Hello, everyone. You’re listening to SuperPower Mommas, and I’m Laura Greco, your host, and I’m very excited to bring you the show today.
We are talking about financial freedom is not enough. Are you a hard working parent who is really struggling with the schedules and having children and really desiring to have financial freedom? Well, if this is true, this is really a show for you to listen in on. We have with us Jodi Vetterl. She is the author of Beyond the Banks: Success Strategies in Real Estate as a Private Lender. She has a 20-year degree in high-tech software sales working at Fortune 500 companies and has won multiple sales achievement awards, closed 7-digit deals, and enjoyed several presidential trips around the world. And, she became a mom. And that really changed how she was viewing things. She shares in her website her story about how she decided and why she decided to go and turn around her life and create the financial freedom she was really for so she could have the energy to be the parent she wanted to be and to live the life she truly wanted. So, I’m very excited to welcome Jodi Vetterl here with us. Welcome Jodi.
Thank you, Laura. That was lovely. Thank you for having me on your show. I love what you’re doing to support all the super mommas out there.
Yeah, they are super mommas, too, aren’t they? All of them. All the mommas are, including you.
I am going to share with the audience, too, how when you applied to come on the show, I was very intrigued by your strong desire to want to help moms and parents in general, just to gain that financial freedom and find a way to really live the lives they want to live. So, thank you for your work in the world.
Ah, thank you very much. Thanks for having me.
So, with all that in mind, I’m going to start as we usually do with what’s your momma superpower?
Well, I think my momma superpower is really about being self-reliant. It really comes from my independence mixed in with my intuition, my drive to keep going because I know that we just have to keep going. We just keep moving forward, don’t we?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
Yeah, that’s just beautiful because as moms I really think that’s a high quality, a great quality to… and superpower to expand on and to grow. I also would like to ask you how you’ve believed that this superpower has assisted you in your life as a parent first and then in your work.
Well, being a fiercely independent person has really helped me throughout my life. It’s caused some problems with different relationships and things like that. But for the most part, just figuring it out, taking it on. I wish I was a little bit more of a person who had ease with delegating and that kind of thing, but being independent and self-reliant has definitely served me.
When we were trying to get pregnant, I was very determined to be a mom and we definitely had our bumps along the road, especially being in my forties at the time, and I was just so determined that we did have a loss, a miscarriage, and then I just sort of thought, “Is this the end or do I have to… can I give it another try?” So I just went for it, did the same program that I did to get pregnant the first time and I was very, very driven and very independently minded because I took my own path. I wasn’t getting detracted from the naysayers giving me a hard time about being in my forties. “You’re too old.” “Maybe this is it.” “Maybe you should go to adoption.” Not that anything is wrong with adoption. That probably would have been our path another time. But essentially I just knew that I just needed to keep going and keep trying and keep getting my body right, and we were successful, and I had my son when I was 43, and a few days later I turned 44.
Oh my. Beautiful, beautiful. What a beautiful success story, too. And your ability to move past is what could feel so devastating as a miscarriage, especially when you’re feeling the pressure to become pregnant before too long. This is a beautiful example of that. And I love, too, that you’re able to really know your own path and not be driven or motivated or pushed by other people’s opinions. You’re focused on your own intuitive knowing and your own intuitive drive. That’s beautiful.
Yes, definitely, and that really continued on when I was working for and I had that 20-year very successful career in the high-tech working for three different companies, and I had a very good situation. I was working from home. At this point I had a smaller territory. It was a good job but when I was having a baby in my mid-forties, it was definitely a challenge. You don’t bounce back as quickly as you like to. I would say, five years in, I’m still not the same person I was pre-pregnancy, the same physically or anything like that. But I had such challenges getting pregnant and having a healthy little boy that it really came to a point where the work was great, but it was challenging.
And then in came a boss that we weren’t aligned. I wasn’t aligned with his values and it just started to change the whole dynamic of my experience at that company, even though it was a fantastic company to work for. And what was happening is that my relationship with my son was really what was suffering, and my ability to be the mom that I wanted to be for him just wasn’t there. I wasn’t capable of it. I was very stressed out and I was just racing, running all the time.
My husband, he works on the road in sports broadcasts, so he travels for 95% of his work. He’s not working right now because of COVID, but for a good portion of the year, I’m on my own. And then when I did put him into daycare, of course, there’s the daycare doozies, and that was really taking me out a lot, and it was very challenging to balance all of that. And it just came to a point where I just said to myself, “Something has got to change here. And I believe that if I really take a look at where I’m at financially, that I can do some restructuring here and potentially free myself up.”
Well, that’s beautiful. You did not take it as well as me. I have this challenge. Instead, you said, “You know what? I need to change something.” And so that’s where your superpower again became so evident and so useful for you. And I’m excited to get into that as we finish our conversation after the break, but before we get back to that, could you share where people can find you?
Yes, absolutely. So, I have my website called jodivetterl.com and I have my book sales through that website. So, it’s just jodivetterl.com/beyond-the-banks, and that’s where you can find my book for purchase. And then I also have an academy where I do train people on how to build these strategies into their life finance for financial success. And that can be found at beyondthebanks.academy.
Thank you for that. And I also want to add that I did purchase the book and I will tell all the listeners out there it’s a great thing to check out. I only got halfway through it because I didn’t have time before we had our interview to finish it, but I found it very easy to read, very easy to understand. And so, if you want to have a glimpse and some ideas, that is a great way to begin. So thank you, Jodi. We’re going to take our break now, and when we come back, we’re going to go deeper into this conversation around being a mom and financial freedom.
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