a report.

They not coming to get you, they ain't coming to look for you, you just need to be where they say at that time. Really? So I got my letter. Yes. I went in. No handcuffs. I was in a camp free.

Like literally two people like ran off the camp, but I'm not running off, okay? I had a due date. So pretty much it's just free. It's like a dorm. Like literally, you know, you got bunk beds. You just can't go nowhere. Okay.

Do you have any access to call people? Yes. You may get 300 at that time. I don't know if they changed it, but when I was locked up, you would have 300 minutes to call people. A day? A day. Yes. 300 minutes.

No, no, no, no, no, no. A month. Oh, a month. I'm sorry. No, a month. Oh, so you gotta be quick. because that's five hours, right? I guess. Two minutes here. You still have to try to learn how to work your minutes. Yeah, five hours.

That's not that much for a month. Yeah. And then they have people that have hustles in there. So, you know, of course, it's very reasonable. So I would have somebody earn my clothes for $20, wash my clothes for $40, wash my dishes for $10, you know. So you had money in there. Well, no, you don't have money. Like you literally,

I could tell them not because I ain't locked up, but literally I would have somebody send money to the actual people that actually did services to me, to their family, and they would deposit the money on their books. Interesting. So if you have money it kind of helps you out in there because you could pay for stuff let me tell you something

people I know if somebody called you and been like can you send me 700 or 500 in prison you would be like that's a lot of money prison is very expensive really what yeah like before I went in people used to be asking me sending money I'm like for what like you can't wrap your head around it but you have commissary you have to pay for emails like you know emails yeah emails why you have to pay for emails at that time we have video skype uh you know if you want extra food like every week you could go to this place called you know commissary buy your food uh they allow you to spend three hundred dollars a month so at the end of the day like that's expensive um you know being on actual it was called trulings being on actual email it costs you oh it's it's very interesting buy clothes buy shoes like they had like timberland boots what's

that prison yeah i always just assumed like they just gave you everything i guess well they do hold up when you come they give you these hard black boots and your feet don't hurt you have blisters when you get out of there yeah and then they give you of course you know the um brown pants with the brown shirt yeah but if you want anything extra like jogging you know a gray jogging suit you want t-shirts you want gym shoes you know timberland boots then you have to pay for that wow must have been scary i can't imagine it's not scary honestly really you know what i was in a camp i don't know they i wasn't in you know that there's different levels to federal prison right so i pretty much was in a camp you know so what's the difference between a camp and

like the maximum security maximum security you're locked sometime you locked up all day Yeah, you have bars. You can't move. Oh, you don't have any bars. Oh It was like literally a campus like a whole campus like with bunk beds like it sounds like college And you know like they had these little cubes and we walk in and i had a bunkie we had a little desk okay you know like a bathroom with showers i mean no and it's like at eight o'clock they open the doors right and we don't have we will have count you know like early day and you know at night three times we have count and after that it's like you you're free to do whatever you want to do wow it doesn't sound too bad i guess without electronics it's a little tough but you

probably got used to it after like a few weeks well we had little electronics oh you were able to you know go to the email oh and also we were able to download music okay so what were you what were you bumping in there what would i listen to? I was listening to Drake. Classic. Yeah, just different, you know, songs, you know, Biggie, you know, stuff like that. All right. Well, what are you working on next and where can people find you? Oh, what I'm working on next is a tax game.

I know what taxes can do. I know how I can transition people's life. And so that's the next thing. I want to really focus on the tax industry and helping people really develop and understand because it's like in the tax industry you can make the money and you can put it into or diversify it into other vehicles that you want to do to help grow your business and become a serial entrepreneur nice yeah i'll put the links in the description for people to check out yeah they need to check it out I do free master classes I got one coming up you know all the time so make sure

you know they go to teach me to tax game.com and check it out perfect where can people message you oh they can actually hang catch me on instagram at anetta power all right thanks for watching guys I'll see you guys next time see y'all later