Living The Red Life - Coach Stormy’s ABCs of Success

Episode Date: January 30, 2023

Want to see what ambition looks like? Stormy Wellington is a self-made millionaire who’s been making money on the internet for over a decade. She opens up to Rudy Mawer — AKA The Man In Red — in this souped-up, super inspiring, dare-to-dream download of Living The Red Life. Stormy grew up with drug-dealing parents who were in and out of jail, and she decided that kind of life wasn’t for her. So at age 13, she became a stripper to pay for her water bill. Stormy was 19 and by then a mother when she decided that her child would not follow in her footprints. So what did she do? She changed her environment and started hanging out with the right people. She also got into multi-level marketing on the internet and soon made her first million. Life wasn’t about to get easy for Stormy, though, as she made and lost, and also battled depression.Why does she keep doing what she’s doing? Because she gets a high off of impact. Alignment, belief, and commitment are the cornerstones of Stormy’s desire to help her community with the goal of coaching 1000 millionaires. It doesn’t get better than this as a  backstory, a vision, and a courageous commitment to the entrepreneurial spirit. Stormy’s taken the red pill — have you?  “My goal is to continue to show up as that black girl who came from strong adversity to show that if it’s possible for me, it’s possible for you.” ~ Coach Stormy WellingtonIn This Episode:- Stormy's raw, inspiring backstory- How the power of the belief in the environment can affect your success - How I made my first million from network marketing- Stormy’s approach to helping her community- The power of physical mastery- The goal of creating 1000 millionaires through coaching- Stormy’s ABCs of Success- What is Stormy’s #1 goal?- How to use the internet to create your freedom- How to build a strong, united, and successful tribeConnect with Coach Stormy: Instagram Connect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

I made my first million dollars in multi-level marketing in 2015. Okay. From zero dollars, quitting my job, stealing, scheming, scamming, stripping, all that, to I got into network marketing. I got mentorship. I got coaching. I got where I was able to be tapped into personal development. I never knew anything about personal development.

I didn't know anything about mentorship. I didn't know anything about coaches. That's not something we talk about in my community. So I got into network marketing, made my first million. And honestly, from there, you know, everything was kind of history. My name is Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast. And I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week. If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, take the red red pill join me in wonderland and change your life all right guys welcome back here in miami super excited with stormy we are about to dive in

uh you have an amazing journey built a lot of amazing uh you know a tribe that i i really respect and i've obviously followed you since we met last time and i actually knew you before you know i followed you online so um we're here today to kind of dive into how you built this. And you've mastered the Internet. You've built a life that impacts a lot of people, right? So maybe for the audience that don't know you, if they don't, I'm sure they will after. They'll see you a lot online once the episode drops. But maybe give them a two-minute story.

It'd be great. Wow. So first of all, I just told this story in the car, so I feel like I'm having deja vu here. That was practice. That was the warm up. I feel like it's deja vu. You know, I have like that typical, I call it typical black girl story. I grew up in a single parent home. My mom was a drug dealer. My dad was not with my mom. They were separated. He was a drug dealer. And so was not with my mom. They were separated. He was a drug dealer. And so I grew up in an environment watching the hustle, watching the bustle, but also

watching my mom in and out of prison, my brother in and out of prison. And so at a very young age, I made up my mind that I did not want to follow in their footsteps. So I knew that I wanted to be an entrepreneur because I love the freedom and the flexibility, but I did not love the risk that came with what they did. And so I found myself at a very young age, you know, out of, you know, from foster care. I've been in foster care and the foster care system for about three years. I had my first child when I was 15. Because of that, I ended up having to drop out of school.

You know, I was just telling a story today, and it really feels like yesterday. My first time in a strip club, I was 13 years old. My water was off at home, and I went to the strip club with a friend, and one thing led to another. And I made my first $600 that day to make the money to turn on my water that was cut off at home. And so a lot of people may not be able to relate to that in different cultures, but where I'm from in Miami, like a lot of people grew up in the drug dealing environment, the stripping environment, the scamming, the scamming. That's a lot of what I saw growing up. But by the time I reached the age of 19 and I gave birth to my daughter, I did not want my daughter walking in my footsteps.

It was important to me to figure it out because I did not want me being a stripper, stealing, scheming, scamming to be what she saw. So at 19 years old, I ended up going to get a job. I would take ends in odd jobs doing customer service. I was always on the phone. So I became very familiar with talking to people, getting them to pay bills. I was the girl that would call you to get you to pay your spring bill. And I end up waking up one day and like, I don't like this. I always hated jobs. I hated lunch break at 12, 15 minute breaks. I didn't like the two week vacation. I didn't like waiting two weeks for a paycheck. And so I was always in pursuit of real entrepreneurship. And so I was always in pursuit of real entrepreneurship.

And so I ended up opening up a boutique, which that's another typical thing. A lot of girls in my community, they either sell hair or clothes. Okay, yeah. You know. So I got into the boutique industry, and I opened up my first boutique working with my daughter's father. Then I opened up my very own. Did very well. And then 9-11 came.

After 9-11 came, a lot of people's businesses flatlined, including my business. And I looked up and I found myself back in the job world. So I became a TSA agent. I used to not the reds today, I used to wear the blue suits at TSA. So we'd go through the airport. I was the girl that would shake you down at TSA. So I was a TSA agent for like two years. And I remember everybody telling me, oh, you got a good job, and you celebrate the good job. You got good benefits. But for some reason, that just never set well with me. So I ended up moving to Atlanta, Georgia. I'm from Miami, and in Miami, it's a lot of Latinos that are successful.

You don't see a lot of, at the time, a lot of black people successful. So when I got to Atlanta, I saw black success, and I said, I want to do that. I saw black success, and I said, I could do that. I saw black success and I said, I could do that. And that's the power of the belief, right? Like in the environment. That's the power of the belief in the environment. And that's what we were talking about today. Like it's important for people to see that a minority could be successful.

You could come from a drug dealing family. You could come from, you know, an Asian family that's struggling, a white family. We need the example. For sure. I believe that I became the example. I ended up moving to Atlanta, and I got into multi-level marketing. I made my first million dollars in multi-level marketing in 2015. Okay.

From zero dollars, quitting my job, stealing, scheming, scamming, stripping, all that, to I got into network marketing. I got mentorship. I got mentorship. I got coaching. I got where I was able to be tapped into personal development. I never knew anything about personal development. I didn't know anything about mentorship. I didn't know anything about coaches.

That's not something we talk about in my community. So I got into network marketing, made my first million. And honestly, from there, you know, everything was kind of history. But then something happened my mom passed away august 26th of 2011 and i spiraled into a very deep dark depression for three and a half years so the millions went away i went from making a hundred thousand dollars a month to zero literally clicking buttons about to get food stamps yeah so i was depressed for three and a half years and got in the right environment again. Woke myself up. The right people were speaking into my life, helping me to believe in myself again. And I got back

into network marketing and made my first million again in six months. And honestly since then, here we go now. I've been in my company for the last, my company for the last eight years. I've been in my company and uh for the last um my company for the last eight years yeah i've been able to earn over 50 million dollars in earned income i took that money and i diversified you know i have five different things going on and my goal is to continue to show up as that black girl that came from some strong adversity to show other people that if it's possible for me it's possible for. And that's impacting thousands of people now, right? So there's a lot I want to unpack there.

There's a reoccurring theme though, right? The environment, the mindset, the right people supporting you, getting in the right environments. And also, you know, obviously a lot of my personal brand and the red life is breaking out of that society norm and creating the life you dream of. And I think a lot of that starts

with those things we said, right? Getting in the right environment and being around the right people and finding the life you dream of. And I think a lot of that starts with those things we said, right? Getting in the right environment and being around the right people and finding the right mentors. And how are you now? I'd love to hear now, fast forward to today, how are you impacting other people with that? Because I know that's a big part of what you're passionate about. 1,000%.

My goal is to continue to break the generational curses and help my community and anyone that comes from being the least, the last, and the lost to move from generational curses into generational blessings. And so I do a lot. I've written four books. I have my own community of more women than men where we meet every day. We do events. I not only do events, but I'm really, really big on physical mastery. I think a lot of people don't understand the power in being in a good physical condition.

So I try to work out every day. If I miss workouts, it's because something happened. And so my goal is to just really show people that words, images, emotions, environments, and experiences can make a huge impact on who you are. Becoming someone that has a mentor, has a coach, has someone that can help you to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And so I do that every day. My goal right now is a thousand millionaires. And I have 37 directly and I'm 42 years old. So I got a lot of more life in me. My goal is to be in the Guinness Book of World Records for the black woman that coached the most families to millionaires. I love that. Wow. What a goal.

And what would you say to people that are struggling right now? People that don't believe in themselves and they're not in the right environment or they think that I think the big thing here is they're destined to where they are now. Right. A lot of people think, hey, this is my life. This is the life I'm in. And I'm going to work for 30 years in a job I hate to retire. What would you say to those people? First of all, I think that people need to know that we live in an abundant world. Yes. The world is abundant. There is more opportunities now than it has ever been. For sure. and this is the time to start thinking about prosperity uh we talk about the recession a recession but the definition of recession is a time of decreased economic activity right sure so all you got to do is do the opposite

increase your economic activity but the mindset of recession is hoard your money it's the scarcity right don't spend your money don't invest yep i say no do it all yeah yeah you know well and all the billionaires say that's when the rich get richer right exactly exactly so i break it down i make it very simple so as i told you before you know i dropped out of school in the ninth grade so i like to make things easy so i call it the abcs of success a is alignment i truly wholeheartedly believe that if you align accurately with the white person, you can collapse decades into days. That is, I believe, one of the most significant pieces to my success. I always align with successful people that are further along where I

am than I am. And just by tapping into their frequency and being, you know, a coachable, I just believe amazing things can happen. That's always been something that I've focused on. Who can I align within this season? To be in the V's is belief. You got to work harder on yourself than you do anything else. You know, I tell people that, you know, your greatest asset is your mindset. So invest in it. The only thing you can't lose really as well, right? Like you could lose the business. You could lose this friend. You could lose this employee.

Right. But I always say, like, I can never lose myself until I maybe die. Right. Like I've always got me. And that's why I put all my money into me. I mean, if you think about even what I said, I mean, I was successful, went broke and became successful again, went broke and did it again. And did it faster each time because of the skills, the knowledge, the experience and the people you built earlier on. There you go. So the belief is so important.

People don't understand the power of believing and knowing that regardless of the peaks and the valleys, the valleys and the peaks, I'm going to be successful. And then the C is commitment. You have to commit against all odds. I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what's coming up against you. You got to know that this is all a part of the plan. Yep. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. Before we go into the rest of this episode, I'm going to interrupt abruptly and just ask you one big favor. I hope you're getting a ton of value, a ton of knowledge.

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worth $499. Yes, $500 worth of courses for a simple 30 second review. It would mean the world to me. Send me that screenshot. I would love for you to leave that review and I would appreciate it very, very much so we can keep growing this show and make it awesome. So let's get back into the episode. I appreciate you guys and let's dive back in. And that's the alphabet we probably should have been taught in school, right? A, B, C. Exactly. Big part that we don't get taught in society. We don't get taught in school.

We focus on algebra or learning some BS stuff versus the real world. Right. Real world. Exactly. So I would love now to transition into like, what is the next five or ten years look like for you so i'm very grateful and proud and thankful to say that you know money is not my focus as much anymore um i've been able to buy my home i love my house i paid it off i enjoy my home i just purchased me a yacht about six months ago i love my yacht that's my fun that's what i do i got all the bags i bought 16 Birkin

bags, one year, 17 watches. I don't need any more of those things. I stole my royal oats, shall I say. I've gotten rid of all the materialistic desires that I had. My number one goal is impact. The mission of my life,

and I've been repeating this for the last six years, is to be one of the most impactful women that ever lived while doing whatever i want for myself and others i love so i want to stay impactful but free you're gonna do it too i can tell i don't want to be impactful but have to be in the office like this is my office it's 4 700 square feet in aventura i'm an investor in this building i put five million into this building with Grant. I'm in the frequency of money. There's a credit union right here

and this is a bank. Yep. That's big alignment. And you're next to a billionaire. That's what I'm telling you. And I'm next to a billionaire.

So my thing is just to continue to grow. Yep. Never get complacent like I have not arrived. With all of that being said. We're on a journey still, right?

Past success does not guarantee future results. I've seen some successful people go broke and it is not a good feeling. Imagine, I was just talking to my family this morning and I was giving them a visual. I was like, why you work so hard? Why you work so hard? And I gave them a visual. I said, so we're riding in my black badge Cullinan to the office to meet with Grant. And I have on $3 million worth of jewelry and my driver is driving me.

Imagine me calling you guys one day saying, hey, can you pick me up? Because I don't have a car because my car got repoed. I now have to drive myself. And I have to go to the pawn shop to pawn all my jewelry because I can't afford to pay the bills. Imagine you calling me. I told my daughter this. I said, imagine you calling me and, you know this i said imagine you calling me and you know you needed me to give you a thousand dollars and i don't have it she drives around in a g wagon which

i bought for her i said so imagine you g wagon is repo because you can't afford it and i can't afford it in front of your friends too in front of your friends to imagine me going back to food stamps so why do i keep doing what i'm doing because all this can go away yeah for sure and it's the same in every area of elite in life, right? Elite athletes, they train harder now than getting to elite because they have to maintain it. And if they stop for a day, the person overtakes them, right? So anyone that's trying to create top success, be in the 1%, create an impact, it's not the journey is the first part. But then once you're there there's

a whole different world that you enter into right so it's like you can't ever give up and I think we also as entrepreneurs and people like ourselves we reset goals all the time right because we're also in that part even though we don't know it at the time of limiting beliefs right because it's like I remember wanting to be a millionaire by 40. I did it at 26. Wow. I then wanted to be what I wanted to build a $10 million company. I did that by 30. And then it's like, look, I wanted to do a million dollars in a month. And that seemed like such a far goal until I did it. Right. And then when I got there, I'm like, that's easy now. And I know when I do $10 million in a month, and then $20 million in a month, I'll always look

backwards down, you know, backwards and down and like, why didn't I do that sooner? Right. And it's we're also even the most successful people. We're still part of that limiting belief. Right. And being above someone that's already done it is the only way to get rid of that. Right. So like we're now hanging around with billionaires because that's what's next for us. Or we're hanging around with people having global impact because that's part of our goals. Exactly. So the last question for you is a lot of what I talk about is making money on the Internet, using the Internet to create the freedom and the dream life you want and the impact. Right. I've done that. You've obviously done that for many years and done it well. And you have a big social media following. I talk about attention's the new real estate, right? There's billionaires being built off the back of their social media, their ability to grab attention faster than billionaires were being

built 20, 30, 40 years ago. That's the world we live in, the world of opportunity, like you said, right? So talk about that just for a few minutes. Like how have you built the tribe, the community, the attention, how, you know, people that are marketers into social media and the internet, what advice would you give them? You know, I think that people are afraid to be themselves these days. They meet red, uh, Rudy here with the red on, and they're not even want to wear red. Yeah. Or they meet Rudy with the red. I'm going to start wearing green now. Like people are such imposters. I think that people need to be confident in who are you.

Yeah. Know that there's an audience for you. Don't go wearing red because you see, you know, Rudy over here with all the red on. Like, find your sweet spot. Yeah, I love that. And I tell people, grow in your authenticity. Whoever you are, God made you like that for a reason. Now, be yourself, but grow. And when you grow,

all the trials and tribulations, the things that you experienced, that you've overcome, that now becomes a part of your story. So on social media, I use a strategy called H.E.A.M. The H is humility. When I'm posting, I'm thinking to myself, is this a humble post? The E is educate. Am I educating them in this post? other e is entertaining is this entertaining and the m is motivating like that so as i'm posting i'm very consistent very i'm probably the most consistent hardest working woman on social media but it doesn't feel like that because in my mind these are my friends sure i love that okay yep these are my friends this is my family when i learn something new i want to share it with them yeah yeah i can't wait to tell them about rudy and yeah this interview hey go watch with them. I can't wait to tell them about Rudy and this interview.

Hey, go watch this podcast. And I can't wait to tell them. Like, everything that happens, like, ooh, guys, look what I got. And I've been doing that so long. I've been a social media gal since I was 29. Wow. I'm 42. So social media, like, watched me grow.

Yeah, yeah. You could go back to YouTube videos and you'd be like, is that Stormy? So I've been on social media for so long and I think it's most inexpensive. We talked earlier and I can't wait to talk to you about the possibilities of working together. In my entire career,

I've earned, in my network marketing company alone, I did over $50 million in eight years. I have five other companies. Just last year alone, one of my investments paid me over $30 million. Why am I mentioning that? I'm mentioning that because I have not paid over or invested over $100,000 in paid media in my entire career. Now, I used to brag on it. Now, I'm like, that's stupid. It's part of the next level, right? Yeah. Now, I'm like, I'm not proud of that. If I want to be impactful, I have to be seen for sure.

And I can't expect people to organic. I used to brag on organic, but it's like, no, I mean, there's a single mom. There's a single dad. There's a little black girl that needs to hear your story. And if you don't put an ad behind it, she may never see you. Yeah. So like if you really want to be impactful, you got all this money. How much money you ready to spend on investing and marketing and media now? So, you know, I'm just really, really, really, really excited about impact. And hearing people say, because of you, I didn't quit. Because of you, I'm a millionaire now. Because of you, I pay for my mom's home. Because of you, I retired my mom or my, you know, I get a high off of impact.

Yeah. And I teach to all my members, my community, I have a kind of catchphrase, ads equal impact. For that exact reason. See. Because I'm like, if I can spend $100,000 a day, I know I'm benefiting, I'm reaching, I'm impacting. You spend $100,000 a day. No, if I can, I'm close, I'm on the way there.

I've spent, across my agency, up to $200,000 a day on ads. Wow. Yeah. And obviously I had clients as part of that pool. But that's how much you're impacting. As long as you've got a good brand, a good message, it's ethical, of course. But you need a good team. Yes.

That's where I'm at right now. I'm grateful for the people that's in my life, but I need a great team that can come in and I just, I want to just show up and do what I do. Infrastructure, team, hiring, firing. That's not my thing. Okay. Yeah. And I think that's, for you, you've already built that amazing foundation and you've already impacted thousands, millions of people. Millions.

And that's just going to take it to that next level. Yeah. Sorry. It's going to take that to that next level. It will and I'm excited about it. All right. Well, how do they find you? I mean, it's very simple.

I still like Instagram. I know you guys are on TikTok. I'm old school. Instagram, follow me at Coach Stormy. My community is Girl Hold My Hand. And just follow me at Coach Stormy on Instagram. And everything that I do, it lives right there on Instagram. And teach your kids the real ABC.

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