Million by 30: Sharon Tseung
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In latest episode of our series Million by 30 – Sam Fenwick is joined by Sharon Tsueng.
Sharon is a former high school chess teacher, a marketing specialist, she was also a digital nomad and now invests in property. Sharon made a million dollars before her 30th birthday building passive income streams and then saving and investing that cash.
Sharon tells Sam how she did it, what drives her and why a sensible attitude to money right from the start helped her build her nest egg and achieve financial freedom.
Presenter: Sam Fenwick Producer: Carmel O'Grady
Image: Sharon Tseung; Credit: Sharon Tseung
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| 0:00.0 | I had this secret. |
| 0:02.9 | I robbed banks in my spare time. |
| 0:06.4 | Lives Less Ordinary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:09.6 | This is not a good thing to do because police are after you. |
| 0:14.9 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:20.6 | Hello, I'm Sam Fenwick and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:25.7 | How do you make a million before you turned 30? |
| 0:28.7 | In our new series, we're speaking to six people from all over the world who have hit that milestone. |
| 0:34.1 | Today, Sharon Song. |
| 0:36.2 | In 2016, I actually quit my job and traveled the world for two years |
| 0:40.4 | while building passive income because I started learning more about how you can make money work for |
| 0:46.2 | you. And so I wanted that financial freedom. And I just started studying a lot more around that. |
| 0:51.8 | And I think that those resources are available everywhere for people. |
| 0:55.5 | It's free on YouTube and all these other places. There's so many great places that you can learn |
| 1:00.5 | more about personal finance and building passive income streams. |
| 1:06.8 | Sharon is a former high school chess teacher, a marketing specialist. |
| 1:11.6 | She was a digital nomad way before it was cool and now invests in property. |
| 1:17.4 | She made a million dollars before her 30th birthday by building passive income streams, |
| 1:22.2 | saving and investing that cash. |
| 1:24.5 | Oh, and she managed to travel around the world as well. |
| 1:27.4 | It's quite a resume, isn't it? |
| 1:29.4 | So what are the rest of us doing wrong? Is she somehow special? No, I don't think I'm special. |
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