304: Building Your Business with Other People's Money with Rita Owens

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Corrine sits down with Rita Owens, a leading financial expert, serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and real estate investor who helps women start, grow, and scale their businesses using her FundHer Ready Formula. Rita shares her wisdom on securing funding without giving up equity, busting common myths about business loans, and offering strategies for financial growth. She and Corrine discuss why resilience and persistence are essential when pursuing funding and how leveraging OPM (Other People’s Money) can empower entrepreneurs to launch and grow their ventures with confidence. They also explore ways to set your kids up for financial success, with Rita emphasizing her number one piece of advice: Start now. This conversation is packed with practical advice, inspiring stories, and actionable steps for any woman looking to take her business to the next level! For more from Rita, follow her on Facebook and Instagram @imritaowens, and check out her resources and guides for entrepreneurs.

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0:00.0	Okay, I am super excited today to have my friend Rita Owens with me.
0:12.9	Rita, I am just, I love you.
0:15.2	I'm so excited for people to get to know you.
0:17.0	But for anyone who doesn't know you yet, can you give us just a little intro of who you are
0:22.0	and what you do? Absolutely. And let me just say, I'm super excited to be here too. So thank you so
0:27.9	much for having me on the podcast. So I'm Rita Owens. I am a business funding strategist, and I work
0:35.7	with small business owners to help them to secure funding for
0:38.9	their business.
0:40.9	Which is so much more amazing than it even sounds at first because when I started spending
0:48.6	time around Rita and learning from her, my mind was absolutely blown.
0:52.0	And this is coming from someone who's been a small business owner for the last almost 12 years. And I thought I knew, you know, the basics of what
0:59.8	you should know as a small business owner and paying for things and funding and whatever.
1:04.1	And when I started to learn from you, I just couldn't believe that there was this whole different
1:09.0	world that I just didn't even know existed.
1:12.3	So, but let's start with your story actually and just start with like how you even got into this.
1:18.2	Well, it's a really crazy story. So I did, you know, the thing that most people do, go to school,
1:24.8	get a degree, graduate, go out and look for work, work in corporate.
1:30.0	So I started out in corporate, and I actually started for a tech company, and I just saw how
1:37.0	amazing it was for someone to have an idea and be able to just build something out of nothing.
1:43.9	And so as I was working in that tech company,
1:45.8	I got the idea to build my very own tech company. And so I started out in beauty tech.
1:51.4	And I launched my company. I launched my company like a lot of entrepreneurs do by saving and
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