Digital Social Hour - Overcoming Abuse to Achieve Success: The Journey of Christianna Hurt | Digital Social Hour #30

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

Hey everyone! In our latest podcast episode, we had an incredible chat with the one and only Christianna Hurt. She shared her personal journey of becoming a major player in the world of ecommerce, starting with Shopify and later expanding to Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. Listen in as she reveals her secret to earning $10.4 million by selling digital vendor lists! Just imagine what tips you'll pick up for your own ecommerce ventures!Not only did we dive into Christianna's business life, but we also discussed her amazing international travels. She managed to visit 22 countries in 2022, all while keeping her businesses running on automation. Find out about her work-life balance and get inspired by her favorite travel moments from places like Jordan, Peru, and Vietnam.But wait, there's more! We also touched on Christianna's thoughts about dating and relationships. She openly admits to only dating men earning over $200,000 a year, and we delve into her perspective and how that mindset has shaped her relationships. To top it all off, she shares some golden relationship advice for attracting a high-value partner.So why wait? Listen to this captivating episode now! Tune in to learn from Christianna's successes and personal experiences – who knows, you might just be inspired to start your own ecommerce empire or even embark on a bucket-list-worthy trip of your own! Don't miss out – catch the episode now! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalsocialhour/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Visit BetterHelp.com today to get 10% off your first month. All right, welcome to the Digital Social Hour. I'm here with my co-host, Wayne Lewis. What up, what up? And our guest today, Christiana Hurt. How we doing? Good, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, so you're coming from Florida, right? Yeah, and it's great because we've known each other a couple years now.

Yeah, it's been a while though since we last saw each other. Yeah, we've been in the mud. Yeah, we used to speak at all those e-commerce conferences. For real? We were in the trenches together doing e-com. That's how she made a name for herself, eBay and Amazon. Actually, no, I didn't start doing that until almost 2020. Fun fact.

I was strictly doing Shopify. I didn't really touch Amazon, eBay, and Walmart until almost 2020. So I had a little bit of bread to play with by then. Yeah. Okay. What were your biggest successes with e-commerce? Digital products or flat-based product-based. Okay.

So product-based, I had Just Kidding Around Kids before Just Kidding Kids, and we sold those silicone baby mats and made a killing with those. But I got a cease and desist. Ooh. Yeah. Somebody had trademarked the word happy mat or no must mat so i had to like just change the name but they didn't patent or trademark the actual mat they only trademarked the name just the name and you gotta really like read into your cease and

desist letters the first time i didn't really understand it and i panicked but once like i read it through it was like wait i can sell this yeah and they have to send you like three before you actually shut down guys oh really yeah really i didn't even let it get that far and then even then some people don't even pursue beyond that because then you have court fees and stuff so i mean the bigger companies like the chanels the fendi's this girl was doing she was like on shark tank so i think she would have she probably would have taken it there but i mean have my big break there and then uh digital products i did 10.4 million selling vendors list. Vendors list? Yeah, just vendors.

You know, like, the AliExpress information? You know how there would be, like, a hundred, like, let's just say, like, waste trainer vendors? Yeah. I would give you a list of, like, the top five that I know are reliable, and I would sell it to you for, like, $20, $30. What? Yeah. And you sold $10 million of that? Yeah.

Oh, wow. Great wow great i mean she was helping people create i was i and i was the urban community you gotta think like so everybody was trying to start the hair business and the clothing brands which you know now being so deep in it i know that that's not like your exit plan but if you're just starting out that's your dream it's like oh i'm my own clothing brand so i just capitalized on it honestly i feel that let's dive into your travel life because you've been traveling the world i can't even see you 22 countries in 2022 man yes that was like a thing i did whoa was that purpose yeah that was on purpose oh yeah that's two a month how did you do that uh honestly just committing so like even for 2023 I have a list of countries,

and then we pick the countries and the times that we'll go by the weather. So, like, for example, Peru is in September because that's the optimal time to go. So, I actually am not traveling until July, so I'll do 16 countries between July and December. So, you have pretty much your business set up on, like, automation? No. Hell no. So, you're not working working or are you always working so i feel like this is really where it becomes the difference between public figures and influencers i feel like i'm a public figure at this point because my brands have advertisements running and you know ads running and things like that

but i don't run any ads to me myself i just live life so like as a public figure you don't see like the owner of fashion over running ads to his page i'd be mad creep like you know so i have brands and you know like cmos and like i really have people that work for me that do get six-figure salaries so i take a smaller cut but i'm able to like live my life okay yeah what were your favorite countries that you visited jordan because of petra that was a really big one that i wanted to do peru because because of rainbow mountain and vietnam because of hat long bay that's the only kind of only movie that was filmed in vietnam was king kong so i got to see like where that was you said king kong for real the new one yeah it was filmed in vietnam i didn't know that what about uh what about food wise food, Peru. The food overseas is very...

I have a five-year-old taste palette. Like small. Chicken tender, small. Stick with the same. Yeah, I've tried. Don't get me wrong. Vietnam, obviously, I didn't have no choice but to eat rice basically all the time. But trying all those different foods, you'll get sick, honestly.

Who do you usually travel with? friends or you um it depends so i have girl trips that we do a lot of my girls trips are to the caribbean so that's how i knocked out like your abc islands and stuff like that and then like i'll have work trips like my staff and things like that and then i have my trips with like my boyfriend okay oh you got a boyfriend though yeah i've been in a race for like a year yo We went viral. What? Wait, what? What did you go up? Wait, so they were saying like, you don't date guys who make less than what?

I don't. 100K? 100K. I don't. So he makes over 100K. Yes, he makes over 100K. So he makes like 110? You think he's...

We just went to Finland and he footed the $15,000 bill. You think men... Okay, so probably 210. Yeah. About 210. Okay, so probably $210,000. Yeah. About $210,000. But yeah, I know. Okay, so let me ask you a question. When you say make less than $100,000, is $100,000 the minimum requirement or above $100,000?

No, my baseline is like $200,000 and up. That's your baseline? That's my baseline. For him? For you? For him to be attractive to you? You know how you go on a website and you hit filter and you filter it i hit filter and i filter 200k it up so you found him on a dating site

i wish i wish it was a dating site for like so it makes him less attractive if he makes less than how is he going to provide the life that i already grew up with number one i grew up at that level and have for myself how is he going to provide that lifestyle for me but how does 200k provide that lifestyle because it can afford paying the rent it could be a sole provider it could be a one income home so you want to pretty much take care of everything i mean are you a 50 50 man i'm i'm asking you i'm asking you are you if you have a girlfriend do you guys split the rent i don't have a girlfriend but if you when i did have one no i was okay so i was a guy so how would you well no i'm just asking everybody's system and program instead of i'm not paying rent i'm standing on it i'm not paying rent like okay so does that mean you

guys have to eventually move in together or there's no separate housing is this if we live together you're it you were paying those bills before i got there what's the matter if i'm there that's how i feel like you was for the food he does okay what do you actually like as far as what do i pay for no no no like gift like are you like a what are you contributing in that aspect i have knee pads and i still i speak life into him boom i speak life into no i i do speak life into him and i support him and you know like anything he does need done i get it done like you know like whatever like flights or you don't need

them financially at all no okay but you just like for your man to have to be financially what does my money bring to a relationship what does his money bring to it stability so your money no so you so you just save all yours he's pretty much like i'm not see you why do you have car insurance in case you get into a crash right but do you plan to get in a crash no so it's the same thing my money is like car insurance so it's just in case he goes flat in case of like he so if he runs out of money you got it yeah i would pick up the oh see hey okay i like that yeah like if my man fell off this morning by the end of the day he'd be back up and you would never know wow but lady do you guys see that did you just hear her she got him but that's a committed relationship. I'm not giving that to my first date.

And I don't know you from a can of paint trying to tell me that I can't ask for a man to make a certain amount of money. You don't know me and I don't know you. So who am I to ask you to pay my rent? And who are you to demand that I pay for anything? Facts, facts, facts. So. Could you date a guy that does OnlyFans? No.

Okay. But what if he making like $400,000 on there? I. Wait, wait, wait but what if he's making like 400 000 on there i wait wait wait what if you make 400 grand i i'm like trying so hard i'm talking about this i'm wondering if you did research i'm gonna ask you off camera um what are you making 400 000 i dated somebody that was involved with only fans he's a nice money? He was making a lot of money. But I just felt like in this situation, he did give me a great life. I will never take that from him.

He was a great guy. But I felt like I was living in a delusion. Why? Because whatever he told me, I believed it. Because everything, like he was, the relationship was so top tier that there was nothing nobody could tell me. Like about whatever. That's how it's supposed to be with your relationship. Looking back, I was delusional though. The relationship was so top tier that there was nothing nobody could tell me.

That's how it's supposed to be with your relationship. Looking back, I was delusional, though. You think so? 100%. He probably was sleeping with those girls. But he was taking care of me to such... I was waking up to flowers. I was waking up to breakfast. So, of course, I'm not really like...

I was delusional. Because he was pushing so much that i wasn't paying attention i won't even lie to you like our first date he bought me a ps5 now looking back i think he bought the ps5 because he knows i would have just been i wasn't paying attention i was just like wow a game like damn wow a game i was at that time ps5 said just came out i my money i could get it. So he was bringing something to the table that I couldn't get, which got me through the door of like, okay, so what if you do OnlyFans?

But now, seeing where you're at in life, and if a guy came to you. Absolutely not. So it would be automatic no? Absolutely not. You wouldn't even like, nah, I'm good. No, no, no, no. What comes with that?

No, it's horrible. What do you think of all these girls making millions off only fans i think they're gonna have a hard time getting a ring okay like i don't think they'll not get boyfriends i'll never take that but i think it's hard to get to retain your relationship for a long period of time doing that i think that you can you can get them in the door you know what i mean like you could probably get your rent paid and whatever but i don't think you're gonna get like a longevity like a real commitment just because of the industry that they're in yeah i don't think you're gonna get a

ring out of it no well porn stars get married eventually right yeah uh riley reach just got married yeah they do they got a chance they do but that's a very small percentage you gotta find somebody and again you're doing what that's okay that's okay with what you're doing for sure just like i'm looking i was looking for somebody that made a certain amount of money you you take your dating pool real real small so you could do it there's billions of people in the world but like just taking the consideration that it's a small pool yeah your pool gets smaller for sure let me ask you this what are your financial beliefs when it comes to like like your overall perspective on how you feel like from a woman's standpoint like what are

some of your financial beliefs like what am i supposed to do with my money you know like what are you after when it comes to like find the finances like and in regards to like your thought process what about making money and like you know always leveling up and money is abundant so i don't really have a scarcity mindset in any way shape i didn't grow up scarcity you know what i mean some people do grow up on survival and i i grew up in a home of love so like money to me is very like we have more options we'll get more of it like it may rain today i'll buy an umbrella tomorrow so i don't really have scarcity in any way shape or form like it's damn near delusional but it's the way that i've lived my entire life everybody preaches generational wealth but they're not even like putting those beliefs into their their home

you know what i mean like all of my siblings are the same way like it's like oh we'll go to college if it doesn't work try something else no oh it didn't work i'll do this like it's very like that's okay we'll just do it again Did your life change when you became a millionaire? No. Not at all? Not really. Really? I mean, I just gained control.

I feel like me becoming a millionaire was a control thing. It was definitely a control thing. And I didn't become a millionaire out of like inspo. I became a millionaire on some villain origin story because I moved out for a boy. He told me he was gonna pay the rent he didn't so i hustled no i like the relationship turned sour and you know how you know you always hear about men leaving the women like that was down with them because the women's like calling them out their name and same like he was putting me down and it was so bad and so toxic and dv was involved so much i was like i'm gonna violate you like

so you're like yo what i shitted on him his whole life what does he think of you now after seeing you blow up bro have you seen has he seen you again he hit me no and you know what's crazy if he had to see me before 2020 i probably you know would have had to been judged by 12 you know what i'm saying like it i would have taken it there but after like when i really had like a million dollars and shit was fine it was like who cares like the karma is the life you live every single day so who am i to like go and make it worse like who cares bro like i he feels like he made me i don't i personally don't feel like putting somebody in a corner like is making i mean i'll say when you make somebody you actually you help introduce them to certain

things in life but what's the difference between introducing somebody to something and exposing them to it you know what i mean he exposed me that making money from the internet was a thing it exists he never introduced introduced it like do this you will make xyz it was just he was doing this he was making money and it was around me i could see it you know what i mean so i don't really feel like again that's a huge argument like exposing introducing making somebody i feel like if you made me you should be able to make me 10 more times and i haven't seen nobody out here in in this industry that's coming close to me to be honest with you like i just i was like yo you

know i made you in a sense of like you know i put you on it it's like you wasn't trying to do this internet stuff prior to me correct and i'm like but i got evicted you got me evicted right right do you believe everything happens for a reason that that relationship was supposed to happen in your life 100 i definitely do but again like when people try to be like oh i want to fall on your footsteps or i really be telling them like you really think at the day of my eviction if somebody had of like given me two doors and said one door was like date another millionaire or become a millionaire yourself at 21 you don't think i would have just picked dating somebody else right like i would have just picked that but i i didn't

have that door and i didn't want to go back home so it was like all right i'll just do it myself like yeah so could you date a guy shorter than you no no 411 bro that's no way you got you just gotta be taller than me honestly but he could date a girl taller than him. I would. What color is your lip gloss? I don't know. You sure? I can date a girl taller than me.

Yeah, for sure. You sure you don't split the bills? Nah. Not at all. Not at all. Ask him. Yeah, ask him. Okay.

Ask him. You're like, no, I pay the bills do because it's my house yeah it's my shit so nah yeah for sure what about ethnicities because you could you date any ethnicity yeah you know what's crazy the boyfriend i have now is the lightest i've ever dated okay yeah the lightest or the whitest he's half he's half italian and jamaican but he's like oh he's people confuse him with white oh but i will say you know what's crazy as a child um like real like childhood crushes i was into like punk rock bands and stuff and obviously most band lead singers are caucasian but he

resembles it okay which is so weird sometimes i think you go back to your origin you go back to like what you wanted as a kid which is so weird weird. Maybe that's why it works. Yeah, maybe that's why I never worked prior. And then he fits your criteria, too. He's successful. He makes money. He has a look. Everybody I've dated, with the exception of one person, has been at that level. You're lucky.

You're lucky. That does not happen. No, you are what you attract. That's very true. That's very true. And even if I was dead broke, I was going to get that. The relationship I moved out for, he found me at Wing House. I was a server.

Wow. Yeah. But I would never date a server. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. How can a girl attract a high-value man? You know, honestly, doing it the first time, like, if I had to scroll all the way back to, like, 18, 20, I think it's just being nice. Like, just being, like, happy and happy and nice yeah but you got a certain

energy about you though and you got your look together you got your shit straight you know you got your but i didn't have shit back then i worked at yeah but i was just cute happy and yeah but you gotta look to you yeah you gotta look for sure pretty privileged looks matter you think it does because as men are physical what so look at attract, that's what naturally attracts us to us. And then when you add on to that, you know, she's very subtle. She's not like, you know, like overbearing when it comes to like over-sexualizing herself. So she's classy. So she's obviously, she's more appealing to more men too because she's not over-sexualizing herself.

She's hidden. That is a big thing. Yeah. So it's, I mean, it's a lot that go into looks when it comes to men especially attracting the kind of man that she's attracted to it's class i feel that yeah my dad always told me that men want to be around happy absolutely too happy and i've just always just been the type of person that is just happy to be here like i'm not a person that's like oh i need to go here i do this i'm just happy happy to be there. And you're personable, too.

Like, you can have a conversation. So I get taken to those places. She has intellect. She has substance. I get taken to those places. Like, I've never not sat courtside. I've never, like, I've been in those places my whole life. So I just be like, it's normal to me.

You know what I'm saying? So, and nothing really moves me. I just be happy to be there. What do you mean nothing moves you? Like, being, like, wined and dined or taken places doesn't move. Oh, you don't get impressed? I don't get impressed. I'd just be happy.

Like, the same happiness I would have to take a bike ride. That's solid. I'd just be happy. So he could take you to eat anywhere and it wouldn't matter. I have the food palette of a five-year-old. Yeah, 100%. So Chick-fil-A, fast food. Chick-fil-A, to earth too nuggies right

imagine it having being a millionaire and still being super down to earth being personable being likable yeah not over sexualized the only thing is i always want to go somewhere that's probably the big the big if my boyfriend had to like do an interview he'd be like this girl always want to go somewhere like she just want to eat chicken nuggets in china and he's right i think traveling the world is important you get a lot of perspective and you learn a lot i mean you learn i feel like egypt was my most educational trip honestly and that's where i was able to take in the most was really and you know what's crazy is i went to egypt like on like a dating type of, not with my current boyfriend.

But it really showed me I needed to date people that shared the same interests as me. You know, that income is that filter button. But, like, you know, you have those people that when you travel, there's the people that get up at 5 a.m. for excursions. And there's people that do tequila shots and do hookah. Which one are you on? Which one are you on? I'm a 5 a.m. excursion. Oh.

I am heavy on them. I don't care how drunk we got. We're going to climb this mountain. And my current boyfriend, within the first 30 days, our first date, I told him, I was like, I want to climb an active volcano. And I think he was just like, okay, yeah, you're so pretty. We're going to climb. And then we really did it. And it was crazy because halfway up the mountain, I was like, fuck this shit.

And he was like, you're the one that put us here and i was like i know but i'm cold but we did a six hour hike overnight top of the volcano saw like active volcano super cool did you see it erupt and we flew to iceland to also see a volcanic eruption really yeah it was just like something i was really into like just seeing volcanoes erupt it's been like that's on my bucket list definitely do it it's a cool like it's really like i don't know how to explain it it's just like wow yeah awesome well any closing thoughts to where people can find you yes so you guys can find me anywhere on social media christiana hurt and i have a free class every wednesday teaching people how to sell, and we just give you guys the products to sell, so there's no possible way to fail.

Awesome. Well, you heard it there, guys. Christiana Herr, I'm Sean Kelly. That's Wayne Lewis. What up? See you guys next week. Digital Soul Flower.