Successful entrepreneurs sometimes view money and investing completely differently from those of us in the fire community and are occasionally much richer and much higher earners than us.

Today's episode is about the journey of one such entrepreneur, eight-figure business owner Halataha and the fundamental differences in the way we see the world.

Think about money, investing, and life.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. My name is Mindy Jensen,

and with me as always is my entrepreneurial co-host, Scott Trench. Thanks, Mindy. Great to be here.

I'm looking forward to and always enjoy yapping with you on a regular basis. You'll get that one later. We are so excited to be joined by Halataha today. I won't go much into her background because that's what we're going to be talking about shortly, but she is the founder of YAP or Yap Media and left her corporate job five years ago to build an eight-figure business in a very short period of time. We love featuring

stories of side hustle here on Bigger Pockets Money, and Hala is really an exceptional journey

to wealth and entrepreneurship. Hala, welcome to the Bigger Pockets Money podcast. Scott, thank you

so much for having me. Could you start off by giving us an overview of your money story and telling us a little bit

about your biggest influence on your view of money growing up? First off, I'll start with my biggest

influence, who's my biggest influence in my life in general, which is my father. So my father actually

passed away during COVID, which was really devastating for me, but it was easier for me to get

over it because he lived

such an incredible life and had such an amazing story. So my father was 100% Palestinian. He grew up

in poverty. He grew up during war. And he knew that the best way to freedom would be to be

the smartest kid in town and to get a scholarship and go to college.

And so he ended up doing that. He was one of the first people in his town to read to go to

college. He became a surgeon. I went to medical school, became chief of surgery at multiple

hospitals in America, became a business owner, owned a medical center, became extremely successful,

and I'm the youngest of his four kids. And I felt very privileged growing up. But I saw my dad

working really hard, and I saw how he came from nothing, and I saw his generosity. And so I took a lot

of influence from him. So I learned a lot from him, and I'm a very generous person. I'm also a very

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