177: The Rich Immigrant - Dee Olateru's Journey To Financial Success

The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Bola Sokunbi

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dee Olateru, is a CPA, an executive at one of the Big 4 global professional services firm, a 3-time immigrant, and the founder of The Rich Immigrant. At the Rich Immigrant, she helps 1st and 2nd generation immigrants attain financial independence, live full lives, and maintain their identities in their new homes. She was forced to pay attention to her finances when she graduated Summa Cum Laude but could not land a job. To make ends meet while she applied to graduate school she got a $10 per hour job at a factory making light fixtures. 12 years later, she's built a career that has taken her all over the world. However, many of those habits she built on a $10 per hour salary continue to guide her today on a six-figure salary! WHAT WAS DISCUSSED: Her personal experience as an immigrant in the US Applying to over 500 jobs with her undergrad degree and getting rejections and more rejections Why she instead chose to take a $10 p/h job How she learned about financial literacy and started applying her lessons to her life Advice for other immigrants in the US AND MUCH MORE AND MORE KEEP UP WITH DEE Website: https://therichimmigrant.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therichimmigrant --- Looking for A GREAT BANK ACCOUNT to SAVE MORE? --- Check out Chime: https://www.chime.com/applytp/?ref=clevergirlfinancecgf&ad=tp_ --- Considering TERM LIFE INSURANCE? --- For great term life insurance that allows you to increase or decrease your policy as you need to with no fees, check out Ladder: https://ladder.pxf.io/c/403981/557243/9299?subId1=%7BsubId1%7D (P.S. These are affiliate links from brands Clever Girl Finance loves and trusts. If you use our links to sign up we may earn a commission which helps us grow!) ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Clever Girls No Podcast. This is Boila Schokumbi and the
0:08.0	founder and CEO of Clever Girl Finance. The Clever Girls No Podcast is a Podcast for Women offering a space for conversations around
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1:10.6	Okay so let's get into today's episode. So today I am
1:16.3	super excited because I have another incredible special guest. Her name is Dee
1:21.9	Olateru and Dee is a CPA, an executive at a top four US accounting firm, and she's also an immigrant, but her story did not always start it that way. So Dee graduated from college with a ton of debts and couldn't find a job and then started working at a light fixture company earning $10 an hour. And so today I'm excited to have her on to share her story, her journey from going to that going from that $10 an hour job, navigating life in the U.S. as an immigrant to becoming an executive at a major firm and earning six figures.
1:58.0	Welcome to Clever Girl Finance D.
2:02.0	Thank you so much, Bola. Thank you so much, Bola.
2:03.0	Thank you so much for having me.
2:05.0	I've been a fan of your platform since your photography days,
2:09.0	your not a photography days, and so it just feels,
2:11.0	in a just full circle to be sitting across from you today and having this conversation and it's been a joy to just watch your journey. I'm so grateful to have here and that means you go way back with my early early days, so you know those beginning stories I write about in the books, but I would love for you to tell everyone who you are and what you do.
2:34.0	Absolutely. So I'm D'OLA Teru.
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