In this day and age, what will it take to become a Main Street millionaire?

Let's ask the women who wrote the book on it.

My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News.

All right, today we're speaking with Cody Sanchez, an amazing businesswoman and author.

I should actually preface that not just an author, a an amazing businesswoman and author. I should actually

preface that, not just an author, a New York Times bestselling author, Cody Sanchez,

of Main Street millionaire. Cody, I have a collector's item because this is the first

dish, right? The next version is going to have the New York Times on the front, right?

It is. I know. Yeah, we got to know more printing of the ones without

New York Times because that thing is miserable to try to hit. Yes, it is. It is. And only authors know this.

I know it a little bit for my, for my husband, thankfully. But congratulations. It's a huge

accomplishment. And I'm really excited to talk to you about your book and your mission in life.

But in order to look ahead, I want to look

at the past a little bit because you have a really fascinating story and you started out in journalism.

Tell me a little bit about that. How did you start out in journalism? What drew you to that career?

And how did you then transition from journalism to business? Yeah. Well, I started out as a

journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border covering human trafficking, drug smuggling. And really,

I was following my curiosity with this like single idea of like, how is my last name Sanchez?

And things look a lot different for me on this side of the border than they did for other people along the border that had the last name Sanchez? And so I was sort of fascinated by this idea of like arbitrary lines and how do they get drawn and what does it mean to live on one side or the other. And so we got a grant from the Howard Buffett Foundation to cover this sort of journalism. And I did that for about a year and a half while I was still in school. I graduated a little early. And from ASU. So like it wasn't that big of an accomplishment. We were mostly partying. I took a small break to go do journalism. But what was fascinating to me is when I did journalism, I wanted to cover this idea of like, what creates freedom. That was my idea.

Like how do people get freedom?

And at the time I thought it was politically driven, but now I actually think most freedom is driven by money.

And so seeing all of it live made me realize, wait a second, it's actually not the politicians who save us.

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