Movin On Up With The Hotel Diva Davonne Reaves | Girl Stop Playin' Podcast - Episode 17
Girl Stop Playin | #1 Podcast for Black Women
KOEREYELLE, Personal Development Coach
4.8 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever met a black woman who owns a hotel? Well on this week's show you get to meet Davonne Reaves, The Hotel Diva who owns THREE hotels and is creating resources to help our community become owners too!
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN
[1:49] INTRODUCTION
[3:28] HOW DID YOU GET HERE?
[6:34] HOW DO NON-US PEOPLE OWN ON SO MANY HOTELS?
[8:47] CREATING GENERATIONAL WEALTH
[12:24] CROWD-FUNDING
[14:35] CHALLENGES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
[17:52] HOW DO YOU SHOW UP WITH CONFIDENCE?
[20:00] IMPOSTER SYNDROME
[21:36] SHOOT YOUR SHOT!
[25:50] DAVONNE'S 1ST DEAL
[29:27] RAISING CAPITAL
[34:59] MENTORSHIP VS. PARTNERSHIP
[38:13] HOW DOES SOMEONE START INVESTING?
[41:29] DAVONNE'S RESOURCES
[46:17] CONNECTING WITH DAVONNE
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Girl Stop Playing podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm your host, Cori-L, and you already know, I'm just your home girl that's here to remind you that you can make the money and get the honey. |
| 0:19.1 | You can truly have it all if you are willing to work. |
| 0:22.8 | So if you are tuned in live on YouTube, hey, girl, hey, go ahead and check in in the chat. |
| 0:29.0 | Let me know where you are tuned in from. |
| 0:31.0 | And we are about to get today's show started. |
| 0:34.4 | So on this week's episode, I get to introduce y'all to Devon Rees, who is a 34-year-old |
| 0:41.1 | hotel owner. I said hold. I put too much emphasis on hoe. She is a 34-year-old hotel owner. We've had |
| 0:47.9 | some interesting conversations on this show, so I need to just, you know, clarify. She's a 34-year-old |
| 0:52.0 | hotel owner who's purchased three properties, y'all, in the last year, acquiring over $18 million in her portfolio. Welcome to the show, Devon. Thank you for having me, Coria. Thank you, thank you. Listen, so we got to, I always have people start by just putting some respect on your own name. So if I left anything out of your bio, go ahead and fill us in. |
| 1:12.3 | It's a little bit more than $18 million. |
| 1:14.1 | It's close to $30 million. But you know, it's all right. You know what? I felt like you looked a little like, that's why I said, put some respect on your own name. Because I felt like maybe those numbers was a little off. Because the recent purchase, the two hotels that we just purchased, it was $18 million. |
| 1:28.1 | Okay, come on, recent purchase. |
| 1:29.6 | So we got to get it was $18 million. |
| 1:28.1 | Okay, come on, recent purchase. |
| 1:29.6 | So we got to get all into how you became the hotel diva. |
| 1:32.6 | But I want to take a step back because most of us don't know a hotel owner. |
| 1:39.0 | We definitely don't know a black hotel owner. |
| 1:41.0 | We definitely don't know a black woman hotel owner. |
| 1:43.4 | So I want to know how you got here. But even before we talk about how you got here, I want to know a black hotel owner. We definitely don't know a black woman hotel owner. So I want to know how you got here. |
| 1:45.4 | But even before we talk about how you got here, I want to know who you were before you got here. So take us back there. Well, since we on the south side, I'm actually going to shout out Claycoe real quick. Oh, Claycoe? I normally don't do that. So shout out because my sister, |
| 1:59.0 | my sister-in-law, I ain't never talking where you from. |
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