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Starting point is 00:00:00 Young and profitors, welcome back to the show, and today we're dusting off, and I really mean dusting layers of dust off this super oldie but goody episode with Dan Dan Zoo. This is one of my first episodes I ever recorded. Dan Dan is a self-made millionaire who achieved financial independence by the young age of 28. She's a former headhunter, real estate investor, and entrepreneur who now helps others achieve financial freedom. In this episode, Dan shares her personal story from being the daughter of Chinese immigrants to becoming a millionaire before the age of 30. She'll walk us through strategies that she used to earn, save, and invest her way into financial independence. And she's got opinions

Starting point is 00:00:56 and man, was she frugal? Whether you're looking to increase her income, build a business, or make smart investments, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you get there. we get into it, please remember that even though Dan Dan shares her investment strategy, this is not financial advice, conduct your own due diligence, and consult a licensed financial advisor before you make any investment decisions. Well, if you're ready for some wealth-building wisdom, here's Dan Dan Zoo. So tell us, Don Don, how did you manage to become a self-made millionaire before you hit 30? What's your story? I was the daughter of Chinese immigrants who came to this country with nothing in the mid-90s.

Starting point is 00:01:40 And I grew up in a really nice area in Massachusetts. So I think self-made is always a really interesting term. Of course, no one is ever self-made, but in the sense that, yes, I came from nothing. That is absolutely the case. So my family, we were the babysitters for a very rich family. That set me up very nicely in terms of a cultural standpoint. I was able to understand how rich people behaved and how they became rich, and so was my family. So very early on in our family life, we were able to,

Starting point is 00:02:10 the behaviors of rich people because we were living in their home and their third floor. And we were watching their children. And I was going to school with the children of rich people. So I grew up my whole life looking at wealth, seeing it all around me, knowing that, why not me? Why not me? It's a big priority for me. And it was always a target for me from a very young age. So as it grew up into adulthood, got a finance degree, hated it, interred at a ton of different opportunities. I also had my own side hustles, as people call them today. I was selling eBay products, teaching Chinese, just anything I could do to make money. And this was when, like, internet, e-commerce, everything was a bit infant. And eBay was running the game. So I became an

Starting point is 00:02:53 eBay power seller. I was doing all these things to basically try to get money. And when I became an actual adult, I was thinking what kind of job can actually make me money? Like a lot of it. Because I don't have money, right? My family does not give me money. I have to, support myself. So the only thing I cared about as a professional is just money. So I figured, let me get into sales. Sales is going to make me a lot of money. That's the only job that gives you an opportunity to make more money than normal, because I did not want to be normal. I fell into the career of headhunting and recruitment. So it's a sales job where you work with companies that you prospect, that you bring to the table from a sales perspective, clients, usually these clients

Starting point is 00:03:34 are hiring managers who are double my age. I was 23 when I started in head hunting. Got into head hunting, made six figures pretty much year two. Year one, I made like almost 90,000. And that was great. What we call this is it's my first pot of gold. So I earned active income from my job, which was recruiting and staffing,

Starting point is 00:03:56 and I plowed it into real estate. So when I was 25, I bought my first condo in New York, in Brooklyn. And that was right when everything was just. just about starting to boom. I sold it in 2016 and I parlayed it into three more properties. So I got into the whole real estate game in terms of an investment perspective. In the meantime, I'm making money actively through stock trading as well as my recruitment job. Eventually, it got to a point where I didn't have to work anymore because I had garnered enough appreciation and assets that I really had pretty much a million in assets. So at age 29, 30, I started the recruiting business for

Starting point is 00:04:34 my own industry. That's G.G. Recruitment is a very, very lucrative sales business. That's very low cost to set up if you know what you're doing. So that's kind of how I got to where I am today. Long story short, it was recruitment and real estate. That's a very interesting story. In my opinion, financial health really stems from three main pillars, earning, saving, and investing. So I figured we could touch on each one of these points, starting with earning. How do you recommend and going about increasing the amount of income we're bringing in as is. That's a tough question to answer. Reason is everybody does such despair jobs, right?

Starting point is 00:05:11 So it depends on what professional you're talking about. You're talking about your regular office worker, 9 to Fiverr, that's just never going to make you rich. So I created my coaching business Donna Global when I quit corporate. And one of the things we talk about is the four S's. So a four S is you can Google this, four S's matrix. What it says is that there are two types of jobs that make you, flexible income. And that's either self-employment or that is some sort of business or it's sales. Every other type of job, it's

Starting point is 00:05:40 capped. Every other type of job is financially capped. So if you're making $50,000 as an admin assistant, I don't care how hard you work. You're not going to really make it rich. If you stay in a low-paying vertical, there's just not so much you can make because there's a ceiling. There always is. So like if you're an admin assistant, you want to be rich, the answer is to stop doing admin and do something else or build a side business that eventually takes off because certain careers will just simply not make you the money you want. So I think it comes down to what you do for a living. You have to seriously consider, is this actually going to take me where I want to go? And if not, then you better change. And that's the hard part. The hard part is what are you going to do to change your earning style?

Starting point is 00:06:26 Because here's the thing. If you do nine to five admin assistant or whatever, for X. I'm just saying admin assistance because I know that's a very ceiling job. I mean, obviously, that could be any job. A lot of jobs cap out at around 150, 200. Like HR. If you're HR person, you're probably going to make like 60, 50, that may be 80, 90. The goal is if you want to accelerate, yes, move jobs every two, three years. But guess what? That's very manual. And that's going to take a long time. So it just depends on your horizon, your time horizon as well. because if the more you want to do something faster, the bigger risks you'll need to take and the harder you'll have to work. So it's just up to how much money do you want to make in this living?

Starting point is 00:07:07 How much money do you want to make by X year? You have to decide that because it's all about sacrifice. Life is all about sacrifice. It's just what am I doing with the time I have today for the future I want tomorrow? If your future you want tomorrow is I want to have $20,000 by the end of this year, you don't have to do anything too crazy. You can save a little here, you know, make a little side money there because it's not a big number. But if you want to have a hundred grand in your pocket by the end of this year, then you have to do something drastically different. So again, it just comes down to you, your timeline, your goals, and what you're willing to do to get that money.

Starting point is 00:07:44 And I don't really believe in side hustles as an adult because I find that it's too risky. And this is the reason why. side hustles take a lot of time out of your day to day. So you're trying to manage a career. I've never seen side hustles to be how a lot of entrepreneurs get Uber successful. Again, it comes down to how big your dream is, right? If you want to start an e-commerce business and you take your time and you side hustle outside of work, it's just going to take you longer because you're only doing it part-time.

Starting point is 00:08:20 So side hustles are very dangerous. The reality is, is a lot of people will not have the strength, the control, the discipline to work a side hustle as hard as they work their main hustle. So my advice is, why don't you align your main hustle with your side hustle? Make your side hustle your main hustle. You actually probably have a better chance. I think anybody who wants to get rich and has the time to do a side hustle needs to question themselves. I'm not a big fan of side hustles. It's very unlikely that your side hustle is patentable and is something of a high value.

Starting point is 00:08:51 chances are your side hustle is what a lot of people are doing at the very same time with the same ideas and all of you guys are too scared to go for it 100%, which is why there's like mom and pops. So the goal is if you're happy just getting some side income and you're doing it for fun, go for it, do your thing. But if you're really trying to make a business and be like rich, then again, it just calls for another level of commitment and expertise that puts you at a competitive advantage against other people who are most likely doing the same exact hustle you are doing. To succeed, there's always a level of commitment that cannot be dodged no matter how you slice and dice it. What about people who,

Starting point is 00:09:31 you know, want to stay in their current job, they enjoy what they're doing, but they want to negotiate a higher salary. What's your advice on that? Well, there's always two ways. The one is negotiate directly with your employer or number two, get other offers. So that's really it. Negotiate with your direct boss or look external. and bring forth your options, obviously, without an intent to force a counteroffer that is not ethical. Certainly, that's just not right. And it doesn't make sense for you. That's going to hurt you long term if that's your game.

Starting point is 00:10:02 You're not doing it to just push your current employer to give you more. If you want to push your current employer to give you more, the only way to do it is to bring it up to them and make it a sticking point and make a stink about it. And that's the only way you're going to get up into the ranks. or you schmuse and you politically advance. That's just playing the corporate game. The second one is obviously go external, get a few offers, pick the one that gives you the best money, come out super strong. And the trick there is negotiate from a point of power.

Starting point is 00:10:30 If you're unhappy with your pay, if you know you're being underpaid, do it while you're in a good spot at your career. And this is the piece that people mostly forget about. When they're having a good time on their job, people are enjoying life. They're not really thinking ahead. They're not really worried. that's exactly how you miss out on opportunities. Complacency is the breeding of normality. You're just not going to get anywhere if that's your mindset. If you want to make more money,

Starting point is 00:10:54 then you have to do it from a position of comfort. You have to be in a good situation to negotiate for the best deal because you will have the best cards in your pocket, bargaining chips. So that would be my advice there is to do it before you need to do it. If you are starting to feel a little unhappy, address the issue ASAP. Don't wait until it snowballs into a real problem. because that emotions get involved. And then you're going to be willing to take less salary. Or you're not going to negotiate as hard as you would if you were almost like 100% happy. Let's hold that thought and take a quick break with our sponsors.

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Starting point is 00:15:34 My base was 35 grand. After taxes, that's not a lot of money. So what I did was I had a simple Excel sheet where I wrote down kind of what that net monthly looks like. So 35 minus taxes. And here's the really confusing thing with saving. My first tip for saving is think about money like this. Every dollar that you earn is actually not a full dollar in your pocket because of taxes. So you're really only earning anywhere from 60 to 65 percent of what you're pulling in. Most of us have five-figure incomes. You know, out of college, that's just kind of how it is. So you're going to get about 60 to 65 percent. So my rule of thumb is think about it in halves. If I earn a dollar in my pocket, that actually is $2 that I had to manually earn that from the man, right, from my job.

Starting point is 00:16:21 I need to earn $2 to actually be able to have $1. So that should sober you up a little bit. So the people who have six-figure jobs, the people who think they make a lot of money, in reality, you don't because everything that you earn is taxed at basically 50% when you're at the sort of six-figure range. So that's very misleading. People think, ah, I'm making this much, I can do X. Really, you're making a lot less.

Starting point is 00:16:43 then when you're spending, you're spending basically that whole dollar. That should again just remind people that it's probably not a good idea to overload on things like rental costs. So what I first did was I calculated exactly how much I was willing to do for rent and no more, no less. So I was like $800. That's my cab. So I looked for places that had cheap rent.

Starting point is 00:17:04 Rent is the biggest cost expense that if you're up to it, you can really skim here. A lot of people that I meet who can't save, they fail. because the first thing they want to do is live in Manhattan and they want to rent and they get a guarantor and blahbidi-blobbitty. That's just not how you're going to make money. Like if you want to save, the biggest cost that's easiest to cut down is rent. So figure out how you're going to do that. You could choose Airbnb. You can get roommates.

Starting point is 00:17:29 You can live in a cheaper area. But certainly getting your own place, spending four figures on rent is just not the way. Again, it's just what are you willing to sacrifice? So for me, I've sacrificed my privacy. right and in New York I live in an apartment, a two-bedroom with three people. I rent out the two rooms and I live in the living room. That's what I'm

Starting point is 00:17:48 willing to do to ensure that my cost is basically as low as it could possibly be because I'm an entrepreneur. I don't want high overhead and I'm willing to do that. I'm very happy to do that. And then, you know, certainly you can have other properties that are earning you income and you do this on the rental basis

Starting point is 00:18:04 as well. Everything else, you know, food, that's your own choice. You determine again, where you are in your life. If you're starting to earn more money, in the beginning, when I was like 35 grand base, I did not use taxis. Back in the day, we didn't even have Uber. So I was just like straight up, I'm not going to use taxis. Just a point blank rule. I don't care what happens. I'm going to walk or take the train. And I never broke that rule. And I don't really drink. If I do go drink, I'll buy one round of drinks for everyone I'm with, and that'll be that. And I won't do any more.

Starting point is 00:18:35 In young people's lives, the biggest cost is going out. Going out, partying, drinking, eating out, this is the biggest way to burn through your checkbook. So you have to be very careful how you select your socializing time. That's the easiest way to spend money like water. And then on daily basis, I only ate cheap foods. So like I was eating subway pretty much three or four times a week. I would memorize all the spots that had half off after a certain hour. That was that good at budgeting, groceries and cooking, because that wastes a lot of time too. Right. In the meantime, the real trick, again, is income accumulation, is growing income faster. But yeah, in terms of saving, those are all the hacks that I personally employed, just setting up very

Starting point is 00:19:18 disciplined approaches to each scenario, having a contingency plan. What if my friend invites me to a fancy restaurant? What do I do? The answer is, I don't go. That's what I do. I don't go, because I just don't want to spend it. I can see them somewhere else. We can go get coffee. We can go to something else. If it's like some special plan where it's like, somebody's my best friend's birthday, absolutely. I will shell out. But for casual, like, meaningless social interactions, I'm not going to invest that much money because I got to focus on my success. That was my mentality when I was making pretty much crap space salary. Yeah, I think that's a pretty good advice. But how about those of us who are making like over a hundred grand a year?

Starting point is 00:19:57 What's your advice on, you know, having a well-balanced life where we take advantage of our luxuries and the fact that we've made it to a certain point, but also our savings so that we can accumulate wealth. Like, is there any balance that you can speak about? I mean, it's up to each individual. Again, it's just how big is your dream for yourself? How long do you want to work in the workforce? That's the question you really have to answer for yourself today. And a lot of times people don't even think about this stuff. They just live day to day. Yearly, they don't do any goal setting. Monthly, they don't really care. They don't really have a financial target. It's just like, oh, I made a paycheck, I have money to spend. Yay, I'm going to buy stuff. I'm going to travel. I'm going to do this.

Starting point is 00:20:36 I can afford it. So six figures is not a lot of money. If you're making in the one hundreds, in any metropolitan city, that's not a lot of money, even for a single person. Because people in our demographic, in this millennial age that are college educated, we have too much socialization. It's just too much. Like, nobody really invests in self-development. Most people I know don't do it at all. Everyone around me, like whether you're making 50 or 100 or 150 or 200, the general trend is that people are outspending in general, like social media. There's a lot of reason. So it comes down to you isolating yourself for perhaps a day or two and just sitting there and going, what the hell am I doing right now? How many more years do I want to live this life?

Starting point is 00:21:21 Because I only worked in the workforce for five years before I retired because I lived my life and I had a certain mentality. So the goal is, when do you want to retire? Do you want to retire when you were 45? In my 20s, I just worked my butt off in terms of income generation saving and like doing some crazy investing. I'm very Uber risky. So at any given time, I'd only keep a little bit of cash on hand. Everything else I put into stocks. Right? And obviously it was a good stock market. Either way, there's money to be made in stocks in good or bad days. There's just always up fluctuations. You can make money any day. You can lose money any day. If it was me today, I probably put a little bit, just a little bit in crypto. A lot of young people, they're down to spend thousands on X, Burning Man, traveling to Bali, X, Y, Z. They're down for that. But they're not down to spend $1,000 on crypto. For some reason, that's risky. I'm like, okay, so you went to Bali for a week and spent two grand, and you didn't think that that two grand could have also been worth it to also put it into a tool that could potentially actually earn you money. So you can spend two grand on your leisure and leisure is worth it and it's not risky,

Starting point is 00:22:27 but somehow investing is risky. So to me, I never could wrap my head around that concept. If I'm going to go out and travel and eat and spend money, I'd better spend money and learn on investing as well. I better take some risks there too. Because if I'm willing to just have that money go to zero, I'm also willing to have that money potentially go up. When you spend money on leisure, you know exactly what's going to happen to it.

Starting point is 00:22:50 You're going to get zero from it except a fleeting moment of happiness, right? But in reality, if you invest it, you can learn a lot more through the journey. of that dollar and how it moves. So it's just about experimentation and picking your poison. Obviously, real estate was always my goal. Chinese people, immigrants, we love real estate. So I'm like, let me get into that game. So every weekend, I would study and read, go to the library. Again, sacrifice. If I save up money, I just need 30, 40 grand to like get another purchase and then I can start doing like cash out refies. So real estate is my interest now. And moving forward, it's going to be international real estate. We'll be right back after a quick break from our sponsors.

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Starting point is 00:28:41 So I bought in Brooklyn to start. And I was lucky enough that that was 2013. Today, it's obviously a different story. And when I bought, I thought to myself for sure, I did not buy to save on rental costs, because remember, my rental cost is low. Like, my rental cost is actually lower than if I were to own a house and pay mortgage in terms of outpocket expense. Oh, should you buy for primary residence? My answer is absolutely hell no. Real estate is not to shirk rental cost. Like, that's not the reason why you should be going into real estate. It is an investment.

Starting point is 00:29:14 You have to look at it from a third party perspective. Not a, oh, I'm going to live in there. That makes it not an investment. That makes it a personal decision. And personal decisions are not good investment philosophies. It's just not a good way to get invested. So first of all, I'd say, before you get into real estate, understand that if you're going to think about living in it, then unless your rental cost is so much higher and

Starting point is 00:29:37 you'd be significantly reducing your rental cost, that makes sense, you're trying to reduce your cost living to like zero, right? So if you buy a house and you rent out the rooms and the rental value of those rooms now cover your mortgage, then yes, that is a smart investment. That most likely is actually just about right. But in a major metropolitan cities, that's impossible. It's like hard to do. The mortgage value is so much significantly higher than the potential rent role. So the first thing to do is to understand how it works, valuation.

Starting point is 00:30:07 Valuation is all about looking at the average price of rentals minus the potential mortgage. cost of a like-kind property. So that's the first step is looking at markets and determining where you're going to invest. My other strategy is to buy in B-tier cities within the A-tier city. So Manhattan is the A-tier city. A B-tier city close to Manhattan is Jersey City. Now, Jersey City already experienced a lot of growth. However, at the outskirts, the last stop in Journal Square, the last stop on the path train,

Starting point is 00:30:41 you'd be much more better off buying there than you will be by in the A city, ironically, because this gravy train is not going to keep going. There's only so much people can do from an appreciation perspective. So I buy condos in those locations because maltis are too expensive. Then I got into multis. I gone to maltis in what I call C tier cities, like real C or D tier cities, real crap cities that nobody wants to live in, nobody wants to be there. There's a very local population.

Starting point is 00:31:09 You're not going to get like the yuppies that come in to work there. So there's like C and D tier cities. that there's a lot of potential. And these are more in the middle of the country slash certain pockets of each coast in the less populous areas. And that's where you can afford to get multis and single homes. Yeah, this is all really great advice, very practical.

Starting point is 00:31:29 Yeah, I think investing yourself, again, comes down to like your goals. Like, what do you want to invest in yourself in for what purpose? A lot of people have bad habits, really bad habits, accumulated from years and years like myself. I have an overeating habit. So a thing that I have to really work on is, A, like, health-wise, it's a holistic thing. It's not just like, oh, just the money thing.

Starting point is 00:31:49 So, like, A, if you have problems with health, you have to start addressing your lifestyle and your living. If you're an alcoholic, like a lot of people in our generation I think are or drug users, yeah, think about why you're doing that stuff. These are life choices, habits that you have to determine what's the actual value of me doing those activities? That's the first step is self-reflection. It's like, okay, what am I doing on a daily basis that is making me question my development?

Starting point is 00:32:13 Am I this person that works, then goes and grab drinks, then goes and gets dinner, repeat. And then on Sunday and Saturday, am I doing brunch? Then I'm hanging out at the beach. If you're doing all those things, you have no time to invest in yourself because you did not budget any time to invest in yourself. The majority of people are short-term people. They only look at today, tomorrow, next month, and this year. They're not thinking by the time I'm X years old, I need to have done why. And even then if they do, it's not a sincere thought.

Starting point is 00:32:44 It's a general thought. It's not really like that detail. They're not really going to commit to it. So the first thing is you got to, A, realize what are the things you lack in your life? And B, you got to start setting some serious goals for yourself. It's very hard to drive yourself to a question mark. Question marks are very hard to aspire to. There's no vision in a question mark.

Starting point is 00:33:04 It's got to be like a real thing that you inherently truly want for yourself because that's the only thing that's going to then connect to point A, which is self-reflect and go, which aspects of my life am I going to now forsake? Is that television watching? Is that shopping, retail addiction? Is that drinking on a three to four times a week basis? Is that smoking weed? I don't know how many successful people smoke weed. I think a lot of people do, but that's just not me.

Starting point is 00:33:32 These are things that, again, you have to look at on a macro level. Like, what do most successful people do? Are most successful people hang out with their friends and smoke? weed and eating out and drinking every day and partying on the weekends? Probably not. Most likely not. I read. I'm an avid reader. The majority of what I read is like business related, wealth related. So rich, I poor dad was one of the first books I read. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. These are like the cornerstones of success, how to make friends and influence people, think and grow rich. These are things that I've read since my early 20s. And I would just sit there and read.

Starting point is 00:34:06 And like I told you, on weekends, I just study real estate. So it's just spending the time, making the time, making a priority to read. I've read biographies of like Hillary Clinton and Warren Buffett. These are biographies that I really enjoyed reading because they gave me inspiration in some way. Right. So reading about other great people, studying these things, making friends with really great people, very successful people. That's the easiest way to get successful.

Starting point is 00:34:33 And that is another tip that I think a lot of young people today don't. don't want to do is you have to cut out the dead weight in your life. You have to cut them out, whether it's family or friends, they got to go. If you try to make money, you're trying to get somewhere and you got someone pulling on you, that person has got to go. You got to put them into what we call the cold palace, you know, like in Chinese, you put someone on freeze. That's what I do. If someone does not align to my goals and where I'm headed and don't support me and get my way, being dramatic and wanting this and that, oh, you're not doing this or B, you're not doing that. I'm out.

Starting point is 00:35:08 I have a lot of friends, I have a lot of acquaintances. I have a huge network. But I do not party with people because the requirements of socializing with people who are on a hamster wheel, that does not fulfill my lifestyle. And that's a decision I made at a very young age. Very interesting. If you could have millennials change one thing after listening to this show, what would it be? I think everything starts off with a vision.

Starting point is 00:35:33 a dream. And I think a lot of millennials in our day and age, they're experiencing pain and suffering and frustration. And I see the problem with my peers and the problem with my colleagues and people that have worked with in the past is that there's so much pessimism, I'd say, overall. There's a lot of pessimism on what's possible and what's capable. And it's because of the system. It's because of student loans. It's because, you know, romantically, it's hard for me to date because I've got these student loans and like my job doesn't pay a lot blah blah blah there's so many excuses being made so I think in general for us specifically it's probably just to honestly start like believing that you can do more that you can be more than you think you can be and really just

Starting point is 00:36:21 kind of like take a break from social media take a break from all this distraction that's not really going to take you anywhere I think every generation today is suffering from the over inundation of social media and technology and how that's changing our lives in a way that's distracting and not productive. So I think the biggest thing I wish that millennials would do is take a step back, read and adjust and just be selfish but less selfish at the same time. Being selfish about your time, being selfish about what you do on a day-to-day basis to garner success, being selfish about giving yourself the time you need to get your life in order. But at the same time, being not selfish and thinking about the impact that you can make on a bigger scale. That's what drives me

Starting point is 00:37:05 is thinking that me being selfish today on my time on what I need to do to be the person I need to be to organize my life the way it needs to be organized, I will become a person that can change and move mountains. I can change entire demographics. I can give inspiration to people that normally I wouldn't be able to if I wasn't selfish in the beginning. I have to be selfish to get to a level where I am today. The long story short is, if you can start sacrificing on a short-term basis, I think you'll get a lot closer

Starting point is 00:37:37 to success and happiness through the long-term. Awesome. And where can listeners go to find out more about everything that you do? You can check out dGrecruit.com. That's my head hunting business. That specifically helps young people, professionals transition into a sales role in head hunting.

Starting point is 00:37:55 Quora, you can read lots of articles that basically say, what I said today in more or less different ways and in a little bit more detail. And then, yeah, you can also find me on LinkedIn. Well, it was such a pleasure. And I really think all this advice on gaining financial independence will be super helpful for our listeners as they consider how to become young and profiting. So thank you so much. Awesome. Thanks for having me, Hala.

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