And it was almost like God like kicking me out the door like you know what Terry I told you you can do this. I told you I would provide for you now go.

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Hey, hey guys. Welcome. Welcome back to the show today in the guest chair. I have Terry Ijama.

Terry began her professional career working in education and nonprofits. Then she started trading stocks about 10 years ago as a side hustle.

She initially just saw it as an opportunity to simply supplement her income. However, she was so good at it and was so successful with this side hustle that in 2017 she decided to quit her job travel the world and began trading full time.

While traveling, Terry was consistently asked to show others how she was successfully trading in the stock market. So she set up and taught her first class while she was traveling in Thailand, her second one in Vietnam and had a fully fledged curriculum created by the time she returned to the States.

Terry now offers an online curriculum that shares her investing strategies with people all over the world. She also partners with organizations and companies to train and empower individuals to achieve financial freedom and build wealth through investing.

Terry received her bachelor's degree in management science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT and her masters in media and communications from Dallas Theological Seminary.

She was even named the 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Black MBA Association and was the grand champion of Teachables 2019 Creator Challenge.

I actually found Terry. I attended her teachable training and learned so much and have been following and learning from her ever since.

One thing to note before we get into this episode, if you would like to hear more from Terry even after this episode, you can find her free webinar on how she makes $1,000 in a day at iTradeAndTravel.com.

And when you enroll in her trade and travel course, do it at site as a pro.co slash trade and travel. Again, that site has a pro.co slash trade and travel to let her know you heard about her on this episode and I sent her to you. All righty. Now let's get right into it.

Welcome to the guest chair, Terry. Hello, it is so great to be here. Thanks so much for having me, Nekela.

Thank you for being here at last. I was really excited to speak with you, you're someone who I have admired from afar, been learning from from afar. And now it's time for me to share you with the site as a pro world.

So for those of you who don't know, Terry, we're going to just dive in to her background and what she does. So give us a peek into the life of Terry. You know, who are you? What do you currently do?

I am a millennial millionaire. I am a minister. I am a stock investor. But ultimately, I'm just an investor overall. I love investing in stocks in order to be able to afford my dreams. And that's what I do personally. I'm a day in swing trader.

And then that's what I teach over 2,300 students how to do on a regular basis. How do you invest in a stock market to be able to pay off your debt to go on trips to pay down your mortgage by a new house? Like how do you actually use stocks real time to make money now?

Love it. Now you went to MIT for undergrad, then you got your masters and media and communications from a seminary of all places. I got to learn more about that. And your last role was in education. That is quite the interesting and non linear background, which I love because I also have one of those non linear backgrounds.

So walk us through your career journey a bit more. How did your educational and career background shape who you are today?

Sure. So I actually, like this whole trade and travel journey was by happenstance. Like I did not set out to teach a course on how to trade and travel. I just set out to be free. And the things that I loved were trading stocks and traveling the world.

And it kind of like my first peak at trading stocks happened in high school. I was a junior going into senior year and I did this program called lead and they took us to college. So I went to Northwestern University in Chicago and they introduced us to business.

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