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good morning good afternoon good evening
folks yes we have a returning guest we
have a youtube rockstar and a good
friend of the channel april crossley how
you doing april i’m great thanks for
having me where where are where is april
today this is like where’s waldo where
where is april today i’m actually back
in pennsylvania believe it or not my
home state so
i think i’m here for i’m here for a
little while it’s a very long story but
i think i’m back in pa for a little
while wow because again you you’ve been
doing the rv life for seemingly a year
maybe a year mm-hmm a little over a year
wow and uh that’s that’s been amazing
and again i remember the story being
like i hate winter i’m getting out of
here and last time i checked it’s
december 27th i know and it’s actually
snowing today so i’m not i’m sitting
here you can’t see but i have an
electric blanket on my lap
everybody got me everything he did for
christmas he did hat he did gloves he
did everything so i’m ready i’m crazy
amazing that is amazing well hey we’re
going to hit three topics today and the
first one i want to talk about that
shirt i actually saw it on your website
a couple of times it says invest like a
girl yeah all right and um i just
thought i should ask what does that mean
and what does it mean to you and all of
that because i think it’s i think it’s
pretty catchy yeah so i can talk about
what it means to me i just think um
you know we’re obviously in a very male
dominated field and people like to ask
us a lot like what’s that like and you
have a choice when someone asks you or
how you feel about what it is to be a
woman in real estate investing and a lot
of people make it seem like oh what’s
that like it must be such a disadvantage
and i just tell people it is such an
advantage to be a female in this field
like so much so that i tell my male
students if you have if you’re married
and your wife is okay with it put her
name on your mail pieces because you’re
gonna get more return calls than if you
put a male name on your mail pieces so i
just made this t-shirt that says invest
like a girl and like i don’t think there
is a disadvantage to being a female real
estate investor if anything i think
there’s more
advantages like women just tend to
be better listeners and be more
empathetic and we’re here to solve
sellers problems and where they find us
to be more trustworthy most the time and
less car salesmen like yeah um so like
we’ve had sellers in the past that are
like you know i had this offer and your
offer and i’m selling to you because
you’re female and i want to work with a
female and you actually listen to me and
like what what my issue was until
instead of telling me how great you are
so
i just think there’s advantages to it i
i first off i think there’s huge
advantages yeah
what do you think the ratio is 80 20
today male 1 to female investors i don’t
know if i had the gas that’s probably a
really good game yeah 80 20 70 30
somewhere yeah i would think yeah
and i second that if you’re in a
relationship and your significant other
um
is comfortable with it i think i think
voicemail messages right a lady leaving
a voicemail message right name on the
card all of that yeah
frankly um
i think you’re right
god everything’s everything is so
polarizing these days i think women are
much better initiating conversations
with sellers or actually i’m going to
change that not sellers owners because
what i think most tail sales wholesalers
get wrong especially the guys is they
want to go for the quick close every
time right all cash right now i’m here
get it done before the next car shows up
blah blah blah blah blah
where a lot of times the women are like
what are you doing how long you lived
here you know it’s you get to know them
yeah and
i don’t know i wish more people realize
this the average contact is seven to
nine times before you get a contract so
why are we rushing the first date why
are we rushing the first coffee
have a conversation and it’s
again not all the time for all people
but my experiences women are much more
comfortable with first conversations and
it’s easier to have a first then you get
to a second so i’ve seen a tremendous
hit rate um yeah with lady investors or
females
i agree yeah so when did this come about
because it you know he starts with lazy
girl rei which is april crosley how i
find you three or four years ago now
invest like a girl this it’s seemingly
new but i i don’t know if it is no not
necessarily i mean i had um they invest
like a girl t-shirts a few years ago and
then we just kind of stopped like
cranking them out making them and i was
on hiatus from coaching because i was
away in my rv and i just had a whole
bunch of large projects going on and i’m
like i this i can’t
when you’re a coach you know you have to
make time and space for that and i was
coming to a point in my life where i’m
like i don’t want to make the time and
space for this because i have other
projects i’m working on so now my word
for 2022 is impact and i don’t want to
do any projects or anything that doesn’t
have a great impact on a great number of
people
um and along with that i have a business
partner now that’s been in my business
for like
over three years so she knows it inside
out ups and down backwards so she’s
actually the one that was like hey what
do you think i just feel like we should
do more to help more people because we
get so many questions off youtube and
stuff and i was like well if you’ll join
forces with me and she’s also female and
i was like
i’ll bring coaching back but i can’t do
it on my own because i want to make sure
we have the space and capacity to do it
so between the two of us now we brought
it back so i’m like well we’re bringing
that back then we’re bringing the
investment
t-shirts back
well i know there’s people watching
right now that want to buy this shirt
either themselves or buy it for someone
else where would they go to get invested
they can go to our website and just
submit a contact form or they can email
me april lazygirlrei.com and we’ll put
them on the waitlist for it but we’ll
make oh my goodness we have a wait list
for invest like a girl oh my goodness
like i’ve got i’ve got to put my name on
the waitlist
that is amazing uh so what what is so
what does impact mean is it really is it
helping what is it what does impact mean
for you in 2022 yeah so i’m just kind of
at a point where like um i think i’m
very entrepreneurial and things get
boring to me very quickly so when people
tell me i bought another 200 units or
another 150 units or another seven units
i don’t i it’s not that i don’t care
like i care i’m very excited for them
but i’m like okay but tell me more like
you just buy accumulating units is
boring to me like what is your end goal
what kind of impact are you trying to
have what are you doing with this wealth
that you’re growing like what is the end
goal and for me the end goal is to
always help as many people as possible
grow wealth because my whole thing is
like grow wealth change lives the only
way you can change an enormous amount of
lives is to grow wealth and help
rot help other people rise
so
for 2022 i’m just getting really
particular about the projects that i do
like the podcasts i do the the buildings
i dive into and projects i do i want to
help um
people either eventually achieve
homeownership or
invest in like low-income communities or
something that has some kind of impact
and that whole thing goes along with
just like coaching and teaching other
students like how you can grow wealth
and how from a wealth mindset you’re
going to accomplish so much more than
you are from a poverty mindset so the
more people i can help grow wealth the
more people are going to be
able to go out there and say hey you
know what i want to donate twenty
thousand dollars or a hundred thousand
dollars to this charity or that charity
so i’m just a lot more thoughtful about
the projects i’m getting into and where
i’m putting my time in 2022. like i want
to work alongside people
that want to make an impact on
communities not just buy to buy like to
me that’s just
boring it’s boring i don’t i just don’t
understand it yeah yeah no i i am i’m
right there with you something that i
finally got comfortable with april and
it was it was kind of
screwing into my head for a long time
but because i couldn’t say it out loud
is my now my life’s missing mission is
to help a million people close their
first or next rental property it’s not
about
getting the 500 units or it’s not about
me anymore yeah it’s it’s how can we do
that and that’s free content on youtube
it’s a i mean it’s all these things lots
of stuff for free um
so yeah this there’s this challenge over
my shoulder here 500 we’re up to 390 uh
started june 1st
and again we’re going to get big
donation to a food bank i’m gonna dye my
hair purple doing crazy things nice so
this was a test uh and yeah now now it’s
gonna be a million people and again in
order to do that we have to get the
network effect going right because i can
help 10 000 people by myself in 50 years
i’m pretty convinced but in order to
help the next nine hundred and ninety
thousand i need people watching this to
share tag post book selfies we need we
need other people to share so if you’re
watching like subscribe post tag people
yeah ripple effect
exactly yeah so yeah yeah it’s all about
impact going forward um we already have
enough it’s
i don’t have that i never really had
that okay we’ve got a double or triple i
just
i got to where i’m comfortable so now i
feel comfortable saying a million people
so it’s gonna be fun it’s gonna be fun
figuring out uh where can people find
you april and again get this invest like
a girl t-shirt yeah uh they can follow
me on youtube at april crosley they can
email me april lazygirlrei.com
very cool thank you very much you’re
welcome